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:
- Brazil
- Citizen Kane
- Godfather
- Godfather II
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Jaws
- Casablanca
- The Last Emperor
- Whale Rider
- Pulp Fiction
- Fisher King
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Muppet Movie
- Clockwork Orange
- The Graduate
- Unforgiven
- The Princess Bride
- Goodfellas
- Chinese Ghost Story
- Taxi Driver
- 2001
- Dr. Strangelove
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- 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
