Roger Ebert's The Great Movies, Sorted Chronologically

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In 2002 Roger Ebert wrote a book called The Great Movies which includes the following 100 movies. I’ve listed them here chronologically. I am not a fan of Ebert’s criticism, but have noted which movies I recommend.

  1. Broken Blossoms 1919

  2. Nosferatu 1922

  3. Greed 1924

  4. Battleship Potemkin 1925

  5. The General 1926

  6. Metropolis 1927

  7. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 - Chairman Recommended

  8. Pandora's Box 1929

  9. Un Chien Andalou 1929

  10. City Lights 1931 - Chairman Recommended

  11. Dracula 1931

  12. M 1931 - Chairman Recommended

  13. Trouble in Paradise 1932

  14. Duck Soup 1933

  15. L'Atalante 1934

  16. Bride of Frankenstein 1935

  17. Swing Time 1936 - Chairman Recommended

  18. Grand Illusion 1937

  19. Gone with the Wind 1939

  20. The Wizard of Oz 1939

  21. Pinocchio 1940

  22. Citizen Kane 1941

  23. The Lady Eve 1941

  24. The Maltese Falcon 1941

  25. Casablanca 1942

  26. Double Indemnity 1944 - Chairman Recommended

  27. Detour 1945

  28. Beauty and the Beast 1946 - Chairman Recommended

  29. The Big Sleep 1946

  30. It's a Wonderful Life 1946

  31. My Darling Clementine 1946

  32. Notorious 1946 - Chairman Recommended

  33. Bicycle Thieves 1948

  34. Red River 1948

  35. The Third Man 1949 - Chairman Recommended

  36. All About Eve 1950

  37. Sunset Blvd 1950

  38. Ikiru 1952

  39. Singin' in the Rain 1952 - Chairman Recommended

  40. Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953

  41. On the Waterfront 1954

  42. The Seven Samurai 1954

  43. The Night of the Hunter 1955 - Chairman Recommended

  44. The Apu Trilogy 1955-59

  45. Written on the Wind 1956

  46. The Seventh Seal 1957

  47. Sweet Smell of Success 1957

  48. Vertigo 1958 - Chairman Recommended

  49. The 400 Blows 1959

  50. Floating Weeds 1959

  51. Pickpocket 1959

  52. Some Like It Hot 1959 - Chairman Recommended

  53. The Apartment 1960 - Chairman Recommended

  54. La Dolce Vita 1960

  55. L'Avventura 1960

  56. Peeping Tom 1960

  57. Psycho 1960

  58. Last Year at Marienbad 1961

  59. The Exterminating Angel 1962

  60. Lawrence of Arabia 1962

  61. My Life to Live 1962

  62. 8 1/2 1963

  63. Dr. Strangelove 1964 - Chairman Recommended

  64. A Hard Day's Night 1964

  65. The "Up" Documentaries 1964

  66. Woman in the Dunes 1964 - Chairman Recommended

  67. Blowup 1966

  68. Persona 1966

  69. Belle de Jour 1967

  70. Bonnie and Clyde 1967 - Chairman Recommended

  71. Le Samourai 1967

  72. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  73. The Wild Bunch 1969

  74. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971

  75. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972

  76. The Godfather 1972 - Chairman Recommended

  77. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974

  78. Chinatown 1974 - Chairman Recommended

  79. A Woman Under the Influence 1974

  80. Nashville 1975

  81. Network 1976

  82. Taxi Driver 1976 - Chairman Recommended

  83. Star Wars 1977 - Chairman Recommended

  84. Days of Heaven 1978 - Chairman Recommended

  85. Gates of Heaven 1978

  86. Apocalypse Now 1979

  87. Manhattan 1979 - Chairman Recommended

  88. Raging Bull 1980 - Chairman Recommended

  89. Body Heat 1981 - Chairman Recommended

  90. E.T. 1982

  91. Wings of Desire 1987

  92. The Decalogue 1989

  93. Do the Right Thing 1989

  94. JFK 1991

  95. The Silence of the Lambs 1991 - Chairman Recommended

  96. Schindler's List 1993

  97. Hoop Dreams 1994 - Chairman Recommended

  98. Pulp Fiction 1994

  99. The Shawshank Redemption 1994 - Chairman Recommended

  100. Fargo 1996 - Chairman Recommended

St. Regis Hotels List

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Starred properties have Residences.

