Time Magazine 100 Best Films

[R. Richard]

I ripped off the Time Magazine list of the 100 best films of all time, probably in violation of copyright laws. However, here they are for your discussion. How they could have left off Rashomon, The Creature That Devoured Cleveland and Creature From The Black Lagoon is a mystery to me.

A - C
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)

The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Baby Face (1933)

Bande à part (1964)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Blade Runner (1982)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Brazil (1985)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Camille (1936)

Casablanca (1942)

Charade (1963)

Children of Paradise (1945)

Chinatown (1974)

Chungking Express (1994)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City Lights (1931)

City of God (2002)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

The Crowd (1928)

D - F
Day for Night (1973)

The Decalogue (1989)

Detour (1945)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Dodsworth (1936)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Drunken Master II (1994)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

8 1/2 (1963)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Finding Nemo (2003)

The Fly (1986)


G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

Goodfellas (1990)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Ikiru (1952)

In A Lonely Place (1950)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

It's A Gift (1934)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

K - M
Kandahar (2001)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

King Kong (1933)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Last Command (1928)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Léolo (1992)

The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)

The Man With a Camera (1929)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Metropolis (1927)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)

Mouchette (1967)

N - P
Nayakan (1987)

Ninotchka (1939)

Notorious (1946)

Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Out of the Past (1947)

Persona (1966)

Pinocchio (1940)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Pyaasa (1957)


Q - S
Raging Bull (1980)

Schindler's List (1993)

The Searchers (1956)

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The Singing Detective (1986)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Star Wars (1977)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Sunrise (1927)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Swing Time (1936)

T - Z
Talk to Her (2002)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Tokyo Story (1953)

A Touch of Zen (1971)

Ugetsu (1953)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

Umberto D (1952)

Unforgiven (1992)

White Heat (1949)

Wings of Desire (1987)

Yojimbo (1961)

 

[Dar~]

I recognize maybe four of those. Sorry, guess I Am not as cultured as some.

 

[Guest]

What? No South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?

What were they thinking???

 

[Liar]

Glad someone is giving Brazil the nod it deserves.

 

[Liar]

What? No South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?

What were they thinking???

If that's sarcasm, I'm so dissapointed in you.

 

[Dar~]

I was looking to see Legends of the Fall.

 

[Guest]

If that's sarcasm, I'm so dissapointed in you.

Sarcasm is my middle name.

And you know I love that movie - I've mentioned it on several threads.

BUT - it would never make a best-of-anything list. Too many hypocritical, white bread, self-righteous, God-fearing yahoos running the joint.

Ahem.

 

[cloudy]

BUT - it would never make a best-of-anything list. Too many hypocritical, white bread, self-righteous, God-fearing yahoos running the joint.

Ahem.

Ya think?

 

[Dar~]

What about teenaged mutant ninja turtles.

 

[Guest]

Ya think?

Yes.

And Kyle's mom is a bitch.

 

[cloudy]

Yes.

And Kyle's mom is a bitch.

She's a big fat bitch. She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world. She's a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch.

 

[Liar]

She's a stupid bitch

And the has stupid hair.

I find that strangely fascinating.

 

[Guest]

And the has stupid hair.

I find that strangely fascinating.

My favorite song is the La Resistance Medley -


GREGORY (singing voice by Howard McGillin):
God has smiled upon you this day
The fate of a nation in your hands
And blessed be the children we who fight with all our bravery
'Til only the righteous stand

You see the distant flames
They bellow in the night
You fight in all our names for what we know is right
And when you all get shot
And cannot carry on
Though you die, La Resistance lives on

ALL:
You may get stabbed in the head
With a dagger or a sword
You may be burned to death
Or skinned alive, or worse
But when they torture you
You will not feel the need to run
For, though you die, La Resistance lives on

PARENTS:
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

SHEILA BROFLOVSKI:
Because the country's gone awry
Tomorrow night, these freaks will fry!

