Top 100, 1 January 2006 |
Added
Interiors
Ladri di biciclette
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Bumped Off
Garden State
Gods and Monsters
12 Angry Men
Notable Relegations
-8 Rushmore
-7 Magnolia
-3 The Graduate
Notable Promotions
+6 The Ice Storm
+4 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Comments
Big month for Woody Allen—after being blown away by Interiors, I wanted to have another run at his lengthy CV. The Purple Rose of Cairo also made the cut, and I loved Broadway Danny Rose, as well. Bananas and Deconstructing Harry were much less pleasant, so that ended that high, I suppose. Husbands and Wives is still out there as probably the last of his films likely to enter my top 100.
There are a handful of films left I can cut relatively painlessly, but I’m very quickly approaching the point where choosing 100 films only will be very, very difficult. On the other hand, I think this is now a strong list which represents my tastes well.
1 A Woman Under the Influence /1974, John Cassavetes
2 Manhattan / 1979, Woody Allen
3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 1966, Mike Nichols
4 The Philadelphia Story / 1940, George Cukor
5 Jules et Jim / 1962, Francois Truffaut
6 The Royal Tenenbaums / 2001, Wes Anderson
7 The Lion in Winter / 1968, Anthony Harvey
8 Bringing Up Baby / 1938, Howard Hawks
9 All About Eve / 1950, Joseph Mankiewicz
10 Opening Night / 1977, John Cassavetes
11 Interiors / 1978, Woody Allen
12 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / 2004, Michel Gondry
13 The Remains of the Day / 1993, James Ivory
14 Annie Hall / 1977, Woody Allen
15 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / 1964, Jacques Demy
16 Umberto D / 1952, Vittorio De Sica
17 Minnie and Moskowitz / 1971, John Cassavetes
18 Another Woman / 1988, Woody Allen
19 Love Streams / 1984, John Cassavetes
20 Harold and Maude / 1971, Hal Ashby
21 His Girl Friday / 1940, Howard Hawks
22 The Apartment / 1960, Billy Wilder
23 Holiday / 1938, George Cukor
24 Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage / 1973, Ingmar Bergman
25 The Graduate / 1967, Mike Nichols
26 Me and You and Everyone We Know / 2005, Miranda July
27 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / 1991, Tom Stoppard
28 Casablanca / 1942, Michael Curtiz
29 Adaptation. / 2002, Spike Jonze
30 Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / 1964, Stanley Kubrick
31 La Grande illusion / 1937, Jean Renoir
32 The Crying Game / 1992, Neil Jordan
33 Hannah and Her Sisters / 1986, Woody Allen
34 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / 1969, Ronald Neame
35 Faces / 1968, John Cassavetes
36 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / 1969, George Roy Hill
37 The Ice Storm / 1997, Ang Lee
38 Dead Again / 1991, Kenneth Branagh
39 Pleasantville / 1998, Gary Ross
40 Rushmore / 1998, Wes Anderson
41 Six Degrees of Separation / 1993, Fred Schepisi
42 The Thin Man / 1934, W.S. Van Dyke
43 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson
44 Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola
45 American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes
46 The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry
47 Reds (1981, Warren Beatty
48 Charade (1963, Stanley Donen
49 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jaques Demy
50 Howards End / 1992, James Ivory
51 The African Queen / 1951, John Huston
52 Le Dernier Métro / The Last Metro / 1980, François Truffaut
53 Manhattan Murder Mystery / 1993, Woody Allen
54 Truly Madly Deeply / 1991, Anthony Minghella
55 Det Sjunde inseglet / The Seventh Seal / 1957, Ingmar Bergman
56 Les Diaboliques / The Devils / 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot
57 The Third Man / 1949, Carol Reed
58 Sunset Blvd. / 1950, Billy Wilder
59 The Lady Eve / 1941, Preston Sturges
60 Adam’s Rib / 1949, George Cukor
61 Love and Death / 1975, Woody Allen
62 Dancer in the Dark / 2000, Lars Von Trier
63 Crimes and Misdemeanors / 1989, Woody Allen
64 Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries / 1957, Ingmar Bergman
65 Now, Voyager / 1942, Irving Rapper
66 Clue / 1985, Jonathan Lynn
67 Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain / Amelie / 2001, Pierre Jeunet
68 Million Dollar Baby / 2004, Clint Eastwood
69 Notorious / 1946, Alfred Hitchcock
70 Cleo de 5 a 7 / 1961, Agnes Varda
71 The Conversation / 1974, Francis Ford Coppola
72 Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief / 1948, Vittorio de Sica
73 The Princess Bride / 1987, Rob Reiner
74 The Shawshank Redemption / 1994, Frank Darabont
75 Angels in America / 2003, Mike Nichols
76 Rear Window / 1954, Alfred Hitchcock
77 8 Femmes / 2002, François Ozon
78 Double Indemnity / 1944, Billy Wilder
79 Wit / 2001, Mike Nichols
80 Les 400 coups / 1959, Francois Truffaut
81 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004, Wes Anderson
82 The Purple Rose of Cairo / 1985, Woody Allen
83 Good Bye Lenin! / 2003, Wolfgang Becker
84 Psycho / 1960, Alfred Hitchcock
85 Much Ado About Nothing / 1993, Kenneth Branagh
86 Arsenic and Old Lace / 1944, Frank Capra
87 North By Northwest / 1959, Alfred Hitchcock
88 Secretary / 2002, Steven Shainberg
89 Bottle Rocket / 1996, Wes Anderson
90 Brief Encounter / 1945, David Lean
91 Belle de Jour / 1967, Luis Buñuel
92 Secrets & Lies / 1996, Mike Leigh
93 It Happened One Night / 1934, Frank Capra
94 The China Syndrome / 1979, James Bridges
95 Being John Malkovich / 1999, Spike Jonze
96 I <3 Huckabees / 2004, David O. Russell
97 A Room With a View / 1985, James Ivory
98 On the Waterfront / 1954, Elia Kazan
99 Rosemary’s Baby / 1968, Roman Polanski
100 Love Actually / 2003, Richard Curtis
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