Movieline:

100 Best Movies Ever Made

Movieline Magazine launched in 1985, went national in 1989, and closed shop in 2009. In their December 1995 issue, they selected, as said at Filmsite.org, “100 of the all-time greatest English-language films - actually 101. The semi-serious article was written by Virginia Campbell and Edward Margulies, who admitted that they included one by Martin Scorsese and one by D.W. Griffith, but they compensated for that by not including any films by David Lean or Mike Nichols.” Note: the original list was unranked. The movies have been ranked here based on their overall standing in Dave’s Movie Database. Also, the list actually included 102 movies, not 100.

1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Citizen Kane (1941)
5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Psycho (1960)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

11. The Godfather Part II (1974)
12. Vertigo (1958)
13. Raging Bull (1980)
14. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
15. Some Like It Hot (1959)
16. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
17. Chinatown (1974)
18. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
19. Rear Window (1954)
20. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

21. North by Northwest (1959)
22. Annie Hall (1977)
23. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
24. All About Eve (1950)
25. Double Indemnity (1944)
26. The Searchers (1956)
27. The Third Man (1949)
28. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
29. Blade Runner (1982)
30. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

31. West Side Story (1961)
32. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
33. City Lights (1931)
34. King Kong (1933)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36. Blue Velvet (1986)
37. Bambi (1942)
38. Touch of Evil (1958)
39. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
40. Manhattan (1979)

41. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
42. Paths of Glory (1957)
43. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
44. Badlands (1973)
45. The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
46. Cabaret (1972)
47. His Girl Friday (1940)
48. Rebecca (1940)
49. The African Queen (1951)
50. Notorious (1946)

51. Don’t Look Now (1973)
52. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
53. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
54. The Conversation (1974)
55. The Lost Weekend (1945)
56. The Lady Eve (1941)
57. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
58. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
59. The Last Picture Show (1971)
60. Swing Time (1936)

61. Strangers on a Train (1951)
62. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
63. True Lies (1994)
64. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
65. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
66. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
67. Gigi (1958)
68. A Star Is Born (1954)
69. Blow-Up (1966)
70. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982)

71. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
72. The Elephant Man (1980)
73. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
74. Being There (1979)
75. Dodsworth (1936)
76. My Man Godfrey (1936)
77. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
78. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
79. The 39 Steps (1935)
80. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

81. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
82. In a Lonely Place (1950)
83. Gun Crazy (1950)
84. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
85. Witness (1985)
86. Funny Face (1957)
87. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
88. Peeping Tom (1960)
89. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
90. Shampoo (1975)

91. The Wind (1928)
92. Queen Christina (1933)
93. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
94. The Informer (1935)
95. Two for the Road (1967)
96. The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
97. Love Affair (1939)
98. The Innocents (1961)
99. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
100. Gallipoli (1981)

101. The Haunting (1963)
102. Petulia (1968)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
Movieline (Dec. 1995). “100 Best Movies Ever Made”

Originally posted 8/1/2019; last updated 5/31/2023.

Tuesday, November 21, 1995

Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film, is released

Toy Story

Released: November 22, 1995

Studio: Disney

Genre: animation/comedy/family

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 191.80 Worldwide: 373.60

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 449.58 Worldwide: 744.30

Directing: John Lasseter

Screenwriting: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow

Starring: voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Annie Potts, Wallace Shawn, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger

Review:

Pixar Studios were pioneers in CGI animation, creating the Oscar-nominated short Luxo Jr. in 1986 and the Oscar-winning short Tin Story in 1988. In 1995, they took another great leap forward with Toy Story, the first feature-length film completely animated by computers.

The groundbreaking special effects “were surpassed only by the intelligent, thoughtful script that had adult themes that both parents and their kids could relate to.” ^FS “It’s a perfectly formed story, about friendship, love, fear of abandonment, workplace politics and self-identity. While its ability to make you laugh is undiminished.” ^EM’18

The story focuses on a boy named Andy and his toys, who come to life when no humans are around. Cowboy Woody (Hanks) is the favorite. There’s also “Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, Wallace Shawn as Rex, a meek dinosaur, Jim Varney as Slinky Dog, John Ratzenburger as Hamm the Pig, and Annie Potts as Woody’s sweetheart, Bo Peep).” ^FS A rivalry ensues when Woody’s status as top toy is challenged by the “new hi-tech space and action-toy Buzz Lightyear (voice by Tim Allen)” ^FS which Andy gets for his birthday.

The “doltish” ^AFI07 and “deluded Buzz believes he’s on a mission to save the planet” ^FS instead of a child’s toy. Woody and Buzz have to learn to work together, though, when they get “trapped in the house of Sid, a sadistic bully in the neighborhood.” ^FS “Groundbreaking computer animation creates the world of Woody, a toy cowboy who suddenly finds himself as the second-favorite toy. Replaced by the newer and very high tech, but doltish, Buzz Lightyear, Woody gets accused of killing Buzz by tossing him out the window. It’s a race to get him back. ‘To infinity and beyond!’” AFI07