NelsoN’s Top
10 List
(In alphabetical
order)
This list is not what you
expected because . . .
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My top movies are my top movies
because they are woven into my life. I
have shaped their meaning, they’ve
shaped me. To you, my list is a curiosity,
but your list is what’s important.
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Besides, great films don’t always just give
us the cathartic release that we expect,
but it’s through the viewing process that
we discover what we truly need. What
we seek is not really what we need to find.
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So here you go. Maybe some of these will
make it in your top 10. I hope you enjoy!
So here you go
These lists are individualized for your . . .
 further learning
 further enrichment
 further (dare I say it) enjoyment
Sydney’s 10
Alphaville (Godard)
Good Night and Good Luck (Clooney)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Fried Green Tomatoes (Avnet)
Smoke Signals (Eyre)
The Piano (Campion)
The Hours (Daldry)
Killing Me Softly 3 (Jhally)
Rear Window (Hitch)
Josh’s 10
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Waiting for Guffman (Guest)
Plan 9 From Outer Space
(Wood)
Ed Wood (Burton)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Mars Attacks (Burton)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
Krull (Yates)
Pi (Aronofsky)
The 39 Steps (Hitch)
What the Bleep Do We Know? (Arntz, Chasse,
Vincente)
Rachel’s 10
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THX 1138 (Lucas)
Alphaville (Godard)
Volver (Almadovar)
Do the Right Thing (Lee)
Memento (Nolan)
Harold and Maude (Ashby)
Volver (2006)
Shall We Dance (Suo)
Election (Payne)
The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
Ben’s 10
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Psycho (Hitchcock). . . the whole thing, Ben
Speed (de Bont)
The Sting (Hill)
The Inside Man (Lee)
Snatch (Ritchie)
The Fugitive (Davis)
Shawshank Redemption
(Darabont)
 The Game (Fincher)
Raise your hand if
you’re shocked Ben’s
 Jaws (Spielberg)
not seen Psycho.
 Hard Boiled (Woo)
Noel’s 10
The French Connection (Friedkin)
Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
Chungking Express (Kar Wai)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Panther Panchali (Ray)
The Grand Illusion
(Renoir)
The Rules of the Game
(Renoir)
My Left Foot (Sheridan)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rear Window (Hitch)
Moritz’s 10
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Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra)
Easy Rider (Hopper)
The Godfather I & II (Coppola)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
JFK (Stone)
Dances With Wolves (Costner)
Smoke Signals (Eyre)
Seabiscuit (Ross)
Why We Fight (Capra)
Modern Times (1936)
Kelsey’s 10
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8 ½ (Fellini)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Blow up (Antonioni)
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (Gondry)
I’m Not There (Haynes)
Memento (Nolan)
Good Night and Good Luck
(Clooney)
Gimme Shelter (Sayles)
Dig (Timoner)
Trouble With Harry (Hitch)
Emily’s 10
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Life is Beautiful (Begnini)
Il Postino (Radford)
Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
Tres Colours (Kieslowski)
Night on Earth (Jarmusch)
Italian for Beginners (Scherfig)
Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
MASH (Altman)
Grey Gardens (Sayles)
Rebecca (Hitch)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
Liz’s 10
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The Station Agent (McCarthy)
Everything is Illuminated (Schreiber)
Fried Green Tomatoes (Avnet)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
African Queen (Huston)
Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou)
The White Balloon (Panahi)
Persepolis (Paronnaud)
Whale Rider (Caro)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitch)
Everything is Illuminated (2005)
Grant’s 10
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
Jaws (Spielberg)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Schnabel)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Ghandi (Attenborough)
The Insider (Mann)
Roshomon (Kurasawa)
Ghost Dog (Jarmusch)
Once (Carney)
North by Northwest (Hitch)
Rashomon (1950)
Nelson’s Top 10
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Sydney
Josh
Rachel
Ben
Noel
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Moritz
Kelsey
Emily
Liz
Grant
Thank you!