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DeLorenzo's All-time Favorite Movies

Since I started DeLorenzo's Dugout in 1997, I'm often asked about what movies I liked over the years. So -- here they ares! All of these movies have been seen and enjoyed by yours truly on multiple occassions! Even scarier, all are on file (on video and/or DVD) at the Fortress of Solitude.

DeLORENZO'S DUGOUT TOP MOVIES OF 2001:
1. The Man Who Wasn't There
2. Moulin Rouge
3. The Tailor of Panama
4. The Heist
5. Made

DeLORENZO'S DUGOUT TOP MOVIES OF 2000:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Gladiator
4. Way of The Gun
5. X-men

DeLORENZO'S DUGOUT TOP MOVIES OF 1999:
1. Free Enterprise
2. Being John Malkovich
3. Three Kings
4. Tarzan
5. South Park The Movie
6. American Beauty
7. Fight Club
8. Bowfinger

DeLORENZO'S DUGOUT TOP MOVIES OF 1998:
1. Jackie Brown
2. Out of Sight
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Twilight
5. Wild Things

DeLORENZO'S DUGOUT TOP MOVIES OF 1997:
1. LA Confidential
2. The Big Night
3. George of the Jungle
4. Boogie Nights
5. The Whole Wide World

Jim's All-time Top 10
1. Superman The Movie
2. Mary Poppins
3. The Producers
4. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5. What's Up Doc
6. To Catch a Thief
7. The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
8. Miller's Crossing
9. The Natural
10. Citizen Kane

Five from Robert Redford
1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Sting
3. A River Runs Through It
4. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
5. The Horse Whisperer

Six Musicals
1. Singing in the Rain
2. Xanadu
3. High Society
4. The black & white, James Whale-directed Showboat
5. The Music Man
6. My Fair Lady

A Hitchcock Double Feature
1. North By Northwest
2. Vertigo

Great Actors of Our Past
1. Arsenic & Old Lace (Cary Grant)
2. All About Eve (Bette Davis)
3. Lost Horizon (Ronald Colman)
4. This Gun for Hire (Alan Ladd)
5. Shane (Alan Ladd)
6. King's Row (Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings, Claude Rains)
7. Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper)
8. The Fountainhead (Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal)
9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart)
10. Deadline USA (Bogart)
11. Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
12. The Westerner (Cooper)
13. Sweet Smell of Success (Burt Lancaster)
14. Elmer Gantry (Lancaster)
15. Sunset Boulevard (Bill Holden)
16. Stalag 17 (Holden)
17. The Searchers (John Wayne)
18. The Quiet Man (Wayne)
19. Whispering Smith (Alan Ladd & Robert Preston)
20. Gunfight at the OK Corral (Lancaster, Kirk Douglas)
21. The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope)
22. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
23. The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen, NOT Pierce Brosnan)
24. The Strawberry Blonde (Jimmy Cagney)
25. They Died with their Boots On (Errol Flynn)

Unsung Great Joseph Cotten
1. Love Letters
2. Portrait of Jennie
3. The Third Man

The King - Orson Welles
1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Touch of Evil
3. F is For Fake
4. Lady from Shanghai
5. Jane Eyre

Film Noir & Neo Noir
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Glass Key
3. The Blue Dahlia
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Mulholland Falls
6. Twilight
7. Murder My Sweet
8. Farewell My Lovely (Robert Mitchum version)
9. Out of Sight (1998)
10. Kiss Me Deadly (Ralph Meeker meets Mickey Spillane)

Quentin Tarantino's Best
1. True Romance
2. Jackie Brown
3. and parts of Crimson Tide

The Entire Coen Brothers Catalog
1. Blood Simple
2. Raising Arizona
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Barton Fink
5. The Hudsucker Proxy
6. Fargo
7. The Big Lebowski
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9. The Man Who Wasn't There

Science Fiction - Focusing on Apocalyptic Films of the 70s
1. Planet of the Apes
2. Rollerball
3. Logan's Run
4. Omega Man
5. Soylent Green
6. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
7. Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
8. Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country

Three from the 1970s
1. The French Connection
2. Enter the Dragon
3. The Godfather

Best of the 1980s
1. Choose Me
2. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
3. Tucker
4. Soapdish
5. King of New York
6. Joe Vs. The Volcano
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
8. Hoosiers
9. Blue Velvet
10. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
11. Broadcast News
12. The Fabulous Baker Boys
13. The Year of Living Dangerously
14. Chariots of Fire
15. The Pope of Greenwich Village


Best of the 1990s

1. Wild Things
2. Beyond Rangoon
3. Grosse Point Blank
4. Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion
5. Being John Malkovitch
6. Seven Years in Tibet
7. Fight Club
8. American Beauty
9. Three Kings
10. Ed Wood
11. The Big Night
12. The Shawshank Redemption
13. The Whole Wide World
14. Chaplin (Robt. Downey)

The Best of the 21st Century -- So Far (4/1/02)
1. Pollock
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. O Brother Where Art Thou?
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. The Heist
6. Moulin Rouge
7. Made


Comic Book to Movie

1. The Phantom
2. Batman
3. Batman Returns
4. Dick Tracy
5. George of the Jungle
6. Doc Savage
7. Popeye
8. The Rocketeer
9. The Mask
10. WORST: The Shadow

A Trio of Sports Movies
1. Mr. Baseball
2. Fast Break
3. Slap Shot


EIGHT YOU NEVER HEARD OF

1. My Chaffeur (Deborah Foreman)
2. The Swimmer (Lancaster)
3. Birds of Prey (David Jansen)
4. The Andersonville Trial (Shatner)
5. The Last Tycoon (DeNiro)
6. The Public Eye (Joe Pesci)
7. Into The Night (Jeff Goldblum & Michelle Pfieffer)
8. All Night Long (Gene Hackman & Barbra Streisand)

The Best of David Lean
1. A Passage to India
2. Dr. Zhivago
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Ryan's Daughter

The Wonderful World of Disney
1. Dumbo
2. Tron
3. The Black Hole
4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5. Hercules
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
7. Pinocchio
8. Sleeping Beauty
9. The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
10. Tarzan