An excellent list. I confess to seeing none of them on 'the big screen,' sadly. Would love to change that.

What I remember most about going to the theatre to see a movie--an act I've not undertaken in some time--is not just the enormity of the screen and the aesthetics of the appropriate cinematography in all the appropriate variables, but also the bigness of the empty space around me: the entirety of the poetic capture against the backdrop of enormous empty space... if that makes any sense. I watch a movie, at home, with my back to the kitchen... and I think the space around me is cramped and full of things that have nothing to do with the movie... Life, mundane and prosaic, intrudes upon the poetic and art, it seems, sometimes, is as about as small as it is, instead of bigger than it could possibly be...

I've long admired Martin Ritt's "The Molly Maquires," and, almost certainly, have never seen it in its correct aspect ratio, etc, and probably watched it in different ratios over the different times I've seen it. I always get the sense there is more to the film than I can grok, and that maybe the full-screen experience would be necessary to do so.

I love Billy Wilder and precious few films do I love more than "Stalag 17." I would think it an altogether deeper experience on the big screen.

And I think that if you've ever seen 'Ben Hur' on the big screen, you must write up that experience or include it on this list...