Film List

As a film essayist/writer, I watch a lot of movies. My taste is all over the place and it includes canonical classics, guilty pleasures, as well as, obscure films that few people know. I love comedies, including rom-coms, documentaries, Golden Age of Hollywood films, and I love a good indie, too. This is an ongoing list with films that I’ll add to – some – most – will be reviewed on this site.

Adam’s Rib (dir. George Cukor)
All About Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Amadeus (dir. Miloš Forman)
American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes)
An American in Paris (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)
Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Frank Capra)
Auntie Mame (dir. Morton DaCosta)
Bananas (dir. Woody Allen)
Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton)
Beverly Hills Cop (dir. Martin Brest)
Big (dir. Penny Marshall)
The Big Lebowski (dir. Coen brothers)
Blazing Saddles (dir. Mel Brooks)
Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Das Boot (dir. Wolfgang Petersen)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards)
Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks)
Broadcast News (dir. James L. Brooks)
Cabaret (dir. Bob Fosse)
Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Chicken Run (dir. Nick Park, Peter Lord)
Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski)
Cinema Paradiso (dir. Giuseppe Tornatore)
Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Wells)
City Slickers (dir. Ron Underwood)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan)
Disclosure (dir. Sam Feder)
Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Widler)
Duck Soup (dir. Leo McCarey)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
Fantasia (dir. Walt Disney)
Fargo (dir. the Coen brothers)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (dir. Amy Hecklering)
Father of the Bride (Charles Shyer)
Finding Nemo (dir. Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
A Fish Called Wanda (dir. Charles Crichton)
Framing Britney Spears (dir. Samantha Stark)
Frankenstein (dir. James Whale)
Funny Girl (dir. William Wyler)
Ghost (dir. Jerry Zucker)
Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman)
The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Gone with the Wind (dir. Victor Fleming)
The Goodbye Girl (dir. Herbert Ross)
Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
The Great Dictator (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
The Great Muppet Caper (dir. Jim Henson)
Grey Gardens (dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer)
Groundhog Day (dir. Harold Ramis)
Harold and Maude (dir. Hal Ashby)
His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks)
Hoop Dreams (dir. Steve James)
How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France)
I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck)
It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra)
The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (dir. Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg)
Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Kill Bill: Vol 2 (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer)
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
McQueen (dir. Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui)
Meet Me in St Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
Moonstruck (dir. Norman Jewison)
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (dir. H.C. Potter)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (dir. Brian Henson)
The Muppet Movie (dir. James Frawley)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (dir. Frank Oz)
My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
My Man Godfrey (dir. Gregory La Cava)
Nashville (dir. Robert Altman)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
A Night at the Opera (dir. Sam Wood)
9 to 5 (dir. Colin Higgins)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick)
Ninotchka (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
O.J. Made in America (dir. Ezra Edelman)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman)
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Parasite (dir. Bong Joon Ho)
Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingtston)
Philadelphia Story (dir. George Cukor)
Private Benjamin (dir. Howard Zieff)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)
Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Raising Arizona (dir. Joel Coen)
Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Rocky (dir. John G. Avildsen)~
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
Roxanne (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Schindler’s List (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Sense and Sensibility (dir. Ang Lee)
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (dir. Ken Kwapis)
The Seven Year Itch (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron)
Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
Sophie’s Choice (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
A Star Is Born (dir. George Cukor)
A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Elia Kazan)
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (dir. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)
Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Thelma & Louise (dir. Ridley Scott)
This Is Spinal Tap (dir. Rob Reiner)
The Times of Harvey Milk (dir. Rob Epstein)
To Catch a Thief (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Tootsie (dir. Sydney Pollack)
Toy Story (dir. John Lasseter)
The Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet)
20 Feet from Stardom (dir. Morgan Neville)
Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Wait Until Dark (dir. Terence Young)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (dir. Nick Park, Steve Box)
The Way We Were (dir. Sydney Pollack)
West Side Story (dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins)
What’s Up, Doc? (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich)
When Harry Met Sally… (dir. Rob Reiner)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Witness for the Prosecution (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Wizard of Oz (dir. Victor Fleming)
Woman of the Year (dir. George Stevens)
Working Girl (dir. Mike Nichols)