역대 위대한 영화500 (300-201) - 엠파이어선정

The 500 greatest movies of all time 300-201 

300 Sawdust And Tinsel (1953) Director: Ingmar Bergman Through the structure of a travelling circus, Bergman preoccupies himself with the torments of marital jealousy � how a partner뭩 sexual past can cast shadows on the present. The Swedish auteur rather living up to his mordant clich�... 299 The Palm Beach Story (1942) Director: Preston Sturges This bit of screwball Sturges magic concerns itself with marital fidelity beneath the lure of money. An improbable inspiration for Indecent Proposal.Read Review 298 Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Melville, that beloved master of French noir, delivers a morally murky crime story of honour among poker-faced thieves, and corruption among hardened cops. Read Review 297 It Happened One Night (1934) Director: Frank Capra Another justly celebrated Capra fable has snappy heiress Claudette Colbert, on the run from her cosseted life, hit it off with cynical reporter Clark Gable in search of just this kind of story. Read Review 296 All The President뭩 Men (1976) Director: Alan J. Pakula The Watergate scandal told with razor-sharp intelligence from the perspective of Woodward and Bernstein (realised via the opposing styles of Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford) � arguably the best film about the Fourth Estate. Read Review

295 The Untouchables (1987) Director: Brian De Palma Made with all of De Palma뭩 stylistic brio, but anchored by David Mamet뭩 steely script, this is the gangster epic as comic-book fable. Read Review

294 The Red Balloon (1956) Director: Albert Lamorisse  One of the world뭩 most famous shorts, echoing Jean-Pierre Jeunet뭩 fairy-tale style, as a small boy is strangely pursued by the balloon he뭩 forced to abandon. 293 La Maman Et La Putain(1973) Director: Jean Eustache Navel-gazing Parisian types puff on Gauloises in murky caf� while taking the Freudian route through life � falling in and out of their complex love lives. If it sounds irritating, it뭩 actually lovely.Read Review

292 La Belle Et La B�e (1946) Director: Jean Cocteau Perhaps anticipating his adult audience뭩 suspicion of a fairy-tale adaptation, poet/artist/director Jean Cocteau opens his surreal (in the true sense) take on the Beauty And The Beast fable with a reasonable enough request: 밒 ask of you a little childlike simplicity.� If that seems unnecessary to modern viewers long-familiar with Burton, Gilliam or indeed Disney뭩 smarter output (including its own version of the story, which owes much to this), consider that Cocteau was addressing a populace only recently liberated from Nazi rule in a country devastated by war. Of course, La Belle Et La B�e itself is neither childlike nor simple. Cocteau뭩 fairy-tale world is rendered with baroque opulence (a young Pierre Cardin worked on the costumes) and breathes a creepy, nightmarish atmosphere. Ingenious trick-shots conjure such unsettling wonders as self-lighting hand-candles and eye-rolling statues � then there뭩 the lionesque Beast himself (the astonishing Jean Marais), whose hands eerily smoke when he뭩 drawn blood. It also tingles with sexual energy throughout, packed with enough hints and winks to have made even Dr. Freud himself blush. Certainly not one for all the family.Read Review

291 Rocco And His Brothers(1960) Director: Luchino Visconti Italian neo-realism a-go-go as a widow and her petty brood try to eek out a new life in Milan. If low on orderly plot, it bursts with rich characters and turbulent emotions. Read Review 290 Rashomon (1950) Director: Akira Kurosawa Unforgettable samurai-era memory games from the Japanese master as a crime is replayed from five different viewpoints. Read Review

