1. The Bad News Bears (1976)- see review section

2. The Stepford Wives (1975)- see review section

3. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)- see review section

5. Get to Know your Rabbit (1972)- I've often talked how i felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. Donald Beeman leaves his job as a top executive to become a tap dancing magician, much to the displeasure of his girlfriend and family. Sometimes you just have to "live life at the gut level". The scenes early on with his girlfriend are priceless.

5. A Boy and his Dog (1975)- The boy has to choose between the unreliable and manipulative girl he loves and his loyal canine companion. Who will he choose?

6. Rope (1948)- memorable quote: Kenneth: We're drinking champagne? Is it somebody's birthday?
Brandon Shaw: You might say it's quite the opposite.

7. Laura(1944)-The best insight into the twisted female mind. A brilliant piece of film noir. Memorable quotes: "Dames are always pulling a switch on you"
Then one Tuesday, she phoned and said she couldn't come. It didn't matter really. But when it happened again the following Friday, I was disturbed. I couldn't understand it. I felt betrayed and yet I knew Laura wouldn't betray anyone. I walked for a long time. Then, I found myself before her apartment building. The lights were on. It pleased me to know she was home 'til I saw she was not alone. Well, I waited. I wanted to see who he was. It was Jacoby who had recently painted her portrait. I never liked the man. He was so obviously conscious of looking more like an athlete than an artist. I spent the rest of the night writing a column about him. I demolished his affectations, exposed his camouflaged imitations of better painters, ridiculed his theories. I did it for her, knowing Jacoby was unworthy of her. It was a masterpiece because it was a labor of love. Naturally, she could never regard him seriously again. There were others, of course. But her own discrimination ruled them out before it became necessary for me to intercede.

6. WestWorld(1973)- This movie is more than just sci-fi action. It always makes me sad. I often wish that i could be like James Brolin in this film, but rather i'm more like the lead character played by Richard Benjamin. Deep down i'm proud to be that guy.

8. On her Majesty's Secret Service(1969)-best ending to a james bond film. Also has a long, beautiful chase scene

9. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)-Sinatra's best film, as a character with his own demons who must also face difficult surroundings. He turns his nervous energy into expressions and gestures that convey well what is going on inside him.

10. Barcelona (1994)-Whit Stillman's best film. Two conservative American guys hanging out in Europe clash with liberal European culture and attempt to forge relationships with free spirited and unreliable European girls. Best Quote: "Katharine Ross has just married the real cool guy - tall, blond, icredible popular, the make-out king of his fraternity at Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total asshole. 'Elaine! Elaine!' Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, 'Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman.' No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is reality."

11. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)- Hitchcock had a way of getting you to root for the villain. memorable quote:
"He thought the world was a horrible place. He couldn't have been very happy, ever. He didn't trust people. Seemed to hate them. He hated the whole world. You know, he said people like us had no idea what the world was really like."

12. Gun Crazy (1949) aka: "Deadly is the Female"- the title says it all. great ending, and great piece of film noir.

13. Purple Noon (1960)-The ending for this film left me disturbed for quite some time. Those of us with the persistence and tenacity to work so hard for so long and come so close..."The Talented Mr. Ripley" was a remake of this film, but the original has the ending.

14. Rabbit Run (1975)- an aging husband(james caan) can't move on from his days as a high school basketball star. Refuses to grow up and runs from his responsibilities, and everything else.

15. Rollerball (1975)- Norman Jewison created a masterpiece with Rollerball - understated, misunderstood and undervalued both at the time of its release and now. The corporate executives have taken away the woman he loves(Maud Adams),but they won't take away his soul. James Caan's great in this film as the man with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Unfortunately it's all too clear that the message of the film was all but ignored.

16. Save the Tiger(1972) starring Jack Lemmon The film takes place in about a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bundles of money. He'll do anything for just one more season.
Myra: Are you OK? Do you want something?
Harry Stoner: Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club -- hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow -- walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something.