this episode:
SPOILERIFIC review of Sunshine, OFC Top 100 list, Once revisited, Talk to Me, DVD picks.
…and some other movie goodness.
Unwrap the complete Show Notes by clicking on this link…
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These are the show notes for Cinecast Episode #57
“Tracks” - -
SPOILER WARNING: 0:00 - 0:43
Intro Music (”Los Lobos”): 0:33 - 2:25
Stars and their favorite movies: 0:58 - 3:22
Opening Remarks/Announcements: 3:21 - 4:37
SPOILER review of Sunshine: 4:38 - 43:30
OFC Top 100: 43:31 - 1:15:46
Talk to Me: 1:15:47 - 1:29:48
Once revisited: 1:29:49 - 1:42:45
DVD releases: 1:42:46 - 1:51:51
Closing remarks: 1:51:52 - 1:54:50
Outro Music (”Jeff Buckley”): 1:51:24 - 1:55:55
Stars and their Favorite Films:
Malcolm McDowell
Al Pacino
Harrison Ford
Chris O’Donnell
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Greg Kinnear
Eva Mendes
George Lopez
Hugh Hefner
M. Night Shyamalan
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Sunshine:
The review in this Cinecast of Sunshine is FULL OF SPOILERS!
Andrew’s Review
Kurt’s Forum Thread at Twitch
OFC Top 100:
top 10:
10) Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
9) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
8) Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974)
7) Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
6) Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982)
5) Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
4) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
3) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
2) Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
1) Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
| KURT’S VOTES | ANDREW’S VOTES |
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1 Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) 2 Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) 3 Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974) 4 Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941) 5 Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) 6 L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960) 7 Alien (R. Scott, 1979) 8 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) 9 Aguirre: Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) 10 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 11 In the Mood For Love (Wong, 2000) 20 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) 30 Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976) 40 Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997) 50 Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001) 60 Eternal Sunshine of theSpotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) 70 Suspiria (Argento, 1977) 80 Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988) 90 Hustler, The (Rossen, 1961) |
1 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977) 2 Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) 3 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981) 4 A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971) 5 Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988) 6 Boogie Nights (PT Anderson, 1997) 7 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964) 8 Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988) 9 Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) 10 Airplane! (Zucker/Abrahams, 1980) 11 A Christmas Story (Clark, 1983) 21 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983) 31 Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993) 41 Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) 51 Braveheart (Gibson, 1995) 61 Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966) 71 Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) 81 Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002) 91 Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) |
Andrew here: I’d like to point out that my nominations are NOT NECESSARILY my favorite 100 films of all time. I took a lot of different criteria into account when putting this list together. For instance I would put Big Trouble in Little China on my own personal list, but I would never vote for it as one of the best of all time for a committee driven, public list like the OFC. But even so, clearly I’m a child of the 80s and the multiplex generation.
Here’s #101 - #200 that didn’t quite make the top 100:
200 True Romance (Scott, 1993)
199 M*A*S*H (Altman, 1970)
198 McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
197 Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1941)
196 Dark City (Proyas, 1998)
195 Requiem for a Dream (Aranofsky, 2000)
194 Birds, The (Hitchcock, 1963)
193 Cool Hand Luke (Rosenburg, 1967)
192 Sideways (Payne, 2004)
191 Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter, 1986)
190 Clerks (K. Smith, 1994)
189 Sting, The (Hill, 1973)
188 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
187 Fly, The (Cronenberg, 1986)
186 Miller’s Crossing (Coen, 1990)
185 Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1928)
184 Elephant Man, The (Lynch, 1980)
183 Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
182 Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
181 Titanic (Cameron, 1997)
180 City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
179 Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)
178 Royal Tenenbaums, The (Anderson, 2001)
177 Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)
176 My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)
175 Butch Cassidy and theSundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
174 Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
173 Evil Dead II (Raimi, 1987)
172 Cube (Natali, 1997)
171 Casino (Scorsese, 1995)
170 Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000)
169 Untouchables, The (De Palma, 1987)
168 American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
167 An American Werewolf in London (Landis, 1981)
166 Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
165 Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
164 Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
163 Great Escape, The (Sturges, 1963)
162 Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
161 Iron Giant, The (Bird, 1999)
160 Treasure of Sierra Madre, The (Huston, 1948)
159 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Ford, 1962)
158 La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
157 Departed, The (Scorsese, 2006)
156 Heathers (Lehmann, 1989)
155 Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
154 Batman (Burton, 1989)
153 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, 1988)
152 Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
151 All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976)
150 Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)
149 Superman: The Movie (Donner, 1978)
148 Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
147 Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
146 Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
145 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983)
144 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
143 Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
142 Pinocchio (Luske/Sharpsteen, 1940)
141 Election (Payne, 1999)
140 Army of Darkness (Raimi, 1992)
139 Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
