My Favorite Movies


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1
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969,  PG-13)
Once Upon a Time in the West 5.0 Stars
Amazing...so incredibly amazing. The kind of film that makes me want to stop making films because I don't think I could live up to that standard...and the next day the kind of film that makes me want to try twice as hard to do so.
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Killer's Kiss (1955,  Unrated)
Killer's Kiss 4.5 Stars
Holy photography this movie is gorgeous. Kubrick is defiantly finding his signature style...but the script with all of the flashbacks is not quite as sharp as it could have been. Well worth seeing in spite of that...oh and the mannequin sequence is amazing.
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3
The Rocketeer (1991,  PG)
The Rocketeer 4.5 Stars
A classic film from my youth with a classic Tache'd Dalton performance
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4
Goldfinger (1964,  PG)
Goldfinger 5.0 Stars
The perfect Bond film. Girls, Guns, Gold. What more could you ask for?
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5
The Exorcist (1973,  R)
The Exorcist 5.0 Stars
The scariest movie i've ever seen. The only movie to keep me up all night. Michael Kermode is right when he called this the best movie ever made.
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Survive Style 5+ (2004,  Unrated)
Survive Style 5+ 4.5 Stars
One of strangest, most profound, silly, touching, surreal, lovable, funny and oddly soothing films I've ever seen. It will be hard to knock this out of my top 10. Just submit to the power of the film and finish it in one sitting. You never know where it's going to go, just know you'll be glad when you do.
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7
Danger: Diabolik (1968,  PG-13)
Danger: Diabolik 4.5 Stars
I can't even begin to describe the cornucopia of ocular delights that is Danger: Diabolik.

One of the grooviest movies ever! This movie DRIPS with pop coolness
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8
Children of Men (2006,  R)
Children of Men 5.0 Stars
The best movie of 2006. Bar none. Simply incredible.
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9
The Getaway (1972,  PG)
The Getaway 4.5 Stars
Steve Mother Fucking McQueen!
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10
Coffy (1973,  R)
Coffy 4.5 Stars
Pam Grier maybe the biggest badass...ever
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11
Brain Donors (1992,  PG)
Brain Donors 4.0 Stars
Every Marx brothers movie condensed into one hell of a zany adventure. This movie is gut bustingly funny.
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12
Fitzcarraldo (1982,  PG)
Fitzcarraldo 5.0 Stars
One of the best movies I have ever seen... a true masterpieces of ambition and obsession...
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13
High School Confidential! (1958,  Unrated)
High School Confidential! 4.0 Stars
Fantastic Drug Propaganda from the 50's

The beat poetry and Jerry Lee Lewis are particularly choice
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14
All That Jazz (1979,  R)
All That Jazz 5.0 Stars
Fosse's most personal and flamboyant work. One of my all time favorite films.
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15
The Third Man (1949,  Unrated)
The Third Man 5.0 Stars
I can still hear the zither playing...

Hot damn this movie is cool!
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16
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999,  R)
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17
North by Northwest (1959,  Unrated)
North by Northwest 5.0 Stars
The blue print for the big summer action movie.
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18
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) (,  PG)
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19
Gilda (1946,  PG)
Gilda 5.0 Stars
Rita where have you been all my life?

This movie should be required viewing for anyone with eyes.

This is a cinematic orgasm of galaxial proportion.
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20
Casablanca (1942,  Unrated)
Casablanca 5.0 Stars
My favorite movie of all time
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21
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980,  PG)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 5.0 Stars
Best of the three...probably my favorite second favorite movie of all time.
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22
Rio Bravo (1998,  Unrated)
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23
From Russia With Love (1964,  PG)
From Russia With Love 4.0 Stars
This used to be my favorite Bond film, but I think Goldfinger may have taken over that spot.

FRWL is certainly one of the stranger Bond films. Bond doesn't show up for the first 20 minutes of the movie. There is no plot to take over the world. Bond only fights henchman rather than the top baddies.

However FRWL also provides times where Bond really seems to be in Danger. There is a reality to the story that goes on that makes FRWL very visceral.
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24
Duck Soup (1933,  Unrated)
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25
All the President's Men (1976,  R)
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26
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938,  PG)
The Adventures of Robin Hood 5.0 Stars
My favorite swashbuckler...only Errol Flynn could make tights cool
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27
Gone With the Wind (1939,  G)
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28
Psycho (1960,  R)
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29
Citizen Kane (1941,  PG)
Citizen Kane 4.5 Stars
Is there anything I can say that already hasn't? Hands down the most influential film in cinema history.

After recently seeing this on the big screen, I can't help but marvel at this film. Seeing it on the big screen was like seeing it for the first time. So many little details lept out at me that I had never seen before.

Truly a work deserving of it's praise.
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30
Rear Window (1954,  PG)
Rear Window 5.0 Stars
Arguably Hitchcock's best film. Vertigo is a better crafted film...while Rear Window is the better story. Similar in the comparison of Citizen Kane and Casablanca. CK is the great technical achievement, while Casablanca is the greater emotional achievement.
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31
The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954,  Unrated)
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32
Singin' in the Rain (1952,  G)
Singin' in the Rain 5.0 Stars
The greatest musical ever made.

I double dare you not to love this film.
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33
Robin Hood (1973,  G)
Robin Hood 5.0 Stars
Maid Marion is such a fox in this.
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34
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (2000,  G)
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35
King Kong (1933) (1933,  Unrated)
King Kong (1933) 5.0 Stars
One of my all time favorites. Ground breaking in too many ways to count
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36
Back to School (1986,  PG-13)
Back to School 4.0 Stars
The movie is genius
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37
Eyes Wide Shut (1999,  R)
Eyes Wide Shut 5.0 Stars
I love this film.

A deep & haunting dissection of betrayal and infidelity on every level.

Like all Kubrick films it gets better with every additional viewing
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38
Shaun of the Dead (2004,  R)
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39
Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001,  R)
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40
A Fish Called Wanda (1988,  R)
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41
Out of Sight (1998,  R)
Out of Sight 5.0 Stars
This movie cooler than the Fonz...

Yea I went there
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42
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003,  R)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 4.0 Stars
The better movie
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43
The Departed (2006,  R)
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44
Halloween (1978,  R)
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45
Spider-Man 2 (2004,  PG-13)
Spider-Man 2 5.0 Stars
Possibly the best superhero movie ever made...possibly
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46
The Great Escape (1963,  Unrated)
The Great Escape 5.0 Stars
Steve McQueen is a badass!
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47
The Towering Inferno (1974,  PG)
The Towering Inferno 4.0 Stars
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman...
A burning skyscraper...
high levels of manliness ensue.

Hands down the greatest disaster film of all time.