Confessions of Movie Addicts

38. Jon Avnet (director, Fried Green Tomatoes) "I did an interview with Bernardo Bertolucci at the American Film Institute in 1973. The last thing I saw before going to Paris was The Conformist, so I had the opportunity to see it six or eight times. I always saw new things. It's always difficult to see the things that go into the making of a scene. You look at one element and try to see element by element what the choices were. I've studied that film very carefully."

39. Danny DeVito (director, Hoffa) "'I guess you could see Citizen Kane over and over. I love watching Woody Allen's movies over and over again. And 8½--I can always watch 8½ again."

40. Tom Hulce (actor, Parenthood) "I used to travel with Tootsie, which I thought was an amazing piece of filmmaking. I always take a movie when I travel, because enjoying a good movie can put me to sleep. So I saw Tootsie about 30 times, but it was in the interest of getting a good night's sleep. It was brilliantly written, with a combination of extraordinary performances."

41. Charlie Sheen (actor, Terminal Velocity) "The first Jaws. Why? I dunno. I have a fascination for sharks. It still holds up, I've seen it 93 limes. Me and my brother |Emilio Estevez|, we quote it, we do all the monologues. Jaws--and also Apocalypse Now. We can never get enough of Apocalypse."

42. Jeroen Krabbe (actor, The Fugitive) "The Visconti film Death in Venice I can see over and over again. It's not about death; it's about life. It has incredible performances, particularly Dirk Bogarde's. It's the truth about life: you're looking for something and you can't get it. And when you get it, you die. It's true."

43. Michael Wadleigh (filmmaker, Woodstock) "Here we are, 50 years down the line, and I still think Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made. I look at that many times, and I say, the invention of the photography and the damn script! I'm interested in politics and society. What an incredible piece of a man's life with social issues and everything."

44. Timothy Dalton (actor, Licence to Kill) "I've seen The Outlaw Josey Wales six or seven times. I think it is one of the best Westerns ever made. I have always liked Clint Eastwood, but that's a different matter. I just think as a Western it is so socially creative. It's fun--I love it--but it's essentially a story of rebuilding after the Civil War. Rebuilding out of hatred, out of vengeance, rebuilding a society out of all these disparate people. They live, they survive, all these different ethics, different backgrounds, finding a way to live. That is something uplifting and shocking in what people think of as a Clint Eastwood Western."

45. Stephen Hopkins (director, Blown Away) "Harold and Maude was my favorite. I think I grew up thinking I was Harold. The movie fills me with great hope and joy every time I see it."

46. Kris Kristofferson (actor, A Star Is Born) "La Strada is a piece of art that I find absolutely believable every time I see it. The performances are wonderful, and the direction is wonderful. Things that I have done myself, I can't see more than twice."

47. Ed Asner (actor, "Lou Grant") "I can't see a movie too many times, but I guess I saw It's a Wonderful Life six or eight times. It was a beautiful fairy tale. I loved Henry Travers's work as the angel Clarence. Then I switched to The Best Years of Our Lives. I go nuts watching Fredric March, he was just so good."

48. Patrick Read Johnson (director, Baby's Day Out) "2001: A Space Odyssey was the film that made me want to become a director. I was seven when I saw it. I said to my parents, 'I'm going to direct a movie someday.' They told me to finish grade school first. Of course I didn't understand it when I was seven, but I was mesmerized by the visual aspect of it and the fact that the story-telling was done essentially with pictures, not dialogue. As I got older and saw it more and more times, I realized that it compels you to think."

49. Peter Riegert (actor, Local Hero) "I can watch Stanley Kubrick's film The Killing over and over again. The way he puts his camera, the acting, the dialogue--I just find it an intriguing story."

50. Drew Barrymore (actress, Batman Forever) "Every time I see Annie Hall, I learn another line I might have missed. It's such a brilliant movie that you can hear the punch lines over and over and still laugh."

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Bob Thomas wrote about female villains for the April Movieline.

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