Some Favorite Films (in no particular order)

• The Message 1976. Directed by Moustapha Akkad.
• Tokyo monogatari (Tokyo Story ) 1953. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
• Kakushi toride no san akunin (The Hidden Fortress) 1958. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. I've enjoyed most of his movies, but this is my favorite.
• Twelve Monkeys 1995. Directed by Terry Gilliam. As with Kurosawa, I've enjoyed all of the films directed by Gilliam. I especially recommend Brazil.
• Gallipoli 1981. Directed by Peter Weir. Another director whose films I have generally admired.
• Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)1972. Directed by Luis Bunuel. See also his La Voie lactee (The Milky Way) 1969.
• Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) 1953. Directed by Jacques Tati. I also enjoyed another Tati comedy about Mr. Hulot, Mon Oncle (My Uncle)
• Der Tunnel (The Tunnel) 2001. Directed by Roland Suso Richter.
• The Magic Christian 1969. Directed by Joseph McGrath
• Solo Sunny 1980. Directed by Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Konrad Wolf.
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963. Directed by Stanley Kramer, who directed several other films I like. He also produced High Noon (1952), my favorite western.
• The Gold Rush 1925. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. I think almost everything Chaplin did was hillarious. This is my favorite of his many magnificent movies.
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Another great director. This is my favorite of his several good films.
• The In-Laws 1979. Directed by Arthur Hiller.
• Life of Brian 1979. Directed by Terry Jones. I'm a Monty Python fan. This is my favorite of the Python movies.
• Airplane 1980. Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker.
• Fantasia 1940. Directed by a whole bunch of people for the Disney Studios. This has been one of my favorite films since I first remember seeing it when I was two years old.
• The Yellow Submarine 1968. Directed by George Dunning. This is another film I loved when I was a young child and still enjoy today. I also thoroughly enjoy the Beatles movies Help! and A Hard Day's Night.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended DVD version) 2002. Directed by Peter Jackson. For all three of the Lord of the Rings films directed by Peter Jackson the extended DVD versions are far superior to the theatrical releases. All three are good films if we ignore Tolkien's books and just admire the movies on their own. My emotional reactions to the films as a Tolkien fan were: joy in the Fellowship of the Ring, profoundly mixed feelings about The Two Towers, horror and disgust at what Jackson did with the Return of the King.
• Star Wars 1977. Directed by George Lucas. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) is just as good or better, and the Return of the Jedi (1983) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) are great as well. I liked The Phantom Menace (1999) and The Attack of the Clones (2002) as well, but not as much as the others.
• High Noon 1952. Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
• Duck Soup 1933. Directed by Leo McCarey. My favorite Marx Brothers comedy.
• Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) 1988. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. My favorite of the Hayao Miyazaki stories. I have seen seven of his movies and every one of them has been amazingly good.
• The Best Years of Our Lives 1946. Directed by William Wyler
• Blade Runner 1982. Directed by Ridley Scott. So many films have been based on my favorite science fiction author's work (Philip K. Dick), and none of the movies can compare to the quality of his short stories and novels. This one comes closest.
• The Thin Man 1934. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke.
• The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit 1956. Directed by Nunnally Johnson.
• The Man in the White Suit 1951. Directed Alexander Mackendrick. All the Ealing Studios comedies I've seen have been good.
• Elling 2001. Directed by Petter Naess.
• Lao Jing (Old Well) 1986. Directed by Tian-Ming Wu. I think the best Chinese movies were made in the 1980s, and I haven't seen anything since 1989 to compare with what was done in the years leading up to that watershed year.
• The Wild Party 1929. Directed by Dorothy Arzner
• La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc 1928. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potempkin) 1925 directed by Sergei Eisenstein. His 1938 Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky) directed with Pyotr Pavlenko is also good, especially for the music.

Some of the movies I've listed were films I enjoyed when I was much younger, and I might not appreciate them again if I saw them now.

Some television series have I enjoyed:

1. Nova
2. Frontline
3. The Prisoner
4. The Goodies
5. SCTV
6. The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
7. M*A*S*H
8. The Omega Factor
9. Millenium The first two seasons were great, but the third season was awful.
10. Wild Kingdom
11. Nature
12. Sealab 2020 My favorite Saturday morning cartoon when I was a child.
13. Josie and the Pussycats. My other favorite Saturday morning cartoon.
14. Star Trek. My favorite Star Trek series was the Next Generation, although the last couple seasons of Deep Space Nine were great as well.
15. When I was very small I would watch Bewitched, I Love Lucy, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers.
16. Other television personalities I like include Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, and Steve Allen.

Some of my favorite personalities in the entertainment industry:

• Carole Lombard
• Myrna Loy
• Clara Bow
• Lillian Gish
• Lexa Doig
• Katharine Hepburn
• Rosenda Monteros
• France Nuyen
• Harrison Ford
• Steve Martin
• Mel Gibson
• Robin Williams
• Cary Grant
• Jonathan Winters
• Alec Guinness
• Peter Sellers
• Charlie Chaplin
• Anthony Quinn
• Patrick Stewart

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