A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.”
So! My list is after the jump.
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
Barry Lyndon
Charade
Deconstructing Harry
Eyes Wide Shut
Forty Second Street
Ghostbusters
Happy Together
I Walked With a Zombie
Joe vs. the Volcano
Killers, The (1946)
Long Goodbye, The
Morocco
North By Northwest
On The Town
Purple Rain
Querelle
Rules of the Game, The
Star is Born, A (1954)
They All Laughed
Une Femme est une Femme
Vivre Sa Vie
When A Woman Ascends the Stairs
Xanadu
Yolanda and the Thief
Zabriskie Point
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