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Saturday, December 31, 2022

USA Today: 100 Best Movies of All Time

USA Today:

100 Best Movies of All Time

This is an aggregate of 3 lists featured in the newspaper USA Today from 2017 to 2022. See the bottom of the page for details and links.

1. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Chinatown (1974)
7. Citizen Kane (1941)
8. North by Northwest (1959)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
10. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
12. Pulp Fiction (1994)
13. Schindler’s List (1993)
14. 12 Angry Men (1957)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
17. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
18. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
19. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
20. City Lights (1931)

21. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
22. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
23. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
24. Toy Story 3 (2010)
25. Modern Times (1936)
26. Rear Window (1954)
27. All About Eve (1950)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
30. Paths of Glory (1957)

31. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

32. The Great Dictator (1940)
33. Alien (1979)
34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. The Godfather Part II (1974)
36. Aliens (1986)
37. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
38. Arrival (2016)
39. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
40. Independence Day (1996)

41. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
42. Galaxy Quest (1999)
43. Star Trek (2009)
44. The Martian (2015)
45. Moon (2009)
46. Blade Runner (1982)
47. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
48. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (aka “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”) (2001)
49. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
50. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

51. The Matrix (1999)
52. The Never Ending Story (1984)
53. The Princess Bride (1987)
54. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
55. Back to the Future (1985)
56. Father of the Bride (1991)
57. Frozen (2013)
58. The Incredibles (2004)
59. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
60. Mary Poppins (1964)

61. Meet the Parents (2000)
62. The Sound of Music (1965)
63. Step Brothers (2008)
64. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
65. The Blues Brothers (1980)
66. Booksmart (2019)
67. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
68. Ghostbusters (1984)
69. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
70. Groundhog Day (1993)

71. The Hangover (2009)
72. Inception (2010)
73. Old School (2003)
74. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
75. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
76. On the Waterfront (1954)
77. Young Frankenstein (1974)
78. Vertigo (1958)
79. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
80. Taxi Driver (1976)

81. The Exorcist (1973)
82. Double Indemnity (1944)
83. Get Out (2017)
84. Some Like It Hot (1959)
85. It (2017)
86. Whiplash (2014)
87. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
88. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
89. Se7en (1995)
90. Wall-E (2008)

91. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
92. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
93. The Shining (1980)
94. Raging Bull (1980)
95. The Witch (2015)
96. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
97. Black Panther (2018)
98. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
99. Flash Gordon (1980)
100. The Goonies (1985)

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Originally posted 8/3/2019; last updated 5/26/2025.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Internet Movie Database: Top 100 Movies

Internet Movie Database:

Top 100 Movies

The Internet Movie Database includes ratings for movies. Their “Top Rated Movies” list shows which movies rate highest. A 2013 list ranks movies based on their metascores. A 2012 list, simply identified as being created by ChrisWalczyk55, was posted on the site which appears to be his own personal list, but includes 65 movies from the IMDB “Top Rated Movies” list. The three lists have been aggregated here to create one list. Here are the top 100 movies:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Schindler’s List (1993)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
10. Amadeus (1984)

11. Apocalypse Now (1979)
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
13. Raging Bull (1980)
14. Taxi Driver (1976)
15. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
16. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
17. The Godfather Part II (1974)
18. 12 Angry Men (1957)
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
20. Forrest Gump (1994)

21. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
22. Casablanca (1942)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
26. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
27. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
28. Modern Times (1936)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
30. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

31. Citizen Kane (1941)
32. Goodfellas (1990)
33. Gladiator (2000)
34. Vertigo (1958)
35. The French Connection (1971)
36. Wall-E (2008)
37. The Pianist (2002)
38. City Lights (1931)
39. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
40. The Green Mile (1999)

41. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
42. Patton (1970)
43. Metropolis (1927)
44. Braveheart (1995)
45. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
46. A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (2011)
47. Rear Window (1954)
48. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
49. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
50. The Great Dictator (1940)

51. Some Like It Hot (1959)
52. Chinatown (1974)
53. Toy Story 3 (2010)
54. Unforgiven (1992)
55. On the Waterfront (1954)
56. The Apartment (1960)
57. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
58. Gone with the Wind (1939)
59. North by Northwest (1959)
60. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

61. Good Will Hunting (1997)
62. Double Indemnity (1944)
63. L.A. Confidential (1997)
64. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
65. There Will Be Blood (2007)
66. Ran (1985)
67. No Country for Old Men (2007)
68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
69. Ben-Hur (1959)
70. The Third Man (1949)

71. The Deer Hunter (1978)
72. Jurassic Park (1993)
73. Fargo (1996)
74. Platoon (1986)
75. Finding Nemo (2003)
76. Rocky (1976)
77. It Happened One Night (1934)
78. The Truman Show (1998)
79. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
80. Network (1976)

81. Jaws (1975)
82. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
83. The Exorcist (1973)
84. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
85. Before Sunset (2004)
86. The Dark Knight (2008)
87. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
88. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
89. The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
90. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1971)

91. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
92. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
93. Fight Club (1999)
94. Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres) (1969)
95. Shoah (1985)
96. Inception (2010)
97. Superman II (1980)
98. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
99. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
100. Pépé le Moko (1937)

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Originally posted 7/31/2019; last updated 5/26/2023.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Hollywood Reporter: “Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Films”

Originally posted 7/28/2019.

