Hi, my name is ALH, and I'm an old movie (preferably B&W) addict, to the level of Robert Osborne and Ben Mankowicz. (If I'd only majored in film studies/history, maybe I could have monetized my addiction).
I've seen most of the Golden Age classics 10+ times (many of them embarrassingly far more than 10 times), and nearly every film done by Clark Gable, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart, plus a few others. The same's true of the catalog of Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, George Stevens, and Orson Welles. Buster Keaton was an absolute genius, too. A few very favorite, favorites (i.e. probably 30+ views):
--The General --Bringing Up Baby
--Ball of Fire --The Lady Eve
--The Little Foxes --The Magnificent Ambersons
--Public Enemy --Little Caesar
--The Maltese Falcon --Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
--Meet John Doe --Citizen Kane
--The Grapes of Wrath --East of Eden
--Giant --Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
--All About Eve --White Heat
--The Postman Always Rings Twice --Double Indemnity
--The Best Years of Our Lives --ALL of the Thin Man movies
--The Women --It Happened One Night
That's just a very short "short list." (Probably pretty revealing, too: I like strong, ballsy women; solid gangster and noir films; social commentaries; and good writing--plus, it would seem I have way too much free time!) And I still find something new in all of these whenever I watch, even after so many viewings.
Of the "new"(er) movies on my list, the ones I'll never pass up, even if just flipping through cable and catching a scene:
--Ferris Bueller's Day Off
--Indiana Jones: Raiders, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade
--Die Hard (and it IS a Christmas movie, and you won't convince me otherwise)
