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Paul Notley's Top 300 Movies In Order Paul can often be reached at pnotley@hotmail.com. 1. Yellow Submarine 2. Help! 3. The Confession 4. Murder on the Orient Express 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey 6. The Godfather, Part II 7. Shoah 8. The Godfather 9. Casablanca 10. North by Northwest 11. The Sorrow and the Pity 12. Brazil 13. Vertigo 14. Grand Illusion 15. Andrei Rublev 16. A Night at the Opera 17. A Fish Called Wanda 18. The Wizard of Oz 19. Fanny and Alexander 20. Barry Lyndon 21. Chinatown 22. Richard III (Ian McKellan version) 23. All the President's Men 24. Splash 25. Matilda 26. Schindler's List 27. A Man for all Seasons 28. Pink Floyd: the Wall 29. Lawrence of Arabia 30. The Red Tent 31. Apocalypse Now 32. The Wages of Fear 33. Tess 34. A Man Escaped 35. The Pianist 36. Gandhi 37. Aliens 38. The Usual Suspects 39. Angel Heart 40. The Seven Samurai 41. Cries and Whispers 42. Ordet 43. JFK 44. Spirited Away 45. The Leopard 46. Love and Death 47. Alice in Wonderland (Disney version) 48. Top Hat 49. His Girl Friday 50. Singin' in the Rain 51. Duck Soup 52. A Hard Day's Night 53. Bringing up Baby 54. Time Regained 55. Pather Panchali 56. Persona 57. The Sting 58. Around the World in 80 days (Michael Todd version) 59. After the Thin Man 60. Se7en 61. Rope 62. Russian Ark 63. The Band Wagon 64. Twelve Monkeys 65. A Very Long Engagement 66. A Night to Remember 67. The Great Escape 68. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 69. C'est la Vie 70. 12 Angry Men 71. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 72. The Conversation 73. Ivan the Terrible, Part One 74. Magnolia 75. Sunset Blvd 76. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 77. Badlands 78. The River (by Jean Renoir) 79. Delicatessen 80. Raiders of the Lost Ark 81. Goodfellas 82. Pulp Fiction 83. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version) 84. The Shining 85. The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring 86. L.A. Confidential 87. Bram Stoker's Dracula 88. The Thin Man 89. The World of Apu 90. Death on the Nile 91. Oliver! 92. Tora, Tora, Tora 93. Children of Paradise 94. A.I. 95. Solaris (original version) 96. The Earrings of Madame De 97. Miracle in Milan 98. Annie Hall 99. Reversal of Fortune 100. The Rules of the Game 101. Last Year in Marienbad 102. Manhattan 103. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 104. Aladdin 105. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut 106. The Man who would be King 107. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 108. Groundhog Day 109. The Manchurian Candidate 110. The Night of the Hunter 111. Voyage in Italy 112. Two for the Road 113. The Vanishing (original version, of course) 114. Jacob's Ladder 115. That's Entertainment! 116. Requiem for a Dream 117. Once upon a Time in the West 118. Throne of Blood 119. Reservoir Dogs 120. The Flight of the Phoenix (original version, of course) 121. The Man with Two Brains 122. That's Entertainment, Part II 123. Umberto D 124. The Empire Strikes Back 125. The Matrix 126. Jaws 127. The Princess Bride 128. Bound 129. Fitzcarraldo 130. Fantasia 131. Airplane! 132. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 133. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser 134. Saving Private Ryan 135. The Crying Game 136. The Passion of Joan of Arc 137. The Seventh Seal 138. A Woman Under the Influence 139. Paris, Texas 140. The Mirror (by Andrei Tarkovsky) 141. Born on the Fourth of July 142. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew 143. Au Hasard Baltazar 144. Charulata 145. Diary of a Country Priest 146. Mulholland Drive 147. Dead Man 148. Touch of Evil 149. Death in Venice 150. M 151. The Philadelphia Story 152. Double Indemnity 153. Missing 154. Black Narcissus 155. Pinocchio 156. Hotel Terminus 157. Stop Making Sense 158. Miller's Crossing 159. Memento 160. Speed 161. All About Eve 162. Jules and Jim 163. McCabe and Mrs. Miller 164. The Magnificent Ambersons 165. Taxi Driver 166. