I literally can’t even right now. When I read TimeOut New Yorks 100 Best Movies of All Time, I was intrigued. Their progression was interesting (though personally I’d have a couple of these at different places on the list), a little bit “hipster”, but all and all made sense. Then I got to the number one spot. Tootsie.
I sat and stared at the number one listing. I read the film title over and over again. I understood the words that I was reading, but they just didn’t make sense. Tootsie.
I could smell the smoke from my brain. A movie about a cross-dressing Dustin Hoffman (currently with an IMDB rating of 7.4) beat out films like Raging Bull (8.3) and Pulp Fiction (8.9). Tootsie.
It’s arguably not a BAD movie, per-say, but THE best movie of all time? Tootsie.
Here is TimeOut’s entire list. What are your thoughts? Would you make any changes to this list?
1. Tootsie
2. The Godfather
3. A Woman Under the Influence
4. Cinema Paradiso
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. The Godfather Part 2
7. Annie Hall
8. Boogie Nights
9. The Red Shoes
10. Taxi Driver
11. Dog Day Afternoon
12. Goodfellas
13. Withnail and I
14. Kes
15. The Wizard of Oz
16. On the Waterfront
17. The Shining
18. Breaking the Waves
19. Pulp Fiction
20. Gladiator
21. La Haine
22. Jaws
23. Raging Bull
24. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
25. Some Like It hot
26. Fargo
27. Rosemary’s Baby
28. The Night of the Hunter
29. Chinatown
30. The Apartment
31. La Vie en Rose
32. There Will Be Blood
33. All About Eve
34. Life is Beautiful
35. Apocalypse Now
36. The Philadelphia Story
37. The Sting
38. Waiting for Guffman
39. Citizen Kane
40. Singin’ in the Rain
41. Festen
42. The Lives of Others
43. American Beauty
44. Leon (The Professional)
45. A Star is Born
46. Casablanca
47. A Matter of Life and Death
48. An American in Paris
49. Mean Streets
50. The Empire Strikes Back
51. The Turin Horse
52. The Princess Bride
53. This is England
54. The Royal Tenenbaums
55. Gone With the Wind
56. Midnight Cowboy
57. Nil By Mouth
58. Requiem for a Dream
59. All That Jazz
60. Truly Madly Deeply
61. Harold and Maude
62. Notorious
63. Being There
64. A Clockwork Orange
65. It’s a Wonderful Life
66. The Sacrifice
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
68. Monster
69. A Streetcar Named Desire
70. Blade Runner
71. The Thin Red Line
72. The General
73. The Third Man
74. Amour
75. Tender Mercies
76. Tokyo Story
77. Star Wars
78. A Room for Romeo Brass
79. Scenes From a Marriage
80. Naked
81. The Goonies
82. Brazil
83. Hidden
84. The Deer Hunter
85. The Piano
86. The Grand Budapest hotel
87. Carmen Jones
88. The African Queen
89. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
90. Y Tu Mama Tambien
91. The Hustler
92. Sophie’s Choice
93. Whiplash
94. Love Actually
95. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
96. Paris, Texas
97. Persona
98. Crimes and Misedemeanours
99. The Great Beauty
100. Schindler’s List