Desert Island Films
Fri., Jan. 7, 2000
These lists, I'm sure, were simply designed to drive the reviewers mad. For myself, I'm certain that on any given day I could create a completely different list. (Just ask, I've already scrapped numerous lists.) Given the unlikeliness of a desert island equipped with a screening room, it's more probable that I would spend my time creating and re-formulating lists to stuff in those legendary messages in a bottle. I'd send them along with my SOS and an explanatory note to the video stores about my ever-accumulating late charges.
Marjorie Baumgarten
1. An American in Paris
2. The Conformist
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
4. The Earrings of Madame de...
5. The Godfather
6. In a Lonely Place
7. Red River
8. The Seven Samurai
9. Some Like It Hot
10. Sunrise
Steve Davis
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. Psycho (1960)
3. Touch of Evil
4. The Apartment
5. It's A Gift
6. Manhattan
7. All About Eve
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. The Searchers
10. The Valley of the Dolls
Robert Faires
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Casablanca
4. My Man Godfrey
5. His Girl Friday
6. The General (1927)
7. On the Town
8. Hail the Conquering Hero
9. Shall We Dance (1937)
10. A Day at the Races
Sarah Hepola
1. American Beauty
2. Annie Hall
3. The Breakfast Club
4. Broadcast News
5. Godfather I & II
6. Harold and Maude
7. It Happened One Night
8. Jerry Maguire
9. Reds
10. Singin' in the Rain
Marc Savlov
1. Some Like It Hot
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Rebel Without a Cause
4. Shock Corridor
5. The Searchers
6. The Producers
7. Citizen Kane
8. Apocalypse Now
9. Wild at Heart
10. Forbidden Planet
Russell Smith
1. All About Eve
2. Chinatown
3. Twelve Angry Men
4. The 400 Blows
5. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
6. This Is Spinal Tap
7. My Dinner With Andre
8. Kiss Me Deadly
9. The Punk Rock Movie
10. Network