289 John Carpenter뭩 The Thing (1982) Director: John Carpenter Perhaps it was Carpenter뭩 fusion of sci-fi and horror, or Rob Bottin뭩 body-shock FX, or spiky Kurt Russell, or the prediction of the AIDS epidemic in the alien virus plotline, but this remake gets in your head and never budges. Read Review		288 Cover Movie View Cover Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Director: Robert Zemeckis A technical marvel, but we just love it for putting Daffy and Donald in the same scene... Read Review		287 Secrets And Lies (1996) Director: Mike Leigh Leigh뭩 adoption drama is full of native wit (밳ou뭭e got a face like a slapped arse�), great performances (especially Brenda Blethyn), and a touching sense of the ebb and flow of real life. Read Review		286 L묨vventura (1960) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni The ultimate arthouse flick. A couple go in search of a missing girl, but the mystery becomes an excuse to explore alienation, cracking psyches and barren landscapes in slow, striking images. Masterful.		285 Solaris (1972) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Like Event Horizon, Solaris sees a space station crew go doolally with hallucinations. Unlike Event Horizon, it is painfully slow, beautiful, and perhaps the closet sci-fi cinema has come to the profundity of sci-fi literature. Read Review
284 Cover Movie View Cover Scarface (1983) Director: Brian De Palma De Palma뭩 hymn to gangster excess (violence, swearing, white suits) is taken to even further heights by Pacino on barnstorming form. It is also the de rigueur favourite film of any premiership footballer. Read Review		283 Ran (1985) Director: Akira Kurosawa AK does The Bard뭩 King Lear (with sons rather than daughters) with some of the director뭩 greatest battle sequences, but also delivers a telling meditation on loyalty, revenge, power and war. Read Review		282 The Godfather Part III(1990) Director: Francis Ford Coppola The much-derided Corleone threequel finds its way onto the list, perhaps through residual love for the first two. Still, it뭩 a lot better than you remember it. Especially Andy Garcia. Read Review		281 Interview With The Vampire (1994) Director: Neil Jordan Anne Rice뭩 vampire chronicles get the A-list treatment, with Tom and Brad as bickering bloodsuckers. Sexy, gory, voluptuous and strangely hypnotic. Best thing in it: a very young Kirsten Dunst. Read Review		280 Cover Movie View Cover Mad Max 2 (1982) Director: George Miller The Road Warrior (the much cooler US title) makes the first movie look like CBeebies, boasting truly white-knuckle carmageddon. And forget about Riggs � Rockatansky is Gibbo뭩 finest creation. Read Review

279 National Lampoon뭩 Animal House (1978) Director: John Landis The gross-out comedy, but still with a keen sense of satire for US campus rituals. Let뭩 face it: this is why toga parties, food fights and road trips are so damned attractive. Read Review 278 Carlito뭩 Way (1993) Director: Brian De Palma Pacino shines as the eponymous ex-con, De Palma mounts another terrific railway station set-piece and David Koepp뭩 script throws such cool lines as, "You think you뭨e big-time? You뭨e gonna die big-time!"

277 On The Town (1949) Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Sailors on 24-hour shore leave. The pursuit of a pin-up girl. New York in the �40s. If On The Town isn뭪 the most famous musical, it is perhaps the most archetypal. Created by the musical gal�ticos (Kelly, Donen, Sinatra, Bernstein), the classic premise is embroidered with great numbers (New York, New York, Prehistoric Man, the title song), ballsy innovation (it was the first musical to partly shoot on location) and some of the most muscular, inventive choreography ever committed to celluloid � in Ann Miller, Kelly found that rare thing: a dancer who could match him step for step. Between the songs Kelly makes the central romance affecting, Betty Comden and Adolph Green뭩 script sparkles (밆id you see The Lost Weekend?� 밳es, I뭢 living through it!�), and forget New York � the whole thing has enough energy to get to the moon. And back. Read Review

276 Layer Cake (2004) Director: Matthew Vaughn The film that made the Brit gangster genre respectable once more turned the world on to Daniel Craig, who plays its nameless drug dealer, and marked Matthew Vaughn as a cinematic talent beyond the producer뭩 chair. All that, and Sienna at her sexiest. Read Review 275 My Neighbour Totoro(1988) Director: Hayao Miyazaki Two girls move to the country and have magical encounters with wondrous forest sprites. Miyazaki in genteel and languid mode, but deeper and without the familiarity factor of Spirited Away.

