Post Your Top-100 Films Of All Time!

I've just made this list off the top of my head, but I would like you guys to destroy and reconstruct it. The rules are as follows:

1. You may exchange any title for another from the same year.
2. You may exchange any title for another with a similar theme or
story.
3. You may exchange any title for another which shares the same word
in its title.

Please list your exchanges like this:

35. Mean Streets (1973) exchanged for Nightmare Honeymoon(1973)
-
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
- or -
Scarlet Street (1945)

I doubt there's enough interest on this board to exchang this entire list for another one that's related to it, but I thought it was worth a try.

Maybe some of you will exchange 20 titles or so.

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
2. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
3. Nashville (1975)
4. Magnolia (2000)
5. The 400 Blows (1959)
6. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
7. Blade Runner (1982)
8. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
9. Sunrise (1927)
10. Jazz On A Summer’s Day (1960)
11. Rushmore (1998)
12. 8 1/2 (1963)
13. Metropolis (1927)
14. Ordet (1955)
15. Persona (1966)
16. The Long Goodbye (1973)
17. Contempt (1963)
18. Badlands (1973)
19. Boogie Nights (1997)
20. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
21. The Apartment (1960)
22. The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
23. The Seven Samurai (1954)
24. Grey Gardens (1975)
25. Safe (1995)
26. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
27. Bambi (1942)
28. Manhattan (1979)
29. The Footlight Parade (1933)
30. The Big Lebowski (1998)
31. Fallen Angels (1995)
32. Cabaret (1972)
33. Moulin Rouge (2001)
34. Mean Streets (1973)
35. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
36. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
37. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
38. The Player (1992)
39. Stranger Than Paradise (1983)
40. Pi (1998)
41. Days of Heaven (1978)
42. Swing Time (1936)
43. Band of Outsiders (1964)
44. Andrei Rublev (1969)
45. Pulp Fiction (1994)
46. In the Mood For Love (2001)
47. L'Atalante (1934)
48. Vertigo (1958)
49. Seven Chances (1925)
50. La Dolce Vita (1960)
51. The Wild Bunch (1969)
52. Solaris (1972)
53. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
54. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
55. Dead Man (1995)
56. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
57. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
58. Touch of Evil (1958)
59. 3 Women (1977)
60. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
61. Day For Night (1973)
62. The Kid (1921)
63. Goodfellas (1990)
64. Apocalypse Now (1979)
65. Brazil (1985)
66. La Jetee (1962)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
69. The High Sign (1917)
70. Sans Soleil (1982)
71. Roma (1972)
72. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
73. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
74. Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961)
75. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
76. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
77. Jackie Brown (1997)
78. All The Real Girls (2003)
79. Brief Encounter (1945)
80. The Silence (1963)
81. La Strada (1954)
82. Kill Bill (2003,2004)
83. The Gold Rush (1925)
84. Bottle Rocket (1996)
85. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
86. Jaws (1975)
87. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
88. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
89. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
90. Airplane! (1980)
91. Roman Holiday (1953)
92. Groundhog Day (1993)
93. A Woman is a Woman (1961)
94. The Miracle At Morgan's Creek (1944)
95. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
96. Bachelor Mother (1939)
97. Jules et Jim (1962)
98. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
99. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
100. Dumbo (1941)

I would say, however: replace 'The Kid' with 'Modern Times'; some similar themes, but a deeper, longer and just as warm slice of Chaplin.
I'd like to see "His Girl Friday" or "Bringing Up Baby" in there, but it's tough to find something they'd replace.

15. Persona (1966) exchanged for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

78. All the Real Girls (2003) exchanged for His Girl Friday (1940)

I haven't found a way to exchange Bringing Up Baby given the three criteria for exchange I listed above. Anyone else is welcome to find one.

spirit of the beehive is the most visually stunning movie i have seen. the images stick with you and it has the finest performance by a child... ever. ana torrent was amazing.

I would exchange Saving Private Ryan for Band of Brothers, but that's not really a film

That said:

85. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) for El Topo (1971)

--the connection between Nashville and Wavelength is pretty tenuous, but I decided they could be interchanged for their exclusive use of camera zooms --

Anyone (please anyone?!) is welcome to contest my allowance and make an alternate suggestion of their own.

Back on the trail after a few days. I'm really beginning to like the alternate list. I haven't seen everything I've listed, like Vinyl (1965) and Wavelength (1967), but this is sort of a dream list. I'm not sure whether I would really like or be horrified by Vinyl anyway.

Sanjuro is my new favorite Kurosawa film, though. It's the movie I wish Leone had remade as a fourth Man With No Name movie. It would have been interesting to see what Eastwood would have done with a muted portrayal of Sanjuro.

I've noticed suddenly that I have a lot of movies on the new list from the 50's and 60's. I need some more early stuff.

100. Dumbo (1941) for The Three Caballeros (1945)

This movie (ADATR) takes the hysteria meter and turns it up to 10. Fat men do the splits, a horse is ridden through an operating room full of water, a house shakes when people dance inside of it, a couple on a divan are covered by wallpaper as it is hung maniacally by Harpo and Chico... My favorite Marx Bros. that I've seen.

I've been watching too much MGM stuff from the golden period of the studio. I've picked an MGM release two nights in a row! Where's my self-respect? Where's my admiration for Iranian cinema? For Expressionist pictures? What am I doing choosing this sentimental tripe?

I can't really help it. While I don't know that Jonathan Rosenbaum ever really enjoys movies on a sub-anylitical level or free from socio-political labelling, he listed this among his 100 Greatest American Films and I don't think it's possible he chose it for its gender politics. It's just a whole lot of fun and startlingly colorful and beautiful with a Technicolor vibrance that hurts your teeth.

So, yeah, anyway, I liked it.

82. Kill Bill (2003, 2004) for Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

I think it's an absolutely perfect trade off, seeing as how the whole Lone Wolf serial was a big influence on Kill Bill.

Why stop there?

90. Airplane! (1980) for Polyester (1981)
34. Mean Streets (1973) for Paper Moon (1973)

I thought it might be good to have some Bogdanovich on the list as well as the Waters suggested by C-Man.

I can't really remember Song of the South (1946) that well. I saw it in the theater with some teenage girls when I was really young. I remember "Bluebird On My Shoulder", though.

Um, I'm flipping out
45. Pulp Fiction (1994) for Slacker (1991)

Slacker and Pulp Fiction both feature rambling dialogue unrelated to the events of the film. It's a stretch, but I'm taking it. I considered Roma as a candidate, too, since I feel like Slacker is more of a portrait of Houston than anything else. Anyway, there it is.

2. Singin' In the Rain (1952) for Spinout (1966)
18. Gun Crazy (1949) for Buffalo ’66 (Gallo, 1999)
28. Manhattan (1979) for Playtime (Tati, 1967)
29. Footlight Parade (1933) for Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
42. Swing Time (1936) for Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
43. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964) for Rope (Hitch., 1948)
52. Solaris (1972) for Napoleon (Gance, 1927)
66. La Jetee (1962) for Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions (Fleischer,1933)
95. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) for Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin, 1957)

JUSTIFICATION:
-Playtime is a love story to Paris (the human race) in the way Manhattan lauds its namesake.
-Solaris was made in 1972. I switched the 2 and 7 around to fit in 1927's Napoleon.
-La Jetee is a number of still images with narration. The Betty Boop cartoon is a number of still images sped up fast. I have way too many picks from 1933.

List B is about halfway to 100.