Time Magazine All-Time 100 Movies
You can see the list here. It isn't ranked in any particular order.
It would be easy to pick the list apart, naming all the movies that should have been on the list but weren't, i.e., No Wizard of Oz?
Instead, I've got another take on it.
Films I'm pleasantly surprised to see on the list:
- Day for Night (1973): One of the sweetest, best Truffaut films.
- Pinocchio (1940): Still my all-time fave Disney cartoon.
- Ninotchka (1939): A remarkably good film, even after 65 years. Also a film that is part of the funniest Billy Wilder story, ever...(below the fold).
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Judy! What's not to like? Also the film that originated what I believe is the best Christmas song ever, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
- Miller's Crossing (1990): Best of the best -- the Coen Brothers at the top of their game....OK, except for maybe The Big Lebowski.
- Barry Lyndon (1975): People still remember this? Wow. Of course, I did see it twice, on successive days, no less. But among the Top 100?
- The Fly (1986): Other than Alien, probably the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. But among the Top 100?
- Finding Nemo (2003): Better than The Lion King? Beauty and the Beast? No way.
- Star Wars (1977): Oh, please.
- Brazil (1985): What a mess -- it was like the aftermath of an explosion in the screenplay factory. And/but it contained one of the weirdest (and, yes, funniest) bits of dialog I've ever heard:
Sam (Jonathan Price): Remember me to Alison and the twins.
Jack (Michael Palin): Triplets.
Sam: Triplets? God, how time flies.
The funniest Billy Wilder story, ever...
Wilder: "I'll tell you my best story, which has something to do with previews.
"We were previewing Ninotchka, and Lubitsch took the writers along too, in Long Beach.
"And they are outside in the lobby there, a stack of cards, with the audience invited to put down their thoughts.
"So the picture starts playing, and it plays very well.
"Now Lubitsch takes the cards, a heap of the cards, doesn't let anybody else touch them. We get into the big MGM limousine.
"We turn the light up. Now, so, he takes the preview cards and he starts reading. "Very good...brilliant ..." Twenty cards.
"But when he comes to the 21st card, he starts laughing as hard as I ever saw him laugh, and we say, "What is it?" He keeps the cards to himself; he does not let anybody even look. Then, finally, he calms down a little and starts reading.
"And what he read was -- I have the card -- 'Funniest picture I ever saw. So funny that I peed in my girlfriend's hand.' "
Heh.
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