As for the amount of movies I’ve watched, I have mostly Netflix and Blockbuster Online to thank. Plus, my freshman year of college when I was in Florida, the school library had 1000s of DVDs and literally almost every film in the Criterion collection all at my disposal for free. Oh, and I also worked at a movie store in high school, so that helped too.

Questio btw - I am just going to watch Once Upon A Time in the West, upon Kurt’s recommendation and it’s my first Western (proper western anyway). i was just wondering - what language is it in? I’m a little confused as imdb has the language as Italian and the director etc is Italian. But the actors are American I believe and there is no Italian language option on the dvd I have.

I think that’s a pretty decent list there. Even though they’re all fairly recent, they’re all also great films. The only one I thought was a little suspect was Batman Begins at #11. Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie, but #11 of all time?

And adding American Psycho on there? Yes! Awesome movie. The business card scene is one of the greatest of all time.

Anyway here is the list I sent in and if you think Jonathan’s needed more variation and that he needed to see more - his is NOTHING compared to the amount I have seen. Remember I’me most likely one of the youngest contributors so go easy (Now remember this isn’t my personal top 100, just what I sent in for the OFC)

100) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
99) Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
98) Platoon (Stone, 1986)
97) Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
96) Glengarry Glenn Ross (Foley, 1992)
95) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005)
94) Misery (Reiner, 1990)
93) Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
92) True Romance (Scott, 1993)
91) Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2002)
90) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998)
89) Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006)
88) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
87) Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000)
86) Casino (Scorsese, 1995)
85) Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
84) Departed, The (Scorsese, 2006)
83) JFK (Stone, 1991)
82) This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
81) Prestige, The (Nolan, 2006)
80) Heat (Mann, 1995)
79) L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
78) Batman (Burton, 1989)
77) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998)
76) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)
75) Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
74) Desperado (Rodriguez, 1995)
73) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (McKay, 2004)
72) A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)
71) Sin City (Miller/Rodriguez, 2005)
70) Bourne Identity, The (Liman, 2002)
69) Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
68) American Pyscho (Harron, 2000)
67) 40 Year Old Virgin, The (Apatow, 2005)
66) Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
65) Silence of the Lambs, The (Demme, 1991)
64) Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
63) Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
62) Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
61) Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)
60) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
59) Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
58) Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
57) Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
56) Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
55) Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)
54) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1992)
53) 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002)
52) Crash (Haggis, 2004)
51) Descent, The (Marshall, 2005)
50) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
49) Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
48) Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton/Faris, 2006)
47) Training Day (Fuqua, 2001)
46) Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
45) United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
44) Office Space (Judge, 1999)
43) V for Vendetta (McTeigue, 2005)
42) Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, 2002)
41) Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
40) Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
39) Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
38) Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
37) 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
36) Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
35) Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
34) Leon (Besson, 1994)
33) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
32) Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
31) Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
30) Truman Show, The (Weir, 1998)
29) Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
28) Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
27) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971)
26) Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
25) Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)
24) Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
23) Requiem for a Dream (Aranofsky, 2000)
22) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
21) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
20) Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter, 1986)
19) Snatch (Ritchie, 2000)
18) City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
17) Matrix, The (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999)
16) Oldboy (Park, 2003)
15) Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
14) Beetlejuice (Burton, 1988)
13) Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2004)
12) Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005)
11) Usual Suspects, The (Singer, 1995)
10) Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
9) Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
8) Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
7) American History X (Kaye, 1998)
6) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
5) Memento (Nolan, 2000)
4) Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
3) Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
2) Donnie Darko (R. Kelly, 2001)
1) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
2. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
4. Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982)
5. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
6. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
7. Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974)
8. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenburg, 1967)
9. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
11. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
12. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
13. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Ford, 1962)
14. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
15. Great Silence, The (Corbucci, 1968)
16. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
18. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
19. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
20. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
21. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
22. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
23. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
24. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
25. Elephant Man, The (Lynch, 1980)
26. City of Lost Children, The (Jeunet, 1995)
27. Hud, (Ritt, 1963)
28. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
29. Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
30. Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
31. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
32. Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967)
33. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)
34. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
35. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Inagaki, 1954)
36. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
37. Deer Hunter, The (Cimino,1978)
38. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
39. Hustler, The (Rossen, 1961)
40. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
41. Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
42. Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
43. For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)
44. Leon (Besson, 1994)
45. Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
46. Harvey (Koster, 1950)
47. Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
48. Long Good Friday, The (Mackenzie, 1980)
49. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, (1979)
50. Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
51. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
52. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
53. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
54. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
55. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
56. Man Who Would be King, The (Huston, 1975)
57. Heat (Mann, 1995)
58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
59. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
60. Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000))
61. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg,1987
62. Ox-Bow Incident, The (Wellman, 1943)
63. High Noon (Zinneman, 1952)
64. Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
65. Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
66. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
67. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
68. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
69. American History X (Kaye, 1998)
70. King of Comedy, The (Scorsese, 1983)
71. Sting, The (Hill, 1973)
72. Goldfinger (Hamilton, 1964)
73. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
74. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
75. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
76. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
77. Delicatessen (Jeunet, 1991)
78. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
79. Departed, The (Scorsese, 2006)
80. Proposition, The (Hillcoat, 2005)
81. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
82. Chaplin (Attenborough, 1992)
83. Killing, The (Kubrick, 1956)
84. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
85. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
86. Last of the Mohicans, The (Mann, 1992)
87. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, 1988)
88. Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
89. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
90. M (Lang, 1931)
91. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
92. Army of Darkness (Raimi, 1992)
93. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
94. City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
95. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
96. After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
97. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
98. Verdict, The (Lumet, 1982)
99. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
100. Big Sleep, The (Hawks, 1946)

