November 24, 2004
My Favorite Movies
Nobody asked, but I gather this is something of a weblogging right-of-passage. In any case, I knew I'd started this list somewhere, and figured this is as good a place as any to keep it
- Dr. Strangelove
- The King of Comedy
- The Naked Gun
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Fountainhead
- Duck Soup
- The Godfather II
- The Meaning of Life
- The Seven Samurai
- Groundhog Day
A few honorable mentions, in no particular order:
- Carrie
- Goodfellas
- The Maltese Falcon
- As Good as it Gets
- Citizen Kane
- The Birds
- The Godfather
- You Can't Take It with You
- Adventures in Babysitting
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- The Missouri Breaks
- Annie Hall
- Donnie Darko
- The Wizard of Oz
- Brazil
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- Patton
- Bad Santa
- The Producers
- U-571
- Contact
- 8 1/2
- Apollo 13
- Dead Ringers
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Gettysburg
- The Right Stuff
- Naked Lunch
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Amadeus
- Dead Man
- Blazing Saddles
- The Color of Money
- Galaxy Quest
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Jerk
I'll undoutedly think of more. Ranking these is reminiscent of any peer reviewed process / process involving grading or ranking : broadly accurate, but fickle at the margins...
Posted by foote at November 24, 2004 10:22 AM