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100 Best Movies (1-10) by Virginia Campbell and Edward Margulies Movieline, December 1995 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Before that movie staple, Adventure Films for Boys of All Ages, degenerated into cinematic roller-coaster rides, the genre boasted articulated plots, real wit, stylish villainy and great players. This, the best of the lot, has all that and a great star, Errol Flynn, at his apex. The African Queen (1951) A floating paean to cranky, middle-aged single people. The best of the Hepburn/Tracy pictures, because Tracy isn't in it. All About Eve (1950) Power-crazed media figures comes to regret helping an ungrateful unknown to become a star. A film so close to our own experience at Movieline, we have to go lie down now. Annie Hall (1977) Unlikely Galahad's unlikely love poem to the most unlikely of screen queens. |
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Badlands (1973) This nasty, bleak little take on Hollywood's favorite tale--psycho lovers on the lam from the law--gets better with every passing year. Two otherwise inexplicable stars can justly point with pride to their work here. Bambi (1942) The only film masterpiece ever created for three-year-olds. Being There (1979) In this film, when the idiot savant, who knows the world only through the garden he tends and the television he watches, makes gentle pronouncements that launch him to the heights of American power, the pseudo-aphorisms are a lot more clever than "Life is like a box of chocolates." Intelligent is as intelligent does. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Director William Wyler's tale of soldiers returning home to small-town America after World War II may not ever have been the paragon of sensitive realism it was once taken for, but it's still an accurate, meaningful fantasy of the way we never were. |
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Blade Runner (1982, the director's cut) An expensive, stylish, despairing vision of 21st-century L.A. in which Daryl Hannah and Sean Young, both perfectly cast, play androids. The most borrowed, stolen-from film of the last 20 years. Blow-Up (1966) Those who think Antonini's English-language film about a '60s London fashion photographer is dated should watch it again and try to name even one important item missing from this defining encyclopedia of what happened to us when we started looking at ourselves as cool objects. 100 Best Movies, Part 2 (11-20) |