User:JackofOz/Well-loved films

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

 * The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
 * Blade Runner (1982)

Never-seen films - yet
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)
 * 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)
 * 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)