Movies We Dig

I’m no cinephile, but do love a movie a couple times a week. Fifty years into this life, documentaries are still my very favorite form. And shit, I’ll roll the dice on just about anything. The list below is a little dated, but you get the picture.

Flipping Through Channels, And I’ll Come Across One of These Films and Have To Drop Whatever I’m Doing and Finish The Damned Thing Right There From That Point

Movies We Can’t Look Away From:

01. Shawshank Redemption
02. Interstellar
03. Raising Arizona
04. American Movie
05. Uncle Buck
06. Plains, Trains & Automobiles
07. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
08. Time Bandits
09. My Bodyguard
10. Independence Day

Anything by the Coen brothers:
Hell, even the movies they co-write with others. The language, the attention to detail, the sets, the film color…man…the best in the business.

01. Raising Arizona (Brilliant.)
02. Fargo
03. Hudsucker Proxy
04. Barton Fink
05. The Big Lebowski
06. Miller’s Crossing
07. The Man Who Wasn’t There
08. O’ Brother Where Art Thou
09. Blood Simple
10. Intolerable Cruelty
12. The Ladykillers
11. No Country For Old Men (Wow!)

All Christopher Guest movies:
01. Spinal Tap
02. Best in Show
03. Waiting for Guffman
04. A Mighty Wind
05. For Your Consideration

The John Hughes epics:
01. Uncle Buck, 1989
02. Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1987
03. The Great Outdoors, 1988
04. The Breakfast Club, 1984
05. Sixteen Candles, 1985
06. Weird Science, 1985
07. Mr. Mom, 1983
08. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
09. Pretty In Pink, 1986
10. Some Kind of Wonderful, 1987
11. Home Alone, 1989
12. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, 1992

All things Todd Solondz:
01. Happiness
02. Storytelling

Everything Paul Thomas Anderson:
01. Hard Eight
02. Boogie Nights
03. Magnolia
04. There Will Be Blood
05. The Master

Minnesota Movies:
01. Fargo
02. Beautiful Girls
03. A Simple Plan
04. Feeling Minnesota
05. Purple Rain
06. Grumpy Old Men

Anything by Michael Moore:
01. Fahrenheit 9/11
02. Roger & Me
03. Bowling for Columbine
04. The Awful Truth
05. The Big One
06. Sicko

Christopher Nolan:
01. Interstellar, 2014
02. Oppenheimer, 2023
03. Dunkirk, 2017
04. Tenet, 2020
05. Memento, 2000

Robert Eggers:
01. The Witch, 2015
02. The Lighthouse, 2019
03. The Northman, 2022

Rock-n-Roll Documentaries:
01. Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
02. Fearless Freaks - The Story of the Flaming Lips
03. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco
04. Metallica - Some Kind of Monster
05. Dig!
06. Hype!
07. The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film
08. Another State of Mind
09. Tad - Busted Circuits And Ringing Ears
10. The Atlas Moth (Sean, you are in our thoughts.)
11. We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen
12. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
13. You’re Gonna Miss Me - The Roky Erickson Story
14. Dead Moon - Unknown Passage: Dead Moon Story
15. The Flaming Lips 1992-2005: 19 Music Videos
16. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
17. Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker
18. Traces of Glory: The Musical Journey of Idaho (MUST SEE!)
19. Long Strange Trip
20. Supersonic - The Story of Oasis
21. Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
22. The Band - The Last Waltz
23. Searching for Sugar Man
24. It Might Get Loud
25. George Harrison - Living in the Material World
26. Rolling Thunder Revue
27. Echo in the Canyon
28. American Hardcore
29. The Decline of Western Civilization
30. Don’t look Back
31. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
32. The Wrecking Crew
33. Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
34. The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols
35. A Band Called Death
36. Woodstock

001. American Movie
002. Hoop Dreams
003. Fog of War
004. Brother’s Keeper
005. Murder on a Sunday Morning
006. Tarnation
007. The Agronomist
008. Control Room
009. Spellbound
010. Super Size Me
011. Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
012. Stevie
013. The Weather Underground
014. Devil’s Playground
015. Bush’s Brain (…fuck Carl Rove forever.)
016. Unconstitutional - The War On Our Civil Liberties
017. Capturing the Friedmans
018. Dark Days
019. Crumb
020. Hands on Hard Body
021. Born Into This - Charles Bukowski
022. A League of Ordinary Gentleman
023. Paperclips
024. Rock School
025. Murderball

