my top 100 films

I groaned when I saw the thread title, but congratulations, anthony: not only is that an excellent list but it may be the best "top 100 films" list I've ever seen.

"Duck Amuck" of course belongs in anyone's top 10.

i saw Barry Lyndon at the weekend on TV but after a good start i got bored after the first hour...probably more my fault than Kubrick's or anyone else's tho, i don't know...

''47. Crash, Croenenberg,Canadian,1996''

that's the one thing that jumped out of yr list. I like that movie as well but I'm kind of surprised you do.

the *problem* with B Lyndon is that its all visual. the plot/story/whatevah is less important than the fact the sceneries are paintings. i also like crash although (and now i am talking about the book) ballard (and oh hell- croenenberg only seems to be interested in society going rampant.

well that's why i like him.

anthony, your list seems to have lots of things I either like or that I would like to see, and I don't like film very much. (You can take that as either a positive or a negative, but anyway I like the list, based on a glaze-eyed morning scan of it.)

My arthouse cinema subscription starts to pay off: I've actually seen more than half of the films on anthony's list, most of them in the last three years. (I only liked ten, but never mind.)

A very impressive list, but no Kurosawa or my personal favourite le samourai? (glad to see a place for Starship Troopers though, i must watch that again soon)

Rope is my fave Hitchcock too -- thought I was alone.

There's a lot on this I don't agree with, but in particular I'm surprised by Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. They drastically altered the ending from the play. At least according to my sister, in the play Newman's character is blackmailed to stay with Taylor despite being gay. In the movie they just kinda fall back in love (awww....).

Barry Lyndon is great. Stevem, I think you really need to see it in the theater; I couldn't imagine watching it on tv (then again, I hardly ever watch any movies on tv). Gospel According to St. Matthew is great too and would probably make my top 10.

Nice list, anthony!

cough cough The Top 100 English Language Films of All Time (With Commentary)

which ones anthony ?

How come your list only goes up to 40, Jess?

"but no Kurosawa"

there is:
"64. Ran,Kourosawa,Japan,1985"

"Rope is my fave Hitchcock too -- thought I was alone."

Mine too. My second favorite is either the Trouble with Harry or Rear Window

i liked Hard Boiled better than the Killer.

because anthony asked...Movies I Flat Out Don't Like On This List, That I've Seen:

Barry Lyndon
Safe (I only liked the second half)
Rosemary's Baby
Blow Up
Crash (pyewww, what the?!)
Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song (the horror...)
Bamboozled (someone found this film remotely believable?)
The Night Porter
Gummo

And to be fair, Movies On The List I've Seen That Would Probably Make Mine:
Sunset Blvd.
Cabaret (possibly at the same place, too)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (much lower on it, though)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Maltese Falcon
Intolerance (though I'm probably gonna skip silent films entirely if I ever make one)
Duck Soup
M
Your Friends And Neighbours
Manchurian Candidate
Jules Et Jim
Carrie

Honorary Mentions to Starship Troopers and Cleopatra, two films I really enjoyed but probably wouldn't make my list.

Raging Bull

weird. That Raging bull at the bottom of my post should have been in the Don't Like group.

yay anthony!

oh i crapped out in the end. those 40 should keep anyone happy for ages, tho. just watch them twice, and the top 10 three times.

the point of bamboozled was not the versmillitude, and thats what was signifigant about it, its darkness and over the top anger made it a genuine and frightening satire.

also, eddie murphy, eddie griffin, orlando jones, martin lawerence, queen latifa in bringing down the house-the minestrel show is alive and well.

but see, my problem with Bamboozled is that the moments of good satire were actually the Tommy Hilnigger and malt liquor ads (also, Mos Def's militant rap group). The actual minstrel show didn't actually work satirically. That show-within-the-movie was so boring that I couldn't imagine anybody actually enjoying it. Lee thinks people would eat it up. Satire would be mocking something that actually exists (which he does in the great ad parodies), not creating a nightmare world with little relation to our own.

plus the characters were annoying, lots of pointless speechifying, usual Lee bullshit, movie won't end, etc. etc.

what Lee misses is that most of the successful blackface jokes, acts were remained successful when the blackface was removed (lots of comedy numbers and cartoons were re-done note-for-note minus blackface and are still enjoyed today). Part of what's offensive about blackface is how superfluous it was to the actual comedian's work. If he wanted Bamboozled to be stinging, he should have made the minstrel show actually sorta funny, which would have made the audience conflicted.

anthony - my apologies i did not see Ran at all on the list.

Hi,

Where is Roger Corman (Intruders, Little Shop of Horrors, ...), where is Jacques Tati (Jours de Fetes)?

