It's not my favorite film, or even in my top ten. But my eyes were never wider than during my first viewing of The Matrix.

Aliens. Without a doubt. I saw it for the first time when I was twelve (I know I know, my parents were very liberal). It blew my mind as a twelve year old girl that the lead character in a kick ass science fiction film could be female. Sigourney Weaver has remained my all time favorite actress since then.

Wow, the first one that comes to mind is Cinema Paradiso --- I don't know if I just caught that movie at an emotional time in my life, but it hit me hard. And I haven't watched it since because I don't want to let go of that first viewing experience .....

Scott! For a blessedly brief, horrifying moment I thought you were going with the film Cliffhanger. This is a great question, and one I have pondered myself from time to time when I've been stuck for a film to watch and see so many I've already seen and loved. I guess the age you watched said film has a huge effect. Like you, I immediately thought of Star Wars - A New Hope. No brainer, or so I thought. But I was 5 when I watched that film. Would it have the same effect on me today if I had never seen it? You know what? I believe it would. So there you have it. Star Wars IV - A New Hope.

Shawshank Redemption for me. I'd give anything (within reason) to experience it's brilliance again without knowing anything at all about it before hand. And Scott, I also thought you had gone the the film Cliffhanger for a second!! :D

I was a big horror fan growing up as a kid, which makes me very surprised of my answer. It would have to be the movie Clue. I was 4 when this movie came out so I'm sure I didn't get introduced to this movie until I was 8 or 9, but I remember always watching it on VHS. I'm sure at that age I didn't understand all of the humor in the film, but I loved the characters, the dialogue and the mystery of who did it. That would be a great movie to see with fresh eyes and in a big theater.

Scream immediately came to mind. I've seen it so many times and it's one of my favorite horror movies, but I would love to watch again without knowing the killer(s) and some of the most suspenseful scenes in the movie.

Ahhhh --- goooood image choice. :)

I'm pretty sure I know which movie you picked, Scott, and it would be my choice, too. Oh, to be able to experience that ending again, not seeing it coming. #notsixthsense Other contenders: Star Wars, The Tree of Life

What a fantastic question. (Thanks, Luke!) I wonder if I'd have to be the person I was when I saw the film for the first time for it to have the same effect. Some of the films that have elicited the strongest responses from me I saw in very particular circumstances. The answers that come to mind quickly are: Jesus of Montreal, Diva, Casablanca... I think my answer might be Wings of Desire. But I'm doing to keep thinking about it. What about Luke? It sounds like he's seen more movies that most of us put together. Which one would he like to see again for the first time?

Daniel, if you are thinking 2001: A Space Odyssey, you would be correct. That is the movie I wish I could see again for the first time. Left me absolutely gobsmacked when I saw it back as a 15 year-old. What did it mean? What had I just witnessed? I was with a group of friends and I remember us talking about it for days. That quality of a movie, to stick with you long after you've seen it, is one sign of a great film. Of course, it also introduced me to Stanley Kubrick!

Ooohhh, good choice! Not what I was thinking, though. The Shawshank Redemption.

First thing that comes to mind is How to Train Your Dragon. I didn't watch it in the theater and then when I finally saw it on Blu-ray, I was so flipping mad that I missed out on the big screen for that one. I'd even have seen it in 3D and I've never seen anything in 3D.

Movies I'd love to see for the first time. All of Star Wars. All of Indiana Jones. Back to the Future 1 and 3. The Prestige. The Dark Knight Rises. Michael Clayton. Bridesmaids. In Bruges. Four Lions. Edward Scissorhands. I think it would have to be Back to the Future 1. To see George biff Biff has me cheering every time. That's one of the first movies I saw that celebrated the geek.

I don't really have an answer for this one. There are plenty of movies I wish I hadn't seen (one of which is incredibly popular and gets me dirty looks whenever I say it wasn't all that great). Plus, I seem to have the ability to watch a movie with fresh eyes no matter how many times I've seen it, so it's like seeing a film for the first time every time. But -- and I think this goes hand-in-hand -- I also don't mind spoilers. The logic being that with any movie worth watching, knowing what's going to happen next shouldn't matter. A great movie is a great movie is a great movie. Why else do people re-watch movies a second, third, fourth, or fiftieth time? I mean, if spoilers were that big of a deal wouldn't watching a movie once suffice? Anyway, that got rather tangential. If I had to name a movie (or movies), I'd probably go with "L.A. Confidential" or "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" or "A History of Violence." "Psycho" and "Citizen Kane" are up there, too. Anything by Malick, Kubrick, PT Anderson... Okay, so I guess I'd like to see every movie for the first time again.

