Folks, Al's Omniflick has just arrived at another milestone--my 400th posting! It's scary how fast I reached such an august number. A mere two and a half years. That's a lot of writing and a lot of movies.
Though my readership may be modest, I'm nevertheless grateful to those of you who have checked in from time to time. I also want to acknowledge my international traffic, which boasts regulars such as France, Ukraine, Germany, Russia and Portugal, though infrequent visits from places such as the Maldives, Uruguay and Vietnam reflect diverse but welcome clicks. Wherever you reside, I can assure you Al's Omniflick is always delighted to have you stop by.
To celebrate my 400th posting, I though I'd include a sloppy, haphazard list of some of my favorite films--400 that come to mind. Though I may have mentioned before how much I despise lists, I reserve the right to be a hypocrite by compiling yet another. Please bear with me.
So, in no particular order, here's a gang I like (or at least some of them):
Citzen Kane, The General, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Spirit of the Beehive, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Harlan County U.S.A., 8 1/2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, El Cid, Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee's version), Seven Samurai, The 400 Blows, The Exorcist, Love and Death, Annie Hall, The Godfather, Good Fellas, The Last Picture Show, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Napoleon Dynamite, Election, The Gold Rush, Contempt, Chinatown, The Bicycle Thief, Embrace of the Serpent, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, This is Spinal Tap, Salesman, Apocalypse Now, Russian Ark, Memento, Taxi Driver, The Philadelphia Story, The Oxbow Incident, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Day of the Jackal, Tootsie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Rififi, Le Cercle Rouge, Interstellar, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blue Velvet, Scenes From a Marriage, The Empire Strikes Back, Sabrina (original), Unforgiven, The Witch, La Strada, Los Olvidados, The Manchurian Candidate, The Taking of Pelham One, Two Three (original), To Live and Die in L.A., The Purple Rose of Cairo, Gimme Shelter, Woodstock, A Hard Day's Night, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Third Man, A Touch of Evil, The Maltese Falcon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original), A Boy and His Dog, Reservoir Dogs, Fearless, For a Few Dollars More, Before Snowfall, Anatomy of a Murder, Le Trou, Elevator to the Gallows, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, Breaker Morant, Fabulous Baker Boys, The Concert for Bangladesh, Monterey Pop, A Brief History of Time, Broadcast News, Red River, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Duck Soup, Born Yesterday, Manhattan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pickpocket, Red Shoes, Dr. Zhivago, Drugstore Cowboy, Lawrence of Arabia, Cool Hand Luke, The Innocents (1961), Rosemary's Baby, Night and Fog, Dersu Uzala, Something Wild, Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, The Graduate, Straight Time, The French Connection, Paris, Texas, Wild at Heart, The Edge of the World, Black Narcissus, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touchez Pas au Grisbi, Fitzcarraldo, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Goodnight Mommy, The Babadook, The Omen, Alien, Aliens, Brief Encounter, Paths of Glory, The Wild Bunch, The Yellow Submarine, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Witness, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, Don't Look Back, Henry V (Branaugh), Being John Malkovich, Roman Holiday, Rio Lobo, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Thing (1982), Repulsion, Day for Night, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, Westward the Women, The Milagro Beanfield War, High Plains Drifter, Bob le Flambeur, Yojimbo, My Fair Lady, Goldfinger, Ninotchka, It Happened One Night, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Awful Truth, Vertigo, The Heiress, A Place in the Sun, Lifeboat, Bonnie and Clyde, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Moneyball, Woman in the Dunes, Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove, Zulu, Red Desert, The Shining, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, Shock Corridor, Monkey Business, Silence of the Lambs, Crumb, Birth of a Nation, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Rear Window, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Bad News Bears, A Face in the Crowd, Wild River, Casablanca, Stromboli, Umberto