how hi the fi?

How Hi The Fi is the personal blog of Paul Rehm that might more aptly be named "Ranking Everything." The focal points of the blog are the posts in which I take an artist's career - be it musical, directorial or something else - view, listen to or read their work chronologically and then rank them from best to worst. In between these posts, I share my day-to-day happenings and plans for future lists. The blog is named after an album by jazz musician Buck Clayton that captures the attitude this blog would ideally convey. Be sure to bookmark this page and come back often!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

25 Favorite (Critically Acclaimed) Movies Of All Time

It's list of the week time, and here we have my 25 favorite movies of all time. I made this list as the Paul version of a film critic's list. In reality The Sandlot and Undercover Brother make my list, but this list is a little more official. There are definitely movies on this list that wouldn't be on others' lists, but they all have a certain degree of social significance greater than a baseball movie about a pwning some kids all summer over an autographed baseball, etc. Anyways, the order is alphabetical and this list took a very, very long time to compile. Thoughts and comments welcomed. Feel free to bitch about movies being left out, etc.
  • Adventures Of Robin Hood, The
  • American Beauty
  • Brazil
  • Breathless
  • Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The
  • Casablanca
  • Charade
  • Citizen Kane
  • Double Indemnity
  • Duck Soup
  • For A Few Dollars More
  • Godfather, The (and The Godfather II)
  • Kind Hearts And Coronets
  • M
  • Metropolis
  • Modern Times
  • Monty Python's Life Of Brian
  • Night Of The Hunter
  • Nights Of Cabiria
  • Notorious
  • Raging Bull
  • Third Man, The
  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • Virgin Spring, The
  • Yellow Submarine

In other news, the Gallon Challenge has been pushed back one week due to poor attendance and difficulty of finding a venue to do it. It turns out you can't have someone vomitting all over your living room. Who knew? The good news is we are having an open invitation to anyone who wants to come and because of the change we might get a few more people than we would've gotten tomorrow. Oddly enough, I was the only one pushing for it to be this Friday. Everyone else voted for it to be pushed back. Oh, well.

Last but not least, check out this hilarious site one of my coworkers sent me. Its authentic look makes it even better.

1 comment:

jamie.cwalinski said...

There, just so you can say someone's commented on this...the Sandlot picture cracked me up. I'll still call it my favorite movie ever