EDitorial ± 5-Apr-2006
Barry Norman's 100 Best Films
Sitting on my desk now is my QPD edition of a book by Mr Barry Norman, entitled 100 Best Films Of The Century. In which he sets out his, er, 100 top films up to 1992, the year of publication.
And some years back I vowed to watch each and every one of 'em. I admired Spencer Tracy in Black Rock, tittered at WC Fields in the Bank Dick, and failed to ever get round to watching my taped-off-the-telly VHS of Birth Of A Nation.
Here's the complete list, as much for my handy reference as for you:
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The African Queen
- All About Eve
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Apocalypse Now
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Bambi
- The Bank Dick
- The Battleship Potemkin
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Bicycle Thieves
- The Big Sleep
- The Birth of a Nation
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Breathless
- Bringing Up Baby
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Cabaret
- Casablanca
- Chinatown
- Citizen Kane
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Double Indemnity
- Duck Soup
- Les Enfants du Paradis
- E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
- Frankenstein
- The General
- Genevieve
- The Godfather
- The Godfather Part II
- The Gold Rush
- Gone With The Wind
- La Grande Illusion
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations
- Gregory's Girl
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- High Noon
- His Girl Friday
- I Know Where I'm Going
- It Happened One Night
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Les Jeux Interdits
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- The Lady Eve
- The Lady Vanishes
- Laura
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Leopard
- The Maltese Falcon
- M.A.S.H.
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Mean Streets
- Modern Times
- My Darling Clementine
- Napoleon
- Nashville
- The Nights of Cabiria
- Ninotchka
- Oh! Mr Porter
- On The Waterfront
- Orpheus
- Pat and Mike
- Pather Panchali
- Paths of Glory
- Psycho
- Pygmalion
- Raging Bull
- Ran
- Rashomon
- Red River
- The Red Shoes
- La Regle du Jeu
- Richard III
- The Searchers
- The Seven Samurai
- The Seventh Seal
- Shane
- Singin' In The Rain
- Sleeper
- Some Like It Hot
- Stagecoach
- La Strada
- Sunset Boulevard
- Taxi Driver
- The Thief of Baghdad
- The Third Man
- The Thirty-Nine Steps
- To Be Or Not To Be
- Top Hat
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Whisky Galore
- The Wild Bunch
- Wild Strawberries
- The Wizard of Oz
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