D, La Dolce Vita, Mafioso, The Ten Commandments, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Passenger, The Border, Fright Night, A Poem is a Naked Person, Raise the Red Lantern, The Ice Storm, Animal Kingdom, Wild Tales, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Lost Horizons, Network, Knife in the Water, Ju Dou, The Martian, Guys and Dolls, Planet of the Apes, The Sweet Smell of Success, A Thousand Clowns, A Taste of Cherries, Badlands, The Tree of Life, Misery, Stand By Me, Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters (original), Jaws, E.T., Midnight Run, Dirty Harry, Bull Durham, Do The Right Thing, Boyz in the Hood, Mo Better Blues, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, The Celebration, The Hunt, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Sweet Hereafter, Hoop Dreams, Stroszek, Barcelona, The Opposite of Sex, Syrian Bride, Late Marriage, Let the Right One In, The Hurt Locker, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Repo Man, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nashville, The Man Who Would Be King, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Altered States, Decasia, Persona, The Professionals (1966), The Battle of Algiers, The Dark Knight, Carnival of Souls, The Bad and the Beautiful, Nosferatu (original), Nosferatu the Vampyre, Metropolis, Un Chien Andalou, Fog of War, Burden of Dreams, M, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Ex Machina, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mighty Aphrodite, Living in Oblivion, Sixteen Candles, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, Rambo: First Blood, The Falcon and the Snowman, Year of the Dragon, Angel Heart, Heaven Help Us, The Conversation, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Deliverance, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Thieves Like Us, Exterminating Angel, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, The Leopard, The Wages of Fear, Hannah and Her Sisters, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, Betty Blue, Beau Travai, Cries and Whispers, Black Girl, Salo or a 100 Days of Sodom, In the Realms of the Unreal, A Fistful of Dollars, Au Hasard Balthasar, Purple Noon, Lola, Diary of a Chambermaid, Chronicle, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Raging Bull, Fargo, Blood Simple, Withnail & I, The Fly (remake), The Overnighters, Inside Man, Viktoria, Blue is the Warmest Color, Foxcatcher, Kill List, Honeymoon, Search for Sugar Man, Snowtown, Marwencol, Days of Heaven, Dogtooth, Social Network, Winter's Bone, Last Train Home, Robert Blecker Wants You Dead, Hunger (Ireland), Paranormal Activity, Zodiac, Red Road, Golden Door, Manufactured Landscapes, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men, Touch the Sound, Who in the *** is Jackson Pollack?, The First Time I Was Twenty, Alone Across Australia, L'Enfant, Mysterious Skin, High Noon, Night of the Hunter, The African Queen, A Man Escaped, Sansho the Bailiff, Machuca, Gaslight, Cat People, How Green Was My Valley, Woman of the Year, The Birds, The Guns of Navarone, Help!, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Kes, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Zelig, The Desert of the Tartars, Stranger Than Paradise, Amateur, Bullets Over Broadway, Manhunter, The Commitments, The Grifters, El Mariachi, Bad Lieutenant, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Five Easy Pieces, American Graffiti, Marathon Man, Superman (1978), Breaking Away, Soylent Green, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Play Misty For Me, Scarecrow, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Decameron, Suspiria, White Hunter-Black Heart, Wild at Heart, 28 Days Later, It Follows, The Conjuring, Battleship Potemkin, Pandora's Box, The Rules of the Game, Frankenstein, I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Fury, Pepe le Moko, Django Unchained, Anomalisa, Room, A Separation, True Grit (Cohen Brothers), Straight Outta Compton, Senna, The King of Kong, The Act of Killing, When We Were Kings, Encounters at the End of the World, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Hearts and Minds, A Woman Under the Influence and Bad Company.
And there you have it folks; 400 good friends. I don't know what you'll make of it but I hope you recognize some of your faves.
Again, thank you for your attention. I never know how much gas I have left in the tank, but if one person out there bothers to show up, I suppose I have a reason to set out cookies and milk (or nachos and beer, whichever you prefer).
See you soon!
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