So cinema nerds across the web have been having fun making alphabetical favorite film lists over the past few days.  Meaning they’ve been taking the alphabet and picking one favorite film for each letter.   It’s actually harder than one might think (it’s the reason I haven’t posted much today), with some letters full of lots of options and others needing some research.

For example I had many A’s (Age of Innocence, Ali Fear Eats the Soul, Annie Hall) M’s (Manhattan, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence) P’s (Paris Texas, Portrait of Jennie) and W’s (Wings of Desire, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Woman in the Window, The World) but none of the films listed in this paragraph made my final list.

Head after the jump to see what I picked and leave your own lists in the comments or on your own blogs!

If you don’t have a blog, takepart and make your own!

Army of Shadows ( Jean-Perre Melville, 1969)

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946)

Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Four Hundred Blows, The (Francois Truffaut, 1959)

Godfather, The (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997)

Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)

Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)

Last of the Mohicans, The (Michael Mann, 1992)

Marriage of Maria Braun, The (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994)

Red Shoes , The (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)

To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)

Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)

Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)

Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)

Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1997)

Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933)

*photo from luke9480’s flickr (creative commons)