Dan’s Top 5 Films
Five is an impossibly small number for selecting a Best Of. Maybe I could come up with my top 5 hot dogs or my top 5 shower heads, but for works of art, I can’t select five films without making fifty apologies.
What I’ve done is choose not my favorite films, but films that I consider perfect. There is no such thing as a perfect movie, but these are the five I would hold up to the sun-god as an offering while Wil sneaks around back and steals the sun-god’s fiery sword.
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#5 – Straw Dogs
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#4 – Bicycle Thieves
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#3 – Raging Bull
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#2 – Seven Samurai
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#1 – The Thin Red Line
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# 0 – Citizen Kane
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My all-time favorite film – Sherlock Jr.
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My all-time favorite movie to watch at the Music Box Theatre – The Third Man
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And I need to make an honorable mention; in fact, I call for a new category altogether:
The most I’ve ever cried at a film – Into the Wild
To preserve our friendship (Scott), I omitted Chinatown.
Can we do a separate list of our top 5 animated gifs?
best cat gif: http://i.imgur.com/rhAjR.gif
best dog gif: http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/animalsbeingdicks/animalsbeingdicks/abd-55.gif
Man, you’re the second smart person I know who has listed The Thin Red Line as his favorite. I guess I should get around to watching it.
Thin Red Line is very good. It’s part of a trilogy of Polish/French movies including Thin Blue Line and Thin White Line.
Ahem.
Kieslowski 4eva!