Harry Yung

Profession: Chartered Accountant (Canadian)
Formal training in film studies: none

Relevant background:

1. 700+ IMDb user comments posted
2. enthusiasm
3. my bi-weekly-updated movie blog that was started in March 2007: Movie Blog

• All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Amadeus (1984) .. Milos Forman
• Before Sunrise (1995) .. Richard Linklater
• Before Sunset (2004) .. Richard Linklater
• The Best of Youth (2003) .. Marco Tullio Giordana
• The Big Country (1958) .. William Wyler
• Billy Budd (1962) .. Peter Ustinov
• Camelot (1967) .. Joshua Logan
• Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
• Christmas in August (1998) .. Hur Jin-ho
• Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .. Steven Spielberg
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) .. Ang Lee
• The Deer Hunter (1978) .. Michael Cimino
• Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean
• The Double Life of Veronique (1991) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) .. Steven Spielberg
• Elmer Gantry (1960) .. Richard Brooks
• The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• Hana-Bi (1997) .. Takeshi Kitano
• Hello, Dolly! (1969) .. Gene Kelly
• High Noon (1952) .. Fred Zinnemann
• Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
• Inherit the Wind (1960) .. Stanley Kramer
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) .. Stanley Kramer
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
• The Longest Day (1962) .. Ken Annakin & Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki
• 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
• Man of La Mancha (1972) .. Arthur Hiller
• The Mission (1999) .. Johnnie To
• The Old Man and the Sea (1958) .. John Sturges
• On the Beach (1959) .. Stanley Kramer
• Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Railroad Man (1999) .. Yasuo Furuhata
• Red Beard (1965) .. Akira Kurosawa
• Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
• The Seventh Seal (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Sleuth (1972) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Star Wars (1977) .. George Lucas
• The Straight Story (1999) .. David Lynch
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) .. Elia Kazan
• Talk to Her (2002) .. Pedro Almodóvar
• The Ten Commandments (1956) .. Cecil B. DeMille
• Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
• 12 Angry Men (1957) .. Sidney Lumet
• The Twilight Samurai (2002) .. Yôji Yamada
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957) .. Billy Wilder
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming

1. Compiling this list is among the most painful of the compiler's experiences. The end result is a very personal choice first and foremost.

2. That said, there was a conscious effort to make this a representative list in a general context (prominent directors, language, genre etc). Otherwise, it could have easily included half a dozen Hitchcock films, or had half the selections as musicals.

3. The most favourite among the 50, personal choices again, are Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Camelot, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Lord of the Rings, Red Beard, 12 Angry Men.