The best movie trailer of all time is...

...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!

-Thoughts?

What does Time Magazine consider to be the 25 best Animated films of all time?

Well, these are flicks in question:

25. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
24. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
23. Yellow Submarine (1968)
22. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
21. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
20. Paprika (2007)
19. Tangled (2010)
18. The Lion King (1994)
17. Akira (1988)
16. Happy Feet (2006)

The top 15 are after the jump...

Here are 25 films to see at the Tribeca Film Festival...

...currently going on just blocks from me in New York City. Here's the list from Vulture:


This year’s Tribeca Film Festival began on April 20, and by the time it ends on May 1, 93 feature films will have screened. To figure out what to see with that many films available, you need professional guidance: That’s why Vulture's critics and writers watched as many of the films as we could before the fest — about two thirds of the offerings — to pick our top recommendations. (We also included a few that weren't made available for previewing, but that we're still anxious to see, bringing us to a list of 25.) We found that while some of the more celebrity-heavy films don't deliver, many others do — particularly in the very strong documentary lineup. Our picks range from a terrific documentary on school bullying (The Bully Project) to a Sam Shepard Western (Blackthorn) and a tense lesbian drama about Swedish friends on an equestrian acrobatics team (She Monkeys).

Check out the Writers Guild list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays of all time!

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
2.	THE GODFATHER Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo
3.	CHINATOWN Written by Robert Towne
4.	CITIZEN KANE Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
5.	ALL ABOUT EVE Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on “The Wisdom of Eve,” a short story and radio play by Mary Orr
6.	ANNIE HALL Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
7.	SUNSET BLVD. Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.
8.	NETWORK Written by Paddy Chayefsky
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
10.	THE GODFATHER II Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”

Entertainment Weekly lists the 25 greatest working directors today...

...and even though they leave off some big names, the article (found here) is a good one. Here are the 25 names they came up with:

1. David Fincher
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Darren Aronofsky
6. Joel and Ethan Coen
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Terrence Malick
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Pedro Almodovar

The rest of the names, as well as the exclusions, after the jump...