Chris Magazine

Dear Chris Magazine,
What are your five favorite movies of all time and why?
Person Who Wants to Know
Augusta, Maine

Dear Person,
In no particular order...

1. The Trouble With Harry/North by Northwest/ Rear Window
Hitchcock was a genius, doing things in movies that no one had ever thought of before. Not only that he was fat, bald and appeared in all of his films. I like a lot of his films and while I have deep affection for his earlier (pre-Hollywood)works like Foreign correspondent and The 39 Steps, I think these three are a good representation of his films.

2. Robin Hood/ Captain Blood
This would be the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood, not the horror which was the Kevin Costner film. Flynn was the consummate swashbuckling star and the movies are just flat out entertaining.

3. Casablanca
A good Hollywood film minus the Hollywood ending. Makes me want to drink Vichy wine every time I watch.

4.Four Little Girls
Documentary by Spike Lee. You can hate Spike's movies for their shortcomings (and there are many) but this documentary about four young black girls killed in a bombing in 1964 hits home in so many ways.
(Along with this try Boycott-- it was a film on HBO last year about the Selma bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

5.Saving Private Ryan
It really was an incredible film. A anti-war war film. Speilberg didn't clean up anything in this film and the finished product is reflective of that, wonderful, moving, horrific and sad, heroic and tragic. That said, I don't ever want to see it again.
(I would highly recommend Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries. It's really a companion piece to Saving Private Ryan and works on many of the same levels.)

There are a ton more movies, but these are the first five things that came to mind. If y'all want more, just ask and I'll work on it.