Best Independent Films – 25 Best Independent Movies of All Time – ELLE. 1. Melvin and Howard (1980) Photo: MCA/Universal Pictures/Photofest Mary Steenburgen plays a sassy stripper in Jonathan Demme’s early comedy. When her jealous mate incites her boss to fire her, she whips off her costume and sashays out of the room in nothing but heels. 2. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Photo: Fine Line/Photofest Gus Van Sant’s quasi- Shakespearean road movie is a cabinet of wonders, but its beating heart is a conversation about love around a hobo fire between wandering hustlers River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, only one of whom is lost. 3. Photo: Courtesy of the Everett Collection Proof that less is more: The sole survivor of a trio of college students enters the rubblestrewn house of their invisible tormenter and shuffles into a corner, submissive to whatever lethal horror is about to befall him. 4. Photo: © Fox Searchlight/Everett Collection 5. Photo: © Aries Films/Everett Collection 6. 7.
Photo: © Gramercy/Everett Collection 8. Photo: © Focus Features/Everett Collection 9. 100 Best Movie Soundtracks. 1. A Hard Day's Night (1964) - The Beatles It was the G7sus4 heard 'round the world. You may not recognize that chord by name, but you'd instantly know it as the ringing opening salvo of ''A Hard Day's Night,'' the soundtrack that turned a nation into a glee club. In 1964, the Beatles had already taken over our radios and TV sets when they decided to commandeer our movie palaces, too. 2. Let's start at the very beginning: Rodgers and Hammerstein's final work first won fans on Broadway. 3. Disco might forever be remembered as mere kitsch if we didn't have ''Fever'' to remind us that it was also the unlikely music of emancipation. West Side Story (1961) - L. Sondheim, Bernstein, Shakespeare... and blade-wielding street gangs? The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Harold Arlen/Cast Everything about this movie has been part of our cultural consciousness for so long as to acquire the force of myth. 6.
The Graduate (1967) - Simon & Garfunkel The Godfather (1972) - Nino Rota 9. 11. 12. 15. 21. 51. 61. 71. Top 15 Indie Films. Movies and TV Some of the best films that come out are indie films. These are films produced by independent film makers and they are often (though not always) low budget films. Based upon user voting at the Internet Movie Database (and a touch of my own discretion), this is a list of the top 15 Indie films of all time. I personally vouch that each and every one of these films is outstanding. 15. Requiem for a Dream exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). 14. The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. 13. Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. 12. An American film classic, based upon a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel: In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5.
ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME. You like us, you really like us. You also hate us. Anyway, you click on us, which is the surest way a website has of measuring interest in its content. The All-TIME 100 Movies feature—compiled by Richard Schickel and me, and handsomely packaged by Josh Macht, Mark Coatney and all the smart folks at TIME.com—attracted a record-busting 7.8 million page views in its first week, including 3.5 million on May 23rd, its opening daym, in time for Father’s Day. Thousands of readers have written in to cheer or challenge our selections, and thousands more have voted for their own favorites. The idea was to assemble 100 estimable films since TIME began, with the March 3, 1923 issue.
Not so simple, in fact, for we faced a couple of complications. Why do the list? LISTOMANIA I feel one of my grand gender generalizations coming on, and I can’t resist it, so here goes. As with baseball, so with favorite movies, TV shows, comics. I too was a teenage listmaker. But, pardon me, we’re better. Ah, Leone. The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies. The best films of the '00s | Film. 50 Best Movies of 2010. Much has been debated about the quality of the top movies released this year, but that we were able to pull together a list of the 50 best movies of 2010 means it couldn't have been so bad after all. After the jump, we count down our favorite movies of the year, from the mind-bending 'Inception' to the movie that may have defined our generation, 'The Social Network.' Think you can figure out which movie topped our list?
There's only one way to find out. - the Moviefone Editors, Dec. 21, 2010 50. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 49. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 48. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 47. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 46. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 45. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 44. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 43. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 42. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 41. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 40. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 39. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 38. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 37. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 36. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 35. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 34. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 33. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 32. Rotten Tomatoes Rating 31. 30. 29. The 50 Best Movies of 2009. Call us greedy, but we've said it once, and we'll say it again: Ten is not enough.
While nearly all movie critics engage in the time-honored tradition of ranking their picks for 10 best flicks of the year, we prefer to take this time of year to recognize the admirable quantity of quality movies being produced, despite our occasional moaning that says otherwise. Therefore, like we have the past several years, we count to 50.
The big stories from 2009's list: Family fare ruled, with four animated films ranking in our top 15. It was also a good year for action and big budget movies, even if six of the year's 10 highest grossing movies didn't make the cut (prior to 'Avatar's' final figures, anyway). Presenting our 50 favorite films of 2009... 50. Watch the Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews 49. Watch the Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews 48. Watch the Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews 47. Watch the Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews 46. Watch the Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews 44. 45. 43. 42. The 100 Best Movies of the Noughties: the best films released in the UK from 2000-2009. The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amélie, The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras. But despite the wild variety among our 50 Best Movies from 2000-2009, each is an exquisitely made, exceptionally satisfying piece of cinema that we believe will endure well after the decade has ended.
There are masters like Martin Scorcese and Lars Von Trier, and relative newcomers like Fernando Meirelles and Anna Boden. There are documentaries, comedies and dramas, as well as animated films and even a super-hero flick. Mirroring a decade of globalism, the filmmakers are from the United States, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland, France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Romania, Thailand, Brazil, and nearly every part of the U.K. Let these be our recommendations for your Netflix queue—or in the case of #21, a theater near you. 50. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. The 50 Best Movies of 2008.
Most movie critics make it an annual tradition to rank their top 10 films of the year. We think that's way too limiting -- what with instantly classic superhero flicks ('The Dark Knight,' 'Iron Man'), top-notch comedies ('Tropic Thunder,' 'Role Models'), fantastic family fare ('WALL-E,' 'Kung Fu Panda') and must-see Oscar contenders ('Milk,' 'Slumdog Millionaire') all in the running. Believe it or not, we've got 42 more where those came from ... Presenting our third annual list of the year's 50 best movies. 50. 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' The alien-themed plot (not to mention that scene where Shia LaBeouf channels Tarzan) incurred the wrath of some diehard Indy fans -- and earned the flick a hilariously controversial send-up courtesy of 'South Park.' But at its essence, 'Crystal Skull' keeps up with the previous 'Jones'es, delivering a long-awaited, and whip-cracking, fourth dose of our favorite globe-trotting archaeologist. -- Tom DiChiara 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44.