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100. F For Fake
99. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
98. Even Dwarfs Started Small
97. Goodfellas
96. Rushmore
95. L.A. Confidential
94. Super Troopers
93. Planet of the Apes
92. Sherman�s March
91. The Great Escape
90. The Wizard of Oz
89. Princess Mononoke
88. Pulp Fiction
87. The Sweet Smell of Success
86. Pickup on South Street
85. City of God
84. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
83. Bridge on the River Kwai
82. The Science of Sleep
81. Fight Club
80. Beetle Juice
79. The Good the Bad & the Ugly
78. The Bicycle Thief
77. the Up! Series
76. L�on
75. Chinatown
74. Ichi the Killer
73. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
72. The Manchurian Candidate
71. American History X
70. Barton Fink
69. Dead Man
68. Dumb & Dumber
67. Army of Darkness
66. Raising Arizona
65. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
64. Psycho
63. Baraka
62. Twelve Monkeys
61. Terminator 2
60. A Christmas Story
59. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
58. The Exterminating Angel
57. Seven Samurai
56. Eraserhead
55. Alien
54. Amadeus
53. The Exorcist
52. Wages of Fear
51. For a Few Dollars More
50. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
49. Los Olvidados
48. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
47. Spaceballs
46. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
45. American Psycho
44. Fargo
43. Don�t Look Back
42. Clue
41. Paths of Glory
40. Sneakers
39. The Big Lebowski
38. Groundhog Day
37. Annie Hall
36. Die Hard
35. Back to the Future
34. The Princess Bride
33. Raise the Red Lantern
32. The Fog of War
31. l�Avventura
30. Ferris Beuller�s Day Off
29. Aliens
28. The Godfather
27. The Shawshank Redemption
26. The Thin Red Line
25. The Godfather Part II
24. Darwin�s Nightmare
23. Fanny & Alexander
22. The Abyss
21. O Brother Where Art Thou?
20. Cool Hand Luke
19. Patton
18. Citizen Kane
17. Star Wars: A New Hope
16. Full Metal Jacket
15. Finding Nemo
14. The Shining
13. The Silence of the Lambs
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo�s Nest
10. Fast Cheap & Out of Control
9. The Jerk
8. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
7. Jaws
6. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Aguirre: the Wrath of God
2. Lawrence of Arabia
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Reviews
The Smell of Burning Ants (1994)
Fascinating look at coming of age
Rosenblatt takes an avant garde approach to telling the anguish a young boy experiences growing up in the city. Confronting sexuality, masculinity, and self-worth, the narrative is formed entirely by stock footage, and Rosenblatt ingeniously weaves his story through editing and sound. The film is a unique and thought-provoking experience.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
All substance lost in a sea of exhibitionism.
I had been anticipating A.I. for quite some time, and I could not wait to see how Steven Spielberg, a very talented and imaginative director would handle a screen-story that was to be made by the late genius Stanley Kubrick. I went in with an open mind and good outlook on what I was about to see
I was let down. What I ended up seeing was a rather poor film which fell flat on all levels, in my opinion. I was very much intrigued by the ideas and characters presented in A.I. Having read the short story upon which the film is based, I thought it was a very interesting concept derived from such a simple basis. The question of the essence and veracity of love. The statement on human nature and the existence of emotion outside of the mind. The idea of the journey of self discovery of a robot, experiencing human emotions outside of humanity. All of this was very intriguing and, in me, sparked much thought. But why did I not like this movie? Because it was told completely wrong. Although I was being pleasantly surprised by many of the discoveries and people found on David's journey, I kept feeling led astray from the real truth of the story. And the end part of the film was appalling. There too many abrupt changes and the obvious, gratuitous images and "explanations" found throughout the ending segments really destroyed the essence of the film. But what really bothered me was the final steps in the plot itself. I do not want to reveal anything, but the conclusion of the film left me feeling neither happy nor upset, and that the end of David's journey was a disgustingly contrived finish-line to a story which I realized never really took me anywhere or led me to an affective conclusion. I realized that Mr. Spielberg had spelled-out the simple themes of this film, and stamped everything with over-obvious images and reduced the script to a almost juvenile sci-fi story. All of the essence and theme was lost in the terrible presentation. Why didn't this work? Why did a Spielberg-made Kubrick-film fall flat on all emotional, visceral, and philosophical levels? Because all of Spielberg's best films were impressive because of images. Even his most acclaimed work Schindler's List was powerful in what it showed, not through a sub-surface theme. Kubrick's films were successes in that there was always, at the least, an underlying tone or voice to what was being shown. Kubrick kept the story telling simplistic and ambiguous so that the viewer could retrieve a message from what he or she was seeing. While Spielberg would present something which could not be questioned or interpreted but merely witnessed. Now, Spielberg is an amazing director and effective storyteller to be sure, but transferring a story with underlying Kubrick themes into a very aesthetic Spielberg movie does not work. A.I. is not a terrible film. It has a lot of imagination and fascination to it, but it's story was reduced to a science fiction pornography by the film's conclusion. Overall, I was disappointed.