My Favorite "Youth Gone Wild" FIlms

Aaron over at the Death Rattle blog asked me to list my top 5 favorite films of this genre and it's been running all week over there, check out our write-ups. We both picked the same number one by the way, great minds think alike! Just to have my full list here too, here it is! Also, I realized that I left off THREE O'CLOCK HIGH in my list at Death Rattle! Can't believe I spaced that one! I know there's a whole bunch I'm not thinking of, so hit me with ideas/suggestions people!

1. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL(1979; Allan Arkush)
2. THREE O'CLOCK HIGH(1987; Phil Joanou)
3. MIDNIGHT MADNESS(1980; David Wechter/Michael Nankin)
3. PRETTY POISON(1968; Noel Black)
4. OVER THE EDGE(1979; Jonathan Kaplan)
5. BIG WEDNESDAY(1978; John Milius)
6. THE WARRIORS(1979; Walter Hill)
7. GUN CRAZY(1950; Joseph H. Lewis)
8. THE RIVER'S EDGE(1986; Tim Hunter)
9. IF....(1968; Lindsay Anderson)
10. THE WANDERERS(1979; Philip Kaufman)
11. THE BAD NEWS BEARS(1976; Michael Ritchie)
12. BAD BOYS(1983; Rick Rosenthal)
13. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE(1955 Nicholas Ray)
14. LITTLE DARLINGS(1980; Ronald F. Maxwell)
15. MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH(1976; Rene Daalder)
16. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS(1982; Lou Adler)
17. FANDANGO(1985; Kevin Reynolds)
18. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE(1971; Stanley Kurick)
19. LORD LOVE A DUCK(1966; George Axelrod)
20. THE DEATH OF RICHIE(1977; Paul Wendkos)
21. THRASHIN'(1986; David Winters)
22. THE NEW KIDS(1985; Sean S. Cunningham)
23. CLASS OF 1984(1982; Mark L. Lester)
24. 3:15(1986; Larry Gross)
25. THE WILD ONE(1953; Laslo Benedek)
26. FREEWAY(1996; Matthew Bright)
27. TUFF TURF(1985; Fritz Kiersch)
28. DESPERATE LIVES(1982; Robert Michael Lewis)
29. OUTRAGE(1973; Richard T. Heffron)
30. TURK 182(1985; Bob Clark)
31. YOUNG WARRIORS(1983; Lawrence D. Foldes)

My Favorite Roy Scheider Films

Had a reader request this and it seemed to connect very well to my last post so I thought I'd throw down a list of my favorite Roy Scheider films. Here goes:

1. JAWS(1975; Steven Spielberg)
2. SORCERER(1977; William Friedkin)
3. BLUE THUNDER(1983; John Badham)
4. THE FRENCH CONNECTION(1971; William Friedkin)
5. MARATHON MAN(1976; John Schlesinger)
6. LAST EMBRACE(1979; Jonathan Demme)
7. KLUTE(1971; Alan J. Pakula)
8. THE SEVEN-UPS(1973; Philip D'Antoni)
9. JAWS 2(1978; Jeannot Szwarc)
10. NAKED LUNCH(1991; David Cronenberg)
11. STILL OF THE NIGHT(1982; Robert Benton)
12. 52 PICKUP(1986; John Frankenheimer)
13. LOVING(1970; Irvin Kirschner)
14. 2010(1984; Peter Hyams)
15. PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD(1970; Jerry Schatzberg)
16. ALL THAT JAZZ(1979; Bob Fosse)
17. LISTEN TO ME(1989; Douglas Day Stewart)

My Favorite Gene Hackman films

Why? Why not. Love the guy and am hoping that WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT doesn't prove to be his last film! Here's a shortlist of my favorites from his filmography:

1. THE CONVERSATION(1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
2. NIGHT MOVES(1975; Arthur Penn)
3. PRIME CUT(1972; Michael Ritchie)
4. SCARECROW(1973; Jerry Schatzberg)
5. CISCO PIKE(1972; Bill L. Norton)
6. THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE(1972; Ronald Neame)
7. THE FRENCH CONNECTION(1971; William Friedkin)
8. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN(1974; Mel Brooks)
9. ANOTHER WOMAN(1988; Woody Allen)
10. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS(2001; Wes Anderson)
11. DOWNHILL RACER(1969; Michael Ritchie)
12. SUPERMAN(1978; Richard Donner)
13. REDS(1981; Warren Beatty)
14. MARCH OR DIE(1977; Dick Richards)
15. EUREKA(1983; Nicolas Roeg)
16. HOOSIERS(1986; David Anspaugh)
17. TWILIGHT(1998; Robert Benton)
18. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD(1995; Sam Raimi)
19. THE UNFORGIVEN(1992; Clint Eastwood)