Africa (4)

Egypt

Cairo

The St. Regis New Capital, Cairo

The St. Regis Cairo*

Mauritius

Le Morne

The St. Regis Le Morne Resort, Mauritius

Morocco

Fnideq

The St. Regis La Bahia Blanca Resort, Tamuda Bay

Asia (26)

Greater China

Beijing

The St. Regis Beijing

Guangdong

The St. Regis Shenzhen Bao'an

The St. Regis Shenzhen

The St. Regis Zhuhai

Hainan

The St. Regis Sanya Yalong Bay Resort

Hong Kong

The St. Regis Hong Kong

Hunan

The St. Regis Changsha

Macau

The St. Regis Macao

Sichuan

The St. Regis Chengdu

Shanghai

The St. Regis Shanghai Jingan

The St. Regis on the Bund, Shanghai

Shandong

The St. Regis Qingdao

Tianjin

The St. Regis Tianjin

Tibet

The St. Regis Lhasa Resort

French Polynesia

Bora Bora

The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort

India

Goa

The St. Regis Goa Resort

Mumbai

The St. Regis Mumbai

Indonesia

Jakarta Selatan

The St. Regis Jakarta*

Nusa Dua

The St. Regis Bali Resort

Japan

Osaka

The St. Regis Osaka

Kazakhstan

Astana

The St. Regis Astana

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur

The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur*

Langkawi

The St. Regis Langkawi

Maldives

Dhaalu Atoll

The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort

Singapore

Singapore

The St. Regis Singapore*

Thailand

Bangkok

The St. Regis Bangkok*

Central America and Caribbean (9)

Aruba

Noord

The St. Regis Aruba Resort

Bermuda

St George's

The St. Regis Bermuda Resort

The Residences at The St. Regis Bermuda

Dominican Republic

Cap Cana

The Residences at The St. Regis Cap Cana Resort

Punta Cana

The St. Regis Cap Cana Resort

Mexico

Isla Mujeres, Zona Continental

The St. Regis Costa Mujeres Resort, Cancun

Mexico City

The St. Regis Mexico City

Punta de Mita

The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort

Solidaridad, Playa Del Carmen

The St. Regis Kanai Resort, Riviera Maya

Europe (7)

Hungary

Budapest

The St. Regis Budapest

Italy

Florence

The St. Regis Florence

Rome

The St. Regis Rome

Venice

The St. Regis Venice

Serbia

Belgrade

The St. Regis Belgrade*

Spain

Palma de Mallorca

The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort

Turkey

Istanbul

The St. Regis Istanbul

Middle East (11)

Jordan

Amman

The St. Regis Amman

Kuwait

Kuwait City

The St. Regis Kuwait

Oman

Muscat

The St. Regis Al Mouj Muscat Resort

Qatar

Doha

The St. Regis Doha

The St. Regis Marsa Arabia Island, The Pearl Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Red Sea

The St. Regis Red Sea Resort

Riyadh

The St. Regis Riyadh

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi

The St. Regis Abu Dhabi

Dubai

The St. Regis Downtown Dubai

The St. Regis Dubai, The Palm

North America (11)

Canada

Toronto

The St. Regis Toronto

United States

California

The St. Regis San Francisco

Colorado

The St. Regis Aspen Resort

St. Regis Residence Club, Aspen

District Of Columbia

The St. Regis Washington, D.C.

Florida

The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort

The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort

Georgia

The St. Regis Atlanta

Illinois

The St. Regis Chicago

St. Regis Residences List

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As of April 2026…

Asia Pacific

  • China, Lijiang (Yunnan province) … closed? does not exist?

