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A hundred movies I particularly love (dates approximate):

'00s: AI, The Ninth Gate, Mulholland Dr., Titus, The Man Who Wasn't There, Talk to Her, The Piano Teacher

'90s: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, eXistenZ, Crash, Naked Lunch, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Heavenly Creatures, Eyes Wide Shut, The Thin Red Line, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Insider, The Ice Storm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Regained, Jackie Brown, Quiz Show, Howard's End, The Edge, Slacker, Dazed & Confused, Jesus' Son, Schizopolis

'80s: Fanny & Alexander (TV version), The Elephant Man, Ordinary People, Videodrome, Runaway Train, Coal Miner's Daughter, Brazil, Reversal of Fortune, An Angel at My Table

'70s: Scenes from a Marriage (TV version), Cries & Whispers, Chinatown, Love & Death, Stardust Memories, Carnal Knowledge, Mississippi Mermaid, The Man Who Loved Women, Small Change, Two English Girls, The Story of Adele H., The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Innocent, Badlands, Days of Heaven, All the President's Men, The Parallax View, The Last Picture Show, Last Tango in Paris, Jaws, Network, Mahler

'60s: Winter Light, Through a Glass Darkly, Jules & Jim, Stolen Kisses, The 400 Blows, Andrei Rublev, The Birds, Psycho, Cool Hand Luke, L'avventura, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Two for the Road, The Knack and How to Get It, The Great Escape

'50s: Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Smiles of a Summer Night, Othello, A Touch of Evil, Rear Window, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai

'40s: Great Expectations, Brief Encounter, Shadow of a Doubt, Bambi, The Heiress, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

'30s: Modern Times, The Grand Illusion

'20s: Sherlock Jr.

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A hundred works of fiction I particularly love (dates approximate):

Late 1900s: Little, Big, Engine Summer; Sabbath's Theater, Zuckerman Bound, My Life As a Man, "The Conversion of the Jews"; Vineland; Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees, If on a winter's night a traveler; The Violent Bear It Away, "Good Country People", "Revelation"; The Kingdom of This World

Early 1900s: Remembrance of Things Past; Women in Love, The Rainbow, Sons & Lovers, St. Mawr, The Virgin & the Gypsy, The Man Who Died, "A Fragment of Stained Glass"; Andreas; "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen"; "Mysterious Kor", "Ivy Gripped the Steps"; The Magic Mountain, Lotte in Weimar, Death in Venice, Man and Dog; The Waves, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando (Ch. 1); Miss Lonelyhearts; Sanctuary, Light in August; "The Burrow", "Investigations of a Dog", "Josephine the Singer", "The Country Doctor"; Nostromo, Victory; "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Order of the Phoenix", "The Immortal", "Death and the Compass", "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Theologians", "The Circular Ruins"; "The Burning", "A Still Moment", "A Worn Path", "Why I Live at the P.O."

Late 1800s: War & Peace, Anna Karenina, Childhood/Boyhood/Youth, The Cossacks, The Kreutzer Sonata, Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilych, "The Snowstorm"; Moby-Dick, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, "Bartleby", "The Apple Tree Table", "I & My Chimney", "The Piazza"; Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Fathers & Sons, First Love; "Gusev", "The Kiss"; A Christmas Carol; Middlemarch; The Portrait of a Lady; Huckleberry Finn; "The Open Boat", "The Blue Hotel", The Red Badge of Courage

Early 1800s: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, The Sorrows of Young Werther, "Fairy Tale", "Novella"; The Charterhouse of Parma, The Red & the Black; Michael Kohlhaas; "Young Goodman Brown", "Earth's Holocaust", "Egotism, or: The Bosom Serpent", "The Ambitious Guest", "Wakefield"; Nightmare Abbey, Gryll Grange; Mozart On His Way to Prague; "The Nose"; Wuthering Heights; "Lenz"