Here’s what it says on their website about the making of this list: “Who better to judge the best movies of all time than the people who make them? Studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty all were surveyed as THR publishes its first definitive entertainment-industry ranking of cinema's most superlative.” Here is the top 100 list:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. The Godfather Part II (1974)
8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
10. Schindler’s List (1993)

11. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12. Back to the Future (1985)
13. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
14. Forrest Gump (1994)
15. Gone with the Wind (1939)
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
17. Apocalypse Now (1979)
18. Annie Hall (1977)
19. Goodfellas (1990)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

21. Chinatown (1974)
22. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
24. Jaws (1975)
25. The Sound of Music (1965)
26. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
27. The Breakfast Club (1985)
28. The Graduate (1967)
29. Blade Runner (1982)
30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

31. The Princess Bride (1987)
32. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
33. Fargo (1996)
34. American Beauty (1999)
35. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
36. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
37. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
38. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
39. The Shining (1980)
40. Fight Club (1999)

41. Psycho (1960)
42. Alien (1979)
43. Toy Story (1995)
44. The Matrix (1999)
45. Titanic (1997)
46. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
47. Some Like It Hot (1959)
48. The Usual Suspects (1995)
49. Rear Window (1954)
50. Jurassic Park (1993)

51. The Big Lebowski (1998)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Good Will Hunting (1997)
54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
55. Taxi Driver (1976)
56. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
57. The Dark Knight (2008)
58. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
59. Thelma & Louise (1991)
60. Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain) (2001)

61. West Side Story (1961)
62. North by Northwest (1959)
63. Groundhog Day (1993)
64. Mary Poppins (1964)
65. Raging Bull (1980)
66. The Lion King (1994)
67. Avatar (2009)
68. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
69. Gladiator (2000)
70. Vertigo (1958)

71. Almost Famous (2000)
72. Young Frankenstein (1974)
73. All the President’s Men (1976)
74. Blazing Saddles (1974)
75. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
76. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
77. Ghostbusters (1984)
78. 12 Angry Men (1957)
79. Wall-E (2008)
80. On the Waterfront (1954)

81. Amadeus (1984)
82. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
83. Die Hard (1988)
84. Inception (2010)
85. Se7en (1995)
86. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
87. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
88. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
89. Braveheart (1995)
90. Memento (2001)

91. Rocky (1976)
92. Up (2009)
93. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
94. The Deer Hunter (1978)
95. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
96. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
97. Airplane! (1980)
98. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
99. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
100. The Seven Samurai (Shichinin No Samurai) (1954)

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Friday, September 23, 1994

The Shawshank Redemption released

The Shawshank Redemption

Released: September 23, 1994

Studio: Columbia

Genre: drama

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 28.34 Worldwide: ?

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: ? Worldwide: 58.95

Directing: Frank Darabont

Screenwriting: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman. Bob Gunton

Review:

The Shawshank Redemption is “an uplifting, engrossing, life-affirming drama/prison tale about the relationship between two jailed prisoners.” FS Vanity Fair said, “At heart, the film is that rare beast: a relationship movie for men.” VF Robbins said it was “a movie about the friendship of two men without a car chase in it.” VF

The film was the directorial debut for Frank Darabont, who previously wrote scripts for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988), and The Fly II (1989). He wanted to adapt Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from a Stephen King novella after turning King’s The Woman in the Room into a short film in 1983. He paid King $1.00 for the rights – a common practice for King with fledging directors. VF

Morgan Freeman called it one of the top scripts he’s seen and Tim Robbins said, “It was the best script I’ve ever read. Ever.” VF Producer Liz Glotzer, who loved prison movies, threatened to quit her job at Castle Rock Entertainment if they didn’t make the movie. VF Rob Reiner, who had previously adapted King’s The Body into the movie Stand by Me (1986) offered Darabont $3 million for the script, but Darabont wanted to direct it himself. It turned out okay; “few directorial debuts are so deftly constructed.” E18

Robbins is Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife and her lover. He is sentenced to life at Maine’s Shawshank State Prison in the mid-1940s. He gains the respect of fellow inmates because of his intelligence and inspirational effect on them. He particularly connects with “Red” (Freeman), a dignified and entrepreneurial inmate known for procuring contraband. Red acquires various items for Andy such as a geological rock hammer for carving chess pieces and a Rita Hayworth poster for his cell wall. “The passage of time over two decades is conveyed by the pin-ups on Andy’s cell wall, which change from Hayworth to Marilyn Monroe, and then to Raquel Welch.” FS

Andy never abandons hope despite the life-sucking nature of the prison and “the evil, Bible-pounding Warden Norton (Gunton) [who] uses Andy’s financial background to cover his nefarious activities.” FS Andy secretly plots his escape and a plan for revenge.

The movie tested through the roof and received wide-spread critical acclaim. Critic Gene Siskel called it “one of the year’s best films” and compared it to One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Unfortunately, it opened poorly – thanks to the hard-to-pronounce title and 142-minute length – “a life sentence for most audiences.” VF

However, it followed a path similar to box-office disappointments/turned beloved movies It’s a Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz, which the Library of Congress says is the most-viewed movie of all-time. Thanks to 7 Oscar nominations, the movie became the top-rented title of 1995. VF Then Ted Turner’s basic cable station, TNT, got rights to it before networks. It first aired in June 1997 and has been shown over and over since.

It has become “a feel-good perennial,” E18 thanks to “the warm, leathery embrace of Morgan Freeman’s narration… [and] the reassuringly Gary Cooper-ish rumple of Tim Robbins’ face.” E18 Darabont says Steven Spielberg called it his “chewing-gum movie…in other words, you’ve stepped in it and can’t get it off your foot. You have to watch the rest of the movie.” VF Freeman said, “About everywhere you go, people say, ‘The Shawshank Redemption – greatest movie I ever saw.’” VF Robbins says, “I swear to God, all over the world – all over the world – wherever I go, there are people who say, ‘That movie changed my life.’” When Robbins met Nelson Mandela, “he talked about loving Shawshank.” VF

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Wins: 0

Nominations: 7 – Best Picture, Best Actor (Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing

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