Zen Breakfast

I Love Movies

You can call it a film or you can call it a movie. Just don't take it away from me. If I could spend all day or all night watching those moving pictures I would be in heaven.

I have been in heaven three times now. Ten times if you count my DIY heaven.

Most recently I found it in the form of the TCM Classic Film Festival, years 2012, 2013, and 2014. Not a lot of people understand why you'd want to spend four days solid watching old movies. Luckily for me, everyone at #TCMFF knows exactly why.

In the past, I have been known (seven times to be exact) to host 12-hour-long movie marathon parties. Turns out that was good film festival practice for later in life.

Do You Have a Favorite?

Once people learn that you love movies so much, they will inevitably ask you "what's your favorite?" That is, of course, impossible to answer when you love movies so much. Therefore, every time I'm asked, I give a different answer.

That said, here is my certainly imperfect list of films that I consider perfect:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, director Robert Wiene
To Be or Not to Be, 1942, director Ernst Lubitsch
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, director John Huston
Ikiru, 1952, director Akira Kurosawa
On the Waterfront, 1954, director Elia Kazan
Jason and the Argonauts, 1963, director Don Chaffey with Ray Harryhausen
Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, director Arthur Penn
The Graduate, 1967, director Mike Nichols
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970, director Vittorio de Sica
Save the Tiger, 1973, director John G. Avildsen
Crooklyn, 1994, director Spike Lee
Nil by Mouth, 1997, director Gary Oldman
American Beauty, 1999, director Sam Mendes
Lost in Translation, 2003, director Sofia Coppola