It might make a good litmus test to see how compatible I am with someone else. There are certain movies I can watch over and over again without ever getting tired of them. Taken together, they probably say an awful lot about me, but I’m not really sure what it is.
Anyway, here’s a list of some of my favorites which stand up to repeated viewing:
- After Hours
- After Hours (see, I told you…)
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Vertigo
- The Birds
- Fargo
- Citizen Kane
- Mildred Pierce
- Prick Up Your Ears
- Sorry Wrong Number
- The Long, Long Trailer
- Sunset Boulevard
- Midnight Cowboy
And a second tier. Think of these as the ones I might watch once a year rather than twice:
- Double Indemnity
- Atlantic City
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Towering Inferno
- Stranger than Paradise
- Roadside Prophets
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Ed Wood
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Laura
- Sid and Nancy
- Harold and Maude
- Come Back Little Sheba
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- The Crow
- Gone with the Wind
- Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Analysis? Think we’re meant to be together? Think Alfred Hitchcock or really desparate characters are over-represented? Think I need to contemporize? Wondering how “The Crow” made the list? Got a list of your own? Post it here or on your own site (and let me know for the obligatory free link)…