100 Movies, Part 1
I felt challenged by hallowchaser to make a list of my 100 Fave Movies. It took me two or three days, but I finally came up with a list that contains the 100 movies I'd take with me in case of a lonely island sabbatical. Only rule was not to take any movie from 2012* since we often tend to over- or undervaluate movies we've recently seen (many of my Top 5 movies of the past years didn't make the cut while some initially lower-placed did). The list still heavily emphasizes the past twenty years, but I guess that was to be expected since those are the movies I tend to associate with certain personal memories.
So, here it is, the mammoth list of my 100 Fave Movies... right now.
PART 1: 1924 - 1990
Sherlock Junior (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, 1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, 1940)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Bambi (David Hand, 1942)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Day The Day Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson, 1981)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner, 1982)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
Nothing Lasts Forever (Tom Schiller, 1984)
Top Secret! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, 1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986)
Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1989)
Gremlins 2 - The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
The rest will follow soon...
*For what it's worth, so far the strongest contenders from 2012 are The Avengers, Moonrise Kingdom and Chronicle.
So, here it is, the mammoth list of my 100 Fave Movies... right now.
PART 1: 1924 - 1990
Sherlock Junior (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, 1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, 1940)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Bambi (David Hand, 1942)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Day The Day Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson, 1981)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner, 1982)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
Nothing Lasts Forever (Tom Schiller, 1984)
Top Secret! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, 1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986)
Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1989)
Gremlins 2 - The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
The rest will follow soon...
*For what it's worth, so far the strongest contenders from 2012 are The Avengers, Moonrise Kingdom and Chronicle.