Selected by Zimmerman Skyrat, 101Bananas.com
There’s a big difference between “Greatest Movies” and “Favorite Movies.” To be considered truly “great,” a film must have either broken new ground in the history of the art of cinema (i.e., done something unique—or done it better than anyone else); had a great and lasting impact, for whatever reason, on the culture or country it was produced in; or been very influential on filmmaking or other directors that came after it. Obviously, a list like this is based on opinion. I’m a yahoo nobody that goes by the fraudulent online avatar name of Zimmerman Skyrat, not Roger Ebert. Just because I think a movie is one of the greatest of all time doesn’t mean it’s one of my favorites. (e.g., Riefenstahl’s ‘Triumph of the Will’ was a seminal achievement in filmmaking, but I’m not a big fan of Adolph Hitler; and yes, ‘The Birth of a Nation’ was openly racist, but you cannot deny its enormous influence on the craft of early filmmaking.) My list, in alphabetical order:
MOVIES:
8 1/2 - [Italian] (Federico Fellini) Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - (Stanley Kubrick) Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
ANNIE HALL - (Woody Allen) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
THE BIRTH OF A NATION - (D.W. Griffith) Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall
BREATHLESS - [French] (Jean-Luc Godard) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
CASABLANCA - (Michael Curtiz) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
CITIZEN KANE - (Orson Welles) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
CRIES AND WHISPERS - [Swedish] (Ingmar Bergman) Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
THE GODFATHER 1 & 2 - (Francis Ford Coppola) Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall
THE GRADUATE - (Mike Nichols) Dustin Hoffman, Katherine Ross, Anne Bancroft
MODERN TIMES - (Charlie Chaplin) Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
MULHOLLAND DR. - (David Lynch) Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring
PERSONA - [Swedish] (Ingmar Bergman) Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER - [French] (François Truffaut) Charles Aznavour
RASHOMON - [Japanese] (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - (Nicholas Ray) James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
SEVEN SAMURAI - [Japanese] (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune
TOKYO STORY - [Japanese] (Yasujiro Ozu) Chishu Ryu, Chiyeko Higashiyama
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL - [German] (Leni Riefenstahl) Adolph Hitler
DOCUMENTARIES:
28 UP - (Michael Apted) follows group of children from the age of 7 up to age 28
DON’T LOOK BACK - (D.A. Pennebaker) Bob Dylan’s 1965 England tour
Selected by Zimmerman Skyrat, 101Bananas.com
Thanks to the wonders of NetFlix and Amazon Prime, this list grows longer every year. The only criteria for this category is that they are simply my personal favorites. There may be some weird or dumb or silly or poorly produced/acted/directed movies of little substance here, but as someone once wisely said, there’s no accounting for personal taste. I make no apologies at all for any movies you may find on this list that you consider to be trash, or that you found so boring you couldn’t sit through the whole thing. They’re just my favorites, that’s all, some of them possibly because of only one particular scene, or because of the theme of the movie or the ideas expressed in it, though it may be quite unimpressive otherwise.
THE BEST OF THE BEST, the must-sees, the hall of fame, my ‘desert island’ movies
(in alphabetical order):
MOVIES:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
2046 - [Chinese] Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li
ANNIE HALL - Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
BAXTER - [French] Baxter the dog
BRAZIL - Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert DeNiro
BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID - Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross
CASABLANCA - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
CINEMA PARADISO [Italian] Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Agnese Nano
CITY LIGHTS - Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
COOL HAND LUKE - Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON - [Chinese] Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND - Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed
HENRY FOOL - Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey
THE MALTESE FALCON - Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet
MAN FACING SOUTHEAST - [Argentinan] Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Ines Vernengo
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART - Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin
MULHOLLAND DR. - Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux
MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ - Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
SEVEN SAMURAI - [Japanese] Toshiro Mifune
STARDUST MEMORIES - Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper
STOLEN KISSES - [French] Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
TO LIVE - [Chinese] Gong Li, Ge You
THE TREE OF LIFE - Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn
DOCUMENTARIES:
DON’T LOOK BACK - D.A. Pennebaker’s film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 England tour
THE WEST - 9-part Steven Ives/Ken Burns PBS series
ALL THE REST, in alphabetical order:
(*Denotes favorite favorites, but just a notch below my BEST OF THE BEST list.)
