<p>All About Eve
Lone Star
The Manchurian Candidate (the original; Demme should be shot for trespassing)
Memento
Chinatown
How Green Was My Valley
North by Northwest
The Usual Suspects
The Haunting (1963)
Patton</p>
<p>Dearly loved also-rans, mostly niche or genre films:
Babe
A Few Good Men
The Conversation
My Cousin Vinny
Alien
Eve’s Bayou
LA Confidential
Leave Her to Heaven
Bringing Up Baby
Rashomon</p>
<p>Interchangeable with also-rans, depending on the phase of the moon:
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Ninotchka
The Others
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
How to Steal a Million
Absence of Malice
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Wuthering Heights
Sunset Blvd.
The Shop on Main Street</p>
<p>Favorite movie no one else has ever seen:
Dark City</p>
<p>Dstark: Sunset Blvd. is on mine. Also, I was going to add Ben-Hur (the silent version) and The Gold Rush but enough is enough. :)</p>
<p>Trying to post without reading (and thus being influenced by) other’s choices:</p>
<p>All About Eve
Psycho
The Apartment
Groundhog’s Day
My Cousin Vinny
Memento
Anatomy of a Murder
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Dogma
Silence of the Lambs</p>
<p>criteria – movies I’ll watch any time they’re on</p>
<p>How could I forget Breaking Away, Sleuth, and Tootsie (all three still on my TiVo), Field of Dreams (I still cry every time!) and the Stunt Man. Then I was reminded of Shoot the Moon and My Favorite Year and Gypsy. How does one choose???</p>
<p>Let’s see…amongst the thousands I’ve seen… I love Wedding Crashers and Borat but most memorable films…would be combination of innovative visuals and social comment. For me.</p>
<p>Ran a 1985 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa. If you ever get a chance to see that on the big screen–cancel all other dates. The visuals are stunning.</p>
<p>To live or Huozhe a 1994 chinese film by Zhang Yimou. This film beautifully illustrates what happened to our Chinese boomer peers and their parents in China in the 60’s. Gong Li stars.</p>
<p>Au Revoir, les enfants a 1987 film by Louis Malle</p>
<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</p>
<p>Amarcord a 1974 film by Federiko Fellini</p>
<p>The Draughtsman’s Contract a 1982 film by Peter Greenaway</p>
<p>I just saw this like a week ago. Not my favorite, but very enjoyable.</p>
<p>My favorite Christopher Guest is probably Waiting for Guffman, very, very closely followed by A Mighty Wind. </p>
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<p>It is a gorgeous movie. </p>
<p>I also have a great personal love for the movie Serenity, because I was a huge fan of the TV series Firefly and it gave me 2 more hours to spend with characters I loved. And I went to a preview of the movie, where Joss Whedon said it was my movie (well, mine and everyone else who agitated and wrote letters and postcards and gave DVDs of the series Firefly to all their friends and loved ones.)</p>
<p>Hidden Fortress is wonderful. It’s the inspiration for Star Wars.
Ran is also terrific.
I’m also a big fan of Kurosawa and had to restrain myself from listing most of his films.</p>
<p>Hated the Draughtsman’s Contract. it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Nobody listed Ingmar Bergman’s movies. I’ll list one: The Seventh Seal.</p>
<p>To Kill A Mockingbird
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
About A Boy
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Shining
Animal House
Moonstruck (despite Cher and Nicholas Cage)
Last of the Mohicans
Best in Show
Little Miss Sunshine
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</p>
<p>Honestly, though, the list would not be complete without Toy Story II, Elf, Pirates of the Caribbean (I), Mulan and Aladdin. For the last 15 years or so, about 95% of the movies I’ve seen have been “family” or kids’ movies, and I thought these were great. </p>
<p>I love everyone’s postings – some movies I’d long forgotten-- Do the Right Thing, Stranger Than Paradise (though I preferred Down By Law).</p>
<p>Also, while not really a movie, I still highly recommend Michael Apted’s “Up” series–</p>
<p>The Draughtman’s Contract was nasty, but oh so clever. I liked it, but I remember feeling it was a bit hollow.</p>
<p>To add to Cheers’ collection of foreign films.</p>
<p>Thinking about French films - I should have included Children of Paradise and Hiroshima, Mon amour. Haven’t seen either since college though I saw them multiple times then.</p>
<p>For Japanese films my favorite is Rashomon. I wanted to like Ran, but I really didn’t. However I might have seen it dubbed in German. Can’t remember but it wouldn’t necessarily have been better served by German subtitles.</p>
<p>Italian movies? I never got into Fellini. I liked The Bicycle Thief, but not enough for a top ten list.</p>
<p>lsp–we have similar tastes. Though I didn’t list them, I should somehow fit in Moonstruck, About a Boy, O Brother How Art Thou, and–definitely–Pirates of the Carribean.</p>
<p>Taxi Driver
Memento
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Gangs of New York
Usual Suspects
Gladiator
Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, (The Good, the Bad, the Ugly)
Psycho (1960)
El Laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Shawshank Redemption</p>
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