Your top 100 Movies !

I guess the eggs scene is a tad gross for today's audience.

 

I have thousands upon thousands that I've loved throughout my life...too much work to list even 100.

 

Hey, this ain't my general bag -- but I was thinking to myself as I walked the dog earlier this evening -- "What are the films that mean the most to me?"

In no particular order (maybe)....

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Nashville
3) The Wild Bunch
4) Once Upon a Time in the West
5) Sans Soleil
6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7) Charulata
8) Jules and Jim
9) Duck Soup
10) Bonnie and Clyde
11) Blue Velvet
12) City Lights
13) Two or Three Things I Know About Her
14) Last Tango in Paris
15) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
16) Intolerance
17) Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
18) A Hard Day's Night
19) Medium Cool
20) Petulia
21) Pandora's Box
22) Walkabout
23) Some Like It Hot
24) Psycho
25) Grand Illusion

Are these the Greatest Films of All Time, or do I just think so? They are certainly the ones that have fit most snugly into my frame of mind over the years...

Looking over it now, I have an obvious predilection for the great films of the 60s and 70s. Nowadays that's Old School!

 

As Good As It Gets
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou
No Country For Old Men
Fargo
The Dambusters
The Great Escape
Apollo 13
True Grit (Original)
True Grit (Coen Brothers Remake)
Burn after Reading
A Serious Man
Crazy Heart
Forrest Gump
Das Boot
Man On The Moon
Yes Man
Bullitt

...... & Thousands More.

 

My top ten, not necessarily in order...

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now
Lawrence of Arabia
Jaws
Dirty Harry
Goodfellas
Blade Runner
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Star Wars original trilogy (Empire Strikes Back if I have to pick one with a gun to my head...)

All pretty standard stuff and subject to change. To pick a top 100 would take me too long and I would never get around to it. The above I did without having to think about it too much. Looking through the thread there are a load of great films though that I could easily list, Alien, Deliverance, French Connection, Raiders of the Lost Ark etc.

 

Not work, it's pleasure.

 

I'm sure Jimi did a version of walking the dog.

 

Okay, here's a rough 100...

100. Defending Your Life
99. The 39 Steps
98. Taxi Driver
97. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
96. Crimes and Misdemeanors
95. Alien
94. Blood Simple
93. The Wrong Trousers
92. Double Indemnity
91. Stagecoach
90. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
89. His Girl Friday
88. The Big Sleep
87. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
86. Short Cuts
85. Grand Illusion
84. City Lights
83. Once Upon a Time in America
82. Broadcast News
81. Beauty and the Beast
80. Blow-Up
79. The English Patient
78. When Harry Met Sally
77. Miller’s Crossing
76. The Magnificent Ambersons
75. Breathless
74. Requiem for a Dream
73. The Bridge on the River Kwai
72. Tokyo Story
71. The Night of the Hunter
70. Persona
69. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
68. Strangers on a Train
67. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
66. Tootsie
65. Laura
64. Manhattan
63. The Piano
62. Rosemary’s Baby
61. Rashomon
60. Singin’ in the Rain
59.. Intolerance
58. The Children of Paradise
57. Meshes of the Afternoon
56. King Kong (1933)
55. King Kong (2005)
54. The Grapes of Wrath
53. Children of Men
52. Some Like It Hot
51. The Thing
50. The New World
49. Blade Runner
48. The Seventh Seal
47. Rear Window
46. A Letter to Three Wives
45. Notorious
44. Un Chien Andalou
43. Gunga Din
42. The Wild Bunch
41. Mulholland Dr.
40. Halloween
39. Casablanca
38. Life Is Beautiful
37. Before Sunset
36. Raiders of the Lost Ark
35. The Passion of Joan of Arc
34. Nashville
33. Throne of Blood
32. 2046
31. Raging Bull
30. Sunset Blvd.
29. M
28. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
27. Battleship Potemkin
26. The Producers
25. Jules and Jim
24. Harold and Maude
23. Metropolis
22. Sex, lies, and videotape
21. Lawrence of Arabia
20. The Godfather Part II
19. All About Eve
18. My Man Godfrey
17. Simple Men
16. The Third Man
15. Touch of Evil
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Hannah and Her Sisters
12. Chinatown
11. The Maltese Falcon
10. Andrei Rublev
9. The Garden of the Finzi Continis
8. Pulp Fiction
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Cabaret
5. 8 1/2
4. Bringing Up Baby
3. North by Northwest
2. Citizen Kane
1. Amateur

Shalom y'all!

