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February 20, 2004
100 greatest films of all time
A list of films made its way through the blogosphere recently only to be followed by a list of 100 books. I was pleased to report my response to the film list but was a bit sniffy at the chick-lit evident in the books. When I pointed the film list out to a friend she described it as a boy's list so small wonder I would like it better. Gendered listing behaviour has been a tricky subject in our many conversations about psychoanalysis so further investigation seemed to be in order. It turns out it was generated by regular voters at IMDb. Boys after all? IMDb does have top lists for women and men but a quick scan does not turn up obvious differences.
We decided to make our own list of interesting and important films. We chose fifty each and present them for your consideration. Our combined efforts might have produced something with broader appeal. The book list will be a bit trickier because, as has been observed, I have never read anything...
And so without further ado: Mondo Sismondo and the Flea present the 100 greatest films of all time!
Metropolis (1927)
The Thin Man (1934)
Secret Agent (1936)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Alexandr Nevsky (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Roma Citta Aperta (Open City) (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
A Touch of Evil (1958)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Auntie Mame (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
The Parent Trap (1961)
Dr. No (1962)
Les yeux sans visage (Eyes without a face) (1962)
Blow Up (1966)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
To Sir with Love (1967)
Barbarella (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kurotokage (Black Lizard) (1968)
Cromwell (1970)
Cabaret (1972)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Una Giornata particolare (A Special Day) (1977)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Bounty (1984)
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris) (1984)
E la Nave Va (And The Ship Sails On) (1984)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Brazil (1985)
Tampopo (1985)
Lost in America (1985)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
A Room With a View (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Barfly (1987)
Jean de Florette (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Working Girl (1988)
The Last of England (1988)
Babette’s Feast (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Henry V (1989)
Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer) (1989)
La Femme Nikita (1990)
GoodFellas (1990)
Metropolitan (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Metropolitan (1990)
The Unforgiven (1992)
Lashou shentan (Hard boiled) (1992)
Sliver (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Richard III (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Irma Vep (1996)
Trees Lounge (1996)
Secrets and Lies (1996)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Gummo (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
The Straight Story (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Monsters Inc. (2001)
Rat Race (2001)
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 20, 2004 08:07 AM
Comments
Jenny Agutter ushered in "those feelings" several years earlier than they should've been in Logan's Run.
You have Metropolitan down twice. Is it THAT good?
Posted by: Ray at February 20, 2004 05:23 PM