274 Sin City (2005) Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller Forget Chaucer � this Miller뭩 tale is black and white but blood-red all over, as his bone-crunching, boner-inducing, morally bankrupt hyper-noir universe is realised like a comic book at 24fps. Read Review

273 The Maltese Falcon (1941) Director: John Huston Huston뭩 first film as a director and still his best, in which Bogart뭩 Sam Spade slaps dames, cracks wise and solves crimes in a plot that is gloriously unfathomable. Read Review

272 The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970) Director: Dario Argento Features a gloved murderer, kinky sex, lurid colours, politics and a great set-piece involving a glass cage. Vintage Argento, then. 271 Pee-Wee뭩 Big Adventure (1985) Director: Tim Burton Burton뭩 debut is a Bicycle Thieves for the �80s, as Paul Reubens� man-child quests for his missing bike. A live-action, eye-popping cartoon.Read Review 270 The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) Director: Cristi Puiu If Die Hard has explosions, this Romanian masterpiece has faltering bureaucracy and stomach pains, as a dying OAP is refused admittance to numerous Bucharest hospitals. Black, bleakly funny, brilliantly Kafkaesque.Read Review 269 A Place In The Sun (1951) Director: George Stevens Not the Channel 4 foreign property show but George Stevens� character study of the American male in meltdown (a superb, poignant Montgomery Clift), underpinned with masterly filmmaking control. Read Review 268 The Lady Vanishes (1938) Director: Alfred Hitchcock An old dear goes missing onboard a Balkan Express, setting in motion cinema뭩 greatest railway romp. Making the most ridiculous plot engaging, Hitchcock has rarely been more blissfully entertaining. Read Review

267 Crimes And Misdemeanors(1989) Director: Woody Allen Woody's best since his Manhattan heyday, it's a sophisticated, ambitious, dark meditation on murder and guilt that still manages to be uproariously funny. To wit: "A strange man... defecated on my sister." "Why?" Read Review 266 Ghost World (2001) Director: Terry Zwigoff A zero-degree take on twisted adolescence, as oddball girls Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson enter the big, wide world. Blackly comic, it's a saving grace for freaks and geeks everywhere. Read Review

265 A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Director: Steven Spielberg Spielberg channelling Stanley Kubrick does Pinocchio in a dystopian future. A challenging hybrid of sentiment and wonder (SS) and coldness and perversity (SK). Perhaps the most fascinating film of Spielberg's career. Read Review

264 American Graffiti (1973) Director: George Lucas Lucas' love letter to cruising, rock 'n' roll and growing up is the first and best Four Friends At A Crossroads movie. Warm, funny, wise, and light years away from Star Wars. Read Review 263 Das Boot (1981) Director: Wolfgang Petersen The most claustrophobic film on this list, charting the adventures of German U-boat U-96. A superbly crafted exercise in nerve-shredding tension, compelling characterisation and the minutiae of submarine life.Read Review

262 The Virgin Suicides (1999) Director: Sofia Coppola Debutante Coppola뭩 retelling of Jeffrey Eugenides� novel � five sisters engage in a suicide pact � is the perfect calling card for her dreamy, lyrical style. Great Air score, too. Read Review

261 Roman Holiday (1953) Director: William Wyler The movie that gave the world Audrey Hepburn, this charming tale of a European royal going AWOL in Rome and falling for Gregory Peck is invested with maximum magic. Read Review

260 Field Of Dreams (1989) Director: Phil Alden Robinson A beguiling, Capra-esque baseball fantasy that gets its sentiment just right, anchored by Kevin Costner on top form. If you build it, we will come. And cry buckets. Read Review 259 Groundhog Day (1993) Director: Harold Ramis The greatest high-concept comedy of the modern era. Ramis, Bill Murray and co. mine the simple idea of having to repeat a single day over and over for all it뭩 worth. "People are morons." Read Review

