Repost: Just rewatched this amazing film recently, and what once felt like a warning from the near future now feels ripped from the headlines… Today, most people know director Alfonso Cuarón as the first Latino[…]
Category: Top 10 Movies
Ten Best Movies (most with Existential Humanist Themes)
Top 10 Movies: #2 – Do the Right Thing
It’s the hottest day of the year. Spike Lee is known as an actor’s director, and nowhere is that more apparent than in his masterpiece, 1989’s Do the Right Thing, an acknowledged classic of American[…]
Top 10 Movies: #3 – Casablanca
What hasn’t been said about Casablanca? It’s a nearly flawless piece of cinema, and the crowning achievement of the old “assembly-line” system of movie-making, under which the studio would pull a director, a couple of[…]
Top 10 Movies: #4 – Stand By Me
While Stand By Me (1986) is undeniably an excellent film, I’m not sure I can actually justify how high it ranks on my personal Top 10 list (it almost came in at number 3, but[…]
Top 10 Movies: #5 – The Princess Bride
As frequent readers of this blog know, The Princess Bride, both as a novel and as the 1987 Rob Reiner directed movie, was one of the paradigm-shaping artworks that first led me to formulate my[…]
Top 10 Movies: #6 – The Graduate
I have to admit, part of my deep affection for movie #6 on my personal Top 10 list, the 1967 Mike Nichols film The Graduate, comes from the fact that at my alma mater, Swarthmore[…]
Top 10 Movies: #7 – Eternal Sunshine (Reconstructivist Art)
I’m re-running my post on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to commemorate the fact that it’s not only an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art, it is also movie #7 on my personal top 10 movies[…]
Top 10 Movies: #8 – Star Wars (Reconstructivist Art)
I realize may lose geek points for placing Star Wars this low –my only defense is that we have seven absolutely stellar pieces of film yet to go after this… George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977)[…]
Top 10 Movies: #9 – The Breakfast Club
I’m revealing my Generation X origins with my pick for 9th best movie, 1985’s The Breakfast Club. Without letting director John Hughes off the hook for “crimes” such as the casual racism and sexism of[…]
Top 10 Movies: #10 – Airplane!
Starting the list from the bottom, my tenth favorite movie is the purest comedy on the list, and my personal pick for the funniest movie ever, the absurdist 1980 Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker farce Airplane! A broad parody[…]