THE FOLLOWING ARE ANNUAL 10-BEST LISTS BY CINEMAPOLIS/FALL CREEK STAFFERS AND FRIENDS. Scroll down for our lists of the best 20 films of all times. JASON MINNIX'S BEST OF 2007 (Jason is a former Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer) 1. I'm Not There 2. Inland Empire 3. Killer of Sheep 4. Zodiac 5. There Will Be Blood 6. Margot at the Wedding 7. No Country for Old Men 8. Eastern Promises 9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 10. The Host 11. Away From Her 12. Once +Darjeeling Limited, Rescue Dawn, the Suwa, Payne and Assayas segments of Paris Je T'Aime, Jonestown: the Life and Death of the People's Temple ADAM JOSEPH'S BEST OF 2007 (Adam is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer) (In no particular order) 1. Black Book 2. Golden Door 3. I'm Not There 4. Offside 5. Paprika 6. Perfume 7. 10 Canoes 8. There Will Be Blood 9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley 10. Paris Je T'Aime 11. Killer of Sheep 12. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 13. Once RICH SZANYI'S BEST OF 2007 (Rich is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer) (First 4 in order of preference, rest random) 1. La Vie En Rose 2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3. The Golden Door 4. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly 5. 10 Canoes 6. There Will Be Blood 7. Juno 8. I'm Not There 9. Across the Universe 10. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 11. Atonement 12. Once 13. The Host LYNNE COHEN'S BEST OF 2007 (Lynne is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer) In the order she saw them, not in order of preference: 1. The Golden Door 2. The Host 3. La Vie En Rose 4. Across the Universe 5. Atonement 6. Lust, Caution 7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 8. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 10. Juno 11. There Will Be Blood JAREK MILLER'S BEST OF 2007 Jarek is a Cinemapolis/FC staffer 1. I'm Not There 2. Killer of Sheep 3. Syndromes and a Century 4. Zoo 5. Zodiac 6. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 7. We Own the Night 8. Regular Lovers 9. Day Night Day Night 10. Michael Clayton Runners-up: The Darjeeling Limited, No End In Sight, There Will Be Blood, Margot At the Wedding, 2 Days in Paris, Ten Canoes, This Is England BOB SCHULTZ'S BEST OF 2007 (Bob is a Cinemapolis/FC staffer) 1. There Will Be Blood 2. Grindhouse 3. Knocked Up 4. Michael Clayton 5. Juno 6. Zodiac 7. Diving Bell and the Butterfly 8. I'm Not There 9. No Country For Old Men 10. Darjeeling Limited 11. Margot At The Wedding 12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 13. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 14. Once 15. Superbad JAREK MILLER'S BEST OF 2005 (Jarek is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer) 1) The New World 2) Kings and Queen 3) The Squid and the Whale 4) Last Days 5) The Holy Girl 6) Grizzly Man 7) Saraband 8) No Direction Home 9) A History of Violence 10) Palindromes Runners-up: 11) Junebug 12) The Passenger (re-release) 13) Tropical Malady 14) The 40-Year-Old Virgin 15) The Beat That My Heart Skipped 16) Forty Shades of Blue 17) War of the Worlds 18) 2046 19) The White Diamond 20) Winter Soldier (re-release) Also: Oliver Twist, Head-On, Broken Flowers, Munich, Capote, Murderball, Rize, Land of the Dead, The Dying Gaul TIM KNAUFF'S BEST OF 2005 (Tim is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek alumnus) 1) The Squid and the Whale 2) Brokeback Mountain 3) Head-On 4) Me and You and Everyone We Know 5) The Constant Gardener 6) 2046 7) Match Point 8) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 9) My Summer of Love 10) Capote Runners-up: 11) Batman Begins 12) Good Night, and Good Luck 13) Fear and Trembling 14) Sin City 15) The Wallace & Gromit Movie 16) Downfall 17) A History of Violence LYNNE COHEN'S BEST OF 2005 (Lynne is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek Staffer) (in alphabetical order) 