Top 100, April 2005
1 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
I am the Earth Mother and you are all flops!
2 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
Was it dark?
3 All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz)
Heaven help me. I love a psychotic!
4 The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)
Be whatever you like. You’re my Redhead.
5 Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Not everybody gets corrupted.
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
I can’t remember anything without you.
7 Jules et Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
We played with life and lost.
8 The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey)
If you’re broken it’s because you’re brittle.
9 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990, Tom Stoppard)
Words, words! They’re all we have to go on!
10 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
It’s very comfortable just to drift here.
11 His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
You’re wonderful, in a loathesome sort of way.
12 The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory)
It’s not scandalous at all… Just a sentimental old love story.
13 Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
Everything’s going to be all right.
14 Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze)
We are what we love, not what loves us.
15 Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
I lurve you, I loave you, I luff you.
16 Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
I stick my neck out for nobody.
17 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (1964, Jacques Demy)
Why is absence so heavy to bear?
18 Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
It is not only possible; it is essential.
19 The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)
Know what, love?
20 Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
Oh! how I’ll believe in those peanuts!
21. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
That’s the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.
22 The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry)
There is no such obligation.
23 Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
24 Dead Again (1991, Kenneth Branagh)
I would never hurt you, Margaret.
25 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
26 American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it…
27 Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain (2001, Pierre Jeunet)
I’m nobody’s little weasel.
28 Pleasantville (1998, Gary Ross)
Do you really want her back the way she was?
29 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
I’m quietly judging you.
30 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
Your personality left a lot to be desired. Namely, a personality.
31 The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
32 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (1967, Jaques Demy)
I must be avant-garde and paint what’s in my heart.
33 Truly Madly Deeply (1991, Anthony Minghella)
My feet will want to march to where you are sleeping, but I shall go on living.
34 Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
You’re not hopeless.
35 Six Degrees of Separation (1993, Fred Schepisi)
Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
36 The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
I’m going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.
37 Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Everyone has credentials here.
38 Angels in America (2003, Mike Nichols)
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
39 The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
It’s not true. He didn’t come anywhere near my tabloids.
40 Clue (1985, Jonathan Lynn)
Flames, flames… on the side of my face!
41 Howards End (1992, James Ivory)
We’re not odd; we’re just over-expressive.
42 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
This is an adventure.
43 The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
Life is pain, Highness.
44 The African Queen (1951, John Huston)
By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
45 The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges)
It’s the right thing to do.
46 Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980, François Truffaut)
It hurts to look at you.
47 Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson)
Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
48 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
49 Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood)
My darling, my blood.
50 Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
If one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love.
51 Les Diaboliques (The Devils) (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
52 Love and Death (1975, Woody Allen)
The last traces of the shimmering dusk are setting behind the quickly darkening evening, and it’s only noon.
53 Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier)
In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.
54 Adam’s Rib (1949, George Cukor)
Let’s all be manly!
55 Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
56 The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
57 I <3 Huckabees (2004, David O. Russell)
How am I not myself?
58 8 Femmes (2002, François Ozon)
You never do.
59 12 Angry Men (1957, Sydney Lumet)
I’m sick and tired of facts.
60 Wit (2001, Mike Nichols)
Publish and perish.
61 Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
62 When Harry Met Sally… (1989, Rob Reiner)
You realize, of course, that we could never be friends.
63 Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
I think, I feel, I suffer.
64 Garden State (2004, Zach Braff)
Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.
65 Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh)
I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
66 Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?
67 Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack)
I paid a price for everything I own.
68 Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
69 The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
You never had a camera in my head.
70 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!
71 JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
72 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.
73 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
God is a luxury I cannot afford.
74 Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman.
75 On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
I coulda been a contender.
76 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
This patient is dead.
77 Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)
Nobody commits murder just for the experience of committing it. Nobody except us.
78 The American President (1995, Rob Reiner)
If you were a dork, you should say you’re sorry.
79 Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
How do you like that? I buried the lead.
80 Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis)
Let us go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
81 Secretary (2002, Steven Shainberg)
Who’s to say that love needs to be soft and gentle?
82 North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
I’m an advertising man, not a red herring!
83 Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
I’m going to feel this way until I don’t feel this way anymore.
84 Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)
It’s because I like you I don’t want to be with you.
85 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuaron)
Your heart is where you truly live!
86 Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
You cannot compromise an artist’s vision.
87 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer)
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
88 Antonia (Antonia’s Line) (1995, Marlene Gorris)
This is no time for Schopenhauer. This is important.
89 Pride and Prejudice (1995, Simon Langton)
Are you not excessively diverted?
90 Gods and Monsters (1998, Bill Condon)
You must think the whole world is queer.
91 A Room With a View (1985, James Ivory)
My vision is within! Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!
92 Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.
93 Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
Please. What good is tenderness?
94 Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden)
I will have poetry in my life, and adventure, and love.
95 Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
You never knocked me down!
96 21 Grams (2003, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it.
97 Prick Up Your Ears (1987, Stephen Frears)
Unzip our trusty Remington, John — we shall piss on this person from a great height!
98 Spider (2002, David Cronenberg)
Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need of the clothes.
99 Stage Door (1937, Gregory La Cava)
We started off on the wrong foot. Let’s stay that way.
100 Tadpole (2002, Gary Winick)
15-40. A ratio you seem particularly fond of.
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