Now that I’ve spent the last few days telling everyone who would listen how excited I am about the release of Wall-E on DVD, I figure I should actually name my top 5 favorite movies.  I’m not necessarily going to argue these are the five best movies ever made.  There are so many different qualities to gauge a movie on it is hard to make that claim about any 5 films.  Hotel Rwanda won’t ever be on any best list but I think it is one of the most important films made in the last 10 years.  Anyway, without further ado, here is my top five mostly in order. . .

5. The Royal Tenenbaums ysfunctional family, crazy people, drug use, brokenness, beauty.  This is the first Wes Anderson film I saw.  Though I still lose points among the hardcore Wes fans when they find out I still haven’t seen Bottle Rocket.

4. Warphotographer: I don’t say this lightly, this movie changed my life.

3. Wall-E: Don’t need to write too much since I already wrote a small book on it when it came out in theater.  I’ll just say this is soooo much more than a kids film, seriously.  See my original post here.

2. Lost in Translation: I saw this movie before I really knew what Post-Modernism was.  I suppose I could have put Garden State here but Lost in Translation is just a flat out better film.  This is my favorite scene.

1. Field of Dreams: If you know me, this comes as no surprise.  To me, there has never been a more perfect movie made.  Baseball, philosophy, faith, innocence, fantasy, heckeven cryptography.  One day I will make a pilgrimage to that holy of holies, a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field in Dyersville, Iowa.

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