Sundry Ruminations: November 2004 Archives

Nobody asked, but I gather this is something of a weblogging right-of-passage. In any case, I knew I'd started this list somewhere, and figured this is as good a place as any to keep it

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. The King of Comedy
3. The Naked Gun
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Fountainhead
6. Duck Soup
7. The Godfather II
8. The Meaning of Life
9. The Seven Samurai
10. Groundhog Day

A few honorable mentions, in no particular order:

• Carrie
• Goodfellas
• The Maltese Falcon
• As Good as it Gets
• Citizen Kane
• The Birds
• The Godfather
• You Can't Take It with You
• Adventures in Babysitting
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• The Missouri Breaks
• Annie Hall
• Donnie Darko
• The Wizard of Oz
• Brazil
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
• Patton
• Bad Santa
• The Producers
• U-571
• Contact
• 8 1/2
• Apollo 13
• Dead Ringers
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Gettysburg
• The Right Stuff
• Naked Lunch
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Amadeus
• Dead Man
• Blazing Saddles
• The Color of Money
• Galaxy Quest
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Jerk

I'll undoutedly think of more. Ranking these is reminiscent of any peer reviewed process / process involving grading or ranking : broadly accurate, but fickle at the margins...