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Classic stories

August 15, 2011 by Marilyn Horowitz

When searching through my email, I found this old blog that was never posted. Now that my father is gone, this comment has a special meaning for me. I really recommend the films on this list. We never got to watch them all.

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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 him in Santa Fe, and now of course, there is no projector, he has a 50″ flat screen and Blue Ray.

 

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, though it will be 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

 

What they all have in common is classic stories that have a specific opinion of how you should conduct yourself, a moral certainty completely hidden in a great screenplay. Watch them!

 

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