Today’s Post by Joe Farace
Everybody and their cousin’s friend has published/YouTube-ed a “best of” movie/DVD/Blu-ray/4K list. What follows is not my list of the best 100 movies that were ever made or ones that are available on physical media. Instead it’s a list of my favorite one hundred movies and they are not in order of my favorite-ness of even best on the list. It’s just an order that poured out of my brain I was clicking away on a keyboard. These are a bunch of movies, some—but not all—of which I own in DVD, Bu-ray and a few in 4K, like Citizen Kane. And I’ve only included a few links for those who might want to pick up one or two of these movies from Amazon, Kino Lorber, Criterion Collection or one of the others, including import, boutique producers of physical media.
It’s my intention to create future editions of Joe’s Film Club as videos for my YouTube channel, Joe Farace’s Videos. I hope that the first one was already launched before this post appears but I think this post works best as text because it’s a long list. UPDATE: My first Joe’s Movie Club video—about region-based Blu-rays and region free discs and players— was just uploaded, You can see it here. In upcoming videos I plan to feature reviews of some of the movies on this list in an upcoming videos, plus I’ll be looking at with interesting new Blu-ray and 4K movies coming from Paramount Presents, Warner Archives and the Criterion Collection. Look for videos on one or all of these new special releases, like the King Kong (1933) Blu-ray, real soon now.
You can send me movies—DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray— to review that can be used in these videos by emailing me via the CONTACT link. Just ask for my mailing address and I will promptly reply.
The Third Man- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Dark Knight
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Memories of Murder
- Zodiac
- Saboteur
- The Philadelphia Story
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Blazing Saddles
- Vanishing Point
- Grand Prix
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Lilies of the Field
- Vertigo
- Taxi Driver
- Goodfellas
- Sleepers
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Verdict
- King Kong (1933)
- Silence of the Lambs
- Assault onPrecinct13 (1976)
- The Parallax View
- All the Presidents Men
- Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
- The Sting
- Easy Rider
- Rain Man
- The Hustler
- Smokey & The Bandit
- Boogie Nights
- She Done Him Wrong
- My Darling Clementine
- Tombstone
- Stagecoach
- North by Northwest
- Lost Horizon
- Contact
- Back to the Future
- Unforgiven
- Escape from New York
- Citizen Kane
- The Thin Man
- The Great Zigfeld
- Heaven’s Gate
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Top Hat
- King Kong
- Gojiro
- Call Northside 777
- The Bridge over the River Kwai
- Moneyball
- City of Life and Death
- The Conspirator
- Sullivan’s Travels
- The Lady in the Lake
- It Happened One Night
- Schindler’s List
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (any version)
- Casablanca
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Wizard of Oz
- Sunset Boulevard
- Some Like it Hot
- Sabrina (1954)
- Network
- Chinatown
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Full Metal Jacket
- Amadeus (not the Director’s Cut)
- Blade Runner (not the Director’s Cut)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Inherit the Wind
- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
- The Searchers
- Patton
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Duck You Sucker
- The French Connection
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Fargo
- The African Queen
- Blancanieves
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Wings
- Metropolis
- Seven Samurai
- The Magnificent Seven
- Cinema Paradiso
- The Red Shoes
- Pulp Fiction
- Heat
- LA Confidential
- The Wild Bunch
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)