ten favorite and best movies



	#1 Casablanca
	Director: Michael Curtiz
	Release Date: 1942
	Principal Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre
	Casablanca has to be (or should be) on everyones's list of favorites. Everything is right about this film, and on top of that it for me it brings a load of memories of days gone by and of cold winter nights watching movies and drinking wine.


	#2 Blade Runner
	Director: Ridley Scott
	Release Date: 1982
	Principal Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer
	Being a SiFi fan from way back, this film really hits my "You ain't gonna Like the future notion" right on the button; thirty five plus years later it is still hits home.


	#3 The African Queen
	Director: John Huston
	Release Date: 1951
	Principal Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
	Bogart was just the best, and here coupled with Katharine Hepburn you get a dynamic that is unequaled. I must say that it does break my heart when the bottles of gin go over board.


	#4 Delicatessen
	Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	Release Date: 1991
	Principal Cast: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac
	Jean-Pierre Jeunet has so much going on here, and while Delicatessen deals with a future gone wrong (a landlord/butcher that sells the meat of his tenants) the slapstick horror makes you laugh whether or not you want to.


	#5 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
	Director: Stanley Kubrick
	Release Date: 1964
	Principal Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens
	One must wonder how many times during the Cold War this scenario was played out in real life to just short of the armageddon ending. As the sequence of events unfolds you find yourself laughing in spite of best efforts not to, and as the events race to the obvious ultimate holocaust you wonder if the leaders of the Super Powers might not be as insane as those in the movie.


	#6 La Battaglia di Algeri
	Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
	Release Date: 1966
	Principal Cast: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin
	This tail of the bloody French repression of the Algerian bid for independence at times looks for all the world like a documentary, but it is not; it is a riveting movie. It shows how the oppressor can win the battle while at the same time loosing the war. One of the best war movies ever.


	#7 Et maintenant on va où? (Where do we go now?)
	Director: Nadine Labaki
	Release Date: 2011
	Principal Cast: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Layla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf
	In a small village in Lebanon inhabited by both Christians and Muslems surrounded by landmines except for a narrow bridge during the Civil War, the women try using various ruses to keep the men from taking up arms against each other. The village slowly spials into conflict even as the women remain united in their effort to keep peace. This is a beautiful tragicomedy. You will want to laugh and cry at the same time.


	#8 War of the Arrows
	Director: Kim Han-min
	Release Date: 2011
	Principal Cast: Park Hae-il, Ryu Seung-Ryong, Moon Chae-won, Kim Mu-yeol
	This non-stop, action packed epic film is set in 17th Century Korea during the second Manchu invasion of the Joseon Dynasty. It is an excellent example of the high quality movies that are being produced in South Korea.


	#9 The English Patient
	Director: Anthony Minghella
	Release Date: 1996
	Principal Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas
	Based on the book by Michael Ondaatje, this is a wonderful film of astounding dimensions. It won 9 well deserved Academy Awards.


	#10 The Usual Suspects
	Director: Bryan Singer
	Release Date: 1995
	Principal Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite
	Much has been made of this film for its surprise ending, but it is so much more than that. It moves on so many levels, has such depth of plot and has a tremendous cast. This movie can stand viewing time and again, and each time the viewer will come away with something new.

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