Jan

A good list, although it wouldn't be my list, I'm more of a contemporary cinema man. Here's my personal top 100, in alphabetical order:

1) 25 Watts (Uruguay, 2001)
2) Ôritsu uchûgun Oneamisu no tsubasa aka Wings of Honneamise (Japan, 1987)
3) Akahige aka Red Beard (Japan, 1964)
4) Akasen chitai aka Street of Shame (Japan, 1956)
5) Annie Hall (USA, 1977)
6) Apocalypse Now (USA, 1979)
7) ¡Átame! aka Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spain, 1990)
8) L'Avventura aka The Adventure (Italy, 1960)
9) Ba wang bie ji aka Farewell My Concubine (China, 1993)
10) Bakha satang aka Peppermint Candy (South Korea, 2000)

11) Beau travail aka Good Work (France, 1999)
12) Before Sunrise (USA, 1995)
13) Belle de jour (France, 1967)
14) La Belle noiseuse aka The Beautiful Troublemaker (France, 1991)
15) Blue Velvet (USA, 1986)
16) Brazil (USA, 1985)
17) Bringing Out the Dead (USA, 1999)
18) Bure baruta aka Cabaret Balkan (Yugoslavia, 1998)
19) Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train aka Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (France, 1998)
20) Chinatown (USA, 1974)

21) A Clockwork Orange (UK, 1971)
22) Coronación aka Coronation (Chile, 2000)
23) El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba aka No One Writes to the Colonel (Mexico, 1999)
24) Dark Days (USA, 2000)
25) Dead Man (USA, 1995)
26) Dead Ringers (USA, 1988)
27) Delicatessen (France, 1991)
28) Do the Right Thing (USA, 1989)
29) Down by Law (USA, 1986)
30) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (UK, 1964)

31) Drôle de Félix aka Funny Felix (France, 2000)
32) Dumbo (USA, 1941)
33) Eureka (Japan, 2000)
34) Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain aka Amélie form Montmartre (France, 2001)
35) Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (USA, 1997)
36) Festen aka Celebration (Denmark, 1998)
37) The Fisher King (USA, 1991)
38) Flandersui gae aka Barking Dogs Never Bite (South Korea, 2000)
39) Fucking Åmål aka Show Me Love (Sweden, 1998)
40) La Grande bouffe (France, 1973)

41) Groundhog Day (USA, 1993)
42) Guo nian hui jia aka Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan, 1999)
43) La Haine aka Hate (France, 1995)
44) Happiness (USA, 1998)
45) Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand, 1994)
46) L'Humanité aka Humanity (France, 1999)
47) The Ice Storm (USA, 1997)
48) In the Company of Men (USA, 1997)
49) The Iron Giant (USA, 1999)
50) It's a Wonderful Life (USA, 1946)

51) Kamikaze Taxi (Japan, 1995)
52) The King of Comedy (USA, 1983)
53) Knoflíkári aka Buttoners (Czech Republic, 1997)
54) Kurenai no buta aka Crimson Pig (Japan, 1992)
55) Léon (France, 1994)
56) L.A. Confidential (USA, 1997)
57) Last Night (Canada, 1998)
58) Lista de espera aka Waiting List (Cuba, 2000)
59) Le Locataire aka The Tenant (France, 1976)
60) Lone Star (USA, 1996)

61) Lost Highway (USA, 1997)
62) Magnolia (USA, 1999)
63) Manhattan (USA, 1979)
64) Mat i syn aka Mother and Son (Russia, 1997)
65) Natural Born Killers (USA, 1994)
66) Night on Earth (USA, 1991)
67) The Nightmare Before Christmas (USA, 1993)
68) Oodishon aka Audition (Japan, 1999)
69) The Philadelphia Story (USA, 1940)
70) Pi (USA, 1998)

71) La Pianiste aka The Piano Teacher (France, 2001)
72) Priest (UK, 1994)
73) Psycho (USA, 1960)
74) Rashômon (Japan, 1950)
75) Repulsion (UK, 1965)
76) Ressources humaines aka Human Resources (France, 1999)
77) Rope (USA, 1948)
78) Sånger från andra våningen aka Songs From the Second Floor (Sweden, 2000)
79) Sense and Sensibility (USA, 1995)
80) Seom aka The Isle (South Korea, 2000)

81) Sex, Lies, and Videotape (USA, 1989)
82) Shichinin no samurai aka The Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954)
83) Smoke (USA, 1995)
84) Stalker (Soviet Union, 1979)
85) La Strada (Italy, 1954)
86) The Straight Story (USA, 1999)
87) Sunset Blvd. (USA, 1950)
88) Swallowtail (Japan, 1996)
89) Tillsammans aka Together (Sweden, 2000)
90) Todo sobre mi madre aka All Aboút My Mother (Spain, 1999)

91) Tonari no Totoro aka My Neighbor Totoro (Japan, 1988)¨
92) Touch of Evil (USA, 1958)
93) The Truman Show (USA, 1998)
94) Tueur à gages aka Killer (Kazakhstan, 1998)
95) Ugetsu monogatari aka Tales of Ugetsu (Japan, 1953)
96) Vertigo (USA, 1958)
97) The War Zone (UK, 1999)
98) Western (France 1997)
99) Yoru no onnatachi aka Women of the Night (Japan, 1948)
100) Your Friends & Neighbors (USA, 1998)