Oooo, Sabina. Michael Clayton is one of my absolute favorites. I never get tired of it. I LOVE how Tilda Swinton delivers "You don't want the money?" at the end. Good, good film.

"...Ah, Juicy Fruit."

It was the gamut of the emotional experience that Milos and Kesey and Nicholson and crew delivered. Belly laughs to jolting surprise to horror to dawning outrage to empathy to hatred to heart-break to anger to sadness...until you had so much emotional juice pumping that you felt like you was up there with the Chief, yanking that fixture outta the floor, busting out, loping into the woods a free man... I was crushed and elated and inspired, all in that one final image.

Daniel, that's one of those movies where I can STILL remember the screening like it was yesterday. I went to an industry premiere in Beverly Hills, a guest of Castle Rock, and still have an email I sent to Martin Shafer, president of the company, that very night about my rapturous response to the film. So it's not a leap for me re that particular film. 2001: A Space Odyssey, all I can remember of that experience is sitting there as the final credits rolled with my jaw on the floor wondering, "What the hell was that?"

Zach, that's the right answer isn't it: "Okay, so I guess I’d like to see every movie for the first time again."

One of the most fantastic lines of dialogue ever in a movie. Such a surprise. And it takes a few seconds for McNulty to realize what Chief just did.

There are two movies that I wish I could relive again, both got me into movies and sent the movie bug through my window into my heart forever: The Lion King - never got to see it in theatre because i was in a foreign desert country. And Jurassic Park....oh how I love that movie and the tremors of excitement I still get thinking about seeing an actual live dinosaur ....ok, now I am starting to sound like I am five...

Silence of the Lambs, especially for the first scene with Lecter. Also high up there are Psycho and North by Northwest, where I knew the outcome of key scenes long before I ever saw the movies.

E.T. I wouldn't want to just see it again for the first time, I'd want to see it again, the way I first saw it, because I believed completely and utterly in the reality of that lil guy.

I could say Field of Dreams, or Dances With Wolves, or The Committments, or Clue, or Bladerunner, or Sexy Beast, or Hard Boiled. However, the one movie in my collection that is most quoted, most rewatched and most fondly remembered is: Withnail and I

Great movies would--almost by definition--be great to experience again for the first time. As such, I can't kind any fault with any (most) of those listed before. For whatever reason, I can't get myself beyond the twist as a "for the first time" kind of response. While the subsequent years have not been kind to him, M. Night and The Sixth Sense is the only film for me. It almost literally ruined the twist ending for an entire generation or more because of its brilliance.

Easy for me to answer, in fact I just watched it again with my son last night, and I explained to him why it meant so much to me... WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. I vividly recall sitting back in a NE Philly theater with a group of adult friends and my husband and saying 'that's what I want to do'. I quit my creative director job, and within month's moved to Florida to start work at Disney's new animation studio. 25 years later, It hasn't been a bed of roses, but anytime I wonder if I should do something else, I watch that and the answer is clear.

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind". At 17 years of age, Spielberg's positive take on an alien encounter just filled me with hope & wonder. The shot when the Mother ship rotates still gets me - all the CGI in the world will never beat that breathtaking moment. I often think it's over-looked because of 'another' space movie that came out at around the same time. But that one was just a cowboy movie - no new thinking ( that's why I still can't get excited by the franchise) But Close Encounters pointed towards a better world - it blurred the line between 'goodies' & 'baddies'. Proper, subtle story-telling.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is my choice too - my favorite movie of all time, and my candidate for best movie of all time. There's any number of reasons why I love it, but I was thinking recently that it blends amazing otherworldly spectacle with an almost too intimate connection with the artist behind it. The source of the intimate connection? Of course there's no way for the viewer to know this, but a number of years ago on the AMK Kubrick website, his daughter Katharina threw out a factoid that made the hairs on my body stand on end when I read it - the sound of Bowman's breathing in the final sequence was provided by Kubrick himself. So we're put beyond the cosmos somewhere with the filmmaker almost literally breathing in our ears.