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It would be HUGELY refreshing if someone here admitted they hadn't seen STAR WARS (1977) and they were telling the truth. I, for one, would certainly love to have not seen it.
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If you haven't seen IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, you are doing yourself an incredible disservice. Simply the greatest performance by an actor on film. It's not even debatable. Every other person and thing about it, is pretty perfect, too. I watched the Blu-ray this past Christmas season, and hadn't seen the film in around 20 years. I was awestruck by how perfect a motion picture experience, it is.
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Careful now, PhiladelphiaSon! "Simply the greatest performance by an actor on film. It's not even debatable" is pretty debatable! But I do share your admiration for Jimmy Stewart in this. He's amazing. What I don't share is the almost universal love for IAWL. I've seen it maybe six times, and yes, much of it is extraordinary in its emotional impact, but I always felt that it was a good twenty minutes too long - and all the Clarence whimsy strikes me as being misjudged for some reason. Anyway, that's the way I see it after six viewings. But, so as not to leave it on a downer, there's hardly a more acutely poignant sequence in cinema (debatably) than the beautifully, almost frighteningly well-performed, written and directed sequence when Jimmy Stewart is going off the rails back home and the little girl's playing the piano, and the son asks him for help with something he's doing, and... well, it gets me every time. Hey, I can chalk another off my list. I've just seen THE SEVENTH SEAL. Brilliant. That's five Ingmar Bergman's I've seen now, and they've all been great. Why are people put off by this stuff? I don't think it's haughty and boring at all, in fact everything I've seen of his has been totally riveting, often highly amusing in places, and fascinating to watch. I don't even have to TRY to like them - they work their magic on their own.
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