User:JackofOz/Well-loved films
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Apart from my 2 favourite films, the following are some others I never tire of:
- Modern Times (1936)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940; the 1956 musical re-make High Society was great fun, but not in the same class as the original play)
- Rebecca (1940)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Song of Bernadette (1943)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Brief Encounter (1945 David Lean version)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (the 1945 Hurd Hatfield version - the only version!)
- The Seventh Veil (1945)
- Great Expectations (1946 David Lean version)
- The Razor's Edge (1946 Tyrone Power version)
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)
- Green Dolphin Street (1947)
- Hamlet (1948 Laurence Olivier version)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- vale Moira Shearer d. 31 January 2006
- vale Jack Cardiff d. 22 April 2009
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Mudlark (1950)
- September Affair (1950)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The African Queen (1951)
- The Browning Version (1951 Michael Redgrave version)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Five Fingers (1952)
- High Noon (1952)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 Michael Redgrave version)
- Moulin Rouge (1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- Kiss Me Kate (1953)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
- The Trouble With Harry (1955)
- The Man Who Never Was (1956)
- Zarak (1956)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957 Tyrone Power version)
- The Big Country (1958)
- The Square Peg (1958)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Midnight Lace (1960)
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
- Advise and Consent (1962)
- The L-Shaped Room (1962)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- The Music Man (1962)
- The Cardinal (1963)
- Lilies of the Field (1963)
- The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)
- Fail-Safe (1964)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
- Khartoum (1966)
- A Man For All Seasons (1966)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- War and Peace (Bondarchuk 1967 nine-hour version)
- Decline and Fall (1968)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- If... (1968)
- The Odd Couple (1968)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Hello, Dolly! (1969)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
- Women in Love (1969)
- Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
- Brother John (1971)
- The Go-Between (1971)
- Little Murders (1971)
- The Star-Spangled Girl (1971)
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
- Avanti! (1972)
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
- Pink Flamingos (1972) - this rates a mention purely because it is absolutely the vilest movie ever made
- Sleuth (1972)
- What's Up, Doc? (1972)
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- Network (1976)
- Obsession (1976)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Equus (1977)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- The Boys from Brazil (1978)
- The Deerhunter (1978)
- 1941 (1979)
- ...And Justice for All (film) (1979)
- Breaking Away (1979)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Москва слезам не верит - Moscow Does not Believe in Tears (1979)
- My Brilliant Career (1979)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Breaker Morant (1980)
- Gandhi (1982)
- The Money Pit (1986)
- Bagdad Cafe (1987)
- Cry Freedom (1987)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- The War of the Roses (1989)
- Awakenings (1990)
- Howards End (1992)
- My Cousin Vinny (1992)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- Priest (1994)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Fargo (1996)
- Secrets & Lies (1996)
- Shine (1996)
- The Spitfire Grill (1996)
- Mrs Brown (1997)
- The Wings of the Dove (1997)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (1998)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Sideways (2004)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The King's Speech (2010)
Some celebrated or even "cult" films that I did not like and will probably never watch again
[edit]- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Blade Runner (1982)
Never-seen films - yet
[edit]Some celebrated films that I have still never seen:
- La Grande Illusion (1937)
- Night Must Fall (1937)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- The Corsican Brothers (1941) [1]
Kings Row (1942)- Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)- Journey into Fear (1943)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
Brighton Rock (1947)- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- La Ronde (1950)
The Beggar's Opera (1953)>- I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
- Lust For Life (1956)
- The Good Companions (1957)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
- Ten North Frederick (1958) [2]
- BUtterfield 8 (1960)
- Jules et Jim (1962)
- Tom Jones (1963)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)- Ship of Fools (1965)
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
- The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
- The Twelve Chairs (1970)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Nashville (1975)
- Julia (1977)
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
- The Magician of Lublin (1979)
- Danton (1983)
- The Dresser (1983)
The Killing Fields (1984)- Memed, My Hawk (1984)
- Paris, Texas (1984)
- Under the Volcano (1984)
Wings of Desire (1987)- Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988)
- Camille Claudel (1988)
- Glory (1989)
- Billy Bathgate (1991)
- Death in Brunswick (1991)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)