Top 100, 1 January 2007

1. A Woman Under the Influence / 1974, John Cassavetes
   I just want to be what you want me to be. I can be anything.

2. Manhattan / 1979, Woody Allen
   Not everybody gets corrupted.

3. Bringing Up Baby / 1938, Howard Hawks
   Everything’s going to be all right.

4. Viskningar och rop / Cries and Whispers / 1972, Ingmar Bergman
   Come what may, this is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better.

5. Jules et Jim / 1962, Francois Truffaut
   We played with life and lost.

6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 1966, Mike Nichols
   I am the Earth Mother and you are all flops!

7. The Lion in Winter / 1968, Anthony Harvey
   If you’re broken, it’s because you’re brittle.

8. L’Année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad / 1961, Alain Resnais
   Glass objects, objects still intact, empty glasses. A glass that falls, three, two, one, zero. Glass partition, letters.

9. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / 1964, Jacques Demy
   Why is absence so heavy to bear?

10. La Notte / 1961, Michelangelo Antonioni
    I haven’t a thought now, but I’m expecting one.

11. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant / The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant / 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    My daughter loves a girl. How strange. A girl! My daughter.

12. The Philadelphia Story / 1940, George Cukor
    Be whatever you like. You’re my Redhead.

13. Opening Night / 1977, John Cassavetes
    I’ll do just about anything to make my character more authentic.

14. Gertrud / 1964, Carl Th Dreyer
    I believe in the pleasures of the flesh and the irreparable loneliness of the soul.

15. L’Avventura / 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni
    Tell me you love me.

16. Interiors / 1978, Woody Allen
    I think it’s exquisite.

17. McCabe and Mrs Miller / 1971, Robert Altman
    I got poetry in me!

18. Le Notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria / 1957, Federico Fellini
    Here’s one girl who’s never slept under the arches. Well, maybe once. Twice, maybe.

19. Minnie and Moskowitz / 1971, John Cassavetes
    I think about you so much I forget to go to the bathroom!

20. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux / My Life to Live / 1962, Jean-Luc Godard
    Words should express just what one wants to say.

21. The Royal Tenenbaums / 2001, Wes Anderson
    Was it dark?

22. The Apartment / 1960, Billy Wilder
    It’s a must! Gracious living-wise.

23. Holiday / 1938, George Cukor
    Oh, how I’ll believe in those peanuts!

24. Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes From a Marriage / 1973, Ingmar Bergman
    We’re pitiful, self-indulgent cowards that can’t connect with reality and are ashamed of ourselves.

25. Annie Hall / 1977, Woody Allen
    I lurve you, I loave you, I luff you.

26. La Regle du jeu / The Rules of the Game / 1939, Jean Renoir
    It breaks my heart, but I can’t expose my guests to your firearms. It may be wrong of them, but they value their lives.

27. All About Eve / 1950, Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Heaven help me. I love a psychotic!

28. Nashville / 1975, Robert Altman
    Come on everybody, sing! Somebody, sing!

29. Mon oncle d’Amerique / My American Uncle / 1980, Alain Resnais
    A person is a memory which acts.

30. Umberto D / 1952, Vittorio de Sica
    They didn’t even get a permit!

31. Love Streams / 1984, John Cassavetes
    Love is a stream. It’s continuous. It doesn’t stop.

32. La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc / 1929, Carl Th Dreyer
    Will I be with You tonight in Paradise?

33. Another Woman / 1988, Woody Allen
    There’s chances gone by you can’t have again.

34. Harold and Maude / 1971, Hal Ashby
    My body is the earth, but my head is in the stars.

35. Le Rayon vert / The Green Ray / Summer / 1986, Eric Rohmer
    I’m not very operational in life.

36. La Pianiste / 2001, Michael Haneke
    I want what you want.

37. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover / 1989, Peter Greenaway
    Bon appetit. That’s French.

38. The Remains of the Day / 1993, James Ivory
    It’s not scandalous at all… Just a sentimental old love story.

39. La Grande illusion / 1937, Jean Renoir
    Frontiers are an invention of men. Nature doesn’t give a hoot.

40. His Girl Friday / 1940, Howard Hawks
    You’re wonderful, in a loathesome sort of way.

41. L’Eclisse / 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni
    To love I think one shouldn’t know the other.

42. Faces / 1968, John Cassavetes
    Don’t worry. You shall feel many guilts but remain pure.

43. The Awful Truth / 1937, Leo McCarey
    Maybe things could be the same again… Only a little different, huh?

44. Sabrina / 1954, Billy Wilder
    Paris is for lovers. Maybe that’s why I stayed only thirty-five minutes.

45. The Thin Man / 1934, W.S. Van Dyke
    It’s not true. He didn’t come anywhere near my tabloids.

46. Casablanca / 1942, Michael Curtiz
    I stick my neck out for nobody.

47. Le Dernier métro / The Last Metro / 1980, François Truffaut
    It hurts to look at you.

48. The Dresser / 1983, Peter Yates
    No, I haven’t been happy. Yes, it’s been worth it.

49. The Last Picture Show / 1971, Peter Bogdanovich
    I guess if it wasn’t for Sam, I’d have missed it, whatever it is.

50. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / 1969, Ronald Neame
    I am not interested in human imperfection. I am interested in Beauty, in Art, in Truth.

51. Dead Again / 1991, Kenneth Branagh
    I would never hurt you, Margaret.

52. The Hours / 2002, Stephen Daldry
    There is no such obligation.

53. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Girls of Rochefort / 1967, Jaques Demy
    I must be avant-garde and paint what’s in my heart.

54. The Lady Eve / 1941, Preston Sturges
    I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

55. Adam’s Rib / 1949, George Cukor
    Let’s all be manly!

56. Il Conformista / The Conformist / 1970, Bernardo Bertolucci
    I’m going to build a life that’s normal.

57. Queen Christina / 1933, Rouben Mamoulian
    I shall die a bachelor!

58. Crimes and Misdemeanors / 1989, Woody Allen
    God is a luxury I cannot afford.

59. Hiroshima mon amour / 1959, Alain Resnais
    I am forgetting you already!

60. Ma nuit chez Maud / My night with Maud / 1969, Eric Rohmer
    If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing.

61. The Purple Rose of Cairo / 1985, Woody Allen
    I’m a dramatic character. I need forward motion.

62. Elizabeth I / 2005, Tom Hooper
    I lack the assurance of youth. I question everything.

63. 8½ / 1963, Federico Fellini
    I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same.

64. Charade / 1963, Stanley Donen
    Oh, I love you, Adam, Alex, Peter, Brian — whatever your name is.

65. Reds / 1981, Warren Beatty
    Everyone has credentials here.

66. The Ice Storm / 1997, Ang Lee
    I’m going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.

67. Hannah and Her Sisters / 1986, Woody Allen
    Your personality left a lot to be desired. Namely, a personality.

68. La Double vie de Veronique / The Double Life of Veronique / 1991, Krzysztof Kieslowski
    All my life I’ve felt like I was here & somewhere else at the same time. I always sense what I should do.

69. Zerkalo / The Mirror / 1975, Andrei Tarkovsky
    All are immortal. Everything’s immortal.

70. The Crying Game / 1992, Neil Jordan
    Know what, love?

71. Six Degrees of Separation / 1993, Fred Schepisi
    Chaos, control. Chaos, control.

72. Persona / 1966, Ingmar Bergman
    Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.

73. The Graduate / 1967, Mike Nichols
    It’s very comfortable just to drift here.

74. Adaptation. / 2002, Spike Jonze
    We are what we love, not what loves us.

75. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / 1990, Tom Stoppard
    Words, words! They’re all we have to go on!

76. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / 1964, Stanley Kubrick
    It is not only possible; it is essential.

77. Now, Voyager / 1942, Irving Rapper
    All people are alone in some ways. And some people are alone in all ways.

78. Cleo de 5 a 7 / 1961, Agnes Varda
    Nakedness is simplicity itself.

79. Angst essen Seele auf / Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / 1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    When we’re together, we must be nice to one another.

80. Ugetsu monogatari / 1953, Kenji Mizoguchi
    How is such beauty created?

81. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / 1969, George Roy Hill
    I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

82. Rushmore / 1998, Wes Anderson
    I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

83. Pleasantville / 1998, Gary Ross
    Do you really want her back the way she was?

84. Belle de Jour / 1967, Luis Buñuel
    Please. What good is tenderness?

85. Secrets & Lies / 1996, Mike Leigh
    You gotta laugh, ain’t ya, sweetheart? ‘Else you’d cry.

86. Cache / 2005, Michael Haneke
    Terrorize me and my family and you’ll regret it.

87. Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood For Love / 2000, Kar Wai Wong
    And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.

88. Nine to Five / 1980, Colin Higgins
    You’re a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.

89. Kung-fu master / 1987, Agnes Varda
    Love is where you find it.

90. Truly Madly Deeply / 1991, Anthony Minghella
    The capacity that people have to love… Where does it go?

91. The African Queen / 1951, John Huston
    I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!

92. Lost in Translation / 2003, Sofia Coppola
    You’re not hopeless.

93. Notorious / 1946, Alfred Hitchcock
    There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

94. Blowup / 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni
    We haven’t met. You’ve never seen me.

95. The Madness of King George / 1994, Alan Bennett
    I am the verb, sir; not the object.

96. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / 2004, Michel Gondry
    I can’t remember anything without you.

97. Me and You and Everyone We Know / 2005, Miranda July
    I am prepared for amazing things to happen.

98. The Conversation / 1974, Francis Ford Coppola
    I’m not afraid of death, but I am afraid of murder.

99. Ascenseur pour l’echafaud / Elevator to the Gallows / 1958, Louis Malle
    People will talk about us. We’ll be an example.

100. Husbands & Wives / 1992, Woody Allen
     It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit.

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