Open for contributions! (Here in 2009 for a while too…)
Make a list of the movies that meant something to you when you first saw them and that have held up over time. Then send me a picture or image you’d like to go with your list or I’ll choose for you. Check out the others. It’s Fun!
Liz!
It’s a Wonderful Life, Pollyanna, Dr. Zhivago, Harry Potter, Anything with Superman, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Lord of the Rings, Anything with Judi Dench, An Inconvenient Truth, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Urban Cowboy, Mash, Soldier Blue.
May 1
It’s *Hollywood*, from the bus window. Thinking to myself ‘what movies have stuck over the years?’ I free-associated a list and then sorted it.
Please PARTICIPATE! Make a list of the movies that meant something to you when you first saw them and that have held up over time. Then send me a picture or image you’d like to go with your list or I’ll choose for you. Check out the others. Fun!
I moved my list down to the last entry.
Just outside the front door of the school, Michi (a school compatriot) and I are preparing for a brief guided tour of the city.
You can see the steeple of The Pink Church at the end of the lane. If I can find that church I can find the school and if I can find the school I can get back to mi casa. There are Literally No Maps with street names except for the major major roads.
There are many streets like this that are pedestrian only and the major roads with motor traffic are all one way.
Nancy!
This is my daughter Molly and I at Kings Road Restaurant Summer ’06. I included her in the photo because as I was trying to come up with the “list” I realized a good measure of what I thought of a movie was whether or not I said to myself “Molly has got to see this.” This makes for a pretty short list of not-so-recent movies. Here it is in no particular order.
My Life As A Dog; Turkish Delight; Aguirra: Wrath of God; The Harder They Come; Doctor Zhivago
Boban!
— COMEDY — The Princess Bride, Austin Powers, Tommy Boy, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Kevin James – Sweat the Small Stuff, Monthy Python: In Search of the Holy Grail, Babe, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, RV, A Fish Called Wanda, LA Story, Biloxi Blues, Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels, Get Shorty, The Incredibles, Groundhog Day, Shrek
— ACTION/ADVENTURE — Tombstone, True Lies, Aliens, Indiana Jones (1 and 3), Die Hard, lethal Weapon, Terminator (1 and 2), The Bourne Identity, Inside Man, Patriot Games
— DRAMA — Unforgiven, Zero Effect, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Grand Canyon, The Big Kahuna, The Usual Suspects, Memento, American History X, LA Confidential
Kelly!
Victor/Victoria, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Way Down East, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, The American President, The Magnificent Ambersons, Don Juan Demarco, Ever After, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Help!, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Love Actually, On The Town, Playing By Heart, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Roman Holiday, Sense and Sensibility, Aladdin, Singing In The Rain, The Sting, Strictly Ballroom, Sound of Music.
Lourdes!
the shaw shank redemption, the color purple, the way we were, the crying game, the piano, the spit fire grill, the shining, the sixth sense, the sand lot, the breakfast club, the princess bride, the joy luck club, the never ending story, the exorcist, the red shoes, the fisher king, the shipping news, the world according to garp, the scent of a woman, fried green tomatoes, what dreams may come, singing in the rain, Chicago, shall we dance, all Fred Astair movies, chapter two, Raiders of the lost ark, the wizard of Oz, like water for chocolate, Chocolate, All Shirley Temple movies, to kill a mocking bird, grapes of wrath, the good bad and the ugly, Cisco Kid, Amalie, motorcycle diaries, when harry met sally, You’ve got mail, phenomenon, pulp fiction, real women have curves, forest gump, what’s eating gilbert grape, legends of the fall, sling blade, indian summer, star trek the next generation, and yes…Star Wars.
Alex!
The Sea Inside, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Caddy Shack, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Key Largo, The Thin Man Series of movies, 12 Angry Men, The Missiles of October, Casa Blanca, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Hotel Rwanda, Saving Private Ryan, Gandhi, Apollo 13, China Town, The Big Chill, The Killing Fields, Belle Époque.
Darryl!
memento, kundun, the shining, taxi driver, farris beuller’s day off, star wars, the matrix, pumping iron, breakfast club, glory, westside story, high noon, eraserhead, the last waltz, night of the living dead, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, elizabeth.
Cynthia!
Amadeus, Kundun, House of Sand and Fog, Alice in Wonderland, Rear Window, Charlotte’s Web, American Pie, Wizard of Oz, The Breakfast Club, Born on the Fourth of July, The Last Emperor, Glory, Empire of the Sun, Napoleon Dynamite, Fanny and Alexander, Something About Mary, Face-Off, Spellbound, American History X, Slingblade, Lili, Stand By Me, Monster’s Ball, Great Expectations (1998), My Fair Lady, The Shining.
Nancy!
The Little Fugitive (came out in 1953), Jule and Jim, The 400 Blows, Lolita (the Kubrick one), 2001, A Space Odyssey, The Manchurian Candidate (the original one), The Red Shoes, Singin’ In The Rain, Rebecca, Gone With The Wind (I’m old, right?), Wizard of Oz, The Crying Game, Easy Rider, La Strada, 81/2, La Dolce Vita, Purple Noon, The Best of Youth (that 2 parter, Italian docudrama still playing-don’t miss it), Darling, Dr. Zhivago, Don’t Look Now, Juliet of The Spirits, Annie Hall, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shining, The Women, Far From The Madding Crowd, Dumbo, Fantasia, American Psycho, East of Eden, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, Groundhog Day, Babe, Sleeping Beauty, Tess of the D’urbervilles.
Marija!
Driving Miss Daisy, Moonstruck, West Side Story, Bull Durham.
Brian!
(not yet…)
Roger!
War of the Worlds, Jaws, It Happened One Night, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, Clueless, Seven Samurai, Persuasion, Tremors, Our Man Godfrey, Top Hat, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, The Birds, The Thin Man, Blowup, Croupier, Crying Game, House of Games, Performance, Seventh Seal, Walkabout, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Alien, The Dead, Last Seduction, The Living Dead, The Horn Blows at Midnight, To Have and Have Not, King Kong, 12 Angry Men, Babette’s Feast, Crumb, Buena Vista Social Club, Dr Strangeglove, The Exorcist, A Fish Called Wanda, The Good Girl, Groundhog Day, The Graduate, Harvey, Key Largo, Lantana, Lone Star, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Notting Hill, The Philadelphia Story, Rear Window, Safe, Taxi Driver, Trading Places, Working Girl, World of Apu.
Becky!
The Color Purple, Paint Your Wagon, Dances With Wolves, Fried Green Tomatoes, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Independence Day, Armageddon, The Great Escape, True Lies, The Gods must Be Crazy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casa Blanca, Mary Poppins.
Penny!
After Life, Amadeus, Black Orpheus, Blade Runner, Blowup, Bull Durham, Cabaret, Chariots of Fire, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Croupier, The Crying Game, The Dead, Death of a Salesman, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, Elmer Gantry, Fanny and Alexander, Farewell My Concubine, The Fast Runner, Five Easy Pieces, Gallipoli, The Glass Menagerie, Glengarry-Glen Ross, The Godfather(s), Grand Canyon, House of Games, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Little Shop of Horrors, Lost in Translation, Manchurian Candidate, Marty, Midnight Cowboy, Never Cry Wolf, On The Waterfront, Paths of Glory, Performance, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, The Right Stuff, The Saltmen of Tibet, Secrets and Lies, The Seventh Seal, Strictly Ballroom, The Sweet Hereafter, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They, The Thin Man, To Kill A Mockingbird, Touch of Evil, Unforgiven, Walkabout, When Harry Met Sally, West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, Woman in the Dunes.
