Some late day inspiration hit us (relatively of course). We saw that David Fincher wrote up a offhand, semi-spontaneous list of his favorite films which inspired Jeffrey Wells to do the same. So we thought, hell, why not. The Playlist (RP), decided to write up our (my) favorite films pretty quickly. Probably took us about 3-4 minutes, work distractions aside and when at a slight loss we just thought about what stuck out in our DVD collection.
Checking Fincher’s list afterwards, we wish we would have mentioned, “Being There,” (or maybe “Harold & Maude” we totally forgot Hal Ashby), perhaps “Alien,” and ‘Butch Cassidy’ (though give Cameron his due, “Aliens” is amazing too).
On Wells’ list we really like that he included the phenomenal Romanian movie, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and & 2 Days,” and give him big ups for “Paths Of Glory,” “Point Blank” (the Boorman/Marvin version no doubt) and “Blow Up” (though one of our lesser favorite Antonioni films actually). This also reminds us that we were going to put, “A Woman On The Verge Of A Breakdown” and then it escaped us. Must have Cassavetes somewhere.
We’re forgetting a lot more, sure. But that’s the whole point of the spontaneous excercise, it’s impossible to write out all your favorite films because a) there’s too damn many and b) you’re bound to forget something (Peckinpah for example! “After Hours”! “The King Of Comedy”!). If close friends of ours read this they could surely remind us of other film’s we’ve gone on about at length.
Feel free to discuss in the comments what we missed and or should have included (No Kurosawa!?)