138 Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
137 Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
136 Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
135 Crouching Tiger, HiddenDragon (A Lee, 2000)
134 Wild Bunch, The (Peckinpah, 1969)
133 Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
132 Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
131 Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
130 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
129 Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004)
128 Nashville (Altman, 1975)
127 Crimes and Misdemeanors (W. Allen, 1989)
126 Office Space (Judge, 1999)
125 Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
124 Donnie Darko (R. Kelly, 2001)
123 Night of the Hunter, The (Laughton, 1955)
122 Bonnie & Clyde (Penn, 1967)
121 Boogie Nights (PT Anderson, 1997)
120 Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
119 It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
118 Oldboy (Park, 2003)
117 Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924)
116 Thing, The (Carpenter, 1982)
115 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
114 Breathless (Godard, 1960)
113 Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
112 Deer Hunter, The (Cimino,1978)
111 Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974)
110 Toy Story 2 (Lasseter, 1999)
109 Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)
108 Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
107 Exorcist, The (Friedkin, 1973)
106 Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
105 Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
104 Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
103 All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
102 Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
101 City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
Once:
Andrew’s Review
Director John Carney’s next film info at Mad About Movies
Talk to Me:
DVD Picks of the Week:
KURT - Hot Fuzz:
Andrew’s Review
Kurt’s Review
ANDREW - Kung Fu Hustle (Axe-Kickin’ Edition):
Andrew’s Review
Kurt’s Review
HONORABLE MENTION - 300:
Andrew’s Review
This Week’s Homework:
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Well obviously I like the in-depth spoilerific review IF I have seen the movie at hand. It would annoy me though you were gonna’ talk about a movie I hadn’t seen yet and I had to skip it, missing some great insight. But for the most part I like the spoiler reviews as it, like Kurt said, gives you the chance to talk about it a lot rather than tip-toeing around things.
The reason I was excited mainly to tune into this weeks show is to listen to the discussion about the OFC Top 100. You guys were talking about people who contributed to the list posting the number of films they hadn’t seen. Kurt you said a couple and Andrew I believe you said “13″. Well you guys are gonna be shocked at the amount of the film in the final list I haven’t seen. Are you ready for it?…………..a WHOPPING 47!. I know you guys will probably now want to claim you have never taken anything to do with me now. Here is the films I haven’t seen:
100) Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
99) Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
98) On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
95) His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
92) Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
91) 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
89) 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
86) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
85) Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
84) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
83) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
82) Manchurian Candidate, The (Frankenheimer, 1962)
80) North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
79) King Kong (Cooper/Shoedsack, 1933)
78) Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
77) Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
75) Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
73) Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
72) Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
71) Graduate, The (Nichols, 1967)
70) Network (Lumet, 1976)
68) Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
67) Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
60) Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
59) General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58) Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
57) Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
55) 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
53) M (Lang, 1931)
51) Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
50) Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
48) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
44) E.T. (Spielberg, 1982)
43) Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
42) Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
41) Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
39) Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
37) Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
32) Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
29) Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
24) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
22) It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
20) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
19) Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
7) Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
5) Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
3) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick,1964)
2) Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
Don’t worry hopefully by years end I will have seen all of those above. So I can’t really comment on A LOT of the films. Oh btw Kurt you will be pleased to know I am about to venture into the Western genre, remember I mentioned a few months ago in one of my post about the best movies of the genres that I haven’t seen any? Well I have seen Three Burials of Melquidas Estrada and The Proposition but to split hairs here it isn’t really a WESTERN a proper western s such. Well Kurt YOU in particular be glad to know that I bought Once Upon A Time In The West and that will be my very first, “proper” venture into the western genre. I probably will post a review on here once I see it.
Cool Ross. The amount of ‘homework’ you have ahead of you (with the 100 list and a massive genre) is daunting, but anyone, even those who have consumed massive amounts of cinema is always ‘way behind’ in even seeing the ‘Great’ films.
Glad to hear that this list is already having an effect of broadening horizons. Keep an open mind while treading into the cinematic past. And 10 years of that, you will probably look back at your Top 100 list and smile at how ‘quaint’ it was. I do that every year I update my list and how my taste have changed via exposure to the world of cinema.
Cheers. And Happy Viewing, although many of those films on that list require some heavy amount of viewer work and are not entertaining in the conventional sense of the word! Best of Luck to ya! Once Upon A Time in the West is a treat, there is darn good reason why it was my #1 film for the OFC voting list!