1) The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2) Brokeback Mountain 3) Cache 4) Capote 5) A History of Violence 6) Junebug 7) Match Point 8) Pride & Prejudice 9) The Squid and the Whale 10) 2046 Plus Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Holy Girl, The Dying Gaul, Palindromes The following are 2004 Best Ten lists by Cinemapolis staff and friends: JASON MINNIX'S BEST OF 2004: (Jason is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member) 1. Time of the Wolf 2. The Return 3. Dogville 4. Birth 5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 6. Bright Future 7. A Very Long Engagement 8. The Aviator 9. I Heart Huckbees 10. Sideways plus: Battle of Algiers (re-release), Collateral, Million Dollar Baby NICK DAVIS' 10 (OR IS IT 14?) BEST FILMS OF 2004: (Nick is a member of the 7th Art Board of Directors) 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2. Oasis 3. The Corporation 4. Maria Full of Grace and Osama 5. Code 46 and Notre Musique 6. Before Sunset and Since Otar Left 7. I Heart Huckabees 8. The Bourne Supremacy 9. Dawn of the Dead and Time of the Wolf 10. Birth and The Return LYNNE COHEN'S 10 BEST OF 2004 (Lynne is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member) 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2. Before Sunset 3. The Return 4. Vera Drake 5. Bad Education 6. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring 7. Stage Beauty 8. Motorcycle Diaries 9. The Mother 10. The Aviator Also: I Heart Huckabees, Sideways, Ray JAREK MILLER'S TOP TEN AND TEN RUNNERS-UP (Jarek is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member) 1. GOODBYE DRAGON INN 2. MILLION DOLLAR BABY 3. SIDEWAYS 4. CRIMSON GOLD 5. BEFORE SUNSET 6. BLIND SHAFT 7. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 8. BIRTH 9. TARNATION 10. ANATOMY OF HELL -------------------------- KILL BILL VOL. 2 BAD EDUCATION VERA DRAKE BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS THE AVIATOR TWENTYNINE PALMS COLLATERAL TIME OF THE WOLF THE LIFE AQUATIC with STEVE ZISSOU DAWN OF THE DEAD BOB SCHULTZ'S BEST OF 2004: (Bob is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member) 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2. Dogville 3. Shaun of the Dead 4. Before Sunset 5. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 6. Team America: World Police 7. Sideways 8. Million Dollar Baby 9. A Very Long Engagement 10. Bukowski: Born Into this 11. I Heart Huckabees TIM KNAUFF'S 19 BEST OF 2004 (Tim is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek alumnus) 1. Sideways 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3. The Door in the Floor 4. Hero 5. Garden State 6. Donnie Darko: Director's Cut 7. Vera Drake 8. House of Flying Daggers 9. Maria, Full of Grace 10. Motorcycle Diaries 11. Fahrenheit 9/11 12. Spider Man 2 13. Kill Bill Vol. 2 14. Tarnation 15. Stander 16. Infernal Affairs 17. The Woodsman 18. The Incredibles 19. Hotel Rwanda JASON MINNIX'S TOP 20++ Jason Minnix, Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member, has listed his favorite films in chronological order, with some consideration given to covering all the decades since the 1920's. VAMPYR 1932 d.Carl Theodor Dreyer DUCK SOUP 1933 d. Leo McCarey *the Marx Brothers NOTHING SACRED 1937 d.William Wellman *Carole Lombard I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE 1943 d. Jacques Tourneur *Frances Dee NOTORIOUS 1946 d.Alfred Hitchcock *Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman THE RED SHOES 1948 d. Powell & Pressburger *Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring THE THIRD MAN 1949 d.Carol Reed *Orson Welles SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950 d.Billy Wilder VERTIGO 1958 d.Alfred Hitchcock *Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak REPULSION 1965 d.Roman Polanski *Catherine Deneuve HOUR OF THE WOLF 1967 d.Ingmar Bergman *Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow AGUIRRE WRATH OF GOD 1972 