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Favorite Movies

The following is an incomplete and largely disorganized list of my favorite movies. The it's mercurial and a bit inconsistent, because, out of necesity, I've seen some of these more recently and some not for a very long time indeed. The top 24 are re latively solid, but may reflect more deliberate diversity than pure craft -- there were no defined criteria for the slections, anyway. Outside of the top 24, I didn't try to put them in any order at all.

Top 24:

  1. Brazil
  2. Citizen Kane
  3. Godfather
  4. Godfather II
  5. Lawrence of Arabia
  6. Jaws
  7. Casablanca
  8. The Last Emperor
  9. Whale Rider
  10. Pulp Fiction
  11. Fisher King
  12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  13. The Muppet Movie
  14. Clockwork Orange
  15. The Graduate
  16. Unforgiven
  17. The Princess Bride
  18. Goodfellas
  19. Chinese Ghost Story
  20. Taxi Driver
  21. 2001
  22. Dr. Strangelove
  23. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  24. The Sixth Sense


Honorable Mentions (still good films -- for various reasons)

  • Young Frankenstein
  • RoboCop
  • Amelie
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Hard Boiled
  • Drunken Master II
  • Secret of Roan Inish
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • The Crying Game
  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • Smoke
  • North by Northwest
  • The Third Man
  • Star Wars
  • Empire Strikes Back
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Local Hero
  • Akira
  • Chinatown
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  • Blade Runner
  • Usual Suspects
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
  • The Producers
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Silverado
  • Almost Famous
  • The Matrix
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Kundun
  • Ed Wood
  • City of Lost Children
  • Pleasantville
  • The Professional (aka Leon)
  • Heathers
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Groundhog Day
  • Sling Blade
  • Dead Man Walking
  • Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
  • The Sting
  • Babe
  • Hudsucker Proxy
  • Raising Arizona
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Henry Fool
  • Short Cuts
  • Die Hard
  • Limbo
  • Lone Star
  • Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993 aka Blue)
  • Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994 aka Red)
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  • Hudsucker Proxy
  • American Beauty
  • A Close Shave
  • A Grand Day Out
  • The Wrong Trousers
  • Clerks
  • Chasing Amy
  • A Christmas Story
  • Toy Story
  • Toy Story 2
  • Finding Nemo
  • Manchurian Candidate
  • Touch of Evil
  • Waking Life
  • The Killer
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • LA Confidential
  • Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • A Simple Plan
  • Honneamise no tsubasa (Wings of Honneamise)
  • African Queen
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Fight Club
  • Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  • Mr. Holland's Opus
  • Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
  • The Untouchables
  • Marathon Man
  • Fearless
  • Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The
  • Dead Again
  • L.A. Story
  • La Grande Illusion
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Into the Night (1985)
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
  • Good Will Hunting

 



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