L. Bangs

 

001 Before The Devil Knows You´re Dead (Sidney Lumet)
002 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
003 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
004 The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
005 Key Largo (John Huston)
006 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
007 Faustrecht der Freiheit (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
008 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
009 Gespenster (Christian Petzold)
010 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
011 Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
012 Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles)
013 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
014 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
015 Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
016 Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
017 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (John Huston)
018 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
019 Das Weisse Band (Michael Haneke)
020 Casino (Martin Scorsese)
021 Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
022 Die Süsse Haut (Francois Truffaut)
023 Ausser Atem (Jean - Luc Godard)
024 Alice in den Städten (Wim Wenders)
025 Apocalypse now! (Francis Ford Coppola)
026 The Misfits (John Huston)
027 Birdman Of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer)
028 Shadow Of A Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
029 Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
030 Das Mädchen Aus Der Streichholzfabrik (Aki Kaurismäki)
031 The Searchers (John Ford)
032 Der Wolfsjunge (Francois Truffaut)
033 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
034 The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)
035 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
036 The African Queen (John Huston)
037 Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog)
038 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
039 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
040 Fight Club (David Fincher)
041 Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
042 The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
043 Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
044 Element of Crime (Lars von Trier)
045 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
046 The Science Of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
047 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
048 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
049 Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
050 High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
051 Fargo (Joel Coen)
052 A Single Man (Tom Ford)
053 Control (Anton Corbijn)
054 The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
055 Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
056 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
057 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
058 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
059 Alien 3 (David Fincher)
060 Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
061 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
062 Badlands (Terrence Malick)
063 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
064 The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
065 Wild River (Elia Kazan)
066 Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
067 To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
068 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
069 Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
070 The Thing (John Carpenter)
071 Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
072 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
073 Das Schloß (Michael Haneke)
074 The Trial (Orson Welles)
075 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
076 Fahrenheit 451 (Francouis Truffaut)
077 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
078 Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison)
079 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
080 Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
081 Psycho (Gus Van Sant)
082 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
083 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
084 Manhattan (Woody Allen)
085 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
086 Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
087 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
088 Alien (Ridley Scott)
089 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
090 The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
091 The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders)
092 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
093 The Man Who Wasn´t There (Joel Coen)
094 Dancer In The Dark (Lars von Trier)
095 The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
096 The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
097 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
098 Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino)
099 Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton)
100 Cinemania (Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak)

 

GREAT list. Clearly a decent amount of thought went into this one, and you have excellent taste in cinema. Hannah and Her Sisters, Bringing Up Baby, Chinatown, and The Passion of Joan of Arc all came within a smidgin of making my short list -- if I expanded from 25 to 50, they would all most assuredly be on there.

 

Terrific stuff -- hell-bent-for-leather, I-don't-give-a-f**k-what-you-say choices. A European viewer's sensibility, where Stroszek and Videodrome can happily share the stage with The Circus. So great to see some serious props for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a film I love -- but one which I tend to have a difficult time defending to people...

 

Thanks! I actually went ahead and added the bottom 50 above.

I loved your list. I think we have somewhat similar tastes!

In fact, it reminded me of McCabe & Mrs. Miller, a great film I might need to fit into my list at some point.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

 

Lordy the motherlode.

Leonard Cohen was served well in'Miller.

 

1. Badlands/Days Of Heaven NOT IN ORDER
2. Godfather Saga
3. The Conformist
4. My Darling Clementine
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Kane
7. Duck Soup
8. Its A Gift
9. Busy Bodies/Towed In A Hole
10. Cops/Neighbors
11. Horse Feathers
12. The Producers
13. Touch of Evil
14. The Searchers
15. 2001
16. Dr. Strangelove
17. Blade Runner
18. Young Frankenstein
19. Monty Python and the Holly Grail
20. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
21. Spirit of the Beehive
22. El Sur
23. Bananas
24. Sleeper
25. Some Like It Hot
26. Spiders Stratagem
27. 1900
28. Last Emperor
29. North By Northwest
30. A Clockwork Orange
31. Last Tango In Paris
32. Blue Velvet
33. The Conversation
34. Picnic at Hanging Rock
35. Deliverance
36. Shane
37. Apocalypse Now
38. The Deer Hunter
39. Heavens Gate
40. Taxi Driver
41. A Hard Day Night
42. Thief
43. Manhunter
44. Mash
45. The Long GoodBye
46. Lawrence of Arabia
47. The Red Desert
48. The Passenger
49. The Third man
50. City Lights
51. Modern Times
52. Crimes and Misdemeanors
53. Annie Hall
54. Manhattan
55. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
56. Once Upon a Time in America
57. Once Upon a Time in The west
58. Alien 1&2
59. Animal House
60. Brazil
61. Pierrot Le fou
62. Magnificent Ambersons
63. Back To The Future
64. Jaws
65. Close Encounters of the third Kind
66. ET
67. Beetle Juice
68. Ed Wood
69. Chinatown
70. Gostbusters
71. Blues brothers
72. French Connection
73. The Imformer
74. Barry Lyndon
75. Odd Couple
76. Armacord
77. Metropolis
78. M
79. Life of Brian
80. its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
81. The Bank Dick
82. A day At The Races
83. A Night at The opera
84. Chimes at Midnight
85. Broadway Danny Rose
86. Blazing Saddles
87. Sherlock Jr
88. Abyss
89. Bringing Up Baby
90. Mr Blanding Builds His Dream House
91. Star Wars
92. The Empire Strikes Back
93. Woodstock
94. First Blood
95. Dirty Harry
96. Heat
97. Shawshank Redemption
98. American Graffiti
99. JFK
100. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

 

Okay, I've expanded it to 50. Had been working on The Great 25 for a while, so it's nice to cut loose and add 25 more. Here's what I came up with (today)...

