What Blu-rays/DVDs do you watch over and over again? (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

There is always that group of films that you find yourself returning to
time and time again. No matter how many times you have memorized
and watched it within your lifetime, you know you will view it again.

What are the films that you continue watching every few years (or perhaps
every year) because....well...you just enjoy them so much?

Really curious to read your answers. I am sure there will be some "oddities"
in your list, but that's what makes these lists so special. I am sure most won't
understand those "oddities," but for personal reasons, these are the films that
resonate most powerfully for you.

Here is my list (not in any specific order)....

Fargo
1776
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Once Upon A Time In The West
Glory
Bonnie & Clyde
The Color Purple
The Great Escape
Papillon
What's Up, Doc?
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Sunshine Boys
Saturday Night Fever
Little Big Man
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Planet of the Apes
Star Wars
Murder By Death
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With The Wind
The Shawshank Redemption
True Romance


Titles not Available on Blu-ray as of this post date

 

[Steve Tannehill]

I've gone through my movie lists for the past 5 years, and while there are some multiple screenings, the movie I've seen the most out of everything is Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[JediFonger]

any of the 30 or 31 films by Akira Kurosawa on any medium. but 7 sam is a lifelong PhD study on characters and how a community can or can't survive without one another. just an amazing piece of cinema.

any Murnau, i particularly like the last laugh a lot.

any fritz lang.

any chaplin.

sometimes i just pop in and stay a few seconds, sometimes i finish it. just amazing through and through (older films).

lawrence of arabia is one that i love to test out on the big screen for scale.

 

[JediFonger]

on the less pretentious list, i do like CHronicles of RIddick! sad twohy didn't get more $ to make the real sequel to COR, would have liked to see more of that version of the "underverse" compared to the upcoming "Pitch Black 2"

 

[David Weicker]

I've got about 475 movies in my collection, so it's about a four year rotation. I try to spread my viewing around, so since its grown I rarely watch a film multiple times a year anymore ( or even every two or three years).The exceptions are the holiday films. I tend to re-watch the same films every Christmas/Halloween/4th of July/New Years Eve. There are titles I "have" to watch year.NYE - Poseidon Adventure, Holiday4th - Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1776, Mr. SmithHalloween - Uni Monsters, Night Stalker, Fright NightChristmas - IAWL, 34th St, MGM Christmas Carol, Cheaters, Love Actually, Die Hard, Holiday Inn(As a related question, do people watch 'holiday' films out of season?)David

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

There are a few movies that get pulled out of the line up for viewing very frequently (or recorded and watched everytime they play on HDNet Movies or the like), and for me they include:

Clue

Aliens

Supernova (the one with James Spader...don't judge me)

They Live

The Thing

Die Hard

Chronos (Ron Fricke)

Big Trouble in Little China

Critters

War of the Worlds (remake)

The Game

Jennifer 8

These may not be the most stimulating or well crafted films, they've all had an impact on me in some way. I think it's 'comfort food' thing where these films are markers from my life and I feel happy/safe/relaxed when I'm in the space to watch them.

 

[Cinescott]

I'm really a child of the 70s and 80s, so I seem to return to films from those decades more frequently. There are exceptions, but titles that come to mind for me that I could watch over and over (also in no order):

Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (the year I graduated high school; a real time capsule)
An Officer and a Gentleman
Against All Odds
Norma Rae (Blu-ray, pleeeeeez!)
Saturday Night Fever
Superman: The Movie
Animal House
A Fish Called Wanda
Scarface
Platoon
Fargo
The Big Lebowski

Classics:

Lawrence of Arabia (probably my favorite)
Dr. Zhivago
Shane (can't wait)
Man With No Name Trilogy

Many others, but these come right to mind.

 

[Rob_Ray]

Classic musicals and comedies get replayed a lot in my house. Musicals: Berkeley at Warners, anything with Fred Astaire, the great MGM musicals, R&H.
Comedies: Marx Bros, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy

Also most Hitchcock titles from the 1934-1963 era.

Major event films from the 50s-early 60s (my youth), like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, How the West Was Won, etc.

Literate comedies like The Philadelphia Story, All About Eve, Trouble in Paradise, Some Like it Hot.

Most any Billy Wilder or Ernst Lubitsch title.

 

[Dick]

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, once every year. My favorite movie since 1957.

Beyond that, I have weird viewing habits. I own thousands of DVD's and Blu-rays), many of which I haven't watched yet (I am still saving LIFE OF PI in 3-D for some nebulous special occasion, for example), but I'll re-watch guilty pleasures often. I expect to play FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE a lot. I fall asleep to commentaries of films I've seen a half-dozen times (the Bond films, etc.). I will almost certainly die with about 15% of my collection unviewed.

Collectors are strange folk.

 

[ijthompson]

[*]Alien
[*]Blade Runner
[*]Star Wars
[*]The Thing
[*]Prometheus
[*]Absolute Beginners
[*]Under the Cherry Moon
[*]The Fabulous Baker Boys
[*]Mo' Better Blues
[*]Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
[*]THX-1138
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In no particular order, and excluding all the ones I'm forgetting. Also: don't judge!

