The 500 greatest movies of all time 200-101
| 195 Cover Movie View Cover It뭩 A Wonderful Life (1946) Director: Frank Capra The ultimate Christmas movie, and Capra뭩 most enduring � even if it was a flop on release. Read Review |
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| 190 Big (1988) Director: Penny Marshall These days, when a Tom Hanks film comes with a) an Academy Award win, b) a 멏irected By Steven Spielberg� credit, and c) Meg Ryan, it뭩 easy to forget what a great comedic actor the man is. And perhaps the standout of his comedy canon is Big, the best �80s body-swap movie, directed by Marshall and written by another Spielberg (sister Anne). Hanks beautifully plays Josh as a kid playing an adult, never losing sight of the childish delights and insecurities of being young. These days, he may specialise in everymen under enormous duress (Cast Away, The Terminal) but here he is deft, light-fingered and ultimately extraordinarily moving. Read Review |
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| 185 Paths Of Glory (1957) Director: Stanley Kubrick With recent events in Iraq, the relevance of Paths Of Glory grows year on year. Kirk Douglas excels as Colonel Dax, defending three soldiers up for court martial, to cover up a military mistake on World War I뭩 Western Front. The film was banned in France until 1975, yet is far more anti-establishment than it is anti-war or anti-France. If unsung Kubrick, it뭩 the first movie to reveal the director뭩 true colours, blessed with a cool, intellectual thrill, spare economical characterisation and precise tracking shots. Cementing Kubrick뭩 relationship with Douglas, it led to him taking over Spartacus, but more importantly, in the small role of 멒erman Singer�, Kubrick found Christiane Harlan, who became his wife up until his death. Sometimes, war is swell. Read Review |
184 Cover Movie View Cover Dirty Harry (1971) Director: Don Siegel The great Clint cop picture, introducing soulless San Francisco dick Harry Callahan, only bearable because the guy he is after is even worse. Features the best badge-tossing since High Noon. Read Review | 183 Le Samourai (1967) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville La Samourai is the figurehead of Melville's career, the story a lone assassin (Alain Delon) whose rigid code is undone by the unforeseen arrival of love. It's a stalwart theme now, but no film has done it so sparely and tragically. | 182 Performance (1970) Director: Donald Cammell, Nic Roeg Roeg and Cammell fused sensibilities as much as gangster James Fox and rocker Mick Jagger do in this acid-tinged freak-out. Read Review | 181 Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970) Director: Russ Meyer Nudie-filmmaker Meyer runs riot with a studio budget, assaulting Jacqueline Susann's trash novel with demented brio and kookily square psychedelia. Read Review | 180 To Kill A Mockingbird(1962) Director: Robert Mulligan A quiet, careful, affecting adaption of Harper Lee's nostalgic novel. Robert Duvall made an unforgettable debut as neighbourhood bogeyman Boo Radley. Read Review | ||||
179 Cover Movie View Cover Toy Story 2 (1999) Director: John Lasseter One of the best sequels ever, it has more action, spotlights fresh new characters while taking the established ones into new territory, and discovers something tragic in a child growing out of toys.Read Review | 178 Hellzapoppin' (1941) Director: H.C. Potter One of the darnedest films ever made, and a template for the who-cares-if-it- makes-sense-so-long-as- it's-funny? mode of comedy. Read Review | 177 City Of God (2002) Director: Fernando Meirelles, K찼tia Lund A confident, complicated epic following decades of criminal life in a Rio de Janeiro favela, this is considerably more than 'the GoodFellas of Brazil'. Read Review | 176 A Canterbury Tale (1944) Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Powell and Pressburger's least-understood, most magical film. Its story may be incoherent and 'unpleasant', but its characters and moods are unforgettable and endlessly mysterious. Read Review | 175 Rushmore (1998) Director: Wes Anderson Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is the sort of kid every school has, but who was hitherto unseen in teen movies - a smart, semi-geeky boy who polarises the school by being at once disturbingly weird and a fashion leader. Read Review |
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173 Memento (2000) Director: Christopher Nolan That rare thing, a truly original thriller. Told backwards, a device which Nolan - already working with dark detectives and conjuring tricks - handles with flair. Read Review |
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| 164 Cover Movie View Cover The Searchers (1956) Director: John Ford John Wayne뭩 magnificent and terrifying obsession is to track down his kidnapped niece. Ford's is to turn the Western into American poetry. Read Review |
| 161 The Year Of Living Dangerously (1982) Director: Peter Weir It뭩 testament to the power of Weir뭩 superior political thriller-romance that it was banned in Indonesia, where its events take place, until 1999. Starring a never-more-dashing Mel Gibson as foreign correspondent Guy Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy official Jill Bryant, it뭩 set during an attempted 1965 coup against the brutal Sukarno regime. Often compared to Costa-Gavras� Missing, released the same year, it brilliantly captures the knife-edge tension of its setting. It is also notable for one of the most extraordinary performances of the �80s � actress Linda Hunt뭩 portrayal of a male Chinese-Australian dwarf named Billy Kwan. It was a role that, quite rightly, won her an Oscar. Read Review |
