Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Top 50 (or so) Forelle Flicks

A developing list:
rank, title, (rotten tomotoes %)
  1. Amadeus (97%)
  2. Sling Blade (95%)
  3. Longitude (80%) kf mini-review
  4. No Country for Old Men(94%)
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird (100%)
  6. Seven Samurai (100%)
  7. Breaking Away (94%)
  8. Fargo (92%)
  9. Ghost World (92%)
  10. Pulp Fiction (96%)
  11. L. A. Confidential (98%)
  12. Bang the Drum Slowly (95%)
  13. The General (81) -- severely underrated
  14. The Maltese Falcon (100%)
  15. The Big Sleep (94%)
  16. Silence of the Lambs (95%)
  17. Frida (75%)
  18. Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (not rated)
  19. Dr. Strangelove (100%)
  20. The Misfits (100%)
  21. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (71%) -- severely underrated
  22. Irma La Douce (88%)
  23. Lonesome Dove (100%)
  24. Being John Malkovich (92%)
  25. Ran (95%)
  26. Hi Fi (91%)
  27. Lonely Are the Brave (100%)
  28. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (72%)
  29. Some Like It Hot (97%)
  30. The Player (100%)
  31. Risky Business (100%)
  32. The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (100%)
  33. Gandhi (85%)
  34. Red Rocks West (100%)
  35. Magnolia (86%)
  36. The African Queen (100%)
  37. Hear My Song (91%)
  38. The Gods Must be Crazy (94%)
  39. About Schmidt (85)
  40. Amelie (90%)
  41. House of Flying Daggers (88%)
  42. Raise the Red Lantern (96%)
  43. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (97%)
  44. Once Were Warriors (94%)
  45. Defending Your Life (96%)
  46. Breaker Morant (100%)
  47. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (84%)
  48. Cat Ballou (100)
  49. The Unforgiven (96)
  50. The Spanish Prisoner (89)
  51. Psycho (98)
  52. Little Big Man (95)
  53. The Dish (96)
  54. The Informer (89)
  55. The Night of the Iguana (88)
  56. Zorba the Greek (the other movie in the Dr. Strangelove year)
  57. Zulu (100)
  58. About a Boy (94)
  59. Men in Black (90)
Other 100%'ers from Rotten Tomatoes: The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Blood Simple, Taxidriver, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, Chinatown, The Birds, Remains of the Day, Cool Hand Luke, Das Boot

Anybody can go with GWTW, Citizen Kain, Lawrence of Arabia, Sound of Music, Clockwork Orange, etc., but they don't need me for their place in the pantheon.