To choose only 10 films for this list was a task at once simple and impossible.
In compiling my Top 10 film list, I tried to avoid obvious choices based on general consensus.
I’m totally willing to admit, at the outset, the possibility that any of my favorite 10 below may decline in estimation over time.
It’s hard not to get a little nostalgic while trying to determine one’s favorite films of all time.
I’m a compulsive. It’s no surprise that my list is full of movies about compulsion.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
Men in masks have been darting across the movie screen since the days of silents and serials.
Next time you snuggle up with your childhood friend, remember these teddy bear stars, who strive to prove there’s more to them than mere fluff.
Fear and Desire has a certain fierceness that’s hard to shake.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
With Ascher’s fantastic hoot of a movie, this year’s omnipresent Sundance tagline (“Look Again”) has finally lived up to its promise.
I suspect the biggest reason Barry Lyndon is overlooked is because of its slow, deliberate, drawn-out pace and, this is crucial, its lack of a signature moment.
The apolitical nature of Incendies is strangely more irksome than the film’s tempestuous and highly controversial final twist.
Criterion fulfills a long rumored release with the essential Blu-ray of one of the great devils of 1950s American cinema.
The film sings an ultimately joyful song.
For better and worse, Paths of Glory is Exhibit A in defense of Stanley Kubrick against those who think he lacks human feeling.
Mysteries of Lisbon plays as an endlessly compelling juggling act.
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film’s purity of essence.
Its status as the film that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick’s reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted.
My God, it’s full of stars: a fitting DVD package for the greatest film ever made.