the A list
Here’s an incomplete list of my favorite films, in alphabetical order. Some titles I list because I consider them trailblazing masterworks of art. Others I include simply because they entertain me or make me laugh.
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups)
All the President’s Men
Almost Famous (Untitled)
American History X
American Movie
American Psycho
Angels With Dirty Faces
Annie Hall
Army of Darkness
Back to the Future
Band of Brothers (miniseries)
Baraka
The Big Lebowski
Bladerunner
Bottle Rocket
The Bourne Identity
Braveheart
Brazil
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cassablanca
A Christmas Story
Citizen Kane
Collateral
Cool Hand Luke
The Decalogue (series)
The Departed
Donnie Brasco
Dr. Strangelove
Dumb and Dumber
Ed Wood
E.T.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Fog of War
Forgotten Silver
The French Connection
Gattica
The General (1927)
Ghost in the Shell
Gimme Shelter
Goodfellas
Good Will Hunting
The Grapes of Wrath
Groundhog Day
Hard Eight (Sydney)
Hate (La Haine)
Heat
Hell’s Angels (1930)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
High Fidelity
Hoop Dreams
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Jerk
In America
In the Name of the Father
Jaws
The Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Liar Liar
Life is Beautiful (La Vita è bella)
Long Way Round (miniseries)
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
M (1931)
Magnolia
Memento
Miller’s Crossing
Millions
The Mission
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Napoleon Dynamite
The Neverending Story
No Country For Old Men
No Man’s Land
North By Northwest
O Brother Where Art Thou
Office Space
The Quiet Man
The Pink Panther
The Princess Bride
Punch Drunk Love
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Return to Paradise
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Schindler’s List
The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet)
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
Sideways
Signs
The Sixth Sense
Sling Blade
Stand By Me
Stevie
Star Wars: A New Hope
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
There Will Be Blood
This Is Spinal Tap
Three Days of the Condor
Touch of Evil
Traffic
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)
White Heat
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)
