Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Every six months I make up a list of my top 25 films of all time. Despite the "all time" bit, the list does change significantly every time I make it. Certainly there's a certain arbitrary-ness to it, but hey... I've been doing it since 2001.

Format is Rank) Title (Director, Year) [Previous rank]

1) His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) [7]
2) The Third Man (Reed, 1949) [1]
3) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958) [18]
4) Amelie (Jeunet, 2001) [5]
5) Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971) [3]
( The rest... )

And now, for the first time, the list of candidates that didn't make the cut (but just barely):

( Oooh, more films )

Yes, argue the point that it can't really be of all time if I change it every 6 months, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm posting a large list of films I consider awesome. It's something I do every February and August. Tradition.

Oh, and I've officially named slot 25, which is where I put one film that I absolutely love, despite the fact that there's others out there that I think are better. A film that taps into my own personal brainpan for reasons that science cannot fathom. It is now called the Geekgasm slot.

( The list follows )

Every six months, I put together a list of the Top 25 Films of This Time, i.e the movies that I currently think are the swellest of the swell. Some films haven't left the list since I started keeping it in the Fall of 2001. Others have come and gone...

( And winnahs are... )