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Movies that stick with you...
Topic Started: Sep 3 2014, 07:58 AM (162 Views)
Laughing Gravy
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On Facebook, I was purple-nurpled by Kristen Lopez of Classicflix and challenged to "list 15 movies you've seen that will always stick with you" and it's s'posed to be off the top of my head and I'm not ever certain what that means but here we go. I invite you all to do the same if you'd like, I don't intend to purple-nurple any of you, although there's 2 or 3 I'd like to, let me tell you. In chronological order (and yes, I know the year the films were released and I can do "chronological off the top of my head" but if you know me, you know that). Oh, and these are only feature films. And they're not the greatest films or even my favorites, necessarily, just films that taught me something that stuck with me, or were my first exposure to somebody I love, or that otherwise just stick with me as the years roll by...
1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1923
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928
3. International House, 1933
4. Babes in Toyland, 1934
5. Modern Times, 1936
6. Gulliver's Travels, 1939
7. Sullivan's Travels, 1941
8. Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941
9. Notorious, 1946
10. Tokyo Story, 1953
11. The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957
12. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
13. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963
14. American Graffiti, 1973
15. Amélie, 2001
I apologize for all the films I had to leave off this list; in the end, Fantasia fought it out with Mockingbird for that coveted final spot.
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I assume by "will always stick with you" is meant movies that you couldn't forget, even years after first seeing them. This would be my list. They aren't necessarily movies I consider the best (though many are) but are those movies that I always remember and that I know I can enjoy seeing again and again.

Here's my list in the order they occurred to me:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Superman: The Movie
The Magnificent Seven
The Wizard of Oz
Dumbo
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
North by Northwest
Rififi
The Wages of Fear
Duck Soup
The Caine Mutiny
Cabin in the Sky
Chinatown
12 Angry Men
Goldfinger
TANSTAAFL!
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OK: no speeches, but I will play.

Vertigo
The Magnificent Ambersons
Jules and Jim
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Blood and Roses
Black Sunday (the one with Barbara Steele)
Breathless
Intolerance
The Navigator
The Gold Rush
Sullivan's Travels
Only Angels Have Wings
East of Eden
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Searchers
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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I knew you'd have a fascinating list. I never figured you for a "Meet Me in St. Louis" guy but it's definitely the best film where a little girl beheads a snowman.

Great lists so far. The only film on either of 'em that I just don't like is Superman.

I have Intolerance on Blu but haven't watched it yet. I have never seen Blood and Roses. Love the other films, every one.

"Movies that Stick With You" could mean a lot of things. I can recite American Graffiti or the original Little Shop of Horrors by heart.
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Blood and Roses, alas, is only available on VHS in the American version which is cut by at least 20 minutes. Apparently the Europeans think it's trash. Sad. The only good Roger Vadim movie, and it's very likely to be a lost film. Hate it when that happens.
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The fifteen films below appear for a number of reasons. Some were childhood favorites. Others I was obsessed with during particular periods of my life. And some appear due to a single memorable screening. All of the films are special to me in some way.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Babe (A Little Pig Goes A Long Way)
The Bank Dick
F for Fake
The General
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ghost World
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Spirited Away
The Third Man
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Wild Bunch
Yoyo (Pierre Etaix)
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I put the following together yesterday for a friend who requested it on Facebook:

In no particular order:
1. Monkey Business
2. The Third Man
3. The Old Fashioned Way
4. His Girl Friday
5. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
6. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
7. The Thin Man
8. The Black Doll
9. And Then There Were None (1945)
10. The Glass Key
11. The Last of Sheila
12. The Black Cat (1934)
13. 42nd Street
14. Vertigo
15. To Be Or Not To Be

Only problem is, I subsequently thought of Four Feathers (1939), Gunga Din, Thief of Bagdad (1940), Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Duck Soup, Eve’s Bayou, The Big Sleep (first-cut). Miller’s Crossing, D.O.A., etc.
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Oh, I forgot To Be Or Not To Be. I first saw it at a Jewish friend's house, and her parents showed me their tattooed numbers on their arms from when they were at Auschwitz. That sticks with me.

The Black Cat is also an excellent choice. Who knew this movie would ever get so much respect?

The Black Doll is going for $45 bucks, so I may never see it.
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Oh you're not missing much. The reason it's on my list is I first saw it at an impressionable age (hair starting to sprout where it had never been before).

Truth to tell, I only like the first & last third of the picture. The middle third has Edgar Kennedy bumbling about & a little of that goes a l-o-o-o-o-o-ng way. Natch, I love the background music (all of it, of course, stolen).
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