For a film to make this list, it must be the perfect embodiment of its genre or, better yet, stand beyond genre. It must be at least 20 years old (so I know that it’s stood the test of time), and I personally must of have known and loved the film for years–preferably decades. These are, in the truest sense of the word, my all-time favorite films.
Here are the films I’ve written about so far, in alphabetical order. About half of these are essays I wrote specifically for this list. The others are Blu-ray reviews, appreciations, and other types of articles. If I’ve written two articles on a particular film, I’ll include both.
This list will continue to grow.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 8½
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Annie Hall (Blu-ray review)
- Before Sunrise
- Bicycle Thieves (appreciation)
- Bicycle Thieves (Blu-ray review)
- Brazil (Blu-ray review)
- Casablanca (essay)
- Children of Paradise (appreciation)
- Children of Paradise (Blu-ray review)
- Citizen Kane
- City Lights (Blu-ray review)
- Cries and Whispers (Blu-ray review)
- The Crowd (appreciation)
- Die Hard (appreciation)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Blu-ray review)
- Do the Right Thing
- Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray review)
- Duck Soup (appreciation)
- Fargo (appreciation)
- Five Easy Pieces
- The General
- The Godfather
- The Godfather, Part II
- The Gold Rush (Blu-ray review)
- The Gold Rush (first-person report)
- The Gold Rush (Chaplin Diary)
- Goodfellas
- Grand Illusion
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Groundhog Day (appreciation)
- Hoop Dreams (Blu-ray review)
- Ikiru (Kurosawa diary)
- Ikiru (Blu-ray review)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- Jaws (Blu-ray review)
- Jaws (Book vs. Movie)
- The Kid Brother
- The Lady Eve
- The Last Laugh
- The Last Laugh (Blu-ray review)
- The Last Picture Show
- The Last Waltz
- Lawrence of Arabia (appreciation)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (essay)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Blu-ray review)
- Lone Star (Fandor Keyframe article)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
- My Darling Clementine
- Napoleon
- North by Northwest
- Notorious (Blu-ray review)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Paths of Glory
- Ran (Kurosawa diary)
- Ran (Shakespeare adaptation article)
- Rashomon (Blu-ray review)
- Rashomon (Kurosawa diary)
- Red River (Blu-ray review)
- Red River (Book vs. Movie)
- Rio Bravo
- Rear Window
- Secrets & Lies (Blu-ray review)
- The Seven Samurai
- The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa diary)
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Some Like It Hot (Blu-ray review)
- Stagecoach
- Stop Making Sense
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Blu-ray review)
- Taxi Driver (Blu-ray review)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940 version)
- The Third Man
- To Be or Not to Be (Blu-ray review)
- Top Hat