This is by no means a definite list but just a fun crack at it. I don't think any film can be considered the greatest ever because films aren't meant to be made into competition. Filmmaking isn't a sport, you know. But anyway, here are twenty of my favorites…

*Apocalypse Now (favorite war film)


*Amadeus


*Chungking Express


*Drunken Master 1 and 2 (If I had to choose my favorite martial arts films, it would be these two. Number one had the most engaging training sequences in a kung fu film to me. Number two had some of the most amazing fight chorography I have ever seen.)



*A Clockwork Orange

*Hard-Boiled


*Halloween

*Robocop

*Terminator 1 and 2

*The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

*Die Hard 1 and 3 (2 was so-so, and 4 was terrible, so they’re excluded)

*Pulp Fiction

*Taxi Driver

*Blade Runner

*Fight Club

*Dawn of the Dead

*Battle Royale

*Seven Samurai

*Blue Velvet


*Memories of Murder


I noticed my list consists of mostly one film from each auteur. For example, Coppola for “Apocalypse Now”, or Woo for “Hard-Boiled”.

In no particular order (but the first one):

1. The Hours
2. Amelie
3. Whispering Corridors series
4. One Hour Photo
5. Vincent Wants To Sea
6. A Tale Of Two Sisters
7. Epitaph
8. The Grandmother & Rabbits (every David Lynch movie actually)
9. Shimotsuma Monogatari and Memories Of Matsuko
10. I'm A Cyborg But That's OK
11. Schindler's List
12. Three Nuts For Cinderella
13. Pan's Labyrinth
14. Black Swan
15. Old Boy
16. Alice In Wonderland (Disney and Jan Švankmajer's version)
17. Paprika
18. La Vie En Rose
19. All Ghibli movies
20. JIN ROH

And many, many, many more.