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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #80 on: August 09, 2010, 09:02:44 PM »
So from your perspective OAD, it is essentially a favourites list if you are only including things you love, as opposed to things you think are great achievements in cinema but do not love.

This will of course create a much more interesting, diverse and controversial list - which is a good thing - this is what I was hoping for :D

So boring films like Raging Bull won't make the cut!
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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #81 on: August 09, 2010, 09:13:26 PM »
You're the best, Tim.  ;D

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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #82 on: August 09, 2010, 09:24:25 PM »
So from your perspective OAD, it is essentially a favourites list if you are only including things you love, as opposed to things you think are great achievements in cinema but do not love.

This will of course create a much more interesting, diverse and controversial list - which is a good thing - this is what I was hoping for :D

So boring films like Raging Bull won't make the cut!

I don't think the distinction between the two lists is as meaningful as some make it to be. If a film isn't something I love, it isn't a great achievement. It's as simple as that. Sure, there are some films that I love for pure enjoyment (Spice World) that would never make my top-100, but being something I love is an absolute prerequisite.

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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #83 on: August 09, 2010, 09:30:19 PM »
I enjoy great films, so there really isn't a difference between favorite and best. Anyway, I just call it my top 100. No favorite movies or best films complicating it.

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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #84 on: August 09, 2010, 09:42:51 PM »
My #1 film, for example, It's a Wonderful Life. Do I think it's the best film ever made? Mmmm, no, I wouldn't make that claim, but I do think it's really, really, really good and I love it with all my heart.

I claim it's one of the ten most exquisitely crafted films of all time.  :)

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So from your perspective OAD, it is essentially a favourites list if you are only including things you love, as opposed to things you think are great achievements in cinema but do not love.
Yes, pretty much. :)

This will of course create a much more interesting, diverse and controversial list - which is a good thing - this is what I was hoping for :D

So boring films like Raging Bull won't make the cut!
Exactly so. ;)

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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #85 on: August 09, 2010, 10:04:36 PM »
So, are we meant to be listing our favourite 100 films, or the best 100 films (in our own opinion) - because these are two very different lists.

For those that make a distinction between the two like I do, I hope your lists are predominantly comprised of favorites.  It's more interesting.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #86 on: August 10, 2010, 05:27:14 AM »
So, are we meant to be listing our favourite 100 films, or the best 100 films (in our own opinion) - because these are two very different lists.

For those that make a distinction between the two like I do, I hope your lists are predominantly comprised of favorites.  It's more interesting.

Yeah looking through the individual lists of posters is far more revealing and interesting so I also would prefer people do their favourites. Hell, I had North by Northwest and Happy Gilmore right next to each other in my Top 20 last year.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #87 on: August 10, 2010, 02:15:47 PM »
As stated before, I did a Top 200 that took a frightening amount of time to complete.


1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles; 1941)


2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola; 1972)


3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa; 1954)


4. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica; 1948)


5. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock; 1958)


6. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin; 1925)


7. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz; 1942)


8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone; 1966)


9. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles; 1958)


10. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean; 1962)


11. The Searchers (John Ford; 1956)


12. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese; 1980)


13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick; 1968)


14. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini; 1960)


15. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder; 1950)


16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston; 1948)


17. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa; 1957)


18. Grand Illusion (Jean Renior; 1937)


19. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming; 1939)


20. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler; 1946)


21. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick; 1980)


22. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg; 1981)


23. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder; 1944)


24. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly; 1952)


26. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock; 1960)


27. La Jetée (Chris Marker; 1962)


28. Hoop Dreams (Steve James; 1994)


29. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese; 1990)


30. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg; 1989)


31. Marty (Delbert Mann; 1955)


32. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock; 1946)


33. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra; 1946)


34. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick; 1964)


35. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock; 1959)


36. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai; 1994)


37. City of God (Fernando Meirelles; 2002)


38. M (Fritz Lang; 1931)


39. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola; 1979)


40. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu; 1959)


41. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone; 1965)


42. Alien (Ridley Scott; 1979)


43. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné; 1945)


44. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick; 1957)


45. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick; 1956)


46. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook; 2002)


47. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki; 2001)


48. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang; 1953)


49. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa; 1962)


50. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper; 1969)


51. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki; 1997)


52. Persona (Ingmar Bergman; 1966)


53. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou; 1992)


54. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana; 2003)


55. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman; 1957)


56. Memento (Christopher Nolan; 2000)


57. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky; 2000)


58. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller; 1981)


59. Léon (Luc Besson; 1994)


60. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel; 1962)


61. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1974)


62. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1979)


63. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu; 1962)


64. Tôkyô Story (Yasujiro Ozu; 1953)


65. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot; 1953)


66. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton; 1924)


67. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris; 1978/1980)


68. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer; 1962)


69. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot; 1955)


70. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray; 1955)


71. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi; 1953)


72. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau; 1927)


73. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford; 1940)


74. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman; 1957)


75. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader; 1985)


76. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter; 1999)


77. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale; 1935)


78. The General (Buster Keaton; 1926)


79. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy; 1932)


80. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 1943)


81. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner; 1984)


82. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford; 1962)


83. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock; 1956)


84. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie (Luis Buñuel; 1972)


85. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee; 2000)


86. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen; 2007)


87. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino; 2009)


88. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone; 1984)


89. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 1947)


90. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis; 1994)


91. Infernal Affairs II (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak; 2003)


92. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman; 1975)


93. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam; 1975)


94. Playtime (Jacques Tati; 1967)


95. The Great Escape (John Sturges; 1963)


96. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont; 1994)


97. The Departed (Martin Scorsese; 2006)


98. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks; 1974)


99. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston; 1950)


100. Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton; 1947)


101. Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen; 1993)
102. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann; 1950)
103. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer; 1963)
104. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu; 2000)
105. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino; 2007)
106. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles; 1965)
107. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk; 1956)
108. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn; 1967)
109. Sanshô the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi; 1954)
110. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles; 1942)
111. The Elephant Man (David Lynch; 1980)
112. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer; 1928)
113. The Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner; 1968)
114. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks; 1944)
115. Roman Holiday (William Wyler; 1953)
116. The Heiress (Williams Wyler; 1949)
117. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero; 1968)
118. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges; 1955)
119. Some Like It Hot (Howard Hawks; 1959)
120. Rosemary's Baby {Roman Polanski; 1968)
121. Halloween (John Carpenter; 1978)
122. Rocky (John G. Avildsen; 1976)
123. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet; 2001)
124. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming; 1939)
125. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood; 1935)


151. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock; 1954)
152. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman; 1971)
153. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme; 1991)
154. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin; 1936)
155. I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes; 2007)
156. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood; 2003)
157. The Hours (Stephen Daldry; 2002)
158. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls; 1948)
159. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher; 1957)
160. A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner; 1992)
161. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones; 1979)
162. From Russia with Love (Terence Young; 1963)
163. Dodsworth (William Wyler; 1936)
164. Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist; 1948)
165. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra; 1944)
166. Caché (Michael Haneke; 2005)
167. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk; 1955)
168. Crash (Paul Haggis; 2005)
169. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee; 1997)
170. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk; 2003)
171. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan; 1954)
172. Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa; 1950)
173. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger; 1969)
174. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati; 1953)
175. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann; 1952)


126. The Fly (David Cronenberg; 1986)
127. Aliens (James Cameron; 1986)
128. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel; 1971)
129. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1999)
130. Jaws (Steven Spielberg; 1975)
131. Manhattan (Woody Allen; 1979)
132. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith; 1919)
133. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray; 1954)
134. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock; 1954)
135. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan; 1951)
136. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz; 1950)
137. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh; 1996)
138. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino; 1994)
139. Missing (Costa-Gavras; 1982)
140. The Third Man (Carol Reed; 1949)
141. Star Wars (George Lucas; 1977)
142. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood; 2004)
143. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki; 1988)
144. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray; 1950)
145. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges; 1941)
146. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati; 1958)
147. Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki; 1986)
148. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood; 1992)
149. United 93 (Paul Greengrass; 2006)
150. Gladiator (Ridley Scott; 2000)


176. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray; 1956)
177. Seven (David Fincher; 1995)
178. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner; 1986)
179. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg; 1998)
180. Die Hard (John McTiernan; 1988)
181. The Legend of Drunken Master (Liu Chia-Liang; 1994)
182. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan; 1961)
183. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder; 1957)
184. Attack the Gas Station! (Kim Sang-Jin; 1999)
185. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel; 1967)
186. Dark City (Alex Proyas; 1998)
187. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu; 2007)
188. Great Expectations (David Lean; 1946)
189. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor; 1940)
190. Fight Club (David Fincher; 1999)
191. The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick; 1955)
192. Swing Time (George Stevens; 1936)
193. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog; 1972)
194. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz; 1945)
195. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hithcock; 1943)
196. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan; 2002)
197. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch; 1999)
198. The Proposition (John Hillcoat; 2005)
199. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder; 1951)
200. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli; 1953)

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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #88 on: August 10, 2010, 06:07:37 PM »
My NEW Top 100 (from left to right):




















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Re: The 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments thread
« Reply #89 on: August 10, 2010, 07:01:51 PM »
Still love the fact that you have Rocky Horror on your list.

 

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