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| bartist |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:15 am |
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| Am trying to compose list of movies I would watch more than twice....very few come to mind, maybe Sita sings the Blues, Chinatown, The 3rd Man, a couple Coen bros, a couple Hitchcocks, Jaws, Sideways, maybe Blade Runner and a couple other vintage sci-fis...and now will add Boyhood. This list is not necessarily about a film being great, but it's about watching spellbound, immersed, getting something each time you revisit...feeling a thrill when the opening credits appear. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:26 am |
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bartist wrote: Am trying to compose list of movies I would watch more than twice....very few come to mind, maybe Sita sings the Blues, Chinatown, The 3rd Man, a couple Coen bros, a couple Hitchcocks, Jaws, Sideways, maybe Blade Runner and a couple other vintage sci-fis...and now will add Boyhood. This list is not necessarily about a film being great, but it's about watching spellbound, immersed, getting something each time you revisit...feeling a thrill when the opening credits appear.
I've seen Rear Window more times than I can count. Casablanca multiple times, Singin' in the Rain many, Leaving Las Vegas many, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Blvd., The Apartment, Fargo, Sideways lots and lots. We share a lot of the same likes. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:56 am |
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| Billy and I are very close. I would substitute the original Of Mice and Men for Rear Window. Third Man I've watched more than any other. And I'll have to see how Birdman settles in. I know I have to see it again soon, and that's unusual for me. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:54 am |
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billyweeds wrote: bartist wrote: Am trying to compose list of movies I would watch more than twice....very few come to mind, maybe Sita sings the Blues, Chinatown, The 3rd Man, a couple Coen bros, a couple Hitchcocks, Jaws, Sideways, maybe Blade Runner and a couple other vintage sci-fis...and now will add Boyhood. This list is not necessarily about a film being great, but it's about watching spellbound, immersed, getting something each time you revisit...feeling a thrill when the opening credits appear.
I've seen Rear Window more times than I can count. Casablanca multiple times, Singin' in the Rain many, Leaving Las Vegas many, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Blvd., The Apartment, Fargo, Sidewayslots and lots. We share a lot of the same likes.
I have watched Nashville six or seven times, and would watch it again, right now, if I had time, but then all of my favorite films I rewatch, except things like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, which are too draining. I cannot think of a great movie I have not seen multiple times, except Dekalog, which I have seen most of the parts of at least twice. How well a movie plays out on a second viewing is one way I judge a movie great.
I have even seen some fairly mediocre movies multiple times, for a variety of reasons; The Great Escape (more very good than mediocre) because it is sort of cinematic comfort food, Ghost because my wife loves it, Pretty Woman because my wife loves it, Titanic because my wife loves it, Forest Gump because my wife.... I sense a pattern. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:25 am |
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whiskey--I'm sure your wife is a lovely woman, but her taste in movies is...um...not. Yours, however, is aces, so it balances out real good.  And you seem to be a very fine husband, and that's more important in the long run than liking good movies. Only slightly more important, however.
Oh, and, pal, see Boyhood. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:46 am |
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I can think of tons of older film I've watched 3 or more times:
M, Metropolis, Casablanca, Third Man, Out of the Past, Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, every Chaplin film, Cleo from 5 to 7, In a Lonely Place, MP & the Holy Grail, Night of the Hunter, The Little Fugitive, Peeping Tom, The Crowd, Quai de Orfevres, Do the Right Thing, Veronika Voss, The Bicycle Thief...
And more recent films:
Little Children, Huckabees, Facing Ali, Clerks, Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Memento, Being John Malkovich, Man Bites Dog, Mary & Max
Likely plenty of others ...
Needless to say, those are all favorites ... |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:51 am |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next and Annie Hall I've seen more than any other films. So much that I pretty much know all the dialogue.
Wizard of Oz I've also seen many many times.Also Dr. Starngelove
Plus Citizen Kane, and 8.5,
More 3 or more times: L'Atalante, Dog Day Afternoon, And Justice For All, The Great Santini, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Sunset Blvd, La Jetee, Strangers on a Train, N x NW, probably a number of other Hitchcocks, The Saddest Music in the World, Alphaville, the first 3 Wallace & Gromit short films ... |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:27 am |
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Yeah, several of those would fit what WP called "cinematic comfort food." And, man, watching Ghost
multiple times because your wife loves it...that is truly an act of love. Mine (acts of marital devotion) include How Green was my Valley and Barffest at Tiffany's.
Comedies, will multi watch anything from M Python, Coens, Payne, Wilder, and approx. 50% of Wes Anderson.
Gromit, I should see Bicycle Thief again. Saw it ca. age 20 and reacted badly, didn't give it a proper chance. Bad company. |
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yambu wrote: Billy and I are very close. I would substitute the original Of Mice and Men for Rear Window. Third Man I've watched more than any other. And I'll have to see how Birdman settles in. I know I have to see it again soon, and that's unusual for me.
I've seen The Third Man many, many times. Boyhood and Birdman twice so far and counting. Headhunters three times. |
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I was once going through a survey that included the question "What kind of movies do you like?" The only answer I could come up with was "good movies"--although I like some bad movies too. But among my top ten are "Annie Hall," "The Road Warrior," "The Third Man," "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Singin' in the Rain," and "North by Northwest," so I don't do genre. But I've seen all of those many times, and am ready to watch them again anytime.
Still, when I do watch a movie more than once, it's usually about the actors. Alan Bates, of course, whether the movie is good or bad (they tended to deteriorate as he started doing films "to pay the school fees" for his twins). But I'll watch anything with Powell & Loy or Tracy & Hepburn, and Fred Astaire or Cary Grant or the Marx Brothers will always hold my attention. I could go on…
But it does seem that the greatest stars and some of the best movies were before my time, in the thirties and forties. At least, they seem the easiest to watch over and over. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:35 am |
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Oh yeah, Royal Tenenbaums I've seen thrice, along with most Marxist Bros. films.
I'm getting ready to re-watch Margaret soon.
I'm sure A Face in the Crowd and Ace in the Hole will get a 3rd viewing but I didn't discover them too many year ago, so that hasn't happened yet.
It's real nice to settle down with a movie you know you love and expect to again. |
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My wife has a definite preference for plot driven movies with romance. I have not brought the Coens to her attention as yet.
And carrobin has reminded me, the movie I have seen the most times is Monty Python Ich Den Holie Graille. A moose once bit my sister.... |
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Whiskey, there's a site called ThinkGeek where you can get a t-shirt with the Knights who say Ni coat of arms. (I'm wearing my Ministry of Silly Walks watch that I bought there--so many temptations.)
And for a great romance with a bizarre plot that you and your wife would probably enjoy, look back to Powell & Loy for "I Love You Again," in which Powell is a con man who is actually the amnesia-stricken husband of Loy; when he finds out that he's really the head of a pottery company with plenty of money and a beautiful wife, he fakes his way through a merry homecoming (he remembers nothing) and only his wife is cool, as he was a lousy husband and she wants to divorce him. But naturally, they're Powell and Loy… Great fun. (I watch it every time TCM hauls it out.) |
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whiskeypriest wrote: ...seen the most times is Monty Python Ich Den Holie Graille. A moose once bit my sister....
Monty Python und die Heilige Gral
Gromit, I would never think of Margaret as re-watchable. Or anywhere near a movie to settle down with. Chacun a son heilige gral! |
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