Top 100, 1 July 2006 |
Added
Viskningar och Rop
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Persona
8 1/2
The Dresser
Vivre sa vie
Nine to Five
La Pianiste
Mrs Brown
Separate Tables
Dropped
8 Femmes
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Psycho
It Happened One Night
Million Dollar Baby
Ladri di Biciclette
The Third Man
Det Sjunde inseglet
Sansho dayu
Comments
- I completely remade my list twice this month, with the guiding principles of greater honesty and conformity of taste: that is, The Third Man, Seventh Seal & Sansho have gone the way of On the Waterfront & 12 Angry Men as films I respect greatly and quite enjoy but which are not beloved to me, while at the same time giving a large bump to films like McCabe & Mrs Miller and giving a high initial spot to films like Vivre sa vie because they seem like ‘my kind of film.’ The day when I have 100 such films is the day I have a perfect list. It’s becoming more and more a reflection of my self every month.
- I loved my first Godard this month!! That’s a big relief. 
Now, if only I could find a Bresson to love I’d feel absolved absolutely.
- Mrs Brown & Separate Tables seem to be regular pinch hitters when I’m not satisfied with my bottom 10. They are welcomed back again because, again, they are more ‘me’ movies than others bumped off.
- I admitted I couldn’t have an honest list without naming Nine to Five as a favorite, as incongruous as it is here.
1 A Woman Under the Influence / 1974, John Cassavetes
2 Manhattan / 1979, Woody Allen
3 L’Avventura / 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni
4 Bringing Up Baby / 1938, Howard Hawks
5 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 1966, Mike Nichols
6 Jules et Jim / 1962, Francois Truffaut
7 The Philadelphia Story / 1940, George Cukor
8 L’Annee derniere a Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad / 1961, Alain Resnais
9 Viskningar och rop / Cries and Whispers / 1972, Ingmar Bergman
10 The Lion in Winter / 1968, Anthony Harvey
11 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / 1964, Jacques Demy
12 Opening Night / 1977, John Cassavetes
13 La Notte / 1961, Michelangelo Antonioni
14 Interiors / 1978, Woody Allen
15 Nashville / 1975, Robert Altman
16 The Royal Tenenbaums / 2001, Wes Anderson
17 Minnie and Moskowitz / 1971, John Cassavetes
18 Le Notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria / 1957, Federico Fellini
19 The Apartment / 1960, Billy Wilder
20 Annie Hall / 1977, Woody Allen
21 Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage / 1973, Ingmar Bergman
22 The Remains of the Day / 1993, James Ivory
23 Holiday / 1938, George Cukor
24 All About Eve / 1950, Joseph Mankiewicz
25 Love Streams / 1984, John Cassavetes
26 Mon Oncle d’Amerique / 1980, Alain Resnais
27 Umberto D / 1952, Vittorio De Sica
28 La Regle du jeu / The Rules of the Game / 1939, Jean Renoir
29 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc / 1928, Carl Th Dreyer
30 Another Woman / 1988, Woody Allen
31 Persona / 1966, Ingmar Bergman
32 8½ / 1963, Federico Fellini
33 Harold and Maude / 1971, Hal Ashby
34 The Thin Man / 1934, W.S. Van Dyke
35 The Graduate / 1967, Mike Nichols
36 La Grande illusion / 1937, Jean Renoir
37 His Girl Friday / 1940, Howard Hawks
38 Casablanca / 1942, Michael Curtiz
39 Faces / 1968, John Cassavetes
40 L’Eclisse / 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni
41 Hannah and Her Sisters / 1986, Woody Allen
42 McCabe and Mrs Miller / 1971, Robert Altman
43 The Ice Storm / 1997, Ang Lee
44 Le Dernier Métro / The Last Metro / 1980, François Truffaut
45 The Dresser / 1983, Peter Yates
46 The Awful Truth / 1937, Leo McCarey
47 The Crying Game / 1992, Neil Jordan
48 Crimes and Misdemeanors / 1989, Woody Allen
49 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Girls of Rochefort / 1967, Jacques Demy
50 Hiroshima mon amour / 1959, Alain Resnais
51 Sabrina / 1954, Billy Wilder
52 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / 1969, Ronald Neame
53 Cleo de 5 a 7 / 1961, Agnes Varda
54 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux / 1962, Jean-Luc Godard
55 Pleasantville / 1998, Gary Ross
56 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / 1969, George Roy Hill
57 Charade / 1963, Stanley Donen
58 Reds / 1981, Warren Beatty
59 The Hours / 2002, Stephen Daldry
60 Adam’s Rib / 1949, George Cukor
61 The Lady Eve / 1941, Preston Sturges
62 Dead Again / 1991, Kenneth Branagh
63 Adaptation. / 2002, Spike Jonze
64 Six Degrees of Separation / 1993, Fred Schepisi
65 The Purple Rose of Cairo / 1985, Woody Allen
66 Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / 1964, Stanley Kubrick
67 Blowup / 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni
68 Lost in Translation / 2003, Sofia Coppola
69 Les Diaboliques / The Devils / 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot
70 Rushmore / 1998, Wes Anderson
71 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / 2004, Michel Gondry
72 Me and You and Everyone We Know / 2005, Miranda July
73 The Conversation / 1974, Francis Ford Coppola
74 Sunset Blvd. / 1950, Billy Wilder
75 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / 1991, Tom Stoppard
76 Bonnie and Clyde / 1967, Arthur Penn
77 Notorious / 1946, Alfred Hitchcock
78 The African Queen / 1951, John Huston
79 Ugetsu monogatari / 1953, Kenji Mizoguchi
80 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / 1975, Milos Forman
81 Now, Voyager / 1942, Irving Rapper
82 Nine to Five / 1980, Colin Higgins
83 Casque d’or / 1952, Jacques Becker
84 Magnolia / 1999, Paul Thomas Anderson
85 Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries / 1957, Ingmar Bergman
86 Howards End / 1992, James Ivory
87 Love and Death / 1975, Woody Allen
88 Secrets and Lies / 1996, Mike Leigh
89 Rear Window / 1954, Alfred Hitchcock
90 La Pianiste / 2001, Michael Haneke
91 Truly Madly Deeply / 1991, Anthony Minghella
92 Manhattan Murder Mystery / 1993, Woody Allen
93 Brief Encounter / 1945, David Lean
94 Belle de Jour / 1967, Luis Buñuel
95 Double Indemnity / 1944, Billy Wilder
96 Much Ado About Nothing / 1993, Kenneth Branagh
97 North By Northwest / 1959, Alfred Hitchcock
98 Les 400 coups / The 400 Blows / 1959, Francois Truffaut
99 Mrs Brown / 1997, John Madden
100 Separate Tables / 1958, Delbert Mann
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