why are none of these films on that top 20 list of yours?

Just listing what first comes to mind. I'll probably think of better ones after listing.
Trump - Sinners
Biden - Red Rocket
Trump - Arrival
Obama - Interstellar
L'il Bush - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cliton - Clerks
Big Bush - Edward Scissorhands
Reagan - ET
Carter - Eraserhead
Ford - Taxi Driver
Nixon - A Clockwork Orange
Johnson - 2001 (American director for these last 2 so it counts)
Kinda bored. May do moee later

I actually have seen that one and really liked it. Also Bringing Up Baby, Monkey Business and all of his collabs with Hichcock. Plus Charade. Maybe more I'm forgetting.
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Start with Arsenic & Old Lace

Cary Grant was always great. My favorite with him is
Charade
, but mostly because of Audrey Hepburn. I actually talked myself out of picking
Breakfast at Tiffany's
for JFK lol. I was like, "Come on bro, you can't pick that movie just because she's gorgeous. Remember how cringe Mickey Rooney is!"
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yes, i noticed that i gave it 8/10 back then but i've rewatched it twice since then and it's now 10/10. Cary Grant is so suave and Constance Bennett is swag as hell (she's the one in my avatar)
here's a clip:
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Topper/Cary-Grant-singin'-and-swingin'-here-is-like-the-coolest-****-captured-on-film-3473363/
and yep, i ️ screwball & noir
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Just read your post on Topper and I'm pretty sure I haven't seen that one (there's a channel in the US that plays old movies from that era continuously, so I've seen a bunch I can't remember the titles of). But I see where your avatar is from now. Rad! I'll have to check it out. I know that screwball comedy is sort of the funnier cousin to noir, but I haven't explored it that deeply. Mainly just Capra and Hawks.
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Lmao Coen's Macbeth was kinda boring tbh. there was nothing especially new or inventive about this version imo - so i don't think you are missing much
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Regardless I usually dig the Coen brothers, although I really wasn't feeling the last three or four films they did together so hopefully they're doing better solo. Haven't seen Joel Coen's Macbeth either, but mostly because I'd already seen the Welles and Polanski version, read the play and wrote a 20-page essay on it in college.
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Drive-Away Dolls is really really funny imo - and it's really just that, a super fun comedy.
FDR wasn't so hard for me, cuz Topper is one of my top 3 fav films of all time.
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Topper/Topper-(1937)-screwball-comedy-w%2F-Cary-Grant%2C-Constance-Bennett%2C-Roland-Young-3474920/
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I almost kept your Clinton pick, but then I remembered Gummo. FDR was toughest because his presidency was so long. I definitely need to see Drive-Away Dolls. I've heard tons of great things about it.
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i was expecting your input (almost tagged you lol), so thanks!
your Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman picks were close calls for me. love your Nixon pick, Clinton is interesting lol and i almost put
Beau Is Afraid
myself, but then decided for the extremely chilling, otherworldly beautiful
Bones and All
…
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Interesting… Nothing for Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson? Yeah, me either. The French were pretty dominant at the time and I don't want to give D.W. Griffith credit for anything, even on a technical level. Sooo…
Calv Coolidge (1923-1929) - The General, 1926 dir. Buster Keaton
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) - Freaks, 1932 dir. Tod Browning
Frank D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) - Double Indemnity, 1944 dir. Billy Wilder
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) - Sunset Boulevard, 1950 dir. Billy Wilder
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) - Vertigo, 1958 dir. Alfred Hitchcock
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962 dir. John Ford
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) - Easy Rider, 1969 dir. Dennis Hopper
Richard Nixon (1969-1974) - Five Easy Pieces, 1970 dir. Bob Rafelson
Gerald Ford (1974-1977) - Harlan County USA, 1976 dir. Barbara Kopple
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) - The Decline of Western Civilization, 1978 dir. Penelope Spheeris
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) - Matewan, 1987 dir. John Sayles
George Bush sen. (1989-1993) - Roger and Me, 1989 dir. Michael Moore
Bill Clinton (1993-2001) - Gummo, 1997 dir. Harmony Korine
George W. Bush (2001-2009) - Mulholland Dr., 2001 dir. David Lynch
Barack Obama (2009-2017) - The Witch, 2015 dir. Robert Eggers
Trump (2017-2021) - Joker, 2019 dir. Todd Phillips
Biden (2021-2024) - Beau is Afraid, 2023 dir. Ari Aster
Trump (2024 - …) - unanswered
Still need to see Drive-Away Dolls.
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omg i love you for playing with me!! and great choices for FDR, Truman, LBJ & Obama!!
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Wilson - The Mark of Zorro, because it's the only one that qualifies for me
Harding - Safety Last
Coolidge - The Gold Rush
Hoover - M
FDR - Double Indemnity
Truman - Sunset Blvd
Eisenhower - Some Like It Hot
JFK - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
LBJ - Planet of the Apes
Nixon - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Ford - Godfather II
Carter - Life of Brian
Reagan - Conan the Barbarian
Bush I - Crimes & Misdemeanors
Clinton - Natural Born Killers
Bush II - Lord of the Rings
Obama - Moonrise Kingdom
Trump I - Parasite
Biden - Banshees of Inisherin
Trump II - Sinners