Blog Song For the Moment
Richard Burton, Camelot, from 1960 Original Broadcast Recording.
Apropos of nothing, I'm presenting my top five movies of all time (my time, anyway). Not feeling well, missing a dinner with dear old friends from Wabash days (did manage to make their daughter's commencement at MSU in which she received her M.D.), and I'm tired of trying to keep up with Lost's plot twists.
Top five dramas
Top five comedies
Top five horror
Top five with spiritual themes
Top five guilty pleasures
Top five war movies
Top five musicals
Top five cop and crime
Top five sci-si/fantasy
Top five Latin American
Richard Burton, Camelot, from 1960 Original Broadcast Recording.
Apropos of nothing, I'm presenting my top five movies of all time (my time, anyway). Not feeling well, missing a dinner with dear old friends from Wabash days (did manage to make their daughter's commencement at MSU in which she received her M.D.), and I'm tired of trying to keep up with Lost's plot twists.
My brother, Dan, has been working on a careful way to measure a movie's value, but I developed these lists without too much thought. My criteria were basically two, what stands out in my immediate memory as being memorable, what would I watch again without much question. So here goes. You'll see that my lists don't go back further than the sixties--except for Wizard of Oz and Singing in the Rain. My brother is much more cinematically literate--his favorites include movies from the 1950s and 1940s. And you'll see that movies could be in other categories (e.g. Dr. Horrible, to my mind, could be a cop and crime flick, or in the comedy or drama categories). The order within each list is according to when I thought of them.
The Year of
Living Dangerously (1982)
Quiz
Show (1994)
Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Royal
Tenenbaums (2001)
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
Monty
Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Monty
Python’s Meaning of Life (1983)
Monty
Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Raising
Arizona (1987)
Dr.
Strangelove (1964)
Poltergeist (1982)
Pan’s
Labyrinth (2006)
Mulholland
Drive (2001)
Psycho (1960)
Silence of
the Lambs (1991)
Out of
Africa (1985)
Broadcast
News (1987)
Terms of
Endearment (1983)
Accidental
Tourist (1988)
When Harry
Met Sally (1989)
Top five with spiritual themes
Doubt (2008)
Donnie
Darko (2001)
Flesh and
Bone (1993)
Magnolia (1999)
Crimes and
Misdemeanors (1989)
Angel Heart (1987)
Wild Things (1998)
Lost Boys (1987)
Basic
Instinct (1992)
Underworld (2003)
Platoon (1986)
Gallipoli (1981)
Breaker
Morant (1980)
Apocalypse
Now (1979)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Dr.
Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog (2008)
Camelot (1967)
Wizard of
Oz (1939)
Funny Girl (1968)
Singing in
the Rain (1952)
Godfather I (1972)
Godfather
II (1974)
Miller’s
Crossing (1990)
The Departed (2006)
Cop Land (1997)
Brazil (1985)
Alien (1979)
Princess
Bride (1987)
Serenity (2005)
Wall-E (2008)
City of God (2002)
Kamchatka (2002)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
The Official Story (1985)
The Silence of Neto (1994)
Top five documentaries
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Roger and Me (1989)
The Fog of War (2003)
Spellbound (2002)
Jesus Camp (2006)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Roger and Me (1989)
The Fog of War (2003)
Spellbound (2002)
Jesus Camp (2006)