Yet to see 36 movies on that list. 60% strike rate not too bad. Can’t be bothered to list ‘em. Most of them are movies made before 1960, so getting an opportunity to see them was a problem. But DVD has changed that so I hope to catch up with them sometime.

I have a lot of problems with the list, like everyone else with every other list of any kind, but overall I’m happy with the way it turned out.

Andrew, I recommend Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Third Man, The Searchers, and The Bicycle Thief with an unbelievable amount of enthusiasm. Seriously, they’re all serious must-sees (Mr. Smith is in my top 20 of all-time, while they other three are all in my Top 50).

Lastly, I’m going to come back and post my Top 100 here a little later, because after seeing everyone else’s, I feel like I understand their “film personality” a little more (does that make sense?) and I think maybe somebody out there might find mine interesting. Probably not, but maybe!

P.S. The movies on the list I haven’t seen that I’m making a priority now:

95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
91. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
68. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
67. Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
62. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004)
60. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
59. The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)

I actually have copies of 8 1/2 and Aguirre sitting here in my room, just waiting to be watched. Hopefully I’ll get to them within the next week.

On the topic of the list, I almost wish we had been given criteria. For some reason I got it in my head that a lot of people would be going with the whole importance to cinema but from the list there are indeed a lot of guitly pleasure type movies. I don’t think it makes the list bad but if I had known that I would have probably voted with more foreign and more older movies.

What I would almost like to see, which would be too much work and really hard to accomplish would be for the community to get together and actually look at the list and argue out why things are too high or too low and then come up with a consensus not based just on a vote. I think that would be the only way of getting something a bit more along the lines of what everyone involved truly feels.

Again, love the idea.

John and Ross - I can’t recommend Cinema Paradiso highly enough. It is a great film ABOUT the greatness and love of film. I ADORE it . BUT… there are two versions of the film. I think they are both on the same disc. Watch the one that is edited (or the shorter version). It is edited for a reason and the full version changes the entire feel of the film for the worse. On the discussion boards on IMDb, everyone talks about how they saw the director’s cut and ended up not liking the movie as much. I’ve seen both and I totally agree.

Ross - My only other HIGH recommendation of the ones you haven’t seen (I haven’t seen some of those either) would be Dr Strangelove. Kubrick rules. (but you still haven’t seen Contact - Do so).

Seven Samurai - I never actually watched the film with dialogue. I turned on the subtitles (since it’s in Japanese anyway) and watched the whole thing on the Criterion version of the DVD with the Japanese film historian commentary track. It was FASCINATING. I could still follow the story because I was reading what the characters were saying, but the film historian taught me a lot of shit I didn’t know before.

