film diatribe

important films/directors:

Action:

• Indiana Jones
• Die Hard

War

• The Man Who Would Be King
• Jacob’s Ladder

Hitchcock

• North by Northwest
• Spellbound
• Rope

Kubrick

• The Shining
• The Killing
• Full Metal Jacket
• Dr. Strangelove
• 2001

Scorcese

• Goodfellas
• Taxi Driver
• The Last Waltz

Robert Altman

• Gosford park
• The Player

John Waters

• Pecker
• Pink Flamingos
• Hairspray

Coppola

• Apocolypse Now
• Godfather I,II
• The Conversation

Classics

• Some Like it Hot
• Rebecca
• Laura
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Sting
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Long Hot Summer
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Cool Hand Luke
• Casablanca

Drama

• Lantana
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Easy Rider
• In The Bedroom
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Amadeus
• Marathon Man
• Quiz Show
• The Graduate
• The Ice Storm
• Shawshank Redemption
• Boys Dont Cry
• Breaking Away
• Deliverance
• American Beauty
• Witness
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Cradle Will Rock

Godard:

• Pierrot le Fou
• Breathless

Truffaut:

• Jules et Jim
• Shoot the Piano Player

Foreign:

• The Killer
• Tampopo
• La Grand Illusion
• Farewell, my Concubine
• Hiroshima, Mon Amour
• L’annee Dernier a Marinebad
• City of Lost Children
• Delicatessan
• The Earrings of Madame De
• 8 1/2
• Blue
• All About My Mother

Terry Gilliam:

• Time Bandits
• 12 Monkeys

Eclectic/Cult:

• Tron
• Drugstore Cowboy
• My Own Private Idaho
• Being There
• Wild at Heart
• Donnie Darko
• Repo Man
• Shallow Grave
• Being John Malkovich
• Harold and Maude
• Trainspotting
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Brazil

Film Noir:

• Touch Of Evil
• Chinatown
• Blade Runner
• The Maltese Falcon

Gangster:

• Sexy Beast
• Boondock Saints
• Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
• The Usual Suspects
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Godfather
• Godfather 2

Coen Brothers:

• Raising Arizona
• The Big Lebowski
• Fargo

Comedy:

• Spinal Tap
• Buckaroo Banzai
• Strictly Ballroom
• Pink Panther
• Best In Show
• Election
• Clue
• Swingers
• Money Pit
• Fletch AND Fletch lives (for a few key lines)
• Flirting with Disaster
• High Fidelity
• Clerks
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Blazing Saddles
• Big Night
• Animal House
• Dazed and Confused
• Ghostbusters
• The Blues Brothers

Woody Allen:

• Manhattan
• Bullets over Broadway

Mamet:

• Spanish Prisoner
• House of Games
• State and Main

Western:

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Fistful of Dollars
• Once Upon A Time in the West
• Unforgiven

Musical:

• Victor Victoria

Films that are a source of argument for me: (so have to be good, but also perplexing)

• The Cable Guy
• The Game
• Flatliners
• GalaxyQuest
• Heat
• LA Confidential
• Legally Blonde
• Magnolia
• Vanilla Sky
• Memento
• The Abyss
• Rushmore
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Out Cold
• Ghost Dog
• The Life Aquatic
• Dogma
• Blair Witch Project
• Annie Hall
• Unbreakable
• Gladiator
• Smoke
• Princess Bride
• Snake Eyes

Good Films:

• Happiness
• Braveheart
• Citizen Kane
• Hard Boiled
• Pecker
• Star Wars Trilogy (the first one)
• My Cousin Vinny
• True Romance
• Traffic
• Say Anything
• Better Off Dead
• Breakfast Club
• Animal House
• American Graffiti
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• 48 Hours
• When Harry Met Sally
• Waking Ned Devine
• Yellow Submarine
• Wedding Singer
• Wonder Boys
• World according to Garp
• With a Friend Like Harry
• Albino Alligator
• Patriot Games
• The Rock
• Pride and Prejudice
• Princess Bride
• Reality Bites
• Friday
• Mickey Blue Eyes
• Rocky
• Run Lola Run
• The Insider
• Key Largo
• LA Story
• Shakespeare In Love
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Seven
• Singles
• Sixth Sense
• Smoke Signals
• Snatch
• Sneakers
• A Time To Kill
• Where the Buffalo Roam
• Roxanne
• Lethal Weapon
• Like Water For Chocolate
• Man with Two Brains
• Mars Attacks
• Little Voice
• Men In Black
• Moonstruck
• Mystery, Alaska
• The Opposite of Sex
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Groundhog Day
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• The Hustler
• Batman
• Get Shorty
• Goodwill Hunting
• Dr T and the Women
• Fifth Element
• The Professional
• O Brother Where Art Thou
• Truman Show
• Beetlejuice
• Close Encounters
• Hands on a Hardbody
• Donnie Brasco
• Dangerous Liasons
• The Fisher King
• Boogie Nights
• Fight Club
• Full Monty
• Rushmore
• Shot in the Dark
• James Bond (list good ones)
• League Of Their Own
• vertigo
• Shrek
• Cape Fear
• Coming To America
• Back To The Future
• Sweet and Lowdown
• Office Space
• Silence of the Lambs
• Real Genius
• Austin powers
• Gosford Park
• High Fidelity
• Rush Hour
• Alien

Should have been good:

• Stargate
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• Wild Wild West

Suprised were as good as they were:

• Speed
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Miss Confidentiality