January 2003


A long time ago I started making a list of my 24 favorite movies of all time. It was extremely hard. There are so many great movies, and I had a hard time choosing just 24.

I worked on the list for a long time, and after two years I've managed to narrow it down to 56. I can't go any lower than that right now, so I'm just posting what I have. I wish they would just stop making movies for a while so I could catch up.

Rank		Title		Director
1		Citizen Kane		Welles
2		2001: A Space Odyssey		Kubrick
3		Lawrence of Arabia		Lean
4		Dr. Strangelove		Kubrick
5		Star Wars		Lucas
6		Seven Samurai		Kurosawa
7		Dune		Lynch
8		Ed Wood		Burton
9		Miller's Crossing		Coen
10		Lost Highway		Lynch
11		Real Genius		Coolidge
12		Evil Dead 2		Raimi
13		Planet of the Apes		Schaffner
14		The Magnificent Ambersons		Welles
15		Do The Right Thing		Lee
16		Raiders of the Lost Ark		Spielberg
17		Fight Club		Fincher
18		Mulholland Dr.		Lynch
19		The Matrix		Wachowski
20		A Hard Day's Night		Lester
21		Groundhog Day		Ramis
22		The Limey		Soderbergh
23		Vertigo		Hitchcock
24		Barton Fink		Coen
Rank		Title		Director
25		Rear Window		Hitchcock
26		To Catch A Thief		Hitchcock
27		Yojimbo		Kurosawa
28		O Brother, Where Art Thou?		Coen
29		Out of Sight		Soderbergh
30		Notorious		Hitchcock
31		This Is Spinal Tap		Reiner
32		The Royal Tenenbaums		Anderson
33		Barry Lyndon		Kubrick
34		Rashomon		Kurosawa
35		Blue Velvet		Lynch
36		Bottle Rocket		Anderson
37		Office Space		Judge
38		The Gold Rush		Chaplin
39		Fargo		Coen
40		Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring		Jackson
41		Three Colors: Red		Kieslowski
42		The Dirty Dozen		Aldrich
43		Blade Runner		Scott
44		Ran		Kurosawa
45		Rushmore		Anderson
46		Ronin		Frankenheimer
47		Patton		Schaffner
48		The Passion of Joan of Arc		Dreyer
Rank		Title		Director
49		The Bad Sleep Well		Kurosawa
50		Clueless		Heckerling
51		Othello		Welles
52		North By Northwest		Hitchcock
53		The Princess Bride		Reiner
54		Suspicion		Hitchcock
55		The Third Man		Reed
56		Touch of Evil		Welles