My Favorite Films

This has nothing to do with music. This is also, like my music lists, not a list of the greatest films of all time, just a list of the movies that I have enjoyed watching most and would definitely watch again (in alphabetical order). So yeah no Ozu, no Welles, no Hitchcock, no Lynch. Although I have seen many films by these directors none sticks out to me as personally changing my life or the way I watch film even though Citizen Kane is certainly an objective masterpiece and everyone should see it. Also, it's not super original... get over it?

8 1/2 Fredrico Fellini (1963)

Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola (1979)

Babette's Feast Gabriel Axel (1988)

I cry like a child every time I watch this movie.












The Big Lebowski Joel & Ethan Coen (1998)

Children of Heaven Majid Majidi (1999)

Close Up Abbas Kiarostami (1990)

Crimes & Misdemeanors Woody Allen (1989)

The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson (2014)

This film carries an emotional weight only hinted at in earlier Anderson films, but Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore are also great.











Ikiru Akira Kurosawa (1952)

Lil' Quinquin Bruno Dumont (2014)

Persona Ingmar Bergman (1966)

Rashomon Akira Kurosawa (1951)

A second Kurosawa choice.












The Shining Stanley Kubrick (1980)

Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice (1972)

The Sting George Roy Hill (1973)

I watched this again recently and was fooled again!












Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese (1976)

Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman (1957)

A second Bergman choice.












Wings of Desire Wim Wenders (1987)