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158 Unforgiven (1992) Director: Clint Eastwood Clint had been messing with the Western myth since he first chewed a cigar for Sergio Leone, but here he exploded it, his moody, complex masterpiece dealing unblinkingly with the frontier뭩 ugliest, most violent side. Read Review |
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| 150 The French Connection (1971) Director: William Friedkin Based on the infamous drug trafficking case of the same name, Friedkin뭩 electric, documentary-style thriller is a gritty triumph of style and intelligent plotting bolstered by a career-defining turn from Gene Hackman as committed narc Popeye Doyle. Read Review |
149 The Red Shoes (1948) Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, P&P's tale about a woman born to dance and the various tragedies that befall her is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. A true British masterpiece.Read Review |
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143 Cyrano De Bergerac (1991) Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau There뭩 a moment in this sumptuous 17th century swashbuckler that sums up why the doughy-faced G�ard Depardieu is a star and a sex symbol. Blessed with a fierce talent for both war and words, his Cyrano is also cursed with a nose that precedes him by 15 minutes � so he dares not confess his love for the beautiful Roxane (Anne Brochet). After she asks his help to protect the gorgeous boy she loves, and commends his bravery in recently defeating 100 men, as she rushes out, he mutters, 밢h, I뭭e been braver since then,� with such quiet heartbreak in his voice that it뭗 make a stone weep. The story뭩 been told many times � as Steve Martin뭩 Roxanne, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, even Ratatouille � but Rappeneau뭩 epic is the truest take on Edmond Rostand뭩 famous play. It may be melodrama, sweeping rather than creeping in its conclusions, but it뭩 a thing of brash, glorious, poignant emotion. Read Review |
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138 Cool Hand Luke (1967) Director: Stuart Rosenberg While cinema history is chock-full of renegade types who love to buck the system, none are as cool as Luke. Paul Newman at his charismatic, blue-eyed best. Read Review |
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119 The Wages Of Fear (1953) Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Four losers drive trucks loaded with unstable nitro across treacherous jungle roads. It takes a full hour to introduce its characters, before turning the screws unbearingly, twisting round hairpin bends, over rocky ground, and into oil slicks. Read Review | 118 Cover Movie View Cover Withnail And I (1987) Director: Bruce Robinson Truly funny, truly cult: fans can mouth the words of Richard E. Grant뭩 speeches along with him, relishing every viperish turn of phrase and perfectly pronounced curse. A beloved British oddity never repeated. Read Review | 117 Miller's Crossing (1990) Director: Joel and Ethan Coen The Coens in Dashiell Hammett gangster territory, recounting the near-tragedy of an honourable crook undone by a single gesture of mercy. Finney sees off hitmen with a Thompson while smoking a cigar and listening to Danny Boy in a bravura sequence of Coen magic. Read Review | 116 Rio Bravo (1959) Director: Howard Hawks Hawks� Western is at once roundabout � with time-outs for songs and Angie Dickinson in tights � and a model of suspense, as John Wayne, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan hole up in a town jail besieged by the bad hats. Read Review | 115 Blazing Saddles (1974) Director: Mel Brooks Brooks invented scattershot movie parody with this cowboy outrage (we get less grateful everytime a Meet The Spartans or Disaster Movie opens). Highlights: a classic theme song and the Ben-Hur chariot race of flatulence scenes. Read Review | ||||
114 The Conversation (1974) Director: Francis Ford Coppola A Watergate-era analysis of paranoid high-tech eavesdroppers, it뭩 also a great thriller with a clever plot twist and a riveting, underplayed central performance from Gene Hackman. Read Review | 113 Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004) Director: Adam McKay Will Ferrell뭩 breakout vehicle homages the fashion, music and sexual politics of the �70s, with a smarmily self-confident TV newsreader threatened by a female rival. Major plus � it뭩 not about a stupid sport. Read Review | 112 I Am Cuba (1964) Director: Mikhail Kalatozov Russian helmer Kalatozov unsurprisingly reveals the source of Cuba뭩 ache for revolution via a quartet of stories set in Batista뭩 Cuba. Yes, it뭩 Communist propaganda, but also a technical marvel. Read Review | 111 Fitzcarraldo (1982) Director: Werner Herzog A crazed Klaus Kinski brings opera to the jungle � by pulling a steamer over a mountain, obviously. As ambitious, visually stunning and plain old insane as cinema gets, this is Herzog뭩 masterwork. Read Review | 110 Before Sunset (2004) Director: Richard Linklater Before Sunrise, ten years on. Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet again, briefly, getting another chance to talk about love. How many sequels are made for artistic reasons and add meaning, rather than strip it away? Read Review |
| 104 The Rules Of The Game (1939) Director: Jean Renoir Banned on its original release, Renoir's cutting, supremely entertaining dissection of class and love (the title refers to romance, as much as anything) is just about perfect. Pick up the issue for film critic Jonathan Romney's piece on The Wages Of Fear |
103 Rear Window (1954) Director: Alfred Hitchcock A simple technical exercise � making a whole film in one room � is given ballsy bravura by Hitchcock as a terrific James Stewart witnesses a murder through his, um, rear window. Read Review Pick up the issue for our profile on Rear Window actress, Grace Kelly |
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