For me, picking 10 favorite movies out of a countless number of films out there is like asking a mother to pick her favorite child.
It’s not quite “Sophie’s Choice”, but it’s difficult for me. There are so many great movies out there. I thought I’d make up a list of my favorites, and see what makes the cut. I just couldn’t pick 10. Not possible. So I picked 13. So I picked some of them based on my favorites of a certain categorie. Like my favorite Disney, my favorite Hitchcock etc…
So here they are. So far. In no particular order….
1. The Goodbye Girl (1979) (This is my favorite movie, hands down. It’s smart, funny and it didn’t need sex, violence or cursing to pull it off. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against all that stuff. Pulp Fiction and Big Lebowski wouldn’t work as well without the “F” word and guns, and how provocative would The Reader have been if all they’d done was kiss and hold hands.)
2. Beauty And The Beast (It’s my favorite Disney movie, but still one of my favorites.
3. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (My favorite Newman film. He was so beautiful and tortured. And Elizabeth Taylor. Whew! Incredible. )
4. All About Eve
5. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. (So original, this movie was refreshing.)
6. American Beauty
7. Seven (Morgan Freeman. Kevin Spacey. Need I say more?)
8. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (These movies made me love fantasy.)
9. The Green Mile (Favorite King movie. It was hard to pick it over Shawshank, but the Mile made me cry twice reading it, and every time I watch it. And I’m not a movie crier.)
10. Singing In The Rain (Favorite musical, and favorite Gene Kelly)
11. The Sixth Sense (Back when “a twist ending” meant the ending was surprising. Now it’s used as a marketing ploy to get people to watch their movies).
12. Vertigo (Favorite Hitchcock)
13. Edward Scissorhands (Favorite Tim Burton Flick)
So there they are. I mourn the ones I had to omit. Like Fight Club and American History X (basically anything that involves Ed Norton with no shirt….)