Top Movie Picks

I suppose any list of favorites is an evolving thing (I just added recent films by Schabel and Harris), but here are the movies that have especially appealed to me over the years, and that I can watch repeatedly with pleasure:

My Favorite Movies

(in alphabetical order)

The Top Twenty
Groundhog Day
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Jeremiah Johnson
Nothing in Common
Out of Africa
Patton
Quigley Down Under
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Red Sun
Silverado
The Big Country
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Great Escape
The Hustler
The Man Who Would Be King
The Princess Bride
The Sting
The Verdict
Will Penny

Really Dig These
Appaloosa
Heaven Can Wait
Indian Summer
Man on Wire
Marathon Man
Master and Commander
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Open Range
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Sneakers
The Cowboys
The Day of the Jackal
The Hot Rock
The Incredibles
The Last of the Mohicans
The Seven-Ups

Highly Recommended
Away We Go
Brazil
Days of Wine and Roses
Duel
Fitzcarraldo
Gorky Park
Harry and Tonto
Hell in the Pacific
Man in the Wilderness
My Dinner with Andre
Ruby In Paradise
Spirited Away
The Conversation
The Mambo Kings
The Yakuza

Other Favorites
A Clockwork Orange
Always
Amadeus
American Flyers
Back to the Future (I, II, III)
Ben-Hur
Blazing Saddles
Breaking Away
Braveheart
Brubaker
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Castaway
Clear and Present Danger
Collateral
Dances with Wolves
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Doctor Zhivago
Fantasia
Five-Man Army
Forbidden Planet
Glengarry Glen Ross
Going in Style
Hombre
M*A*S*H
Mask
Monsters, Inc.
North by Northwest
One-Eyed Jacks
Play Misty for Me
Prizzi’s Honor
Rollerball
Romeo and Juliet
Saving Private Ryan
Shane
Silver Streak
Sleuth
Spartacus
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Swashbuckler
Terminator (I, II)
The Abyss
The Bridges of Madison County
The Enforcer
The French Connection
The Fugitive
The Godfather (I, II)
The Great Race
The Great Santini
The Grifters
The Last Detail
The Late Show
The Long Riders
The Missing
The Out Of Towners
The Pale Rider
The Player
The Razor’s Edge
The Rounders
The Sixth Sense
The Sound of Music
The Train
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie
Touch of Evil
Toy Story (I, II)
True Grit
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Unforgiven
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