Someone recently had the idea of alphabetizing a movie list. (Some others are here, here, and here.) I’m not really sticking to the strict rules. And this isn’t definitive, etc. etc. Most are just the first titles that sprang to mind that are generally good. To spice it up, there are numbers (1-9, more or less) at the bottom.
L’Avventura – 1961, Michelangelo Antonioni
Band of Outsiders – 1964, Jean-Luc Godard
Children of Men – 2006, Alfonso Cuarón
Dr. Strangelove – 1964, Stanley Kubrick
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – 2004, Michel Gondry
Fight Club – 1999, David Fincher
The Grand Illusion – 1937, Jean Renoir
High and Low – 1963, Akira Kurosawa
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – 1989, Steven Spielberg
The Jerk – 1979, Carl Reiner
Kagemusha – 1980, Akira Kurosawa
Ladri di Biciclette – 1948, Vittorio de Sica
The Maltese Falcon – 1941, John Huston
La Notte – 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – 2000, Joel & Ethan Coen
Pierrot Le Fou – 1965, Jean-Luc Godard
The Quiet Man – 1952, John Ford
Rebecca – 1940, Alfred Hitchcock
Superman: The Movie – 1978, Richard Donner
Tokyo Story – 1953, Yasujiro Ozu
Ugetsu – 1953, Kenji Mizoguchi
Volver – 2006, Pedro Almodóvar
Wild Strawberries – 1957, Ingmar Bergman
Extáze – 1933, Gustav Machatý
Yojimbo – 1961, Akira Kurosawa
Zoolander – 2001, Ben Stiller
12 Monkeys – 1995, Terry Gilliam
2001: A Space Odyssey – 1968, Stanley Kubrick
The 39 Steps – 1935, Alfred Hitchcock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – 1986, Leonard Nimoy
The Fifth (5) Element – 1997, Luc Besson
The Sixth (6) Sense – 1999, M. Night Shyamalan
Seven (7) Samurai – 1954, Akira Kurosawa
8½ – 1960, Federico Fellini
1941 – 1979, Steven Spielberg
Interesting – we actually have four matches with Fight Club, The Maltese Falcon, Ladri Di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves on my list), and The Quiet Man…
I knew we had some things in common. I haven’t seen The Quiet Man in years, but there’s not a lot of selection in the “Q” category. I appreciated your inclusion of Jules et Jim, but, pathetically, I have yet to see it. Hence, The Jerk.
Whoa – The Decalogue totally got the shaft at the end.
Frick. How about this: it goes without saying. Or, that would’ve been too easy and not interesting enough. Like I said, they don’t reflect my actual favorites. But thank you for pointing it out.