Many of My Favoite Movies
Scent of a Woman. Used to hold the title spot for "Eric's All-Time Favorite Movie."
On The Waterfront. Current favorite movie. Featuring the best film score ever written, Eva Marie Saint in her first movie role, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and the immortal line "I couldda been a contender..."
Miller's Crossing. My favorite Coen Brothers movie.
North By Northwest. The first of several Hitchcock films on this list. I guess the reasons I put this one first are 1)The title is a "Hamlet" reference, and 2)I've got a thing for Eva-Marie Saint.
Hamlet. Brilliantly realized by Kenneth Branagh.
The Usual Suspects. A few things I love in movies: 1)good ensemble acting, 2)good, quickly-paced dialogue, 3)a good mystery, and 4)lots of violence.
Grosse Pointe Blank. As a friend of mine once said, not the best movie ever made, but the hippest movie ever made.
Star Wars. Fuck you. These movies are great. Much better than that "Star Trek" bullshit.
Swingers. A triumph for the indie-comedy, and the template for my entire year in Florida.
Vertigo. Featuring one of the eeriest damn scenes in movie history.
Shakespeare In Love. You really can't beat Tom Stoppard for comedic dialogue.
Psycho. The original, not the good-but-completely-unnecessary remake.
Magnolia. Very well-directed, written, and acted. With one of the most interesting narrative structures I've ever seen.
Swimming to Cambodia. A masterful monologue by Spalding Gray, directed by Jonathan Demme.
Fargo. Another excellent Coen Brothers movie, featuring one of my favorite character actors--William H. Macy.
Taxi Driver. More things I like to see in movies: 1)Robert De Niro, 2)Vigilanteism, and 3)Scorcese.
The Shawshank Redemption. Contains one of my favorite scenes in movie history, when Tim Robbins plays the duetto aria from "Marriage of Figaro" over the prison PA system.
The Green Mile. Almost as good as "Shawshank," but without the Mozart aria scene.
Leaving Las Vegas. Nicholas Cage's best performance so far, and an even better performance by Elizabeth Shue's breasts.
Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy/Dogma. For simplicity's sake, I'm just including a link to viewaskew.com, since I've thoroughly enjoyed all of Kevin Smith's movies.
Aliens. Easily one of the best sci-fi, action, and horror movies ever made.
The Princess Bride. Can't forget this quirky little fantasy/comedy--It's so densely packed with some of the most memorable lines of dialogue in movie history. Go ahead, try saying "My name is Inigo Montoya" in a crowd of random people. I guarantee that fully half the people who hear you, if not more, will finish the line.
Die Hard. Genre-defining action movie. A few more things I like to see in movies: 1)Bruce Willis, 2)Alan Rickman, 3)decent writing in an action movie, 4)explosions.
Shine. A very well-done movie about musicians and what nutcases they can be, and why.
The Philadelphia Story. Casting doesn't get much better than the never-repeated combination of Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant.
Mystery Men. Shut up, this movie was hilarious. And the site is really goddamn cool.
Goodfellas. More things I like to see in movies: 1)gangsters (Scorcese gangsters, not Singleton gangsters. I can see those G-dogs anytime I want to just by walking down the street.) 2)Pesci, 3)DeNiro, 4)repeated stabbing, 5)Ray Liotta, 6)memorable wiseguy dialogue, 7)dolly shots.