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Philosophy of Film's Favorite Films Spring 2004

 

CONTRIBUTORS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

Jesse Anderson's Top Ten

Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
A Beautiful Mind
(Ron Howard, 2001)
Behind Enemy Lines
(John Moore, 2001)
The Green Mile
(Frank Darabont, 1999)
Enemy at the Gates
(Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2001)
The Shawshank Redemption
(Frank Darabont, 1994)
Unforgiven
(Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Gladiator
(Ridley Scott, 2000)
Friday
(F. Gary Gray, 1995)

Ben Buckner's Top Ten

The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Casablanca
(Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The Royal Tenenbaums
(Wes Anderson, 2001)
The Princess Bride
(Rob Reiner, 1987)
Amelie
(Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
8 1/2
(Federico Fellini, 1963)
Being John Malkovich
(Spike Jonze, 1999)
The Shawshank Redemption
(Frank Darabont, 1994)
Singin' in the Rain
(Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
Forrest Gump
(Robert Zemeckis, 1994)

Matthew Cartwright's Top Ten

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Rudy
(David Anspaugh, 1993)
Shrek
(Andrew Adamson, 2001)
The Shawshank Redemption
(Frank Darabont, 1994)
The Color Purple
(Steven Spielberg, 1985)
Rocky
(John G. Avildsen, 1976)
Lonesome Dove
(Simon Wincer, 1989)
Last of the Mohicans
(Michael Mann, 1992)
A Bronx Tale
(Robert DeNiro, 1993)

Wesley French's Top Ten

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker, 1980)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 version *NOT Redux*)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

Peter Gray's Top Ten

The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Frida
(Julie Taymor, 2002)
The Godfather, Part I
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Adaptation
(Spike Jonze, 2002)
Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles, 1941)
The Battleship Potemkin
(Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Rocky
(John G. Avildsen, 1976)
Dr. Strangelove
(Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Forrest Gump
(Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
American Beauty
(Sam Mendes, 1999)

Chris Holly's Top Ten

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Risky Business
(Paul Brickman, 1983)
Dr. Zhivago
(David Lean, 1965)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(Blake Edwards, 1961)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
(J. S. Chechik, 1989)
Caddyshack
(Harold Ramis, 1980)
National Lampoon's Animal House
(John Landis, 1978)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(Peter Jackson, 2001-2003)
The Godfather 1 & 2
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 & 1974)
2001: A Space Odyssey
(Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

David Kimweli's Top Ten

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Godfather, Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
Ben Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)

Stephanie Reis' Top Ten

The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Roman Holiday
(William Wyler, 1953)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
(Stanley Kramer, 1967)
The Wizard of Oz
(Victor Fleming, 1939)
Rebel Without a Cause
(Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(Frank Capra, 1939)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(Blake Edwards, 1961)
Casablanca
(Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Irreconcilable Differences
(Charles Shyer, 1984)
Shakespeare in Love
(John Madden, 1998)

Kelly Sellers' Top Ten

The Philadephia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
61* (Billy Crystal, 2001)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

Kevin Slark's Top Ten

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
The Doors
(Oliver Stone, 1991)
The Silence of the Lambs
(Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The Graduate
(Mike Nichols, 1967)
The Thin Red Line
(Terrence Malick, 1998)
Full Metal Jacket
(Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
Dances With Wolves
(Kevin Costner, 1990)
Cast Away
(Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
Bowling for Columbine
(Michael Moore, 2002)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(Peter Jackson, 2001-2003)

Steve Smith's Top Ten

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway, 1996)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

Angela Thurmond's Top Ten

Rounders (John Dahl, 1998)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The Game (David Fincher, 1997)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)

John Yargo's Top Ten

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
It's a Wonderful Life
(Frank Capra, 1946)
Shoot the Piano Player!
(François Truffaut, 1960)
Vertigo
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Annie Hall
(Woody Allen, 1977)
Nashville
(Robert Altman, 1975)
Witness for the Prosecution
(Billy Wilder, 1957)
The Third Man
(Carol Reed, 1949)
Duck Soup
(Leo McCarey, 1933)
To Be or Not to Be
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

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PHILOSOPHY WEEKEND 2006
Photos and other memories from the Department of Philosophy’s 2006 retreat at Gray Center.

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