Here are my favorite top 20 movies of 2002:

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Spirited Away
Adaptation
About Schmidt
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Secretary
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A substitue teacher out on Long Island was dropped from his job for fighting with a student. A few weeks later, he returned to the classroom, shot the student—unsuccessfully—held the class hostage, and then shot himself… Successfully. This fact caught my eye; last sentence, Times: ‘A neighbor described the teacher as a nice boy; always reading Catcher in the Rye. This nitwit Chapman, who shot John Lennon, said he did it because he wanted to draw the attention of the world to Catcher in the Rye; and the reading of this book would be his defense. Young Hinckley—the ‘wiz-kid’ who shot Reagan and his press secretary—said: ‘If you want my defense, all you have to do is read … Catcher in the Rye.’

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As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they’re not going to lick me! I’m going to live through this, and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again – no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, as God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.

——-Vivien Leigh as Scarlett Ohara in “Gone With the Wind”

Great principles don’t get lost once they come to light. They’re right here. You just have to see them again…You think I’m licked. You all think I’m licked. Well, I’m not licked. And I’m going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause, even if this room gets filled with lies like these; and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me

—–James Stewart as Senator Jefferson Smith in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”

Here are my 10 most favourite movies of 2001:

Moulin Rouge

A Beautiful Mind

The Others

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

Shrek

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone

Bridget Jones Diary

The Royal Tenenbaums

Ocean’s Eleven

One Night at McCool