comfort movies

bottle rocket

Cherry 2000
Black Mask
Spinal Tap
Dawn of the Dead
Dude Where's My Car
Idiocracy
Episodes of Metalocalypse or the IT Crowd

ADVENTURELAND

Strictly Ballroom

episodes of MST3K have basically become my comfort movies

The Mother and the Whore
The Last Days of Disco
"The Thin Man" films, or just about anything 30s/40s with Myrna Loy
Wonder Boys
The Paper Chase
Amelie
Walking and Talking
The Dreamlife of Angels

episodes of MST3K have basically become my comfort movies

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:41 (32 minutes ago)

lately my brother & i have been getting high & watching bbc's planet earth

His Girl Friday
The Monolith Monsters
Rodan
Real Genius
Buckaroo Banzai
The Thing
Tron
The Fabulous Baker Boys
O Lucky Man
most Bond movies, but especially From Russia With Love and You Only Live Twice
Where Eagles Dare
For A Few Dollars More
Dirty Harry

I've been watching Planet Earth, too (got for x-mas), and it will definitely be comfort viewing.

i can see Up In The Air fitting the bill in years to come.

Tootsie! What is it with me and New York movies i wonder.

Tron
Wargames
Dawn of the Dead
Raiders lost ark
star wars trilogy (has to be all three)
back to future trilogy (again all three, yes even #3)
Real Genius
Romancing the stone

E.T.

blade runner.

Silver Streak

http://www.rvgfanatic.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_687915/Tremors.JPG

wonder boys

Wonder Boys proving very popular on this thread as the years have rolled by. wonder if it's just 'an ILX thing' or if this is evidence of a worldwide cult?

Beautiful Girls

i pull out my Zodiac blu ray quite a lot.

also the commentary track on the Criterion L'avventura, for some reason i can't figure out.

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Showgirls-movie-04.jpg

rebecca

laura

wild reeds

warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)

My wife went through a phase in early summer where she put on The Men Who Stare At Goats every night to go to sleep.

Big Trouble in Little China

"warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)"

and some of the best stuff he did

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Rushmore's the king of this isn't it really

What About Bob?
Mulholland Dr.
Manhattan Murder Mystery--Woody and Diane Keaton re-united...surprised how little love this little jewel gets!

Ed Wood
Fellowship of the Ring
Big Lebowski

Truth About Cats And Dogs
Beetlejuice
Flashdance

LOTR trilogy def comfort movies

I've had so many over the years--I tend to comfort-watch them right off the list every couple of years. Right now, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Nixon, Fargo.

I don't do this.

Pauline Kael has rained on our Andrew Sarris parade.

The Paper Chase

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:02 AM (3 years ago)

A few from earlier in the thread that I would have once listed; this one's the most surprising/gratifying.

Zodiac is a great one. i think i once watched it four times over two days when stuck at home with the flu.

i think a lot of these for me tend to overlap with movies that TNT or Comedy Central tend to show over and over--but just the ones i like.

can totally relate to Zodiac.

yep good call on Zodiac, totally agree

Any woody allen movie, even the awful ones, and the royal tenenbaums

Zodiac really does impart a sense of a lot of time passing in a way that's accomplished by more than just sheer length. there's something really satisfying about that.

also it's a movie that's content to meet you at just about any level of engagement you want.

Yes--there's something about the way it unfolds that make it fit the definition perfectly. For a movie so dense with procedural stuff, there's also something very contemplative about it.

Zodiac has the best opening (the original 70s logos, the fireworks, the car, the Three Dog Night song.. ) i can remember from recent years.
not to derail the thread but AV Club did a good piece in their New Cult Canon section http://www.avclub.com/articles/zodiac,59576/

i also love the atmosphere of unique intimacy between men working together for long periods of time.

secret heartbreak of the film is when anthony edwards retires

That's such a good scene. The parts of the film where Zodiac ceases to be a story for anyone except Graysmith (overtly; obviously he remains at the forefront of Toschi's thoughts too, even though he won't admit as much to Graysmith) are beautifully done; like with the Edwards scene ("I haven't left you holding the bag on anything, have I?"), everything's unspoken.

(Same--don't mean to derail the thread...)

i only just started rewatching stuff, absentmindedly while i scan photographs, but i used to watch basquiat a lot. i am dying to rewatch 35 rhums.

these movies kind of fall under 'comfort' for me:

light sleeper (i think the rhythms and mood are good for late night viewing)
beau travail
a christmas carol (1951 version)
sonatine

blade runner
three colors white
late spring
sans soleil
akira

re: woody allen i was watching vicky cristina barcelona earlier today and thinking that it wasn't very good but it was very comforting to watch, weird that this thread got bumped