Mine too, and I think it's his best film to boot. Absolutely devastating. Hara is a goddess. RIP indeed.

Biggest misses I'm seeing on here are the lack of Stanley Donen (whose work I've always preferred to Vincent Minnelli's), Elia Kazan and John Huston. Not saying these deserved to be #1 in their letters but I would've hoped you could at least find runner-up slots for them.

Agreed. For about a decade it was my favorite movie of all time. It's shifted down a couple of notches in recent years only because a couple of movies (The Best Years of Our Lives and A Hard Day's Night) have moved up the list, but it's still a top-fiver for me.

First three essentials seem pretty much right on, though I'd swap Some Like it Hot for either 4 or 5 (both of which are good, but not top-top-tier).

And that's the movie's fault?

I'm on board with this too. To me it was fun to spend time with the characters again, but thematically it felt superfluous at the time and it still does.

"From a cinematic standpoint, I don’t deny that it’s a film that looks
good, is directed well, and features several outstanding performances,
but I found Jordan Belfort to be such an absolutely repellant character
that it’s one of the few films I’ve seen in my life that I not only
wanted it to be over but also wished…

Drive is not a good movie.

Nice list, and a good reminder that there are still a whole lot of really wonderful movies being made.

Agreed. I always thought she was the best thing about Happy Endings, and a natural at broad comedy.

Super Mario Bros. 2.

It's funny - I wasn't a Stuart Scott fan at all when he first started out on Sportscenter, having grown up with the too-smart-for-the-room white guy class (Berman, Ley, Olbermann, Patrick, Steiner, Kilborn). Stuart was such a departure from that, and his hip-hop highlight style felt like a performance, or a shameless…

Too right on Walken. Felt like Kevin Spacey doing Christopher Walken doing Captain Hook. And come to think of it, Spacey would have NAILED this role. Otherwise, agree, the production was fine, and next year I'd love to see them tackle some more Rogers & Hammerstein. South Pacific, The King & I, Carousel - any seem…

Not to be that guy (ok, totally to be that guy), but Goldfinger's plot wasn't to rob Fort Knox. It was to make the gold radioactive so as to inflate the value of his own gold.

Just started watching this on Netflix, and it's mesmerizing. Excited to hear it's coming back.

As I stated above, I think Jack's wife is definitely a goner, and that Hannibal will serve her to him. When he realizes this, I'm guessing that's what will prompt the confrontation that was teased.

Anyone want to start taking bets on when Jack Crawford is going to unknowingly eat his wife (or part of her)? It's exactly the kind of twist this show would revel in, and I'm guessing [mild spoiler alert] that that's what's going to prompt the early S2 scene most of the Internet has been abuzz about.

Agree with pretty much everything here. I'll admit that Welles' post-Kane output is actually a major blind spot for me - think I've only seen Touch of Evil and Ambersons - so I can't really speak to whether Kane is his best film or not. I just get so chaffed when I read one Oscar column after another proclaiming the…

I think you could probably make a case for Preston Sturges' output between 41 and 44 and, in terms of sheer consistency, Wyler between '36 and '46. But in terms of the compressed time frame, agree that there really isn't anything that comes close.

Kristin Thompson wrote a beautiful appreciation of How Green Was My Valley on her and David Bordwell's blog, which doubled as a response to the (incredibly lazy) cliche about the crime of How Green Was My Valley beating Citizen Kane. It's well worth a read: http://www.davidbordwell.ne…. I'm in lockstep with pretty…