MSN Movies recently polled the contributors to submit a list of their favorite films. Not a list of the best films ever made, or the most important, or most significant. This was about personal favorites, the films we return to, the films we love.
Four Seattle film writers — all of them contributors to Parallax View at one time or another — participated in the poll and contributed short essays on a select few of the ultimate list of 100 films. Click on the names below to read the essays.
The complete list is on MSN Movies here.
2. North By Northwest — Richard T. Jameson
4. It’s a Wonderful Life — Richard T. Jameson
8. Nashville — Jim Emerson
9. Lawrence of Arabia — Sean Axmaker
10. The Searchers — Kathleen Murphy
19. Vertigo — Jim Emerson
26. A Hard Day’s Night — Jim Emerson
27. Rio Bravo — Kathleen Murphy
36. Only Angels Have Wings — Kathleen Murphy
39. Sunrise — Sean Axmaker
41. Monty Python’s Life of Brian — Jim Emerson
46. Trouble in Paradise — Richard T. Jameson
52. Dazed and Confused — Sean Axmaker
53. McCabe and Mrs. Miller — Kathleen Murphy
67. Playtime — Sean Axmaker
71. Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Jim Emerson
77. Stagecoach — Richard T. Jameson
79. Some Like it Hot — Richard T. Jameson
82. Excalibur — Kathleen Murphy
87. La Dolce Vita — Jim Emerson
88. Two-Lane Blacktop — Sean Axmaker