Wanda's " Watch Again & Again Movies"

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When I don’t want surprises. When I don’t want something new. When I want to drift into a known, comfortable world that takes me away from my here and now, these are the movies I turn to. I know the lines, I know the characters…they are like old friends, predictable, reassuring, and always a pleasure to spend time with.

Yes, I know they are mostly old movies. But I like old movies. Contemporary movies are filled with sex, violence, drugs, crime and yelling. I have enough of that in real life… Not that some of these don’t have a bit of that, but it is not gratuitous, and the focus of these films is always on the human and the humane. The order of the listing is random.

  1. 1.
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    by Jacques Demy

  2. 2.
    The World of Suzie Wong
    by Richard Quine

  3. 3.
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    by Scott Hicks

  4. 4.
    A Man and a Woman
    by Claude Lelouch

  5. 5.
    On the Beach
    by Stanley Kramer

  6. 6.
    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  7. 7.
    Portrait of Jennie
    by William Dieterle

  8. 8.
    The Third Man
    by Carol Reed

  9. 9.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

  10. 10.
    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

  11. 11.
    Picnic : Restored
    by Joshua Logan

  12. 12.
    Somewhere in Time
    by Jeannot Szwarc

  13. 13.

  14. 14.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  15. 15.
    The Misfits
    by John Huston

  16. 16.
    The Sand Pebbles (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Robert Wise

  17. 17.
    The Clock
    by Fred Zinnemann

  18. 18.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  19. 19.
    September Affair (1950)
    by William Dieterle

  20. 21.
    These Three (1936)
    by William Wyler

  21. 22.
    Since You Went Away
    by David O. Selznick

  22. 23.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg

  23. 24.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition)
    by Michael Mann

  24. 25.
    Love and Death
    by Woody Allen

  25. 26.
    Glory
    by Edward Zwick

  26. 27.
    High Noon

  27. 28.
    The Petrified Forest
    by Archie Mayo

  28. 29.
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    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

  29. 30.
    Dark Passage (Snap Case)
    by Delmer Daves

  30. 31.
    Peyton Place
    by Mark Robson

  31. 32.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  32. 33.
    Remember the Night (1940)
    by Mitchell Leisen

  33. 34.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

  34. 35.
    Romeo & Juliet
    by Franco Zeffirelli

  35. 36.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  36. 37.
    Meet John Doe
    by Frank Capra

  37. 38.
    The Hired Hand
    by Peter Fonda

  38. 39.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

  39. 40.
    Orchestra Wives
    by Archie Mayo

  40. 41.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

  41. 42.
    Cast Away (Widescreen Edition)
    by Robert Zemeckis

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Created by Wanda on Jun 24, 2007.
 

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