Jake Gittes

Not my final list, but almost there. Planning to revisit Full Metal Jacket and watch Rebel Without a Cause, Cool Hand Luke and What's Up Doc? before submitting. 1. Goodfellas (1990) 2. A Star Is Born (1954) 3. Barry Lyndon (1975) 4. Heat (1995) 5. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 6. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) 7. Before Sunset (2004) 8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 9. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 10. Zodiac (2007) 11. The Last Days of Disco (1998) 12. Local Hero (1983) 13. White Heat (1949) 14. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) 15. The Shining (1980) 16. Casablanca (1942) 17. All the President’s Men (1976) 18. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 19. Michael Clayton (2007) 20. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 21. AI (2001) 22. Speed Racer (2008) 23. The Prestige (2006) 24. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 25. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 26. Badlands (1973) 27. Unforgiven (1992) 28. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) 29. Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) 30. Blade Runner (1982) 31. The Wild Bunch (1969) 32. The Searchers (1956) 33. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 34. Malcolm X (1992) 35. L.A. Confidential (1997) 36. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 37. Lady Killer (1933) 38. To Have and Have Not (1944) 39. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) 40. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) 41. The Devils (1971) 42. Black Christmas (1974) 43. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 44. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) 45. Magic Mike XXL (2015) 46. Bullitt (1968) 47. Dial M for Murder (1954) 48. The Departed (2006) 49. Life of Brian (1979) 50. Rio Bravo (1959) 51. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 52. The Bridges of Madison County (1995) 53. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) 54. The Fugitive (1993) 55. Creed (2015) 56. After Hours (1985) 57. Strangers on a Train (1951) 58. The Iron Giant (1999) 59. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 60. The Matrix (1999) 61. Gravity (2013) 62. Game Night (2018) 63. Beetlejuice (1988) 64. A Face in the Crowd (1957) 65. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 66. Three Kings (1999) 67. Mean Streets (1973) 68. Mr. Arkadin (1955) 69. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) 70. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 71. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) 72. Blazing Saddles (1974) 73. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 74. Paddington 2 (2017) 75. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) 76. No Sudden Move (2021) 77. Argo (2012) 78. Dunkirk (2017) 79. Gremlins (1984) 80. Bad Education (2004) 81. Night Nurse (1931) 82. Seven Men from Now (1956) 83. Dirty Harry (1971) 84. The Mule (2018) 85. The Informant! (2009) 86. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 87. Corpse Bride (2005) 88. The Big Sleep (1946) 89. Going in Style (1979) 90. Femme Fatale (2002) 91. The Dark Knight (2008) 92. Training Day (2001) 93. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 94. KIMI (2022) 95. Baby Face (1933) 96. 42nd Street (1933) 97. Midnight Special (2016) 98. Under the Cherry Moon (1986) 99. Let Them All Talk (2020) 100. Swordfish (2001)

Lydia Tár

Because nothing says risk-taking like desperate brand extension. If you want to take risks you do what Spielberg and Lucas did in 1980 and create your own iconic character.

Know it sounds crazy but maybe the guy who made the movie knows what should be in his movie and why.

I know this is a hip new international diverse Academy but I'll believe in them going all in on a chilly uncompromising Jonathan Glazer movie when I see it.

Looked it up. He retroactively regrets passing on Batman simply because he missed a chance to become a Nolan regular. (But now he's in Oppenheimer, so all's well that ends well.) On Superman, all he's got is stuff like this: Which you'd think you know without my help if you really cared about what your boy has to say instead of what could have been 20 years ago.

That's a quote from 2004. Sounds like he was wiser about it then than you are now.

Her turn is coming

This one's not WB. Only as far as home video/re-releases, but originally they had nothing to do with it

FYC

We'll always have McAdams in Game Night

JFK adjusts to 154m which would be more than fine for this.

I am shocked, shocked to find that World of Reel was posting unreliable info

67.39 was Frozen's opening weekend in wide release. It played in 1 theater the week before.

I'm also gonna question your inclusion of Before Midnight, which wasn't distributed by WB anywhere in the world and whose only tie to it seems to be that it was produced "in association with" Castle Rock (whose logo isn't even in the movie). Seems like a stretch.

People thinking and writing about cinema for a living have different perspectives and priorities from 8-year-olds and their tired parents who go see six movies a year. That's a normal thing.

FYC

You've seen Space Jam 2 but not Heat.

I'm gonna ask about Welles' Mr. Arkadin, which WB distributed in at least the U.K. and France. Don't know if that's enough.

If Dustin Hoffman has one more $100m grosser (Megalopolis? another Kung Fu Panda?) he'll have had them every decade going back to the '60s and The Graduate.

The main reason Under the Skin wasn't on the 2013 list is because it wasn't released until 2014.