 

[Matt Hough]

I find great comfort in watching a movie I'm thoroughly familiar with over and over again. Here are the ones that come most readily to mind:

All six Thin Man movies

All fourteen Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone plus Peter Cushing's The Hound of the Baskervilles

All four Miss Marple films with Margaret Rutherford

Rear Window and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Love Me or Leave Me and Calamity Jane

The Wizard of Oz

 

[Walter Kittel]

I haven't been watching films as much of late, but I have a collection of titles that tend to be viewed on a semi-regular basis (at least once every two years). The ones that come to mind, sort of grouped by genre or director include the following:

Chariots of Fire
The English Patient
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
Blade Runner
The Fifth Element
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
The Matrix
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Once Upon A Time in The West
Open Range
The Right Stuff
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
The Godfather
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction

- Walter.

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

(As a related question, do people watch 'holiday' films out of season?)David

Rarely for me, with the possible exception of Die Hard.

There are some movies that I feel myself wanting to watch through the year but hold off because I want to watch them during Halloween (The Thing (82) for example I watch every year on Halloween night - but I start getting the itch to re-watch it around June).

Oh, and I left Tremors off my original list (which is odd as I just watched it again for the 20th time a few weeks ago)

 

[Richard--W]

I used to watch Horror of Dracula, Lawrence of Arabia, The Haunting, Planet of the Apes, Romeo & Juliet, 2001, Chinatown, and Apocalypse Now incessantly. Still do sometimes. Among numerous others.

Lately I've been watching Andre de Toth's Ramrod (1947) and Crime Wave (1954) over and over again. I love the way he shoots with a small crew entirely on location and that includes interiors as well as exteriors. He doesn't build sets nor light for glamor. In Hidden Fear (1957), same thing. He never slows down the pace, and he achieves a spontaneity and urgency that would be lost if he had shot on a backlot. In the case of Ramrod he shoots the western street as if it were a location. He is attentive to faces and emotional expression, and his composition is always right. His camera set-ups are worth studying.

 

[schan1269]

In no particular order...The Girl Next Door(fits my graduation to a T, except my Vegas was Louisville)Shawshank(just a damn good movie)Pirates(no, not Depp. Sue me)Fifth ElementRepo: The Genetic OperaSecretary(Maggie/James)The Night PorterX-FilesKing Kong(1933)2001The ShiningChristine IdiocracyKoyannisqatsi11:14Powder Blue

 

[Larry Newcomb]

Certain categories are more repeatable for me:

Action/Adventure

[*]Bond
[*]Indiana Jones
[*]Die Hards
[*]True Lies
[*]Live and Die in LA
[*]Ronin
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Sci-Fi

[*]Contact
[*]Stargate (movie not series)
[*]Star Wars
[*]Star Trek (movies)
[*]Any of the '50s B movies
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Comedy

[*]Austin Powers
[*]Pink Panther (Peter Sellers)
[*]Back to the Future
[*]A Fish Called Wanda
[*]Grumpy Old Men
[*]Midnight Run
[*]Ruthless People
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Other

[*]Somewhere in Time
[*]The Stuntman
[*]Excalibur
[*]The Crimson Rivers
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Of course I can always re-watch a whodunit (six months later I can't remember whodidit)

It's unfortunate that we (still) have to include standard definition DVDs

 

[Steve...O]

The Fox Chan films
The Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films
Margaret Rutherford Marple films
1776
Christmas Vacation
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Laurel & Hardy (any film)
Almost any Hitchcock film through the early 60s
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Perry Mason tv series (soon to be complete )

 

[Keith Cobby]

Films : North by Northwest
Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone)
Slightly Scarlet
High Society
Michael Shayne Mysteries
White Christmas
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Three Little Words
The Tall Men
Back to the Future (trilogy)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal
Christmas Vacation
Gunfight at the OK Corral
My Favorite Blonde
The Cowboys
Pal Joey
Daddy Long Legs
The Narrow Margin

TV : Miss Marple (Joan Hickson)
Jeeves and Wooster
Only Fools and Horses

Music : The Opera Gala - live from Baden Baden (blu)
The Berlin Concert (blu)
The Moody Blues - lovely to see you (blu)
Genesis - When in Rome (DVD)

 

[Joe Bernardi]

In no particular order:

On the Waterfront
Bonnie and Clyde
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Some Like it Hot
Das Boot
Stranger than Fiction
The Blues Brothers
The Godfather
Jurassic Park
The Fugitive
To Die For
The Last of the Mohicans

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

If we can add in music, then the following scores get listened to at least weekly from me (in the case of The Hours, almost nightly as I play it when falling asleep):

The Hours (Phillip Glass)
Tron: Legacy (Daft Punk)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat)
A.I. (John Williams)
Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith)
Chronos (Michael Stearns)

There are others that get spun roughly once a month, but that's a LOOOOOONG list - I'm fortunate that I can listen to music at work (headphones) for most of the day.