European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse On videos a reviews top i videos these re the Best videos Ever a Wanna argue Columbia pictures a scene from a Lawrence of Yardley Washington Post wrong wrong wrong. The whippersnappers at entertainment weekly polled themselves and some of their friends the other Day to determine Quot the 100 Best movies on last month they published the results and that s what they were wrong wrong wrong. To be sure they took in mind the shortcomings of television a a on the Small screen Lawrence of Arabia looks like an insurrection on an ant farm and it Isnit on our and of course they re looking for disagreements and arguments that a Paramount Jack Nicholson in part of the fun of Lis making. Well they be got disagreements and arguments from me. So you re waiting for a really Good list right Here s what really Are the top 20 movies with the ranking on entertainment weekly s list in parentheses where applicable. 1. Jules and Jim 29. Francois Truffaut a dark lyrical heartbreaking Romance. I will watch it to the end of my life and never get enough of it 1961. 2. Henry v. Lawrence Olivier s version to be joined on the list by Kenneth Branagh s As soon As the tape becomes available 1945. 3. The Man who would be King. John Huston s account not his first but his Best of the wages of greed 1975. 4. Lawrence of Arabia. Who cares about the Little screen David leans masterpiece would be great on a postage stamp 1962. 5. The Philadelphia Story. Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn James Stewart who could ask for anything More 1940 6. Chinatown 7. Forget Robert Towne s politics and revel in what roman Polanski does with his people and Story 1974. 7. Citizen Kane 2. Too much film school adulation has taken some of its Edge off but Orson Welles showed everyone How to make movies in this genuine original 1941. 8. The Lavender Hill mob 1951the lady killers 1955 and the horses Mouth 1958. That entertainment weekly could omit these Alec guinness classics defies explanation. 9. Gone with the wind 46. Another Case of Small screen be damned. The years have exposed some of its Creaky machinery but it s still the big one 1939. 10. Its always fair weather. Cyd Charisse Dan Dailey Gene Kelly and Michael Kidd in a yes i love singing in the rain too a the Best movie musical of them All 1955. 12. The treasure of the Sierra Madre 67. Humphrey Bogart gets greedy and Huston does t let him get away with it 1948. 13. Some like it hot 97. Lean s favorite comedy Billy Wilder directed and at the top of his form 1959. 14. Hamlet. Olivier s second filmed Shakespeare in t As successful cinematically As his first but the acting is out of this world. The plays not bad either 1948. 15. The Garden of the Finzi Continio. Vittorio de Sicas miniature of Europe at the Dawn of catastrophe is literally a film for the Ages 1971. 16. Brief encounter. Leans first film As director. Even if you know it by heart it still has the Power to Surprise and move you 1945. 17. Pygmalion. A remarkably faithful adaptation of George Bernard Shaw that tinkers Only slightly with the ending 1938. 18. Beat the Devil. Huston played this one As it Laid a Truman capote did the on the spot screenplay a and got wrenching by funny performances from Bogart Jennifer Jones Peter Lorre Robert Morley and others 1954. 19. The magnificent seven. Yes. I know. Its schlock pure and simple. But if you can sit unmoved As the hired guns fend off the bandits you be a Stonier heart than i do. And James Coburn is too much 1960. 20. Jazz on a Summers Day. Personal reasons have something to do with this a i was there a but this Day in the life of the Newport jazz festival is the Best film perhaps indeed the Only Good one Ever made about jazz 1959. Not that the list Means a thing to anyone except me. But its hot and the orioles Are fading so turn on the air conditioner pop open the Var and have a Nice argument. These were the top 10 videocassettes in . Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. 1 driving miss Daisy Warner. 2 born on the fourth of july Mca 3 hard to kill Warner. 4 internal affairs Paramount. 5 the War of the roses lbs Fox. 6 steel magnolias Ria Columbia. 7 Blue steel Mem a. 8 Blaze Touchstone. 9 tango amp Cash Warner. 10 always Mca top 10 videos sales were 1 the Little Mermaid Disney.2 step by step new kids on the Block lbs. 3 teenage mutant ninja turtles super Rock steady family. 4 die hard lbs Fox. 5 . Hammer please Hammer done to Hurt Mem Capitol. 6 lethal weapon 2 Warner-1989. 7 new kids on the Block hanging Tough live lbs. 8 Honey i shrunk the kids Disney. 9 top gun Paramount. 10 Bambi , september 9,1990 to plus c