Just for fun, here’re the ones I have NOT seen from the final top 100 (I guess it’s 14):

92 Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
91 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
89 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
86 Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
85 Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
84 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
72 Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
59 General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58 Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
48 Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
42 Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
29 Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
22 It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)

I will have seen all these by year’s end though (except Wonderful Life - at this point I just don’t care and I know the story anyway).

Here is the list of ones I haven’t seen yet.

29. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
40. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
42. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
43. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
48. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
53. M (Lang, 1931)
58. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
59. General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
60. Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
68. Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
72. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
73. Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
77. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
84. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
91. 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
92. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
98. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
99. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
100. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

I actually just received Conversation in the mail (along with Page Turner) and I’m finally going to get off my ass and go pick up Raging Bull today. I might grab Cinema Pariso also. I’ve seen it around both around for 10 bucks and been meaning to get them.

I’ve only just finished the Sunshine part of the podcast and I really enjoyed it and I’d really like to thank Kurt for mentioning that he was was going to spoil Solaris. I just bought it a week ago and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet so I pulled my earphones out for a minute or two and I missed the spoilers.

I actually liked the fact that you had a non spoiler version last week and a spoiler one this week. That way we get to hear you two gab about the movie without the spoilers first and then if we want we can hear the spoilered version afterwards.

I also like that you ended up with Miller’s Crossing on your list but I still think its a better movie than Fargo but thats just me.

Films like Gerry, Killer of Sheep, The Servant or Seconds all come to mind.

Yeah I am not all about pure entertainment you know. There are films that I absolutely LOVE TO DEATH that are anything BUT entertainment. Some that are difficult to watch but I watch them anyway because of how technically great they are.

You’re right though in a few years I will probably look back and wonder how the hell some of those films made it onto my list and how I could have taken so long to see the true cinema masterpieces.

Glad to hear that this list is already having an effect of broadening horizons. Keep an open mind while treading into the cinematic past. And 10 years of that, you will probably look back at your Top 100 list and smile at how ‘quaint’ it was. I do that every year I update my list and how my taste have changed via exposure to the world of cinema.

Cheers. And Happy Viewing, although many of those films on that list require some heavy amount of viewer work and are not entertaining in the conventional sense of the word! Best of Luck to ya! Once Upon A Time in the West is a treat, there is darn good reason why it was my #1 film for the OFC voting list!

The reason I was excited mainly to tune into this weeks show is to listen to the discussion about the OFC Top 100. You guys were talking about people who contributed to the list posting the number of films they hadn’t seen. Kurt you said a couple and Andrew I believe you said “13″. Well you guys are gonna be shocked at the amount of the film in the final list I haven’t seen. Are you ready for it?…………..a WHOPPING 47!. I know you guys will probably now want to claim you have never taken anything to do with me now. Here is the films I haven’t seen:

100) Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
99) Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
98) On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
95) His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
92) Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
91) 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
89) 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
88) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
86) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
85) Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
84) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
83) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
82) Manchurian Candidate, The (Frankenheimer, 1962)
80) North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
79) King Kong (Cooper/Shoedsack, 1933)
78) Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
77) Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
75) Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
73) Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
72) Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
71) Graduate, The (Nichols, 1967)
70) Network (Lumet, 1976)
68) Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
67) Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
60) Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
59) General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
58) Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
57) Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
55) 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
53) M (Lang, 1931)
51) Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
50) Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
48) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
44) E.T. (Spielberg, 1982)
43) Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
42) Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
41) Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
39) Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
37) Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
32) Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
29) Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
24) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
22) It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
20) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
19) Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
7) Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
5) Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
3) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick,1964)
2) Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Don’t worry hopefully by years end I will have seen all of those above. So I can’t really comment on A LOT of the films. Oh btw Kurt you will be pleased to know I am about to venture into the Western genre, remember I mentioned a few months ago in one of my post about the best movies of the genres that I haven’t seen any? Well I have seen Three Burials of Melquidas Estrada and The Proposition but to split hairs here it isn’t really a WESTERN a proper western s such. Well Kurt YOU in particular be glad to know that I bought Once Upon A Time In The West and that will be my very first, “proper” venture into the western genre. I probably will post a review on here once I see it.