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      Felix Gonzalez Jr.

      Felix Gonzalez Jr.

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      Biography:

      Born in Waco, Texas, I have always had a love for movies. The earliest films I remember seeing are "Grease" and "Grease 2." I was taken to a movie theater for the first time at the age of 9 (I was a late bloomer!). It was the summer of 1993, and the film was "Jurassic Park." I saw dinosaurs. I did not develop my true passion for movies until the age of 13. It was all due to one film. "Citizen Kane," perhaps? No. "City Lights"? Hardly. "It's a Wonderful Life"? I don't think so. No, it was actually the fantabulous, 1956 camp classic B-thriller "The Bad Seed." Through this movie, I was introduced to the wonders of filmdom, and I have never looked back. Throughout high school, I watched as many movies as I could, from classical Hollywood movies to silent cinema to foreign films. I acquired a basic, but promising, cinema vocabulary and a deep interest in flim analysis. I graduated from Baylor University in 2006 with a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications and a minor in English. I am currently a graduate student in the Communications Department at Baylor. I have been a reviewer for DVDReview.com since May 2006.

      Favorites:

      (In alphabetical order) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2. 3 Women (1977) 3. 8½ (1963) 4. Ace in the Hole (1951) 5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 6. Alice (1988) 7. All About Eve (1950) 8. Annie Hall (1977) 9. Apocalypse Now (1979) 10. The Awful Truth (1937) 11. Bambi (1942) 12. Battleship Potemkin (1925) 13. Beauty and the Beast (1946) 14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 15. Bicycle Thieves (1948) 16. The Big Sleep (1946) 17. Black Narcissus (1947) 18. Blade Runner (1982) 19. Blowup (1966) 20. Blue Velvet (1986) 21. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 22. Brazil (1985) 23. Breathless (1960) 24. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 25. Casablanca (1942) 26. Cat People (1942) 27. Cinema Paradiso (1989) 28. Citizen Kane (1941) 29. City Lights (1931) 30. The Conversation (1974) 31. The Crying Game (1992) 32. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 33. Do the Right Thing (1989) 34. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 35. Double Indemnity (1944) 36. Duck Soup (1933) 37. The Exterminating Angel (1962) 38. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) 39. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 40. Forbidden Games (1952) 41. Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein (1931, 1935) 42. The General (1927) 43. The Godfather Parts I and II (1972, 1974) 44. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 45. The Graduate (1967) 46. Great Expectations (1946) 47. His Girl Friday (1940) 48. Imitation of Life (1959) 49. In a Lonely Place (1950) 50. Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944, 1958) 51. Jules and Jim (1962) 52. The Kid (1921) 53. King Kong (1933) 54. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) 55. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 56. The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) 57. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 58. Metropolis (1927) 59. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) 60. The Misfits (1961) 61. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 62. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) 63. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 64. My Darling Clementine (1946) 65. Nashville (1975) 66. The Night of the Hunter (1955) 67. Nosferatu (1922) 68. Notorious (1946) 69. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 70. Ordet (1955) 71. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 72. Persona (1966) 73. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) 74. Pinocchio (1940) 75. The Producers (1968) 76. Psycho (1960) 77. Pulp Fiction (1994) 78. The Red Shoes (1948) 79. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 80. The Seventh Seal (1957) 81. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 82. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 83. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 84. Spirited Away (2001) 85. Strangers on a Train (1951) 86. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 87. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) 88. Sunrise (1927) 89. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 90. Taxi Driver (1976) 91. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) 92. The Third Man (1949) 93. Throne of Blood (1957) 94. Trouble in Paradise (1932) 95. Vampyr (1932) 96. Vertigo (1958) 97. The Wind (1928) 98. Wings of Desire (1987) 99. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 100. Written on the Wind (1956)

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