the 100 greatest movies of all-time....

[Conor Dary]

A whopping 58 of the 100 films on Variety's list are not on either of the BFI lists. Of those 58, 50 were wholly (43) or partially (7) produced in the USA. The ten highest-ranked are listed in the following table, and all 100 are listed in the attached file. (Change the file extension from .txt to .csv to open it in your spreadsheet application program of choice.)

Rank	Title	Year	Country	Director
2	The Wizard of Oz	1939	USA	Victor Fleming
5	Pulp Fiction	1994	USA	Quentin Tarantino
8	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	USA	Frank Capra
9	All About Eve	1950	USA	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10	Saving Private Ryan	1998	USA	Steven Spielberg
17	Nashville	1975	USA	Robert Altman
21	Gone with the Wind	1939	USA	Victor Fleming
25	Bringing Up Baby	1938	USA	Howard Hawks
27	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	USA	Arthur Penn
29	Double Indemnity	1944	USA	Billy Wilder

Too Late for Tears is a great film noir. Lizabeth Scott makes Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity look like Mother Teresa.

[Davidokun]

Great Book - Good Movie category:

"Sophie's Choice" William Styron

Others:

"Misery" Stephen King
"Life of Pi" Yann Martel

Other Nominations?

The Hunt for Red October
The Caine Mutiny

[Davidokun]

A whopping 58 of the 100 films on Variety's list are not on either of the BFI lists. Of those 58, 50 were wholly (43) or partially (7) produced in the USA. The ten highest-ranked are listed in the following table, and all 100 are listed in the attached file. (Change the file extension from .txt to .csv to open it in your spreadsheet application program of choice.)

Rank	Title	Year	Country	Director
2	The Wizard of Oz	1939	USA	Victor Fleming
5	Pulp Fiction	1994	USA	Quentin Tarantino
8	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	USA	Frank Capra
9	All About Eve	1950	USA	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10	Saving Private Ryan	1998	USA	Steven Spielberg
17	Nashville	1975	USA	Robert Altman
21	Gone with the Wind	1939	USA	Victor Fleming
25	Bringing Up Baby	1938	USA	Howard Hawks
27	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	USA	Arthur Penn
29	Double Indemnity	1944	USA	Billy Wilder

[Trickstat]

What was that book about English soccer that was made into a movie with Jimmy Fallon having a love afair with the Boston Red Sox?

That was Fever Pitch. Nick Hornby wrote both that book and High Fidelity. I've seen the 1997 UK version of Fever Pitch but not the 2005 US one.

[KDFINE]

What was that book about English soccer that was made into a movie with Jimmy Fallon having a love afair with the Boston Red Sox?

[Trickstat]

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The book was set in England, was written by a Brit and all the main characters were British. The worry is that by setting the film in a completely different country you would lose what made the book enjoyable. The setting and the characters would just not work.

[The Klingon]

Perhaps a relatively obscure one. High Fidelity - I liked the book, but, like most Brits, my expectations were lowered when the movie is set in the US but it was probably better than a UK based version was likely to be.

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[Trickstat]

Great Book - Good Movie category:

"Sophie's Choice" William Styron

Others:

"Misery" Stephen King
"Life of Pi" Yann Martel

Other Nominations?

Perhaps a relatively obscure one. High Fidelity - I liked the book, but, like most Brits, my expectations were lowered when the movie is set in the US but it was probably better than a UK based version was likely to be.

[bambam1729]

I've seen all those made in English, very few of those not.


Best for me, by far - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Followed by

Deliverance (the book was written by a poet and very beautiful - the movie was a little more . . . graphic)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Exorcist
Jaws
Seabiscuit
2001
To Kill a Mockingbird

Best for me - of serious movies:

Once Upon a Time in America (#1 by far)
The Day of the Jackal
Chinatown
Rollerball
The Natural
Pleasantville
Spotlight
Diner
Three Days of the Condor
Marathon Man

[Atticus]

I do a little bit better with the Variety's 100. Of the top 100, I have heard of 57. Of that 57 I have seen 22.

I've seen all those made in English, very few of those not.

Great Book - Good Movie category:
Other Nominations?

Best for me, by far - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Followed by

Deliverance (the book was written by a poet and very beautiful - the movie was a little more . . . graphic)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Exorcist
Jaws
Seabiscuit
2001
To Kill a Mockingbird

[DET59]

Great Book - Good Movie category:

"Sophie's Choice" William Styron

Others:

"Misery" Stephen King
"Life of Pi" Yann Martel

Other Nominations?

[The Klingon]

I do a little bit better with the Variety's 100. Of the top 100, I have heard of 57. Of that 57 I have seen 22.

[bad hammy]

Now this is a list I can relate to--Variety's Top 100 (I've seen 9 of the top 10, as I'm sure many of you have)
https://variety.com/lists/best-movie...aduate-1967-2/

Definitely a less movie-snobish list that the BFI/SAS lists. While the top 10 is rock solid I'd argue that a few of others later down the list are unworthy, but at least I've seen more than half of them! Also has a decent number of my all-time favs on it.

[gh]

Now this is a list I can relate to--Variety's Top 100 (I've seen 9 of the top 10, as I'm sure many of you have)
https://variety.com/lists/best-movie...aduate-1967-2/

I've seen the top 12 and 18 of top 20

[Walt Murphy]

Now this is a list I can relate to--Variety's Top 100 (I've seen 9 of the top 10, as I'm sure many of you have)

https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-of-all-time/the-graduate-1967-2/