Everyone loves grand gestures of list-making, and currently everyone is making The Rob Page proud. The Modern Library came up with the Top One Hundred American Novels by Guys, and Radcliffe quickly rebutted with the Top 100 Modern Novels Certainly Not Forgetting Toni Morrison. Naturally, the most inspiring list of the year is the American Film Institute’s Best 100 Films in 100 Years. I know you’ve seen it. This is our answer:
| 1 Annie Hall | 51 Strictly Ballroom |
| 2 Crocodile Dundee | 52 Bananas |
| 3 The Princess Bride | 53 It’s A Gift |
| 4 Perfectly Normal | 54 True Romance |
| 5 My Brilliant Career | 55 42nd Street |
| 6 Dangerous Liaisons | 56 Babette’s Feast |
| 7 Ghostbusters | 57 How to Get Ahead in Advertising |
| 8 Some Like it Hot | 58 Queen Margot |
| 9 Young Frankenstein | 59 Top Hat |
| 10 Enemies: A Love Story | 60 Do the Right Thing |
| 11 Vampire’s Kiss | 61 Casablanca |
| 12 Ocean’s 11 | 62 Kicking & Screaming |
| 13 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf | 63 The Breakfast Club |
| 14 Roadkill | 64 Amadeus |
| 15 Metropolitan | 65 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
| 16 Educating Rita | 66 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
| 17 Indian Runner | 67 Earth Girls Are Easy |
| 18 Bottle Rocket | 68 Hamlet (Olivier OR Branagh) |
| 19 The Russia House | 69 A Fish Called Wanda |
| 20 Hannah & Her Sisters | 70 Heathers |
| 21 Rear Window | 71 The Empire Strikes Back |
| 22 Persuasion | 72 The Jerk |
| 23 Un Coeur en Hiver | 73 The Philadelphia Story |
| 24 A Night at the Opera | 74 The Graduate |
| 25 Raiders of the Lost Ark | 75 Fitzcarraldo |
| 26 Mon Oncle | 76 Saturday Night Fever |
| 27 Sid & Nancy | 77 The Wizard of Oz |
| 28 The Seven Year Itch | 78 Rebecca |
| 29 Days of Heaven | 79 Law of Desire |
| 30 Sixteen Candles | 80 Thelma & Louise |
| 31 Tootsie | 81 The Life of Brian |
| 32 A Room with a View | 82 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould |
| 33 The Right Stuff | 83 My Dinner with Andre |
| 34 Modern Times | 84 Chariots of Fire |
| 35 Blade Runner | 85 Local Hero |
| 36 Trainspotting | 86 When Harry Met Sally... |
| 37 Clerks | 87 Dr. Strangelove |
| 38 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | 88 Tom Jones |
| 39 The Court Jester | 89 Mediterraneo |
| 40 Trading Places | 90 Ridicule |
| 41 Working Girl | 91 Say Anything... |
| 42 Party Girl | 92 Candleshoe |
| 43 Withnail & I | 93 Deconstructing Harry |
| 44 Impromptu | 94 This is Spinal Tap |
| 45 The Apartment | 95 My Own Private Idaho |
| 46 The Player | 96 Silence of the Lambs |
| 47 Hope & Glory | 97 The Trial |
| 48 The Bad & the Beautiful | 98 Dersu Uzala |
| 49 Monty Python & the Holy Grail | 99 Les Trois Couleurs: Bleu |
| 50 Reversal of Fortune | 100 The Unbelievable Truth |