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 167. Winter Light 168. Rosemary's Baby 169. Gertrud 170. Europa (also known as Zentropa) 171. L'Argent 172. The Grapes of Wrath 173. The Battle of Algiers 174. Vampyr 175. Death and the Maiden 176. Citizen Kane 177. Raging Bull 178. Psycho 179. Monty Python's Life of Brian 180. Weekend 181. Star Wars 182. The Incredibles 183. The Red Shoes 184. The Silence of the Lambs 185. Dr. Strangelove 186. Strangers on a Train 187. The Great Muppet Caper 188. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 189. Trouble in Paradise 190. Bananas 191. The Phantom of Liberty 192. The Spirit of the Beehive 193. The 400 Blows 194. In the Bedroom 195. The Best Intentions 196. Scenes from a Marriage 197. Stalker 198. Modern Times 199. Mr. Hulot's Holiday 200. Playtime 201. Come and See 202. Time Bandits 203. The Scarlet Empress 204. La Ronde 205. Sherlock, Jr. 206. It's a Wonderful Life 207. My Neighbor Totoro 208. Great Expectations (David Lean version) 209. Shoot the Piano Player 210. Some Like it Hot 211. Day of Wrath 212. The Palm Beach Story 213. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 214. Gremlins 2: The New Batch 215. The Young Girls of Rochefort 216. Wild Strawberries 217. The Music Room 218. Ikiru 219. The Pink Panther Strikes Again 220. Toy Story 2 221. The Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bashki version) 222. The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers 223. La Femme Nikita 224. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 225. Watership Down 226. The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King 227. Jeanne Dielman, 2300 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 228. Shadow of a Doubt 229. Napoleon 230. Le Samourai 231. Band of Outsiders 232. The Puppet Masters 233. The Others 234. Mon Oncle 235. Dial M for Murder 236. Freaks 237. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 238. Oldboy 239. The Nights of Cabiria 240. Late Spring 241. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 242. Meet me in Saint Louis 243. Gold Diggers of 1933 244. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 245. Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors 246. Orpheus 247. A Star is Born (Judy Garland version) 248. The Life of Oharu 249. Sweet Smell of Success 250. Ugetsu 251. Masculin Feminin 252. Winter Soldier 253. The King of Comedy 254. Away From Her 255. Mr. Smith goes to Washington 256. Gosford Park 257. The Empire of the Sun 258. Hope and Glory 259. My Life as a Dog 260. The Misfits 261. Underground 262. A Canterbury Tale 263. The Fifth Element 264. Inner Space 265. Boogie Nights 266. Rififi 267. The Man from Laramie 268. Back to the Future 269. If. 270. Early Summer 271. Tokyo Story 272. The City of Lost Children 273. Amelie 274. Battleship Potemkin 275. The Tenant 276. The Muppet Movie 277. All of Me 278. The Great Dictator 279. Finding Nemo 280. A Shot in the Dark 281. Clue 282. The Wannsee Conference 283. Blue Velvet 284. The English Patient 285. Kundun 286. The Nasty Girl 287. