There's so much
to say about a list like this, that the best thing to do is just shut up
and let the titles do the talking. However, introduction never hurt no one
and I'm dying to mention that these are nothing but MY hundred best films,
MY favorites. Heavy on eighties, steady on nineties, filling up with
noughties, even statistically it makes sense. But all choices are made by
heart and highly personal interests: many women, cheesy romance, lots of
troubled youngsters and soothing childhood sentiment, some search for the
meaning of life and other pretentious masturbation. Physically explicit
films in sweet harmony with mental stimulation. Exciting,
entertaining and calming.
Remarkable:
- No director has more than two titles on the list, six directors
serve double duties.
- Charlie Sheen has three films in the top 64 and he's not among my
favorite actors.
- Wall Street
finally surpasses Platoon
as best Stone movie. I'm officially tired of war.
- Several horror classics were dropped, replaced by a couple of new
ones.
- Action as a genre is represented only by
Die Hard,
but don't forget Hell's
Angels.
- Three and two half Dutch films is just the correct amount and it
came very natural.
- Never quite seem to make it to the top: Eastern Europe, Spain,
Latin America.
- Only three documentaries and two animated movies, let alone black
people.
- My heart has never been politically correct.
- Say Anything...
would be number one if
Untamed Heart
hadn't existed.
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New entries:
- Gross Anatomy
at 98: marks a new wave
of recently discovered eighties hidden gems.
- Creator
at 77: you'd never expect it to be so incredibly complete. Bring
respect and tissues.
- Wendy and Lucy
still needs to ripen a little.
Forbidden Fruit
is already in at 69.
- The Good Life
at 8: best film of the past decade, a potential future number one.
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Menni's All Time Movie Top 100
(scroll down for complete poster wall)
1. Untamed Heart (1993, Tony
Bill)
2. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
3. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
4. You Can't Take it With You (1938, Frank Capra)
5. Zoeken naar Eileen (1987, Rudolf van den Berg)
6. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
7. Brief Encounter (1946, David Lean)
8. The Good Life (2007, Stephen Berra)
9. Il ladro di bambini (Stolen Children, 1992, Gianni Amelio)
10. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
11. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
12. Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle)
13.
E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
14.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
15. Ponette (1996, Jacques Doillon)
16.
Wall Street (1987, Oliver Stone)
17. Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
19. Waterloo Bridge (1940, Mervyn LeRoy)
20. Say Anything... (1989, Cameron Crowe)
21. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
22. The River (He liu, 1997, Ming-liang Tsai)
23. Free Zone (2005, Amos Gitai)
24. Bluebird (2004, Mijke de Jong)
25.
Mask (1985, Peter Bogdanovich)
26. Cannibal Holocaust (1979, Ruggero Deodato)
27. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, Wolfgang Reitherman)
28. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
29. La fille seule (A Single Girl, 1995, Benoît Jacquot)
30.
Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh, 1924, F.W. Murnau)
31.
Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989, Michael
Haneke)
32. About Last Night... (1986, Edward Zwick)
33.
The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
34.
Tromeo & Juliet (1996, Lloyd Kaufman)
35.
Idi i smotri (Come and See, 1985, Elem Klimov)
36.
Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis)
37. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier)
38.
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
39. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
40.
The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
41.
Angel Baby (1995, Michael Rymer)
42. Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)
43. One Fine Spring Day (Bomnaleun ganda, 2001, Jin-Ho Hur)
44.
The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
45. The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
46.
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981, Uli Edel)
47.
This Is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)
48.
The War Zone (1999, Tim Roth)
49. Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
50.
Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
51.
L'atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
52.
Map of the Human Heart (1993, Vincent Ward)
53.
Verboden te Zuchten (2001, Alex Stockman)
54.
Todo Todo Teros (2006, John Torres)
55.
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
56.
Mermaid in a Manhole (Ginî piggu: Manhôru no naka no ningyo,1988, Hideshi Hino)
57.
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
58.
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
59. Keeping the Faith (2000, Edward Norton)
60.
Kissed (1996, Lynne Stopkewich)
61.
Andrey Rublyov (1969, Andrei Tarkovsky)
62. Hell's Angels (1930, Howard Hughes)
63.
Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
64.
Lucas (1986, David Seltzer)
65.
Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love, 1998, Lukas Moodysson)
66.
All the Real Girls (2003, David Gordon Green)
67.
Liar (Deceiver, 1997, Jonas & Josh Pate)
68.
Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie, 1962, Roman Polanski)
69.
Forbidden Fruit (Kielletty hedelmä, 2009, Dome Karukoski)
70.
The Cup (Phörpa, 1999, Khyentse Norbu)
71.
Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
72.
Le frisson des vampires (The Shiver of the Vampires, 1970, Jean
Rollin)
73.
Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
74.
The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)
75.
The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi)
76.
The Driller Killer (1979, Abel Ferrara)
77.
Creator (1985, Ivan Passer)
78.
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
79.
Pelym (1998, Andrzej Klamt & Ulrich Rydzewski)
80.
Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
81.
The Brown Bunny (2003, Vincent Gallo)
82.
The Man in the Moon (1991, Robert Mulligan)
83. Zelig (1983, Woody Allen)
84. Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
85.
Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert & David Maysles)
86. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
87.
Office Space (1999, Mike Judge)
88. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Yuke yuke nidome no shojo, 1969,
Koji Wakamutsu)
89.
Made in Hong Kong (Xianggang zhizao, 1997, Fruit Chan)
90. The Stendhal Syndrome (La sindrome di Stendhal, 1996, Dario
Argento)
91.
Watership Down (1979, Martin Rosen)
92.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995, Darrell Roodt)
93. The Redsin Tower (2006, Fred Vogel)
94. Ad Fundum (1993, Erik Van Looy)
95. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947, Irving Reis)
96. Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
97.
Alucarda (1978, Juan López Moctezuma)
98. Gross Anatomy (1989, Thom Eberhardt)
99.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, Edward D. Wood Jr.)
100.
Ciske de Rat (1984, Guido Pieters)
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