My Favourite Movies
It’s that end of the year time when lists beckon. I’ll be doing my annual list of the best of the year in the next 36 hours or so but before I embark on that I was out with my youngest nephew the night before last and he showed me his Top 10 Films list on his Christmas-new iPod Touch (he’s got very refined taste for an 11 year old and I liked most of his choice which included great American indies like The Way Way Back) so I took the opportunity to jot down my Top 10 on my phone. Not an easy task once you get thinking (so I’m including my bubbling under list with a view to expanding it to my Top 20).
1 Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard
2 Apocalypse Now
Martin Sheen as Capt. Willard
3 Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks: “Dey even darker den us!”
4 City Lights
Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill
5 The Godfather
Al Pacino as the unspoiled Michael Corleone
6 The Big Chill
Watching J. T. Lancer
7 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Twisting & Shouting
8 My Life as a Dog
Mitt Liv som Hund
9 The Big Short
Of these 4 great performances Steve Carell’s is the biggie
10 The Wolf of Wall Street
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio horsing around in wolf’s clothing
- The 39 Steps
- The Unbelievable Truth
- Blow Up
- La Haine
- Diner
- The Breakfast Club
-
I Know Where I’m Going
- Black Narcissus
- The Godfather 2
- Pulp Fiction
- Inglourious Basterds
- Serpico
- Chinatown
- 20,000 Days on Earth
- Romeo & Juliet
- Mississippi Burning
- Casablanca
- West Side Story
- Silver Linings Playbook
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