Movies Worth Watching
Here's an ongoing list of movies I recommend that I've written about here on the blog.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Desk Set (1957)
Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Footnote (2011)
Gaslight (1944)
In Her Shoes (2005)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The King's Speech (2010)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Love Affair (1939)
Midnight (1939)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Miss Potter (2006)
Modern Times (1936)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Stage Door (1937)
The Station Agent (2003)
Still Walking (2008)
Swing Time (1936)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Whip It (2009)
You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
Movies I'm on the fence about
Another Woman (1988)
The Awful Truth (1937)
City Lights (1931)
Holiday (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Movies that disappointed me
A movie could have had an interesting premise that wasn't developed well. It might not have lived up to its promise. Sometimes a movie starts strong but then stagnates or collapses. Its flaws outweigh the good qualities, which could include some wonderful performances and memorable scenes. Maybe there was something ugly or mean about it - in the tone, in the way the ideas and characters were handled. Or maybe it just didn't speak to me.
You might find more in these movies than I did. I'll be keeping an ongoing list of them here.
The (*) means I didn't watch the whole movie.
42nd Street (1933)*
Algiers (1938)*
All That Heaven Allows (1955)*
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)*
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)*
Cabin in the Sky (1941)
Call Me Madam (1953)*
Charade (1963)
Comme Une Image (2004)
Cover Girl (1944)*
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)*
D.O.A. (1950)
Double Wedding (1937)*
Easy Living (1937)*
Everybody's Fine (2009)
Executive Suite (1954)
Four Daughters (1938)
The Fugitive Kind (1959)*
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)*
Grand Hotel (1932)
His Kind of Woman! (1951)*
Idiots & Angels (2008)*
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Indiscreet (1958)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Kitchen Stories (2003)*
Kitty Foyle (1940)*
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Life with Father (1947)*
Linda, Linda, Linda (2005)*
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Lured (1947)*
Made for Each Other (1939)*
Man Hunt (1941)*
Monkey Business (1952)*
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)*
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)*
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)*
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
Nothing Sacred (1937)*
The Odd Couple (1968)*
Paris, Je T'aime (2006)*
People Like Us (2012)*
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Remember the Night (1940)*
Separate Tables (1958)
Show Boat (1936)*
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
The Stranger (1946)*
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)*
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)*
The Talk of the Town (1942)*
Twentieth Century (1934)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)*
Up in the Air (2009)
Without Love (1945)
