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Roger Capilos '66
  • Apollo 13
  • Day of the Jackal (1973 version)
  • Diva
  • High Noon
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • O Brother Where Art Thou
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Sexy Beast
  • Snatch
  • Tootsie
Nick Carroll '65
  • A Beautiful Life
  • Bucket List
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Cider House Rules
  • Forrest Gump
  • Godfather I
  • Good Fellas
  • Hoosiers
  • Jaws I
  • Rain Man
Joan Hatfield King '65
  • Big Fish
  • Casablanca
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • The Godfather
  • Hud
  • Raising Arizona
  • Scarface
  • Titanic
  • Tootsie
  • West Side Story
Dave Schwartz '81
  • Final Destination
  • Finding Nemo- (Greatest movie considering I raise Saltwater Fish in my 90 Gallon Reef Tank!)
  • Friday the 13th
  • JAWS
  • M*A*S*H*
  • Rocky
  • Saving Private Ryan-(Hats off to Tom Hanks! Awesome movie!)
  • Terminator
  • The Godfather
  • Top Gun
John Swingen, '66
  • M*A*S*H (still hilarious after all these years!)
  • McCabe And Mrs. Miller (also directed by Altman, with Warren Beatty & Julie Christie, with songs of Leonard Cohen)
  • The Big Chill (best soundtrack ever, and not a bad ensemble cast either)
  • Stand By Me (truest depiction of 12 year old male bonding; River Phoenix at his best)
  • Fargo (my North Dakota relatives talk just like this, don't 'cha know!)
  • Pulp Fiction (yes, it's violent, but great characters and compelling storytelling)
  • To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck at his peak; Robert Duvall's first movie!)
  • Rear Window (The original by Hitchcock, with Jimmy Stewart and Raymond Burr)
  • Smoke (Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forrest Whitaker, need I say more?)
  • The Graduate (One word, "Plastics!")
 Susan Butler Czaja '63
  • All Of Me
  • The Birdcage
  • Casablanca (and any other movie with Humphrey Bogart)
  • Chaplin (and quite a few more Robert Downey Jr. movies. A brilliant actor!)
  • The Green Mile
  • The Odd Couple
  • The Pink Panther (all of them. Peter Sellers, another brilliant actor)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (I'm not sure if this one counts as it was made for TV)
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Young Frankenstein (and about a dozen other Mel Brooks movies)
Mark Roy '70
  • A Face in the Crowd - a chilling look at the power of television and the cult of personality. Andy Griffith in his best (and creepiest) role.
  • A Hard Day's Night - Best music film. Ever. Period.
  • The Absent Minded Professor - a cheesy Disney film yes but I love it. Flubber lives!
  • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - Tracy Rooney Berle Winters Silvers Merman and more. Hilarious movie.
  • It's a Wonderful Life - I liked it long before it became over-played on TV in the 80s.
  • The Maltese Falcon - slightly edges out Casablanca as favorite Bogart film for me.
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark - Took everyone by surprise when it came out. Indy rocks.
  • The Russians Are Coming - "Emergency, everybody to get from street." "Nawmin, they're open'n up the baah!".
  • Star Wars - actually all three of the original Lucas films belong here.
  • To Kill A Mockingbird - powerful stuff.
Pete Carlin '66
  • Stand By Me
  • Dreams - by Kurosawa - visually gorgeous; mesmerizing
  • Treasure of the Sierra Madre- gold prospector Bogart goes murderously insane in this morality play about greed
  • The 39 Steps- Hitchcock's seminal "innocent man on the run" film
  • The Big Lebowski- most movies have 2 or 3 classic lines, this Coen Bros. comedy has 50, maybe more
  • The Usual Suspects; Chinatown; LA Confidential- "yes, they're violent, but great characters and compelling storytelling"- used by permission
  • American Graffiti; Peggy Sue Got Married- candy corn: never ages, always sweet
  • 3 Days of the Condor; Jeremiah Johnson- Robert Redford at his best - no charm, no smiles
  • Joe Versus the Volcano +Big+Philadelphia+Saving Private Ryan. talk about a brilliant actor...
  • The Ghost and Mr. Chicken- incomparable Don Knotts proves physical comedy is more than pratfalls and eye pokes
Ed Lindberg '58
  • The Deer Hunter- Robt Deniro; a must to see
  • The Wedding Singer- Adam Sandler: Drew Barrymore
  • My Cousin Vinny- Joe Pesci; great movie
  • Sweet Dreams- Jessica Lange; life story of Patsy Cline
  • Carlito's Way- Sean Penn; Al Pacino: great performances by both; very under-rated movie
  • Goodfellas - Robert Deniro; very explicit language; one of the best pictures ever (my opinion)
  • Dirty Dozen- Lee Marvin; a classic film
  • Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman: at his best
  • The Last Picture Show- Cloris Leachman; Cybill Shepard, Oscar Award
  • The Shield - Michael Chiklis; My favorite of all. This is into its 7th and last season on FX. You must see fromthe beginning -
Kimberly Nelson Perrotta '02
  • The Life of David Gale
  • Taking Lives
  • Love, Actually
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Mystic River
  • Across the Universe
  • The Guardian
  • Frida
  • The Bucket List
  • Vantage Point
Rod Macri '64
  • Murder in the First - Christian Slater & Kevin Bacon
  • Dead Men - Johnny Depp
  • Black Robe - Brad Davis
  • The MacKintosh Man - Paul Newman
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • The Man who would be King - Michael Caine & Sean Connery
  • Secondhand Lions - Michael Caine & Robert Duvall
  • The Big Sky - Kirk Douglas
  • Key Largo
  • Uncle Buck
Nancy Dagle '66
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Secondhand Lions
  • Gone With the Wind
  • The Goonies
  • Summer Magic - with Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, etc.
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
  • Whats Eating Gilbert Grape - Johnny Depp
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Ghost
  • The Fisher King - Robin Williams

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