Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 27 Oct 03 - 10:10 AM Monsters Inc. The Aristocats Lady and the Tramp (yes, I collect Disney movies! there are many other Disney flicks I watch often) Lonesome Dove Sleepy Hollow The Long Riders Shakespeare in Love Ishtar O Brother Where Art Thou The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers It's a Wonderful Life (my fave movie of ALL time) Christmas Story |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Oct 03 - 10:06 AM Ah! A good reminder! The film a friend and I seemed to take turns renting from the local grocery store until we finally found copies of our own was Follow That Bird (Sesame Street) We're also great fans of all of the Muppet movies And two that are remarkable for so many reasons are Babe Babe a Pig in the City |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: muppett Date: 27 Oct 03 - 08:26 AM When my daughter was of pre school age her favorite film was Pete's Dragon, we were forced to watch that often the tape broke. The films I enjoy watching again & again include, Kind hearts & coranets, The Ralway children, Oliver, Citizen Kane, all the Star Trek films, The first great train robbery. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Donuel Date: 27 Oct 03 - 08:10 AM Defending your life |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: alison Date: 27 Oct 03 - 02:25 AM Local Hero The secret of Roan Inish the Princess Bride young Frankenstein Brigadoon (I know the accents and the sets were awful- but I love Gene Kelly) the Lost boys slainte alison |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: AliUK Date: 26 Oct 03 - 09:03 PM Ou Auto de Compadecida ( great adaption of Suassuna´s book) Any Bond movie not starring Roger Moore Poltergeist ( when Spielberg was good) The Explorers National Lampoon´s Animal House ( I was Bluto) Frankenstein ( with Karloff) The LadyKillers ( Alec Guiness´s finest moment in my view) The MAn who Came in From the Cold ( excellent ) Willow Legend ( the only decent movie that little jerk ever appeared in) Chicago Moulin Rouge |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Oct 03 - 08:54 PM But Little Hawk, you named Dances With Wolves, which I consider a colonizing insult--it is certainly a matter of taste with this list (I haven't seen Independence Day to agree or disagree on that one). I Remember Mama (Barbara Bel Geddes and Irene Dunn) A Christmas Story Pocketful of Miracles It's A Wonderful Life Scrooge (Alstair Sim) Scrooge! (Albert Finney) |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Carly Date: 26 Oct 03 - 08:12 PM Some of my favorites have already been mentioned: Out of Africa Robin and Marian Moonstruck-the scene around the breakfast table never fails to put me on the floor laughing Notting Hill Some I've watched with the kids over and over, and still enjoy: Fantasia Shrek Dumbo-amazing images of circus life Paulie-everyone should see this Some others I treasure and would always watch again: Holiday-Hepburn, Grant and my favorite, Edward Everett Horton; for my money, better even than the Philadelphia Story Some Like It Hot Witness Jumpin' Jack Flash Somewhere in Time-Hopelessly romantic, but with gorgeous people and a glorious old resort hotel to look at, who cares? Persuasion Sense and Sensibilty-My favorite Austin film Apollo 13-even though I know how it ends(I remember it really happening!) I am drawn completely into the story every time Sleepless in Seattle- Did I say I liked Tom Hanks? Anyway, I have to be loyal to this one; the original author lived down the street from us. Contact The Abyss-the Director's cut; the first released version was cut to shreds The American President Four Weddings and a Funeral I could go on... |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Phot Date: 26 Oct 03 - 05:25 PM As many as possible! But in no order,......... The Italian job Pretty woman Notting Hill Contact Star Trek....1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,..You get the idea! Kevin and Perry go large The Blues Brothers Blues Brothers 2000 All the Python films The Pink Panther Billy Elliot I think I'd best stop here! Wassail! Chris |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Oct 03 - 05:16 PM I'm always puzzled that Independence Day makes it onto lists like this one. I consider it one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen in my whole life! I could say something similar about Armageddon. On the other hand, I really liked "Deep Impact". There is an important thematic difference between the last film and the previous two, I think. (I despise American flag-wavers and I like films about international cooperation on an equal basis...so there you go. I've never been taken with the notion of American good-ol'-boy-football-gridiron-culture saving the world...when in fact