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My Top 25 Favorite Movies

This is not a “Top 25 Best Movies of All Time” list. These are just my favorites.

  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)

And the rest by year of release:

  • The Thin Man (1934)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
  • 2001 (1968)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Tron (1982)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  • LA Story (1991)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  • Ed Wood (1994)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Fifth Element (1997)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Honorable Mentions

  • Little Caesar (1931)
  • The Public Enemy (1931)
  • Grand Hotel (1932)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  • My Man Godfrey (1936)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • The Blue Dahlia (1946)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • THX 1138 (1971)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Abyss (1989)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
  • William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet (1996)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Ray Bradbury and Sunsweet Pitted Prunes

Thanks to Jacket Copy for pointing to this video in their “Happy birthday Ray Bradbury!” post yesterday.

Amazing to think of an SF author doing a TV commercial. I guess the contemporary equivalent might be Stephen King doing one, although he did do American Express in the 80s:

Near to it might be this awesome M. Night Shyamalan AmEx ad from a few years ago:

Which reminds me to link to the funny Wes Anderson version:

Wes Anderson with Charlie Rose

From 10/26/2007, “A conversation with director Wes Anderson about his film The Darjeeling Limited.”

From 12/15/2004, “A conversation with filmmaker Wes Anderson about his film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, starring Bill Murray and Angelica Huston.”

From 1/29/1999, “A conversation with filmmaker Wes Anderson about directing Rushmore, which stars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman as a depressed businessman and an over-zealous student.”

Top 10 Movie Soundtrack Albums

Ten arbitrary and somewhat random favorites (click to view at Amazon):

  • Tron
  • Trainspotting and Trainspotting #2
  • Blade Runner
  • Passion: The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Romeo+Juliet
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • The Terminator
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Run Lola Run
  • Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (no album ever released, but an awesome set of songs).
  2. Twin Peaks (Angelo Badalamenti, TV).
  3. Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, and IV.