#410: Sight & Sound / Top 10 Films of All-Time

Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2012

Adam

8 1/2

Annie Hall

Apocalypse Now

Blue Velvet

Citizen Kane

Double Indemnity

The Godfather

Jules et Jim

Raging Bull

Rashomon

Josh

Au Hasard Balthazar

Chinatown

Citizen Kane

La Dolce Vita

Do the Right Thing

Modern Times

Pinocchio

Rear Window

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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Michael Phillips

Citizen Kane

The Earrings of Madame de…

His Girl Friday

L’Atalante

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Rear Window

Sherlock Jr.

Singin' in the Rain

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Taxi Driver

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Guest Essential Films

Rian Johnson - Citizen Kane

Jeff Nichols - Cool Hand Luke

Matt Singer, Filmspotting: SVU - Citizen Kane

Dana Stevens, Slate - The General

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The Next 10

Adam

Badlands

Chinatown

Crimes and Misdemeanors

The Godfather: Part II

Goodfellas

Mulholland Dr.

Rio Bravo

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Vertigo

Wild Strawberries

Josh

Apocalypse Now

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

King Kong

The Last Laugh

Metropolis

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Rules of the Game

The Tree of Life

The Wizard of Oz

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Michael

The Band Wagon

Duck Amuck

The Godfather: Part II

I Know Where I’m Going!

The Magnificent Ambersons

My Darling Clementine

The Rules of the Game

Shame (1968)

The Third Man

Vertigo

#400: Top 5 Things We Learned From The Movies

Adam

1. "Be a mensch!" (THE APARTMENT)

2. Allow yourself to appear weak and vulnerable. (TAKE SHELTER)

3. I want to be John Wayne but I'm not even Jimmy Stewart. (THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE)

4. Make time to be a kid. (TOY STORY 3)

5. "Will I lie to myself to be happy?" (MEMENTO + RASHOMON)

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Josh

1. Watch carefully (REAR WINDOW)

2. "Find something you love and do it for the rest of your life." (RUSHMORE)

3. Conduct yourself as if someone's watching. (AU HASARD BALTHAZAR)

4. Grow up. (TOY STORY 3)

5. The world existed before me. (BACK TO THE FUTURE)

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Michael Phillips

1. Sight: How to truly see someone, while your heart is breaking (CITY LIGHTS)

2. Taste: How cinema can be so beautiful you can almost taste it (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS)

3. Sound: How to enjoy the joyous racket of life all around you: the dialogue (HIS GIRL FRIDAY)

4. Smell: How to run through life in a malodorous panic but look cool (SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS)

5. Touch: How to enjoy close physical proximity with a woman when you don't know her well (ROBERTA)

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Dana Stevens

1. Slow down and look at what's around you, in the theater and out. (I WAS BORN, BUT...)

2. Keep on going, no matter what. (ONE WEEK)

3. Trust yourself--you're not crazy. (GASLIGHT)

4. Let the past be the past. (THE VANISHING)

5. "Take it back and get the more expensive one, honey. The more expensive ones always fit better." (VALLEY GIRL)

#390: Top 5 Films of 1994

The Pulp Fiction Memorial List

ADAM

1. Chungking Express

2. Hoop Dreams

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Natural Born Killers

5. Caro Diario

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JOSH

1. Forrest Gump

2. Ed Wood

3. Hoop Dreams

4. Chungking Express

5. Heavenly Creatures

#380: Top 10 Films of 2011

Adam

1. The Tree of Life

2. Take Shelter

3. Drive

4. Certified Copy

5. Meek's Cutoff

6. The Arbor

7. Hugo

8. A Separation

9. The Artist

10. Super 8

#11-30 (Alphabetical): Bill Cunningham New York, Bridesmaids, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Descendants, Hanna, The Interrupters, Margaret, Margin Call, Melancholia, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Project Nim, Senna, The Skin I Live In, Source Code, Tabloid, The Trip, Warrior, War Horse, Weekend, Win Win.

Josh

1. The Tree of Life

2. Cedar Rapids

3. Meek's Cutoff

4. The Muppets

5. Take Shelter

6. Certified Copy

7. The Interrupters

8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

9. Drive

10. Martha Marcy May Marlene

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Michael Phillips

1. Poetry

2. Moneyball

3. Certified Copy

4. The Descendants

5. The Interrupters

6. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

7. A Separation

8. The Tree of Life

9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

10. Weekend

Scott Tobias

1. Meek's Cutoff

2. Certified Copy

3. A Separation

4. The Tree of Life

5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

6. Martha Marcy May Marlene

7. Drive

8. Weekend

9. Margaret

10. The Arbor

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Guest's #1 Picks

Rian Johnson
The Tree of Life

Edward Burns
Midnight in Paris

Peter Labuza
Certified Copy

Steve Prokopy
Drive

Alison Willmore
Melancholia

Matt Singer
Take Shelter

Filmspotting Advisory Board
Shame / The Muppets

Chris Klimek
Midnight in Paris

#364: Top 5 Steven Soderbergh Scenes

Adam

1. "What if," OUT OF SIGHT
2. Father's return, KING OF THE HILL
3. Car accident, ERIN BROCKOVICH
4. "She was magic," THE LIMEY
5. Graham’s Project/Cynthia’s Interview, SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE

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Matty

1. "You're a liar and a thief," OCEAN'S ELEVEN / "What if," OUT OF SIGHT
2. Death scene, CHE
3. Confrontation with PG&E lawyers, ERIN BROCKOVICH
4. "Addicts don't vote," TRAFFIC
5. Confronting DEA officer, THE LIMEY

#346: Top 5 Films of 1995

SAM

1. Get Shorty

2. 12 Monkeys

3. Before Sunrise

4. To Die For

5. Toy Story

Adam

1. Se7en

2. Before Sunrise

3. The Usual Suspects

4. Heat/Devil in a Blue Dress

5. To Die For

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#331: Top 10 Films of 2010

ADAM

1. Never Let Me Go

2. A Prophet

3. The Social Network

4. Dogtooth

5. Rabbit Hole

6. Black Swan

7. Winter's Bone

8. Toy Story 3

9. Exit Through the Gift Shop

10. Inception

MATTY

1. The Social Network

2. A Prophet

3. Rabbit Hole

4. Restrepo

5. Mother

6. Please Give

7. Tiny Furniture

8. Exit Through The Gift Shop

9. 127 Hours

10. I Love You, Phillip Morris

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MICHAEL PHILLIPS

1. The Kids Are All Right

2. The Secret In Their Eyes

3. Boxing Gym

4. Greenberg

5. Last Train Home

6. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

7. The Social Network

8. The King's Speech

9. The Ghost Writer

10. The Fighter

SCOTT TOBIAS

1. Dogtooth

2. Winter’s Bone

3. Carlos

4. The Social Network

5. Exit Through The Gift Shop

6. Everyone Else

7. Shutter Island

8. Mother

9. Toy Story 3

10. Restrepo

#317: Top 5 Films of 1996

Adam

1. Fargo

2. Lone Star

3. Swingers

4. Bound

5. Breaking the Waves

matty

1. Fargo

2. When We Were Kings

3. Swingers

4. Flirting With Disaster

5. Looking For Richard

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