My Top 50 Films of All Time

Submitted by WesternBoy on Wed, 08/28/2002 - 10:25
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  1. Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)
  2. Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa)
  3. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Resnais)
  4. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)
  5. Star Wars (1977, Lucas)
  6. The Apartment (1960, Wilder)
  7. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)
  8. Chungking Express (1994, Kar-Wai)
  9. Breathless (1959, Godard)
  10. Chinatown (1974, Polanski)
  11. Jules and Jim (1961, Truffaut)
  12. Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
  13. Amadeus (1984, Forman)
  14. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Allen)
  15. The Searchers (1956, Ford)
  16. Ran (1985, Kurosawa)
  17. Metropolis (1926, Lang)
  18. Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)
  19. Brazil (1985, Gilliam)
  20. Beauty and the Beast (1945, Cocteau)
  21. American History X (1998, Kaye)
  22. Taxi Driver (1976, Scorcese)
  23. The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)
  24. Manhattan (1979, Allen)
  25. The Third Man (1949, Reed)
  26. Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
  27. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Kubrick)
  28. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Kirshner)
  29. The Graduate (1967, Nichols)
  30. Kids (1995, Clark)
  31. The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut)
  32. Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa)
  33. Network (1976, Lumet)
  34. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa)
  35. Cabaret (1972, Fosse)
  36. Persona (1966, Bergman)
  37. Being John Malkovich (1999, Jonze)
  38. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (1966, Nichols)
  39. The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)
  40. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (1986, Berri)
  41. Gone With the Wind (1939, Fleming)
  42. His Girl Friday (1940, Hakws)
  43. Jaws (1975, Speilberg)
  44. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
  45. A Hard Day's Night (1964, Lester)
  46. Slacker (1991, Linklater)
  47. The Killer (1989, Woo)
  48. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, Renais)
  49. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles)
  50. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down (1990, Almodovar)
lbangs08/29/2002

I see tons to like on this list. It is perhaps especially nice to see I'm not the only person who ranks Hannah and Her Sisters and Allen's best film and, thus, one of the best films ever.

Great list!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs