J.Albert - Posted - 07/02/2018:  15:46:11

The Bridge on the River Kwai - long, but it doesn't matter, great all the way through!

The Time Machine (1960 version with Rod Taylor) - great for New Year's Eve.

Scrooge (1951 version with Alistair Sim) - Christmas Eve, of course.

The Train (with Burt Lancaster) - one of the great action films, strong theme, too.

The Wizard of Oz - still fun to watch even though I haven't been a kid for 60 years

The Great Escape - always enjoyable even if you know the story

Seven Days in May - a movie for our times

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - one of the best "westerns" of them all.

Not that I'm going to watch these several times in a year, no, that gets tiring and there's not enough time left any more.

But once a year or so... sure... one can always pick up "just a little more" than you thought you knew about a film in a subsequent viewing.

EDIT: Thanks to Steve Davis for mentioning Forbidden Planet. I had forgot about that one -- always a pleasure to watch!

 

Edited by - J.Albert on 07/02/2018 15:49:33

Richard Hauser - Posted - 07/03/2018:  07:15:01

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin, a great actor, deserved that academy award
Paint Your Wagons - humor and great music
The Searchers - A movie with an all star lineup

Jim Yates - Posted - 07/03/2018:  07:39:43

My very favourite was Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment from 1966.

Zorba The Greek with Anthony Quinn was another favourite.

The Gods Must Be Crazy deserves more than one viewing.

Local Hero is a great movie too.

Hank Williams, The Show He Never Gave is one I've watched more than a few times.



Then there are the Christmas favourites like A Christmas Carol (The Alistair Sim version) and It's A Wonderful Life.

KE - Posted - 07/03/2018:  07:54:44

Definitely Monty Python -- pick any one.

DC5 - Posted - 07/03/2018:  08:56:08

Duck Soup
Horse Feathers
The original Airplane

The more this thread grows, the more my list grows.

conic - Posted - 07/03/2018:  10:06:11

best film ever that is also on youtube



1967 The Incident with Martin Sheen Tony Musante & Beau Bridges



youtube.com/watch?v=aH24v-Q9r8Q

Mullie - Posted - 07/03/2018:  11:23:19

I could watch Young Frankenstein on a loop for hours on end. I just watched The Americanization of Emily the other night with James Garner, James Coburn and Julie Andrews. I could watch that one again many times..... heck, any movie with James Garner and/or Julie Andrews is worth repeat viewing!!!

Lots of good recommendations in this thread

KE - Posted - 07/03/2018:  12:40:38

My son and I are watching Indiana Jones punch Nazis. I could watch Nazi-punching all day long.

heavy5 - Posted - 07/04/2018:  07:57:03

Dr Zhivago   

(Ah , Julie Christie , you doll)



Any good WW1 or WW2 movie , especially aviation

Edited by - heavy5 on 07/04/2018 07:57:47

Jim Yates - Posted - 07/04/2018:  08:27:03

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best film ever that is also on youtube



1967 The Incident with Martin Sheen Tony Musante & Beau Bridges



youtube.com/watch?v=aH24v-Q9r8Q

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I forgot about that one.  Tony Musante's character was truly evil in that film.  I could never appreciate him playing a good guy after seeing that film. He played a cop in the TV series Toma, but he still seemed like a bad guy to me.  Toma didn't last long and was replaced by Baretta starring Robert Blake.  Unfortunately (for me) I always identified Robert Bake with his evil character in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, so I could never warm up to his character in Baretta.

Ed McMahon, Ruby Dee and Brock Peters also played major characters in The Incident.

Thanks Conic. I will definitely watch this one again.

Paul R - Posted - 07/04/2018:  08:42:05

Any Marx Brothers movie.

I'm in full agreement with: Breaking Away, The Princess Bride, The Graduate, Little Big Man, Dances with Wolves.

I'd also pick: Benny and Joon, Help!, A Hard Day's Night, and Keeping Mum (brilliant British comedy - whoever thought to pair Kristin Scott Thomas with Rowan Atkinson, Patrick Swayze, and Maggie Smith was a genius)

Documentary: Festival (about the Newport Folk Festival 1963-66), Monterey Pop.

Jim Yates - Posted - 07/04/2018:  08:42:59

Other movies I'd forgotten about were The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Cool Hand Luke.



