Thursday, May 12, 2005

Here is a list of my all-time favourite movies, not in any particular order and subject to change:

  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Heathers
  • Better Off Dead
  • Barton Fink
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Ghandi
  • All the President's Men
  • Arlington Road
  • La Strada
  • Slacker
  • Waking Life
  • Casablanca
  • The Big Sleep
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Midnight Madness (don't ask)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman
  • Diary of a Mad Housewife
  • Eraserhead
  • Lolita
  • 2001
  • The Shining (original, not TV version)
  • Labyrinth
  • When the Sky Falls (better than Veronica Guerin, I thought)
  • The General
  • American Beauty (for Annette Benning's performance, mostly)
  • Judgement at Nuremberg
  • The Castle (1960s adaptation of Kafka's book, starring Maximillian Schell)
  • The Odessa File
  • The Manchurian Candidate (the original)
  • The Train
  • Seconds
  • Heavenly Creatures
  • Rushmore
  • The House of Yes
  • Harold and Maude
  • The Last Unicorn
  • The Hobbit (animated)
  • Ghost World
  • Hideous Kinky
  • Jude (adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, with Kate Winslet)
  • Remains of the Day
  • Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas in a pink chenille bathrobe cracks me up)
  • Brazil
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Time Bandits
  • Kafka (made in Steven Soderbergh's pre-sellout days, i.e. before Erin Brokovich)
  • Taxi Driver
  • Fight Club
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Husbands and Wives
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Deconstructing Harry
  • Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces
  • Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
  • anything in which people get lost in and/or try to live in the jungle and end up going nuts (The Mosquito Coast, Gorillas in the Mist, The Blue Lagoon, etc.)
  • Contact (I love how she gets so excited about the signals)
  • The Point (funky '70s cartoon, looks kinda like Schoolhouse Rock)
  • Hairspray (also one of Demi's favourites)
  • Pecker
  • 9 to 5 (weirdly, I've liked this one since I was a little kid)
  • Shallow Hal (another Demi favourite)
  • High Fidelity
  • The Designated Mourner (still don't have a copy)
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • A Wedding (don't think it's on DVD yet, dangit)
  • Twice Upon a Time (animated)
  • Gothic Westerns like Unforgiven, Purgatory, The Jack Bull, The Missing

Ok, that's enough for now. I could go on and on. But I'd rather go watch Taxi Driver and have an Ovaltine.

5 comments:

Wandering Coyote said...

I think we have more movie favourites in common than book favourites. I see you like the Coens and Kubrick. Would you believe I took a Kubrick course back in uni? Can we say, "depressing?" I have Veronica Guerin on DVD but haven't watched it all yet. I'll bring it to BC with me. Hideous Kinky has been on my list for a while but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I loved Harold & Maude, Rushmore, and Heavenly Creatures. And Jude the Obscure I thought was absolutely fantastic, but I can't stand reading Hardy at all.

tshsmom said...

What about Grease? and godawful Howard's End which ran for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours on OUR TV and thankfully moved out with you!!!

Wandering Coyote said...

Would you believe I've never seen Grease? Howard's End wasn't that bad...

S.M. Elliott said...

I can't really say Howard's End is a favourite. I like Merchant & Ivory but they usually don't sneak into the favourites. Howard's End is close, though, heehee.

tshsmom said...

I KNEW it!! You only played that movie to annoy me!