it is set on buying it out and conquering it.) - LH |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Oct 03 - 04:01 PM Little Hawk--I agree. I always knew that she was a terrific dancer and a good actress, but in that movie we saw her take a lot of risks. The Thirty-nine Steps (Donat) Rope Shirley Valentine Enchanted April |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: jacqui c Date: 26 Oct 03 - 03:22 PM Most of the films I've seen - there always seems to be something you missed first time round. In particular - Independence Day, A Matter of Life and Death The Day the Earth Stood Still LOTR West Side Story Deep Impact Armageddon |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 26 Oct 03 - 02:32 PM The Godfather (parts 1 & 2 - not part 3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Blazing Saddles Dr. Strangelove The Usual Suspects |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Blowzabella Date: 26 Oct 03 - 02:09 PM Fairytale - A True Story The Ghost and Mrs Muir (love Rex Harrison in it) Yankee Doodle Dandy The Haunting (the original) Arsenic and Old Lace True Grit Wuthering Height (with Larry and Merle) Any of the Ealing comedies and Chicago has just joined the list |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Oct 03 - 01:38 PM Yeah. That's a brilliant comment on society. He and Shirley MacLaine played off each other well in that one. She's a smart lady. "From Here To Eternity" is a pretty extraordinary film, LEJ. I think I'll go rent it and watch it again. Thanks for the reminder. - LH |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Oct 03 - 01:09 PM I love it when he meets the gang members on the street and tries to click them away with his tv remote. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: GUEST,pdc Date: 26 Oct 03 - 11:43 AM No one has mentioned what I think is Peter Seller's best film: Being There. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: JennyO Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:52 AM Not sure, Clinton. I recorded it myself off the TV a few years ago, but I wouldn't mind having a decent copy of it. Jenny |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:50 AM I love some of the old mysteries, both early and later Hitchcock. And early Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis flicks. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and many old dance musicals (Eleanor Powell, Astaire, Kelly). I like some of the more recent dance musicals, though I must say that I tend to hold my nose when I watch Flashdance, the plot is just too too silly, but I like the dancing. Dirty Dancing is slightly more believable, and has great dancing. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:38 AM "the TV series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Has that been released on Region 1 DVD? |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Lanfranc Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:35 AM "A Matter of Life and Death" "Walkabout" "The Italian Job" (Original) "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" "The Man from Laramie" "Groundhog Day" inter alia Alan |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: JennyO Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:16 AM Lonesome EJ, you took the words right out of my mouth about the Peter Sellers films. I would watch any of them again. My particular favourites, which I have rewatched and would watch again and again are: The Party (probably my all-time favourite) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (his best Pink Panther IMO) I Love You Alice B Toklas Other movies include: Harold and Maude Carry On Regardless One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Witches of Eastwick (in fact, just about anything with Jack Nicholson) Phenomenon Pontiac Moon The Eighth Day (delightful French film) Raising Arizona and probably lots of others I can't recall right now. Also anything Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, the TV series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and in the future, I think I will want to see the Harry Potter films and LOTR films again too. Jenny |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Midchuck Date: 26 Oct 03 - 07:59 AM I broke down yesterday and bought a DVD player, and a new Teevee with the necessary input jacks, and the flat screen. I bought two DVDs to use to check it out: The Two Towers, which I'd seen once in the theatre, and National Lampoon's Animal House, which I'd seen as often as I could manage, over the years. The Ring movies astonish me, because they are worthy of the books, and that hardly ever happens. Animal House is a favorite because I lived it (I was the guy that Belushi takes the guitar away from and smashes it). Peter. