While I’ve been on the Internet since about 2000, I only truly became involved in the film community in 2005. That year I made my first list of favourite films. It’s rather interesting looking back at it, I had been watching films “seriously” for about 2 or 3 years at this point, and was just beginning to write about film. This is what it looked like:
100. La Grande Seduction (2003)
99. Cape Fear (1962)
98. The Ladykillers (1955)
97. Fantasia (1940)/ Fantasia 2000 (1999)
96. The Secret Garden (1993)
95 Annie Hall (1977)
94 O Brother Where art Thou? (2000)
93 Walk the Line (2005)
92 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
91 Sense and Sensibility (1995)
90 The Apartment (1960)
89 Gone With the Wind (1939)
88 Rebecca (1940)
87 Quills (2000)
86 Lolita (1962)
85 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
84 High Noon (1952)
83 Bonnie and Clyde (1967
82 Holiday (1938)
81 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
80 Duck Soup (1933)
79 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
78 Strangers on a Train (1951)
77 Les Invasions Barbares
76 Rebel Without a Cause
75. The Great Escape (1963)
74 The Others (2001)
73 North By Northwest (1959)
72 Young Frankenstein (1974)
71 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
70 The Kid (1921)
69 My Man Godfrey (1936)
68 A Shot in the Dark
67. Hurt
66 Psycho
65. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
64.The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
63 The Misfits (1961)
62 2001: A Space Odyssey
61 Buffalo 66’
60 Goodfellas
59. 12 Angry Men (1957)
58. Blade Runner (1982)
57. Amadeus (1984)
56. Gaslight (1944)
55. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
54. The Great Dictator (1940)
53 The Lady from Shanghai
52 Metropolis (1927)
51 Libeled Lady
50. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
49. Arsenic and Old Lace
48 The Big Sleep (1946)
47. Taxi Driver
46. Almost Famous
45. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
44. Sleeping Beauty
43. The Awful Truth
42. Spirited Away
41 The Philadelphia Story (1940)
40 Laura
39. The Exorcist (1973)
38. Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-rabbit/ Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave/ The Wrong Trousers/ A Grand Day Out
37.M (1931)
36.Wuthering Heights (1939)
35.Vertigo
34.Ed Wood
33.The Thin Man (series)
32.The Public Enemy (1931)
31.Double Indemnity
30.Cool Hand Luke
29.Modern Times
28.Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
27.Gladiator
26.The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
25.Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
24.About a Boy
23.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
22.It Happened One Night (1934)
21.The General (1927)
20.Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
19.Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
18.The Circus (1928)
17.Stalag 17 (1953)
16.Rear Window
15.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14.Paths of Glory (1957)
13. All About Eve (1950)
12.Casablanca (1942)
11.8 ½ (1963)
10.Notorious (1946)
9.It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
8.White Heat (1949)
7.Sunset Blvd. (1950)
6.Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to love the Bomb (1964)
5.The Good the bad and the Ugly (1966)
4.The Night of the Hunter (1955)
3.Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2.Some Like it Hot (1959)
1. City Lights (1931)
