My Favorite Films

Submitted by ejones on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 06:25
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  1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
  2. Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  3. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
  4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
  5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1941)
  6. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
  7. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  8. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)
  9. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
  10. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
  11. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  12. Once upon a time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
  13. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
  14. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
  15. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
  16. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
  17. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
  18. Leolo (Jean-Pierre Lauzon, 1993)
  19. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
  20. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  21. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
  22. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
  23. Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973)
  24. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
  25. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
  26. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
  27. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  28. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
  29. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  30. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
  31. Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
  32. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  33. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  34. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
  35. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  36. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
  37. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  38. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
  39. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
  40. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
  41. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)
  42. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
  43. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
  44. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
  45. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  46. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
  47. Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
  48. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
  49. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2004)
  50. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  51. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
  52. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)
  53. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)
  54. Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
  55. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  56. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
  57. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
  58. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  59. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  60. East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
  61. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
  62. Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1980)
  63. Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
  64. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
  65. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
  66. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
  67. Night of the Hunter (Robert Laughton, 1955)
  68. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1967)
  69. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
  70. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
  71. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
  72. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1961)
  73. Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2000)
  74. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
  75. The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (John Huston, 1946)
  76. Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)
  77. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
  78. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
  79. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1950)
  80. Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973)
  81. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
  82. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
  83. They Might Be Giants (James Harvey, 1970)
  84. Songs for the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
  85. The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojchiech Has, 1965)
  86. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)
  87. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1976)
  88. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1981)
  89. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
  90. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)
  91. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
  92. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1934)
  93. The State of Things (Wim Wenders, 1982)
  94. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
  95. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
  96. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedshack, 1933)
  97. It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen, 1955)
  98. Possession (Andrezj Zulawski, 1981)
  99. The Indian Runner (Sean Penn, 1990)
  100. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
  101. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
  102. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
  103. Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
  104. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
  105. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
  106. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
  107. Summer of Sam (Spike Lee, 1999)
  108. The Green Room (Francois Truffaut, 1978)
  109. You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
  110. Red Riding Trilogy (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker, 2009)
  111. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974)
  112. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
  113. Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1974)
  114. Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
  115. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
  116. The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976)
  117. Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
  118. Klute (Alan J. Packula, 1971)
  119. Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1928)
  120. The Wrong Trousers (Nick Parks, 1993)
  121. Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
  122. Quai des Orfevres (H.G. Clouzot, 1947)
  123. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominick, 2007)
  124. Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
  125. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
grandpa_chum10/31/2005

if this is in any sort of order, I'm glad to mark it 2 on listology who think OUATITW is number 1. always great to see more and more people who love leone's films. i guess you could say i'm a bit obsessed with them.

ejones10/31/2005

Well, if you're going to be obsessed with a filmmaker, Leone isn't a bad choice. I have noticed that more and more people are becoming aware of his work, and I think that's because of DVDs. The visuals are so important in his films that you can't really appreciate them without seeing them under the best possible conditions. I personally used to think
OUATITW was pretty bad until the DVD came out.

BleepSaidJoe12/18/2006

Did you put Platoon? That was a great film by Oliver Stone. And Saving Private Ryan? I should have looked more carefully, but I'm in a rush. The Godfather should have been around the top ten.

rivethead80801/29/2008

WOW! To see Henry Fool so high and seeing Leolo and Holy Mountain on there is AMAZING! Nice varied list. It seems you stick true to your opinions, but at the same time value the masterpieces that are out there.

Seems, like me, youre a big Hartley fan. Simple Men, Surviving Desire, and Unbelievable Truth are the only ones I havent seen of his. Not too fond of Girl From Monday or No Such Thing but the rest of it is superb! Id be curious to find out what you thought of Fay Grim? I thought it was an absolute masterpiece. I never thought such a belated sequel could be that amazing nor did I think that anything could match the awesomeness that was Henry Fool. I admit, I really missed seeing TJR in every scene, but Parker Posey blew me away!

Take a look at my top lists and let me know what you think when you get the chance. :)

ejones02/05/2008

Yeah, I'm a big Hartley fan, though I only got into his films this summer. Fay Grim was the first I saw, and I enjoyed it a lot, especially Parker Posey's performance, but I can't say I was a big fan of it. I guess the whole spy-movie format seemed outside of Hartley's strengths to me.
Unbelievable Truth is very hard to find, though I'd love to see it sometime, and Simple Men is superb. Between Henry Fool, which has an epic quality, and Trust, which is beautiful but also painful to watch, the film has a kind of tranquility which I really enjoy.
I like your choice of The Quiet Earth as the best movie for 1985, and your incorporation of genre movies as a whole, rather than just the standard Oscar winners and official classics.

rivethead80802/05/2008

I guess Im all about the genre movies. You could never catch me watching Crash (the newer one, not the Cronenberg goodness) or something like Atonement or Million Dollar Baby or Cinderella Man. Totally NOT my thing. Over the top, tear-at-the-heartstrings pieces that are made just with SAG and the Oscars in mind. Those people have lost the art of filmmaking as an art. Its all about which paint-by-the-numbers with a fresh face can I make and have a shot at the Oscars for. Its ridiculous. The last time I paid attention to the Oscars was when Lynch was nommed for Mulholland Dr. and Amelie for best foreign. Fuck originality, right? American Beauty and Gladiator were films that I agreed with the academy on, but thats rare.

It would have been SO much better had you seen Henry Fool first methinks. But Im glad youve gotten into Hartley. I wish more people would discover him. I highly recommend you wait a little bit and give Fay Grim another viewing. Its more awesome than you think ;)

Thanks for the compliments on my list!

Elston06/13/2009

Interesting list. Haven't seen much of your top 10, but Once Upon a Time in America was surprisingly good.

Parable06/21/2009

I really like this list. Spirit of the Beehive is on it's way from Netflix, so I'll let you know what I think of it.

ejones06/22/2009

I dig your favorite films list too- it's nice to see less expected choices like "Three Women" and "Underground" that don't pop up on lists like the AFI Top 100.