(Remember, these are just the ones that have fit most snugly into my Frame of Mind)

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Nashville
3) The Wild Bunch
4) Once Upon a Time in the West
5) Sans Soleil
6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7) Charulata
8) Jules and Jim
9) Duck Soup
10) Bonnie and Clyde
11) Blue Velvet
12) City Lights
13) Two or Three Things I Know About Her
14) Last Tango in Paris
15) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
16) Intolerance
17) Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
18) A Hard Day's Night
19) Medium Cool
20) Petulia
21) Pandora's Box
22) Walkabout
23) Some Like It Hot
24) Psycho
25) Grand Illusion
26) Chinatown
27) Earth
28) The Passion of Joan of Arc
29) The General
30) Bringing Up Baby
31) Mean Streets
32) Before the Revolution
33) Seven Samurai
34) Singin’ in the Rain
35) The Godfather I & II
36) Waking Life
37) Shadow of a Doubt
38) Touch of Evil
39) The Big Sleep
40) Kiss Me Deadly
41) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
42) Hannah and Her Sisters
43) Les Enfants du Paradis
44) Metropolis
45) Week-End
46) Barry Lyndon
47) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
48) Red River
49) It’s a Wonderful Life
50) Citizen Kane

 

I only recently caught The Conformist. I started the list before I saw it, but by golly, I really should have it on there. Great film!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

 

Thank you for your flattering reply! Of course, it´s quite a personal list, but with all the stuff I personally and also in an objective way think is great and should generally be more dignified. I studied film and media science; so I quite get, why normally Citizen Kane or nowadays Vertigo are on the top of such listings. These are great films for sure, especially for film classes. But they are also kind of cold films for me, more for the mind than for the heart. And on my personal list, I want only stuff, that is heartful and entertaining as well as done with artful craftsmanship.

The Circus for me is THE perfect Chaplin movie; it´s so entertaining and artful and the ending is just THE classic iconographic ending. But sure, I get why Modern Times, Gold Rush or The Great Dictator normally are getting mentioned first. They have the deeper thematic background stories. But for me they tend to want to deliver more than they actually are able to deliver. Like in the great dictator; two or three great scences. But it´s kind of a long film and parts of it are slow and overarticulated. So it´s The Circus for me...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is such a great movie! But it´s hard to turn people on to it; it has kind of a strange pace and it´s also quite existentially. For me this film feels like a French New Wave Western. And this must be a great thing, or not?

 

I admire The Conformist without really loving it. I recognize its brilliance, but for me the two finest Bertoluccis (an intensely sensual filmmaker) are Before the Revolution and Last Tango in Paris (both of which made my list -- big surprise).

 

I love Tango, even if I favor Conformist, but I've never seen Before the Revolution. It is now on my to-see list - Thanks!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

 

That´s also a very profound list. I haven´t seen Medium Cool, but I saw the Criterion cover artwork before and thought, this must be an interesting film. Now I´m quite tempted to order it blindly with my next criterion rush...

 

Raw, callow New-Wave-y 1964 movie that completely transcends its simple and derivative material through several gorgeous, intensely filmed sequences that sing like arias. Shot through with feeling and emotion and the excitement of a born filmmaker getting his bearings. This one marked Bertolucci as one to watch.

 

Filmed during the crazy turmoil in the US in the dark heart of 1968 -- director Haskell Wexler saw what was coming during that intensely divisive and tragic year and ensured that he would be there with his cameras. He integrates a Godard-influenced narrative about a Chicago television cameraman into real-time footage of the Democratic Convention riots of August, which turned downtown Chicago into a war zone. "The whole world is watching."

It's a remarkable movie -- beautiful and terrible and bewilderingly sad. Wexler had one opportunity to shine in narrative filmmaking, and he ran with it, giving it everything he had and cranking out a work of art. Americans are so fortunate to have this unique document of the most violent year the country had known since the Civil War.

 

Very cool, well-thought-out list. So many great movies I didn't manage to squeeze in to my top 50 favourites. Jeez.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sherlock Jr., Chimes at Midnight (although I STILL haven't been able to track down a decent print of this one --!), Once Upon a Time in America, M, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Deliverance, Taxi Driver.

All stone classics.

 

well if you can play Pal dvds there's a excellent version from France which is region free films sans Frontieres www.films-fronties.fr

 

I get no pleasure out of typing 100 movies.