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Wow, so many great titles!
One not yet mentioned (unless I missed it) is Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, a parody of Noir movies. Co-written by Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, directed by the former and starring the latter.
An odd little movie I saw long ago and loved is Rubin & Ed, starring Crispin Glover. Delightfully twisted! I recently found a used copy of the DVD for a coupla bucks.
I love everything Christopher Guest has done, especially Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting For Guffman.
I love 1960’s Don Knotts, and after he left The Andy Griffith Show he did two silly comedies: The Ghost And Mr. Chicken and The Reluctant Astronaut.
I’m looking at my DVD rack as I write this, and here’s some favorites I see:
Ain’t In It For My Health (The Band drummer/singer Levon Helm)
American Graffiti
The Bank Dick (love W.C. Fields!)
Black Swan (Natalie Portman is amazing in this beauty of a film)
Chinatown (of course)
Crumb
Detour (maybe the shortest running length of all Noirs)
Don’t Look Back (which chronicles Dylan’s 1965 tour of England)
Ghost World (co-written and directed by Terry Zwigoff, who also did Crumb), starring Steve Buscemi
Hall Pass
Happiness (a very twisted little film)
Hard Eight (written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall. You may remember him as the book detective in one Seinfeld episode)
Kingpin
The Machinist (a very dark movie)
Melvin And Howard (Howard Hughes is at the center of this one)
Napoleon Dynamite
Papillon (Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
The Producers (original). Genius movie!
River’s Edge
Shadow Of The Vampire (Willem Defoe was robbed of an Oscar for his performance in this movie)
Something Wild (Ray Liotta is great in his role)
Stranger Than Paradise
Sybil (Sally Field’s performance is just as good as it gets)
Taxi Driver
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Three Faces Of Eve (Joanne Woodward is a great actress!)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Touch Of Evil
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
The Wizard Of Oz
Young Frankenstein