Yeah I saw that you had Once Upon A Time in the West as your number 1, with the amount of films you cirticise having that are number 1 means it MUST be good
Yeah I am not all about pure entertainment you know. There are films that I absolutely LOVE TO DEATH that are anything BUT entertainment. Some that are difficult to watch but I watch them anyway because of how technically great they are.
You’re right though in a few years I will probably look back and wonder how the hell some of those films made it onto my list and how I could have taken so long to see the true cinema masterpieces.
By difficult does not necessarily mean appreciated on a technical level, or how it falls into the context of film history. Difficult may mean having to do some work to understand or find the rhythm, tone or texture of a film, what it is trying (or trying not to) say, and so forth.
Films like Gerry, Killer of Sheep, The Servant or Seconds all come to mind.
When I said difficult I meant actually physically difficult to watch and get through (Requiem for a Dream - especially the last 10 minutes - springs to mind).
Have you seen Irreversible Ross? Now that is a difficult movie.
Here is the list of ones I haven’t seen yet.
29. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
40. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
42. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
43. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
48. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
53. M (Lang, 1931)
58. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
59. General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
60. Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
68. Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
72. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
73. Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
77. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
84. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
91. 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
92. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
98. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
99. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
100. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
I actually just received Conversation in the mail (along with Page Turner) and I’m finally going to get off my ass and go pick up Raging Bull today. I might grab Cinema Pariso also. I’ve seen it around both around for 10 bucks and been meaning to get them.
I’ve only just finished the Sunshine part of the podcast and I really enjoyed it and I’d really like to thank Kurt for mentioning that he was was going to spoil Solaris. I just bought it a week ago and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet so I pulled my earphones out for a minute or two and I missed the spoilers.
I actually liked the fact that you had a non spoiler version last week and a spoiler one this week. That way we get to hear you two gab about the movie without the spoilers first and then if we want we can hear the spoilered version afterwards.
I also like that you ended up with Miller’s Crossing on your list but I still think its a better movie than Fargo but thats just me.
Just a few thoughts:
John and Ross - I can’t recommend Cinema Paradiso highly enough. It is a great film ABOUT the greatness and love of film. I ADORE it
. BUT… there are two versions of the film. I think they are both on the same disc. Watch the one that is edited (or the shorter version). It is edited for a reason and the full version changes the entire feel of the film for the worse. On the discussion boards on IMDb, everyone talks about how they saw the director’s cut and ended up not liking the movie as much. I’ve seen both and I totally agree.
Ross - My only other HIGH recommendation of the ones you haven’t seen (I haven’t seen some of those either) would be Dr Strangelove. Kubrick rules. (but you still haven’t seen Contact - Do so).
Seven Samurai - I never actually watched the film with dialogue. I turned on the subtitles (since it’s in Japanese anyway) and watched the whole thing on the Criterion version of the DVD with the Japanese film historian commentary track. It was FASCINATING. I could still follow the story because I was reading what the characters were saying, but the film historian taught me a lot of shit I didn’t know before.
Just for fun, here’re the ones I have NOT seen from the final top 100 (I guess it’s 14):
92 Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
91 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
89 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
86 Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
85 Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
84 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
72 Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
59 General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58 Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
48 Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
42 Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
29 Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
22 It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
I will have seen all these by year’s end though (except Wonderful Life - at this point I just don’t care and I know the story anyway).
I haven’t heard the show yet but I can tell you right off the bat that I love the idea of the spoilerific show. You guys should do this every few weeks and talk more in depth about films that have been kicking around for a few weeks. By that point, people will have had a chance to see them.
Again, love the idea.
Well we may have been pusing it a bit with sunshine which has only been in semi-wide release for about 10 days so far. It’s much more satisfying to talk about a movie ‘FULLY’ rather than ‘review-y’
I just got back from lunch with Raging Bull and Cinema Paridoso. Now I just have to find time to watch them.
On the topic of the list, I almost wish we had been given criteria. For some reason I got it in my head that a lot of people would be going with the whole importance to cinema but from the list there are indeed a lot of guitly pleasure type movies. I don’t think it makes the list bad but if I had known that I would have probably voted with more foreign and more older movies.
What I would almost like to see, which would be too much work and really hard to accomplish would be for the community to get together and actually look at the list and argue out why things are too high or too low and then come up with a consensus not based just on a vote. I think that would be the only way of getting something a bit more along the lines of what everyone involved truly feels.
