• 17Jan 08

  Got Accepted to College...

  I just got accepted to the University of Washington. It's great news that I know I'm going to college now!
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• 24Jun 06

  Witness for the Prosecution -- 10/10

  Witness for the Prosecution, a Billy Wilder masterpiece, is one of the finest courtroom dramas. I'd go as far as saying that this is superior to 12 Angry Men. Billy Wilder constantly injects witty dialogue at the finest moments blending humour, suspense, and drama together perfectly. His screenplays are almost always fantastic. Not only do they have near perfect pacing, but they keep the viewer interested at all times. The film constantly had me on my toes (not literally of course!) wondering what evidence or events could turn up next. The acting is also superb; I'd expect nothing less from a Wilder production though. Charles Laughton put on a spectacular show, one of the finest in his career. Enough praise for this film though! I highly recommend it. Personally, I find it to be a near equal to that of my favorite Wilder film, Double Indemnity (one that I will have to most certainly view again).
  • Posted Jun 24, 2006 8:27 pm PT
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• 18Jun 06

  My 100 Favorite Films

  I compiled this list and expanded on it over the past year or two. Note: This list is subject to change as I see other films.
  
  001. 8 ½ (1963) – Federico Fellini
  002. Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz
  003. The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
  004. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
  005. The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
  006. All About Eve (1950) – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  007. The Browning Version (1951) – Anthony Asquith
  008. Dolce Vita, La (1960) – Federico Fellini
  009. Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa
  010. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) – Robert Bresson
  011. Sherlock Jr. (1924) – Buster Keaton
  012. Shichinin no samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
  013. Rebecca (1940) – Alfred Hitchcock
  014. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Stanley Kubrick
  015. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean
  016. Double Indemnity (1944) – Billy Wilder
  017. Roman Holiday (1953) – William Wyler
  018. The General (1927) – Buster Keaton
  019. Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
  020. Grande illusion, La (1937) – Jean Renoir
  021. Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
  022. Grand Hotel (1932) – Edmund Goulding
  023. Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
  024. Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) – Jules Dassin
  025. A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick
  026. Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
  027. It Happened One Night (1934) – Frank Capra
  028. The Apartment (1960) – Billy Wilder
  029. Strada, La (1954) – Federico Fellini
  030. Jules et Jim (1962) – Francois Truffaut
  031. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) – Sergio Leone
  032. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Milos Forman
  033. Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski
  034. Diaboliques, Les (1955) – Henri-Georges Clouzot
  035. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) – François Truffaut
  036. Cercle Rouge, Le (1970) – Jean-Pierre Melville
  037. Offret – Sacrificatio (1986) – Andrei Tarkovsky
  038. Fitzcarraldo (1982) – Werner Herzog
  039. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) – Giuseppe Tornatore
  040. Boot, Das (1981) – Wolfgang Peterson
  041. Vertigo (1958 ) – Alfred Hitchcock
  042. The Lady Eve (1941) – Preston Sturges
  043. Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder
  044. Yeux sans visage, Les (1959) – Georges Franju
  045. Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) – Federico Fellini
  046. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – Frank Capra
  047. Brazil (1985) – Terry Gilliam
  048. 12 Angry Men (1957) – Sidney Lumet
  049. Notti Bianche, Le (1957) – Luchino Visconti
  050. Solyaris (1972) – Andrei Tarkovsky
  051. On the Waterfront (1954) – Elia Kazan
  052. M (1931) – Fritz Lang
  053. Letyat zhuravli (1957) – Mikheil Kalatozishvili
  054. Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick
  055. Smultronstallet (1959) – Ingmar Bergman
  056. Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) – Gillo Pontecorvo
  057. Ran (1985) – Akira Kurosawa
  058. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) – Preston Sturges
  059. The Third Man (1949) – Carol Reed
  060. Ladri di biciclette (1948 ) – Vittorio De Sica
  061. Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
  062. Strangers on a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock
  063. The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston
  064. To Be or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubistch
  065. The Elephant Man (1980) – David Lynch
  066. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) – Otto Preminger
  067. Tokyo monogatari (1953) – Yasujiro Ozu
  068. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock
  069. Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
  070. Andrey Rublyov (1969) – Andrei Tarkovsky
  071. The Philadelphia Story (1940) – George Cukor
  072. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – Lewis Milestone
  073. Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
  074. Amarcord (1973) – Federico Fellini
  075. American History X (1998 ) – Tony Kaye
  076. Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
  077. City Lights (1931) – Charles Chaplin
  078. Notorious (1946) – Alfred Hitchcock
  079. Germania anno zero (1948 ) – Roberto Rossellini
  080. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Elia Kazan
  081. Schindler's List (1993) – Steven Spielberg
  082. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) – Jacques Becker
  083. Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956) – Robert Bresson
  084. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) – David Lean
  085. Cool Hand Luke (1967) – Stuart Rosenberg
  086. Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, La (1972) – Luis Bunuel
  087. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) – Werner Herzog
  088. Alphaville, une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) – Jean-Luc Godard
  089. Voina I Mir (1968 ) – Sergei Bondarchuk
  090. My Man Godfrey (1936) – Gregory La Cava
  091. Touch of Evil (1958 ) – Orson Welles
  092. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) – F.W. Murnau
  093. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) – Frank Capra
  094. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) – Stanley Kubrick
  095. Charade (1963) – Stanley Donen
  096. Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen
  097. Some Like it Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder
  098. Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin
  099. Laura (1944) – Otto Preminger
  100. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) – Robert Mulligan
  • Posted Jun 18, 2006 5:46 pm PT
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