There is a fad floating around among some blogs to record your five favorite movies. So I’m going to do that but since my five favorite movies change so often I will add on that these are the five movies that I can watch over and over again.

Casablanca – “Here’s looking at you, kid.” “We’ll always have Paris.” And about 5 other unforgettable lines. Humprey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Paul Henreid. How can anyone not love this movie? The most amazing thing about the film is that they had no idea how it was going to end while they were filming. The writers worked frantically to finish the script before the filming. And the result is one of the greatest movies of all time.

Clockwork Orange – “No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.” A brilliant movie based on a brilliant book (Kubrik left out the last chapter of the book because it was left out of the American edition of the book). Malcolm McDowell should have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. Stanley Kubrik was nominated but lost to the director of The French Connection. Beth loves this movie too. She did her college essay about the book.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.” Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef, directed by Sergio Leone with an incredible soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

Field of Dreams – “If you build it, he will come.” Three Oscar nominations including Best Picture. The only Kevin Costner movie I can sit through. Ray Liotta and James Earl Jones are both fantastic. Just try not to feel good at the end of that movie.

A Foreign Affair – “If you give a hungry man a loaf of bread, that’s democracy. If you leave the wrapper on, that’s imperialism.” Billy Wilder’s funny movie about post-war Berlin. Marlene Deitrich plays the sexy German and Jean Arthur plays the Congresswoman from Iowa who gets drunk and sings, “I-O-way, I-O-way. That’s where the tall corn grows.” John Lund plays the Captain caught between the two of them. I loved this movie the first time I saw it.

Runners up: Duck Soup, Maltese Falcon, Memento, Apocalypse Now, and Bringing Up Baby.

So what movies are on your list?