  • Indonesia, Jakarta

  • Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

  • Singapore (sold out)

  • Thailand, Bangkok (sold out)

Caribbean and Latin America

  • Bermuda

  • Costa Rica, Papagayo

  • Dominican Republic, Cap Cana

  • Mexico, Costa Mujeres

  • Mexico, Kanai

  • Mexico, Los Cabos

  • Mexico, Mexico City

  • Turks & Caicos

Europe

  • Azerbaijan, Baku

  • Serbia, Belgrade

  • Spain, Costa Del Sol

  • United Kingdom, London

Middle East

  • Egypt, Cairo

  • Oman, Al Mouj Muscat

  • Qatar, Marsa Arabia Island

  • United Arab Emirates, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi

  • United Arab Emirates, Downtown, Dubai (sold out)

  • United Arab Emirates, Financial Center Road, Dubai

North America

  • Canada, Ontario, Toronto (sold out)

  • USA, California, San Francisco (sold out)

  • USA, Florida, Bahia Mar, Fort Lauderdale

  • USA, Florida, Bal Harbour (sold out)

  • USA, Florida, Longboat Key (sold out)

  • USA, Florida, Miami

  • USA, Florida, Sunny Isles Beach

  • USA, Georgia, Atlanta

  • USA, Illinois, Chicago

  • USA, Massachusetts, Boston

  • USA, New York, New York (sold out)

  • USA, New York, Rye (sold out)

  • USA, Texas, Houston

  • USA, Utah, Deer Valley (sold out)

Gin Brands and Per Liter Prices

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Monkey 47 Dru Gin 94 Proof, $68.99 [Germany]

Lighthouse New Zealand Gin, $66.65 [New Zealand]

Barr Hill Tom Cat Gin, $62.65 [Vermont]

Hendrick’s Oasium, $57.32 [Scotland]

Hendrick’s Grand Cabaret, $55.99 [Scotland]

Hendrick’s Flora Adora, $55.99 [Scotland]

Brooklyn Gin, $53.32 [Brooklyn, NY]

Botanist Gin, $53.32 [Scotland]

Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin, $51.99 [British Columbia, Canada]

Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin, $51.99 [British Columbia, Canada]

Empress 1908 Indigo Gin, $51.99 [British Columbia, Canada]

Nolet’s Dry Gin, $50.65 [Holland]

Harahorn Norwegian Gin, $49.32 [Norway]

Broker’s London Dry Gin, $49.32 [England]

Bombay London Dry Gin, $49.32 [England]

Dre and Snoop Gin, $46.65

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, $46.65 [Ireland]

Plymouth Gin, $46.65 [England]

Barr Hill Gin, $43.99 [Vermont]

Hartman’s Distilling American Dry Gin, $43.99 [Buffalo, NY]

135 East Gin, $42.65 [Japan]

Seneca Drums Gin, $41.32 [Burdett, NY]

Tanqueray Orange Gin, $41.32

Seagram’s Gin, $37.32

Hendrick’s Gin, $37.14 [Scotland]

Junipero Gin, $36.65

Aviation Gin, $35.99

St. George Terroir Gin, $35.99

Tanqueray Ten Gin, $35.99

Bluecoat American Dry Gin, $33.32

Gordon’s Gin, $33.32

Tanqueray Rangpur Gin, $29.99

Tanqueray Gin, $27.14

Purity Nordic Dry Organic Gin, $26.65

Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin, $25.71

Beefeater Gin, $25.14

Gilbey’s Gin, $11.42

Fleishmanns Gin, $10.85

Burnett’s Gin, $10.28

Barton 80 Proof Gin, $9.71

Recipe 21 London Dry Gin, $8.57

Movies Watched -- Leave Her to Heaven (1945) (Re-watch)

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(That’s odd, I reviewed this six years ago this month and forgot all about it).

