My Fav Films
In the following list, the films I repeatedly rank among my favourites are in bold. I have separated out documentaries.
If I have any unique interests in film, they would be film noir and Shakespeare, so I have listed my favourites in each of these. (I know they seem almost opposites, but there you go!)
Films
Accidental Tourist, The
As Good as It Gets
Blood Diamond
Bourne Identity, The
Casablanca
Conspiracy Theory
Diamond Men
Iris—Richard Eyre, 2001
L. A. Confidential
Melvin and Howard—Jonathan Demme, 1980
Much Ado About Nothing—Kenneth Branaugh, 1993
Muriel’s Wedding
Nobody’s Fool—Robert Benton, 1994
Out of the Past—Jacques Tourneur, 1947
Painted Veil, The—John L. Curran, 2006
Shawshank Redemption, The
Spygame
Station Agent, The, 2003
Firm, The —Sydney Pollack, 1993
Princess Bride, The
You Can Count On Me—Kenneth Lonergan, 2000
12th Monkey
Aliens, I, II, III
Arlington Road
Black Book
China Moon
Chocolat
Conversation, The
Cool Hand Luke
Crying Game, The
Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Dirty Pretty Things
Dr. Zhivago
Enemy at the Gates
English Patient, The
Exotica
Field of Dreams
Finding Nemo
Foyle’s War (series)
Fugitive, The
Ghandhi
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
Hotel Rwanda
House of Mirth
Jagged Edge--Richard Marguard
Liberty Heights
Lost in Translation
Madness of King George, The
Matchstick Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Memento
Midnight Cowboy
Mildred Pierce
Perfect World
Pianist, The—Roman Polonski
Pledge, The
Prestige, The—Christopher Nolan
Rob Roy
Romeo + Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Ryan’s Daughter
Scandal
Scarlet Street—Fritz Lang, 1945
Schindler’s List
Shakespeare in Love
Shine—Scott Hicks, 1997
Sixth Sense, The
Snapper, The
Strictly Ballroom
Sunshine State, The
The Commitments
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Girl with the Pearl Earring
The Great Escape
The Killers
The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Usual Suspects
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie--Sydney Pollack
True Lies
Two Family House
Ulee’s Gold
Up Series
Unstrung Heroes
Vanishing Point
Washington Square
Year of Living Dangerously, The
Zodiac
Documentaries
51 Birch Street
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room—Alex Gibney, 2005
Hoop Dreams
MicroCosmos, 1996
Sharkwater—Rob Stewart, 2007
The Take—Avi Lewis, 2004
Thin Blue Line, The
Who Killed the Electric Car?
An Inconvenient Truth
Anytown, USA
Devil Plays Hardball, 2008
The Story of the Weeping Camel (semi-documentary)
The Weather Underground
Wordplay, 2006
Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing—Kenneth Branaugh, 1993 (my fav Shakespeare)
Love’s Labours Lost,--Kenneth Branaugh, 2000
Merchant of Venice, The—Michael Radford, 2004
Othello, 1995
Richard III, 1995