Thursday, January 7, 2010

Films with my father

My father loves movies. Loves them!

That runs in the family.

My grandfather and my father both held the position of General Counsel at a studio consecutively and my aunt was Assistant General Counsel at the same company several years later. When I was little, on the weekend, we would watch movies at home on a 16mm projector.

I'm visiting my father in Santa Fe (the 16mm projector has been replaced by a 50" flat screen and Blue Ray) and as we were deciding which movie to watch last night, we looked through his collection, and made a list of classic films that we will watch over the next couple of visits:

It's A Wonderful Life
Witness For The Prosecution
Le Regle De Jeu
La Grand Illusion
Les Enfants Du Paradis
To Catch A Thief
North By Northwest
The Philidelphia Story
Roman Holiday
An Affair To Remember
Holiday


They are all classic stories that have a specific opinion of how you should conduct yourself, a moral certainty completely hidden in a great screenplay and I recommend all of them.

Which film would you choose to watch with your father? Why?

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