Back-dated and cross-posted from Facebook, this is my list of 15 movies that will “always stick with me.”

• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas)
• Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
• 1984 (Michael Radford)
• Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
• Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
• Cloverfield (Matt Reeves / J.J. Abrams)
• Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp / Peter Jackson)
• Where the Wild Things Are trailer (Spike Jonze)

What’s a trailer doing in an all-time list of favorite movies? Because it’s the single best one and a half minutes of movie-making I’ve ever seen. The actual movie can only be a disappointment…