Thursday, March 10, 2011

F This Movie!'s 100th Post!

Today marks the 100th POST on F This Movie! To celebrate, here's a list of 100 awesome movies that remind us why we love movies. Thanks to everyone for listening and reading! Here's to 100 more posts! Or maybe 110! We'll see. Don't get crazy.

Click the 'read more' link below to see the list. It's something new we're trying. Don't get crazy.



1. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
2. Adaptation (Spike Jonez, 2002)
3. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
4. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
5. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
6. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
8. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
9. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
10. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
11. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
12. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
13. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
14. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
15. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2009)
16. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
17. Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973)
18. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
19. Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
20. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
21. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
22. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
23. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
24 Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975)
25. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
26. Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
27. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
28. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931)
29. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
30. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1993)
31. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
32. Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)
33. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
34. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
35. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
36. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
37. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
38. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
39. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
40. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
41. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
42. Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
43. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
44. House of Games (David Mamet, 1987)
45. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
46. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
47. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
48. Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1989)
49. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
50. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach, 1995)
51. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
52. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
53.  Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
54. The Masque of Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
55. Matinee (Joe Dante, 1993)
56. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
57. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
58. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
59. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
60. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
61. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
62. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974)
63. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
64. Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller, 1953)
65. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen, et. al.)
66. Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
67. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
68. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
69. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
70. River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986)
71. The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1982)
72. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
73. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
74. Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe, 1989)
75. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
76. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
77. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
78. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
79. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986)
80. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
81. Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984)
82. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
83. Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
84. The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner, 1989)
85. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
86. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
87. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
88. Three Kings (David O. Russell, 1999)
89. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin, 1985)
90. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
91. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
92. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
93. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1982)
94. The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953)
95. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
96. Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001)
97. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
98. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
99. Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan, 1997)
100. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

5 comments:

  1. Only one from my boy Akira? A good one but I would swap it for Ikiru or Stray Dog or High and Low. But it is the best of his color films by far. Love the list though!

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  2. Great list! And I learned a lot. For instance, I never knew that the "insider's" nickname for "Citizen Kane" was "Coffy."

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  3. Thanks! Actually, the "insider's" nickname for Citizen Kane is Touch of Evil. I learned a lot, too! Like that there's more than 100 good movies.

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  4. Hate to say this (being an A-dult and all) but I've seen a number of these types of lists and it seems that if it's animated it doesn't belong on a top 100 list. Groundbreaking and Great can go hand in hand - like in the 1937 Disney Classic Snow White, Although when it comes to content and story I prefer and 1940 Pinocchio. Or how about some of the Pixar classics like Cars (just keeeeding) - but you cannot deny Toy Story (the original) would be able to be squeezed in to a top 100. I mean, you've got Zodiac and Watchman for Chrissakes! And what's the deal with just one Buster Keaton!?!?!....just sayin' t's'all.

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  5. Thanks, Tom. Again, this is not a best 100 movies of all time list. It's just 100 movies that are great or interesting or worth seeing or that I love. If I did another 100, I'm sure there would be a couple of Pixar movies (like The Incredibles or one of the first two Toy Story Movies) and some classic Disney (I actually really like Sleeping Beauty). It's also limited to just one movie per director; otherwise, it could easily have just been a list of 10 different movies from 10 different movies from 10 different directors. Which might be a good list, too.

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