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.

Review: To Rome with Love (2012)

Baldwin, Page, and Eisenberg in Rome

Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Faruk Alatan, Letty Aronson, Giampaolo Letta, and Stephen Tenenbaum
Written by Woody Allen
Starring Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, and Ellen Page

Best Supporting Actor: 1950s

1950: George Sanders, All About Eve

Oscar winner: George Sanders, All About Eve

Review: Ted (2012)

John (Wahlberg) and Ted (voiced by MacFarlane)

Directed by Seth MacFarlane
Produced by Jason Clark, John Jacobs, Seth MacFarlane, Scott Stuber, and Wellesley Wild
Written by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and Seth MacFarlane

Review: After the Wedding (2006)

Helene (Knudsen) and Jacob (Mikkelsen) reunited.

Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Sisse Graume Jørgensen
Written by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgard, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Stine Fischer Christensen, and Christian Tafdrup

Double Feature: Alice Adams (1935) and Shane (1953)

Alice Adams:

Katharine Hepburn headlines as the titular character of George Stevens' comedy of socially-challenging proportions. As the daughter of a working man, she cannot present herself as frivolously as the other girls in town, and she is quite the scandal for it. Her world is shaken up when she must deal with the scandal of a new-found romance with the upstanding Arthur (Fred MacMurray) and the problem of her social position.

The film received only two nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress. It lost both of them, but Hepburn was very deserving of a what would have been her second Oscar at the time. The supporting cast was also passed over sadly.

Shane:

George Stevens' celebrated western (what range he had) features a roaming stranger (Ladd) who helps a terrorized family restore peace to their valley. Under the heel of an aged cattleman, the entire community is plagued with fear as he attempts to drive them out, even hiring a gunslinger (Palance) to intimidate them. Shane, a semi-retired gunman, must fight to keep the peace and take a final stand for his friends.

The film received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (De Wilde), Best Supporting Actor (Palance), Best Screenplay, & Best Cinematography (Color). Loyal Griggs took home his (and the film's) only Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Films I Saw in June

Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves (1996)

The Best:

1. Breaking the Waves - ****
2. The Roaring Twenties - ****
3. The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - ****
4. Summer with Monika - ****
5. Poetry - ****
6. Rampart - ****
7. Wuthering Heights (1939) - ****
8. Shane - ****
9. Remember the Night - ****
10. Prometheus - ***1/2

More after the cut.