20 movies, 20 days – the list

There was no rhyme or reason to my list of 20 movies. I chose them randomly from movies I’ve really liked. What I found interesting about doing this — a movie every day for twenty days (excluding weekends) — was how in doing it I found myself wanting to see them all again. Perhaps more interesting was the feeling I didn’t necessarily agree with what I had written when I had originally reviewed them.

I wanted to re-watch them and re-review many of them. One day I may do that. Here is the list:

• Tombstone (1993)
• The Big Heat (1953)
• Insomnia (2002)
• The Core (2003)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Murder by Decree (1979)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Hero (Ying xiong) (2002)
• Don Juan deMarco (1994)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Kagemusha (1980)
• Topper (1937)
• The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

I’m thinking of doing this again soon though maybe with some more specific criteria. We’ll see.