Andy Markowitz

Andy Markowitz has written about film on and off for 20-odd years. He is a former editor of Baltimore City Paper and is now multimedia editor for Transitions Online, a web journal covering the former Soviet bloc, and its companion site 20 Years After. He is currently redeveloping the music documentary site MusicFilmWeb. He had a lot of fun making this list.

• The Age of Innocence (1993) .. Martin Scorsese
• Alice (1988) .. Jan Svankmajer
• All the President's Men (1976) .. Alan J. Pakula
• An American Werewolf in London (1981) .. John Landis
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) .. Sacha Gervasi
• A Blonde in Love (1965) .. Milos Forman
• Blood Simple. (1984) .. The Coen Brothers
• Bulworth (1998) .. Warren Beatty
• The Candidate (1972) .. Michael Ritchie
• Crumb (1994) .. Terry Zwigoff
• Czech Dream (2004) .. Vít Klusák & Filip Remunda
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) .. Robert Wise
• The Dead Zone (1983) .. David Cronenberg
• Divided We Fall (2000) .. Jan Hrebejk
• The Ear (1970) .. Karel Kachyna
• F for Fake (1974) .. Orson Welles
• A Face in the Crowd (1957) .. Elia Kazan
• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) .. Errol Morris
• Gates of Heaven (1978) .. Errol Morris
• Get Crazy (1983) .. Allan Arkush
• Halloween (1978) .. John Carpenter
• Happy Together (1997) .. Wong Kar Wai
• A Hard Day's Night (1964) .. Richard Lester
• Head (1968) .. Bob Rafelson
• Help! (1965) .. Richard Lester
• High Hopes (1988) .. Mike Leigh
• The Incredibles (2004) .. Brad Bird
• The Killing (1956) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Kurt Cobain About a Son (2006) .. AJ Schnack
• The Last Waltz (1978) .. Martin Scorsese
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) .. Charles Crichton
• Liquid Sky (1982) .. Slava Tsukerman
• Little Otik (2000) .. Jan Svankmajer
• Local Hero (1983) .. Bill Forsyth
• Love and Death (1975) .. Woody Allen
• The Loved One (1965) .. Tony Richardson
• Mad Max (1979) .. George Miller
• Mad Max 2 (1981) .. George Miller
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) .. Nicolas Roeg
• Modern Romance (1981) .. Albert Brooks
• My Man Godfrey (1936) .. Gregory La Cava
• Office Space (1999) .. Mike Judge
• Palookaville (1995) .. Alan Taylor
• The Parallax View (1974) .. Alan J. Pakula
• Pennies from Heaven (1981) .. Herbert Ross
• The Producers (1968) .. Mel Brooks
• Quadrophenia (1979) .. Franc Roddam
• Reds (1981) .. Warren Beatty
• Repo Man (1984) .. Alex Cox
• The Right Stuff (1983) .. Philip Kaufman
• The Ruling Class (1972) .. Peter Medak
• The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) .. Eric Idle & Gary Weis
• Say Anything... (1989) .. Cameron Crowe
• Secrets & Lies (1996) .. Mike Leigh
• Stop Making Sense (1984) .. Jonathan Demme
• Style Wars (1983) .. Tony Silver
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997) .. Atom Egoyan
• Taking Off (1971) .. Milos Forman
• The Terminator (1984) .. James Cameron
• The Thin Blue Line (1988) .. Errol Morris
• The Thing (1982) .. John Carpenter
• The Thing from Another World (1951) .. Christian Nyby
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984) .. Rob Reiner
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) .. Corneliu Porumboiu
• 25th Hour (2002) .. Spike Lee
• Two Unknown Photographers (2001) .. Kon Pet Moon
• Used Cars (1980) .. Robert Zemeckis
• Watermelon Man (1970) .. Melvin Van Peebles
• The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) .. Timothy Carey
• Young Frankenstein (1974) .. Mel Brooks