My Personal List of All-time Favorite Movies

In looking back, I realize it's the movies of the late '30s and '40s that captured my heart.  Perhaps because I was a child and very impressionable.  But all will agree that that era spelled movie magic.  Many from the '50s were also good, but I remember many as either always breaking into song or being too Marlon-Brando-tough.

Not all that long ago, I made a list of my all-time favorites.  Oddly, none from this current century made the cut.  Maybe like a good stew, they just need to perk in their juices awhile.

Though his movies didn't make my list, to have something to illustrate this posting, I'm including this sketch I made of James Dean for my high school art class.

1937          Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
                  Lost Horizon
1939          Wuthering Heights
                  The Wizard of Oz
                  Gone With the Wind
1940          Fantasia
                  Pinocchio
                  Rebecca
1941          How Green Was My Valley
1942          Casablanca
1945          Brief Encounter (UK)
1947          The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1948          The Red Shoes (UK)
1949          The Heiress
1950          Sunset Blvd.
1951          The African Queen
                  The River (France/India)
1952          High Noon
1953          Stalag 17
                  Shane
                  Singin' in the Rain
                  Roman Holiday
1956          The King and I
1959          The Apu Trilogy (India)
                  Some Like It Hot
1960          The Apartment
1962          Lawrence of Arabia (UK/US)
1963          Tom Jones (UK)
1969          Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1975          Dersu Uzala (Japan/Russia)
1977          Annie Hall
                  The Goodbye Girl
1979          My Brilliant Career (Australia)
                  Manhattan
1981          The Gods Must Be Crazy (South Africa/Botswana)
                  Chariots of Fire (UK)
1982          The Grey Fox (Canada)
1983          Educating Rita (UK)
                  Local Hero (UK)
1984          Amadeus
1985          Out of Africa
1986          A Room With a View (UK)
                  Hannah and Her Sisters
1987          Babette's Feast (Denmark)
                  Hope and Glory (UK/US)
1988          The Music Teacher (Belgium)
                  Working Girl
1989          When Harry Met Sally
                  Shirley Valentine (UK/US)
1990          My Father's Glory (France)
                  My Mother's Castle (France)
1991          Enchanted April (UK)
1993          The Remains of the Day (UK/US)
                  Dave
1995          Sense and Sensibility

And I don't want to forget these:

The Gold Rush.  Top Hat.  Goodbye, Mr. Chips.  The Philadelphia Story.  Now, Voyager.  Random Harvest.  Jane Eyre (1943).  Laura.  Both Olivier's and Branagh's Hamlet and Henry V.  A Song to Remember.  The Three Godfathers.  Hobson's Choice.  The Bridge on the River Kwai.  Mister Roberts.  The Cranes Are Flying (Russia).  The Sundowners.  Father Goose (one of Cary Grant's most amusing).  Zorba the Greek.  My Fair Lady.  The Graduate.  Barefoot in the Park.  All the President's Men.  The Big Chill.  Murphy's Romance.  Jean de Florette (France).  Manon of the Spring (France).  Big.  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  The Russia House.  Mediterraneo (Italy).  Thelma and Louise.  The Lover (France).  Groundhog Day.  Apollo 13.  And, of course, The Court Jester.  Let's see, was that pellet with the poison in the chalice from the palace or the vessel with the pestle ... or maybe it was in the flagon with the dragon .....