MOVIES:
*5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND - [Japanese anime] directed by Makoto Shinkai
11:14 - Rachael Leigh Cook, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey, Hilary Swank
*21 GRAMS - Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel
ADAM AT 6 A.M. - Michael Douglas
*AFTER LIFE - [Japanese] Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
AGNES OF GOD - Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’Connor
ALL THAT JAZZ - Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange
*ALPHAVILLE - [French] Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina
AMERICAN GRAFFITI - Ronnie Howard, Candy Williams
THE APOSTLE - Robert Duvall, Farrah Fawcett, Miranda Richardson
BACK TO THE FUTURE - Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
*A BEAUTIFUL MIND - Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris
*BEING JOHN MALKOVICH - John Malkovich, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - Frederic March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy
*BIG FISH - Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Billy Crudup
*THE BIG LEBOWSKI - Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
*BLACK HAWK DOWN - Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
*BLUE VELVET - Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rosallini, Dennis Hopper
THE BOOK AND THE ROSE - Chris Kennedy, Carey Lessard
THE BOOK OF LIFE - Martin Donovan, Thomas Jay Ryan, P.J. Harvey
*BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY - Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berringer
BRAVEHEART - Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau
BREAKING THE WAVES - Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard
BREATHLESS - [French] Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
BREATHLESS - Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky
*CAPTAIN BLOOD - Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone
CASHBACK - [British] Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Michelle Ryan
THE CHAMBERMAID ON THE TITANIC - [French] Olivier Martinez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD - William Hurt, Marlee Matlin
CHINATOWN - Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
CHOCOLAT - Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN - [French] Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet
CLAIRE’S KNEE - [French] Jean-Claude Brialy
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
CLOUD ATLAS - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Doona Bae
COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN - Cher, Sandy Dennis
*CONTACT - Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN - Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter
CRASH - Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton, Sandra Bullock
CRIES AND WHISPERS - [Swedish] Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
*CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS - Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Martin Landau, Alan Alda
*DAMAGE - Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
DANGEROUS BEAUTY - Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset
DANGEROUS LIAISONS - John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer
*THE DARK SIDE OF THE HEART - [Argentinan] Dario Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros
THE DARK SIDE OF THE HEART 2 - [Argentinan] Dario Grandinetti, Ariadna Gil
DEAD MAN WALKING - Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn
*THE DEAD ZONE - Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen
*DECONSTRUCTING HARRY - Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Demi Moore
*THE DEER HUNTER - Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken
DELIVERANCE - Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight
*DEPARTURES - [Japanese] Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE - Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY - [French] Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner
DOGMA - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock
DONNIE DARKO - Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore
DON’T DIE WITHOUT TELLING ME WHERE YOU’RE GOING - [Argentinan] Dario Grandinetti
DREAMS - [Japanese] Martin Scorsese
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... - [French] Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
*EASY RIDER - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN - [Chinese] Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang
ELECTRIC SHADOWS - [Chinese] Zhongyang Qi, Yu Xia
THE ENGLISH PATIENT - Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX - Woody Allen, Louise Lasser
*EX MACHINA - Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander
*EXISTENZ - Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm
*THE FALL - Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Justine Waddell
FALLING DOWN - Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
FEARLESS - Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rosilinni
FIGHT CLUB - Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton
FISH STORY - [Japanese] Vincent Giry, Gaku Hamada, Atsushi Ito
THE FISHER KING - Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Rhule
FIVE EASY PIECES - Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
*FORREST GUMP - Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson
THE FOUNTAINHEAD - Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal
FRANKENSTEIN - Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke
*GALAXIES ARE COLLIDING - Dwier Brown, Susan Walters, Kelsey Grammer
*GATTACA - Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Ernest Borgnine
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI - Forest Whitaker, John Tormey
*GIRL ON THE BRIDGE - [French] Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING - Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth
*GLADIATOR - Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris
*THE GODFATHER 1 & 2 - Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY - N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS - Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - John Mills, Valerie Hobson
*THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND - [French] Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena
THE HANDMAID’S TALE - Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway
HAPPENSTANCE - [French] Audrey Tautou
HAPPINESS - Cynthia Stevenson, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman
*HAROLD AND MAUD - Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon
HE LOVES ME...HE LOVES ME NOT - [French] Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan
HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS - Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgard
HER - Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Scarlett Johansson (voice)
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR - [French] Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
*THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara
HUSBANDS & WIVES - Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
THE ICE STORM - Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire
*IKIRU - [Japanese] Takashi Shimura
*I’M NOT THERE - Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger
IMMORTAL BELOVED - Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini
*IN THE COMPANY OF MEN - Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards
*IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE - [Chinese] Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung
*INCEPTION - Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE - Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
INDOCHINE - [French] Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham
*IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE - James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
JEAN DE FLORETTE - [French] Yves Montand, Gerard Dépardieu, Daniel Auteuil
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG - Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster
KAFKA - Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Alec Guiness, Joel Grey
*KING OF HEARTS - [French] Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold
THE KITE RUNNER - Khalid Abdalla, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Mahmoodzada
*LA BELLE NOISEUSE - [French] Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Piccoli
LA STRADA - [Italian] Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
LAST IMAGES OF THE SHIPWRECK - [Argentinan] Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemi Frenkel
*LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD - [French] Delphine Seyrig, Georgia Albertazzi
THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS - [Spanish] Vito Sanz, Berta Vázquez
LE SAMOURAÏ - [French] Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier
*L’ENFER - [French] Emmanuelle Béart, Francois Cluzet
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE - [Spanish] Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette
THE LOBSTER - Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz
LOGAN’S RUN - Michael York, Jenny Agutter
LONE STAR - Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson
LOST HIGHWAY - Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
*LOST HORIZON - Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
LOST IN AMERICA - Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty
*LOVE AND DEATH - Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
*LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE - [Spanish] Fele Martinez, Najwa Nimri
*MALÈNA - [Italian] Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro
*A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS - Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw
*THE MAN ON THE TRAIN - [French] Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - David Bowie
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE - James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE - Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand
*THE MAN WITH BOGART’S FACE - Robert Sacchi, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey
*MANHATTAN - Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
*MANON OF THE SPRING - [French] Emmanuelle Béart, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN - [German] Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch
*M*A*S*H - Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman
MATCH POINT - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer
*THE MEANING OF LIFE - Monty Python
MEDIUM COOL - Robert Forster, Verna Bloom
MELANCHOLIA - Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
*MEMEMTO - Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
*MODERN TIMES - Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
*MON ONCLE D’AMÉRIQUE - [French] Gerard Dépardieu, Nicole Garcia
MY FATHER’S GLORY - [French] Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel
MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS - [British] Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Jane March
MY LIFE AS A DOG - [Swedish] Anton Glanzelius
*MY MOTHER’S CASTLE - [French] Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel
MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S - [French] Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian
NAKED - [British] David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST - Jack Nicholson
*OPEN YOUR EYES - [Spanish] Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz
PAN’S LABYRINTH - [Spanish] Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
*PERFECT SENSE - [British] Ewan McGregor, Eva Green
*PERSONA - [Swedish] Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
PI - Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis
THE PIANO - [Australian] Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
*PLANET OF THE APES - Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell
*PLEASANTVILLE - Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, William Macy
THE POSTMAN - [Italian] Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
PSYCHO - Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
RAGING BULL - Robert DeNiro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
*RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
THE RAIN PEOPLE - Shirley Knight, James Caan, Robert Duvall
*RASHOMON - [Japanese] Toshiro Mifune
THE RAZOR’S EDGE - Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney
*REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
*THE RED BALLOON - [French] Pascal and Sabine Lamorisse
RED SORGHUM - [Chinese] Gong Li, Jiang Wen
*THE RED VIOLIN - Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi
REMAINS OF THE DAY - Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve
*REPO MAN - Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn
THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7 - Mark Arnott, Gordon Clapp
*THE RIGHT STUFF - Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Fred Ward
*RISKY BUSINESS - Tom Cruise, Rebecca deMornay
*THE ROAD HOME - [Chinese] Zhang Ziyi, Zheng Hao
*RUN LOLA RUN - [German] Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
THE SAMURAI TRILOGY - [Japanese] Toshiro Mifune
*SANJURO - [Japanese] Toshiro Mifune
