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 Thing and They Live
• 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)
• 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
• 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