My Favorite Movies

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The ever changing list of my favourite films. Not really in a particular order.

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1
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 2004,  R)
2
Half Nelson 2006,  R)
3
The Squid and the Whale 2006,  R)
4
Husbands and Wives 1992,  R)
5
Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from a Marriage) 1973,  PG)
6
Nights and Weekends 2008,  Unrated)
7
A Woman Under the Influence 1974,  R)
8
Babel 2006,  R)
9
Magnolia 1999,  R)
10
Ordinary People 1980,  R)
11
Inland Empire 2006,  R)
12
The Insider 1999,  R)
13
The Royal Tenenbaums 2002,  R)
14
JFK 1992,  R)
15
Zodiac 2007,  R)
16
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) 2007,  PG-13)
17
Before Sunrise 1995,  R)
18
The Elephant Man 1980,  PG)
19
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004,  R)
20
Manhattan 1979,  R)
21
Sunshine 2007,  R)
22
Trainspotting 1996,  R)
23
Deconstructing Harry 1997,  R)
24
The Wrestler 2008,  R)
25
Fight Club 1999,  R)
26
A Clockwork Orange 1971,  R)
27
Amores Perros 2000,  R)
28
Blue Velvet 1986,  R)
29
Hard Candy 2005,  R)
30
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986,  PG-13)
31
Natural Born Killers 1994,  R)
32
The Tracey Fragments 2007,  R)
33
Crash 2005,  R)
34
Minority Report 2002,  PG-13)
35
Taxi Driver 1976,  R)
36
21 Grams 2003,  R)
37
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001,  R)
38
The Big Lebowski 1998,  R)
39
Catch Me If You Can 2002,  PG-13)
40
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964,  PG)
41
Lars and the Real Girl 2007,  PG-13)
42
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007,  R)
43
Vertigo 1958,  PG)
44
Stranger Than Fiction 2006,  PG-13)
45
The Prestige 2006,  PG-13)
46
Down in the Valley 2005,  R)
47
Thumbsucker 2005,  R)
48
Before Sunset 2004,  R)
49
Waking Life 2001,  R)
50
Adaptation 2002,  R)
51
Sideways 2004,  R)
52
About Schmidt 2002,  R)
53
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993,  PG-13)
54
Gandhi 1982,  PG)
55
Jackie Brown 1997,  R)
56
The Shawshank Redemption 1994,  R)
57
The Manchurian Candidate 1962,  PG-13)
58
Love Liza 2002,  R)
59
Million Dollar Baby 2004,  PG-13)
60
Harvey 1950,  Unrated)
61
It's a Wonderful Life 1946,  G)
62
Bowling for Columbine 2002,  R)
63
Donnie Darko 2001,  R)
64
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) 2003,  PG-13)
65
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975,  R)
66
Traffic 2000,  R)
67
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) 2000,  PG)
68
Do the Right Thing 1989,  R)
69
Naked Lunch 1991,  R)
70
Brand Upon the Brain! 2006,  Unrated)
71
Dancer in the Dark 2000,  R)
72
Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu) 1993,  R)
73
Four Eyed Monsters 2005,  Unrated)
74
Chungking Express 1994,  PG-13)
75
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) 1948,  Unrated)
76
Adventureland 2009,  R)
77
Full Frontal 2002,  R)
78
Hable con Ella (Talk to Her) 2002,  R)
79
Angst Essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) 1974,  Unrated)
80
Once 2007,  R)
81
Funny Ha Ha 2003,  Unrated)
82
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco 2002,  Unrated)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco
I won't deny that I'm extremely biased when it comes to be critiquing this film. Wilco is and has been my favourite group of musicians for a while now, and the album whose creation is documented in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart I regard as one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded. But as objective as I can be, I still believe this is the greatest music film I've ever seen. Sam Jones is seemingly allowed into the Wilco world with very little restriction, making for such a candid and intimate experience, the filmmakers have to do very little to provide insight into the most inner workings of the band in every sense possible. Sam Jones cuts the interview footage beautifully, providing enough information to get a general idea of what's going on, but without bogging us down in senseless details and losing the romantic qualities of the music and performance. Which is what really sells this movie. Always known for putting on extremely energetic live shows, on film Tweedy & Co don't disappoint either. Blasting clean cut versions of familiar favourites, or rusty gems from God knows where. It's all perfectly caught too, the sound quality is absolutely impeccable in every scenario. This is also a rough, but gorgeously shot black and white picture as well, and director Sam Jones' early career experience as a photographer is very evident and well utilized. The only downside to this movie, is that I wanted it to go on for another two hours after it was done. Even if you're not a fan of the band, check I Am Trying to Break Your Heart out, I guarantee that you will be after you see this film.
83
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991,  R)
84
The Girlfriend Experience 2009,  R)
85
Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero) 1947,  Unrated)
86
Buffalo 66 1998,  R)
87
Humpday 2009,  R)
88
The Ghost Writer 2010,  PG-13)
89
George Washington 2000,  Unrated)
90
Synecdoche, New York 2008,  R)
91
Secrets & Lies 1996,  R)
92
Play It Again, Sam 1972,  PG)
93
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008,  Unrated)
94
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tue ma mere) 2009,  Unrated)
95
Waltz with Bashir 2008,  R)
Waltz with Bashir
A harrowing cinematic experience that will take your breath away in the first five minutes, and leave you chilled in it's final frames. Waltz with Bashir makes brilliant use of it's animation style to paint us a portrait of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and while it is ineffective at being very informative the film stands as a very important piece if only to enlighten a North American audience to an alien conflict. Unlike Pixar's glossy images, the vividly stylized but imperfect look of Waltz with Bashir feels like an appropriately chosen language to tell the story in, rather than a aesthetic choice. It's the dreamy colourizations and impressive three dimensional artwork and camera movements inside it that express the director's feelings as he reflects on his personal experience in the war, and they are cinematic techniques that feel just as powerful as any of the conventional live-action ones we are more familiar with. The screenplay smartly brushes the surface of a number of important historical aspects, but never gets bogged down in details that might distract the audience from the overall emotional impression that the filmmakers are hoping for. And while the movie struggles to climax properly, and some of the pseu-documentary style interviews feel too slow, the film is not very largely effected by either of these problems.
96
The Verdict 1982,  R)
97
12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) 1957,  Unrated)
98
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969,  PG)
99
The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) 1928,  Unrated)
100
Venus 2006,  R)
101
Like Crazy 2011,  PG-13)
102
The Kid with a Bike 2011,  PG-13)
103
You Can't Take It with You 1938,  Unrated)
104
Kes 1969,  PG)
105
Blue Valentine 2010,  R)
106
High Hopes 1989,  PG)

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