Movies You Can't Stop Watching

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote: 
> 
> French films: Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, Mon Oncle
> 
> Princess Bride!

Yay!  I'm not the only one on the planet who adores Jean de Florette 
and Manon of the Spring!  Another French film which is a huge 
favorite of mine is Diva.  Wilhelmina Fernandez (the diva of the 
title) is fabulous, and she's from Philadelphia. ;)  I once heard her 
in recital here, and I'm surprised there aren't more teenage boys 
following her around (well, okay, I'm not surprised there aren't more 
teenage boys into opera)...I heard once she was going to do a master 
class here, and I was sorely tempted, but I'm nowhere near good 
enough to do a master class with Wilhelmina Fernandez, so I didn't...

The Princess Bride video also gets a workout, as well as Sixth Sense 
and Shakespeare in Love and Henry V.  There are also 
series/miniseries that I love to watch repeatedly:

My So-Called Life (maybe someday we'll get good versions; ours are 
very grainy)

Flambards (I also frequently reread the K.M. Peyton novels)

Flame Trees of Thika (always wanted to be Hayley Mills as a kid--but 
who would name their kid something that sounds like "Lettuce?")

And then there are the videos my kids talk me into watching with them 
repeatedly (or at least I LET them think they're talking me into it):

Toy Story 1 & 2
A Bug's Life
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Matilda
The Secret Garden
Wallace & Gromit
Chicken Run

I also enjoy the Nick Park video we have with Creature Comforts 
(Oscar winner) and other claymation shorts, which are not all really 
appropriate for little kids.  (The one about the woman who won't go 
to hell without her handbag is pretty creepy.)

--Barb