Oh and Kurt, I can’t remember where you mentioned it but I got around to seeing Naboer (Next Door). I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a tiny bit obvious what was going to happen but just the feeling created within the corridors was amazing. I’m tempted to head on out and purchase it.
Cool. Often tone/texture trumps plot. Certainly the case here. NABOER would make a wicked double bill with HARD CANDY. Although NABOER doesn’t pull its punches (which I think HARD CANDY does a couple times, weakening that one slightly)
hmmmm. I could use a third viewing of Hard Candy…
First of all, John, I purposely left the criteria vague. I wanted people to interpret their own lists themselves - maybe that was a problem, I’m not really sure, but it was done purposely.
I have a lot of problems with the list, like everyone else with every other list of any kind, but overall I’m happy with the way it turned out.
Andrew, I recommend Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Third Man, The Searchers, and The Bicycle Thief with an unbelievable amount of enthusiasm. Seriously, they’re all serious must-sees (Mr. Smith is in my top 20 of all-time, while they other three are all in my Top 50).
Lastly, I’m going to come back and post my Top 100 here a little later, because after seeing everyone else’s, I feel like I understand their “film personality” a little more (does that make sense?) and I think maybe somebody out there might find mine interesting. Probably not, but maybe!
P.S. The movies on the list I haven’t seen that I’m making a priority now:
95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
91. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
68. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
67. Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
62. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004)
60. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
59. The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
I actually have copies of 8 1/2 and Aguirre sitting here in my room, just waiting to be watched. Hopefully I’ll get to them within the next week.
Not sure whether to listen to your Sunshine review. Haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to hear spoilers, particularly as I love sci-fi movies.
Yet to see 36 movies on that list. 60% strike rate not too bad. Can’t be bothered to list ‘em. Most of them are movies made before 1960, so getting an opportunity to see them was a problem. But DVD has changed that so I hope to catch up with them sometime.
I’ve just noticed you have a track listing for each part of your podcast. D’oh! What an excellent feature. So now it will be easy to skip the Sunshine review.
Alright, here’s my final top 100 that I submitted. I only have 21 years of movie watching under my belt, which is a little apparent maybe, but I stand by my list pretty confidently (even if it could change drastically on any given day depending on my mood). Like Andrew, it’s not the same as my personal list (which I’ve never posted anywhere besides maybe a rough draft of it on Flixster). But okay, here it is:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
2. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
4. Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982)
5. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
6. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
7. Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974)
8. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenburg, 1967)
9. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
11. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
12. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
13. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Ford, 1962)
14. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
15. Great Silence, The (Corbucci, 1968)
16. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
18. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
19. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
20. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
21. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
22. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
23. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
24. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
25. Elephant Man, The (Lynch, 1980)
26. City of Lost Children, The (Jeunet, 1995)
27. Hud, (Ritt, 1963)
28. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
29. Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
30. Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
31. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
32. Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967)
33. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)
34. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
35. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Inagaki, 1954)
36. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
37. Deer Hunter, The (Cimino,1978)
38. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
39. Hustler, The (Rossen, 1961)
40. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
41. Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
42. Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
43. For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)
44. Leon (Besson, 1994)
45. Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
46. Harvey (Koster, 1950)
47. Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
48. Long Good Friday, The (Mackenzie, 1980)
49. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, (1979)
50. Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
51. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
52. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
53. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
54. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
55. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
56. Man Who Would be King, The (Huston, 1975)
57. Heat (Mann, 1995)
58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
59. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
60. Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000))
61. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg,1987
62. Ox-Bow Incident, The (Wellman, 1943)
63. High Noon (Zinneman, 1952)
64. Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
65. Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
66. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
67. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
68. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
69. American History X (Kaye, 1998)
70. King of Comedy, The (Scorsese, 1983)
71. Sting, The (Hill, 1973)
72. Goldfinger (Hamilton, 1964)
73. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
74. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
75. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
76. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
77. Delicatessen (Jeunet, 1991)
78. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
79. Departed, The (Scorsese, 2006)
80. Proposition, The (Hillcoat, 2005)
81. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
82. Chaplin (Attenborough, 1992)
83. Killing, The (Kubrick, 1956)
84. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
85. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
86. Last of the Mohicans, The (Mann, 1992)
87. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, 1988)
88. Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
89. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
90. M (Lang, 1931)
91. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
92. Army of Darkness (Raimi, 1992)
93. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
94. City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
95. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
96. After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
97. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
98. Verdict, The (Lumet, 1982)
99. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
100. Big Sleep, The (Hawks, 1946)
Nice list, Jonathan. You said you have only 21 years of movie watching under your belt but from your list it looks like you’ve seen a fair amount and in variation.
