Favorite Movies

I am a movie JUNKIE, so here's favorites that stand out right now.

Barry Lyndon    gorgeous.
Beau Travail    also gorgeous
A Beautiful Mind   I saw it before all the hype and enjoyed it. does that sound defensive?
The Bourne Trilogy
BUtterfield 8

Casa de los Babys
Celebration/Festen   amazing portrayal of family dynamics and secrets
Children of Men
The Conversation

Downfall
Draughtsman's Contract    love the frames within frames
Drowning By Numbers   love the structure, the games

Eyes Wide Shut

A Face in the Crowd best movie you've never heard of
Fight Club
Fitzcarraldo    tough to get into, but SO rewarding in the end
The Five Obstructions
Funny Bones    love the look at different types of humor

The Gleaners and I
The Great Escape

Harold & Maude*    saw this when I was 13, 14? Totally influenced me
Hight Art

The Ice Storm
The Inlaws (1979)    Serpentine! Serpentine!
The Insider
The Italian Job (2003)   I love heist movies. I ate this up with a spoon.

Juliet of the Spirits*   the images from this movie are now hardwired into my brain.

The King is Alive
Kinsey    

L.A. Confidential    so good.
The Last of Sheila
Laurel Canyon     I appreciated the not-so-romantic take on the artist's life, also with High Art
L'iceberg
The Limey
The Lives of Others
Lolita
The Long Goodbye
The Loved One*    so dark, so very dark.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)   Angela Lansbury kicked my ass
The Man in the White Suit

Network

Ocean's Eleven   such fun.

Peter's Friends
Phantom of the Paradise*    trying to decide if this is a guilty pleasure or a pleasure pleasure
Playtime    superb! gorgeous! stunning! worthy of hyperbole.
The Princess and the Warrior

Rocky Horror Picture Show   
Rushmore     (I was Max Fischer in high school)

Secretary  
Shortbus
The Station Agent

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
There Will Be Blood
The Third Man
Traffic
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Tulse Luper Suitcases

The Virgin Suicides    totally captured early teendom for girls, some 70's nostalgia for me.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?    hurts so good
A Woman Under the Influence     can I be Peter Falk when I grow up?

A Zed and Two Noughts    you can see, I'm a Greenaway fan. Love the structures, the visuals

*most favorite faves