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Top Ten 2011 Films

  • 1) Pina
  • 2) Shame
  • 3) The Tree of Life
  • 4) Beginners
  • 5) The Raid: Redemption
  • 6) Midnight in Paris
  • 7) A Separation
  • 8) The Artist
  • 9) Hugo
  • 10) Melancholia


  • Honorable Mentions

Favourites - 20s & 30s

  1. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
  2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
  3. Animal Crackers (Heerman)
  4. Modern Times (Chaplin)
  5. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer)
  6. A Night at the Opera (Wood)
  7. Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel)
  8. The Public Enemy (Wellman)
  9. The Kid (Chaplin)
  10. Duck Soup (McCarey)
  11. City Lights (Chaplin)
  12. Angels with Dirty Faces (Curtiz)
  13. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Murnau)
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Top Twenty Films

  1. Eraserhead (Lynch)
  2. Gummo (Korine)
  3. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway)
  4. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  5. Sátántangó (Tarr)
  6. Trash Humpers (Korine)
  7. La Montaña sagrada (Jodorowsky)
  8. Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Kim)
  9. Down By Law (Jarmusch)
  10. The Shining (Kubrick)
  11. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
  12. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
  13. Koroshiya 1 (Miike)
  14. Koyaanisqatsi

New films watched in 2011

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  1. Do the Right Thing
  2. Man with a Movie Camera
  3. Edge of Heaven**
  4. Katyn
  5. Before Sunrise
  6. Before Sunset*
  7. Unconscious
  8. Drums Along the Mohawk
  9. A Prophet**
  10. The Double Life of Veronique
  11. Mother*
  12. Naked Lunch*
  13. Lolita*
  14. Age of Innocence
  15. Sunshine Cleaning
  16. Head-On** (the best film I've seen this year so far)
  17. The Lion in Winter**
  18. The Secret in Their Eyes
  19. Palindromes
  20. Fog of War
  21. Becket*
  22. A Man for All Seasons*
  23. Night and Fog
  24. Harakiri**
  25. Fata Morgana*
  26. Samurai Rebellion*
  27. Brokeback Mountain*
  28. 25th Hour*
  29. Sword of Doom
  30. Black Narcissus
  31. Treeless Mountain
  32. Gallipol

Greatest Film Soundtrack Composers of the 1960s

  • 1. Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Fortune Cookie)
  • 2. Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, The Birds, Cape Fear, Fahrenheit 451)
  • 3. Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird, The great Escape, Birdman of Alcatraz)
  • 4. John Barry (Born Free, The Lion in Winter)
  • 5. Ennio Morricone ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
  • 6. Alex North (Spartacus, The Misfits, Cleopatra)
  • 7. Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago)
  • 8. Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, The Sand Pebbles)
  • 9.

Every movie I have EVER SEEN!

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  • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
  • One Hour Photo
  • One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
  • 10'000 BC

Movies I Must Watch

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  • The Nowhere Boy
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Paper Heart
  • Schindler's List
  • Lolita
  • Benjamin Button
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Being John Malkovich
  • La Vie En Rose
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Black Swan
  • Papillon
  • Thank You for Smoking
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Milk
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Pi
  • Everything is Illuminated
  • Titanic

The Oscars - 2010!

Best Picture

The Fighter
The Social Network
Winter's Bone
Toy Story 3
Inception
True Grit
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
Black Swan

Best Actor

Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

Best Actress

Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Author Comments: 

Okay, if you know me, you know how I feel. If you haven't seen all the nominees in a category, your opinion just doesn't matter. So...

I'm only listed categories if I've seen all the nominees. I'll update this as I see more..

Choices are listed from my favorite to my least favorite.

IMDB Top 250 movies (as of 12/31/2010)

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  • 1 - The Shawshank Redemption (1994; Frank Darabont)
  • 2 - The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
  • 3 - The Godfather: Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  • 4 - The Good, the bad, and the ugly [Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo] (1966; Sergio Leone)
  • 5 - Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino)
  • 6 - Inception (2010; Christopher Nolan)
  • 7 - Schindler's List (1993; Steven Spielberg)
  • 8 - 12 Angry Men (1957; Sidney Lumet)
  • 9 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975; Milos Forman)
  • 10 - The Dark Knight (2008; Christopher Nolan)
  • 11 - Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980

1001+ Movies You Must See Before You Die

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  1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  2. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
  3. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  4. Les Vampires (1915)
  5. Intolerance (1916)
  6. Broken Blossoms (1919)
  7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
  8. Way Down East (1920)
  9. Within Our Gates (1920)
  10. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
  11. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
  12. La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922)
  13. Dr. Mabuse Parts 1 and 2 (1922)
  14. Nanook of the North (1922)
  15. Nosferatu (1922)
  16. Haxan (1923)
  17. Foolish Wives (1922)
  18. Our Hospitality (1923)
  19. The Wheel (1923)
  20. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
  21. Strike (1924)
  22. Greed (1924)
  23. Sherlock, Jr.