Movies you've seen over 5 times and will watch again

[timothyemerson]

Suprising that you all are listing movies that I own and watch over and over. This tells me good movies are pretty much universal (but music sure isn't)! I'm a big sci-fi fan and own the majority of these movies on many formats (including beta, vhs, LD and video 8). I've recently been picking up many of these on bluray 's from pawn shops at an alarming rate because they are so cheap (10 for 10 at EZpawn). One movie I watch on a regular basis and haven't seen listed is "Knowing". Yea, and we watch planes trains and autos at thanksgiving, polar express and home alone at Christmas. I can't leave out my fav sports movies...."42", "Hoosiers", greatest game ever played, league of their own and Will Smith is the baddest caddy of all time! I've always collected movies in lieu of pay tv (It seemed to me everytime a big sports star got a huge contract the rates would go up)

I would watch Knowing again. Awesome plane crash. Hilarious scene with Nick Cage and a baseball bat too. I remember reading that Richard Kelly who wrote/directed Donnie Darko was going to take it on. Would have been a good fit.

 

[4-earredwonder]

How did I forget about Taxi Driver?!

David and Lisa + Lilith were both awesome movies. Whoa, Janet Margolin was a knock-out. I noticed a few months ago that I have LOTS of movies that involve an insane asylum of some sort. Speaking of which, I also just remembered Session 9 that is another with high rewatchability for me.

I've only seen Scenes From A Marriage once but remember a particularly funny scene that had me laughing out loud. Don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it but I'm sure you know the one!

Tim, I also noticed you listed Frank Perry's The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster with that magnificent score by Marvin Hamlisch based on a short story by John Cheever. Do you have the fantastic blu ray version?

 

[Clement]

Wow--what a thread! What a thread! I'll try to record movies I've not yet seen in the thread, but I reserve the right to double up! What a world! What a world!
Wizard of Oz
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Ikiru
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Late Spring
The Life of Oharu
Any Miyazaki (so many memories watching with my daughter!)
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like it Hot
Touch of Evil
The Tarkovsky Canon (seven feature films)
Dekalog
Almost everything Preston Sturges wrote and directed in the 1940s
Modern Times
City Lights
The Kid
Miracle in Milan
The General
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Sherlock, Jr.
The Searchers
Chinatown
Last Year at Marianbad
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Sundays and Cybele
The Conformist
The Third Man
All About Eve
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Nosferatu
City Girl
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
L'Atlante
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali Trilogy
Parasite!
Memories of Murder
The Host
Local Hero
Comfort and Joy
Oh my gosh! I can't type anymore--I'm off to watch Man With a Movie Camera

 

[4-earredwonder]

Wow--what a thread! What a thread! I'll try to record movies I've not yet seen in the thread, but I reserve the right to double up! What a world! What a world!
Wizard of Oz
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Ikiru
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Late Spring
The Life of Oharu
Any Miyazaki (so many memories watching with my daughter!)
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like it Hot
Touch of Evil
The Tarkovsky Canon (seven feature films)
Dekalog
Almost everything Preston Sturges wrote and directed in the 1940s
Modern Times
City Lights
The Kid
Miracle in Milan
The General
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Sherlock, Jr.
The Searchers
Chinatown
Last Year at Marianbad
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Sundays and Cybele
The Conformist
The Third Man
All About Eve
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Nosferatu
City Girl
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
L'Atlante
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali Trilogy
Parasite!
Memories of Murder
The Host
Local Hero
Comfort and Joy
Oh my gosh! I can't type anymore--I'm off to watch Man With a Movie Camera

Ah, Clement, Sundays and Cybele ...... So beautiful, so tragic! GREAT LIST! And that's what the 'edit button' is for. Just Keep Adding. I know, I will!

 

[timothyemerson]

Tim, I also noticed you listed Frank Perry's The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster with that magnificent score by Marvin Hamlisch based on a short story by John Cheever. Do you have the fantastic blu ray version?

Yep, I've got that one. Artwork says it's Region A but it plays on my Region B-locked Sony. Love it when Burt does his hand claps in the horse scene. Same director as David and Lisa which is another ripper if you haven't seen it. Although I read Frank got fired and a young Sydney Pollack finished off The Swimmer. A great boiling hot summer evening watch.

