Sunday, July 8, 2012

Top 100 List Updated


I've fully updated my top 100 favorites of all time list, which can be viewed here. This update saw a good shakeup of my list, with 12 new films entering and 12 other ones leaving.

Films Added:
Barry Lyndon (1975), Charade (1963), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Goodfellas (1990), L'Enfant (2005), Marathon Man (1976), Mean Streets (1973), Network (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Rocky (1976), and Winter Light (1962)

Films Removed:
The Awful Truth (1937), Breathless (1960), Gaslight (1944), Le Notti Bianche (1957), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Rashomon (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Rosetta (1999), Sunrise (1927), The Tree of Life (2011), and West Side Story (1961)

Here's a copy of my old list after the cut.

    1.    The Apartment (1960)
    2.    Three Colors: Blue (1993)
    3.    The French Connection (1971)
    4.    The Seventh Seal (1957)
    5.    Rear Window (1954)
    6.    Persona (1966)
    7.    Three Colors: Red (1994)
    8.    Casablanca (1943)
    9.    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
    10.    Three Colors: White (1994)
    11.    The Decalogue (1989)
    12.    Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1982)
    13.    Seven Samurai (1954)
    14.    The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    15.    City Lights (1931)
    16.    The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
    17.    Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
    18.    Dial M for Murder (1954)
    19.    L.A. Confidential (1997)
    20.    Atonement (2007)
    21.    Metropolis (1927)
    22.    The Thin Red Line (1998)
    23.    Sunset Blvd. (1950)
    24.    Spirited Away (2002)
    25.    Psycho (1960)
    26.    Cache (2005)
    27.    Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
    28.    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
    29.    Double Indemnity (1944)
    30.    Before Sunset (2004)
    31.    Notorious (1946)
    32.    On the Waterfront (1954)
    33.    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    34.    Citizen Kane (1941)
    35.    The Godfather (1972)
    36.    The Awful Truth (1937)
    37.    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
    38.    Vertigo (1958)
    39.    Schindler's List (1993)
    40.    Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
    41.    Rosetta (1999)
    42.    His Girl Friday (1940)
    43.    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
    44.    Summer Hours (2009)
    45.    To Have and Have Not (1944)
    46.    Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    47.    Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
    48.    The 39 Steps (1935)
    49.    The General (1927)
    50.    Amelie (2001)
    51.    The Great Escape (1963)
    52.    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    53.    8 1/2 (1963)
    54.    The Night of the Hunter (1955)
    55.    All the President's Men (1976)
    56.    Black Orpheus (1959)
    57.    Modern Times (1936)
    58.    Hugo (2011)
    59.    Apocalypse Now (1979)
    60.    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
    61.    La Dolce Vita (1961)
    62.    M (1931)
    63.    Naked (1993)
    64.    Manhattan (1979)
    65.    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    66.    Sunrise (1927)
    67.    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    68.    12 Angry Men (1957)
    69.    Do the Right Thing (1989)
    70.    Grand Illusion (1938)
    71.    From Here to Eternity (1953)
    72.    Once (2007)
    73.    A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
    74.    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    75.    Breathless (1960)
    76.    West Side Story (1961)
    77.    The Red Shoes (1948)
    78.    Lost in Translation (2003)
    79.    Taxi Driver (1976)
    80.    The Tree of Life (2011)
    81.    Out of the Past (1947)
    82.    The Graduate (1967)
    83.    American Graffiti (1973)
    84.    Black Narcissus (1947)
    85.    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    86.    Gone with the Wind (1939)
    87.    Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
    88.    Rashomon (1950)
    89.    Wild Strawberries (1957)
    90.    Gaslight (1944)
    91.    All About Eve (1950)
    92.    Decision Before Dawn (1951)
    93.    The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    94.    North by Northwest (1959)
    95.    High Noon (1952)
    96.    Le Notti Bianche (1957)
    97.    The Conversation (1974)
    98.    Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    99.    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    100.    Roman Holiday (1953)

4 comments:

  1. So you added Kubrick, Scorsese, Lumet, QT, Schlesinger, and the man of men Bergman? Hell, no argument from me! Great list here Josh.

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  2. Great list, I really should do my own top 100...maybe once I've watched all of the IMDB top 250...

    Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1982) is my favorite version also, better than the 1982 edit, and more ambiguous I think than the final cut. Will be interesting to see which direction Ridley's sequel takes.

    I heard here http://bit.ly/OGoeH1 that The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) is underrated, and now I see it again on a list. Going to give that one a watch soon!

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    1. Thanks for your comment. I'd love to see your top 100 list.

      I have reservations about the Blade Runner sequel, but my fingers are crossed for an awesome movie.

      Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons is a great follow-up to Citizen Kane. Hope you like it!

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