Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The TImes: Top 100 Films

The London TImes released a list of the Top 100 Films. Point Break is 97th and Citizen Kane doesn't make the list. I'm not a fan of Caché (69) or The Piano (67) but I'm glad to see The Life of Brian at 40. I also think it's a little premature to call There Will Be Blood #2. But lists are made to be debated.

I've seen 88 of the film and I've had to add the following 14 films to my Netflix queue:
99 - LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
88 - WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
84 - FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg, 1999)
82 - CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
80 - TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
77 - THE APU TRILOGY (Satyajit Ray, 1956-1959)
56 - WHISKY GALORE! (Alexander Mackendrick, 1949)
45 - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
37 - BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, 1999)
35 - WITHNAIL AND I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
18 - DON'T LOOK NOW (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
7 - KES (Ken Loach, 1969)

4 comments:

Ryan said...

I've seen 7 of the 14 on your TODO list, but I suspect you are ahead of me overall!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad that Shoah made the list. Beats Shindler's List to a pulp.

Howard said...

Even on length :)

Anonymous said...

Think of it as an investment opportunity -
after Shoah, the rest of the Holocaust movies can be safely ignored:)