Anyway here is the list I sent in and if you think Jonathan’s needed more variation and that he needed to see more - his is NOTHING compared to the amount I have seen. Remember I’me most likely one of the youngest contributors so go easy
(Now remember this isn’t my personal top 100, just what I sent in for the OFC)
100) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
99) Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
98) Platoon (Stone, 1986)
97) Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
96) Glengarry Glenn Ross (Foley, 1992)
95) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005)
94) Misery (Reiner, 1990)
93) Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
92) True Romance (Scott, 1993)
91) Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2002)
90) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998)
89) Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006)
88) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
87) Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000)
86) Casino (Scorsese, 1995)
85) Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
84) Departed, The (Scorsese, 2006)
83) JFK (Stone, 1991)
82) This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
81) Prestige, The (Nolan, 2006)
80) Heat (Mann, 1995)
79) L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
78) Batman (Burton, 1989)
77) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998)
76) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)
75) Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
74) Desperado (Rodriguez, 1995)
73) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (McKay, 2004)
72) A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)
71) Sin City (Miller/Rodriguez, 2005)
70) Bourne Identity, The (Liman, 2002)
69) Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
68) American Pyscho (Harron, 2000)
67) 40 Year Old Virgin, The (Apatow, 2005)
66) Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
65) Silence of the Lambs, The (Demme, 1991)
64) Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
63) Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
62) Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
61) Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)
60) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
59) Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
58) Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
57) Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
56) Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
55) Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)
54) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1992)
53) 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002)
52) Crash (Haggis, 2004)
51) Descent, The (Marshall, 2005)
50) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
49) Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
48) Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton/Faris, 2006)
47) Training Day (Fuqua, 2001)
46) Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
45) United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
44) Office Space (Judge, 1999)
43) V for Vendetta (McTeigue, 2005)
42) Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, 2002)
41) Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
40) Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
39) Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
38) Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
37) 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
36) Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
35) Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
34) Leon (Besson, 1994)
33) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
32) Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
31) Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
30) Truman Show, The (Weir, 1998)
29) Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
28) Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
27) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971)
26) Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
25) Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)
24) Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
23) Requiem for a Dream (Aranofsky, 2000)
22) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
21) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
20) Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter, 1986)
19) Snatch (Ritchie, 2000)
18) City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
17) Matrix, The (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999)
16) Oldboy (Park, 2003)
15) Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
14) Beetlejuice (Burton, 1988)
13) Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2004)
12) Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005)
11) Usual Suspects, The (Singer, 1995)
10) Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
9) Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
8) Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
7) American History X (Kaye, 1998)
6) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
5) Memento (Nolan, 2000)
4) Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
3) Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
2) Donnie Darko (R. Kelly, 2001)
1) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Hey Ross,
I think that’s a pretty decent list there. Even though they’re all fairly recent, they’re all also great films. The only one I thought was a little suspect was Batman Begins at #11. Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie, but #11 of all time?
And adding American Psycho on there? Yes! Awesome movie. The business card scene is one of the greatest of all time.
Well my love for Batman Begins pushed it WAY up. But my criteria was I tried to mix the BEST with my FAVOURITES. And like I said because of how much I LOVE that damn movie I put it there.
Questio btw - I am just going to watch Once Upon A Time in the West, upon Kurt’s recommendation and it’s my first Western (proper western anyway). i was just wondering - what language is it in? I’m a little confused as imdb has the language as Italian and the director etc is Italian. But the actors are American I believe and there is no Italian language option on the dvd I have.
God, I love American Pyscho. I remember watching it when it first came out and just being left completely confused and unsure of what I just saw since it was marketed as a straight up gory horror flick, but then about three years ago I re-visited it realizing what it actually was and ended up watching it three times in a matter of a few months and it’s just a phenomenal film.
As for the amount of movies I’ve watched, I have mostly Netflix and Blockbuster Online to thank. Plus, my freshman year of college when I was in Florida, the school library had 1000s of DVDs and literally almost every film in the Criterion collection all at my disposal for free. Oh, and I also worked at a movie store in high school, so that helped too.
Ross, you’ve already watch Once Upon a Time in the West, so you know it is in English. However the Italians had/have the curious habit of doing the entire film audio in post. So Italian actors are dubbed into English for the English language version and English actors are dubbed into Italian for the domestic version. The actors even sometimes (see Bertolucci’s “1900″) act together using different spoken languages if I’m not mistaken…