Simon Abrams

Simon Abrams is showing his age with this list but doesn't much care. He's a New York freelance arts critic that writes mostly about film and comics for The Comics Journal, The House Next Door, The L Magazine, The New York Press, The Onion’s New York Decider. He keeps a journal of all the movies he's seen in a year (including shorts and films he's seen before) here: EXTENDED CUT: SIMON ABRAMS' FILM JOURNAL.

  1. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) .. Kurosawa Akira
  2. Léon (1994) .. Luc Besson
  3. Top Secret! (1984) .. Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
  4. Electra Glide in Blue (1973) .. James William Guercio
  5. The Best of Youth (2003) .. Marco Tullio Giordana
  6. Southland Tales (2006) .. Richard Kelly
  7. Character (1997) .. Mike van Diem
  8. Running on Karma (2003) .. Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai
  9. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) .. Don Taylor
  10. The Consequences of Love (2004) .. Paolo Sorrentino
  11. Survive Style 5+ (2004) .. Sekiguchi Gen
  12. Throw Down (2004) .. Johnnie To
  13. The Return of the Living Dead (1985) .. Dan O'Bannon
  14. Cube (1997) .. Vincenzo Natali
  15. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) .. Blake Edwards
  16. Night of the Creeps (1986) .. Fred Dekker
  17. Haze (2005) .. Tsukamoto Shinya
  18. Devils on the Doorstep (2000) .. Jiang Wen
  19. Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) .. Ishii Katsuhito & Ishimine Hajime & Miki Shunichiro
  20. Bon Voyage (2003) .. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  21. A Civil Action (1998) .. Steven Zaillian
  22. Un Flic (1975) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
  23. Violent Cop (1989) .. Kitano Takeshi
  24. Dark Star (1974) .. John Carpenter
  25. Trainspotting (1996) .. Danny Boyle
  26. Ping Pong (2002) .. Sori Fumihiko
  27. Millennium Actress (2001) .. Kon Satoshi
  28. Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004) .. Lu Chuan
  29. Starship Troopers (1997) .. Paul Verhoeven
  30. The Aura (2005) .. Fabián Bielinsky
  31. The Impostors (1998) .. Stanley Tucci
  32. Code 46 (2003) .. Michael Winterbottom
  33. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) .. Sam Wood
  34. The Fountain (2006) .. Darren Aronofsky
  35. Last Life in the Universe (2003) .. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
  36. Big Night (1996) .. Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci
  37. Walker (1987) .. Alex Cox
  38. Crime Story (1993) .. Kirk Wong
  39. Tropical Malady (2004) .. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  40. Gummo (1997) .. Harmony Korine
  41. Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) .. Miike Takashi
  42. Vital (2004) .. Tsukamoto Shinya
  43. Electric Dragon 80,000 (2001) .. Ishii Sogo
  44. Severance (2006) .. Christopher Smith
  45. Battle in Heaven (2005) .. Carlos Reygadas
  46. When the Sea Rises (2004) .. Yolande Moreau & Gilles Porte
  47. Ten Canoes (2006) .. Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr
  48. After This Our Exile (2006) .. Patrick Tam
  49. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) .. Julien Temple
  50. The Good Shepherd (2006) .. Robert De Niro
  51. The Libertine (2004) .. Laurence Dunmore
  52. Shattered Glass (2003) .. Billy Ray
  53. Spider (2002) .. David Cronenberg
  54. The Hiden Blade (2004) .. Yamada Yôji
  55. Tony Takitani (2004) .. Ichikawa Jun
  56. Margot at the Wedding (2007) .. Noah Baumbach
  57. The Road to Guantanamo (2006) .. Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom
  58. Art School Confidential (2006) .. Terry Zwigoff
  59. The Science of Sleep (2005) .. Michel Gondry
  60. The Dancer Upstairs (2002) .. John Malkovich
  61. Batman Returns (1992) .. Tim Burton
  62. Big Top Pee-Wee (1988) .. Randal Kleiser
  63. Mars Attacks! (1996) .. Tim Burton
  64. Super Mario Bros. (1993) .. Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
  65. Street Fighter (1994) .. Steven E. de Souza
  66. Plunkett & Macleane (1999) .. Jake Scott
  67. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) .. Eric Radomski & Bruce W. Timm
  68. Pulse (2001) .. Kurosawa Kiyoshi
  69. The Twilight Samurai (2002) .. Yamada Yôji
  70. Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the Orient? (1989) .. Bae Yong-Kyun
  71. Death Race 2000 (1975) .. Paul Bartel
  72. Rollerball (1975) .. Norman Jewison
  73. Love Me Tonight (1932) .. Rouben Mamoulian
  74. It's Always Fair Weather (1955) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
  75. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) .. Andrew Dominik
  76. Election 2 (2006) .. Johnnie To
  77. Paprika (2006) .. Kon Satoshi
  78. The White Countess (2005) .. James Ivory
  79. Zardoz (1974) .. John Boorman
  80. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) .. Michael Radford
  81. Lost Highway (1997) .. David Lynch
  82. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) .. Tim Burton
  83. Akira (1988) .. Ôtomo Katsuhiro
  84. Cure (1997) .. Kurosawa Kiyoshi
  85. The Public Enemy (1931) .. William A. Wellman
  86. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) .. J. Lee Thompson
  87. The New World (2005) .. Terrence Malick
  88. Songs from the Second Floor (2000) .. Roy Andersson
  89. Bad Santa (2003) .. Terry Zwigoff
  90. Auntie Mame (1958) .. Morton DaCosta
  91. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) .. Robert Altman
  92. A Boy and His Dog (1975) .. L.Q. Jones
  93. Bananas (1971) .. Woody Allen
  94. Hour of the Wolf (1968) .. Ingmar Bergman
  95. Primer (2004) .. Shane Carruth
  96. Starting Out in the Evening (2007) .. Andrew Wagner
  97. Duck Season (2004) .. Fernando Eimbcke
  98. Atlantic City (1980) .. Louis Malle
  99. Darkman (1990) .. Sam Raimi
  100. Exodus (2007) .. Pang Ho-Cheung

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