Film
Some of my favorites in very rough order.
- 63up
- Blade Runner and Alien (my favorite Ridley Scott)
- Cure
- Rashomon and Ikiru
- The Departed (my favorite Scorsese?) probably between that and GoodFellas
- Better Off Dead (I miss claymation)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Big
- Clue
- When Harry Met Sally
- Ghost in the Shell
- Your Name and Weathering With You
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Goonies
- Back to the Future (all good, but the first's the best)
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Dirty Harry, Sudden Impact
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (first three are good, but the third's the best)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (original three are good, but second's the best)
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (R.I.P. Jim Henson)
- Die Hard (yes, the best Christmas movie)
- A Christmas Story
- Cinema Paradiso
- Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and Key Largo
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The Palm Beach Story (my favorite Preston Sturges)
- Jamón jamón
- Talk to Her and Volver (my favorite Almodóvar)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point, and Midnight in Paris (my favorite Woody Allen)
- Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, and The Hateful Eight (my favorite Tarantino)
- Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited (my favorite Wes Anderson)
- Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood
- The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men (my favorite Coen brothers)
- Rear Window and Vertigo
- Burning (my favorite Steven Yuen but if he's in it, then you should probably watch)
- Housemaid
- Petite Maman
- Old Joy and Showing Up (my favorite Kelly Reichardt)
- Places in the Heart
- Paris, Texas, Perfect Days, and the Buena Vista Social Club (my favorite Wim Wenders)
- Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Nomad, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Lessons of Darkness (my favorite Werner Herzog)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (my favorite Ian McKellen but he's always good)
- Lars and The Real Girl (at the same time my favorite Ryan Gosling and my favorite Emily Mortimer?)
- George Washington
- Irma Vep
- On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire
- Solaris and The Sacrifice
- The Celebration
- A Bigger Splash (at the same time my favorite Ralph Fiennes and my favorite Tilda Swinton?)
- My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Ponyo, and Princess Mononoke
- Monster (2023)
- The Endless Summer
- Swiss Family Robinson
- And too many of the James Bond films to be named