MY TOP 12 FAVORITE MOVIES
1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Verdict
4. The Godfather Part II
5. All The President’s Men
6. Rear Window
7. Die Hard
8. Dial M For Murder
9. The Dirty Dozen
10.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
11.
12 Angry Men
12.
The Sound Of Music
EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD MOVIES THAT STILL NEED TO BE
RANKED (in no particular order.)
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Back to the Future
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Victor Victoria
The Time Machine (1960…first and best!)
The Odessa File
Chaplin
Michael Clayton
The Fugitive
Heaven Can Wait
The Untouchables
Apollo 13
Dave
Hunt For Red October
Cinderella Man
The Longest Day
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Wait Until Dark
Silence of the Lambs
In The Bedroom
Escape From Alcatraz
Frequency
The Untouchables
Where Eagles Dare
The Pianist
Sea Biscuit
Driving Ms. Daisy
The Green Mile
Inglourious Basterds
Scarface
Quiz Show
Fargo
The China Syndrome
The King's Speech
Working Girl
As Good As It Gets
The Insider
Trading Places
A Fish Called Wanda
Willow
Tootsie
48 Hours
Nuts
Robocop
Capricorn One
Dinner Rush
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Three Days of The Condor
Philadelphia
Rudy
The 4th Protocol
Witness
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Bourne Identity
Changing Lanes
Cry Freedom
The Sixth Sense
When Harry Met Sally
Reversal Of Fortune
23 Paces to Baker Street
Catch Me If You Can
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
Miracle
Breakdown
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
Hoosiers
Misery
Time After Time
Arthur
No Way Out
Titanic
Blue Thunder
The Queen
NEVER SEEN BUT WANNA SEE (* means priority)
Now You See Me
Double Indemnity
Charley Varrick (same director of Escape From Alcatraz)
State of Play
The Third Man (Michael Caine’s fave)
The Imitation Game (2014)*
The Last King of Scotland
The Adventures of Tintin
Donnie Darko
Princess Bride*
Cloud Atlas
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Big Short*
MOVIES I LOVE, (but should never, ever, EVER be considered classics!)
F/X
Disclosure
Let It Ride
The Secret of My Success
Music & Lyrics
FAVORITE DIRECTORS (must love at least two of their movies)
Platinum
Ron Howard
Gold
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Silver
Sydney Pollack
Rob Reiner
Sidney Lumet
John McTiernan
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Redford (includes Producer* of All The Presidents Men)
Brian De Palma
Francis Ford Coppola
Tony Gilroy
Alan J. Pakula
Johnathan Demme
Guy Hamilton
David Fincher
Frank Darabont
James Cameron
David Anspaugh
Richard Donner
------------------------*Redford qualifies because, even though Pakula was the director of “All
The President’s Men”, Redford was the inspiration and the major guts
of the movie. He probably directed more of it then Pakula! He even
recruited Dustin Hoffman for the role of Bernstein (at a Knicks game!)
The other movie he directed that I love of his is “Quiz Show.”
(IMDB’s top 23 directors, in case you’re interested… http://goo.gl/zSZbyd)
FAVORITE OSCAR MOMENTS
2003: Adrien Brody (The Pianist). This would have been under the
“favorite speeches” section except it was embarrassingly long.
However, when he first accepts the award, he takes the Oscar and then
makes out with Halle Berry in front of the whole audience!
1974: While David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor to present
the award for Best Picture, a streaker ran on and then off stage and
Niven, not flummoxed at all, said one of the funniest things you’ll ever
hear a non-comedian say…so perfectly timed too!
FAVORITE ACTRESSES
Julia Roberts
Julie Andrews
Angelina Jolie
Sandra Bullock
Sigourney Weaver
Helen Mirren
Sally Field
Audrey Hepburn
Meryl Streep
Terri Garr
Glenn Close
Jamie Lee Curtis
Kathy Bates
Helena Bonham Carter (special mention)
FAVORITE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER SPEECHES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eZliygf7QI (Michael Douglas for
Wall Street)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKLxWrRVMg* (Jessica Lange
for Tootsie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Scvtm0MwE (Kevin Kline for A
Fish Called Wanda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSgvp0l1n2s (Lawrence Olivier
Lifetime Achievement)
*Robert Mitchum (along with Sigourney Weaver) was one of Lange’s
presenters for Best Actress (Tootsie.) In 1962 Mitchum starred in Cape
Fear which Lange also starred in…but in the remake almost 30 years
later.
AFI AWARD SPEECHES
Mike Nichols
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6AF7D503CE3422BA
Not on list…Robin Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSpgdzNd0qs
Meryl Streep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MohSw7xE&index=7&list=PL8736AF2F8DB18F20
ACADEMY AWARDS
Best of 2015 Academy Awards
Lady GaGa pays tribute to Julie Andrews and The Sound Of Music at the 2015
Academy Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqYmSf6tiE
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXS1cpSwwbQ
Best opening of an Academy Awards ever!:
https://youtu.be/HUmX6CiMoFk
TRIVIA (a few of the movies above, that need to be ranked, will have a separate link to one
IMDB trivia item about it that I love. Surprisingly, only a few are good enough for this list…)
Working Girl
Minority Report
Recent films need to see:
Whiplash
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
The Wolf of Wall Street
Little Children
Spotlight
The Judge
The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Recent films need to collect:
Nightcrawler
The Gift
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