Leonard's Favorite Movies!
These are
movies that I've seen, and love, and recommend to friends.
If you don't see your
favorite here, it may simply be a movie that I haven't seen, or don't
remember well.
In each section they are listed in
order, with the most favorite at the top, but the order could change
from day to day.
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DRAMA
Chushingura - Inagaki, 1962
Lawrence of Arabia - Lean, 1962
It's a Wonderful Life - Capra,
1946
Jules and Jim - Truffaut, 1961
The Apu Trilogy - Ray,
1951/1956/1959
Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone, 1968
Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick, 1964
The
Children of Paradise - Carne, 1945
The Third Man - Reed, 1949
Citizen Kane - Welles, 1941
The Lord of the Rings trilogy -
Jackson, 2001-3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind -
Spielberg, 1977
Juliet of the Spirits - Fellini, 1965
La Strada - Fellini, 1954
The 400
Blows - Truffaut, 1959
The Last Picture Show - Bogdanovich, 1971
Chinatown - Polanski, 1974
2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick, 1968
The Wizard of Oz - Fleming - 1939
The Day the
Earth Stood Still - Wise, 1951
The African Queen - Huston, 1951
The Maltese Falcon - Huston, 1941
Casablanca - Curtiz, 1942
The Grapes of Wrath - Ford,
1940
A Streetcar Named Desire - Kazan, 1951
On the Waterfront - Kazan, 1954
Wild Strawberries - Bergman, 1957
The Magician - Bergman, 1958
Paths of Glory - Kubrick, 1957
Spartacus - Kubrick, 1960
Apocalypse Now - Coppolla, 1979
Vertigo - Hitchcock, 1958
Holiday - Cukor, 1938
Friendly Persuasion - Wyler, 1956
Blade Runner - Scott, 1982
General della Rovere - Rossellini, 1959
Swept Away - Wertmuller, 1974
Seven Beauties - Wertmuller, 1975
Walkabout - Roeg, 1971
Rabbit-Proof Fence - Noyce, 2002
Two Women - de Sica, 1961
3 Women - Altman, 1977
The Graduate - Nichols, 1967
Red Sky at Morning - Goldstone, 1971
Slaughterhouse Five - Hill, 1972
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COMEDY
Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Tati, 1953
My Uncle - Tati, 1958
The General - Keaton, 1927
The Lavender Hill Mob - Crichton, 1951
The Horse's Mouth - Neame, 1958
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Hamer, 1949
His Girl Friday - Hawks, 1940
Blazing Saddles - Brooks, 1974
The Producers - Brooks, 1968
Harvey - Koster, 1950
The Court Jester - Frank, 1955
The President's Analyst - Flicker, 1967
Duck Soup, and many other Marx Bros. movies
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - Gilliam, 1983
Morgan! - Reisz, 1966
ANIMATED
My Neighbor Totoro - Miyazaki, 1988
Grave of the Fireflies - Takahata, 1988
Princess Mononoke - Miyazaki, 1997
Kiki's Delivery Service - Miyazaki, 1989
Pinocchio - Disney (Luske), 1940
Spirited Away - Miyazaki, 2001
Howl's Moving Castle - Miyazaki, 2004
Castle in the Sky - Miyazaki, 1986
Fantasia - Disney (Algar), 1940
Snow White - Disney, 1937
The Lion King - Disney (Allers), 1994
Watership Down - Rosen & Guy, 1978
Millenium Actress - Kon, 2001
Perfect Blue - Kon, 1998
The Iron Giant - Bird, 1999
C.G.I.
C.g.i. animated movies are good, but I consider them to be a separate genre from the other animated movies.
Finding Nemo - Stanton, 2003
Toy Story 1 & 2 - Lasseter, 1995 & 1999
Monsters, Inc. - Docter, 2001
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SHORT FILMS
Dream of the Wild Horses - Daunant, 1960
The Man Who Planted Trees (animated) - Back, 1987
The Mole and the Green Star (animated) - Miler, 1968
http://www.thechestnut.com/mole.htm
http://www.thechestnut.com/mole-2.htm
http://www.kratkyfilm.cz/catalogue/html/60.htm
http://www.kratkyfilm.cz/catalogue/html/indexa.htm
& almost anything by:
Keaton, Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy
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OTHER PERSONAL FAVORITES
Made in Heaven - Rudolph, 1987
Miracle on 34th St. - Seaton, 1947
The Bishop's Wife - Koster, 1947
Babe 1 & 2 - Noonan, 1995 / Miller, 1998
A Christmas Carol / Scrooge - various versions
Andy - Sarafian, 1965
Groundhog Day - Ramis, 1993
Brazil - Gilliam, 1985
Twelve Monkeys - Gilliam, 1995
Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Hall, 1941
Heaven Can Wait - Beatty & Henry, 1978
Death Takes a Holiday - Leisen, 1934
Barabbas - Fleischer, 1962
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