258 Cover Movie View Cover The Blues Brothers (1980) Director: John Landis The best in rhythm and blues meets the best in spectacular car-crash action meets the best in cult sunglass-wearing characters. Read Review Pick up the issue for Philip Wilding's track-by-track breakdown of the Blues Brothers soundtrack

257 The Black Cat (1934) Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Two of horror뭩 most looming icons, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, united for this post-World War I commentary wrapped in a cloak of terror. 256 Le Quai Des Brumes (1938) Director: Marcel Carn� So pervading is the gloom in Carn�s chronicle of a doomed French army deserter that he was partly blamed for France failing to fight occupation during the war. Read Review 255 Ninotchka (1939) Director: Ernst Lubitsch "Garbo laughs," said the tag of this rom-com. And it was the relaxing of her usually haughty fa�de that made this cement an icon. Read Review 254 The Verdict (1982) Director: Sidney Lumet Lumet뭩 return to the courtroom works as a companion to 12 Angry Men. Where the first simmered, this releases all the tension in bombastic trial scenes, played with gusto by Paul Newman Read Review 253 First Blood (1982) Director: Ted Kotcheff Before Rambo became about gore and sport with goat carcasses, it was a portrait of a man who only knows how to be a warrior, even when nobody wants one. Read Review

252 The Leopard (1963) Director: Luchino Visconti It뭩 tempting to wonder how Visconti뭩 epic masterpiece might have turned out had Laurence Olivier, the director뭩 first choice of leading man, met with his producers� approval. Probably no better than it already does, which is to pay an enormous compliment to Burt Lancaster who, against all expectations, brings a wealth of dignity and pathos to the title role of Prince Don Fabrizio Salina, a Sicilian aristocrat and patriarch striving to preserve his family뭩 prosperity in the face of approaching revolution and the impending death of the old order. Not all the plaudits belong to Lancaster, of course. Visconti뭩 direction is as ambitious and visually inspired as ever, particularly in the 45-minute ballroom scene that acts as the film뭩 elegiac coda. Read Review

251 Darling (1965) Director: John Schlesinger This bitchy Julie Christie vehicle flagged up the shallowness of celebrity long before Paris Hilton. Read Review 249 My Darling Clementine(1946) Director: John Ford Ford뭩 take on Wyatt Earp � with Henry Fonda as the legendary Tombstone sheriff � is unapologetically poetic, concerning itself less with the O. K. Corral than Earp뭩 friendship/rivalry with Victor Mature뭩 Doc Read Review

250 Sunrise (1927) Director: F. W. Murnau A standard potboiler about a man pushed to bump off his wife by a seductress is elevated to dreamlike intensity by the visual brilliance of Murnau.Read Review 248 Pandora뭩 Box (1929) Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst Even if you don뭪 know the film, you뭠l know the image of pouting, bob-haired Louise Brooks. This story of a doomed woman is a symphony of style.Read Review

247 All That Jazz (1979) Director: Bob Fosse Fosse was one of the most exciting talents in musicals, and this is none more Fosse, giddy with invention and taking as many liberties with the genre as Moulin Rouge!.Read Review 246 The Philadelphia Story(1940) Director: George Cukor The quintessential movie 몋hey don뭪 make anymore�. Can you imagine three better people for a love triangle than Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart? Even if you think you can, you can뭪. Read Review

245 Downfall (2004) Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel With his feature debut, the shocking Das Experiment, German director Hirschbiegel arrived as the European filmmaker to get excited about. Not one to steer clear of controversy, implicitly Das Experiment was about the rise of the Nazis, and for his next trick he went the whole hog � depicting Hitler뭩 final days in his Berlin bunker, the F�rer tipped into a hyperbolic frenzy by the fall of his kingdom. Giving evil a human face, Hirschbiegel dares us even to sympathise with the collapsing Reich. That is, until you see Frau Goebbels icily poison her own children. It makes Hirschbiegel뭩 crash-and-burn in Hollywood � The Invasion � all the more galling. Read Review

