Some of Matt's favorite films (not exactly in order, but the first few are real favorites…) Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck; dir. William Wyler) Love in the Afternoon (Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier; dir. Billy Wilder) Trouble in Paradise (1932) (d. Ernst Lubitsch) (very stylish and funny pre-Code film–hard to find) To Be or Not to Be (1942) (dir. Ernst Lubitsch w/Jack Benny, Carole Lombard) Double Indemnity (1944) (fabulous film noir with Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray, d. Billy Wilder) The Awful Truth (one of the funniest films I know—dir. Leo McCarey, w/Cary Grant, Irene Dunne) Casablanca (Bogart/Bergman—THE Romantic film!) Vertigo (my favorite Hitchcock) Rear Window (d. Hitchcock) Notorious (d. Hitchcock, w/Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman) Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock's favorite Hitchcock) The Lady Eve (very funny, dir. Preston Sturges, w/Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn) I Know Where I'm Going (d. Michael Powell) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (d. Michael Powell) Grand Illusion (d. Renoir) Rules of the Game (d. Renoir) Dr. Strangelove (great black comedy, d. Stanley Kubrick) Paths of Glory (d. Kubrick) Babette's Feast This is Spinal Tap (great mock "rock-u-mentary") The Apartment (1960) (dark comedy with Shirley Maclaine & Jack Lemmon, d. Billy Wilder) Dodsworth (d. William Wyler) The Best Years of Our Lives (d. William Wyler) The Little Foxes (Bette Davis; d. William Wyler) Goodbye Mr. Chips Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly) Top Hat (Astaire/Rogers) Swingtime (Astaire/Rogers) Kind Hearts and Coronets ('50 British Ealing comedy with Alec Guiness playing 8 roles!) The Maltese Falcon (as good if not better than the book, d. John Huston, with Bogart/Sidney Greenstreet) Le Corbeau (1943, d. Clouzot, a.k.a. The Raven–hard to find) Ruggles of Red Gap (dir. Leo McCarey) Midnight (1939) (sparkling comedy with Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, d. Billy Wilder) One Hour with You (1932) (d. Ernst Lubitsch) (very stylish and funny pre-Code film–hard to find) Le Père Noël est une ordure (hilarious black comedy—great for learning French slang!) Groundhog Day Local Hero (great "little" film) The Castle (another great "little" film, from Australia, d. by Rob Stich, 1997) Atlantic City (d. Louis Malle, w/Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon) Mister Roberts (Henry Fonda & James Cagney) His Girl Friday (d. Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russel) Philadelphia Story (d. George Cukor, with C. Grant, Jimmy Stewart,  Katherine Hepburn) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (d. Frank Capra) The Bishop's Wife (great Christmas movie, with Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young) Stagecoach (d. John Ford, w/John Wayne) The Searchers (d. John Ford, w/John Wayne—western) High Noon On the Waterfront (Brando and great ensemble acting, d. Elia Kazan) All About Eve (Bette Davis) The Killing (d. Kubrick) Lawrence of Arabia (d. David Lean, see preferably on the big screen!) Brief Encounter (d. David Lean) Separate Tables (with David Niven) Earrings of Mme. de... (d. Max Ophuls) The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) Small Change (absolutely charming Truffaut) 400 Blows (d. Truffaut) La Poison (d. Sacha Guitry) La Discrète Farewell My Concubine (China) Roshomon (d. Kurosawa) The Crying Game Tin Men (d. Barry Levinson) Manhattan Annie Hall Gates of Heaven (fascinating documentary by Erroll Morris about California pet cemetary) The Atomic Café (documentary on atomic bomb) In the Heat of the Night Fargo L'enfant (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne) Citizen Kane and also… Gilda (Rita Hayworth) Destry Rides Again (Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich) To Catch a Thief (d. Hitchcock, with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly) The Innocents (scary B&W version of James' "The Turn of the Screw") My Favorite Wife (Cary Grant & Irene Dunne) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Fabulous Baker Boys Field of Dreams Bull Durham Truly, Madly, Deeply My Left Foot In the Name of the Father Stand and Deliver Mrs. Miniver (d. William Wyler) Roger & Me (documentary) The Last Detail The Straight Story The Grey Fox Tender Mercies (Robert Duvall)