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Top 2013 Films

  • 1) Stoker ****
  • 2) Dead Man Down ** 1/2
  • 3) Iron Man 3 **
  • 4) Oz the Great and Powerful **

2012 Feature Films Ranked

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  1. Bullet Collector (9/10)
  2. Prometheus (9/10)
  3. Skyfall (8/10)
  4. The Dark Knight Rises (8/10)
  5. Brave (8/10)
  6. Maybe Tomorrow (8/10)
  7. Marvel's The Avengers (8/10)
  8. The Amazing Spider-Man (8/10)
  9. 21 Jump Street (7/10)
  10. ParaNorman (7/10)
  11. Hart Crane: An Exegesis (7/10)
  12. Hotel Transylvania (7/10)
  13. Taken 2 (5/10)
  14. The Hunger Games (5/10)
  15. The Broken Tower

20 Favorite Silent Films

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  1. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  2. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
  3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
  4. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
  5. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)
  6. The General (Buster Keaton)
  7. The Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
  8. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
  9. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
  10. Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
  11. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
  12. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  13. The Crowd (King Vidor)
  14. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
  15. Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
  16. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
  17. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
  18. The Last Laugh (F.W.

25 Favorite Films of the 30s

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  1. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
  2. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
  3. M (Fritz Lang)
  4. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
  5. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. Stagecoach (John Ford)
  7. Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  8. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
  9. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eistenstein)
  10. King Kong (Ernest Schoedsack)
  11. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
  12. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
  13. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
  14. The Last Testament of Dr.

Viewing log 2013

  • 1/1: Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)
  • 1/1: Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
  • 1/1: Vampire’s Kiss (Robert Bierman, 1989)
  • 1/2: This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
  • 1/2: Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1984)
  • 1/2: Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
  • 1/3: A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
  • 1/5: Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
  • 1/6: Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)
  • 1/8: Peacock King (Ngai Choi Lam, 1988)
  • 1/8: Meet the Feebles (Peter Jackson, 1989)
  • 1/9: Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
  • 1/11: A Bullet in the Head (John Woo, 1990)
  • 1/11: Django Unchained (Quentin Ta

25 Favorite Films of the 00s

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  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
  2. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
  3. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
  4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. Mulholland Dr.

25 Favorite Films of the 40s

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  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell)
  3. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  4. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  5. Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
  6. Fantasia (Walt Disney)
  7. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  8. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
  9. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  10. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
  11. Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 & 2 (Sergei Eisenstein)
  12. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
  13. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  14. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
  15. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  16. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
  17. Casablanca (Michael Curt

25 Favorite Films of the 50s

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  1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
  3. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
  4. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
  5. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
  6. Ordet (Carl Dreyer)
  7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  8. The Searchers (John Ford)
  9. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
  10. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
  12. Umberto D.

25 Favorite Films of the 60s

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  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Point Blank (John Boorman)
  4. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
  5. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
  6. Belle De Jour (Luis Bunuel)
  7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
  8. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
  9. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
  11. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
  12. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  13. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
  14. Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)
  15. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  16. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman
  17. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
  18. The Leopard (L

25 Favorite Films of the 70s

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  1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. The Godfather part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
  4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
  6. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
  7. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
  8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
  9. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  10. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  11. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  12. Nashville (Robert Altman)
  13. Alien (Riddley Scott)
  14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
  15. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
  16. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  17. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cas