Charade
The great movie-star man, Cary Grant, meets the great movie-star lady, Audrey Hepburn, in a souffle-light thriller-romance-comedy whipped up by Donen, who did blithe American elegance as well as anyone, and writers Marc Behm and Peter Stone. Audrey is a Parisian thief’s widow, now in ignorant possession of his loot, and Cary is a mystery man with a protective or pernicious interest in her. Walter Matthau plays an avuncular type over at the U.S. Treasury office, and James Coburn, George Kennedy and Ned Glass are bad guys whose consecutive demises were considered quite violent for the time. If Charade doesn’t allow the divine Audrey to reveal the aristocratic ache on sublime display in Sabrina (and, frankly, that film is missing from this list only because it would have meant a third Billy Wilder film), it exhibits the seemingly effortless buoyancy that, by the 60s, Hollywood had almost forgotten how to radiate.
A - C
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God
- The Apu Trilogy
- The Awful Truth
- Baby Face
- Bande à part
- Barry Lyndon
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Blade Runner
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Brazil
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Camille
- Casablanca
- Charade
- Children of Paradise
- Chinatown
- Chungking Express
- Citizen Kane
- City Lights
- City of God
- Closely Watched Trains
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange
- The Crowd
D - F
- Day for Night
- The Decalogue
- Detour
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Double Indemnity
- Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Drunken Master II
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
- 8 1/2
- The 400 Blows
- Farewell My Concubine
- Finding Nemo
- The Fly
G - J
- The Godfather, Parts I and II
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Goodfellas (1990)
- A Hard Day's Night
- His Girl Friday
- Ikiru
- In A Lonely Place
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- It's A Gift
- It's a Wonderful Life
K - M
- Kandahar
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- King Kong
- The Lady Eve
- The Last Command
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Léolo
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Man with a Movie Camera
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Metropolis
- Miller's Crossing
- Mon oncle d'Amérique
- Mouchette
N - P
Q - S
- Raging Bull
- Schindler's List
- The Searchers
- Sherlock, Jr.
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Singin' in the Rain
- The Singing Detective
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- Some Like It Hot
- Star Wars
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sunrise
- Sweet Smell of Success
- Swing Time
T - Z
- Taxi Driver
- Tokyo Story
- A Touch of Zen
- Ugetsu
- Talk to Her
- Ulysses' Gaze
- Umberto D
- Unforgiven
- White Heat
- Wings of Desire
- Yojimbo
Behind the List
Great Performances
- Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
- James Cagney, White Heat
- Faye Dunaway, Chinatown
- Cary Grant, Notorious
- Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
- Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game
- Raj Kapoor, Awara
- Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing
- Bill Murray, Groundhog Day
- Brigitte Lin, Swordsman II
Guilty Pleasures
- Gone With the Wind, 1939, Victor Fleming, U.S.
- Tenth Avenue Angel, 1949, Roy Rowland, U.S.
- Sailor Beware, 1951, Hal Walker, U.S.
- Diabolique (Les Diaboliques), 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France
- School Girl, 1971, David Reberg, U.S
- There's Something About Mary,1998, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, U.S.
- Anatomy of a Murder, 1959, Otto Preminger, U.S.
- Gun Crazy, 1949, Joseph H. Lewis, U.S.
- The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957, Jack Arnold, U.S.
- Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990, John Patrick Shanley, U.S.
10 Best Soundtracks
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Citizen Kane
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Laura
- On the Waterfront
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO
- The Man With the Golden Arm
- Jules et Jim
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Roja