Aside - My son and I were having a meal on the Danforth in Toronto before a gig and I was wearing a Mandolin World T-shirt.  A guy at a nearby table came over and asked about the T-shirt and was wondering about some places to jam or watch acoustic music in Toronto.  We mentioned the Silver Dollar jams and got to talking about mandolins.  I said, "Your face is very familiar.  I'm sure I've seen you play someplace."

He said, "Did you ever see The Shawshank Redemption?"  This mandolin player was William Sadler, who had played Heywood in the movie.  My son saw him later that night at The Silver Dollar.

Jim Yates - Posted - 07/04/2018:  08:54:25

I see no one's mentioned Ed Wood's Plan Nine From Outer Space, the original zombie movie.  This is the first movie I ever heard described as "The epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema".

Mooooo - Posted - 07/04/2018:  08:56:09

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Other movies I'd forgotten about were The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Cool Hand Luke.



Aside - My son and I were having a meal on the Danforth in Toronto before a gig and I was wearing a Mandolin World T-shirt.  A guy at a nearby table came over and asked about the T-shirt and was wondering about some places to jam or watch acoustic music in Toronto.  We mentioned the Silver Dollar jams and got to talking about mandolins.  I said, "Your face is very familiar.  I'm sure I've seen you play someplace."

He said, "Did you ever see The Shawshank Redemption?"  This mandolin player was William Sadler, who had played Heywood in the movie.  My son saw him later that night at The Silver Dollar.

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

eagleisland - Posted - 07/04/2018:  09:06:28

Ooohh... one I left off my list: McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Early Robert Altman and IMO the best. The cinematography is breathtaking and the story is wonderful and sad... Altman had the actors improvise a lot of their own dialogue, especially in crowd scenes, so it seems like there's always something new to discover.

DC5 - Posted - 07/04/2018:  09:40:36

Altman did the same thing with M.A.S.H, I forgot about McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Add that to my list.

DC5 - Posted - 07/04/2018:  09:43:51

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

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There's a local restaurant that has a Cool Hand Luke challenge, I think it's a dozen pickled eggs in 5 min.  They have another ridiculous eating challenge that involves lots of barbecued foods and slaw in something like 20 min or half an hour, don't remember.  Meal is free if you can do it, $100 if you can't.

Mooooo - Posted - 07/04/2018:  09:47:52

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

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There's a local restaurant that has a Cool Hand Luke challenge, I think it's a dozen pickled eggs in 5 min.  They have another ridiculous eating challenge that involves lots of barbecued foods and slaw in something like 20 min or half an hour, don't remember.  Meal is free if you can do it, $100 if you can't.

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I know I couldn't live up to the challenge, once I cooked up a dozen ears of corn and asked my friends how many they thought I could eat....Lots of 10 and 12 guesses, I ate 3 in about half an hour and was full the rest of the day. Had corn the rest of the week.

chuckv97 - Posted - 07/04/2018:  09:50:49

always liked this scene with snowbilly actor Nielsen
youtu.be/KM2K7sV-K74

 

Craig_B - Posted - 07/04/2018:  12:01:15

Jim Garner in Support Your Local Sheriff

Paul R - Posted - 07/04/2018:  14:59:14

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

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There's a local restaurant that has a Cool Hand Luke challenge, I think it's a dozen pickled eggs in 5 min.  They have another ridiculous eating challenge that involves lots of barbecued foods and slaw in something like 20 min or half an hour, don't remember.  Meal is free if you can do it, $100 if you can't.

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when I was a kid, my sister bet me twenty cents I couldn't finish the bran muffins Mom  had made. I finished them off - fourteen, if I remember correctly. And I felt fine. It was actually a pretty easy twenty cents.

Little Big Man is worth it just to hear John Hammond's soundtrack.

1935tb-11 - Posted - 07/04/2018:  16:32:54

i have to agree with the harry potter series,, i don't know why but i can watch those all day.
and the hobbit series too ,, just attracted to them

also full metal jacket,,,, R lee emery priceless

thirteen days is a great movie

JFK is high on my list also

the good the bad and the ugly,,,,, why not?




terry m

Disco Kid - Posted - 07/05/2018:  01:23:27

Must add Blues Brothers to the list.

figmo59 - Posted - 07/05/2018:  06:10:49

Das-boot ...

Schindlers list....

Not happy films...but I appreciate...stark thought provoking sometimes..

