First in 1931. dir. James Whale. writers: Mary Shelley (novel), Peggy Webling (play). Boris Karloff as The Monster. 71 min. Universal Pictures. Cost: $291,000 US (est.).

1941. dir. Orson Welles. story by Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles. perf. Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane. 119 min. Mercury Productions. Cost: $686,034 (est.).

1942. dir. by Michael Curtiz. writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch. perf. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman. 102 minutes. Warner Bros. Cost: $1,039,000.

Kantian Ethics, the gunfighter. 1952. dir. Fred Zinnemann, writers: John W. Cunningham (story), Carl Foreman (screenplay). Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane. 85 min. Stanley Kramer Productions. Cost: $750,000 USD (est.). Intro to Ethics class.

1956. dir. Don Siegel. writers: Jack Finney (Collier's magazine serial), Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay). 80 min. Walter Wanger Productions. Cost: $417,000.

Psycho. 1960. dir. Alfred Hitchcock. writers: Robert Bloch (novel), Joseph Stefano (screenplay). perf. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. 109 min. Cost: $806,950 USD (est.). Shamley Productions. There is another excellent Hitchcock movie "North by Northwest" above (Best of the 50s).

1965. dir. & screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard. 99 min. Athos Films.

A great collection of two-disc classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc., and it has a great documentary on Kubrick.

1966. dir. François Truffaut. (Cinematography by Nicolas Roeg; based on the novel by Ray Bradbury.) Presents a future in which firemen become responsible for book burnings to prevent people from thinking independently; consequently, some people become insipid while a few begin resistance movements.

1976. dir. Nicolas Roeg. (Comes with the novel by Walter Tevis.) An alien lands on Earth, makes money in order to save his world, and becomes alienated for many possible reasons: life itself as psychologically alienating (the alien within), life in a paranoid culture, life in a commercial & capitalist society.

1979. dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. writers: Arkadi Strugatsky (novel), Boris Strugatsky (novel). 163 min. company: Gambaroff-Chemier Interallianz. Never so much fun playing in a field!

Moral Relativism. 1989. dir. and written by Woody Allen. 104 min. Orion Pictures. Cost: $19,000,000. Intro to Ethics class.

Silence of the Lambs: 1991. dir. Jonathan Demme. writers: Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay). perf. Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. 118 min. Orion Pictures. Cost: $19,000,000. Film #10 in my philosophy of film class.

1997. also written as "Abre los ojos." dir. Alejandro Amenábar. writers: Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil. Eduardo Noriega as César, Penélope Cruz as Sofía. 117 min. company: Canal+ España. Cost: ESP 370,000,000 (est.).

Both dir. by Darren Aronofsky. "Pi": 1998. writers: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette. Sean Gullette as Maximillian Cohen. 84 min. Harvest Filmworks. Cost: $60,000. The other movie is really good too. Metaphysics, mathematics, patterns and order behind the chaos, reality of numbers.

1998. dir. James Merendino. A college graduate avoids going to law school and hangs out with a punk crowd in Utah tp push for anarchy in central red neck USA. But the ending challenges everything he stood for.

1999. dir. David Fincher. writers: Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay). Edward Norton as The Narrator, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden. 139 min. Art Linson Productions, 20th Century Fox. Cost: $63 million. Assignment for my Politics in Film class.

2000. dir. Christopher Nolan. writers: Jonathan Nolan (short story Memento Mori), Christopher Nolan (screenplay). Guy Pearce as Leonard, Carrie-Anne Moss as Natalie, Joe Pantoliano as Teddy Gammell. 113 min. company: Newmarket Capital Group. Cost: $4,500,000. Memory problems, personal identity. Film #11 in my philosophy of film class, and used at a Philosophy Club meeting.

2004. also written by "Untergang, Der." dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel. writers: Joachim Fest (book), Traudl Junge (book). 156 min / 178 min extended version. Constantin Film Produktion. Cost: €13.5 million.

2005. dir. James McTeigue. writers: screenplay by Andy & Larry Wachowski. perf. Hugo Weaving as V, Natalie Portman as Evey. 132 min. Silver Pictures. Cost: $54 million. Freedom!