110 minute running time so 10 minutes too long, but this is a wonderfully weird movie. I thought it was a Sirk film given the “blazing Technicolor,” but the director was John M. Stahl (born Jacob Morris Strelitsky).

That beautiful blue sky above the “lake cabin in Maine” was actually shot in northern California. The movie stars Gene Tierney, her overbite, and her face-in-a-trance. She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s politically- and socially-connected, she has impeccable manners, she is beautifully dressed (for the 40s), and she is a complete psychopath. It’s a lot of fun. Weird fun.

She marries a Harvard man (editor of the Lampoon) named Dick, after unceremoniously dumping Vincent Price, the District Attorney. Dick is close to his younger brother Danny, whom she calls a “cripple” in a moment of indiscretion (maybe he has polio?). Spoilers ahead: she doesn’t like Danny around so she drowns him. See what I mean about this movie being fun?

She gets pregnant with Dick’s baby, but ends up hating the “little beast” inside her, so she throws herself down the stairs to induce a miscarriage. Let me remind you that this movie was made in 1945, the height of American myth-making in Hollywood, the opposite of the dark truths put on display here.

High on Crazy Hot Index

Dick loses interest in her after this, and spends more time with her “sister” Ruth (actually a cousin), and he even ends up dedicating his latest novel to Ruth, which leads Gene Tierney and her overbite (spoilers ahead) to kill herself while attempting to frame Ruth for “murder.” High comedy!

There’s some really great writing in this movie, great lines and dialogue. I loved everything about it. What’s weird is that it is not on ANY must-see movie list, including John Farr’s, which is a real surprise. But I strongly recommend seeing this movie, it’s wonderful, green-go!

(How could Fox’s largest-grossing movie of the ENTIRE 1940s be so unknown today?!? I think it’s because the movie is so dark, so perverse, that normal people don’t want anything to do with it… similar to Angel Face or Nightmare Alley … crazy hot people committing suicide or going mad is not something the public anxious to see.)

Top 50 City Clubs

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Listed By State:

Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, Calif.

The California Club, Los Angeles, Calif.

The Athenaeum, Pasadena, Calif.

The Sutter Club, Sacramento, Calif.

Bohemian Club, San Francisco, Calif.

Pacific-Union Club, San Francisco, Calif.

Santa Barbara Club, Santa Barbara, Calif.

The Beach Club, Palm Beach, Fla.

The Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, Fla.

The University Club of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

The Chicago Club, Chicago, Ill.

The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Ind.

City Club at River Ranch, Lafayette, La.

The Shreveport Club, Shreveport, La.

The Center Club, Baltimore, Md.

Harvard Club of Boston, Boston, Mass.

The University Club of Boston, Boston, Mass.

The Minneapolis Club, Minneapolis, Minn.

Saint Louis Club, St. Louis, Mo.

The Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N.Y.

The University Club of New York, New York, N.Y.

The Penn Club of New York, New York, N.Y.

The Yale Club of New York City, New York, N.Y.

The Union League Club, New York, N.Y.

Metropolitan Club, New York, N.Y.

Union Club of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.

The Cornell Club - New York, New York, N.Y.

The Knickerbocker Club, New York, N.Y.

Cosmopolitan Club, New York, N.Y.

The Harmonie Club, New York, N.Y.

Harvard Club of New York City, New York, N.Y.

The Lotos Club, New York, N.Y.

The Princeton Club, New York, N.Y.

Genesee Valley Club, Rochester, N.Y.

Charlotte City Club, Charlotte, N.C.

The Union Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

The Summit, Tulsa, Okla.

Arlington Club, Portland, Ore.

Hamilton Club of Lancaster, Lancaster, Pa.

The Union League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.

Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Westmoreland Club, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Poinsett Club, Greenville, S.C.

The Piedmont Club, Spartanburg, S.C.

Dallas Petroleum Club, Dallas, Tex.

The Fort Worth Club, Fort Worth, Tex.

The Coronado Club, Houston, Tex.

Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.

The University Club of Washington DC, Washington, D.C.

The Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington, Washington, D.C.

The Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C.

Sulgrave Club, Washington, D.C.

The University Club of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wis.

Movies Watched in March 2026

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I now think the goal of watching 50 movies a month is a little crazy so I’m dropping it to a more manageable 30 a month. Check out the January 2026 and February 2026 lists.

Here is what I watched in March, listed alphabetically:

  1. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

  2. Basic Training, 1971

  3. Blade Runner, 1982

  4. Bonjour Tristesse, 1958

  5. Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1970

  6. Earth, 1930

  7. El Bruto, 1953

  8. Harper, 1966

  9. Johnny Guitar, 1954

  10. Kuroneko, 1968

  11. La Bete Humaine, 1938

  12. My Life As a Dog, 1985

  13. Petite Maman, 2021

  14. Pina, 2011

  15. Rashomon, 1950

  16. Rebel Without a Cause, 1955

  17. Sleuth, 1972

  18. Summertime, 1955

  19. The 400 Blows, 1959

  20. The Exterminating Angel, 1962

  21. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971

  22. The Milky Way, 1936

  23. The Servant, 1963

  24. The Swimmer, 1968

  25. The Thin Blue Line, 1988

  26. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964

  27. Three Colours: White, 1994

  28. Titicut Follies, 1967

  29. To Be Or Not To Be, 1942

  30. Un Chien Andalou, 1962

  31. Watership Down, 1978

  32. Where Is the Friend's House, 1983

  33. Wild Strawberries, 1957

  34. Woman in the Dunes, 1964

  35. Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939

The movies that I consider must-see among these are listed below:

  1. Blade Runner, 1982 (director: Ridley Scott)

  2. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971 (director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

  3. To Be Or Not To Be, 1932 (director: Ernst Lubitsch)

  4. Woman in the Dunes, 1964 (director: Hiroshi Teshigahara)

States With Two Republican Senators

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Names in bold are senators whose terms expire in 2027.

  1. Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, Katie Britt

  2. Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan

  3. Arkansas, John Boozman, Tom Cotton

  4. Florida, Rick Scott, Ashley Moody

  5. Idaho, Mike Crapo, Jim Risch

  6. Indiana, Todd Young, Jim Banks

  7. Iowa, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst

  8. Kansas, Jerry Moran, Roger Marshall

  9. Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul

  10. Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, John Kennedy

  11. Mississippi, Roger Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith

  12. Missouri, Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt

  13. Montana, Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy

  14. Nebraska, Deb Fischer, Pete Ricketts

  15. North Carolina, Thom Tillis, Ted Budd

  16. North Dakota, John Hoeven, Kevin Cramer

  17. Ohio, Bernie Moreno, Jon Husted

  18. Oklahoma, James Lankford, Alan Armstrong

  19. South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott

  20. South Dakota, John Thune, Mike Rounds

  21. Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Haggerty

  22. Texas, John Cornyn, Ted Cruz

  23. Utah, Mike Lee, John Curtis

  24. West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Justice

  25. Wyoming, John Barrasso, Cynthia Lummis

Susan Collins, from split-state Maine, is the 20th Republican senator whose term expires in 2027. It’s vital that all of these Republican senators are voted out of office in November.

Check out this post from 2021: U.S. Senate has fewest split delegations since direct elections began

Worst Adverse Excursions in March 2026

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March was an amazing month for the blind shorts, with next to no outlier losses and hundreds and hundreds of winning trades.

Don’t forget to look at the outlier moves in October 2025 (23), November 2025 (5), December 2025 (6), January 2026 (10), and February 2026 (9)

ARTL, 3/27:

CIIT (Hong Kong), 3/9:

EEIQ, 3/26:

MOBX, 3/3:

SWMR, 3/17:

TMDE, 3/2:

UCAR (China), 3/17:

UGRO, 3/25:

VCIG (Malaysia), 3/4:

WNW (China), 3/16: