Folks often talk about their "Top Ten" or "Top Fifty" favorite films -- I never made a formal list until the other day.
It was hard! At the start I had a list of 130 movies all wanting to be in my Top Fifty! As I whittled titles away, the choice of what to keep and what to cut was often pretty arbitrary, and often turned on whether the director or stars already had one or more pictures on the list. On any given day, most of the titles that got cut might outrank some of the titles that stayed. At least a couple of titles only made the final cut because better movies were culled for the above reasons, and others. Ask me tomorrow, and the list might be different.
Also, this is a list of FAVORITES, not a BEST list. A "Best" list would look very different indeed. It also wouldn't tell you as much about me as this list does.
The films are listed are in no particular order, not ranked in any way -- other than that the first ten or fifteen titles probably do rank higher the ones that follow.
I've already written about some of these pictures here on the blog: a quick search should take you right to those posts. I'll be writing about some of the other titles here in the coming days.
Why did I do this? "Just Because." I'm twelve years older than I was wren I started this blog. As you start getting on in years, you start wanting to codify things, if only to bolster your sense of perspective.
Here we go: "Doug's Favorite Fifty, Sort Of"
Sherlock, Jr. - 1924
Oliver! - 1968
King Kong -1933
Metropolis - 1927
M. Hulot’s Holiday - 1953
The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain - 2001
Modern Times - 1936
My Little Chickadee - 1940
Yellow Submarine - 1968
Kid Millions - 1934
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
They Might Be Giants - 1971
The Maltese Falcon - 1941
Lili - 1953
The Wizard of Oz - 1939
Godspell - 1973
Adventures of Baron Munchausen - 1988
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - 1947
The Horse Without a Head - 1963
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - 1972
Rose Marie - 1936
The Late Show - 1976
The Magician - 1958
The Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Dumbo - 1941
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - 1969
The Fearless Vampire Killers - 1966
The Crimson Pig / Porco Rosso - 1992
Annie Hall - 1977
Babes In Toyland - 1934
Duck Soup - 1933
Way Out West - 1937
Ninotchka - 1939
Sweet November - 1968
Paper Moon - 1973
The Commitments - 1991
7 Faces of Dr. Lao - 1963
Return to Oz - 1985
Peter Pan - 2003
The Mummy - 1932
The Abominable Dr. Phibes - 1971
Black Narcissus - 1947
The Night Stalker - 1972
Carousel - 1956
Flash Gordon (serial) - 1936
Duel In the Sun - 1948
The Ladykillers - 1955
Pay It Again, Sam - 1972
Willard - 1971
The Mark of Zorro - 1940
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More later! I really am going to make an effort to post here more often. Thanks for stopping by,
--Thorn.
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