Evan T. Burchfield

Medford, Oregon, United States of America
Continuity

My list is divided into three groups, by era: silents to 60s, 60s to 80s, 90s to now. It is simply a list of my favorites right now, as no one has seen every film. My taste gets slightly less canonical as time progresses, owing more to availability on DVD than anything else.

Some films have other films listed next to them as alternatives, in parentheses. This is my way to cheat the system and include way more than 50 films (my list already has 55+ main entries). In terms of my personal preference, there's no real difference between the movies listed and those in parentheses. Most of the time the alternative film is by the same director, but sometimes it is merely thematically or stylistically connected.

The bolded titles are my ten favorite films at the moment.

• City Lights (1931) [or Sunrise (1927)]
• M (1931)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938) [or The 39 Steps (1935) or Young and Innocent (1937)]
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [or You've Got Mail (1998)]
• How Green Was My Valley (1941) [or Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)]
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) [or Black Narcissus (1947) or A Matter of Life and Death (1946)]
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Henry V (1944)
• Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Diary of a Country Priest (1950) [or Pickpocket (1959) or A Man Escaped (1956)]
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Night and Fog (1955) [or Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)]
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Psycho (1960) [or Rear Window (1954) or Vertigo (1958) or The Birds (1963)]
• The Trial (1962) [or Touch of Evil (1958)]
• Contempt (1963) [or Day for Night (1973) or The Player (1992)]
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)

• Playtime (1967) [or Mon Oncle (1958)]
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Gimme Shelter (1970)
• Chinatown (1974)
• F For Fake (1974)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) [or The Last Wave (1977)]
• All the President's Men (1976)
• Network (1976) [or 12 Angry Men (1957)]
• 3 Women (1977) [or The Long Goodbye (1973) or McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)]
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Halloween (1978) [or Suspiria (1977)]
• Running Fence (1978) [or Christo in Paris (1990)]
• Alien (1979)
• Stalker (1979) [or Mirror (1975)]
• Burden of Dreams (1982) [or Always for Pleasure (1978)]
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)
• Qatsi Trilogy: Koyaanisqatsi (1982) & Powaqqatsi (1988) & Naqoyqatsi (2002)
• Sans Soleil (1983) [or A.K. (1985) or La Jetee (1962) or The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)]
• Amadeus (1984)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) [or Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)]
• For All Mankind (1989)

• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) [or Full Metal Jacket (1987)]
• Topsy Turvy (1999) [or A Prairie Home Companion (2006)]
• Gosford Park (2001)
• Spirited Away (2001) [or Nausicaä - Of the Valley of the Wind (1984)]
• Russian Ark (2002)
• Solaris (2002)
• American Splendor (2003)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• The Fog of War (2003) [or Standard Operating Procedure (2008)]
• Before Sunset (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• Hidden (2005) [or Code Unknown (2000)]
• Into Great Silence (2005)
• Eastern Promises (2007) [or A History of Violence (2005)]
• Ratatouille (2007) [or The Incredibles (2004)]