December 12, 2004 // 4:34 a.m. You say obsessive like it,s a bad thing. All right, since I can't seem to find anything to say that might be of interest to anyone else, I'll give in and post what holds an absurdly strong interest for me. The amount of work that has gone into this is... mortifying. Anyway, for what it's worth, I give you: My top 100 favorite movies 1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols) 2 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson) 3 All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz) 4 The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor) 5 Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen) 6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) 7 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) 8 His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks) 9 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990, Tom Stoppard) 10 Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze) 11 The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory) 12 Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks) 13 The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey) 14 Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) 15 Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) 16 Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (2001, Pierre Jeunet) 17 The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan) 18 American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) 19 Holiday (1938, George Cukor) 20 The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry) 21 Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson) 22 Dead Again (1991, Kenneth Branagh) 23 Pleasantville (1998, Gary Ross) 24 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson) 25 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen) 26 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (1964, Jaques Demy) 27 The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) 28 Reds (1981, Warren Beatty) 29 Clue (1985, Jonathan Lynn) 30 Howards End (1992, James Ivory) 31 The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner) 32 The African Queen (1951, John Huston) 33 Truly Madly Deeply (1991, Anthony Minghella) 34 The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges) 35 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed) 36 Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola) 37 Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957, Ingmar Bergman) 39 Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack) 40 The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee) 41 Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson) 42 Angels in America (2003, Mike Nichols) 43 Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980, François Truffaut) 45 The American President (1995, Rob Reiner) 46 When Harry Met Sally... (1989, Rob Reiner) 47 I <3 Huckabees (2004, David O. Russell) 48 8 Femmes (2002, François Ozon) 49 Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack) 50 The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir) 51 Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden) 52 Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) 53 Garden State (2004, Zach Braff) 54 12 Angry Men (1957, Sydney Lumet) 55 Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder) 56 Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze) 57 Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton) 58 Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton) 59 Adam's Rib (1949, George Cukor) 60 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuaron) 61 On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan) 62 Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) 63 Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh) 64 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra) 65 JFK (1991, Oliver Stone) 66 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) 67 Wit (2001, Mike Nichols) 68 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957, Ingmar Bergman) 69 Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks) 70 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer) 71 Sleepless in Seattle (1993, Nora Ephron) 72 Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan) 73 American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas) 74 Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton) 75 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen) 76 Antonia (1995, Marlene Gorris) 77 Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis) 78 Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi) 79 Pride and Prejudice (1995, Simon Langton) 80 The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) 81 Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder) 82 Gods and Monsters (1998, Bill Condon) 83 A Room With a View (1985, James Ivory) 84 Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean) 85 Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) 86 Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel) 87 Shrek (2001, Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson) 88 Always (1989, Steven Spielberg) 89 Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes) 90 Housekeeping (1987, Bill Forsyth) 91 Prick Up Your Ears (1987, Stephen Frears) 92 Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) 93 Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson) 94 Beauty and the Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale) 95 The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) 96 Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) 97 Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter) 98 Tadpole (2002, Gary Winick) 99 Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis) 100 Thirteen (2003, Catherine Hardwicke)
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