39 films for Jake
- The Big Chill
- Diner
- Apocalypse Now
- The Unbelievable Truth
- La Haine
- In the Name of the Father
- Platoon
- The Conversation
- I know where I’m going
- MASH
- A bout de souffle
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
- The Third Man
- Bulworth
- Running on Empty
- Chinatown
- Chaplin
- Vertigo
- Harold & Maude
- City Lights
- Enemy of the State
- Cinema Paradiso
- Casablanca
- Dr Zhivago
- Mississippi Burning
- Blow Up
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
- Bonnie and Clyde
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Great Gatsby (1974)
- The Parallax View
- Baby it’s you
- The Searchers
- Easy Rider
- Flirting
- Smoke
- The Hairdresser’s Husband
- La Lune Dans Le Caniveau (Moon in the Gutter)
Bubbling under: Marnie, A Month in the Country, The General, Lethal Weapon, The Maltese Falcon, Betty Blue, The Accountant, 20,000 days on Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, All the President’s Men, Romeo & Juliet (1996), The Sting, Johnny English, The Bounty, 24 Hour Party People, The Remains of the Day, Cold War, My Life as a Dog, The Commitments, The Bourne Supremacy, Rolling Thunder Review, Modern Times, The Wild Bunch
My nephew Jake turned 16 this weekend – he has remarkably good and sophisticated taste in films, so as a bonus birthday gift I put together this list of films I love which I reckon he’ll enjoy too. His favourite film is Inside Llewyn Davis. That one has fond memories for me as I met & chatted with Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett at the screening I attended, the latter being particularly charming, interesting and generous with his time. T Bone’s first experience on the road is captured in last year’s spectacularly brilliant Rolling Thunder Review.
For the next 39:
Blazing Saddles
The Godfather
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Big Short
The Wolf of Wall Street
The 39 Steps
The Breakfast Club
Black Narcissus
The Godfather 2
Pulp Fiction
Inglourious Basterds
Serpico
West Side Story
Silver Linings Playbook
So glad to see The Hairdresser’s Husband on that list. One of my favourites.
It’s so long since I’ve seen it – I’ll make a point of watching it again this autumn