This list is
circa 2005, but I saw it floating around today and figured I'd share it with you all, along of course with my thoughts on what was left off the list (not counting post 2005 releases, so that excludes scripts I'd otherwise include like The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Fountain, Half Nelson, Stranger than Fiction, Juno, The Wrestler, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Up in the Air, (500) Days of Summer, Inglourious Basterds, Blue Valentine, and The Social Network, among others of course). It's obviously not a perfect list, and there are some glaring omissions, but overall it's more than solid enough to be worth our time. If nothing else, it'll be a nice discussion piece to end the weekend on if you so desire. Anyway, enough rambling from me about this. On with the list!
Here you go:
| 1. | CASABLANCA
Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
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| 2. | THE GODFATHER
Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo
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| 3. | CHINATOWN
Written by Robert Towne
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| 4. | CITIZEN KANE
Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
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| 5. | ALL ABOUT EVE
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on “The Wisdom of Eve,” a short story and radio play by Mary Orr
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| 6. | ANNIE HALL
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
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| 7. | SUNSET BLVD.
Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.
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| 8. | NETWORK
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
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| 9. | SOME LIKE IT HOT
Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Based on “Fanfare of Love,” a German film written by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan
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| 10. | THE GODFATHER II
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”
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...well, it depends on who you ask. The popular consensus is that it's the trailer for Alien. Do I agree? Well, if you check out my article on the most effective trailers of all time (found here), there's also my list of my own favorite trailers of all time, and I have Alien at #2, not #1. My choice? You'll just have to read and find out, but feel free to post your picks for some of the best trailers ever right here!
Well, these are flicks in question:
