Mike just sent me a list of movies he has to watch for a writters seminar hes taking later this year. I’ve seen most of these, but I added a bunch of them to my netflix queue. The excersice is for him to watch each movie and identify what about them makes them “great”.
I’ve marked the ones I’ve seen in italic. The rest I’ve added to my list to watch.
* A Beautiful Mind
* About Schmidt
* Accidental Tourist, The
* Adaptation
* After Hours
* Alien
* Amadeus
* American Beauty
* And Justice For All* Artificial Intelligence
* Babel* Being John Malkovich
* Big Chill, The
* Brokeback Mountain* Carnal Knowledge
* Casablanca
* Chinatown
* Crying Game, The
* Deer Hunter, The
* Departed, The
* Diabolique* Die Hard
* Empire Strikes Back, The
* English Patient, The* Farewell My Concubine
* Fight Club
* Fish Called Wanda, A
* Godfather I & II
* In The Realm Of The Senses* Jaws
* Kiss Of The Spider Woman
* Kramer V. Kramer
* Last King of Scotland, The* Law & Order
* Leaving Las Vegas
* Life Is Beautiful
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Million Dollar Baby
* Mystic River
* Mrs. Soffel* Ordinary People
* Parenthood
* Piano, The
* Pulp Fiction
* Queen, The* Reservoir Dogs
* River, The* Sex and the City
* Sideways
* Six Feet Under
* Star Wars
* Streetcar Named Desire, A
* Talented Mr. Ripley, The
* Tender Mercies* The Terminator
* Terms Of Endearment
* Trading Places
* Unmarried Woman, An* Verdict, The
* Wall Street
