22 July 2010

"100 Best Films"

It's nice to see a list of "best films" that includes some unexpected choices - perhaps because it's more Eurocentric than most lists published in the U.S..
Fed up with formulaic "blockbusters" and overhyped cinematic turkeys? Anthony Quinn selects 100 timeless movie classics that never disappoint.
Citizen Kane is down on this list at #20.  Above it are surprises like A Man Escaped, Sweet Smell of Success, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Conformist, and The Battle of Algiers.  I haven't browsed the lower 80 selections yet; I suspect other surprises will be in store...

5 comments:

  1. They gotta be kidding! Another damn click whoring slide show?
    I refuse!

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  2. True that, Sue! I'd love to see this whole list but no way am I cycling through ONE HUNDRED times (you'd think they'd at least have 5-10 per page)! One movie per page?! Absurd!

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  3. Army in the Shadows
    The Wages of Fear
    Unforgiven
    Election
    Los Olividados
    Don't Look Now
    Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Together
    Nights of Cabiria
    I Am Cuba
    La Kermesse Heroique
    Trainspotting
    The Leopard
    Peeping Tom
    Diner
    Ridicule
    The Reckless Moment
    The Searchers
    The Lusty Men
    Mean Streets
    Duel
    The Adventures of Robin Hood
    The Lives of Others
    Rififi
    The Deer Hunter
    La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc
    Rumble Fish
    In A Lonely Place
    Smiles of a Summer Night
    Barry Lyndon
    The Lost Weekend
    Aguierre, Wrath of God
    Rebecca
    Wild Strawberries
    Rashomon
    Tokyo Story
    Downfall
    The Dark Mirror
    Toy Story
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    Psycho
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
    The Fallen Idol
    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
    His Girl Friday
    LA Confidential
    There Will Be Blood
    Sullivan's Travels
    Ball of Fire
    Overlord
    Meet Me In St. Louis
    Sunset Boulevard
    The Conversation
    Gone With The Wind
    Touch of Evil
    L'Atalante
    Nashville
    It Happened One Night
    Oliver!
    Taxi Driver
    Blue Velvet
    Breathless
    Once Upon a Time in the America
    Manhattan
    L'enfant Sauvage
    Duck Soup
    The Last Detail
    The Apartment
    Groundhog Day
    On the Waterfront
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    Alien
    The Red Shoes
    Casablanca
    Fear Eats The Soul
    The Rules of the Game
    The Third Man
    Sherlock Jr.
    Raging Bull
    The Big Sleep
    Citizen Kane
    A Man Escaped
    Sweet Smell of Success
    Notorious
    The Godfather Part I and II
    To Have and Have Not
    Night of the Hunter
    This is Spinal Tap
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Brief Encounter
    Chinatown
    The Conformist
    Vertigo
    Great Expectations
    The Battle of Algiers
    The Lady Eve
    The Wild Bunch
    Singin' in the Rain
    Double Indemnity
    All About Eve

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  4. Movie at the top of list, Army of Shadows, is playing on Cable early August.

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