 

[timothyemerson]

Wow--what a thread! What a thread! I'll try to record movies I've not yet seen in the thread, but I reserve the right to double up! What a world! What a world!
Wizard of Oz
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Ikiru
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Late Spring
The Life of Oharu
Any Miyazaki (so many memories watching with my daughter!)
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like it Hot
Touch of Evil
The Tarkovsky Canon (seven feature films)
Dekalog
Almost everything Preston Sturges wrote and directed in the 1940s
Modern Times
City Lights
The Kid
Miracle in Milan
The General
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Sherlock, Jr.
The Searchers
Chinatown
Last Year at Marianbad
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Sundays and Cybele
The Conformist
The Third Man
All About Eve
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Nosferatu
City Girl
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
L'Atlante
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali Trilogy
Parasite!
Memories of Murder
The Host
Local Hero
Comfort and Joy
Oh my gosh! I can't type anymore--I'm off to watch Man With a Movie Camera

Touch of Evil, Last Year at Marienbad, The Third Man, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Local Hero, Tarkovsky's Solaris - great flicks!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Yep, I've got that one. Artwork says it's Region A but it plays on my Region B-locked Sony. Love it when Burt does his hand claps in the horse scene. Same director as David and Lisa which is another ripper if you haven't seen it. Although I read Frank got fired and a young Sydney Pollack finished it off. A great boiling hot summer evening watch.

Did you ever see Frank and wife, Eleanor Perry's movie LAST SUMMER .... another interesting watch. "David, David, Look at me, Tell me David, what do you see?" DAVID: "I see a Pearl of a Girl....' [from DAVID & LISA].

And shortly thereafter, Stanley Kubrick cast Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey!

 

[timothyemerson]

Did you ever see Frank and wife, Eleanor Perry's movie LAST SUMMER .... another interesting watch. "David, David, Look at me, Tell me David, what do you see?" DAVID: "I see a Pearl of a Girl....' [from DAVID & LISA].

Not yet, but it's on my list! That D&L dialogue was terrific - great script! Love that scene where Janet's walking towards the camera with her finger out.

 

[The56Kid]

Alien
Dirty Harry
The Wild Bunch
The Exorcist
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
The Descent
The Dark Knight
Blade Runner

 

[salsdali]

I don't think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has been mentioned yet. Benicio at his best

 

[salsdali]

Dirty Harry

That's one I stop and watch when it's on because Clint and because I'm a huge Zodiac amateur sleuth.

We leads me to David's Fincher's Zodiac, a must see.

 

[The56Kid]

Fincher is another one of those great directors whose movies have high replay value:

Seven
Panic Room
Zodiac
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Social Network

 

[timothyemerson]

Alien
Dirty Harry
The Wild Bunch
The Exorcist
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
The Descent
The Dark Knight
Blade Runner

The Descent's a goodie. And The Pact. And The Fourth Kind. I've seen them all a few times - not quite 5 though.

 

[timothyemerson]

That's one I stop and watch when it's on because Clint and because I'm a huge Zodiac amateur sleuth.

We leads me to David's Fincher's Zodiac, a must see.

I think Zodiac's my favourite Fincher flick. 2.5 hours but it rips along at a great rate.

 

[Clement]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
A History of Violence

 

[4-earredwonder]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
A History of Violence

And what about Harold and Maude and Brewster McCloud, Clem?

 

[Quad Linda]

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Odd Couple
Grateful Dead Movie
The Last Waltz
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come
Rockers
The Five Pennines
A Clockwork Orange
Concert for Bangladesh
Woodstock
Monterey Pop
200 Motels
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos
Festival Express
Janis
Electric Heart- Don Ellis
Song Remains the Same
American Graffiti
A Day at the Races
A Hard Day's Night
Let it Be
All You Need is Cash
Phil Ochs Documentary
To Russia with Elton
Jack Johnson
Austin Powers
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Midnight Cowboy
A Star is Born - Babs
Funny Girl
West Side Story
Head
Lenny
Marat Sade
Last Tango in Paris
A Touch of Evil

 

[salsdali]

Black Christmas is one of my perverse favourites....

speaking of Christmas movies that are Dark, I need to include Billy Bob in Bad Santa. I miss John Ritter and Bernie Mac every time I watch it.

 

[salsdali]

greatest game ever played, league of their own and Will Smith is the baddest caddy of all time!

The Legend of Bagger Vance??

 

[Cibola]

Reading the other posts gave me good ideas to help make five but the first ones that come to mind that I've watched recently and make the list are:
We Were Soldiers
No Country for Old Men
Oblivion
John Wick: Chapter 2
The Siege of Jadotville
Inception
The Aviator
Black Hawk Down