Time Magazine's 100 All-Time Best Movies

[loopydate]

Just found this list in the IMDB news section. Some unusual choices. They didn't rank them, but here are Time Magazine's 100 favorite movies in alphabetical order:

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

They also list their five favorite guilty pleasures:

There's Something About Mary
Anatomy of a Murder
Gun Crazy
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Joe Versus the Volcano

Their five favorite performances:

Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
James Cagney, White Heat
Faye Dunaway, Chinatown
Cary Grant, Notorious
Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity

And both of their contributing critics listed their five favorite soundtracks:

Richard Schickel's List
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Citizen Kane
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Laura
On the Waterfront

Richard Corliss' List
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO
The Man With the Golden Arm
Jules et Jim
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Roja

Kind of an interesting list. You can find it (plus all of their descriptions/justifcations for their picks) at http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/.

Let the debating begin.

[Disturbed316]

I've heard about 5 of those.

[V]

sad that only 5 (technically 7) are from this decade

[loopydate]

I know that a lot of really great movies were made before 1950, but you have to wonder if a lot of those movies wind up on those lists because it makes the critics look "cultured."

And even then, they left off one of the all-time great films (let alone one of the greats of the pre-1950 years) in "Gone With The Wind."

[What Would Kevin Do?]

This list is trying real hard to be artsy. Looks like crap to me though.

[OssMan]

Purple Rose of Cairo LOL

[OssMan]

Wow I have seen like 14 of those. I dunno they left out a ton of really good ones and what is the deal with finding nemo

[Champion of Europa]

I know that a lot of really great movies were made before 1950, but you have to wonder if a lot of those movies wind up on those lists because it makes the critics look "cultured."

And even then, they left off one of the all-time great films (let alone one of the greats of the pre-1950 years) in "Gone With The Wind."

Gone with the Wind is mad overrated. The only scene I really liked was the burning of Atlanta.

By the way, Aguirre. :heart:

[el fregadero]

A Hard Day's Night... that shitty Beatles "movie"?

[Lara Emily]

Purple Rose of Cairo LOL
It`s actually an awesome movie but not top 100 material.

[Boondock Saint]

Err, some of those are questionable. Finding Nemo? The Fly? A Hard Days Night (although I love it) ? If you're going to put odd titles on there, put something like Back to the Future or Ghostbusters (two incredibly solid movies in their own right). No Braveheart? M? Rebel Without a Cause?

Nice to see the Apu Trilogy, Double Indemnity, Miller's Crossing, 400 Blows, In A Lonely Place, and City of God on there.

Overall an interesting list. Lots I haven't seen, lots I have. Some odd choices.

[Boondock Saint]

Wild Strawberries should be on there.

[Esoteric]

tight city of god is on there and so is taxi driver and a streetcar named desire the one thing that threw me off was that finding nemo is on the list

[OssMan]

It`s actually an awesome movie but not top 100 material.
I dunno I thought it was real boring, like dont remember anything happening in it

[Gouda]

The Man With a Movie Camera is terrible. Puts me right to sleep it does.

[Funky Fly]

Some good stuff on there, lots of shit I've never heard of and some weird choices. Also, what is the deal with no Shawshank Redemption?

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Barry Lyndon is on there but A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket are not. Get the fuck out of here, Time.

[Savio]

I've seen 4 of those.

[Gouda]

I've seen 12 of those. Most of them from film class.

[KillerWolf]

that list is bullshit, and fuck those critics that came up with it.

the crow
braveheart
gladiator
saving private ryan
the green mile
tombstone
platoon
born on the 4th of july
slingblade
scarface
the matrix
L.A. confidential
terminator 2

[Champion of Europa]

They never said their list was definitive. Its mostly to inspire debate. Movies are objective.

[Funky Fly]

Scarface and The Matrix were not that good.

[KillerWolf]

Scarface and The Matrix were not that good.
i'm not even saying that i like them (i do like them), i'm just saying that they should be included in any list of all time greatest movies.

oh yeah, and Unforgiven.

[FakeLaser]

Harry and the Hendersons (1985)

[El Capitano Gatisto]

They never said their list was definitive. Its mostly to inspire debate. Movies are objective.
Objective is the opposite to subjective.

[Dave Youell]

I've seen 25 of those. Some fucking weird ones that i've never heard off there though

[Champion of Europa]

Objective is the opposite to subjective.

I'm a fool.

[The Miz]

Man this list blows

[Danny Electric]

Harry and the Hendersons (1985)

lol

I think Toxic Avenger should be on there. :shifty:

[CYCLOPTERSAURUS]

Finding Nemo? Christ...ridiculous.

[House of Pancakes]

where is apocalypse now? and 2001: a space odyssey?

[weather vane]

at least Goodfellas was on there, fuck

[Loose Cannon]

lol, nice way to pick real movies Time :roll:

[The Cerebral Assassin]

Why the fuck do they always overlook Gojira (1954)?

That film contains one of the best anti-atomic bomb messages of all time. It's a beautiful piece of art.

[YOUR Hero]

trying too hard.

[Myles]

where is apocalypse now? and 2001: a space odyssey?

Yea, and Suspects...

[BlackDawn2024]

God, what a snotty list. Time is trying way too hard to sound like they know what the fuck they're talking about. I see Citizen Kane on every list just because it'll make them look cool. You know what? Fuck Citizen Kane. Fuck Lord Of The Rings. And fuck the Godfather.

[Lotus]

Probably about 5 of those movies would make my Top 100, which I hope to post sometime this summer.

[el fregadero]

BlackDawn is there anything you do like?

[el fregadero]

Scarface and The Matrix were not that good.
I'll agree on the Scarface bit, but the original Matrix was sweet as fuck. Probably my most watched movie.

[House of Pancakes]

maybe they're not trying to act like they know what they're talking about and actually do know their movies quite well. most of us are young and haven't had the opportunity to catch all of the older movies that had such an impact on film-making. just because modern stuff like the matrix and the terminator aren't on the list doesn't make it pretentious, because most of the movies suggested in this thread should be nowhere near the best one hundred films ever made.

[House of Pancakes]

Yea, and Suspects...

no.

[el fregadero]

It's a list, just because you watch alot of movies doesn't mean you know what's "good", because that is different for every person.

But seriously, it's a terrible list.