An Introduction (In Film Form)

The following is a list of my 100 Favorite Films. This should shed some light into the kind of person I am. The list is in alphabetical order.

12 Angry Men (1957)
Director: Sidney Lumet

1917 (2019)
Director: Sam Mendes

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Director: Stanley Kubrick

28 Days Later (2002)
Director: Danny Boyle

Alien (1979)
Director: Ridley Scott

Almost Famous (2000)
Director: Cameron Crowe

Amadeus (1984)
Director: Milos Forman

American History X (1998)
Director: Tony Kaye

American Splendor (2003)
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

The Artist (2011)
Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Back to the Future (1985)
Director: Robert Zemeckis

Batman Begins (2005)
Director: Christopher Nolan

Before Sunrise (1995)
Director: Richard Linklater

Best in Show (2000)
Director: Christopher Guest

Big Fish (2003)
Director: Tim Burton

The Big Lebowski (1998)
Director: The Coen Brothers

Blade Runner (1982)
Director: Ridley Scott

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Director: George Roy Hill

Capote (2005)
Director: Bennett Miller

Casablanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz

Children of Men (2006)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Chinatown (1974)
Director: Roman Polanski

Citizen Kane (1941)
Director: Orson Welles

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Director: Steven Spielberg

Coco (2017)
Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

The Dark Knight (2008)
Director: Christopher Nolan

The Departed (2006)
Director: Martin Scorsese

Die Hard (1988)
Director: John McTiernan

Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Director: Stanley Kubrick

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Director: Tim Burton

Ed Wood (1994)
Director: Tim Burton

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Director: Irvin Kershner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Director: Michel Gondry

Fargo (1996)
Director: The Coen Brothers

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Director: John Hughes

Finding Neverland (2004)
Director: Marc Forster

For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Director: Sergio Leone

Forrest Gump (1994)
Director: Robert Zemeckis

The Godfather (1972)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Goodfellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Director: Sergio Leone

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Director: Wes Anderson

The Green Mile (1999)
Director: Frank Darabont

Half Nelson (2006)
Director: Ryan Fleck

The Imitation Game (2014)
Director: Morten Tyldum

Inception (2010)
Director: Christopher Nolan

Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Director: Quentin Tarantino

Inside Out (2015)
Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen

Interstellar (2014)
Director: Christopher Nolan

L.A. Confidential (1997)
Director: Curtis Hanson

The Lego Movie (2014)
Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Director: Wes Anderson

The Lives of Others (2006)
Director: Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Director: Peter Jackson

Lost in Translation (2003)
Director: Sofia Coppola

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Director: John Frankenheimer

The Matrix (1999)
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Memento (2000)
Director: Christopher Nolan

No Country for Old Men (2007)
Director: The Coen Brothers

North by Northwest (1959)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)
Director: The Coen Brothers

Oldboy (2003)
Director: Chan-wook Park

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Director: Sergio Leone

One Hour Photo (2002)
Director: Mark Romanek

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Director: Guillermo del Toro

Psycho (1960)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino

Raging Bull (1980)
Director: Martin Scorsese

Rear Window (1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Director: Darren Aronofsky

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Director: Wes Anderson

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Director: Steven Spielberg

The Science of Sleep (2006)
Director: Michel Gondry

Se7en (1995)
Director: David Fincher

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Juan José Campanella

Seven Samurai (1954)
Director: Akira Kurosawa

Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Director: Edgar Wright

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Director: Jonathan Demme

Snatch (2000)
Director: Guy Ritchie

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Director: George Lucas

Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder

Superbad (2007)
Director: Greg Mottola

Tell No One (2006)
Director: Guillaume Canet

The Terminator (1984)
Director: James Cameron

Tombstone (1993)
Director: George P. Cosmatos

Touch of Evil (1958)
Director: Orson Welles

Toy Story (1995)
Director: John Lasseter

Up (2009)
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

The Usual Suspects (1995)
Director: Bryan Singer

Vertigo (1958)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

V for Vendetta (2005)
Director: James McTeigue

Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Director: Christopher Guest

Whiplash (2014)
Director: Damien Chazelle

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Director: Mel Stuart

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Director: Victor Fleming

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Director: Mel Brooks

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