I keep trying to make a short list and I just can't do it. I'm sure I'm forgetting some movies that I really love...
Down by Law
Dead Man
Broken Flowers
High Noon
Rosemary's Baby
Blood Simple
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Box of Moonlight
The Third Man
Gaslight
Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Being John Malkovich
Harold and Maude
Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Hannah and her Sisters
Rear Window
Wild Strawberries
Bucket of Blood
Be Kind Rewind
Trust
The Unbelievable Truth
Amelie
Roman Holiday
To Kill a Mockingbird
It's a Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men
Dog Day Afternoon
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
8 1/2
Dancer in the Dark
The Celebration
The Seven Samurai
Shawshank Redemption
Hugo Pool
Donne Darko
A Tale of Two Sisters
Night of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Sean of the Dead
Carnival of Souls
Eyes Without a Face
The Fly (1986, Cronenberg)
The Dead Zone
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
The Shining
Carrie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Life is Beautiful
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
Unforgiven
Fletch
The Jerk
Animal House
Stripes
Fletch
Anchorman
Glengarry Glen Ross
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A Place in the Sun
Wild River
The Young Lions
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Misfits
Your Friends and Neighbors
The Shape of Things
Pulp Fiction
The Freshman
Election
Sideways
About Schmidt
Tree's Lounge
Ghost World
The World According to Garp
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Magnificent Ambersons
And Then There Were None
Slaughterhouse Five
Jesus' Son
Short Cuts
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Why? Why must you people continuously poo poo on my dreams? Don't you realize that I want to live, I want to give? I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
Here's another subjective measure of happiness: Ignorance.
Take another quick glance at the list with that in mind and it starts to make a lot more sense.
Holy crap! How'd you guess? I've been trying some experimental techniques for a "speed retatta," to hopefully break that elusive 1 hour barrier. No luck. It can't be done.
Attention everybody! Hello! Can I have your attention please? I have a very important announcement to make:
My foot hurts a little.
Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity.