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The Love Post, Day Two: Movies

Popdose Staff February 11, 2009 17

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Hello and welcome back to our three-day Valentine’s spectacular! If you missed yesterday’s introduction, we’re taking time this week to talk about the books, movies, and music we love — and since the focus of yesterday’s post was books, it should come as no surprise to you that today, we’ll be talking about our favorite films.

As you might expect, the staff has fairly wide-ranging taste, and the list of movies we love runs the gamut from Bride of Frankenstein to Bugsy, with a stop for some Coal Miner’s Daughter in between. Which of us would take A Night at the Opera to a desert island? Who has tortured countless souls with repeated viewings of The Music Man? And how many of your own favorite films made the list? Click here to find out!

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  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    Another great group of posts. Kelly, Shadow of a Doubt would have been my second, or even an alternate first choice. It's not only one of our favorites, it was Hitchcock's favorite of his films.

  • KellyStitzel

    Shadow of a Doubt was the film that introduced me to Joseph Cotten and now he's one of my top five favorite actors of all time. I couldn't get his Uncle Charlie out of my head for weeks after I first saw the film in college (and that didn't really happen again for me until I saw Javier Bardem's performance as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men). I almost chose another of his films for this post, The Third Man.

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    It seems like Cotton wasn't in that many movies, but he was in some of the greatest. In addition to those two, there was Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. He sure knew how to pick them.

  • http://myspace.com/DJChrisXmusic Chris X

    Am I a heathen for Bride of Frankenstein being the only of these movies I enjoy? (mind you, there are a few on the list I've never seen, but I have zero interest!)

    Bride is a great one, though.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    There's a lot of good stuff here–”The Music Man” is also my sister's movie obsession–but “Bride” has always had a special place in my heart. Ernest Thesiger's turn as Dr. Pretorious is one of the wittiest in any film. It makes an ideal double feature with the Oscar-nominated “Gods and Monsters,” starring Ian McKellen as director James Whale.

  • Old_Davy

    The stateroom scene in “A Night At The Opera” may be the funniest thing ever committed to film.

    And “Shadow of a Doubt” is perhaps my 2nd favorite Hitchcock movie, right after “Rear Window”. Shadow is definitely more intense as a thriller, but I think Window has a better script overall.

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    “… and two hard-boiled eggs.”

    Hitchcock is my favorite director. I love Rear Window, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. I think they came consecutively. The only other streak of that quality that I can think of is Coppola's Godfather, Conversation, Godfather II.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    Four films, lesser but still good, came between “Rear Window” and “Vertigo”: “To Catch a Thief,” “The Trouble with Harry,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “The Wrong Man.”

    I'm a big fan of “Shadow,” too. My favorite Hitchcock, though, is “Notorious,” another solid option for V-day.

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    Geez, what was I thinking. I really like “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” but I can't get past the Doris Day singing segment. Just awful, and it takes you right out of the film. What was Hitch thinking? He didn't let Tippi Hedren or Grace Kelly sing.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    You put Doris Day in your movie, she sings. (And the song did win the Oscar, though I prefer the Pink Martini cover.)

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    Four films, lesser but still good, came between “Rear Window” and “Vertigo”: “To Catch a Thief,” “The Trouble with Harry,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “The Wrong Man.”

    I'm a big fan of “Shadow,” too. My favorite Hitchcock, though, is “Notorious,” another solid option for V-day.

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    Geez, what was I thinking. I really like “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” but I can't get past the Doris Day singing segment. Just awful, and it takes you right out of the film. What was Hitch thinking? He didn't let Tippi Hedren or Grace Kelly sing.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    You put Doris Day in your movie, she sings. (And the song did win the Oscar, though I prefer the Pink Martini cover.)

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    “… and two hard-boiled eggs.”

    Hitchcock is my favorite director. I love Rear Window, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. I think they came consecutively. The only other streak of that quality that I can think of is Coppola's Godfather, Conversation, Godfather II.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    Four films, lesser but still good, came between “Rear Window” and “Vertigo”: “To Catch a Thief,” “The Trouble with Harry,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “The Wrong Man.”

    I'm a big fan of “Shadow,” too. My favorite Hitchcock, though, is “Notorious,” another solid option for V-day.

  • http://www.kenshane.com kshane

    Geez, what was I thinking. I really like “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” but I can't get past the Doris Day singing segment. Just awful, and it takes you right out of the film. What was Hitch thinking? He didn't let Tippi Hedren or Grace Kelly sing.

  • http://robertcashill.blogspot.com BobCashill

    You put Doris Day in your movie, she sings. (And the song did win the Oscar, though I prefer the Pink Martini cover.)