Lee Lady: My Life at the Movies

Important Movies in My Life

French and Existentialist Films

• Truffaut, Shoot the Piano Player
• Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas
• Jim Jarmush, Stranger than Paradise
• Jim Jarmush, Dead Man
• Goddard, Breathless
• Goddard, Alphaville
• Antonioni, Blow-up
• Trois Couleurs: Rouge
• Jaques Tati, Mon Oncle (Mr. Hulot)
• Jaques Tati, Mr. Hulot's Holiday

  People Who Are Lost

• Hal Ashbrook, Being There (based on book by Jerzy Kosinski)
• John Sayles, Brother From Another Planet
• Moscow on the Hudson (with Robin Williams)
• Barry Levinson, Rain Man
• Jane Campion, The Piano
• Crumb
• Sling Blade
• Breaking the Waves
• Jodie Foster, Nell
• Alfie (with Michael Caine)
• Georgy Girl
• My Life As a Dog
• Oliver Stone, Nixon
• I Shot Andy Warhol

  Unlikely Matches and Strange Intimacy

• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris
• David and Lisa
• Fellini, La Strada
• Fellini, Nights of Cabiria
• Carrington
• Educating Rita (with Michael Caine)

  Mysticism

• Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
• Ingmar Bergman, The Magician
• Antonia's Line
• Like Water for Chocolate

  Male Fantasies

• Truffaut, Jules and Jim
• The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Jules Dassin, Never On Sunday
• Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night
• Vadim, And God Created Woman (with Brigitte Bardot)
• Goldfinger
• Sirens
• Louis Malle, Pretty Baby
• Stealing Home (with Jodie Foster)
• Rambling Rose (with Laura Dern)
• Pretty Woman
• Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas
• Philip Kaufman, Henry and June
• Mona Lisa
• Warren Beatty, Shampoo

  Crazy Ladies

• Blake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Jonathan Demme, Something Wild (with Melanie Griffith)
• Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It
• Plenty (with Meryl Streep)
• Tom and Viv (about T.S. Eliot's wife) ( Comments)
• The Rose (about Janis Joplin)
• Alan Rudolph, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Pedro Almadovar, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

  Date Movies (Female Fantasies)

• Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
• Crossing Delancy
• Louis Malle, Atlantic City
• Bull Durham (with Susan Sarandon)
• A Man and a Woman
• Nobody's Fool (with Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith)
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Moonstruck
• Desert Hearts
• Chasing Amy

  Erotica

• The Story of O
• Nine and a Half Weeks
• Romance

  Comradeship

• Barry Levinson, Diner
• John Sayles, The Return of the Secaucus Seven
• Rich and Famous
• Il Postino (The Postman)
• Scorsese, The Color of Money (with Paul Neumann)

  Exotic Worlds

• Fellini, La Dolce Vita
• Marcel Carné, Children of Paradise
• Black Orpheus
• Easy Rider
• Unzipped
• Robert Altman, Ready to Wear
• Beautopia
• Warren Beatty, Reds

  Writers and Artists

• Scorsese, Life Lessons (included in New York Stories)
• Pollock
• Basquiat

  Literary

• Scorsese, The Age of Innocence
• David Lynch, Passage to India
• Washington Square (with Jennifer Jason Leigh)
• Swan in Love
• Joseph Strick, Ulysses
• Altman, Short Cuts
• Merchant-Ivory, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
• Merchant-Ivory, The Bostonians
• Surviving Picasso

  Vietnam, etc.

• Coppola, Apocalypse Now
• Oliver Stone, Platoon
• Ron Howard, Born on the Fourth of July

  Woody Allen

• Annie Hall
• Manhattan
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Stardust Memories

  Mean Streets

• The Godfather Trilogy
• Roman Polanski, Chinatown
• Quentin Tarrentino, Reservoir Dogs
• Joel & Ethan Coen, Fargo
• Scorsese, Mean Streets

  Low Life

• Last Exit to Brooklyn
• Midnight Cowboy
• Ironweed
• Scorsese, Taxi Driver
• Scorsese, Bringing Out the Dead
• Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces

  Music

• Monterey Pop
• Woodstock
• Pink Floyd: The Wall
• Stop Making Sense (The Talking Heads)
• Straight No Chaser (Thelonius Monk bio)
• Bernard Tavernier, Round About Midnight (with Dexter Gordon)
• Robert Altman, Nashville
• Dirty Dancing
• Flashdance

  And Also ...

• A Fish Called Wanda
• The Witches of Eastwick
• Robert Duvall, The Apostol
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson)
• Zabriskie Point
• Alice's Restaurant
• Tender Mercies
• Barry Levinson, Tin Men
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
• Searching for Bobbie Fischer
• Joel & Ethan Coen, Raising Arizona
• Barry Levinson, Avalon
• Field of Dreams
• Broadcast News