Thank you for reading and I hope the following lists give you a good sense of my cinematic taste.  These are works of art that entertain, fascinate, and move.  Many of them are masterpieces that I discovered through reading Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, Film Comment, and the New York Times.  Siskel & Ebert's Top 10 lists and other film critics helped to inform me.  To quote Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, "I have an enthusiasm and affection for these top ten films,  and I want to share this enthusiasm with you."    

     1999

1.  Being John Malkovich

2.  Princess Mononoke

3.  Magnolia

4.  Three Kings

5.  Boys Don't Cry

6.  American Beauty

7.  Bringing Out the Dead

8.  The Insider

9.  Titus

10.  Cabaret Balkan

11.  Topsy-Turvy

12.  Sleepy Hollow

13.  Eyes Wide Shut

14.  The Straight Story

15.  The Talented Mr. Ripley

16.  Cookie's Fortune

17.  Mansfield Park

18.  All About My Mother 

19.  The Blair Witch Project

20.  The Dreamlife of Angels

     1998

1.  Dark City

2.  A Simple Plan

3.  Hilary and Jackie

4.  Saving Private Ryan

5.  Pleasantville

6.  Elizabeth

7.  Babe: Pig in the City

8.  Happiness

9.  Pi

10.  Sonatine

     1997

1.  The Sweet Hereafter

2.  Eve's Bayou

3.  Jackie Brown

4.  Boogie Nights

5.  Maborosi

6.  Wag the Dog

7.  L.A. Confidential

8.  Titanic

9.  The Ice Storm

10.  In the Company of Men

     1996

1.  Fargo

2.  Breaking the Waves

3.  Bound

4.  Secrets and Lies

5.  Everyone Says I Love You

6.  Basquiat

7.  Hamlet

8.  Welcome to the Dollhouse

9.  Lone Star

10.  The English Patient

     1995

1.  Exotica

2.  Leaving Las Vegas

3.  Casino

4.  Dead Man Walking

5.  Crumb

6.  Nixon

7.  My Family

8.  Before the Rain

9.  A Walk in the Clouds

10.  Heat

     1994

1.  Pulp Fiction

2.  Blue, White & Red

3.  Natural Born Killers

4.  The Crow

5.  Hoop Dreams

6.  Forrest Gump

7.  Sugar Hill

8.  Fresh

9.  To Live

10.  The New Age

     1993

1.  Schindler's List

2.  The Piano

3.  The Age of Innocence

4.  Menace II Society

5.  The Joy Luck Club

6.  Short Cuts

7.  Kalifornia

8.  The Nightmare Before Christmas

9.  Like Water For Chocolate

10.  What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

     1992

1.  The Hairdresser's Husband

2.  Malcolm X

3.  The Crying Game

4.  Damage

5.  One False Move

6.  Flirting

7.  Bad Lieutenant

8.  The Player

9.  Howards End

10.  Unforgiven

     1991

1.  JFK

2.  The Silence of the Lambs

3.  Boyz N the Hood

4.  Grand Canyon

5.  Beauty and the Beast

6.  The Rapture

7.  My Father's Glory / My Mother's Castle

8.  A Woman's Tale

9.  Dead Again

10.  Terminator II: Judgment Day

     1990

1.  Santa Sangre

2.  GoodFellas

3.  The Grifters

4.  Reversal of Fortune

5.  Monsieur Hire

6.  Awakenings

7.  Dances With Wolves

8.  Last Exit to Brooklyn

9.  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

10.  The Godfather, Part III

     1989

1.  Do the Right Thing

2.  Drugstore Cowboy

3.  Say Anything

4.  Born on the Fourth of July

5.  My Left Foot

6.  Crimes and Misdemeanors

7.  Field of Dreams

8.  Cinema Paradiso

9.  Driving Miss Daisy

10.  Roger & Me

     1988

1.  Shy People

2.  Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

3.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

4.  The Last Temptation of Christ 

5.  Mississippi Burning

6.  Wings of Desire

7.  Salaam Bombay!

8.  The Thin Blue Line

9.  The Accidental Tourist

10.  A Fish Called Wanda

11.  Dear America:  Letters Home From Vietnam

12.  Talk Radio

13.  Running on Empty

     1987

1.  House of Games

2.  Prick Up Your Ears

3.  Barfly

4.  The Last Emperor

5.  The Big Easy

6.  Broadcast News

7.  Housekeeping

8.  Moonstruck

9.  Radio Days

10.  The Witches of Eastwick

11.  Lethal Weapon

12.  Full Metal Jacket

13.  Masters of the Universe

     1986

1.  Platoon

2.  Sid & Nancy

3.  Hannah and Her Sisters

4.  Trouble in Mind

5.  Lucas

6.  Vagabond

7.  'Round Midnight

8.  Down and Out in Beverly Hills

9.  Aliens

10.  Mona Lisa

     1985

1.  After Hours

2.  Ran

3.  The Color Purple

4.  Runaway Train

5.  Prizzi's Honor

6.  Blood Simple

7.  Streetwise

8.  The Falcon and the Snowman

9.  Witness

10.  The Purple Rose of Cairo

     1984

1.  The Killing Fields

2.  Amadeus

3.  Paris, Texas

4.  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

5.  Choose Me

6.  Stranger Than Paradise

7.  Once Upon a Time in America

8.  Purple Rain

9.  The Cotton Club

10.  This Is Spinal Tap

     1983

1.  El Norte

2.  Return of the Jedi

3.  Scarface

4.  The Right Stuff

5.  Terms of Endearment

6.  Silkwood

7.  Risky Business

8.  Testament

9.  Star 80

     1982

1.  Diva

2.  Sophie's Choice

3.  E.T.  The Extra-Terrestrial

4.  Fitzcarraldo

5.  Personal Best

6.  Mephisto

7.  Pink Floyd the Wall

8.  The Verdict

9.  Tootsie

10.  Tron

     1981

1.  Raiders of the Lost Ark

2.  My Dinner with Andre

3.  Gates of Heaven

4.  Chariots of Fire

5.  Atlantic City

6.  Body Heat

7.  Thief

     1980

1.  Raging Bull

2.  The Empire Strikes Back

3.  The Black Stallion

4.  Being There

5.  Ordinary People

6.  Kagemusha

7.  The Great Santini

8.  Best Boy

9.  American Gigolo

10.  Coal Miner's Daughter

     1979

1.  Nosferatu, the Vampyre

2.  Apocalypse Now

3.  Hair

4.  The Deer Hunter

5.  Breaking Away

6.  The Marriage of Maria Braun

7.  Kramer vs. Kramer

8.  The China Syndrome

9.  Dawn of the Dead

10.  Alien

     Stay tuned for more reviews to come,

     Patrick C. Kelly

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