Confessions of Movie Addicts
22. Jim Carrey (actor, Batman Forever) "When I was a kid in Canada, I watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington whenever I could. I loved Jimmy Stewart. When video started up, I'd rent the picture and watch it and take it to bed, actually with the cassette on my chest and pray that someday I'd do something like that, I could recite the filibuster speech verbatim."
23. Bruce Brown (filmmaker, The Endless Summer) "The Jerk is a picture I can watch over and over and over again. Every time I find something new to laugh at. My favorite line is when Steve Martin is in the gas station and someone is shooting at him, hitting the oil containers. He says, 'He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!'"
24. John Lone (actor, M. Butterfly) "I don't know why, but I love Doctor Zhivago, I just adore that film. It has such a rich atmosphere, such a rich sense of place and time. Julie Christie wilt forever be remembered from that film, she was so exceptional--young, fresh and beautiful, and a great actress."
25. Lloyd Bridges (actor, Hot Shots!) I see Casablanca a lot. I see things in it that make me realize Bogie gave the impression that he wasn't a real actor. But he was. I did a picture with him, Sahara, but I didn't have much to do in it. He was wonderful."
26. Ted Danson (actor, Three Men and a Baby) "There are two answers. One is in danger of making me seem shallow, but Charade makes me feel good whenever I see it. I loved Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn--I even loved the villains. Some movies just make me feel good because they remind me of a more carefree time. The other choice is the first Godfather, which I 've watched a handful of times. It's amazing."
27. Tim Curry (actor, The Shadow) "I'd have to say Don't Look Now, a Nicolas Roeg film with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. I loved that film. Roeg has made several movies that played around with time. Don't Look Now exists on the border of the real and the surreal in a very. very interesting way. And it's set in the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. I think it's a truly horrific film without being knee-deep in gore."
28. Gene Hackman (actor, The Quick and the Dead) "During the past year my wife and I have been watching Jurassic Park. I think we've seen it four times. I don't quite understand why I love that film so much. "Love' is too strong a word. I find it fascinating."
29. Russell Mulcahy (director, The Shadow) "I think I saw A Clockwork Orange 14 times. I think it was a masterpiece for what it was trying to do."
30. Adam Sandier (actor, Billy Madison) "Caddyshack--that is my generation's choice of a comedy. Chevy Chase. Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight--they were all great. I hope someday I'll be asked to do Caddyshack III."
31. Nicolas Cage (actor, Kiss of Death) "I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was a teenager, and it had a profound impression on me. It was my introduction to violence ant) the nature of violence as a necessary emotion, which was a complex thought for a young teenager."
32. Andrew Bergman (writer-director, The Freshman) "The Godfather is a movie which I can watch any five minutes of, and I am gone for the next six hours. I have to watch both of them, the first then the second Godfather. Great films I can watch over and over again. Movies like Raging Bull--you know, movies that are the opposite of those I make."
33. Forest Whitaker (actor, The Crying Game) "I watch The Fisher King again and again: I like that film. It's mythical and spiritual as well as personal. And it has con-science, it has a heart."
34. Faye Dunaway (actress, Don Juan DeMarco) "I have seen Rules of the Game many times, and I love it. I don't quite know why. I love France. I love the notion of people coming together in that country set-ting, the chasing, the kind of broken-downness of the lives."
35. Kenneth Branagh (actor-director, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) "Strange choice: The Great Escape. Retrospectively, I think of its time and it's very, very well-made. A great story that really engaged you, with some touching moments in it. I can do many of the scenes from it. Donald Pleasence and James Garner stealing the air-plane. Charles Bronson in the boat with James Coburn. Then that wonderful moment when Richard Attenborough and Gordon Jackson are getting on the bus, and they nearly get away with it. Then the German officer says to Gordon Jackson in English. 'Good luck.' And he says. 'Thanks.' And they caught him."
36. Bernard Rose (writer-director, Immortal Beloved) "One picture I can see again and again is the original version of The Night of the Hunter. It's the only picture Charles Laughton ever directed. Robert Mitchum was terrifying, with the tattoos on his knuckles that read LOVE and HATE. Shelley Winters was good, too."
37. Anthony LaPaglia (actor, The Client) "Anything by Preston Sturges. Like Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Great McGinty. His writing was so sharp, so crisp, so funny. The way he de-fined characters was just amazing-- you can see the films over and over."
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