244 Dazed And Confused (1993) Director: Richard Linklater The plot, such as it is, concerns the last day of school in 1976 Texas, but it뭩 Richard Linklater뭩 capturing of teenage hang-ups that gives this eternally likable film 멵ult classic� status. Read Review 243 Heimat (1984) Director: Edgar Reitz The running time is 924 minutes. It takes that long to tell the story of 20th century Germany through one family drama. Part One was said to be one of Kubrick뭩 favourite films � you won뭪 be bored. You might, however, need the toilet. Read Review

242 Cover Movie View Cover King Kong (1933) Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack A pioneer in special effects, it's also an argument that effects don뭪 matter. Yes, the ape is clearly, to the modern eye, a crudely animated doll, but you뭨e too convinced by Kong as a character to notice.Read Review		241 Brighton Rock (1947) Director: John Boulting If you think of Richard Attenborough as that avuncular white-bearded gent, watch him in this seedy adaptation of Graham Greene뭩 novel about a two-bit crim going to dastardly lengths to conceal a murder. Genuinely terrifying. Read Review		240 Forrest Gump (1994) Director: Robert Zemeckis One man뭩 heartwarmer is another man뭩 schmaltz, but it뭩 impossible to deny the craft on show in Zemeckis� story of a simpleton who can뭪 help but succeed. Read Review		239 Cinema Paradiso (1988) Director: Giuseppe Tornatore This sauntering chronicle of a boy뭩 love for cinema and a local projectionist should quiver the lip of any true-blue movie-lover, particularly in its montage of banned kisses. And then the wonderful ending should leave you a wreck. Read Review		238 Requiem For A Dream(2000) Director: Darren Aronofsky If Pi showed that Aronofsky was full of ideas, his follow-up showed we didn뭪 know the half of it, with the director뭩 toy-box of technical tricks providing the film뭩 big buzz amid a gripping pessimism.Read Review
237 Delicatessen (1991) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro Jeunet and Caro are, of course, very odd, but their attention to detail in this tale of love and cannibalism is wonderful. Like Terry Gilliam with more heart and a brighter palette. Read Review		236 Black Narcissus (1947) Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The plot concerns a group of nuns in the Himalayas, toiling against cold forces without and lusty forces within, but it뭩 the images that make this essential. Astonishing visual storytelling. Read Review		235 Battle Royale (2000) Director: Kinji Fukasaku Schoolkids wearing explosive collars forced to fight to the death? Fukasaku뭩 pic is a forceful comment on adolescent alienation. Read Review		234 The Bourne Ultimatum(2007) Director: Paul Greengrass If you watch the third in the Bourne trilogy closely, you뭠l notice that Paul Greengrass never stops the action to tell the story. The action tells the story. Now that is popcorn filmmaking. Read Review		233 Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) Director: Steven Spielberg Considered a lesser Indy, the sequel still has bags to recommend it. The opening is the best of the trilogy � and Indy actually wins in this one.Read Review

232 Cover Movie View Cover Jurassic Park (1993) Director: Steven Spielberg Sod the effects. Groundbreaking as ILM뭩 dinosaur work might be, it would matter little if Spielberg hadn뭪 engineered a fearsomely tense, white-knuckle ride around Isla Nublar뭩 main attractions.Read Review

231 Cover Movie View Cover Shaun Of The Dead (2004) Director: Edgar Wright It뭩 rare for a comedy horror to be both funny and frightening, but Edgar Wright managed it in his wildly popular debut. A British film that shows we뭭e got far more than bonnets and gangsters to offer the world. Read Review

