I haven’t done an entry in my Top 100 movies for over two months now, mostly because I just don’t have time to add another 45 minutes onto my morning slot for daily updates. No excuse I know and if I really motivated myself into doing it then I could probably manage but I haven’t… so there ya go.
I keep telling Peter he should delete it and brush the feature under the carpet like it never happened, just like Marvel are trying to do with Ang Lee’s Hulk movie but wouldn’t ya know it, according to our site statistics it’s one of our most popular area’s.
So basically I will finish it eventually but for now, I just don’t have the time.
Now completely un-related to this, I was invited to nominate my own Top 100 films for a new community list that’s been put together by a number of movie blogs and sites, which is to be seen as our alternative list to the AFI. Expect to see more of this around various sites across the web over the next couple of weeks.
Until then though, I got the idea from Brendon at Film Ick who instead of disclosing what his Top 100 nominations were over on his site, he disclosed the directors of his Top 100 (in his list, he decided to do one film per director). So as it’s July 4th and there’s very little news to post about, I thought I would do something similar.
So here are the directors of my top 100 nominations list. Our list actually allowed any feature film that has ever been made unlike the AFI’s list which didn’t include foriegn films. If your sad and totally bored, and you can try and guess what my 100 films are from the directors chosen but that’s not why I have done this. I just thought it might be interesting?
(note, this is a mixture of my top 100 favourite films and what I consider to be important and movies that should be recognized. So I did allow favourtism to play a part in my list but I also chose movies I consider to be the best works of cinema)…
Arnold
Bertolucci
Bird
Burton
Burton
Carpenter
Carpenter
Chaffey
Coppola (francis ford)
Coppola (francis ford)
Coppola (sofia)
Cronenberg
Crowe
Darabont
David Lean
De Sica
Donner
Donner
Eastwood
Fellini
Fincher
Fincher
Ford
Ford
Forman
Capra
Freidkin
Freidkin
Hawks
Hirschbeigel
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Howard
Kershner
Jackson
Jackson
Jeunet
Kubrick
Kubrick
Kurosawa
Lang
Lang
Lang
Lasseter
Lasseter
Lee
Leone
Leone
Leone
Leone
Linklater
Lucas
McTiernan
Mendes
Mendes
Meyer
Nichols
Nolan
Nolan
Nolan
Park
Polanski
Raimi
Raimi
Ramis
Reed
Reitman
Romero
Schaffner
Scorsese
Scorsese
Scorsese
Scott (Ridley)
Scott (Ridley)
Scott (Ridley)
Spielberg
Spielberg
Spielberg
Spielberg
Stephen Frears
Stuart
Sturges
Sulizier
Takahata
Tarantino
Tarantino
Tarantino
Tarantino
Tourneur
Verbinski
Wachowski Brothers
Walt Disney Pictures
Weine
Welles
Welles
Woo
Wyler
Categories: Movie News
Don’t suppose there’s any chance one of the Scott’s is for True Romance :)
I’ll guess not (given that you’ll have definitley picked Gladiator, Blade Runner and probably Alien too) - but it should be!
Comment by Peter Willis | July 4, 2007
Yeah I picked the three you mentioned.
I do like True Romance, however I can’t help but feel it’s Tarantino’s script which makes it work so well. Tony Scott did a great job with the movie and I like him as a director too (he is way more consistent than his brother, although not nearly as talented) but I dunno, I guess I just prefer Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
True Romance doesn’t have that great lead performance either. I mean Christian Slater is ok but he’s no Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, John Travolta etc.
Comment by Matt Holmes | July 4, 2007