Favorite Films:

A listing of films I will admit to like

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• A Clockwork Orange
• Akira
• Army of Darkness, the sequel to Evil Dead 2
• Austin Powers
• Batman: redefined the Dark Knight
• Beerfest: by Broken Lizard
• Better Off Dead: seminal John Cusack film about a lovelorn high school boy who'll try anything to get his girl back.
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Blade Runner
• Buckaroo Banzai
• Clerks: Kevin Smith film about two friends who hate their jobs and shouldn't be trusted with the store. Features Jay and Silent Bob, as well as Olaf ("Olaf do metal, girl think sexy").
• Dark City: Rufus Sewell and Kiefer Sutherland star as people hopelessly enmeshed in a dark conspiracy to control people's memories in order to study the human soul.
• Desperado
• Dogma: A Kevin Smith film about two fallen angels who try to get back into Heaven on a technicality. Features Jay and Silent Bob as prophets.
• Evil Dead 2
• Excalibur: look for appearances by Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson, as well as Nicol Williamson as Merlin.
• Faust: A black-and-white, silent film about the legend of a learned man who sells his soul to the devil for ultimate power. Features a powerful shot of the devil extending his immense wing over Faust's embattled German town, and an angel with a sword of lightning. Pretty impressive effects when the film was made.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• GalaxyQuest: An hilarious spoof of the legacy of Star Trek fandom, with Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, and Sigourney Weaver as washed-up veteran actors from an old sci-fi show that find themselves in a real space adventure, with perhaps their wierdest fans.
• Grosse Pointe Blank: John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Ackroyd
• Hamlet, the Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, and BBC/Nikol Williamson versions -- although none of them have a good Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• Heathers: "Corn-Nuts!"
• Henry V, the Kenneth Branagh version: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"
• High Fidelity
• High Plains Drifter: it may be a western, but it's DARK and disturbing
• Highlander - Sean Connery as Ramirez: I'm a Spaniard, I'm an Egyptian, I'm Scottish, I'm from another dimension; there can be only...four?
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Jeffrey
• Labyrinth
• Lethal Weapon 1, Lethal Weapon 4
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Lone Star
• Macbeth, The Roman Polanski version
• Men in Black
• Othello, both the Laurence Fishburne and Orson Welles versions
• Pulp Fiction: "Zed's dead, baby... Zed's dead"
• Reservoir Dogs
• RoboCop: "Protect the innocent, Serve the public trust, Uphold the law"
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. The philosophical adventures of the two luckless courtiers when they're not on the stage of "Hamlet."
• Schindler's List
• Seven Samurai, by Kurosawa
• Shakespeare in Love
• Shall We Dance?: A great movie, even subtitled into English. The story of a Japanese businessman who discovers his love for ballroom dance despite the inherent cultural taboos.
• South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
• Spaceballs: "SpaceBalls(tm) the FlameThrower... the kids LOVE this one"
• Storefront Hitchcock: Jonathon Demme's film of Robyn Hitchcock doing his music thing.
• Strange Brew: "Eh, hoser" -- Elsinore Brewery? Owner murdered? His evil brother takes over? It takes place in the Great White North? I smell a "Hamlet" homage...
• Super Troopers: brought to you by Broken Lizard
• Swingers
• The Blues Brothers
• The Crow
• The Fifth Element: "A real killer would have asked what that little red button was for"
• The Full Monty
• The Lost Boys - "I can't believe it! My brother is a sh*t-sucking vampire!"
• The Marx Brothers in Horse Feathers, A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup, Monkey Business; "Oh, Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you seen Lydia, oh, Lydia the ta-ttooed la-dy... when her muscles start relaxin', up the hill comes Andrew Jackson"
• The Matrix
• The Mummy
• The Pirates of Penzance, starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt and Angela Lansbury
• The Princess Bride: "Life is pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something"
• The Producers
• The Professional, by Luc Besson -- also known as Leon in Europe.
• Rogue Trader: Ewan McGregor plays Nick Leeson, the trader who broke Baring's Bank
• The Seventh Seal
• Throne of Blood, The Kurosawa Macbeth
• Tombstone
• Total Recall
• Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' cut. Starring a young, svelte, very liberal Charleton Heston playing a Mexican detective married to a lovely American blonde. Orson Welles stars as the fat, gruff and hard-nosed detective whose hands are getting a little too dirty.
• Trainspotting:
• True Lies: Arnold Schwarzenneger succeeds at what he failed to accomplish with The Last Action Hero. Also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Tia Carrerre, and a young Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer").
• Vertigo: Takes place in San Francisco. We psychoanalyzed this Hitchcock classic in my Paranoia in Literature and Film class.
• Wilde, starring Stephen Fry
• Willow: "I don't love her! She kicked me in the face!" (Madmartigan, "the greatest swordsman that ever lived")
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: "so shines a good deed in a weary world..."
• Without a Clue: Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine spoof the legacy of Sherlock Holmes. "And the true identity of Moriarty is... Arty Morty.... no, no, no, no"
• Young Frankenstein: "That's FRONK-en-shteen!"