My 100 favorite movies · 4:23pm Oct 26th, 2017
The time comes when every man should ask himself in this life. What do I want to study? To be? Which are my ambitions? My purpose? My ideal job? My objectives? Who do I want to spend my whole life with? There are stages in which we must define our style, personality, passions, tastes, preferences and choose our place in this world. How do I want to be remembered? There are periods that one must ask and reflect. Do I know myself? Am I a family man? Healthy? Free? Humanist? Spiritual? Have I done things right? What have I done wrong? What do I have to do? Is this really the life I want to live? Do I really enjoy all my moments? And finally there is that moment not less important and key in our experiential journey in which we question:
Which are my 100 favorite movies?
For me that moment has reached now. After years and years of knowing myself as a film lover and being a regular collector from Beta and VHS format to DVD and Blu ray, I'm clear that Disney was the starting point; that Stanley Kubrick is my movie God and A Clockwork Orange my favorite movie of his; that my sister influenced me in terror, sci-fi and fantasy, that my parents in the thriller and the epic drama, that Cinescopia is an artistic and cultural source that structured and balanced, between commercial and independent, between blockbuster and "art cinema", between American and European, my frame of reference, that I love Emma Stone and that I defend Adam Sandler more than I should. But I've never thought about the question... Of my entire collection, which are the 100 titles that I like the most? Attention! NOT what I consider to be the best. No analysis! Unobtrusively! No criticism of it! Just my taste on a date, let's say "something" special for your server and where I want to fulfill a whim.
This list will consider everything: from live-action to animated, from timeless classics to foreign films, from cult classics to guilty pleasures, so beware. Also, keep in mind this list is not definitive and it's open to changes.
Remember: This is not a list about the 100 best movies of all time (because that would be the most stupid list of all time), this is a list that has to be different in each person because it speaks of ourselves (and that's what is important) . These are all the expressions that make me feel the cinema, about how this form of entertainment has become such an important part of my life. This is a love letter to the past, present and future of one of the most divine things I've ever known in my life, a form of entertainment that perhaps is an art, perhaps it's something more for humanity than simple entertainment.
Only in alphabetical order, thank you for all your support today and always! (I invite my fellow authors and all of you to do this exercise)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
50 First Dates (Peter Segal, 2004)
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
1984 (Michael Radford, 1984)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, 1951)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
August Rush (Kristen Sheridan, 2007)
Bambi (David Hand, 1942)
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2002)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Click (Frank Coraci, 2006)
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke, 2004)
Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Fantasia (James Algar, 1940)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
Free Willy (Simon Wincer, 1993)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014)
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Lasse Hallström, 2009)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, 2008)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, 2002)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, 2005)
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, 2009)
Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Millions (Danny Boyle, 2005)
Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Peanuts (Steve Martino, 2015)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinsky, 2003)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, 2007)
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004)
Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1991)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
The Lion King (Roger Allers and Bob Minkoff, 1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
The Matrix (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 1999)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012)
The Road to El Dorado (Don Paul and Eric "Bibo" Bergeron, 2000)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
The Student (Roberto Girault, 2009)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle, 2017)
Treasure Planet (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2002)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014)
Wreck-it Ralph (Rich Moore, 2012)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
*Sees title*
Me: Oh boy, this is gonna be a long read! XD
I would write down a list of my top 100 favorite movies, but it irritates me that I can't remember all of them...:'/
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That's the best part. You can have all the time in the world to do your own list. I didn't do this since day 1. I started it in 2011 and, even though I said it's complete, it's open to changes.
Thanks for commenting!
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True! I DO have time to make it! Thanks for reminding me, and your welcome for commenting! :D