My Favorite Movies

COMPLETELY brilliant... no opportunity is lost, no moment is wasted. The performances are fantastic, too.

Poster doesn't do it justice... an intimate tale of love old and new with beautiful life lessons. And hilarious!

Dialogue so fast and lines so witty/bitchy it DEMANDS repeated viewings... I've seen in over 80 times for sure!

Everything about a word, from origins to its use in movies and political discourse. Fascinating, engaging, naughty, and hilarious.

An important and personal document with 8 of the 10 known survivors.

Hit me on a very deep level, having been a kid in the Arts who wanted validation. A bright fable with fabulous music and choreography.

Sharp and sparkling.

Fantastic, dark satiric farce, filled with great lines and horrific yet comic moments.

There are really so many levels to this that I am consistently shocked it doesn't get more attention. It shows the underbelly of the 50s in surprising symbolic ways: racism, censorship, sexuality, sexism. And then, there are great performances, too.

Startling, aching beauty and incredible invention keep this a fairy tale on the edge.

No one before or since has made the magic and symbols Cocteau created in this film.

Faithful to the book while being its own marvelous thing. All this and HB Carter as Edwina CigaretteHands! Pity my fave line was cut from the movie, but you can't have everything...

Social commentary or wacky culture clash? Why ask why?

I was so Duckie when I first saw this... still am. Still love the overdressed kids, the delicious Annie Potts, and all the soundtrack of my youth.

So many great bits, perfectly executed! The Marxes are at their best when piercing social strata and this does it!

I love this movie... the Marx Brothers at their most surreal with inexplicable costume changes and all!

A sparkling film debut filled with all the chutzpah of youth and all the certainty of experience.

Reynolds is bleeding in her shoes while she tries to keep up with the dancing -- but it never shows in one of the best movies about movies ever -- classic songs, classic numbers that have never been bested!

Mesmerizing, claustrophobic, and unique in the world of cinema -- who could want more?

Don't let the pace fool you -- there is ALWAYS something going on with the characters. Joan Plowright was robbed of the Oscar.

Terrific adaptation, fabulous choreography, eclectic cast, sexy music!

It's horrible! And twice as much because it all happens twice! Kitschy, though, and I love it!

Dear dead Spuddy Gray makes absolute sense of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars without ever standing up. Successfully captures the thrill of seeing him perform!

One of the rare times when the film outdoes the book -- and a documentary at that! Well worth repeated viewings.

Magic realism is such a natural for film and this walks that line between comedy and drama perfectly!

The power of books, of letters, of human connection... and all so intimately and lovingly presented. Only a tad stage-bound, but so is the story overall.

Preminger wanted to take on both Washington and Hollywood -- the first for its politics and the latter for its outdated code. We are the winners with this dark and all too real film... and what a cast! Significant also for the 1st depiction of an unequivocally gay bar in a film (albeit an odd and sinister one)

Honestly funny and treats the audience with some intelligence. Delightful farce, gentle drama, and standout roles.

Quite possibly the best screwball comedy ever made.

Solidly funny, and charming, and wacky, and everything one wants in a screwball -- and the first really big screwball, when comedy was still highly respected.

Brilliant and true to the spirit of the novel... let alone that it shows a real love of cartoons and what they can be. Hoskins deserved every award for this.

Sure, it's slower than movies today, but it cares about telling its story. I love this movie!

As it goes on,this movie becomes more and more a Joe Orton story... appropriately! Tender and tragic, it is a tale well told... and Molina is fantastic!

Brilliantly dark look at Vietnam through the lens of WWI music hall. Dripping with restrained irony, this is all too often overlooked today. Due for a revival.

Okay, it's awful in many ways, but Sam Jones? Hubba, hubba! It's fun -- and the soundtrack by Queen! Ritz O'Brien, Max von Sydow!! Topol!!! I actually saw this in a cinema when it first came out and I still cannot get enough! NOT THE BORE WORMS!!!

Re-invents the movie musical. If the performances were not so restrained, it could be a soap opera, but they are spot on! Winsome and delightful!

Lots of fun and lots of stars (Treat Williams, F Murray Abraham, Rita Moreno, Kaye Ballard) in a farce of modest proportions... it could almost be Bette Midler's early career meets the Mob, but somewhere along the line, the director loses the thread. Thank goodness the actors never do.