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh version) 288. Mystic River 289. Eyes Wide Shut 290. The Sacrifice 291. Landscape in the Mist 292. The Man with a Movie Camera 293. Daisies 294. Shadows and Fog 295. Femme Fatale 296. The Ninth Gate 297. Mouchette 298. Mountains of the Moon 299. King Lear (Peter Brooks version) 300. The Snow Queen Movies by director Allen-5 Altman-2 (P.T.) Anderson-2 Bergman-7 Besson-2 Branagh-2 Bresson-5 Bunuel-2 Capra-2 Chaplin-2 Coppola-5 Costa-Gavras-2 Cukor-2 Dante-2 De Sica-2 Demme-2 Donen-2 Dreyer-5 Edwards-2 Eisenstein-3 Gilliam-5 Godard-3 Hawks-3 Henson-2 Herzog-3 Hitchcock-7 Houston-2 Kubrick-5 Jackson-2 Jeunet-4 Kurosawa-4 Lean-2 Leone-2 Lester-2 Lumet-2 Lynch-2 Minnelli-2 Miyazaki-2 Mizoguchi-2 (Marcel) Ophuls-2 (Max) Ophuls-2 Ozu-3 Parker-2 Polanski-7 Powell/Pressburger-4 (S.) Ray-4 Renoir-3 Scorsese-4 Stone-2 Spielberg-6 Tarantino-2 Tarkovsky-5 Tati-3 Truffaut-3 Visconti-2 Wachowski-2 Whew! That's a lot of movies and directors! Holy Dog! As of Sep 1, 2007, there's even more list action! As Paul explains it: Here is a list of movies that-----I should probably see again. If I did I might like them enough to put on my top 300 list. So if you're wondering why these movies weren't on my top 300, you can see that they're in this sort of critical limbo. They are listed in the approximate order they were in on the theyshootpictures.com top 1000, as of roughly two years ago. So, more movies to consider! 1. The Searchers 2. Sunrise 3. Rashomon 4. La Dolce Vita 5. The Third Man 6. Breathless (original version, of course) 7. City Lights 8. L'Avventura 9. Rear Window 10. Contempt 11. The Gold Rush 12. The Conformist 13. Nashville 14. Rio Bravo 15. The Wild Bunch 16. Greed 17. Blade Runner 18. L'Age d'Or 19. Pierrot Le Fou 20. Sansho the Baliff 21. Notorious 22. My Darling Clementine 23. A Clockwork Orange 24. Stagecoach (original version) 25. The Best Years of our Lives 26. The Lady Eve 27. Los Olvidados 28. Brief Encounter 29. Once upon a Time in America 30. The Exterminating Angel 31. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 32. Bonnie and Clyde 33. Out of the Past 34. Belle de Jour 35. To Be or Not to Be 36. Red River 37. Ashes and Diamonds 38. The Maltese Falcon 39. Close-Up 40. Don't Look Now 41. Monsieur Verdoux 42. Fear Eats the Soul 43. Paths of Glory 44. Days of Heaven 45. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau version) 46. Do the Right Thing 47. Unforgiven 48. The Tree of Wooden Clogs 49. The Last Laugh 50. The Awful Truth 51. The Navigator 52. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 53. A Time to Live and a Time to Die 54. Imitation of life (Douglas Sirk version) 55. Black God, White Devil 56. The Passenger 57. Blow-Up 58. Ninotchka 59. High and Low 60. Steamboat Bill, Jr., 61. The Rise to Power of Louis XIV 62. The Big Sleep 63. The Deer Hunter 64. Repulsion 65. Five Easy Pieces 66. Strike 67. Aparajito 68. West Side Story 69. Peeping Tom 70. Laura 71. Sans Soleil 72. Odd Man Out 73. All Quiet on the Western Front 74. Forbidden Games 75. Fellini's Casanova 76. Casque d'Or 77. I was Born, but. 78. Chelsea Girls 79. The Circus 80. Reds 81. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne 82. The Colour of Pomegranates 83. The Silence 84. Cabaret 85. The Last Picture Show 86. The 47 Ronin 87. Bob La Flambeur 88. I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang 89. A Touch of Zen 90. A Taste of Cherry 91. Raise the Red Lantern 92. The Age of Innocence 93. I Know Where I'm Going 94. Diner 95. Yi Yi 96. A Moment of Innocence 97. Othello (Orson Welles version) 98. Farewell my Concubine 99. Full Metal Jacket 100. The Producers 101. Detour 102. The Puppetmaster 103. In the Mood for Love 104. Hour of the Wolf 105. The Hawks and the Sparrows 106. Stray Dog 107. Videodrome 108. L'Eclisse 109. Walkabout 110. Arabian Nights 111. The Wind Will Carry us 112. La Belle Noiseuse 113. The Official Story 114. Doctor Zhivago 115. The Right Stuff 116. The Thin Red Line 117. The Last Emperor 118. Bugsy 119. The Killing Fields 120. The Elephant Man 121. Ed Wood 122. The Cotton Club 123. The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan/Ralph Fiennes version) 124. Felicity's Journey 125. Swing Time 126. Yankee Doodle Dandy 127. Horsefeathers 128. Monkey Business 129. Frenzy 130. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |