or break up the monotony -- light entertainment, maybe
**‘Avanti’ – 1971 w/Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills (she is still alive) – absolutely special and great music !
‘The Big Short’ – making profits on stock prices falling – the mortgage debacle
‘Passengers’ – togetherness and…… enjoying where you live rather than looking for some other place
‘Margin Call’ – the destruction of a brokerage with too much outstanding (it happened to several) – real
‘Snowden’ – hacking everything (the NSA sure does)
‘The Judge’ – Downey and Duval
‘To catch a thief’ – Cary Grant and Princess Grace
‘Jet Lag’ – (in English, not French) – Jean Reno, Juliette is beautiful
‘The Apartment’ -- Jack Lemmon
‘The Quiet Man’ – John Wayne
‘Kinky Boots’ – Chiwetal ……
‘Irma la Deuce’ – Jack Lemmon and Shirley Mac Laine
‘Love is all you need’ – a special connection
‘The Sure Thing’ – John Kusack
‘No strings attached – sex first, love later
‘How to Murder your wife’ – Jack Lemmon, Terry Thomas
‘The Hundred Foot Journey’ – exceptional
‘Serendipity’ – John Kusack
‘A good year’ – good wine and a good decision
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ – good fun
‘The Family’ – Dinero
‘Dave’ -- Kevin Kline
‘Waking Ned Devine’ – winning the Irish lottery
‘Donovan’s Reef’ – John Wayne
‘An Affair to remember’ – Cary Grant
‘Roman Holiday’ – Audrey Hepburn’s first movie
‘Doc Hollywood’ – Michael J Fox
‘The Girl Next door’ – a scholarship to college
‘Notting Hill’ – a particular place in London
‘Kelly’s Heroes’ – Clint Eastwood
‘Wind’ – a boat race
‘Wimbledon’ – that summer tennis tournament
‘The Commitments’ -- great music, that kid was only 16 when they made that film – the lead singer
‘Bandits’ – Bruce Willis
‘Leap Year’ – Amy Adams and Matthew Goode
**‘Let It Ride’ – Richard Dreyfus
‘Victor/Victoria’
‘Stalag 17’ – William Holden
‘In Harms Way’
‘They Were Expendable’ – John Wayne
‘We’re No Angels’ – Aldo Ray and Humphrey Bogart (not the remake)
‘Father Goose’ – Cary Grant
‘Now you see me’ – magic
‘That thing you do’ – one hit wonders
‘The cutting edge’ – performance questioned
‘Chariots of Fire’ -- ‘the race’
‘Dances with wolves’ – Costner
‘Definitely Maybe’ – of course it is in time
‘Fools rush in’ – Vegas sort of
‘French Kiss’ – special
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – true story
‘She’s out of my league’ – no she is not, keep trying for (Alice Eve)
‘Mannequin’ – Wannamaker’s in Philadelphia (a wonderful store)
‘Operation Petticoat’ – Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
‘Sahara’ – McConaghey
‘Six Days Seven Nights’ – Good scenery
‘Christmas Eve’ – story line is uneven, but …. It does say something
‘Fury’ – war does terrible things to all
‘Random Hearts’ – career or love
‘The Next Three Days’ – is right wrong?
1939...one heck of a year for good movies.
gone with the wind
The wizard of oz
Stagecoach
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Wuthering Heights
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Of Mice and Men
The Hunchback of Norte Dame
Gunga Din
The Little Princess (Shirley Temple)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gulliver's Travels
Midnight
**‘Avanti’ – 1971 w/Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills (she is still alive) – absolutely special and great music !
‘The Big Short’ – making profits on stock prices falling – the mortgage debacle
‘Passengers’ – togetherness and…… enjoying where you live rather than looking for some other place
‘Margin Call’ – the destruction of a brokerage with too much outstanding (it happened to several) – real
‘Snowden’ – hacking everything (the NSA sure does)
‘The Judge’ – Downey and Duval
‘To catch a thief’ – Cary Grant and Princess Grace
‘Jet Lag’ – (in English, not French) – Jean Reno, Juliette is beautiful
‘The Apartment’ -- Jack Lemmon
‘The Quiet Man’ – John Wayne
‘Kinky Boots’ – Chiwetal ……
‘Irma la Deuce’ – Jack Lemmon and Shirley Mac Laine
‘Love is all you need’ – a special connection
‘The Sure Thing’ – John Kusack
‘No strings attached – sex first, love later
‘How to Murder your wife’ – Jack Lemmon, Terry Thomas
‘The Hundred Foot Journey’ – exceptional
‘Serendipity’ – John Kusack
‘A good year’ – good wine and a good decision
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ – good fun
‘The Family’ – Dinero
‘Dave’ -- Kevin Kline
‘Waking Ned Devine’ – winning the Irish lottery
‘Donovan’s Reef’ – John Wayne
‘An Affair to remember’ – Cary Grant
‘Roman Holiday’ – Audrey Hepburn’s first movie
‘Doc Hollywood’ – Michael J Fox
‘The Girl Next door’ – a scholarship to college
‘Notting Hill’ – a particular place in London
‘Kelly’s Heroes’ – Clint Eastwood
‘Wind’ – a boat race
‘Wimbledon’ – that summer tennis tournament
‘The Commitments’ -- great music, that kid was only 16 when they made that film – the lead singer
‘Bandits’ – Bruce Willis
‘Leap Year’ – Amy Adams and Matthew Goode
**‘Let It Ride’ – Richard Dreyfus
‘Victor/Victoria’
‘Stalag 17’ – William Holden
‘In Harms Way’
‘They Were Expendable’ – John Wayne
‘We’re No Angels’ – Aldo Ray and Humphrey Bogart (not the remake)
‘Father Goose’ – Cary Grant
‘Now you see me’ – magic
‘That thing you do’ – one hit wonders
‘The cutting edge’ – performance questioned
‘Chariots of Fire’ -- ‘the race’
‘Dances with wolves’ – Costner
‘Definitely Maybe’ – of course it is in time
‘Fools rush in’ – Vegas sort of
‘French Kiss’ – special
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – true story
‘She’s out of my league’ – no she is not, keep trying for (Alice Eve)
‘Mannequin’ – Wannamaker’s in Philadelphia (a wonderful store)
‘Operation Petticoat’ – Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
‘Sahara’ – McConaghey
‘Six Days Seven Nights’ – Good scenery
‘Christmas Eve’ – story line is uneven, but …. It does say something
‘Fury’ – war does terrible things to all
‘Random Hearts’ – career or love
‘The Next Three Days’ – is right wrong?
1939...one heck of a year for good movies.
gone with the wind
The wizard of oz
Stagecoach
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Wuthering Heights
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Of Mice and Men
The Hunchback of Norte Dame
Gunga Din
The Little Princess (Shirley Temple)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gulliver's Travels
Midnight
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