Tuesday, June 17, 2008

100 Greatest Films of All Time!!!!

This is my list of films that I believe are the greatest of all time. My criteria is very unscientific. The best films are the ones that have either moved me, inspired others, changed film history or are just plain great... and in no particular order did they weigh in... and the greatest thing? You don't have to agree with me!

01. Citizen Kane

Orson Welles (1941)

02. The 400 Blows

François Truffaut (1959)

03. Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa (1954)

04. Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee (1989)

05. Blade Runner

Ridley Scott (1982)

06. La Jetee

Chris Marker (1962)

07. Annie Hall

Woody Allen (1978)

08. The Ice Storm

Ang Lee (1997)

09. M

Fritz Land (1931)

10. Brazil

Terry Gilliam (1985)

11. 8 ½

Federico Fellini (1963)

12. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

John Cassavetes (1976)

13. The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo (1965)

14. Casablanca

Michael Curtiz (1942)

15. Fargo

The Coen Brothers (1996)

16. Eraserhead

David Lynch (1977)

17. An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey (1957)

18. On The Waterfront

Elia Kazan (1954)

19. Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock (1941)

20. This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner (1984)

21. The Killing

Stanley
Kubrick (1956)
22. Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly (2001)

23. Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

24.
Richard III
Laurence Olivier (1955)

25. Videodrome

David Cronenberg (1983)

26. The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

27. My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant (1991)

28. The Thin Man

W.S. Van Dyke (1934)

29. City of God

Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund (2002)

30. Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder (1951)

31. Badlands

Terrence Malick (1974)

32. Meet Me In St. Louis

Vincente Minnelli (1944)

33. The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)

34. The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim W (1940)

35. Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean (1962)

36. Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone (1968)

37. The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller (1951)

38. Me Left Foot

Jim Sheridan (1989)

39. Life of Brian

Terry Jones (1979)

40. Leon

Luc Besson (1994)

41. if…

Lindsay Anderson (1968)

42. The Third Man

Carol Reed (1949)

43. MASH

Robert Altman (1970)

44. Chinatown

Roman Polanski (1974)

45. Phantasm

Don Coscarelli (1979)

46. Star Wars

George Lucas (1977)

47. Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir (1975)

48. All That Jazz

Bob Fosse (1979)

49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Milos
Foreman (1975)
50. Robocop

Paul Verhoeven (1987)

51. Ed Wood

Tim Burton (1994)

52. It’s a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra (1946)

53. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley
Kubrick (1968)
54. Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman (1957)

55. The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming (1939)

56. Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Werner Herzog (1972)

57. Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau (1922)

58. King Kong

Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)

59. Duck Soup

Leo McCarey (1933)

60. Ran

Akiru Kurosawa (1985)

61. The Maltese Falcon

John Huston (1941)

62. North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

63. The Exorcist

William Friedkin (1973)

64. Network

Sidney Lumet (1976)

65. Halloween

John Carpenter (1978)

66. Henry V

Laurence Olivier (1944)

67. Suspiria

Dario Argento (1977)

68. Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis (1985)

69. The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont (1994)

70. The Right Stuff

Philip Kaufman (1983)

71. Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater (1993)

72. The General

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (1926)

73. Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock (1960)

74. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

John Ford (1962)

75.
City
Lights

Charles Chaplin (1931
)
76. Nashville

Robert Altman (1975)

77. Metropolis

Fritz Lang (1926)

78. The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola (1972)

79. Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino (1994)

80. The Usual Suspects

Bryan Singer (1995)

81. American Beauty

Sam Mendes (1999)

82. Jaws

Steven Spielberg (1975)

83. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Dreyer (1928)

84. Some Like it Hot

Billy Wilder (1959)

85. Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese (1976)

86. Greed

Erich von Stroheim (1924)

87. Punch-Drunk Love

Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)

88. Russian Ark

Aleksandr Sokurov (2002)

89. The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson (2001)

90. The Tin Drum

Volker Schlöndorff (1979)

91. Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton
Trumbo (1971)
92. Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard (1963)

93. Ivan the Terrible: Part One

Sergei Eisenstein (1944)

94. Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick (1957)

95. Gospel According to St. Matthew

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964)

96. Ivan the Terrible: Part Two

Sergei Eisenstein (1946)

97. The Evil Dead

Sam Raimi (1981)

98. GhostBusters

Ivan Reitman (1984)

99. Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero (1968)

100. The Red Balloon

Albert Lamorisse (1956)

Saturday, June 14, 2008

I Hate Cars

I bought a beautiful new car (to me) a few months back, great car, great price... really happy! Lately though... really pissed...

The air compressor blew up, no AC, and the first quote I got to fix it was $2,200.00?!?!?! WTF?! That's over a third the price of the car?!

The front grill insert had come loose, and now, it's on a highway somewhere?!

The glove box latch is broken... useless glove box?!

And now, the cup holder won't click back into place?!?!?! WTF?!

This is post $1,000.00 of work that was done by the previous owner right before I bought it. What else can go wrong?! Did I mention it got some hale damage a few weeks ago?

So now, this car, which I want to sell, is worth about half of what I bought it for. I've made 3 payments on it. Sometimes I think God hates me and my punishment is my cars (if you know we, you know my history with them).

I hate cars.

Josh

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Tech Support Help?

Here are a few tips for when you have to call technical support for any problem.

1. Remember your name and where you live, we are going to ask you, and it doesn't make you look too bright when you have to "think about" what your last name is.

2. Think before you speak. When you are asked to turn on your computer, don't ask me if I'm going to do that for you... I can't control your Dell over the phone, if I could, I would have caught it on fire by now.

3. When asked a Yes or No question... answer Yes or No, do not tell me yes, and then start to explain something that has absolutely no bearing on the current situation. The fact that you washed your car yesterday while your laptop was in your briefcase in the passenger seat is not the reason you are unable to get online, if you think it is, please disconnect your service and go with a different provider. Thank you.

Josh

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Cox Communications | Wall of Shame

These are actual quotes from customers while on a call with Tech Support:
"Do you like Manwhiches? It's kind of like a Nu Way."

"What's wrong with my TV... it keeps flashing off and bleeding then coming on and bleeding."

"Your tech just came out and installed my phone, now my garbage disposal doesn't work."
You're welcome,
Josh