Josh Bell

Josh Bell is a film and TV critic for Las Vegas Weekly, and can be found at Signal Bleed

These are in order of preference, but it's a loose, fluid order. By no means do I think of these as the 50 greatest films of all time, merely the 50 that most speak to me.

  1. Heathers (1988) .. Michael Lehmann
  2. The Big Lebowski (1998) .. The Coen Brothers
  3. Rosemary's Baby (1968) .. Roman Polanski
  4. Fight Club (1999) .. David Fincher
  5. Batman (1989) .. Tim Burton
  6. Clerks. (1994) .. Kevin Smith
  7. The Birds (1963) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .. Michel Gondry
  9. Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
  10. Scream (1996) .. Wes Craven
  11. Bring It On (2000) .. Peyton Reed
  12. Gattaca (1997) .. Andrew Niccol
  13. Carrie (1976) .. Brian De Palma
  14. Pulp Fiction (1994) .. Quentin Tarantino
  15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) .. James Cameron
  16. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) .. Trey Parker
  17. À Bout de Souffle (1960) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  18. Lone Star (1996) .. John Sayles
  19. Wild Things (1998) .. John McNaughton
  20. Nikita (1990) .. Luc Besson
  21. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) .. David Mirkin
  22. Alien (1979) .. Ridley Scott
  23. Almost Famous (2000) .. Cameron Crowe
  24. The Craft (1996) .. Andrew Fleming
  25. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) .. Don Siegel
  26. Heat (1995) .. Michael Mann
  27. To Die For (1995) .. Gus Van Sant
  28. Interview with the Vampire (1994) .. Neil Jordan
  29. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) .. Woody Allen
  30. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  31. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) .. Jonathan Demme
  32. Quick Change (1990) .. Howard Franklin & Bill Murray
  33. Clueless (1995) .. Amy Heckerling
  34. Bound (1996) .. The Wachowski Brothers
  35. Chasing Amy (1997) .. Kevin Smith
  36. The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  37. Out of Sight (1998) .. Steven Soderbergh
  38. Misery (1990) .. Rob Reiner
  39. Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
  40. Before Sunset (2004) .. Richard Linklater
  41. North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  42. Face/Off (1997) .. John Woo
  43. The Last Picture Show (1971) .. Peter Bogdanovich
  44. The Truman Show (1998) .. Peter Weir
  45. The Matrix (1999) .. The Wachowski Brothers
  46. Three Kings (1999) .. David O. Russell
  47. The Fly (1986) .. David Cronenberg
  48. Halloween (1978) .. John Carpenter
  49. Memento (2000) .. Christopher Nolan
  50. About Schmidt (2002) .. Alexander Payne

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