d.Werner Herzog *Klaus Kinski SOLARIS 1972 d.Andrei Tarkovsky GANJA AND HESS 1972 d. Bill Gunn THE PASSENGER 1975 d. Michelangelo Antonioni THE TENANT 1976 d. Roman Polanski THE SHINING 1980 d. Stanley Kubrick PARIS TEXAS 1984 d.Wim Wenders BLUE VELVET 1986 d.David Lynch DEAD RINGERS 1988 d. David Cronenberg *Jeremy Irons THE DECALOGUE d.Krzysztof Kieslowski THREE COLOURS (BLUE, WHITE, RED) 1993-4 d.Krzysztof Kieslowski SAFE 1995 d.Todd Haynes *Julianne Moore THE SWEET HEREAFTER 1997 d.Atom Egoyan CURE 1997 d. Kiyoshi Kurosawa LYNNE COHEN'S TOP 22 Lynne Cohen, Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staffer, has used much the same rules as Jason. THE CRIME OF M. LANGE 1932 d.Jean Renoir DESIGN FOR LIVING 1933 d.Ernst Lubitsch SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS 1941 d. Preston Sturges NOTORIOUS 1946 d.Alfred Hitchcock *Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman ADAM'S RIB 1949 d.George Cukor *Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy THE THIRD MAN 1949 d.Carol Reed *Orson Welles SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952 d. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly PERSONA 1966 d.Ingmar Bergman *Liv Ullmann PIERROT LE FOU 1968 d.Jean-Luc Godard *Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo 2001 1968 d.Stanley Kubrick THE CONFORMIST 1969 d.Bernardo Bertolucci THE DECAMERON 1971 d.Pier Paolo Pasolini AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD 1972 d.Werner Herzog *Klaus Kinski CHINATOWN 1974 d.Roman Polanski *Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway THE STORY OF ADELE H. 1975 d. Francois Truffaut *Isabelle Adjani THE MARQUISE OF O 1976 d. Eric Rohmer RED SORGHUM 1987 d.Zhang Yimou *Gong Li GOODFELLAS 1990 d.Martin Scorsese DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE 1991 d.Krzysztof Kieslowski TOPSY TURVY 1999 d.Mike Leigh CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON 2000 d.Ang Lee MULHOLLAND DRIVE 2001 d.David Lynch JAREK MILLER'S TOP 25 Jarek is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC 1928 d. Carl Th. Dreyer FREAKS 1932 d. Tod Browning THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS 1942 d. Orson Welles REAR WINDOW 1954 d. Alfred Hitchcock TOUCH OF EVIL 1958 d. Orson Welles THE 400 Blows 1959 d. Francois Truffaut BAND OF OUTSIDERS 1964 d. Jean-Luc Godard BLOWUP 1966 d. Michelangelo Antonioni PERSONA 1966 d. Ingmar Bergman NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968 d. George Romero ROSEMARY'S BABY 1968 d. Roman Polanski GIMME SHELTER 1970 d. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971 d. Stanley Kubrick MCCABE & MRS. MILLER 1971 d. Robert Altman TWO-LANE BLACKTOP 1971 d. Monte Hellman A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE 1974 d. John Cassavetes FOX AND HIS FRIENDS 1975 d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder STROSZEK 1977 d. Werner Herzog THE KING OF COMEDY 1983 d. Martin Scorsese BLUE VELVET 1986 d. David Lynch DEAD RINGERS 1988 d. David Cronenberg BAD LIEUTENANT 1992 d. Abel Ferrara BUFFALO '66 1998 d. Vincent Gallo CODE UNKNOWN 2000 d. Michael Haneke MORVERN CALLAR 2002 d. Lynne Ramsay CHRISTINA COLEMAN'S TOP 10+ Christina Coleman, Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member, created the mural found outside of the Cinemapolis lobby. 1. THE GOODBYE GIRL 1977 d.Herbert Ross 2. THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR 2000 d.Tom Tykwer 3. THE GLASS MENAGERIE 1987 d.Paul Newman 4. PURPLE RAIN 1984 d.Albert Magnoli 5. BENT 1997 d.Sean Mathias 6. 13 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING 2002 d.Jill Sprecher 7. ANNIE HALL 1977 d.Woody Allen 8. BELLY 1998 d.Hype Williams 9. THE BIG CHILL 1983 d.Lawrence Kasdan 10. ANGEL HEART 1987 d.Alan Parker --runners up-- A. MOULIN ROUGE! 2001 d.Baz Luhrmann B. ALL OF ME 1984 d.Carl Reiner C. STAR 80 1983 d.Bob Fosse D. ALL THE REAL GIRLS 2003 d.David Gordon Green E. DANCER IN THE DARK 2000 d.Lars Von Trier BOB "CHLORINE BALL" SCHULTZ'S TOP 30 & 1/3 OF ALL TIMES Bob is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member. 