50 Favorite Films (ranked in approx. order of preference)
Submitted by Salem* on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 01:30
Tags:
- The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
- Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
- A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon)
- Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
- The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
- Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- Smoke (1995, Wayne Wang)
- Matewan (1987, John Sayles)
- The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
- Les Miserables (Claude Lelouch)
- Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
- Days of Heaven (Terence Malick)
- Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
- Fight Club (David Fincher)
- Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
- River’s Edge (Tim Hunter)
- Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
- Heat (Michael Mann)
- Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
- Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
- The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam)
- Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
- When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)
- Se7en (David Fincher)
- Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Hallstrom)
- Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
- Aliens (James Cameron)
- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
- Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
- Leon (Luc Besson)
- L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
- The Player (Robert Altman)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
- M*A*S*H* (Robert Altman)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
- Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Author Comments:
Fuck IMDB's Top 250. Pretty much this decade in film, too. That is all for now.
Nice to see "Battle Royale" on there - as someone who has spent a decent amount of time around high school kids, though, it's a lot more cathartic for me than most people. ;-)