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    my 100 favorite films

    As some of you might know, I've been maintaining a complicated Film Viewing database which contains an incomplete (but growing) list of basically every film I've ever seen. One of the fun aspects of doing this is that I've set up a filtered view of this database which selects the films that I've given a rating of 9 or 10 to... thus auto-deriving a list of my "favorite" films.

    As of today, when I added Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) to the database, the number of films on the "favorites" page hit exactly 100. Check it out.

    It's organized chronologically, and you'll notice that it skews a bit towards recent films, in part because the 2000s have been a pretty good decade for film and in part because this database primarily (although not exclusively) reflects films I've watched or re-watched in the past two years. That said, there are definitely some blind spots: I'm sure there were some masterpieces produced between 1944 and 1954, but I'm not sure I've seen them.

    This list reflects my personal favorites, and not necessarily the films I'd consider "canonical," although there is some overlap. (The 100 canonical films list, which could use some revision around now, can be found here.)

    Comments and suggestions are welcome...

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    Friday, October 24, 2008
    1:27 PM

     

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    Cassavetes is shooting up my 100 Favorites list. Just saw Killing of a Chinese Bookie which is fantastic. Someone please release Husbands!

    I think I was at that same screening of Delicatessen at the Ritz in Philly in 1991, btw.
     
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