SOLDIERS:
Tomorrow night
Our lives will change
Tomorrow night
We'll be entertained
An execution
What a sight!
Tomorrow night

SATAN:
Up there there is so much room
Where babies burp and flowers bloom
Tomorrow night up there is doomed
And so I will be going soon!

TERRANCE AND PHILLIP:
Shut your fucking face, uncle fucka
You're a boner-biting bastard, uncle fucka

TERRANCE:
Looks like we may be out of luck!

PHILLIP:
Tomorrow night, we're pretty fucked!

CARTMAN, KYLE, STAN:
Why did our mothers start this war?
What-the-fuck are they fighting for?
When did this song become a marathon?

SATAN:
I want to be up there!

SHEILA BROFLOVSKI:
When Canada is dead and gone
They'll be no more Celine Dion!

GREGORY AND KIDS:
They may cut your dick in half
And serve it to a pig
And though it hurts, you'll laugh
And dance a dickless jig
But that's the way it goes
In war we're shat upon
Though we die, La Resistance lives oooooonnnnn!

SATAN:
I want to be up there!

PARENTS:
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

 

[Kassiana]

How they could have left off Rashomon, The Creature That Devoured Cleveland and Creature From The Black Lagoon is a mystery to me.

--Depends on how they decided. If it was by popular vote, as most 100 Best lists are (including the vaunted AFI list), then of course some stuff will be left off.

Brazil (1985)

--Yuck. How could anyone have liked Brazil enough to vote for it? It's a dark, dreary, depressing movie that has one of the worst endings of all time.

 

[AppleBiter]

Ok, where the hell are:

Conan The Barbarian

Conan The Destroyer

Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2

and

Four Rooms?

Fuck a bunch of Time Magazine.

 

[Belegon]

At a quick glance, I have seen maybe 60% and know at least 75 by plot and reputation.

Dar~ I am not certain that my position is not much worse than having seen "maybe four" of them...just means I am a film geek and you are not...

or maybe I'm just dissapointed that there is not a single episode of "Bang Bus" or "My Friends Hot Mom" on there....

 

[JamesSD]

Solid from what I can see

These sort of lists have been terribly overdone and at this point just crib from each other half the time. The recent picks are often the most interesting.

Talk to Her (2002)
An absolutely fantastic pick. Almodovar is an amazing director and this is by far his best work

City of God (2002)
Another fantastic non-American film. Hard to say if it will be quite so amazing 10-20 years from now

Finding Nemo (2003)
Great movie, techincal achievement. Not too sure about the longevity of it though.


I tried to watch Brazil once, and lacked the patience for it. The concepts and themes presented by it are remarkable, but the presentation was terribly inaccessible (and I have a high tolerance for non-traditional storytelling)

Oh, and Southpark Bigger, Longer and Uncut is fantastic. It lags at the end, but the first hour is just amazing.

 

[Dar~]

Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Finding Nemo (2003)
His Girl Friday (1940)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)

These are the ones I have seen. I don't feel any less cool than I did before I knew I had only seen a few of the greats. I watch tons of movies they all just end up sucking

 

[ishtat]

Exclusions

Any list which excludes "The Battleship Potemkin" and "Triumph of the Will" has clearly been censored. The first is arguably the most influential film ever made.The second by a woman with a genius for propoganda.

 

[rgraham666]

Any list which excludes "The Battleship Potemkin" and "Triumph of the Will" has clearly been censored. The first is arguably the most influential film ever made.The second by a woman with a genius for propoganda.

But if people knew about those, saw them and compared them to much of today's stuff, they would be going, "What the fuck? Our media took all its lessons from the Soviets and Nazis?! Well, fuck that shit!"

 

[Amy Sweet]

Is Cammille the movie they went to see in Annie?

cool list- I'd actually like to see some of those older movies. I saw 'Some like it Hot.'

- Where is Gone with the Wind? And Wizard of Oz?

I didn't know that "It's a Wonderful Life" was as old as that. I knew it was an oldy, but didn't know that it was *that* long.

ps- who played the male lead in "Miracle on 34th St" (not listed) - the original. He's quite the hottie.