Tuesday, July 26, 2011

My 2nd Annual Top 100 for Filmspotting.net/forum

Some important notices...

1. Ranking is sometimes an arbitrary thing to do. Ultimately there seems to be little need to debate whether one film affected you more than another.

2. As you'll see, my rankings of the films changed greatly since last year based on how I feel at this given moment.

3. On a final note, you'll see I grouped certain films together as I just find myself associating the works of directors like Coppola or Lumet.


1. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg) +2


2. American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) +3


3. Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson) +7


4. The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee) NEW


5. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) -4


6. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) -4


7. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) -3


8. Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze) -2


9. All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse) -2


10. The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck) +4


11. LA Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson) +2


12. Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman) NEW


13. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) -2


14. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan) +12

15. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) +12


16. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron) -4


17. Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton) +56


18. Finding Neverland (2004, Marc Forster) +11


19. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) +11


20. Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy) -1


21. Traffic (2000, Steven Soderbergh) NEW


22. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher) +14


23. A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg) +2


24. Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton) +19


25. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) +10


26. The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir) +59

27. The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Robert Minkoff) +69


28. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet) +26


29. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) +23


30. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) -7


31. The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lumet) -11


32. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet) -10


33. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese) -12


34. Born on the Fourth of July (1989, Oliver Stone) -1


35. Quiz Show (1994, Robert Redford) -4


36. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley) +1


37. City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles) -29


38. Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo Del Toro) -23


39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) -23


40. Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg) -23


41. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) -23


42. No Country for Old Men (2007, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen) -14


43. Alien (1976, Ridley Scott) -19


44. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) +12


45. Black Hawk Down (2001, Ridley Scott) -13


46. Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks) NEW


47. All the President's Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula) +8


48. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher) NEW


49. The Constant Gardener (2005, Fernando Meirelles) -10


50. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) -6


51. Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford) +7


52. Reds (1981, Warren Beatty) -1


53. The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich) NEW


54. JFK (1991, Oliver Stone) +15


55. Heat (1995, Michael Mann) -6


56. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) -9


57. Beauty and the Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise) +43


58. Good Night and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney) -2


59. The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan) +21


60. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne) NEW


61. District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp) +9


62. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold) +9


63. Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) +9


64. Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) -55


65. The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat) NEW


66. Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell) +13


67. Mystic River (2003, Clint Eastwood) -29


68. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) -7


69. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) -7


70. Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell) -7


71. In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonaugh) +12


72. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) -12


73. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) -25


74. Fargo (1996, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen) -24


75. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) NEW


76. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles) +13


77. Lone Star (1996, John Sayles) -13


78. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin) -12


79. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg) -38


80. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985, Woody Allen) NEW


81. Knocked Up (2007, Judd Apatow) -5


82. The Matrix (1999, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski) -8


83. Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh) +12


84. Awakenings (1990, Penny Marshall) -44


85. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero) -39


86. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter) SAME


87. Missing (1982, Costa Gavras) -34


88. The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah) -7


89. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann) -6


90. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill) -8


91. Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola) +1


92. Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton) +7


93. Walk the Line (2005, James Mangold) -5


94. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick) -7


95. Road to Perdition (2002, Sam Mendes) +2


96. Dead Man Walking (1995, Tim Robbins) +2

97. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005, Judd Apatow) -3

98. Borat (2006, Larry Charles) -5


99. It Happened One Night (1933, Frank Capra) NEW


100. The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman) -35