Favorite movies of Donald Harvey Marks, selected in terms of plot content, acting, adaptation, dialog, special personal meaning for impact

2001: A Space Odyssey
Three days of the Condor
Apocalypse Now
Anna Karenina. There are many versions.
Avatar
Bridge of Spies.
Blade Runner, original and 2049
Captain Correlli's Mandolin. Based on historical fact.
Conclave. Politics around choosing of new pope, with a very surprise ending.
City of Angels, di himmel Uber Berlin.
Death of Stalin. A movie of dark humor. Ask me what Stalin thought of dark humor.
Deja Vu (technically perfect plot)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958. Elevator to the Gallows. Existentialism in the movies.
Das Leben der Anderen, The Lives of Others
Erased
Enemy at the Gate. (Khrushchev makes an appearance)
Gone with the Wind. Scenes were shot in Culver City, CA. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Goodwill Hunting
Groundhog Day. See my discussion on thls blog of "What I have not told my family"
Her, see my expanded comments https://dhmarks.blogspot.com/2023/10/are-there-samantha-like-intelligent_26.html
Inception
Inside Man
Lucy
Magnificent Seven, 2016
Manchurian Candidate
Margin Call, 2011
Meet Joe Black
Michael Clayton , 2007
Pierrot le Feu. My review of this film was an essential component of my application to medical school. Existentialism in the movies.
Paycheck
Scenes from a Marriage. Intense!
Spotlight
The Accountant
The Flight of the Phoenix.
The French Lieutenant's Woman.
The Firm, 1993
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Good German
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Third Man
War and Peace.
What Dreams May Come.
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