Best Comedies: ------------------------- ANIMAL HOUSE John Belushi, Tim Matheson APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY Richard Dreyfuss KRAVITZ, THE BANANAS Woody Allen, Louise Lasser BEING THERE Peter Sellers, Shirley McLaine FIRE SALE Sid Caesar, Alan Arkin FISH CALLED WANDA, A Cleese, Kline, Curtis IN-LAWS, THE Peter Falk, Alan Arkin LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (Mexican cast) OUT-OF-TOWNERS, THE Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis PRINCESS BRIDE, THE Elwes, Patinkin, Crystal ("My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!") START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME Donald Sutherland, Gene Wilder (Maybe the funniest movie ever made.) THEY CALL ME TRINITY Hill (Western) TRIGGER HAPPY Barkin, Dreyfuss, Goldblum (aka "Mad Dog Time") Biography: ------------------------- BUDDY HOLLY STORY Bussey COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER Spacek EVITA Madonna, Banderas Best Action/Adventure: ------------------------- ADVENTURES/ROBIN HOOD Errol Flynn, Olivia deHaviland (Early Technicolor) BEN-HUR Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins 1959 AA FARGO Frances McDormand FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Sean Connery, Robert Shaw (The Best of the Bonds; minimal gadgetry) GAME, THE Michael Douglas, Sean Penn (Exceptionally interesting; flawless plot.) HIGH ROAD TO CHINA Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong (Great scenery and music; Selleck plays a lush freelance pilot, Armstrong a wealthy debutante in search of adventuring father, circa 1935) LAST OF THE MOHICANS Daniel Day-Lewis Last line in film: "...For I am..the last of the Mohicans." LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif 1962 AA MAN WHO WOULD BE KING Sean Connery, Michael Caine PATTON George C. Scott 1970 AA ROMANCING THE STONE Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner THREE MUSKETEERS, THE Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain (Simply a great swashbuckler. Also stars Charlton Heston as Richelieu and beauties Rachel Welch and Faye Dunaway.) WIND AND THE LION, THE Sean Connery, Candice Bergen Best of the Romance Movies: ------------------------- CROSSING DELANCY Amy Irving, Peter Riegert MOONSTRUCK Cher, Nicholas Cage PRETTY WOMAN Julia Roberts, Richard Gere SOUND OF MUSIC, THE Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer 1965 AA WHEN HARRY MET SALLY Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan Best Dramas: ------------------------- BREAKER MORANT Edward Woodward (Australian) MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A Scofield, Robert Shaw 1966 AA (Scofield as Thomas Moore, Shaw as Henry VIII) MIDNIGHT COWBOY Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight 1969 AA NORTH BY NORTHWEST Cary Grant, James Mason PATHS OF GLORY Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker QUEST FOR FIRE Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong (Back when body hair was thick, and leading ladies were covered with mud...) REMAINS OF THE DAY Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton Best Westerns: ------------------------- BROKEN ARROW James Stewart, Jeff Chandler BUTCH CASSIDY/SUNDANCE Paul Newman, Robert Redford GOOD, BAD, UGLY, THE Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach (The best of the spagetti westerns) HIGH NOON Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly (Do not foresake me, oh my darling...") STAGE COACH John Wayne, Claire Trevor (Wayne as the original Ringo Kidd. B&W) Best of the Black and Whites: ------------------------- BEAU GESTE Gary Cooper, Ray Milland 1939 CASABLANCA Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman 1943 AA (This popular film was very low budget.) CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton FAREWELL TO ARMS, A Cooper, Hayes 1932 FOUR FEATHERS, THE John Clements 1939 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Charles Laughton, Clark Gable 1935 AA TALE OF TWO CITIES Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan 1935 Miscellany: ------------------------- BARCELONA A film by Whit Stillman BELLE DE JOUR Catherine Deneuve is marvelous. FITZCARRALDO Build an opera house in the Amazon jungle? METROPOLITAN A film by Whit Stillman LAST DAYS OF DISCO, THE A film by Whit Stillman MONDO CANE Cast of unknowns MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Curious. curious.) ST. ELMO'S FIRE Lowe, Sheedy, Moore End