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.

Top 50 (or so) Forelle TeeVee Shows

1. The Rockford Files
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
   
3. Seinfeld
   
4. The Sopranos
5. Naked City
6. Twin Peaks
   
7. Boomtown
   
8. Harry O
   
9. Ernie Kovacs
10. Jackie Gleason
11. Sportsnight
12. Deadwood
    
13. The Steve Allen Show
14. Alfred Hitchcock
    
15. Buffalo Bill
16. Maverick
17. Get Smart
    
18. The Daily Show
19. The X-Files
20. The Colbert Report
    
21. The Bob Newhart Show
22. Newhart
    
23. Richard Diamond, Private Eye
    
24. Hill Street Blues
25. Boston Legal
26. Star Trek
27. Columbo
28. The Larry Sanders Show
29. Twilight Zone
    
30. All in the Family
31. The Late Show with David Letterman
32. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
33. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
34. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
35. Sid Caesar (Your Show of Shows, etc.)
    
36. Cheers
    
37. Dragnet
38. You Bet Your Life
39. Red Skelton
    
40. The Wide World of Sports
41. The West Wing
42. Dirty Jobs
43. Monty Python
44. SCTV
45. Saturday Night Live
46. Bakersfield PD
47. The Night Stalker
48. Red Buttons
    
49. The Avengers
50. The Ed Sullivan Show
51. Gumby
52. Rocky and Bullwinkle
53. Tom Terrific
54. Modern Marvels

Please note, I was raised at a time when only one TV could be found in a home. My choices here are often dictated by the family's choices at the time. Thus, Steve Allen was the weekly choice, Ed Sullivan on rare occasions (elvis, johnny cash, the beatles), and no Perry Mason.

kf mini-review: Longitude

I suppose the reason Longitude had a relatively low RT% is because it was an A&E miniseries (4 hours long), never a theatre release. Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine any population of reviewers where 1 in 5 would not approve of this work. So I just chalk it up as an aberation of low numbers (5 reviews).

This tells the story of John Harrison and his invention of a reliable way to measure longitude -- before that time navigation was pretty much a question not of if you were going to wreck but when you were going to wreck.

Michael Gambon and Brian Cox are magnificent adversaries, science against power (not unlike today in the usa).

This is the better of the 2 greatest (non-pay-TV) miniseries, Lonesome Dove being the other. Roots was good as well but has not as yet made my list. For quality, intensity, and acting Longitude is in step with The Sopranos and Deadwood.