26. Grizzly Man
27. The Aristocrats
28. Born Into Brothels
29. Gunner Palace
30. Why We Fight
31. Boys of Baraka
32. King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters
33. Man From Plains
34. Monster Road
35. Vernon, Florida
36. Big Rig
37. Bigger, Faster, Stronger
38. Confessions of a Superhero
39. Darkon
40. Man on Wire
41. Jesus Camp
42. Buck
43. The Elephant In The Room
44. Garrison Keillor - The Man in the Red Shoes
45. Herb & Dorothy
46. Lost In La Mancha
47. Helvetica
48. Objectified
49. Urbanized
50. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

51. The Thin Blue Line
52. An Unreasonable Man - Ralph Nader
53. Up For Grabs
54. Radio Bikini
55. Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
56. Armadillo
57. Who Is Harry Nilsson?
58. October Country
59. Zoo
60. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
61. Exit Through The Gift Shop (Suckers!)
62. The Cove
63. The Wild and Wonderful Whites
64. Man On Wire
65. Babies
66. The Bridge (Proceed with caution…yeesh.)
67. Into The Abyss
68. Searching For Sugar Man
69. Queen of Versailles
70. The Central Park Five
71. The Act of Killing
72. Blackfish
73. 20 Feet From Stardom
74. Jodorowsky’s Dune
75. Muscle Shoals

76. Finding Vivian Maier
77. Citizen Four
78. Virgunga
79. Art and Craft
80. An Honest Liar
81. Kurt Cobain - Montage of Heck
82. Finders Keepers
83. The Wolfpack
84. Requiem for the American Dream
85. Best of Enemies: Buckley Vs. Vidal
86. The Jinx
87. Cartel Land
88. City of Gold
89. My Scientology Movie
90. I Am Not Your Negro
91. Amanda Knox
92. Zero Days
93. Holy Hell
94. Tickled
95. Free Solo
96. Get Me Roger Stone
97. White Boy
98. Becoming Warren Buffet
99. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
100. Three Identical Strangers

01. Shawshank Redemption
02. Cool Hand Luke
03. The Green Mile
04. Lots of Spaghetti Westerns
05. The Station Agent
06. The Straight Story
07. My Bodyguard
08. American Movie
09. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
10. Uncle Buck
11. Time Bandits
12. Papillon
13. Dances With Wolves
14. American Beauty
15. Saving Private Ryan
16. Reservoir Dogs
17. Blues Brothers
18. 1941
19. Pulp Fiction
20. Good Fellas
21. Casino
22. Raging Bull
23. Bridges of Madison County
24. Trip To Bountiful
25. Running On Empty

26. A Simple Plan
27. Bad Boys
28. Escape From Alcatraz
29. Stand By Me
30. Field of Dreams
31. Big
32. Sixteen Candles
33. Breakfast Club
34. A Christmas Story
35. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
36. E.T.
37. The Goonies
38. Stripes
39. Caddyshack
40. Pump Up The Volume
41. Heathers
42. Ice Station Zebra
43. Forrest Gump
44. Raiders of the Lost Ark
45. The Temple of Doom
46. The Last Crusade
47. Apocalypse Now
48. Easy Rider
49. The Elephant Man
50. Star Wars (All of ’em)

51. The Jungle Book (…thanks, Mom.)
52. Jurassic Park
53. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
54. Animal House
55. The Sixth Sense
56. Swiss Family Robinson
57. Ocean’s Eleven
58. The Incredibles
59. The Passion of the Christ
60. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
61. The Unforgiven
62. Taxi Driver
63. Boogie Nights
64. Rushmore
65. Royal Tenenbaums
66. Once Upon A Time in America
67. Birdy
68. The Wild Bunch
69. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
70. The Usual Suspects
71. The Deer Hunter
72. Drugstore Cowboy
73. Seven
74. Memento
75. In The Bedroom

76. Ghost World
77. Good Will Hunting
78. Chasing Amy
79. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
80. Amadeus
81. Red Dawn
82. Platoon
83. Do The Right Thing
84. Passion Fish
85. Dog Day Afternoon
86. JFK
87. 12 Monkeys
88. The Cooler
89. The Grapes of Wrath
90. Gas, Food & Lodging
91. Rounders
92. Magnolia
93. Twelve Angry Men
94. Dog Day Afternoon
95. Taxi Driver
96. The Machinist
97. City of God
98. American Splendor
99. Sideways
100. Gummo