Shane Burridge

I don’t dare presume to undertake the impossible task of stating “The 50 Greatest Films of All Time”, so rather than trot out the predictable titles from Welles, Bergman, Fellini, et al, I’ve listed the 50 films that moved, provoked, excited, or enthralled me the most:

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
• AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) .. Steven Spielberg
• Alien (1979) .. Ridley Scott
• Aliens (1986) .. James Cameron
• Amelie (2001) .. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• An American Werewolf in London (1981) .. John Landis
• Back to the Future (1985) .. Robert Zemeckis
• The Boy Friend (1971) .. Ken Russell
• Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
• Catch-22 (1970) .. Mike Nichols
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .. Steven Spielberg
• Contact (1997) .. Robert Zemeckis
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
• Empire of the Sun (1987) .. Steven Spielberg
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) .. Irvin Kershner
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .. Terry Gilliam
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
• The Graduate (1967) .. Mike Nichols
• A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) .. Alexander Mackendrick
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) .. Robert Zemeckis
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) .. Steven Spielberg
• Jaws (1975) .. Steven Spielberg
• Jurassic Park (1993) .. Steven Spielberg
• King Kong (1933) .. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
• Little Big Man (1970) .. Arthur Penn
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) .. Peter Jackson
  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) .. Peter Jackson
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) .. Peter Jackson
• Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
• The Matrix (1999) .. The Wachowski Brothers
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) .. John Schlesinger
• Miracle Mile (1988) .. Steve De Jarnatt
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) .. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
• The Mosquito Coast (1986) .. Peter Weir
• Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati
• Poltergeist (1982) .. Tobe Hooper
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) .. Steven Spielberg
• Romeo and Juliet (1968) .. Franco Zeffirelli
• Schindler's List (1993) .. Steven Spielberg
• The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Sleuth (1972) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Spirited Away (2001) .. Hayao Miyazaki
• The Stunt Man (1980) .. Richard Rush
• The Tenant (1976) .. Roman Polanski
• Tommy (1975) .. Ken Russell
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Until the End of the World (1991) .. Wim Wenders
• The Wages of Fear (1953) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Whisper of the Heart (1995) .. Yoshifumi Kondo
• Yellow Submarine (1968) .. George Dunning