1 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981 d. Steven Spielberg 2 THE FLY 1986 d. David Cronenberg 3 SLACKER 1991 d. Richard Linklater 4 GOODFELLAS 1990 d. Martin Scorsese 5 FIGHT CLUB 1999 d. David Fincher 6 THE STING 1973 d. George Roy Hill 7 PULP FICTION 1994 d. Quentin Tarantino 8 ED WOOD 1994 d/ Tim Burton 9 FREAKS 1932 d. Tod Browning 10 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968 d. Stanley Kubrick 11 MILLER'S CROSSING 1990 d. Joel & Ethan Coen 12 UNFORGIVEN 1992 d. Clint Eastwood 13 PI 1998 d. Darren Aronofsky 14 HAROLD AND MAUDE 1971 d. Hal Ashby 15 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969 d. George Roy Hill 16 LOST IN TRANSLATION 2003 d. Sofia Coppola 17 THE GODFATHER TRILOGY 1972-1990 d. Francis Ford Coppola 18 DAWN OF THE DEAD 1978 d. George A. Romero 19 BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967 d. Arthur Penn 20 FULL METAL JACKET 1987 d. Stanley Kubrick 21 BEFORE SUNRISE/BEFORE SUNSET 1995/2004 d. Richard Linklater 22 DONNIE BRASCO 1997 d. Mike Newell 23 SHAFT 1971 d. Gordon Parks (Daaamn right.) 24 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1980 d. Irvin Kershner 25 THE BIG LEBOWSKI 1998 d. Joel & Ethan Coen 26 KILL BILL 2003/2004 d. Quentin Tarantino 27 SUPERMAN 1978 d. Richard Donner 28 AMERICAN SPLENDOR 2003 d. Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini 29 RUSHMORE 1998 d. Wes Anderson 30 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 2004 d. Michel Gondry 30 1/3 The last segment of "Trilogy of Terror" 1975 d. Dan Curtis CARL SMITH'S TOP 20 Carl is a Cinemapolis/Fall Creek staff member. 1. ASHES & DIAMONDS 1958 d. Andrzej Wajda 2. DOWN BY LAW 1986 d. Jim Jarmusch 3. SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD 2003 d. Guy Maddin 4. DONNIE DARKO 2001 d. Richard Kelly 5. DAS BOOT 1981 d. Wolfgang Peterson 6. CADDYSHACK 1980 d. Harold Ramis 7. 8 MILE 2002 d. Curtis Hanson 8. AMADEUS 1984 d. Milos Foreman 9. BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID 1969 d. George Roy Hill 10. BLAZING SADDLES 1974 d. Mel Brooks 11. BLUE VELVET 1986 d. David Lynch 12. DR. STRANGELOVE (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) 1964 d. Stanley Kubrick 13. HAROLD AND MAUDE 1972 d. Hal Ashby 14. HOFFMAN 1970 d. Alvin Rakoff 15. ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 1975 d. Jim Sharman 16. ELEPHANT 2003 d. Gus Van Sant 17. AMATEUR 1994 d. Hal Hartley 18. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION 1985 d. Amy Heckerling 19. AMERICAN BEAUTY 1999 d. Sam Mendes 20. DELICATESSEN 1991 d. Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet NICK DAVIS'S TOP 22 Nick Davis is a Cornell graduate student and a member of the 7th Art Board of Directors. Visit Nick's site THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC 1928 d.Carl-Theodor Dreyer THE SCARLET EMPRESS 1934 d.Josef von Sternberg, *Marlene Dietrich PINOCCHIO 1940 dirs.Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943 d.Maya Deren LAURA 1944 d.Otto Preminger WRITTEN ON THE WIND 1956 d.Douglas Sirk TOUCH OF EVIL 1958 d.Orson Welles SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1959 d.Joseph L. Mankiewicz PERSONA 1966 d.Ingmar Bergman *Liv Ullmann AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD 1972 d.Werner Herzog, *Klaus Kinski NASHVILLE 1975 d.Robert Altman HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. 1976 d.Barbara Kopple FRANCES 1982 d.Graeme Clifford ALIENS 1986 d.James Cameron SUMMER or THE GREEN RAY (LE RAYON VERT) 1986 d.Eric Rohmer WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...1989 d.Rob Reiner THE PIANO 1993 d.Jane Campion SAFE 1995 d.Todd Haynes CRASH 1996 d.David Cronenberg TASTE OF CHERRY 1997 d.Abbas Kiarostami THE THIN RED LINE 1998 d.Terence Malick DANCER IN THE DARK 2000 d.Lars von Trier
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