Favorite Movies

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920) | Review
Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922) | Review
Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1926) | Review
The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) | Review
City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931) | Review
Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1931) | Review
M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931) | Review
King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) | Review
The Thin Man (dir. W.S. Van Dyke, 1934) | Review
Modern Times (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1936) | Review
Easy Living (dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1937) | Review
The Life of Emile Zola (dir. William Dieterle, 1937) | Review
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra, 1939) | Review
Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks, 1939) | Review
The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir, 1939) | Review
Fantasia (dir. Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norm Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, 1940) | Review
The Great Dictator (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1940) | Review
His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940) | Review
Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941) | Review
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941) | Review
Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942) | Review
Heaven Can Wait (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) | Review
Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder, 1944)
Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944)
The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek (dir. Preston Sturges, 1944)
Children of Paradise (dir. Marcel Carné, 1945)
The Lost Weekend (dir. Billy Wilder, 1945)
It’s a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra, 1946)
The Bicycle Thief (dir. Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (dir. Robert Hunter, 1949)
Harvey (dir. Henry Koster, 1950)
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)
An American in Paris (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1951)
Forbidden Games (dir. René Clément, 1951)
Rashomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
Casque d'Or (dir. Jacques Becker, 1952)
High Noon (dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Ikiru (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1952)
Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler, 1953)
Stalag 17 (dir. Billy Wilder, 1953)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
East of Eden (dir. Elia Kazan, 1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Giant (dir. George Stevens, 1955)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
The Hidden Fortress (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Otto Preminger, 1959)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959)
North By Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell, 1960)
Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (dir. Francois Truffaut, 1960)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer, 1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan, 1962)
High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester, 1964)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
Blowup (dir. Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Closely Watched Trains (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1966)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966)
A Man and a Woman (dir. Claude Lelouch, 1966)
Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols, 1966)
Don’t Look Back (dir. D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (dir. Stanley Kramer, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone, 1968)
A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Eat the Document (dir. Bob Dylan, 1972)
The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Serpico (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1973)
The Godfather, Part II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman, 1975)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
Marathon Man (dir. John Schlesinger, 1976)
Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (dir. George Lucas, 1977)
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones, 1979)
The Muppet Movie (dir. James Frawley, 1979)
Animalympics (dir. Steven Lisberger, 1980)
Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1981)
The Dark Crystal (dir. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, 1982)
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1982)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (dir. Richard Marquand, 1983)
Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone, 1984)
Paris, Texas (dir. Win Wenders, 1984)
The Goonies (dir. Richard Donner, 1985)
My Life as a Dog (dir. Lasse Hallström, 1985)
Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner, 1987)
Withnail and I (dir. Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan, 1988)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (dir. Guiseppe Tornatore, 1988)
Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee, 1989)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)
The Commitments (dir. Alan Parker, 1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1991)
Solo con tu pareja (dir. Alfonso Cuaron, 1991)
El Mariachi (dir. Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
A Bronx Tale (dir. Robert DeNiro, 1993)
Schindler’s List (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (dir. Krysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
Clerks (dir. Kevin Smith, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (dir. Frank Darabont, 1994)
Trois couleurs: Blanc (dir. Krysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (dir. Krysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Underground (dir. Emir Kusturica, 1995)
The Usual Suspects (dir. Bryan Singer, 1995)
Swingers (dir. Doug Liman, 1996)
Chasing Amy (dir. Kevin Smith, 1997)
Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
Good Will Hunting (dir. Gus Van Sant, 1997)
Los Amantes del Circulo Polar (dir. Julio Medem, 1998)
The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen, 1998)
Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998)
Slam (dir. Marc Levin, 1998)
All About My Mother (dir. Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes, 1999)
Being John Malkovich (dir. Spike Jonze, 1999)
Fight Club (dir. David Fincher, 1999)
Office Space (dir. Mike Judge, 1999)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe, 2000)
High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears, 2000)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Wonder Boys (dir. Curtis Hanson, 2000)
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (dir. Peter Jackson, 2001)
No Man’s Land (dir. Danis Tanović, 2001)
About a Boy (dir. Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz, 2002)
City of God (dir. Fernando Mierelles & Kátia Lund, 2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (dir. Peter Jackson, 2002)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson, 2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry, 2004)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird, 2004)
No Direction Home (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2005)
Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster, 2006)
United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass, 2006) | Review
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright, 2007)
I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007) | Review
Once (dir. John Carney, 2007) | Review
In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh, 2008) | Review
Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (dir. Banksy, 2010)
Mother and Child (dir. Roberto Garcia, 2010)