Favorite movies of DH Marks

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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