230 Howl뭩 Moving Castle(2004) Director: Hayao Miyazaki A surprising Miyazaki to have in the list, given those that didn뭪 make it. But even second-tier Miyazaki outdoes most other animation, and the mysticism of Diana Wynne Jones� novel perfectly fits the director뭩 dream logic. Read Review 228 No Country For Old Men(2007) Director: Joel and Ethan Coen A ruthlessly efficient thriller, and proof that no-one makes crime movies quite like the Coens. How many other directors could make an assassin in a Delia Smith wig terrifying? Read Review

229 Festen (1998) Director: Thomas Vinterberg The Dogme manifesto is perfectly applied in this lean story of dark family accusations at dinner. Stripping everything back to its bare bones pulls focus onto the smallest action. Read Review 227 Cover Movie View Cover L�n (1994) Director: Luc Besson Familiar territory for Besson, but made into something special due to a certain child performance... Read Review

226 Romeo + Juliet (1996) Director: Baz Luhrmann It뭩 clear that generations have been immunised against Shakespeare in dull English lessons, given that this dizzily paced romantic epic is the only Shakespeare on the list (Ran doesn뭪 use the Bard뭩 dialogue, even in translation). It clearly takes a lot to get people past that prejudice, but, by recolouring the action in Mexican kitsch and filming with the frantic energy of infatuation, Luhrmann managed it. He made Shakespeare cool, reminding us that this is a story about teens in love, defying their parents and picking fights. His interpretation opened the way for Shakespeare productions both more faithful to the original text and more outrageous in their staging. Perhaps for our next list, people will allow another couple of the Bard뭩 works into the fold Read Review

225 Cover Movie View Cover Get Carter (1971) Director: Mike Hodges Bleak and brutal, the iconic and archetypal Brit-grit thriller retains a grubby authenticity. Michael Caine shows admirably little regard for his image, playing an anti-hero who뭩 the epitome of hateful cool. Read Review 224 Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Director: Terence Davies Sounds like kitchen-sink miserablism, but Davies� autobiographical tale of family life in �50s Liverpool is unmatched in its visual lyricism � with a ferocious performance from Pete Postlethwaite. 223 Safe (1995) Director: Todd Haynes Julianne Moore is a woman who could be allergic to her environment... Safe isn뭪 just about her condition, though; with themes of loneliness, dissatisfaction and fear of the modern world, it뭩 about ours. Read Review 222 Mother And Son (1997) Director: Aleksandr Sokurov A Russian cine-poem meditating on maternal love, the transience of existence and the bonds of time. Stuck between Animal House and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut on most critics� lists. Read Review 221 McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) Director: Robert Altman So unconcerned with Western tropes of glamour, excitement and gunfights, and yet one of the most engaging portraits of frontier life on celluloid... You뭭e embraced Altman뭩 America. Read Review

220 Far From Heaven (2002) Director: Todd Haynes Best appreciated by admirers of Douglas Sirk뭩 �50s melodramas, Haynes� homage is more explicit but still emotional: a story of repression, desire and hope for fractured lives. Read Review

219 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Director: Clint Eastwood It뭩 not hard to argue this is Clint뭩 finest behind-camera work; we뭨e just surprised many of his movies didn뭪 make the 500. Here, Eastwood makes his 멝an With No Name� persona truly human, while offering (he says unintentional) involving critique on Vietnam. Read Review 218 Mr. Hulot뭩 Holiday (1953) Director: Jacques Tati Like Mr. Bean뭩 Holiday. But in French. And without Rowan Atkinson. And it뭩 really funny. Okay, not like Mr Bean뭩 Holiday at all. Except it has holiday in the title; give us that.Read Review

217 The Magnificent Seven (1960) Director: John Sturges Can you remember all seven? Really? Get a piece of paper and write them down. You will get six, unless you cheat. Go on, do it. Write in if we뭨e wrong. Read Review 216 Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Director: John Schlesinger Charting the end of an unconventional affair � Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson are in love with the same man � Schlesinger뭩 picture is gently tragic: an uncompromising vision of compromised lives. 215 Jackie Brown (1997) Director: Quentin Tarantino Underrated on release, QT뭩 third has aged beautifully � appropriate given its characters are facing middle age, regret and last chances.Read Review 214 Army Of Shadows (1969) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Melville recounts everyday heroism and horrors in a unique World War II thriller. Feels true because it is. Read Review 213 Songs From The Second Floor (2000) Director: Roy Andersson A critics� favourite four years in the making and virtually impossible to describe, though 몊lapstick Ingmar Bergman� comes close... Can you imagine such a thing? No? Then go see it for yourself.

212 M (1931) Director: Fritz Lang A German city is terrorised by Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a pudgy young man who compulsively whistles Grieg뭩 Hall Of The Mountain King as he approaches the children he murders (and, it is implied, molests). Fritz Lang뭩 first sound film is an incredibly influential psycho-thriller, establishing conventions still used by serial- killer movies as it intercuts the murderer뭩 pathetic life with the investigation of his outrages. While Lorre provides a horribly sympathetic focus for the film, Lang shows how his crimes affect the entire city � even prompting professional criminals to track him like an animal through the streets after Beckert draws an inconvenient police presence.

211 Moulin Rouge! (2001) Director: Baz Luhrmann A whirligig of song, dance and romance. The skill with which Luhrmann stitches together bizarre but effective cover versions of pop classics is extraordinary; the shock is still the way that Kidman and McGregor anchor the theatricality with emotion. Read Review

210 Cover Movie View Cover Platoon (1986) Director: Oliver Stone Born out of his own experience, Stone뭩 searing expos� of the Vietnam War remains the most authentic picture to come out of the conflict. "Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it." Read Review 209 Local Hero (1983) Director: Bill Forsyth The theme of capitalism versus community means Forsyth뭩 flick retains its relevance today, while the talented ensemble cast never let quirks overcome their characters, ensuring this small-town comedy is charming without being twee. Read Review 208 The Departed (2006) Director: Martin Scorsese Remakes are often infernal affairs � this one literally so, smartly casting Jack Nicholson as a mobster Mephistopheles in a picture that finally snagged Scorsese an overdue Oscar. Your votes prove it wasn뭪 purely a sentiment-driven award, though. Read Review 207 The Misfits (1961) Director: John Huston Perhaps a surprise inclusion, given it뭩 not generally considered Huston뭩 best picture, but holds a place in hearts as the final film of both romantic leads: Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. Read Review 206 Cover Movie View Cover The Exorcist (1973) Director: William Friedkin Obviously here because it뭩 a brooding meditation on faith, fear and the challenges of child-rearing... Not because of the whole unfortunate onanism-with-a-crucifix incident. Or the extreme profanity. Or the pea soup... No. Read Review 205 The Addiction (1995) Director: Abel Ferrara Christopher Walken is a vampire; vein-draining is a drug metaphor; Abel Ferrara is an art-house and exploitation auteur. Read Review 204 The Bride Of Frankenstein(1935) Director: James Whale Boris Karloff returns as 멦he Monster� in Whale뭩 expressionism-inflected horror: as iconic and distinctive as its anti-heroine뭩 lightning-streaked hair, and way better than the original. Read Review 203 Life Of Brian (1979) Director: Terry Jones The Pythons originally intended to skewer Christianity � until they read the gospels and decided "we have no quarrel with Mr. Christ". Their second feature actually eviscerates religious bigotry and hypocrisy. And is funny as hell. Read Review 202 The Killer (1989) Director: John Woo Action at its most extravagant and impactful, triggering an Eastern influence on Hollywood. Apologies, but Empire is legally obliged to note its spectacular "bullet ballets". Read Review 201 JFK (1991) Director: Oliver Stone Stone뭩 dissection of the assassination that scarred the 20th century feels nutritious but never didactic. The "magic bullet" monologue � delivered masterfully by Kevin Costner � obliterates the Warren Commission. Conspiracy? You better believe it. Read Review