By Jennifer Morrison
We have found it comforting to watch a movie a night during Quarantine. It has been amazing to revisit films that have inspired me over the years and to see them with a fresh perspective. Here is the list of the 40 films we have watched in 40 days:
- Top Gun
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Contagion
- What About Bob?
- On the Waterfront
- Ixcanul
- There Will Be Blood
- Days of Thunder
- Blade Runner (1982)
- St. Vincent
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- La Haine
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Shining
- The Ides of March
- Wag the Dog
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Point Break
- Room 237
- Groundhog Day
- The Parallax View
- Emma
- All the President’s Men
- Sophie’s Choice
- Klute
- I knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
- The Pelican Brief
- Orphans
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- The Verdict
- Network
- Extraction
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Phantom Thread
- Casablanca
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Chinatown
Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986)
Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
Natalie Wood and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch in Network (1976)
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards in Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)
Film images courtesy of IMDB
Wishing you lots of love and health.