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