Edited by - figmo59 on 07/05/2018 06:13:02

Jim Yates - Posted - 07/05/2018:  08:57:19

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

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There's a local restaurant that has a Cool Hand Luke challenge, I think it's a dozen pickled eggs in 5 min.  They have another ridiculous eating challenge that involves lots of barbecued foods and slaw in something like 20 min or half an hour, don't remember.  Meal is free if you can do it, $100 if you can't.

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when I was a kid, my sister bet me twenty cents I couldn't finish the bran muffins Mom  had made. I finished them off - fourteen, if I remember correctly. And I felt fine. It was actually a pretty easy twenty cents.

Little Big Man is worth it just to hear John Hammond's soundtrack.

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Wow! Bran is an effective laxative.  No after effects really?

Paul R - Posted - 07/05/2018:  10:39:23

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Cool Hand Luke is worth it just to see Paul Newman play the banjo, not to mention the hard boiled egg scene...

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There's a local restaurant that has a Cool Hand Luke challenge, I think it's a dozen pickled eggs in 5 min.  They have another ridiculous eating challenge that involves lots of barbecued foods and slaw in something like 20 min or half an hour, don't remember.  Meal is free if you can do it, $100 if you can't.

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when I was a kid, my sister bet me twenty cents I couldn't finish the bran muffins Mom  had made. I finished them off - fourteen, if I remember correctly. And I felt fine. It was actually a pretty easy twenty cents.

Little Big Man is worth it just to hear John Hammond's soundtrack.

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Wow! Bran is an effective laxative.  No after effects really?

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Really. No running to the bog. Nothin'.

Tommy5 - Posted - 07/05/2018:  18:30:14

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Altman did the same thing with M.A.S.H, I forgot about McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Add that to my list.

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Loved the final shoot out in McCabe, I like to compare it to the final shootout in High Noon. In McCabe nobody even notices that a shoot out is taking place as the townsfolk are distracted by a fire, in High Noon everybody knows a shoot out is happening and they’re hiding, in McCabe the killers don’t know McCabe, they are just doing their job, in High Noon the sheriff was just doing his job, in High Noon the girl comes back and saves her husband by helping to kill the bad guy, in McCabe, the girlfriend doesn’t notice the shoot out, she is too busy getting high on opium,end of High Noon, Justice is served the bad guys are dead, the good guy  goes off into the sunset,in  McCabe, everybody dies, the anti hero corpse gets buried in the snow .The scene where McCabe tried to negotiate a deal with the hired killers is hysterical, they of course don’t care about the reason McCabe has to go, both McCabe and Cooper were given a chance to flee ,but neither took it because of pride or fear, Cooper tried to raise a posse, McCabe sought the help of a lawyer ,neither option panned out.

Buddur - Posted - 07/06/2018:  04:37:18

Redundancy

FlyinEagle - Posted - 07/06/2018:  06:25:15

I never seem to get tired of watching the Godfather Series, any of the Harry Potter films, nor any of the Lord of the Rings movies.



And maybe it's a bit cliche, but we never get tired of...

flyingsquirrelinlay - Posted - 07/06/2018:  06:52:57

Jeff, you're just showing your local-centric mindset :):) Seriously, this thread has reminded me of SO many great movies that I had overlooked or "forgotten." Thanks to all. How about two movies about hunting submarines: "The Enemy Below" with Curt Jurgens, Robert Mitchum and folk singer Theodore Bikel in a major supporting role? And from a different era, "Bedford Incident" with Rrchard Widmark and Sidney Poitier.

Edited by - flyingsquirrelinlay on 07/06/2018 06:53:46

monstertone - Posted - 07/06/2018:  12:16:05

You guys will probably think I'm Nuts.
Dirty Dancing
Dances with Wolves
Braveheart
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans
Bad Girls
Hannie Caulder
Smokey & the Bandit
American Grafitti
Gran Torino
Thunder Road (when I can stream it)
Revenge of the Nerds
H.O.T.S.
I've seen that documentary on Pappy Boyington & the Black Sheep Squadron more than a few times. Never cared much for Mel Brooks or Woody Alan stuff. Too old to get excited about the Sci-Fi stuff.

From Greylock to Bean Blossom - Posted - 07/06/2018:  15:36:29

The Rocky series.
return of Titans,
rudy,
animal house
caddie shack
legend of Baggar Vance
Bull Durham.
Hoosiers.
Breaking Away
Any and all John Wayne Stuff.

pick1936 - Posted - 07/10/2018:  16:49:41

John Wayne ( The Quiet )