Thursday, June 28, 2012

My Top 20 Movie List - Last Several Years

Since 2005, I began a huge project of creating a list of movies that I haven't seen.  The rules were simple.  Any movie can make the list--documentary, comedy, drama, it didn't matter.  Little did I know that the list would continue to grow. One movie would lead to a list of movies by the same director.  Pretty soon, I was scouring the AFI top 100 movie list for more additions.  The project snowballed and at the end, the list was almost 500 movies long!

The list was immense and intimidating. So I realized that I needed to pair down the list to a more manageable length. Over the last 2+ years, I started keeping track of the movies I watched ranking them informally as I went. The list below (not counting documentaries) is my Top 20 in no particular order.

NETWORK
FOLLOWING
DOWNFALL
GOOD NIGHT, GOOD LUCK
11:14
OLD BOY
BARTON FINK
THE GHOST WRITER
INCEPTION
SAW
PERSEPOLIS
CACHE
DRIVE
THE GUARD
THE WHITE RIBBON
CITY OF GOD
SECRET IN THEIR EYES
BARNEY'S VERSION
WIN WIN
THE SKIN I LIVE IN

The original 50:

Quiz Show
Moon
Network
The Conversation
Following
Traffic
Downfall
Casino
The Usual Suspects
Good Night, Good Luck

Fight Club
11:14
Videodrome
The Killing Fields
Old Boy
Barton Fink
Most Dangerous Man in America
2009: Lost Memories
Blow
The Ghost Writer

Inception
The Kids Are Alright
The Fog of War
I Love You Phillip Morris
The Fighter
Winnebago Man
Saw
Carlos The Jackel
Percepolis
Rounders

American Splendor
A Film Unfinished
Inside Job
London Blvd
Cache
Biutiful
Synedoche, NY
Gasland
Drive
The Guard

Hot Coffee
The White Ribbon
City of God
Secret in their Eyes
Marwencol
Harlen County, USA
Berney's Version
Mother
Win Win
The Skin I Live In

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

when it is going to cool down for the sesson is it going to be 80 untill after labor day then be in the 70 60