Favorite Movies
A partial list. I like a lot of other movies, too--including many on TCM--but I don't remember all of them right now.
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Sting
- Gandhi
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Third Man
- The Neverending Story
- The Dirty Dozen
- Educating Rita
- Brazil
- Starman
- Gattaca
- Sweet November (the earlier version, with Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, and Theodore Bikel)
- His Girl Friday and The Front Page--I like all versions I've seen
- The Big Chill (I admit that half of its appeal lies in its music--but then, that's also true of The Third Man)
- Big
- Splash
- The Truman Show
- Charade
- Beetlejuice
- MindWalk
- The Bicentennial Man
- Dark City
- Love and Death
- Manhattan
- Radio Days
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Zelig
- The Thin Man series
- Fail-Safe
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Seven Days in May
- The Great Escape
- Stalag 17
- Chinatown
- The Big Sleep
- The Maltese Falcon
- Monkey Business
- The Dark Crystal
- Analyze This
- Shrek
- Jurassic Park (well, what dinosaur-loving person wouldn't want to see it?)
- Funeral in Berlin
- The Incredibles
- K-Pax
Favorite Actors and Actresses
- Cary Grant
- Sidney Poitier
- Paul Newman
- Katharine Hepburn
- Humphrey Bogart
- Jane Fonda
- Joseph Cotten (in The Third Man and Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17)
- William Powell and Myrna Loy (together in the Thin Man series)
- Robert Redford
- Barbra Streisand
- Goldie Hawn
- Walter Matthau
- Burt Lancaster
- Kirk Douglas
- Frank Sinatra
- Henry Fonda
- Michael Caine
- Cher (in Silkwood and Mask)
- James Mason
- Tom Hanks
- Geena Davis
- Felicity Kendall
- Penelope Keith
- Dustin Hoffman
- Richard Dreyfuss
I suppose I could also include
- Meg Ryan
- Billy Crystal
- Geoffrey Palmer
- Julia Roberts
- Meryl Streep
- Alec Guinness
- Peter Sellers
- Alec Baldwin
- Helen Mirren
- Robert Hardy
- Peter Davison
- Charlie Chaplin
- The Marx Brothers