afi top 100 – Page 5 – Movie Valhalla

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

Perhaps the ultimate Film Noir, about two murderers who are not nearly as smart as they think they are.

A violent, nihilistic revisionist Western that changed how violence was shown on-screen.

Charlie Chaplin’s biggest hit is also probably my favorite of his movies that I’ve yet seen.

A spectacular, hilarious comedy about the end of the world.

The Marx Brothers reinvented comedy for the sound era, but had to tone down their sheer anarchy (a little) to score their biggest hit.

A movie that looks deep into its own soul and finds only horror.

In which Buster Keaton almost dies over and over in the name of comedy, and also drops an actual train off an actual bridge.

Somewhere beneath everything that’s been piled on top of it is one of the greatest movies ever made.

Meryl Streep’s all-timer of a performance can’t make me ever want to watch this movie again.

It earned an X-rating for its “homosexual frame of reference,” but I mostly found unrelentingly depressing.