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
SCHINDLER’S LIST - Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
THE SEA HAWK - Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Flora Robson, Claude Rains
SECONDS - Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Salome Jens
*THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES - [Argentinan] Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil
SECRETARY - Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader
SEPTEMBER - Mia Farrow, Diane Wiest, Sam Waterston
SHORT CUTS - Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Lily Tomlin
THE SKIN I LIVE IN - [Spanish] Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya
*SLEEPER - Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
*SLIDING DOORS - Gwyneth Paltrow, John Lynch, John Hannah, Jeanne Tripplehorn
SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR - [Swedish] Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson
SOYLENT GREEN - Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER...AND SPRING - [Korean] Young-soo Oh
*STAR WARS - Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
THE STORY OF MARIE AND JULIEN - [French] Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
THE STORY OF QIU JU - [Chinese] Gong Li, Lei Lao Sheng
SUMMER OF ’42 - Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes
*SUNSET BOULEVARD - William Holden, Gloria Swanson
SWEPT AWAY - [Italian] Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
TENDER MERCIES - Robert Duvall, Tess Harper
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE - [Spanish] Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina
THELMA & LOUISE - Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis
*THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING - Alan Arkin, Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro
*TIERRA - [Spanish] Carmelo Gomez, Emma Suarez, Silke
TIMECRIMES - [Spanish] Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga
TOKYO STORY - [Japanese] Chishu Ryu, Chiyeko Higashiyama
TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU - [French] Gerard Dépardieu, Josiane Balasko
TOY STORY - [Animation] voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE - Humphrey Bogart, Walter Houston
*THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI - [Japanese] Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa
UGETSU - [Japanese] Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka
*UN COEUR EN HIVER - [French] Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil
UNFAITHFUL - Diane Lane, Richard Gere
WAKING LIFE - [Animation]
*WALK THE LINE - Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
*WHAT DID JACK DO? [16-minute short by David Lynch] David Lynch, Jack the Monkey
*WHAT HAPPENED WAS... - Tom Noonan, Karen Sillas
*WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT - Armand Assante, Ben Cross, Katheryn Winnick
WHY HAS BODHI-DHARMA LEFT FOR THE EAST? - [Korean] Bae Yong-kyun (director)
*WINGS OF DESIRE - [German] Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE - Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott
THE WISDOM TREE - Sheetal Sheth, Patrick Alparone, Eric Holter
*WITTGENSTEIN - Clancy Chassay
YESTERDAY WAS A LIE - Kipleigh Brown, Chase Masterson
*YOJIMBO - [Japanese] Toshiro Mifune
*YOUR NAME - [Japanese anime] directed by Makoto Shinkai
ZELIG - Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
DOCUMENTARIES:
*28 UP - follows a group of children up to the age of 28
*9/11 - New York, September 11, 2001
ADRENALINE RUSH - skydiving off cliffs
*AMERICAN VISIONS - 8 volumes, Robert Hughes on American art
AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE - the life of Ayn Rand
*AYN RAND & THE PROPHECY OF ATLAS SHRUGGED - Rand’s dire prediction for America
*BERKLEY IN THE SIXTIES - the Berkley free-speech movement
*BIRDMEN: THE ORIGINAL DREAM OF FLIGHT - wingsuit skydiving
THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE - David Vetter, the boy who lived in a plastic bubble
CRUMB - the life of cartoonist R. Crumb
*THE DREAM IS ALIVE - the space shuttle
EDWARD HOPPER: THE SILENT WITNESS - the art of Edward Hopper
*EMERSON: THE IDEAL IN AMERICA - the ideas and vast influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD - director Werner Herzog goes to Antarctica
*EVEREST - climbing Mt. Everest
*FREE SOLO - Alex Honnold climbs Yosemite’s El Capitan
*GATES OF HEAVEN - pet cemeteries and the people who own them
*THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE - debunks the myth of ‘global warming’
HAPPY - explores the question “What makes people happy?”
HEART OF A DOG - Laurie Anderson’s multimedia meditation on dogs, life, and death
THE HISTORY OF ROCK ’N ROLL - Time-Life production; 10-part history of rock ’n roll
*HOW ART MADE THE WORLD - BBC production; 5 hours on 10,000 years of art
IN THE FACE OF EVIL - Ronald Reagan’s long war against communism
*THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY - Aaron Swartz and the fight to free information
*JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE - National Geographic flies you there
*KUMARÉ - false gurus and the power of belief
LAST TEMPTATION IN THAILAND - what would Buddha do surrounded by temptations in Thailand?
THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH - life forces that shape our identity and limit our freedom
*MAKING SENSE OF THE SIXTIES - 6-part PBS series looks at the 1960s
*MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY & THE MEDIA - Chomsky’s ideas on mass media
MICROCOSMOS - life from an insect’s point of view
*MUST LOVE CATS - 5-part Animal Planet series, all about cats and their owners
*NO DIRECTION HOME - Martin Scorsese’s film on Bob Dylan
*PEOPLE LIKE US: SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA - PBS production; how social class rules your life
*POWERS OF TEN - distances in the universe based on powers of 10
THE RED PILL - a feminist explores the men’s rights movement
ROCK & ROLL - BBC production; 10-part history of rock & roll
SEABISCUIT - PBS production; the famous American racehorse
*SHAKESPEARE’S IN THE ALLEY - the huge influence of Bob Dylan and The Beatles on popular music
STONEY KNOWS HOW - the life of Leonard “Stoney” St. Clair
TALHOTBLOND - a cyberspace love triangle ends in murder with a shocking twist
THAT SUGAR FILM - the terrible health consequences of too much sugar
*WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE - director Werner Herzog loses a bet and eats his shoe
WHY I’M NOT ON FACEBOOK - the title says it all
THE WONDERFUL, HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL - the life of Riefenstahl