Favorites

First, in order to know where I'm coming from, here is a list of my favorite films, actors, actresses, and directors:

"Young Frankenstein" [1974, Mel Brooks]
"The Shining" [1980, Stanley Kubrick] (the source of the title of this blog, for those who were curious)
"Cat People" [1942, Jacques Tourneur]
"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" [1963, Jacques Demy]
"Manhattan" [1980, Woody Allen]
"Night of the Living Dead" [1968, George A. Romero]
"8½" [1963, Federico Fellini]
"Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" [1963, Stanley Kubrick]
"2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968, Stanley Kubrick]
"Amelie" [2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet]
"Touch of Evil" [1958, Orson Welles]
"Rosemary's Baby" [1968, Roman Polanski]

I noticed almost all of these were made in either 1963 or 1968. How weird is that? Some other honorary mentions from those years: "Planet of the Apes", "Once Upon a Time in the West", and "Repulsion". What good movie-years.

As for favorite actors and actresses:
♂ Steve Buscemi
♂ Orson Welles
♀ Audrey Hepburn
♂ Josh Brolin
♀ Audrey Tautou
♀ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
♂ Sterling Hayden
♂ Woody Allen
♀ Madeline Kahn
♀ Claudia Cardinale
♀ Ingrid Bergman
♂ Boris Karloff