The next film on our list is the Wes Anderson comedy Rushmore, starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray. Despite my suspicion and almost universal dislike of hipsters, I have to admit to liking both Wes Anderson and his films. So there it is.
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Hey guys. So while I was finishing up my 50th review, it made me think. This is a list of the Top 1000 movies of all time. I'm not even sure if I've even seen 1000 movies in my lifetime. I mean, I probably have, but who knows?
I return from my Thanksgiving vacation to watch the most American of films from the most American of filmmakers. The next film on our list is Strike (or Stachka, for the commie bastard segment of my audience). It's the first full length film of Sergei Eisenstein, a revolutionary Soviet filmmaker responsible for what we pretentious film historians refer to as the Soviet Montage.
I just got home from watching The Muppets, starring Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and the Muppet gang. My reaction?
Our next movie is Spirited Away, a 2001 animated film from famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki. It is the first anime film to win an Oscar, and it earns a spot at #439 on our list.
My next review is on a film called Shane, which is a 1953 western starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur. It's the story of a mysterious stranger who comes in and helps some folk stand up to the nasty cattle ranchers who are trying to take over their land. It is placed at #266, something which makes me momentarily question the validity of this list.
The next movie we're watching is A Trip to the Moon (or Le Voyage dans la lune, if you're of the French persuasion), a 1902 science fiction film by Georges Melies. This is the oldest movie on our list by far, and it's sort of Point A in film history. The old girl scores #465 on our list.
Next we'll be watching The Manchurian Candidate, a 1960s political thriller guaranteed to make you suspicious of anyone and everyone...particularly well-bred looking yuppie types with a vacant look in their eye. It clocks in at #367 on our list.
The next film we'll be watching is Sullivan's Travels, a 1941 comedy about a director who takes himself far too seriously and needs a good dose of reality. I am unfazed, as this accurately describes every director I've ever worked with. Regardless, it earns a position of #136 on our venerable list.
Moving on to our next movie, American Graffiti. This 1973 coming of age film stars Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss, and comes in at #460 on the almighty list.
No, it's OK, no one have a heart attack. Green Lantern is not on the Top 1000 list, so we all don't need to weep for the future of filmmaking. The boyfriend had me watch it this weekend and I thought What the hell, why not post my thoughts? So without further ado:
This is something that's been floating around in my head for a while. I love Top Whatever lists, and I've been wanting to do one on here. These may not all be movies that came out while I was a kid, but they're certainly the films that dominated my VCR during my formative years. Prepare yourselves for nostalgia overload.
So without further ado...
The Top 30 Movies of My Childhood
Onward to Gunga Din, a 1939 RKO adventure film starring Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, chronicling the triumph of British soldiers over Indian natives. Yay! It comes in at #718 on our list.
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The next movie on our list is Sugar Cane Alley, a 1983 French film about a young, poor boy growing up in Martinique, and his grandmother who is determined that he won't end up working in the sugar cane fields. It's ranked at 797 on the Top 1000 list.
The next movie, which clocks in at #818 on our list, is a 1925 silent film starring John Gilbert as a spoiled rich boy who fights in World War I. Being as familiar as I am with the Great War, I anticipate this being a barrel of laughs. Just kidding. It's probably going to be really depressing. Cheers!
Moving on to the next film on our list, this is Jane Campion's Oscar-winning film The Piano. I have been told that this is an erotic film (to tell the truth, I was told that by Sally from Coupling) and I've also been made aware that Harvey Keitel is one of the two leads. I am having a hard time reconciling these two facts.
As we all know, November 5th is a very important day in history.
No, not because of Guy Fawkes. Please. I thought the whole reason we fought the Revolutionary War was so that we officially no longer had to care about British Parliament?
Today is a special day in the history of science. Specifically, time travel. Because November 5th, 1955 is the day when this little baby was invented.
Which is, as we all know, what makes time travel possible. So from time travelers everywhere, we want to thank Dr Emmett Brown for his many accomplishments.
Today, we salute you.
Come join me as I watch Broken Blossoms, one of DW Griffith's desperate attempts to prove to the world that he wasn't racist after 1915's Birth of a Nation (also on this list).
You just...keep working on that, buddy. You'll get there someday.
The next movie we'll be watching is the flawed but underrated AI: Artificial Intelligence. A Stanley Kubrick/Steven Spielberg collaboration, this film comes in at #732 on our list.
The next film is the famous cautionary tale of not letting your boss use your apartment to shag loads of women, especially not if one of the women you happen to be in love with. Although now that I've written all that out, it seems a lot less like a cautionary take and more like common sense. Regardless, this is The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, and it clocks in at #58 on our list.
The next film on our list comes to us straight from 1957 Poland. Kanał (thanks to Smileyman, I now have an "ł") just manages a place on the list at #989. This film details the Warsaw Uprising (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), a major operation that the Polish resistance Home Army launched to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis, only to be brutally suppressed. I anticipate this film to be uplifting, and in no way depressing enough to make me want to throw myself out of a window.
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