My 100 Favorite Films of All Time

1.  Pulp Fiction (1994) Directed by Quentin Tarantino The film I owe my immense geekdom to, Tarantino's crime comedy is my single favorite film of all time, with most of my favorite characters and lines of all time. Ezekal 25:17, Foot Massages, Amsterdam McDonalds, Uncomfortable Silences, Walking The Earth, Personality, and knock-knock jokes. Brilliant. 2. Taxi Driver (1976) Directed by Martin Scorsese Scorsese's look into the mind of a lonely man's descent into madness is the greatest and best of all films, everything about this movie is perfect, and Robert DeNiro gives the best performance in cinema history. You talking to me? Well there's nobody else here. 3. Raging Bull (1980) Directed by Martin Scorsese It's not hard to tell why Scorsese is my favorite director and DeNiro my favorite actor when 3 of out my top 10 films of all time are of their collaborations. In this tale of Jake Lamotta, the prize boxer, Scorsese shows why there is no one like him, and DeNiro gives another flawless performance. B&W cinematography and editing are stunning. 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Simply beautiful, a visual masterpiece chronicling man's evolution at all it's greatest steps. From the dawn of man using tools to our traveling to other worlds and making contact with other beings. Some call this mindnumbingly boring, but if you have the patience you will be greatly rewarded, and the ending, which is the best scene ever, will haunt you for years to come. 5. Magnolia (1999) Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Anderson's sprawling melodrama of operatic porportions is an amazing spectacle of acting, directing, and writing. The ensemble cast is uniformly terrific, with special note going to Tom Cruise as a misoginistic sex guru and John C. Reilly as the christ-figure and only normal character in the film. The ending brings together more than imaginable stories in one drop from the sky. 6. La Dolce Vita (1960) Directed by Frederico Fellini The best foreign film of all time is also one of the most depressing. Marcello Mastrionni stars as an unscrupulous journalist who wades around decadent Rome trying to find meaning and happiness in his life. The look, feel, and subject matter of the movie are all eons ahead of their time as is Fellini's camerawork, 7. Do The Right Thing (1989) Directed by Spike Lee Spike Lee's study of racism in America is the most important of the films on my list. It's a fascinating look ata small neighborhood in Bed-Stuy New York where a large cast of characters, mostly African-American, mill about on one of the hottest days of the year until mild social unrest and undercurresnts of bigotry break out into an explosive climax of racial upheaval. 8. High Fidelity (2000) Directed by Stephen Frears The film that most greatly resembles my life, and hit closest to home, High Fidelity is the drama/comedy of the life and loves of a pop culture geek. From his first girlfriend at 14 to his future fiance at 30 Rob Gordon has always had trouble with women, but kept coming back and they kept coming for him, much like me. This film gets to a T the way inwhich geeks talk about their passions, and the way inwhich men and women of our times interact. Pay special attention to Jack Black he's hilarious. 9. GoodFellas (1990) Directed by Martin Scorsese A life in the life of Henry Hill, mob stoolie. "From as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster" these are the words of Henry who rises through the leagues of mafia life to becoming as high as one can get without being a "made man", and eventually rats out his partners to avoid jailtime. The richly drawn characters, breathtaking shots (The famous tracking shot, the simultaneous track and zoom in the restaraunt, and many more) great acting, and superb directing from the master make this one of the greatest of all films and the best mob movie ever. 10. Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson Welles The granddaddy of great cinema and the movie that started it all is not just the most influential of all films, but also suprisingly entertaining and good. This is the prime example of what one can do with themselves at a young age, Welles only 25 created what is now considered the best movie ever. An inspiring, influential, entertaining, spectacular acheivement in cinema. Rosebud 11. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Directed by Steven Soderbergh A masterpiece of truly independent filmmaking, this film started the widespread indie revolution. A simple tale as old as time itself of a drifter, a married couple with problems, and an affair with a local vixen taken to incredible new heights through amazing dialogue and screenwriting, and some of the best acting of modern times. This is a simply amazing film. 12. Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola What can be said about the greatest war film of all time, other than there is no other film in existence that even remotely resembles this film and what it touches upon. 13. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Directed by Werner Herzog