My Top 100 Films

Honorable Mention: The Manchurian Candidate

100: The Last Waltz
99: Sleepers
98: The Fortune Cookie
97: Crash
96: The Royal Tennenbaums
95: Singles
94: Seabiscuit
93: Once Upon a Time in the West
92: The Life Aquatic
91: Duck Soup
90: Garden State
89: Mystic River
88: Brazil
87: A Priarie Home Companion
86: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
85: J.F.K.
84: The Graduate
83: Bull Durham
82: Reservoir Dogs
81: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
80: Fargo
79: Edward Scissorhands
78: The Deer Hunter
77: Stalag 17
76: Brick
75: Sin City
74: Ed Wood
73: Sabrina
72: Heat
71: Schindler’s List
70: Raiders of the Lost Ark
69: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
68: Hannah and her Sisters
67: Anatomy of a Murder
66: Cape Fear
65: The Night of the Hunter
64:Being John Malkovich
63: Adaptation
62: The Shawshank Redemption
61: United 93
60: Office Space
59: Blade Runner
58: Beauty and the Beast
57: In Good Company
56: The Fisher King
55: El Laberinto del Fauno
54: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

53: The Big Lebowski
52: Annie Hall
51: The Shinning


50: Red River
49: L.A. Confidential
48: The Departed
47: Big Fish
46: Paper Moon
45: The Grapes of Wrath
44: The Usual Suspects
43: Glengarry Glen Ross
42: Terms of Endearment
41: The Natural
40: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
39: Dark City
38: Rushmore
37: This Old Cub
36: Lost in Translation

35: Chinatown
34: The Godfather
33: Sideways
32: Million Dollar Baby
31: The Malteese Falcon
30: Double Indemnity
29: Some Like it Hot
28: Rear Window
27: Nashville
26: The Searchers
25: On the Waterfront
24: It’s a Wonderful Life
23: Vanilla Sky
22: Goodfellas
21: Raging Bull
20: Unforgiven
19: Elizabethtown
18: Jerry Maguire
17: Vertigo
16: High Fidelity
15: To Kill A Mockingbird
14: Wonder Boys
13: … Say Anything …
12: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
11: The Star Wars Trilogy
10: American Beauty
9: Sunset Blvd.
8: The Wizard of Oz
7: Dr. Strangelove
6: Network
5: Citizen Kane
4: Pulp Fiction
3: Casablanca
2: Almost Famous
1: The Apartment

Nashville

"Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville! Let's show them what we're made of. Come on everybody, sing! Somebody, sing!"

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is simply one of film's greatest achivements. Combining improisation, drama, and comedy to forge Altman's best and most un- forgettable movie expeirience.

The rotating plot centers around the city of Nashville, TN. the country music capital of the world. A mysterious van campagining for politician Hal Phillip Walker circulates the city spouting off campagin promises. The unseen Walker is trying to win cannidacy for the U.S. Presidancy. He belongs to the newly formed "Replacement Party".

Of the many plot threads, my personal favorites were:

• the tale of Barbra Jean (Ronee Blakely), a country queen who just suffered a mental break down. She is also idolized by a solider (Scott Glenn) who trots along like a loyal puppy.
• Linnea Reese (Lilly Tomlin) the choral singer and mother of two deaf children, who shacks up with music sensation Tom (Keith Carridine), a womanizer.
• Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), a man who brings his neice, Marthe (Shelly Duvall), to care for his dying wife. She cares more about celebrities, (including Tom, who she also shacks up with), then her dying aunt. Green also rents a room out to a mysterious stranger (David Hayward).
• And finally Haven Hamilton, (Henry Gibson), an egotistical, aging, S.O.B. of a country star.

All mentioned above do splendid work, especially Wynn, there are some heart-breaking scenes in the hospital, where his wife stays.

For the climactic assasination scene, Altman knows not to underscore the scene with music, but with crowds, camera movements, faces and cutting. Altman is a master he makes you know why in that scene alone.

Grade: A+

MovieDude

#20 in my top 50 films of all time!

MY Top 50 Films of All Time

The time has finally come... I must release with no tossups, no ties and no finality an ever-changing list of my choices for the top 50 films ever. Some choices may be obvious (Strangelove, Vertigo, Rear Window)some scandalous (Kane at #39, This Old Cub, all the Cameron Crowe), but for better or worse here it is:

50: Red River

49: L.A. Confidential

48: The Departed

47: Big Fish

46: Paper Moon

45: The Grapes of Wrath

44: The Usual Suspects

43: Glengarry Glen Ross

42: Terms of Endearmen

t41: The Natural

40: Monty Python and the Holy Grai

l39: Dark City

38: Rushmore

37: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

36: This Old Cub

35: Chinatown

34: The Godfather

33: Sideways

32: Million Dollar Baby

31: Lost in Translation

30: Double Indemnity

29: Some Like it Hot

28: Rear Window

27: Nashville

26: The Searchers

25: On the Waterfront

24: It’s a Wonderful Life

23: Vanilla Sky

22: Goodfellas

21: Raging Bull

20: Unforgiven

19: Elizabethtown

18: Jerry Maguire

17: Vertigo

16: High Fidelity

15: To Kill A Mockingbird

14: Wonder Boys

13: … Say Anything …

12: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

11: The Star Wars Trilogy

10: American Beauty

9: Sunset Blvd.

8: The Wizard of Oz

7: Dr. Strangelove

6: Network

5: Citizen Kane

4: Pulp Fiction

3: Casablanca

2: Almost Famous

1: The Apartment