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Not all movies should be watched twice. Some left a glimpse of effects; others emitted so much intensity that the idea of sitting on them again was unbearable. But even if you've seen all of these movies before, there are some movies that draw you back. So we ask AtlanticWriter and Editor: What is it that you can watch movies over and over?
Raising Arizona (Available for rent on Prime Video)
I may have seen it Raising Arizonathe Coen Brothers' 1987 Classic with Holly Hunter and a 22-year-old Nicholas Cage, six times over the years. But I watched the opening sequence more than this. It's the entire movie, based on Cage's Deadpan Narration, a quick-cut scene and a soft music bed, from whistle to buzzing to weird music beds. The screenwriter has some great lines ever (“I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn’t easy for the White House Sumbitch Reagan.” Cage said with wild hair, pilot and 12-slogan shotgun, ready to post it on the convenience store).
The other day, I first let my 12-year-old watch. When Cage talks to his chatty prison bunker, he says incredibly, "Did you eat the sand?!" My son almost lands on the floor. The true symbol of eternity.
- Nick Miroff, staff writer
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White Christmas (Stream on Prime Video)
It hurts me considering how many people have never seen the 1954 movie White ChristmasNot to mention giving it 10% to 20% attention while focusing on other activities, this is the ideal way to view it. Again, the surprising obscurity of this movie is its hidden ace: from the moment you press "play" White Christmasno one can browse the screen White Christmas. In any given frame, an audience may face a group of people wandering in a huge purple void, swaying the decorative violin decorated with women's faces. The smolder remnants of the 1944 European explosion; or the Virtuoso dancer Vera-Ellen, who was head-on rival chartreuse, performed Pirouettes at a faster rate than the heart (no defined reason). Silence, it makes a social lubricant at a party an excellent social lubricant, and if the conversation falls behind, there are dazzling words almost every second. Don't care about the plot; the writer of this movie doesn't.
-Caity Weaver, staff writer
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Lord of the Rings Franchise (maximum streaming)
I think my answer is not a love letter to the movie, but to my family. My husband is a movie fan in our family - I rarely get re-watched movies. But he is Lord of the Rings The franchise means we’ve watched the trilogy together multiple times during over 11 hours of carnival. (Yes…it’s an extended version every time.) The movie is a truly gorgeous feat of storytelling, defeated only by books; besides fantasy and action sequences, they focus on friendship, loyalty and duel motivations for pride, responsibility, and greed. They will be a regular feature for our family at least - I'm pretty sure that in our wedding vows we will instill children into our wedding lotr Legend - This means that movies will also spend time with each other.
- Katherine J. Wu, staff writer
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All your faces (Available on Google Play and Apple TV)
I've seen French movies All your faces Three times in the last eight months. The film is not a documentary, but it is based on a real restoration work plan introduced in France about a decade ago.
Why do I go back to films about the traits of foreign criminal justice systems? The encounter between the victim and the perpetrator and the instability and unpredictability of these interactions, I was surprised every time I watched it. It is equally strong that the tenderness between the lecturer and the participants of the program is the most obvious between the roles played by Adèle Exarchopoulos and Élodie Bouchez. But this is Miou-Miou, who plays an elderly victim of a small street crime, the most troubled thing about his film is: "I don't understand violence." The mantra of our time.
- Isaac Stanley-Becker, consultant writer
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Little woman (Stream on Hulu)
Little woman First of all, come to me as a comfortable movie. Based on Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel, Greta Gerwig's 2019 film adaptation features not like a simple plot: a story of a familiar four sisters and their childhood friends, a snowy Christmas morning scene perfect for the holidays.
But with every contact I had during my lonely graduate months in the New City, I began to appreciate the little rebellion that made Gerveg Little woman So special. The story is full of watching moments: Professor Bhaer turns to watch Joe watch the play, Laurie stares at the parade window, and as the audience we feel Joe’s boyish brashness. But Gerwig also chose to focus on Joe's many anxieties. Early in the film, Jo unverbalized her writing (“These are just stories,” she said. only!); later, her monologue reveals a fragile desire for companionship (But I am very lonely!). Gerwig respects the nature of the story, but her version is not a grainy retelling. Instead, it is a homage to the art of writing itself, and the ordinary, modest stories of women that Joe and Alcott desperately want to tell.
- Associate Editor Yvonne Kim
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