The Film-Lover's Check List: Rolling Stone Magazine's "100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years" (1999)

Rolling Stone Magazine's "100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years" (1999)

Rolling Stone Personal Tastes #1


1.	The Godfather (1972)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	The Godfather, Part III (1990)
2.	Vertigo (1958)
3.	The Searchers (1956)
4.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5.	Citizen Kane (1941)
6.	Raging Bull (1980)
7.	Chinatown (1974)
8.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
9.	Blue Velvet (1986)
10.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
11.	King Kong (1933)
12.	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
13.	Fargo (1996)
14.	All About Eve (1950)
15.	Do the Right Thing (1989)
16.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
17.	Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
18.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
19.	Nashville (1975)
20.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
21.	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
22.	Brazil (1985)
23.	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
24.	Badlands (1973)
25.	Don't Look Now (1973)

Mainstream Hits (that still have juice)


26.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
27.	Casablanca (1942)
28.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
29.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
30.	On the Waterfront (1954)
31.	Jaws (1975)
32.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
33.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
34.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
35.	The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Rolling Stone Personal Tastes #2


36.	Ed Wood (1994)
37.	Faces (1968)
38.	Annie Hall (1977)
39.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
40.	Straw Dogs (1971)
41.	The Third Man (1949)
42.	All the President's Men (1976)
43.	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
44.	Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
45.	Written On the Wind (1956)
46.	Swing Time (1936)
47.	The Red Shoes (1948)
48.	Network (1976)
49.	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
50.	The Graduate (1967)

Foreign-Language Films


51.	M (1931)
52.	Zero For Conduct (1933)
53.	The Rules of the Game (1939)
54.	Children of Paradise (1945)
55.	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
56.	The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
57.	Tokyo Story (1953)
58.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
59.	Pather Panchali (1955)
60.	Breathless (1960)
61.	The 400 Blows (1959)
62.	La Dolce Vita (1960)
63.	Viridiana (1961)
64.	Persona (1966)
65.	The Conformist (1970)
66.	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
67.	Seven Beauties (1975)
68.	Wings of Desire (1987)
69.	Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
70.	The Killer (1989)

Rolling Stone Personal Tastes #3


71.	City Lights (1931)
72.	Cabaret (1972)
73.	Quiz Show (1994)
74.	A Night At the Opera (1935)
75.	The Producers (1968)
76.	Lost In America (1985)
77.	The Terminator (1984)
78.	White Heat (1949)
79.	His Girl Friday (1940)
80.	Out of the Past (1947)
81.	The Piano (1993)
82.	Blowup (1966)
83.	Blow Out (1981)
84.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
85.	Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
86.	Ninotchka (1939)
87.	Diner (1982)
88.	To Sleep With Anger (1990)
89.	Unforgiven (1992)
90.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
91.	Lone Star (1996)
92.	The Naked Kiss (1964)
93.	The Crying Game (1992)
94.	Broadcast News (1987)
95.	Dead Ringers (1988)
96.	My Little Chickadee (1940)
97.	Night of the Living Dead (1968)
98.	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
99.	Intolerance (1916)
100.	Freaks (1932)

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(description from Filmsite.org)

Rolling Stone Magazine (in its 1999 end of the year Millennium issue) and film critic Peter Travers offered picks for the best (or essential) movies of the last 100 years that were made by mavericks who "busted rules to follow their obsessions...in the defiant spirit of rock & roll."

Facts and Commentary About the List:

(1) Criteria for Selection:

.....(a) Each movie had to "embody that rock spirit of artful defiance," and each director was limited to only one movie.

.....(b) The biggest cash cows (e.g., Titanic, 1997), the winner of the most Oscars (e.g., Ben-Hur, 1959), or film-school standards (Battleship Potemkin, 1925) aren't included.

(2) "They're alive."

The films in the 100 list appeared ranked, but then were grouped into such arbitrary categories as "freaky" films, "mainstream" films, and "foreign-language" films.

Website with list: Rolling Stone Magazine's "100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years"