I'm Only A Man, Part 16: I Love Nothing In The World So Well

I was thinking recently about the short list of films I've seen multiple times in the theater. The Little Mermaid was the first movie I went to repeatedly and I ended up seeing it four or five times. Same with Silence of the Lambs, Much Ado About Nothing and Basquiat. Basquiat is particularly notable because I was in college at Auburn University at the time and it wasn't showing anywhere near me. I drove two hours to Atlanta five times to see it.

In college I fell in love with The Godfather series — I will argue the merits of the third film to the death — and all things Sidney Lumet. As a film fan, I sort of hang my hat on my love of the gritty, masculine epic. But that list of movies that kept bringing me back to the theater is probably much more illustrative.

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