Top 100, 1 January 2005 |
1 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
I am the Earth Mother and you are all flops!
2 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
Was it dark?
3 All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz)
Heaven help me. I love a psychotic!
4 The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)
Be whatever you like. You’re my Redhead.
5 Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Not everybody gets corrupted.
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
I can’t remember anything without you.
7 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
It’s very comfortable just to drift here.
8 His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
You’re wonderful, in a loathesome sort of way.
9 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990, Tom Stoppard)
Words, words! They’re all we have to go on!
10 Jules et Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
We played with life and lost.
11 Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze)
We are what we love, not what loves us.
12 The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory)
It’s not scandalous at all… Just a sentimental old love story.
13 Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
Everything’s going to be all right.
14 The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey)
If you’re broken it’s because you’re brittle.
15 Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
I lurve you, I loave you, I luff you.
16 Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
I stick my neck out for nobody.
17 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (1964, Jacques Demy)
Why is absence so heavy to bear?
18 Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
It is not only possible; it is essential.
19 The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)
Know what, love?
20 Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
Oh! how I’ll believe in those peanuts!
21 American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it…
22 The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry)
There is no such obligation.
23 Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
24 Dead Again (1991, Kenneth Branagh)
I would never hurt you, Margaret.
25 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
26 Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain (2001, Pierre Jeunet)
I’m nobody’s little weasel.
27 Pleasantville (1998, Gary Ross)
Do you really want her back the way she was?
28 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
I’m quietly judging you.
29 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
Your personality left a lot to be desired. Namely, a personality.
30 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (1967, Jaques Demy)
I must be avant-garde and paint what’s in my heart.
31 The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
32 Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Everyone has credentials here.
33 Clue (1985, Jonathan Lynn)
Flames, flames… on the side of my face!
34 Howards End (1992, James Ivory)
We’re not odd; we’re just over-expressive.
35 The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
Life is pain, Highness.
36 The African Queen (1951, John Huston)
By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
37 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
This is an adventure.
38 Truly Madly Deeply (1991, Anthony Minghella)
My feet will want to march to where you are sleeping, but I shall go on living.
39 The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges)
It’s the right thing to do.
40 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
41 Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
You’re not hopeless.
42 Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
If one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love.
43 Six Degrees of Separation (1993, Fred Schepisi)
Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
44 Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack)
I paid a price for everything I own.
45 The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
I’m going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.
46 Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson)
Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
47 Angels in America (2003, Mike Nichols)
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
48 Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980, François Truffaut)
It hurts to look at you.
49 Les Diaboliques (The Devils) (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
50 Love and Death (1975, Woody Allen)
The last traces of the shimmering dusk are setting behind the quickly darkening evening, and it’s only noon.
51 Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier)
In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.
52 The American President (1995, Rob Reiner)
If you were a dork, you should say you’re sorry.
53 When Harry Met Sally… (1989, Rob Reiner)
You realize, of course, that we could never be friends.
54 I <3 Huckabees (2004, David O. Russell)
How am I not myself?
55 12 Angry Men (1957, Sydney Lumet)
I’m sick and tired of facts.
56 Garden State (2004, Zach Braff)
Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.
57 8 Femmes (2002, François Ozon)
You never do.
58 The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
You never had a camera in my head.
59 Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden)
I will have poetry in my life, and adventure, and love.
60 Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
You never knocked me down!
61 Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
62 Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
I think, I feel, I suffer.
63 Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)
It’s because I like you I don’t want to be with you.
64 Adam’s Rib (1949, George Cukor)
Let’s all be manly!
65 Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
66 Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
I’m going to feel this way until I don’t feel this way anymore.
67 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuaron)
Your heart is where you truly live!
68 On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
I coulda been a contender.
69 Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?
70 Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh)
I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
71 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!
72 JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
73 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.
74 Wit (2001, Mike Nichols)
Publish and perish.
75 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
This patient is dead.
76 Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
How do you like that? I buried the lead.
77 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer)
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
78 Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
You cannot compromise an artist’s vision.
79 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
God is a luxury I cannot afford.
80 Antonia (1995, Marlene Gorris)
This is no time for Schopenhauer. This is important.
81 Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis)
Let us go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
82 Secretary (2002, Steven Shainberg)
Who’s to say that love needs to be soft and gentle?
83 North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
I’m an advertising man, not a red herring!
84 21 Grams (2003, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it.
85 Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
You’re in the ocean now, and you’re drowning.
86 Sleepless in Seattle (1993, Nora Ephron)
You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
87 Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
Do I believe the world’s still there?
88 American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
Your car is uglier than I am!
89 Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)
I set my trap for a peasant and, lo! I catch a prince!
90 Pride and Prejudice (1995, Simon Langton)
Are you not excessively diverted?
91 The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff)
Cheetahs never prosper.
92 Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman.
93 Gods and Monsters (1998, Bill Condon)
You must think the whole world is queer.
94 Kinsey (2004, Bill Condon)
Love is the answer, isn’t it? But sex raises a lot of very interesting questions…
95 A Room With a View (1985, James Ivory)
My vision is within! Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!
96 Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.
97 Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
98 Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
Please. What good is tenderness?
99 Always (1989, Steven Spielberg)
The love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here.
100 Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)
That was the day I stopped believing in the wild ardor of things.
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