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January 26, 2011


over and over and over again
posted by soe 12:45 am

Blatantly stolen from Amanda and then modified to present fewer titles, my top 15 movies I can watch over and over again:

  1. The Thin Man (always on my iPod for emergency airplane viewing)
  2. The Princess Bride (my default sick day movie)
  3. White Christmas (probably my favorite Christmas movie)
  4. Benny and Joon
  5. The Breakfast Club
  6. The Muppet Movie
  7. The Wizard of Oz
  8. The Sound of Music
  9. Anne of Green Gables
  10. The Philadelphia Story
  11. Mary Poppins
  12. Pride and Prejudice
  13. Beauty and the Beast
  14. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  15. The Harry Potter series (I know! I redid the rules and then totally cheated on them with these last two entries!)

What would be on your list?

Category: arts. There is/are 5 Comments.



In no particular order, those that come to mind immediately are:

My Fair Lady (Hepburn)
Desk Set (Hepburn/Tracy)
Shall We Dance (Astaire/Rogers)
Swing Time (Astaire/Rogers)
Charade (Hepburn/Grant)
To Catch a Thief (Grant/Kelly)
The Wizard of Oz
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Abyss
Star Wars (1977)

Guess I need to think of a few more!

Comment by MJ 01.26.11 @ 9:22 am

benny and joon is so very good! and yes, white christmas is hands down the best christmas movie 🙂

Comment by amanda {the habit of being} 01.26.11 @ 2:23 pm

A bunch of your movies would be on mine, too — White Christmas is my favorite Christmas movie, and I love The Thin Man! Also, The Breakfast Club, Philadelphia Story, and the Wizard of Oz. I’d add It Happened One Night, Lost in Translation, and, as a real change of pace, Animal House.

Comment by janna 01.27.11 @ 10:19 pm

@amanda: I love Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson.

@janna: You’re right: It Happened One Night is also excellent.

Comment by soe 02.17.11 @ 11:43 pm

@MJ: Many good ones on your list, too!

Comment by soe 02.17.11 @ 11:44 pm