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: musicmick Date: 26 Oct 03 - 01:26 AM I am at a point in my life when I need the manipulative euphoria of a romantic comedy. Movies like "The American President", "Jerry Maguire" "Moonstruck" now serve a thirst that once craved Bergman and Malle. Me and my VCR curl up together for frequent sentiment and tearful, happy endings. I confess that, with some of my favorites, I fast forward to the really sappy parts like that line in "Jerry Maguire" when she says, "You had me at 'Hello'". I also watch old Roy Rogers movies over and over. They weren't westerns as much as they were musicals. I do so love Western Swing. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Lonesome EJ Date: 26 Oct 03 - 01:50 AM I've seen all of the Pink Panther films many times. In fact, anything with Peter Sellers is fair game for another go round. I love his Austrian sex therapist in What's New Pussycat. Wonderful Life and the Simms Christmas Carol every year of course. From Here to Eternity, which is one of the finest films of all time. Barton Fink, which is my favorite Cohen Bros film. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Oct 03 - 01:03 AM That would be As Good as it Gets. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Mickey191 Date: 26 Oct 03 - 12:36 AM Shawshank Redemption Pretty Woman Ferris Bueller's Day Off Show Boat-1939 version Quiet Man How Green Was My Valley African Queen Cool Hand Luke A Christmas Carol-Alastair Sim Sabrina-Bogart & Hepburn AND---I need help with the title.-Jack Nicholson & Helen Hunt. He's a neurotic, homophobic, she's his waitress. Also one of the best little K-9s in the movies. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:36 PM I like the Woody Allen/Diane Keaton ones...just to listen to Woody whine and whine and whine! Besides, I like Diane Keaton. What she saw in him eludes me. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:32 PM "It's a Wonderful Life", of course. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: GUEST,Kendall Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:29 PM Robin and Marian with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn. Monty Python and the holy grail Monty Python and the Meaning of Life. The Bounty. Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Micca Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:20 PM some recent re-watched movies included Heimat by Edgar Reitz Heimat II by Edgar Reitz Cinema Paradiso the Sure Thing Groundhog day Dave some James Bond Films Tora Tora Tora Three Colours , Blue White Red any Eric Rohmer films Nikita(French Original) Leon The day of the Jackal The Count of Monte Cristo ( Gerard Depardieu, Made for French TV version) |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Oct 03 - 08:54 PM So, what else do you have in common with Woody Allen, Peter? |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Peter T. Date: 25 Oct 03 - 08:44 PM "Casablanca" (I am in the above 50 times club) yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Oct 03 - 08:32 PM Groundhog Day A Fish Called Wanda Windwalker Dances With Wolves Faulty Towers episodes and probably in the future...the Lord of the Rings trilogy |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Gareth Date: 25 Oct 03 - 07:28 PM Well - I've taped a few over the years. The Original "Italian Job" The sound version of "All quiet on the Western Front" "Zulu" - Ifor Emanuels singing can not be beat. "The Cruel Sea" "High Noon" "Blazing Saddles" In view of it's anti-intellectual content "Educating Rita" "Memphis Bell" - a weepy for my mother, who was a land girl in East Anglia in 1943/4. No, I don't ask her why, but she confims that she dated the odd member of the 8th USAAF. And was told, occasionally, that he would not be back. and given my sense of humour many a "Carry on ..." Film. Gareth |
Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 25 Oct 03 - 06:16 PM "How often do others rewatch films?" Too often and too numerous to ever list here... |
Subject: BS: What films do you rewatch? From: GUEST Date: 25 Oct 03 - 05:17 PM An unoriginal copycat thread to the "What books" thread, but one that should prove just as interesting I think. Many on my list include the fave films of our kids we've seen over and over: Princess Bride Willow Secret of NIMH Tim Burton's films and lots more too numerous... But as far as the films I have rewatched over the years, just for myself: Cheesy films: Out of Africa Dances With Wolves Fried Green Tomatoes Chocolat Foreign (to the US) films: Blue Hedd Wyn Eat, Drink, Man, Woman El Norte Documentary films (American): Roger and Me American Dreams Harlan County Strong in the Broken Places I could go on and on. I rarely reread books. I don't regularly rewatch films, but do enjoy it every few months or so. How often do others rewatch films? |