My 20 best movies

[CBStew]

I recently posted about "The Green Book".  It got me to thinking about movies that have made a lasting impression on me.  Here, in no particular order, are over a dozen movies that fall into that category:
Schindler's List
Chariots of Fire
My Darling Clementine  (The best Western ever made)
Le Ronde
Cyranno do Bergerac
Boomerang (The 1947 Dana Andrews movie that influenced me, at the age of 11 to become a lawyer)
Stagecoach (the 1939 movie with John Wayne)
Gone With the Wind
Singing in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
Zulu
The Duelists
Sahara (The Humphrey Bogart version)
Beau Geste (1939 version)
Four Feathers (1939 version.  Are you seeing a pattern here?)
Memento
A Man For All Seasons
Fantasia  (Walt Disney's finest movie, and my introduction to serious symphonic music)
Incident at Owl Creek Bridge

[flannj]

What? No "Manos: the Hands of Fate"?
Waiting for Bort and Gil to nerd out with me.

But seriously Stew, no mention of "12 Angry Men"?

[CBStew]

What? No "Manos: the Hands of Fate"?
Waiting for Bort and Gil to nerd out with me.

But seriously Stew, no mention of "12 Angry Men"?

Darn!  You are right.  But you may have noticed that I left room in my "list of 20".  I still have room for a few more.

[CBStew]

Wow!  How could I forget "Groundhog Day"?   The most zen movie ever.  I also forgot "The Ox Bow Incident".  Thanks for reminding me about "Twelve Angry Men".  I am getting well beyond 20 movies.  I don't remember the title of the Laurel and Hardy movie where they are moving a piano up a flight of stairs.  Or the Abbott and Costello where Costello is a ghost from Colonial times who is damned to haunt a house.  Tom Hanks' "Castaway" and "You've Got Mail", which was a remake of the equally good "Shop Around the Corner".  Danny Kaye's "Court Jester".   "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".  "When Harry Met Sally".  The original "Prisoner of Zenda".  Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in "The Front Page", the Jack Lemon/Walter Matthau "Fortune Cookie" and their "Odd Couple". 

I can't limit the list to 20 movies.

[flannj]

Wow!  How could I forget "Groundhog Day"?   The most zen movie ever.  I also forgot "The Ox Bow Incident".  Thanks for reminding me about "Twelve Angry Men".  I am getting well beyond 20 movies.  I don't remember the title of the Laurel and Hardy movie where they are moving a piano up a flight of stairs.  Or the Abbott and Costello where Costello is a ghost from Colonial times who is damned to haunt a house.  Tom Hanks' "Castaway" and "You've Got Mail", which was a remake of the equally good "Shop Around the Corner".  Danny Kaye's "Court Jester".   "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".  "When Harry Met Sally".  The original "Prisoner of Zenda".  Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in "The Front Page", the Jack Lemon/Walter Matthau "Fortune Cookie" and their "Odd Couple". 

I can't limit the list to 20 movies.

It's called "The Music Box"
Possibly some of the best physical comedy ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CuXnB928g
Stan Laurel was a genius.

[flannj]

Anatomy of a Murder
In Cold Blood
LA Confidential
Master and Commander
The Life of Brian
Blackboard Jungle
Double Indemnity
Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sting
No Country for Old Men

There's just too many and we have barely scratched the surface on Westerns. But I certainly appreciate the effort.
Now I want to go watch a movie.

Perhaps "Zulu". That movie is fantastic.

[CBStew]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[CBStew]

By coincidence I watched My Darling Clementine on TCM  this evening.  There is a great line.  Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp says to the bartender,  "Mac, have you ever been in love?"  Mac answers "No.  I've been a bartender all my life."

I thought of another one.  Gary Cooper in "The Westerner".  Walter Brennan, as usual, stole every scene.

[flannj]

You could do a thread just on character actors.
Start with Brennan. 
Follow up with Jack Elam and JT Walsh and James Cromwell.
The list won't stop at 200 much less 20.
I'm enjoying this, thank you Stew.

I forgot to add "Das Boot" absolutely one of my favorite movies ever.

[CBStew]

You could do a thread just on character actors.
Start with Brennan. 
Follow up with Jack Elam and JT Walsh and James Cromwell.
The list won't stop at 200 much less 20.
I'm enjoying this, thank you Stew.

I forgot to add "Das Boot" absolutely one of my favorite movies ever.

Speaking of "Das Boot" how about "Viva Zapata"?   That's bad.  I apologize.

[flannj]

You could do a thread just on character actors.
Start with Brennan. 
Follow up with Jack Elam and JT Walsh and James Cromwell.
The list won't stop at 200 much less 20.
I'm enjoying this, thank you Stew.

I forgot to add "Das Boot" absolutely one of my favorite movies ever.

Speaking of "Das Boot" how about "Viva Zapata"?   That's bad.  I apologize.

Stew, you are the reason I come here.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

My Top 10:

1. Breaking Away
2. The Godfather
3. Cuckoo's Nest
(4-10, in no particular order)
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Shawshank
Big Lewbowski
It's a Wonderful Life
Rain Man
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

[flannj]

Good call on Breaking Away

Not mentioned yet: Blazing Saddles

[CBStew]

My Top 10:

1. Breaking Away
2. The Godfather
3. Cuckoo's Nest
(4-10, in no particular order)
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Shawshank
Big Lewbowski
It's a Wonderful Life
Rain Man
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

How could I forget "The Big Lewbowski"?   Shame on me.  The rug ties the room together.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

My Top 10:

1. Breaking Away
2. The Godfather
3. Cuckoo's Nest
(4-10, in no particular order)
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Shawshank
Big Lewbowski
It's a Wonderful Life
Rain Man
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

How could I forget "The Big Lewbowski"?   Shame on me.  The rug ties the room together.

One of those rare films that gets better each time you watch it. I expect, if I'm fortunate enough to live to your ripe old, age, Stew, that it'll have worked it's way to #1 for me by then.