Top Movie Picks
I suppose any list of favorites is an evolving thing (I just added Seconds and The Wind and the Lion), but here are the movies that have especially appealed to me over the years, and that I can watch repeatedly with admiration and pleasure:
My Favorite Movies
(in alphabetical order)
The Top Thirty
Appaloosa
Ben-Hur
Castaway
Crazy Heart
Forbidden Planet
Groundhog Day
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Jeremiah Johnson
Master and Commander
Nothing in Common
Open Range
Out of Africa
Patton
Quigley Down Under
Red Sun
Serenity
Silverado
Sound of Freedom
The Big Country
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Great Escape
The Hustler
The Last of the Mohicans
The Man Who Would Be King
The Princess Bride
The Sting
The Verdict
True Grit (Bridges version)
Will Penny
Really Dig These
American Hustle
Cowboys
Flight
Haywire
Heaven Can Wait
Inception
Indian Summer
Man on Wire
Marathon Man
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Red Dawn (Milius version)
Rob Roy
Rollerball (Caan version)
Ronin
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Silver Linings Playbook
Sneakers
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
The Abyss
The Day of the Jackal
The Homesman
The Hot Rock
The Incredibles
The Next Three Days
The Revenant
The Seven-Ups
The Walk
The Wind and the Lion
Treasure Island (Heston/Bale version)
Wild Target
Zulu
Highly Recommended
Across the Universe
All Is Lost
American Sniper
Away We Go
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Before Midnight
Brazil
Brick
Chinese Coffee
Days of Wine and Roses
Dig
Disconnect
Duel
Eye in the Sky
Gorky Park
Harry and Tonto
Heaven’s Gate
Hell in the Pacific
Inside Out
Korengal
Locke
Man in the Wilderness
Michael Clayton
Monsters, Inc.
Moon
My Dinner with Andre
Prisoners
Prizzi’s Honor
Restrepo
Room
Ruby In Paradise
Seconds
Spirited Away
Sweet Smell of Success
Temple Grandin
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Conversation
The Debt
The Fountain
The Great Santini
The Leopard (Italian version)
The Lives of Others
The Mambo Kings
The Words
The Yakuza
Vincent & Theo
Other Favorites
A Clockwork Orange
Always
Amadeus
American Flyers
A Star Is Born (Cooper Version)
Back to the Future (I, II, III)
Barry Lyndon
Blazing Saddles
Breaking Away
Braveheart
Brubaker
Burn After Reading
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Clear and Present Danger
Collateral
Dances with Wolves
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Doctor Zhivago
Draft Day
Fantasia
Fitzcarraldo
Five-Man Army
Glengarry Glen Ross
Going in Style
Hombre
John Carter
Kill Bill (volumes 1 and 2)
Leap Year
Limitless
M*A*S*H
Mask
North by Northwest
Once Upon a Time in America (uncut)
Once Upon a Time in the West (uncut)
One-Eyed Jacks
Play Misty for Me
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli version)
Rush
Saving Private Ryan
Shane
Silver Streak
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sleuth
Spartacus
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Swashbucklers
Terminator (I, II)
The Big Lebowski
The Bridges of Madison County
The Enforcer
The Face of Love
The French Connection
The Frisco Kid
The Fugitive
The Godfather (I, II)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Seduction
The Great Race
The Grifters
The Last Detail
The Late Show
The Long Riders
The Missing
The Mule
The Out Of Towners
The Pale Rider
The Player
The Professionals
The Razor’s Edge
The Rounders
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Sixth Sense
The Sound of Music
The Train
The Way Way Back
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie
Touch of Evil
Toy Story (I, II, III)
True Grit (Wayne version)
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Unforgiven
Up
Working Girl
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