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Been putting some lists together for the filmspotting message board lately, I figure I might as well post them here too.

First, My Top 20 (Non-Classical or Jazz) Albums Of All-Time:

20. Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
19. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
18. Nevermind – Nirvana
17. Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
16. Are You Experienced? – The Jimi Hendrix Expereince
15. Blood On The Tracks – Bob Dylan
14. Kid A – Radiohead
13. Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
12. If I Should Fall From Grace With God – The Pogues
11. IV – Led Zeppelin
10. Exile On Main Street – The Rolling Stones
9. Abbey Road – The Beatles
8. Pinkerton – Weezer
7. London Calling – The Clash
6. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement
5. Love And Theft – Bob Dylan
4. Odelay – Beck
3. The White Album – The Beatles
2. Bringing It All Back Home – Bob Dylan
1. 69 Love Songs – The Magnetic Fields

And My Top 20 Books (Not Plays) Of All-Time:

20. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
19. The Red & The Black by Stendhal
18. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
17. The Odyssey by Homer
16. The Song Of Fire & Ice by George R. R. Martin
15. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14. The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
12. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
11. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salmon Rushdie
10. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
9. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
6. The Master & Commander Series by Patrick O’Brien
5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
3. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
2. Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

We’re back with another repertory series starting next Wednesday, October 8th and continuing every Wednesday night at Seattle’s charming Metro Cinemas until December 3rd. The theme this time around is film families, with movies from three sets of father, mother and daughter. Here’s the schedule:

Rossellini-Bergmans

Oct. 08 – Rome, Open City
Oct. 15 – Notorious
Oct. 22 – Blue Velvet

Leigh-Curtises:

Oct. 29 – A Fish Called Wanda
Nov. 05 – The Manchurian Candidate
Nov. 12 – Some Like It Hot

Minnelli-Garlands:

Nov. 19 – The Band Wagon
Nov. 26 – The Wizard Of Oz
Dec. 03 – Cabaret

Meanwhile, I’m going on vacation for a week. But I’ll be back next Wednesday for the return of Metro Classics. Family fun for the whole family!

Best Picture:

The End: I’m Not There
Oscar: No Country For Old Men

Best Director:

The End: Todd Haynes, I’m Not There
Oscar: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

Actor:

The End: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Oscar: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Actress:

The End: Tang Wei, Lust, Caution
Oscar: Marion Cotillard, La vie en rose

Supporting Actor:

The End: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Oscar: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

Supporting Actress:

The End: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Oscar: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Original Screenplay:

The End: Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman, I’m Not There
Oscar: Diablo Cody, Juno

Adapted Screenplay:

The End: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Oscar: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

Foreign Language Film:

The End: The Flight Of The Red Balloon
Oscar: The Counterfeiters

Documentary Feature:

The End: Helvetica
Oscar: Taxi To The Dark Side

Animated Feature:

The End: Ratatouille
Oscar: Ratatouille

Film Editing:

The End: Jay Rabinowitz, I’m Not There
Oscar: Christopher Rouse, The Bourne Ultimatum

Cinematography:

The End: Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and No Country For Old Men
Oscar: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood

Art Direction:

The End: The Darjeeling Limited
Oscar: Sweeney Todd

Costume Design:

The End: I’m Not There
Oscar: Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Make-Up:

The End: Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
Oscar: La vie en rose

Sound:

The End: I’m Not There
Oscar: The Bourne Ultimatum

Sound Effects Editing:

The End: No Country For Old Men
Oscar: The Bourne Ultimatum

Visual Effects:

The End: Transformers
Oscar: The Golden Compass

Original Score:

The End: Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
Oscar: Dario Marianelli, Atonement

Original Song:

The End: Bob Dylan, “I’m Not There”, I’m Not There
Oscar: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, “Falling Slowly”, Once

Soundtrack:

The End: I’m Not There

Best Picture:

The End: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: The Departed

Best Director:

The End: Ken Loach, The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Actor:

The End: Cillian Murphy, The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Actress:

The End: Markéta Irglová, Once
Oscar: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Supporting Actor:

The End: Irfan Kahn, The Namesake
Oscar: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

Supporting Actress:

The End: Shiyang-chyi Chen, I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone
Oscar: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Original Screenplay:

The End: Paul Laverty, The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

Adapted Screenplay:

The End: William Monahan, The Departed
Oscar: William Monahan, The Departed

Foreign Language Film:

The End: Still Life
Oscar: The Lives Of Others

Animated Feature:

The End: A Scanner Darkly
Oscar: Happy Feet

Film Editing:

The End: Takeshi Seyama, Paprika
Oscar: Thelma Schoonmaker, The Departed

Cinematography:

The End: Dion Beebe, Miami Vice
Oscar: Guillermo Navarro, Pan’s Labyrinth

Art Direction:

The End: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: Pan’s Labyrinth

Costume Design:

The End: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oscar: Marie Antoinette

Make-Up:

The End: Pan’s Labyrinth
Oscar: Pan’s Labyrinth

Sound:

The End: Miami Vice
Oscar: Dreamgirls

Sound Effects Editing:

The End: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Oscar: Letters From Iwo Jima

Visual Effects:

The End: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Oscar: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Original Score:

The End: Susumu Hirasawa, Paprika
Oscar: Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel

Original Song:

The End: Radiohead, “Arpeggi”, A Scanner Darkly
Oscar: Melissa Etheridge. “I Need To Wake Up”, An Inconvenient Truth

Soundtrack:

The End: Once

Best Picture:

The End: The New World
Oscar: Crash

Best Director:

The End: Terrence Malick, The New World
Oscar: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Actor:

The End: Eric Bana, Munich
Oscar: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Actress:

The End: Q’orianka Kilcher, The New World
Oscar: Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line

Supporting Actor:

The End: Mickey Rourke, Sin City
Oscar: George Clooney, Syriana

Supporting Actress:

The End: Maria Bello, A History Of Violence
Oscar: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Original Screenplay:

The End: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu T’ien-wen, Three Times
Oscar: Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco, Crash

Adapted Screenplay:

The End: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tristram Shandy
Oscar: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain

Foreign Language Film:

The End: Three Times
Oscar: Tsotsi

Documentary Feature:

The End: Grizzly Man
Oscar: March Of The Penguins

Live-Action Short Film:

The End: My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Oscar: Six Shooter

Film Editing:

The End: Michael Kahn, Munich
Oscar: Hughes Winborne, Crash

Cinematography:

The End: Emmanuel Lubezki, The New World
Oscar: Dion Beebe, Memoirs Of A Geisha

Art Direction:

The End: Princess Raccoon
Oscar: Memoirs Of A Geisha

Costume Design:

The End: Princess Raccoon
Oscar: Memoirs Of A Geisha

Make-Up:

The End: Sin City
Oscar: Chronicles Of Narnia

Sound:

The End: Munich
Oscar: King Kong

Sound Effects Editing:

The End: The War Of The Worlds
Oscar: King Kong

Visual Effects:

The End: King Kong
Oscar: King Kong

Original Score:

The End: Michiru Ôshima , Princess Raccoon
Oscar: Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain

Original Song:

The End: Tom Petty, “Square One”, Elizabethtown
Oscar: Three 6 Mafia, “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”, Hustle & Flow

Soundtrack:

The End: No Direction Home

Best Picture:

The End: House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: Million Dollar Baby

Best Director:

The End: Wong Kar-wai, 2046
Oscar: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby

Actor:

The End: Tony Leung, 2046
Oscar: Jamie Foxx, Ray

Actress:

The End: Zhang Ziyi, 2046 and House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby

Supporting Actor:

The End: Willem Dafoe, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Oscar: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby

Supporting Actress:

The End: Cate Blanchett, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and The Aviator
Oscar: Cate Blanchett, The Aviator

Original Screenplay:

The End: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady
Oscar: Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Adapted Screenplay:

The End: Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle
Oscar: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways

Foreign Language Film:

The End: House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: The Sea Inside

Documentary Feature:

The End: Henri Langlois: Phantom Of The Cinematheque
Oscar: Born Into Brothels

Animated Feature:

The End: The Incredibles
Oscar: The Incredibles

Film Editing:

The End: Long Cheng, House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: Thelma Schoonmaker, The Aviator

Cinematography:

The End: Zhao Xiaoding, House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: Robert Richardson, The Aviator

Art Direction:

The End: The World
Oscar: The Aviator

Costume Design:

The End: House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: The Aviator

Make-Up:

The End: Hellboy
Oscar: Lemony Snicket

Sound:

The End: The Aviator
Oscar: Ray

Sound Effects Editing:

The End: The Incredibles
Oscar: The Incredibles

Visual Effects:

The End: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Oscar: Spiderman 2

Original Score:

The End: Shigeru Umebayashi, 2046 and House Of Flying Daggers
Oscar: Jan Kaczmarek, Finding Neverland

Original Song:

The End: Mark Mothersbaugh, “Ping Island”, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Oscar: Jorge Drexler, “Al Otro Lado Del Río”, The Motorcycle Diaries

Soundtrack:

The End: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou