Favorite Movies On My Personal List (Including Movies I'd Still Like To See)

 

Dear Krissy

Thanks!

And thanks for your heads up on "One Battle After Another."

I am finding recent cinematography to be so disappointing that I've started encouraging Cynthia to join me in watching (mostly) great movies from the past.

An aside... I have listed many animated features - in part, I'm sure, because I had children and experienced the grandeur of these animations through their "borrowed" eyes.

"How About An Oscar For 'Most Prophetic Film?'" - With A List Of My Favorite Movies (And Favorite Books)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/04/reprise-of-how-about-oscar-for-most.html

Movies I have not seen yet but would like to check out:

Rashomon

The Gleaners and I

Inside Llewyn Davis

Aftersun

Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou

The Florida Project

Little Miss Sunshine

Pan's Labyrinth

12 years a slave

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Before Midnight

The Best of Youth

Best years of our lives

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Call Me By My Name

Anatomy of a Fall

Zodiac

Social Network

Spirited Away

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

No Country For Old Men

Children of Men

The Lighthouse

1. My Personal List Of Favorite Films (in no particular order):
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Se7en (horribly gruesome, but a fine, well-wrought, well-rendered story)
5. Interstellar
6. It's A Wonderful Life
7. The Green Mile
8. The Green Book
9. Captain Fantastic
10. Eastern Dreams
11. The Pianist
12. Casablanca
13. Inglorious Basterds
14. Coco
15. The Dark Knight
16. Dr. Strangelove
17. Das Boot
18. American Beauty
19. Cool Hand Luke
20. Full Metal Jacket
21. Milagro Beanfield War
22. The Hunt
23. To Kill A Mockingbird
24. How to Train Your Dragon

    
    

    Ratatouille
25. The Story of Pi
26. 1917
27. All Quiet On The Western Front (the recent re-make)
28. The Wolf of Wall Street
29. Shutter Island
30. Moneyball
31. Hatchi: A Dog's Tale
32. Downfall
33. Badlands
34. The Tree of Life
35. The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (both versions)
36. Pan's Labyrinth
1. Wind River
2. 
   

Les Miserables (with Tony Perkins)

1. 
   
1. The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (with Bogart)
2. Argo
3. Scrooge (Disney's rendition with Jim Carrey doing all the voices)
4. A Christmas Carol (starring Alistair Sim)
5. Dial M For Murder
6. The Great Escape
7. Gran Torino
8. Grand Canyon
9. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
10. The Third Man
11. On The Waterfront
12. Wizard of Oz
13. L.A. Confidential
14. Shadow of a Doubt
15. Brooklyn
16. Indignation
17. The Hobbit
18. It's A Beautiful Neighborhood
19. Stand by Me
20. Once
21. Lost in Translation
22. The Conspirator
23. Ordinary People
24. The Truman Show
25. In The Heat of The Night
26. Being There
27. Run Lola Run
28. Goodfellas
29. Scarface
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Lives of Others
32. Rashomon
33. Ground Hog Day
34. Pinocchio (Disney's original)
35. Sleeping Beauty
36. Coraline
37. Nemo
38. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
39. The Witches
40. Matilda
41. Up
2. Aladdin
3. 
   

Guillermo del Toro's "Pinochhio" (Fine movie, disappointing ending)

Memoir of a Snail

Enchanted

The Adventures of Tin Tin

Klaus

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

BFG (First 2/3rds better than the last third, but still worthy)

Peter Pan (Disney's version)

The African Queen

Schindler's List

The Bridge (with Tom Hanks)

The 3:12 to Yuma

West Side Story

Goodfellas

My Fair Lady

Mutiny on The Bounty (or, The Bounty?) - starring Mel Gibson not Brando

Wutherinig Heights (with Olivier)

American Graffiti (I worked for a day on this movie)

The Silence of the Lambs

Tootsie

Vertigo

Rear Window

Notorious

North by Northwest

Suspicion

Rope

Back to the Future

Modern Times

1. How To Train Your Dragon
2. August Rush
3. The Secret in Their Eyes

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1. Tangled
2. The Return of The Secaucus Seven
3. 1. Ratatouille
   2. Sing Street
   3. Sling Blade
   4. The 6th Sense  ///  Jacob's Ladder
   5. The Sting
   6. Changing Places
   7. Finding Nemo
   8. The King's Speech
   9. The Queen's Gambit
   10. Saving Private Ryan
   11. Touch of Evil
   12. Andrei Rublev
   13. Sacrifice (by Tarkovsky)
   14. Melancholia (mostly for the last scene)
   15. Being There (more for the concept than the realization)
   16. Laapataa Ladies (2024)
   17. My Fair Lady
   18. Fantastic Mr. Fox
   19. Inglorious Basterd 
   20. Up in the Air
   21. The Tree of Life
   22. Oliver Twist
       
       

1. *****
2. Movies I haven't seen, but which I think I will very much like:
3. Capernaum
4. Double Indemnity
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc
6. The Wrestler
7. Fanny and Alexander
1. Star Trek 2009
2. 
   

The Killing

Lifeboat

1. 
   
1. The Secret In Their Eyes
2. In Your Eyes
3. Ford vs. Ferrari
4. Three Colors: Red
5. Paths of Glory
6. The Great Dictator
7. Network
8. 12 Years A Slave
9. Local Hero
10. Ragin Bull
11. Pather Panjali
12. Whiplash
13. Meet Me In St.  Louis
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Ran
16. Au Hasard Balthazar
17. The Best of Youth (Perhaps Nancy Hardies favorite celuloid)
18. 1. St. Vincent - with Bill Murray
    2. Beauty and the Beast
    3. Mary and Max
    4. Central Station
19. *****

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM tkds wrote:

Thanks Alan.

Wish I was there.  

Love all the posters.  Some of them are really creative.

I went to see One battle after Another.

I have to say I was a little disappointed.   

It sure won't go done as unforgettable.