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| The Seventh Seal (1957) |
I love lists. I love making lists, and I love discovering new films that force me to update those lists. It's interesting how one's favorites change over time, and I recently came across some of my old top 10 films of all time lists. Spanning over 3 years, here are five slowly evolving versions of my top 10.
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. City Lights (1931)
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
6. West Side Story (1961)
7. The Seventh Seal (1957)
8. Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (1993-94)
9. American Graffiti (1973)
10. Apocalypse Now (1979)
September 2010
1. 8 1/2 (1963)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (1993-94)
5. West Side Story (1961)
6. Psycho (1960)
7. All the President's Men (1976)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
10. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
August 2011
1. 8 1/2 (1963)
2. Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (1993-94)
3. Seven Samurai (1954)
4. Metropolis (1927)
5. City Lights (1931)
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
7. The Apartment (1960)
8. Vertigo (1958)
9. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
10. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
March 2012
1. The Seventh Seal (1957)
2. Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (1993-94)
3. Seven Samurai (1954)
4. The Apartment (1960)
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
6. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
8. Before Sunset (2004)
9. The Virgin Spring (1960)
10. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
February 2013
1. The Apartment (1960)
2. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
3. The French Connection (1971)
4. The Seventh Seal (1957)
5. Casablanca (1943)
6. Three Colors: Red (1994)
7. Persona (1966)
8. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
9. Rear Window (1954)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
No Kubrick?
ReplyDeleteNot at the moment, but Eyes Wide Shut made my list in 2011.
DeleteNice to see Before Sunset sneak in among all the classics :)
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty high up for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Yeah, Before Sunset's slipped a bit, but I still love it. It's in my top 25.
DeleteI LOVE The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I could easily put it higher on the list again.
Interesting post! It reveals a lot about your evolution as a film buff. So you lost your love for Citizen Kane? :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! No love lost. It's firmly in my top 50, for sure. :)
DeleteWow, those are some pretty big changes! My top 10 has been more or less the same for the last 2 years.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. My top 8 feel pretty solid right now, but my bottom 2 spots can easily change.
DeleteI love the evolution of top ten lists too! I really need to rethink mine, although nothing will ever top Jules et Jim for me...
ReplyDeleteNice. I probably need to revisit 8 1/2, since it used to be so high on my list. I didn't love as much the last time I watched it, but maybe I'll feel differently the next time.
DeleteI've seen 7 out of your current top 10 and 6 of them are in my top 100. Love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I'd recommend any of the three you haven't seen.
DeleteI've seen all of your current top ten. For the hell of it, I'll rank them:
ReplyDelete1) The Apartment
2) Red
3) Persona
4) Casablanca
5) The Seventh Seal
6) Blue
7) The Lovers on the Bridge
8) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9) The French Connection
10) Rear Window
I'd give 1-7 an A grade, easily. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly gets a B+ from me, and I like The French Connection, but it's nothing exciting (overly). I hate Rear Window...such a flaccid example of and overindulgent directorly movie.
Love this. Rear Window is probably more a #10 than #9 for me, but it just looked better on the list at #9. For instance, if I cut one film, it'd probably be Rear Window. Oh well. I flip flop on these things. :)
DeleteWell one thing for sure, you have a very good taste Josh! So many of those I really want to see but hey at least I have seen Casablanca on the big screen :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Ruth! Yeah, seeing that on the big screen is awesome. :)
DeleteI love how lists evolve as well, and it was really fun to watch your tastes change over time.
ReplyDeleteTwo Bergmans? Shit, that's what I'm talkin' about.
Haha. I could easily put 3 or 4 Bergmans on there, but I don't want to overdue it. ;)
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