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