Posts Tagged ‘Lists’

Criterion Top 10 Lists

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

I wasn’t really considering a Top 10 Week when I posted yesterday’s Talking Heads list (and I may not do it every day), but I stumbled across this this collection of Criterion Top 10 lists from various luminaries. Among the more interesting are:

  • Anthony Bourdain
  • Ricky Jay
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • Joe Mantegna
  • Dominic Monaghan
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Edgar Wright
  • All are worth reading, if not necessarily agreeing with. But it’s good to know I’m not the only person who loves This is Spinal Tap and Brazil

    Cyborg Karate RobotBeast vs. Future Ninja Cop

    Sunday, March 18th, 2012

    Cracked offers up a list of 7 words only bad movies have in the title. It’s not bad as far as it goes, but:

    1. The seven words (which may be gleaned from the title of this post) are 100% from Guy Flick titles. And, you know, fair enough. But you could probably come up with a similar list for Chick Flick titles (“Heart” and “Love” both come to mind).
    2. Even by that standard, I bet there are more crappy movies with the “Fighter” than “Ninja” in the title.
    3. Horror movies are insufficiently represented. “Dark” and “Blood” (Blood Simple and a few others excepted) would likely yield a crapload of crap. And don’t get me started on “Shark”. Has there ever been an actual good movie with “Shark” in the title?)
    4. Despite what the article says, any Hong Kong movie with “Cop” in the title starring Jackie Chan is pretty much guaranteed to be awesome.

    (Hat tip: Bill Crider, though his link is a little off.)

    Another Top 100 Movie Comedy List

    Saturday, September 24th, 2011

    Via Bill Crider comes yet another Top 100 Movie Comedies list. There is much to quibble with on this list (Brazil is way too low, Annie Hall is way too high, too few silent films and Eeling Comedies, Hot Fuzz should be higher, etc.), but given that it kicks the ass of that wretched College Humor list, I’m inclined to cut it some slack.

    And they got #1 right.

    Two More Movie Lists

    Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

    Andrew “Armed and Dangerous” Wimsatt sent me a list of Empire’s 500 Greatest Films of All Time. Since that list is broken up into lots of sub-pages, here it is in a more convenient “all on one page” format. (It also avoids the annoying smart quote artifacts that infest every page of the main Empire listings; are these people incapable of downloading a copy of Firefox?)

    In many ways this is the mirror image of the Sight and Sound poll I had previously mentioned: Long on crowd-pleasers and cult films and short on European art house fair. While it’s hard to take seriously any “Best of” list that includes Transformers, it was gratifying to see under-rated gems like Hot Fuzz and The Prestige there. And you have to give a list that ranks Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back higher than Citizen Kane props for having the courage of its convictions.

    Also, here’s Roger Ebert’s 250 Great Movies, which is sort of in-between the two.