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:

  1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  2. The African Queen
  3. All About Eve
  4. All Quiet on the Western Front
  5. Apocalypse Now
  6. Bad Day at Black Rock
  7. Bambi
  8. The Bank Dick
  9. The Battleship Potemkin
  10. The Best Years of Our Lives
  11. Bicycle Thieves
  12. The Big Sleep
  13. The Birth of a Nation
  14. Bonnie and Clyde
  15. Breathless
  16. Bringing Up Baby
  17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  18. Cabaret
  19. Casablanca
  20. Chinatown
  21. Citizen Kane
  22. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  23. Dog Day Afternoon
  24. Double Indemnity
  25. Duck Soup
  26. Les Enfants du Paradis
  27. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
  28. Frankenstein
  29. The General
  30. Genevieve
  31. The Godfather
  32. The Godfather Part II
  33. The Gold Rush
  34. Gone With The Wind
  35. La Grande Illusion
  36. The Grapes of Wrath
  37. Great Expectations
  38. Gregory's Girl
  39. Hannah and Her Sisters
  40. High Noon
  41. His Girl Friday
  42. I Know Where I'm Going
  43. It Happened One Night
  44. It's a Wonderful Life
  45. Les Jeux Interdits
  46. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  47. The Lady Eve
  48. The Lady Vanishes
  49. Laura
  50. The Lavender Hill Mob
  51. Lawrence of Arabia
  52. The Leopard
  53. The Maltese Falcon
  54. M.A.S.H.
  55. A Matter of Life and Death
  56. Mean Streets
  57. Modern Times
  58. My Darling Clementine
  59. Napoleon
  60. Nashville
  61. The Nights of Cabiria
  62. Ninotchka
  63. Oh! Mr Porter
  64. On The Waterfront
  65. Orpheus
  66. Pat and Mike
  67. Pather Panchali
  68. Paths of Glory
  69. Psycho
  70. Pygmalion
  71. Raging Bull
  72. Ran
  73. Rashomon
  74. Red River
  75. The Red Shoes
  76. La Regle du Jeu
  77. Richard III
  78. The Searchers
  79. The Seven Samurai
  80. The Seventh Seal
  81. Shane
  82. Singin' In The Rain
  83. Sleeper
  84. Some Like It Hot
  85. Stagecoach
  86. La Strada
  87. Sunset Boulevard
  88. Taxi Driver
  89. The Thief of Baghdad
  90. The Third Man
  91. The Thirty-Nine Steps
  92. To Be Or Not To Be
  93. Top Hat
  94. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  95. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  96. Whisky Galore
  97. The Wild Bunch
  98. Wild Strawberries
  99. The Wizard of Oz
  100. Z

Still got a few to go though: how are you doing?