Films: The 'Morris List' with the top ten asterisked and annotated - in the order they came to me.
Johnny Got His Gun
Babe
Requiem for a Dream
*Frances (brilliant performance expressing the essence of the
creative, human spirit)
Our Hospitality
*Mephisto (theatrical, passionate, visual)
The Dirty Dozen
ET - the Extra Terrestrial
Annie Hall
*Days of Heaven (perhaps, the most visual film ever made)
A Clockwork Orange
*Meetings with Remarkable Men (a theatrical / philosophical
documentary directed by the greatest stage director of the century)
Groundhog Day
Children's Hour
*Night of the Hunter (best film noir treatment of good and evil)
Sleeper
Lady and the Tramp
Fellini's Cassanova
Touch of Evil
Taxi Driver
Pixote
Seven Samarai
Roshomon
400 Blows
Laura
Leave her to Heaven
*Lilli Marlene (visual but with a soundtrack so powerful it's
eerie)
The Fourth Man
Get out Your Handkerchiefs
Beau Pere
Return of Martin Guerre
Luna
*Images (simple, splendid, the film which made me want to make
films - virtually impossible to find)
Drugstore Cowboy
Rumblefish
Deer Hunter
Warriors
48 Hours
2001: a space odessey
The Elephant Man
Hard Day's Night
Superman
Nashville
Altered States
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cool Hand Luke
Shawshank Redmeption
Dances With Wolves
Caine Mutiny
*Sullivan's Travels (says it all, social comedy, greed, hollywood,
filmmaking)
Godfather Two
*The Last Wave (yes, the corporate world cannot be totally
insulated from the magical world; the film proved Peter Weir as a
director)
Klute
Straw Dogs
Strangers on a Train
From Here to Eternity
Elmer Gantry
Sound of Music
West Side Story
The Killing Fields
The Harder they Come
Salaam Bombay
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Passion of Joan of Arc
Breathless (Bout de Souffle)
Le Femme Nikita
The Best Years of Our Lives
Rebel Without a Cause
Neighbors (McLaren animation)
*Koyanoquatisi (incredibly visual social/'art' film which drives
the viewer for 90 minutes while only using one word)
Double Indemnity
Lucas
Absent Minded Professor
Network
Field of Dreams
A Place in the Sun
Resurrection
Midnight Run
Rainbow Wars
Paris, Texas
Sukkerbaby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Boy Who Could Fly
