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Also loved Pump Up the Volume. C'mon it's got the Pixies and Leonard Cohen covers and that actress that specialzed in Faux-nona (Samantha Mathis, who I actually like).
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Speaking of which, it's on my Tivo right now and we've been rewatching it. It's very beautiful and odd and sad. Maybe moreso than on first viewing. But it really gets at the ache of things.
Wrod. And a beautiful way of putting it.
I think Amelie is the movie I've seen most often in the theater, with Serenity and Pulp Fiction as close seconds.
Dracula (the Coppola version)
Love.
This and the Frank Langella version and Lost Boys and Dracula 2000 and Blade. Wait. I see a theme here.
The movie I saw most in the theater? Has to be a tie between Grease and (cringes in anticipation) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. What can I say? I was ten. And oddly, that seems to be the last time I ever went to the theater repeatedly for anything, although I had a friend in high school who saw Endless Love in the theaters eight times the summer it came out. She had a broken leg at the time.
This game is too hard. I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list, like The Haunting, which I usually watch twice a year usually. And then there are the movies I can never *not* watch when I catch them -- my all-time favorite on that list is Coal Miner's Daughter.
although I had a friend in high school who saw Endless Love in the theaters eight times the summer it came out. She had a broken leg at the time.
Couldn't she have escaped the theater by crawling on her arms and the good leg?
This game is too hard. I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list
A few months ago, Pete re-organized our DVD collection. He ended up designating one small shelf as "Jilli's Comfort Movies", because that way he didn't have to worry about alphabetizing movies that were sure to get pulled out and watched multiple times.
She loooooved it.
So did I, kind of. So tragic! Such love! Sex! Hey, we were, like, fourteen.
I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list, like The Haunting, which I usually watch twice a year usually.
It's so freakin' great! Robert Wise, who directed it, specifically wanted to get back to the kind of filmmaking he had done at the beginning of his career making those fantastic, moody RKO horror movies like Curse of the Cat People. Also, whenever I watch it I think "Claire Bloom! She and Philip Roth had an affair for decades!"
Robert Wise did such a variety of films in his career, it was really amazing. Everything from The Sound of Music to The Andromeda Strain. (Oooh, and I just double-checked his filmography, and he also did The Day the Earth Stood Still!)