I guess this entry is more for the personal record but it’s something I wanted to do for a long long time – a compilation of my favorite movies. There are 38 of them listed right now but I probably missed a few. There are many many more that I like very much and which are funny, thrilling, interesting, or just pleasant to watch. About some I was very uncertain whether to include them in the list or not. There are many others that have won awards and which I find excellent films indeed. But this compilation wouldn’t make sense if I would simply list all films that are known to be good. Also, I did not intend to be fair regarding directors or the country of origin which is why, unsurprisingly, many of the directors on the list appear more than once and most of them are from the US. These are movies that have influenced me in one way or the other, that I like to remember and think about, and all of them I find brilliant pieces of art.
It would be very interesting to show such a list to a psychoanalytic – I would suspect they could draw some quite detailed conclusions about one’s personality from it. And I think I can make out certain tendencies toward particular kinds of films and storys here, too. Can you?
