Muppets and Sesame Street: I find the wonderful nuttiness of Frank Oz and his group just irresistable.
The Matrix: an entertaining political allegory for our post-democratic nation.
King of Hearts
Shrek: nice stuff about unwalling/unveiling and about inauthenticity
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Harrison Ford
The Princess Bride (1987) Cary Elwes
Casablanca
Lots of Opera on video, e.g. Carmen (with Julia Migenes-Johnson), the Met's Aida, Iolanthe with Maureen Forrester, the five-act Don Carlos with Domingo
Animated Movies generally, e.g. Who Killed Roger Rabbit
Shrek: lots of nice stuff about unveiling and unwalling
Sleepless in Seattle: aside from the chick flick side of it, there is some nice stuff about coming back to life.
Bull Durham
Amadeus
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Philadelphia Story (1948)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Moonstruck
Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Taming, Tempest, Twelfth, and other Shakespeare comedies
"Noises Off": a crown jewel of britfarce.
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