I can name three:What reason would you give for watching the same movie repeatedly?
1. Script. A good script can do wonders for a movie, especially a bright comedy script that keeps the one-liners flying, or a tightly-written drama with thoughtful dialogue. Some great scripts:
*Bringing Up Baby
*Duck Soup
*My Man Godfrey
*The Awful Truth
*The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
*His Girl Friday
*All About Eve
*The Lion in Winter (the play and film)
2. Connections - as in, I often establish connections with characters, situations, etc. that cause me to want to revisit certain pictures when I'm in just the right mood.
*Auntie Mame
*The Bank Dick/It's a Gift/The Man on the Flying Trapeze
*City Lights
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*The Miracle Worker
*Now, Voyager
*The Mating Season
3. Status - Every now and then, I do like to revisit the greatly great films to see what new insights I can derive from them. Like:
*Rashomon
*Rules of the Game
*8 1/2
*Citizen Kane
*Modern Times
*M
*Psycho
Hope those are good enough answers - after 3 straight days of working 12+hours per day, I don't think I can be expected to do much better...
-Stephen