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UTUSN

(74,277 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 10:35 PM Wednesday

Best movies (Citizen Kane exempted)

* All About Eve

* Sunset Boulevard

* Lawrence of Arabia - (Yeah, I know we love Gregory P/Mockingbird)

* The Third Man

* Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Cabaret, Romeo/Juliet

* (Navy) The Last Detail, Cinderella Liberty, Officer/Gentleman

* (comedy ) - Funny Thing/Forum, Fish/Wanda, Producers

* (European stuff) -

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Best movies (Citizen Kane exempted) (Original Post) UTUSN Wednesday OP
Cool Hand Luke BOSSHOG Wednesday #1
Excellent UTUSN Wednesday #2
My desert island list. FalloutShelter Wednesday #3
I'll go to that island! UTUSN Wednesday #4
Hud. Sneederbunk Wednesday #5
Gotta see it - SO out of it! UTUSN Wednesday #6
My Favorites LogDog75 Yesterday #7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest LudwigPastorius Yesterday #8
Crimes and Misdemeanors is an excellent movie. milestogo Yesterday #16
Martin Landau gives a great performance in that one. LudwigPastorius Yesterday #19
Here are mine, including 2 titles* that I did some costume graphics in... GReedDiamond Yesterday #9
My list nuxvomica Yesterday #10
The Graduate no_hypocrisy Yesterday #11
To Kill a Mockingbird Grim Chieftain Yesterday #12
Robert Duvall as Boo Radley milestogo Yesterday #18
Godfathers i & II ProfessorGAC Yesterday #13
A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven) Doc_Technical Yesterday #14
2001: A Space Odyssey milestogo Yesterday #15
I'd add "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" to the comedy group. Paladin Yesterday #17
The Wizard of Oz Alpeduez21 Yesterday #20

FalloutShelter

(13,369 posts)
3. My desert island list.
Wed May 28, 2025, 10:57 PM
Wednesday

All About Eve
Some Like it Hot
West Side Story
Day For Night
Blade Runner
Good Fellas

LogDog75

(455 posts)
7. My Favorites
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:59 AM
Yesterday

The Martian

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Lost Horizon

Casablanca

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

LudwigPastorius

(12,527 posts)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Thu May 29, 2025, 01:00 AM
Yesterday

Dr. Strangelove

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Amadeus

City Lights

milestogo

(20,669 posts)
16. Crimes and Misdemeanors is an excellent movie.
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:34 AM
Yesterday

Despite all his flaws, Woody Allen knows how to put together a good film.

LudwigPastorius

(12,527 posts)
19. Martin Landau gives a great performance in that one.
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:34 PM
Yesterday

Before I saw that movie I only knew him from cheesy TV fare like Space: 1999.

GReedDiamond

(5,445 posts)
9. Here are mine, including 2 titles* that I did some costume graphics in...
Thu May 29, 2025, 03:16 AM
Yesterday

Dr. Strangelove

2001: A Space Odyssey

They Live!

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976 original) - BTW, currently on YouTube movies, free with ads

Idiocracy

*To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

*Enemy Of The State

nuxvomica

(13,335 posts)
10. My list
Thu May 29, 2025, 04:04 AM
Yesterday

If any of these is on the TV when I'm channel surfing, I watch it:

Casablanca (1942)

The Third Man (1949)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Touch of Evil (1951)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

Notorious (1946)

Deception (1946)

Jumanji (1995)

Doc_Technical

(3,674 posts)
14. A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:02 AM
Yesterday

The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Bringing up Baby
Doctor Zhivago (1965)

milestogo

(20,669 posts)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:32 AM
Yesterday

The Onion Field

The Pianist

Thelma & Louise

Black Hawk Down

Legends of the Fall

Paladin

(30,555 posts)
17. I'd add "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" to the comedy group.
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:04 PM
Yesterday

And I would certainly hope that the "European Stuff" includes "The Lives Of Others."

Alpeduez21

(1,934 posts)
20. The Wizard of Oz
Thu May 29, 2025, 01:46 PM
Yesterday

Gone with the Wind

Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis

Singing in the Rain

History of the World Part I

The Outlaw Josey Wales

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