Top 100, 1 July 2005 |
Added
Charade
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It Happened One Night
The Best Years of Our Lives
Secrets & Lies
Bumped off
Tadpole
Stage Door
Spider
Prick Up Your Ears
21 Grams
Notable Promotions
+28 Raging Bull
+17 Tootsie
+11 Crimes and Misdemeanors
+10 The African Queen
+8 Gods and Monsters
+8 A Room with A View, Brief Encounter, Belle de Jour
+8 Howards End
+6 Reds
+6 Det Sjunde Inseglet
+4 Bringing Up Baby
Notable Relegations
-23 The Truman Show
-23 Rope
-17 The American President
-14 Love Actually
-12 The Shawshank Redemption
-12 Angels in America
-11 Broadcast News
-9 12 Angry Men
-9 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
-8 Much Ado About Nothing
-7 Adam’s Rib (odd… I feel like I keep promoting it. Must have been pushed way down between now and then.)
-7 I <3 Huckabees
-3 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Comments
- Some movement within it, but the top 30 is unchanged.
- Magnolia overtakes American Beauty for the first time… somehow it always seems like those two are at war.
- I have no idea where Out of Africa belongs. I barely remember it. It was my favorite movie in high school.
- Animation and younger fare still dropping.
- Hitchcock ordered, decisively: Notorious, Psycho, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Rope, The Birds, Vertigo, &c. Tell me that’s blasphemous.
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 Jules et Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
We played with life and lost.
8 The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey)
If you’re broken it’s because you’re brittle.
9 Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
Everything’s going to be all right.
10 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
It’s very comfortable just to drift here.
11 His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
You’re wonderful, in a loathesome sort of way.
12 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990, Tom Stoppard)
Words, words! They’re all we have to go on!
13 The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory)
It’s not scandalous at all… Just a sentimental old love story.
14 Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze)
We are what we love, not what loves us.
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 The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
That’s the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.
22 Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
23 The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry)
There is no such obligation.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
Your personality left a lot to be desired. Namely, a personality.
27 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
I’m quietly judging you.
28 American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it…
29 Pleasantville (1998, Gary Ross)
Do you really want her back the way she was?
30 Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain (2001, Pierre Jeunet)
I’m nobody’s little weasel.
31 Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Everyone has credentials here.
32 Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
Oh, I love you, Adam, Alex, Peter, Brian — whatever your name is.
33 Howards End (1992, James Ivory)
We’re not odd; we’re just over-expressive.
34 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.
35 Truly Madly Deeply (1991, Anthony Minghella)
My feet will want to march to where you are sleeping, but I shall go on living.
36 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (1967, Jaques Demy)
I must be avant-garde and paint what’s in my heart.
37 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, Ronald Neame)
My summer in Italy has convinced me that I am truly in my prime!
38 Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
You’re not hopeless.
39 Six Degrees of Separation (1993, Fred Schepisi)
Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
40 The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
It’s not true. He didn’t come anywhere near my tabloids.
41 The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
I’m going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.
42 The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
Life is pain, Highness.
43 The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
44 Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
If one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love.
45 Clue (1985, Jonathan Lynn)
Flames, flames… on the side of my face!
46 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
This is an adventure.
47 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
48 The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges)
It’s the right thing to do.
49 Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson)
Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
50 Angels in America (2003, Mike Nichols)
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
51 Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980, François Truffaut)
It hurts to look at you.
52 Les Diaboliques (The Devils) (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
53 Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier)
In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.
54 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.
55 Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood)
My darling, my blood.
56 Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
57 The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
58 Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack)
I paid a price for everything I own.
59 Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
I think, I feel, I suffer.
60 8 Femmes (2002, François Ozon)
You never do.
61 Adam’s Rib (1949, George Cukor)
Let’s all be manly!
62 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
God is a luxury I cannot afford.
63 Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
64 I <3 Huckabees (2004, David O. Russell)
How am I not myself?
65 When Harry Met Sally… (1989, Rob Reiner)
You realize, of course, that we could never be friends.
66 Wit (2001, Mike Nichols)
Publish and perish.
67 Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman.
68 Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
I’m going to feel this way until I don’t feel this way anymore.
69 Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
You never knocked me down!
70 12 Angry Men (1957, Sydney Lumet)
I’m sick and tired of facts.
71 Garden State (2004, Zach Braff)
Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.
72 Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
73 Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?
74 Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh)
I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
75 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!
76 JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
77 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.
78 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
This patient is dead.
79 On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
I coulda been a contender.
80 North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
I’m an advertising man, not a red herring!
81 Secretary (2002, Steven Shainberg)
Who’s to say that love needs to be soft and gentle?
82 Gods and Monsters (1998, Bill Condon)
You must think the whole world is queer.
83 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!
84 Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.
85 Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
Please. What good is tenderness?
86 Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
You gotta laugh, ain’t ya, sweetheart? ‘Else you’d cry.
87 It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
Young people in love are never hungry!
88 Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)
It’s because I like you I don’t want to be with you.
89 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuaron)
Your heart is where you truly live!
90 Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
How do you like that? I buried the lead.
91 Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
You cannot compromise an artist’s vision.
92 The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
You never had a camera in my head.
93 Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden)
I will have poetry in my life, and adventure, and love.
94 Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis)
Let us go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
95 The American President (1995, Rob Reiner)
If you were a dork, you should say you’re sorry.
96 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer)
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
97 Antonia (Antonia’s Line) (1995, Marlene Gorris)
This is no time for Schopenhauer. This is important.
98 Pride and Prejudice (1995, Simon Langton)
Are you not excessively diverted?
99 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
How many times did we have to fall in love all over again?
100 Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)
Nobody commits murder just for the experience of committing it. Nobody except us.
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