Your New Year's Resolution: A Movie A Week (Part 4 of 7)

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It's Saturday night, right? and you're sitting on the couch saying, "What do you want to watch?" and the person next to you says, "I don't know, what do you want to watch?" Well, cut it out and pick a movie off this list! The first one you haven't seen!

Remember: Life is too short not to watch a movie.

Singin' in the Rain (1952). Musical Comedy. Silent film stars struggle to adapt to the sound era. Dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagan. More Donen: On the Town, Funny Face, Charade.

Rear Window (1954). Suspense. A bored photographer can't convince anyone he's seen a murder from his apartment window. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr. More Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie.

Ben-Hur (1959). Historical Action Drama. In the time of Christ, a Jewish prince seeks revenge against the Roman officer who sentenced him to life as a galley slave. Dir. William Wyler. Starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith. More Wyler: Dodsworth, Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Roman Holiday.

Rio Bravo (1959). Western. A sheriff and his alcoholic deputy square off against a wealthy landowner and his gang of hired cutthroats. Dir. Howard Hawks. Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson. Ricky Nelson, Claude Akins. More Hawks: Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962). War Bio-pic. A glory-seeking soldier unites the Arab nations against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Dir. David Lean. Starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Shariff, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy. More Lean: Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India.

Goldfinger (1964). Spy Thriller. Super spy James Bond hunts a gold-obsessed industrialist, his hat-throwing butler and Pussy Galore. Dir. Guy Hamilton. Starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata. More Bond: From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, License to Kill, GoldenEye, Casino Royale (2006), Skyfall.

A Hard Day's Night (1964). Musical Comedy. On their way to a show in London, the Fab Four and a grumpy grandfather see a train and a room, a car and a room, and a room and a room. Dir. Richard Lester. Starring The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti, Anna Quayle. More Musicals: Gold Diggers of 1933, Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, Funny Face, West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, Cabaret, Grease, The Blues Brothers, Victor/Victoria, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, The Greatest Showman. See also Top Hat and Astaire and Rogers.

Mary Poppins (1964). Musical Fantasy. A practically-perfect nanny whips an unhappy British family into shape. Dir. Robert Stevenson. Starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn. More Walt Disney: Steamboat Willie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Lady and the Tramp, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Spaghetti Western. A bounty hunter, a hit man and a criminal lowlife search for buried treasure during the American Civil War. Dir. Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. More Leone: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America.

The Endless Summer (1966). Documentary. Two surfers circle the globe in search of the perfect wave. Dir. Bruce Brown. Starring Mike Hynson, Robert August. More Documentaries: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896), Nanook of the North (1922), The Memphis Belle (1944 and 2016 restoration), Woodstock, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Cold Blue, Apollo 11 (2019), Summer of Soul, Get Back.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Science Fiction. Apes and astronauts encounter a mysterious monolith to the sounds of Richard and Johann Strauss. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain. More Kubrick: The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining.

Tomorrow: Part 5.