Those you view in the way you would read a familiar poem:
84 Sharing Cross Road
Miss Potter
The Reivers
I’m getting a kick out of reading your list as a minimalist poem…
In no particular order:
The Grey Fox
Harvey
Passion Fish
Strangers In Good Company
The Grey Fox - Netflix seems to have lost their DVD
Moonrise Kingdom
Lost in Translation
I read Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch once a year, on the beach at Friar’s Bay, St Martin. When we get home from vacation, I watch Quentin Tarantino’s interpretation of the book, Jackie Brown. I’ve done this 12-14 times.
Yankee Doodle Dandy. We watch it every year on the Fourth of July. It reminds me that there was once a time when it was ok to be shamelessly patriotic. Plus Cagney is incredible.
“Goodbye Mr. Chips” (original 1939 version)
It’s one of the very finest Canadian movies ever filmed, and one of the best westerns from any country, won several Canadian “Oscars”, but was last released on LaserDisc and has been out of print in ANY format for decades.
A couple of years ago it was about to be released on (Eurpoean) DVD or BR, I forget which, in a special edition no less, but was cancelled at the last minute when (as I understood it) formatting difficulties were discovered. Not a word since then.
As you may have discerned I think the effective loss of this little masterpiece is a crime.
Excellent choice, should have been on my list too. I’ve never been able to figure out why I love this film so much, especially since I normally don’t much care for Wes Anderson.
Rudy.
Harvey
Auntie Mame
An Affair to Remember (Grant/ Kerr)
Almost any Hitchcock
Joy Luck Club and Secrets and Lies.
The characters all have difficulties, but the resolutions are so satisfying.
Yes, definitely! A wonderful movie.
My Man Godfrey
Bad Day at Black Rock
Key Largo
David Byrne’s True Stories
My Dinner with Andre
Harold and Maude
I know why Moonrise Kingdom is one of my favorite films. It’s the same reason that A Little Romance is one of my favorite films. What if you met the love of your life when you were just starting to get interested in the opposite sex? (Or, well, the same sex if that’s what you’re interested in.) What if you had always felt different from other people, and now you met someone who was like you and you could imagine being in love with for the rest of your life? Furthermore, what if the two of you ran away to be together for a short time? In Moonrise Kingdom the boy and girl are both 12 years old and in A Little Romance they are both 13 years old.
Amelie
Topsy-Turvy
The Shawshank Redemption
Followed up by Forest Gump.