My Favorite Movies
Listings are alphabetical within each section.
Favorite movie of the year: TBA |
Favorite movie of the year: Lars and the Real Girl Branded Upon the Brain! (live narration by Karen Black) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) |
Favorite movie of the year: Children of Men Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) |
Favorite movie of the year: Capote The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Kung Fu Hustle (Gong fu) |
Favorite movie of the year: Sideways |
Favorite movie of the year: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World My Life on Ice (Ma vraie vie à Rouen) |
Favorite movie of the year: Straight The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) |
Favorite movie of the year: Big Eden His Secret Life (Le Fate Ignoranti) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Together (Tillsammans) |
Favorite movie of the year: You Can Count on Me |
Favorite Movies of the 1990s
Plans Go Awry90 Goodfellas 92 Unforgiven 96 Fargo |
Self-Referential91 35 Up 92 The Player 94 Pulp Fiction 94 Ed Wood |
Family93 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 93 Shadowlands 94 Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu) 95 Les Miserables (Les Miserables du Vingtième Siècle) 96 Lone Star 98 Central Station (Central do Brasil) |
Competitions93 Searching for Bobby Fischer 94 Hoop Dreams 94 Quiz Show 95 Babe 99 Election |
Heroics97 Amistad 99 Galaxy Quest 99 The Matrix |
Happily Ever After (or not)95 Persuasion 95 Clueless |
Favorite Movies of the 1980s
Dark, Dark, Dark83 El Norte 87 The Dead |
Light, Light, Light |
Big Hollywood86 Aliens 88 Die Hard |
Being Someone Else80 The Shining 82 Tootsie 87 No Way Out 88 Big |
True, More or Less80 Raging Bull 85 28 Up 89 Henry V |
New Noir81 Body Heat 84 Blood Simple 86 Blue Velvet |
They're All out to Get You85 Brazil |
Second Chances81 The Grey Fox 83 Local Hero 88 Bull Durham |
Favorite Movies of the 1970s
Couples73 The Sting 77 Annie Hall 79 Manhattan 79 Being There |
Families74 Chinatown 79 Best Boy |
Leaving Home75 Barry Lyndon 75 Nashville 77 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 78 Animal House |
Transformations70 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 73 O Lucky Man! 73 SSSSSSS 79 The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) |
Taking on the Bad Guys70 Patton 75 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 77 Star Wars 78 Superman |
...And Then There Were None71 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 72 Frenzy 73 Badlands 75 Jaws 79 Alien |
Favorite Movies of the 1960s
Strong Women62 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 64 Mary Poppins 65 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 68 Barbarella |
Men with Relationship Issues60 Psycho 61 The Hustler 63 Hud 67 Bedazzled 67 The Graduate |
Messiahs and Martyrs60 Elmer Gantry |
Self-Alienation62 The Brain That Wouldn't Die 62 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 66 Seconds |
Captured62 Eegah 68 Oliver! |
High Stakes63 The Birds 64 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
Favorite Movies of the 1950s
Masquerade |
Male View of Women's Self-Identities50 Sunset Blvd. 55 Picnic 56 The Bad Seed |
Searching54 Rear Window 59 Ben-Hur 59 The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) |
Queer Sensibility59 Pillow Talk |
Amazing Abilities53 Houdini |
Hard to Kill52 High Noon 53 Shane |
Favorite Movies of the 1940s
Kept Women41 Citizen Kane 46 Beauty and the Beast (La belle et la bête) 46 Notorious 49 Caught 49 The Heiress |
Tough Mothers |
War is Hell42 Casablanca 42 Mrs. Miniver |
Life Among the Lowly48 Oliver Twist |
Big Ambitions41 The Lady Eve |
Cary, Kate, and Jimmy49 Adam's Rib |
Favorite Movies of the 1930s
It's Tough to Be a Kid31 M 36 Sabotage 38 Tell Your Children (aka Reefer Madness) |
Sophisticated Relationships33 Duck Soup 38 Holiday |
Playing a Role31 City Lights 32 Freaks 33 42nd Street 38 Pygmalion |
Pursuit35 The 39 Steps 36 Modern Times 37 Stage Door 38 The Adventures of Robin Hood 39 Stagecoach |