Saturday 24 November 2012

My favourite 50 films

Taking a brief break from the 500 singles and moving swiftly to my 50 favourite films. Inspired  to make my selection by a small and dedicated band of twitter geeks (tweeks?) here are my favourite 50 films, adhering strictly to the rule of no more than two films by the same director.

Please note that this is my list dated 24th November 2012 - ask me tomorrow and you may get a completely different answer!

According to my statistics the greatest year for film was 2004 with 7 entries (who knew?!) and the 1930s and the 1950s have no entries at all. Oh, and the whole of the top three are black and white.

1.       Metropolis (1927) – Fritz Lang
2.       Young Frankenstein (1974) – Mel Brooks
3.       It’s a wonderful life (1946) – Frank Capra
4.       Amelie (2001) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
5.       Casshern (2004) – Kazuaki Kiriya
6.       Pan’s labyrinth (2006) – Guillermo del Toro
7.       Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick
8.       Spirited away (2001) - Hayao Miyazaki
9.       Walk the line (2005) – James Mangold
10.   2001 : A space odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
11.   The Godfather Part 2 (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
12.   House of flying daggers (2004) – Yimou Zhang
13.   Akira (1988) – Katsuhiro Otomo
14.   Team America : World Police (2004) – Trey Parker
15.   Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
16.   The Empire strikes back (1980) – Irvin Kershner
17.   1492 Conquest of paradise (1992) – Ridley Scott
18.   Ferris Bueller’s day off (1986) – John Hughes
19.   O brother, where art thou (2000) – Joel Coen
20.   Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – Arthur Penn
21.   Princess Mononoke (1997) – Hayao Miyazaki
22.   The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
23.   The Incredibles (2004) – Brad Bird
24.   The Untouchables (1987) – Brian de Palma
25.   The abyss (1989) – James Cameron
26.   Cinema Paradiso (1988) – Giuseppe Tornatore
27.   La vie en rose (2007) – Olivier Dahan
28.   The day after tomorrow (2004) – Roland Emmerich
29.   A.I. : Artificial Intelligence (2001) – Steven Spielberg
30.   A very long engagement (2004) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
31.   Shallow Grave (1994) – Danny Boyle
32.   Say anything (1989) – Cameron Crowe
33.   Uncle Buck (1989) – John Hughes
34.   Belleville Rendezvous (2003) – Sylvain Chomet
35.   Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton
36.   This is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner
37.   Le diner de cons (1998) – Francis Veber
38.   Hellboy (2004) - Guillermo del Toro
39.   2012 (2009) - Roland Emmerich
40.   Being there (1979) – Hal Ashby
41.   The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) – Wes Anderson
42.   Dune (1984) – David Lynch
43.   Eraserhead (1977) – David Lynch
44.   Avatar (2009) – James Cameron
45.   The time machine (1960) – George Pal
46.   Westworld (1973) – Michael Crichton
47.   Almost famous (2000) – Cameron Crowe
48.   Carry on Screaming (1966) – Gerald Thomas
49.   The jungle book (1967) – Wolfgang Reitherman
50.   Heat (1995) – Michael Mann