Stowbury: June 2006
 

Favourite Films 1 to 100


Rank Title
1 Manhattan
2 The Graduate
3 Short Cuts
4 Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans
5 Les Amants
6 Together
7 Husbands And Wives
8 The Heiress
9 Le Goût Des Autres
10 The Remains Of The Day
11 The Best Years Of Our Lives
12 The Wind
13 My Fair Lady
14 Groundhog Day
15 Stardust Memories
16 Glengarry Glen Ross
17 Cyrano De Bergerac
18 Roman Holiday
19 Look At Me
20 Brazil
21 It Happened One Night
22 Life Of Brian
23 All About Eve
24 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
25 Jean De Florette
26 My Best Girl
27 Sideways
28 Buffalo '66
29 Topsy-Turvy
30 Don't Look Now
31 The Philadelphia Story
32 The Fallen Idol
33 Dangerous Liaisons
34 Moulin Rouge
35 Stan & Ollie
36 The Lives Of Others
37 After Hours
38 Two For The Road
39 Psycho
40 Time Out
41 It's A Wonderful Life
42 Twelve Angry Men
43 Reservoir Dogs
44 Un Coeur En Hiver
45 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
46 In A Lonely Place
47 A Kind Of Loving
48 From Here To Eternity
49 Claire's Knee
50 Midnight Cowboy
51 Brief Encounter
52 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
53 The Insider
54 Dog Day Afternoon
55 Goodfellas
56 The Crowd
57 Prick Up Your Ears
58 The Petrified Forest
59 The Cameraman
60 The Rebel
61 Casablanca
62 Crimes And Misdemeanours
63 The Browning Version
64 Harry, He's Here To Help
65 Rope
66 The Old Maid
67 La Peau Douce
68 American Splendor
69 Elmer Gantry
70 If...
71 A Tale Of Two Cities
72 Jackie Brown
73 Papillon
74 Paths Of Glory
75 Lost In Translation
76 Three Kings
77 The Daytrippers
78 The Winslow Boy
79 Now, Voyager
80 Betty Blue
81 The Shawshank Redemption
82 Sweet Bird Of Youth
83 Crash
84 Kings Row
85 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
86 Lawless Heart
87 Human Capital
88 The Kid Brother
89 Singin' In The Rain
90 Tin Men
91 Freud
92 Drifting Clouds
93 Lourdes
94 The General
95 The Place Beyond The Pines
96 Shoot The Pianist
97 Far From The Madding Crowd
98 Unforgiven
99 Heat
100 Diary Of A Lost Girl

Favourite Films 100 to 1 This way up

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Favourite Films 101 to 200


Rank Title
101 Midnight In Paris
102 The Green Ray
103 Your Friends & Neighbors
104 Woman In A Dressing Gown
105 A Summer's Tale
106 Broadway Damage
107 The Birdman Of Alcatraz
108 Au Bonheur Des Dames
109 An Angel At My Table
110 Bronco Billy
111 Day For Night
112 Dark Star
113 A New Leaf
114 Broadcast News
115 Mr Skeffington
116 My Life So Far
117 The Diary Of Anne Frank
118 The Red Shoes
119 The Accidental Tourist
120 Walkabout
121 The Winslow Boy
122 The Man Who Wasn't There
123 Hannah And Her Sisters
124 The Hunt
125 The Truman Show
126 Once Upon A Time In The West
127 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
128 Six Degrees Of Separation
129 Room At The Top
130 Play It Again, Sam
131 All This And Heaven Too
132 La Baie Des Anges
133 La Bête Humaine
134 The King Of Comedy
135 Falling Down
136 High, Wide, And Handsome
137 Boyhood
138 The Station Agent
139 Lift To The Scaffold
140 The Crucible
141 The Ghost And Mrs Muir
142 Vertigo
143 Heat And Dust
144 On The Waterfront
145 The Deep Blue Sea
146 August: Osage County
147 King's Game
148 Annie Hall
149 Sense And Sensibility
150 American Beauty
151 Rebecca
152 Dr Strangelove
153 In The Bleak Midwinter
154 Citizen Kane
155 The American Friend
156 The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
157 Pavement Butterfly
158 Les Parapluies De Cherbourg
159 The Brothers McMullen
160 Kolya
161 I'm All Right Jack
162 Amen
163 Elizabeth
164 Gertrud
165 The Man Who Came To Dinner
166 Pickpocket
167 High Society
168 Apocalypse Now
169 Midnight Express
170 Genevieve
171 Talk Radio
172 Unfaithfully Yours
173 The Roaring Twenties
174 Double Indemnity
175 The Long Riders
176 David Copperfield
177 Our Hospitality
178 Women In Love
179 Snow Cake
180 Les Cousins
181 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
182 Miracolo A Milano
183 The Front
184 The Godfather
185 Burnt By The Sun
186 Ace In The Hole
187 In The Name Of The Father
188 When Harry Met Sally
189 The Driver
190 I Know Where I'm Going
191 Arlington Road
192 Sex, Lies, And Videotape
192 The Man Who Loved Women
194 I Hired A Contract Killer
195 Knife In The Water
196 The Great Escape
197 Captain Blood
198 Les Enfants Du Paradis
199 Wonderland
200 A Stolen Life

Favourite Films 200 to 101  This way up

 

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Favourite Films 201 to 300


Rank Title
201 Atomised
202 Three Cornered Moon
203 Tokyo Story
204 Breakfast At Tiffany's
205 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
206 Trees Lounge
207 Five Easy Pieces
208 Pillow Talk
209 Early Summer
210 Random Harvest
211 Girl Shy
212 The Lacemaker
213 24 Hour Party People
214 The Straight Story
215 Unrelated
216 Scandal
217 Breaking Away
218 Blue Valentine
219 Pauline À La Plage
220 Ice Cold In Alex
221 Dangerous
222 Brokeback Mountain
223 Metropolitan
224 Lolita
225 Withnail And I
226 Young Man With A Horn
227 White Heat
228 Shadowlands
229 La Séparation
230 A Night At The Opera
231 The Picture Of Dorian Gray
232 About Schmidt
233 The Talented Mr Ripley
234 Mr Deeds Goes To Town
235 Les Diaboliques
236 The Tenant
237 Thieves Like Us
238 Mildred Pierce
239 A Dangerous Method
240 Cool Hand Luke
241 Ghost World
242 The Birds
243 The Tin Drum
244 Boiling Point
245 Hidden
246 A Room With A View
247 Plein Soleil
248 Edward Scissorhands
249 Inside Llewyn Davis
250 The Emerald Forest
251 The Safety Of Objects
252 The Dead Poets' Society
253 Away From Her
254 The Strawberry Blonde
255 Surviving Picasso
256 How I Killed My Father
257 Hamlet
258 Garden State
259 The Flower Of My Secret
260 Sweet William
261 That'll Be The Day
262 Monty Python And The Holy Grail
263 The Way To The Stars
264 All That Heaven Allows
265 In The Company Of Men
266 Roma
267 Amadeus
268 House Of Games
269 Playtime
270 Alice In The Cities
271 It's Love I'm After
272 Summertime
273 The Manchurian Candidate
274 Somebody Up There Likes Me
275 Scenes From A Marriage
276 Celebrity
277 Billy Elliot
278 The Glenn Miller Story
279 June Bride
280 Autumn Leaves
281 Odds Against Tomorrow
282 The Women
283 Coming Home
284 Separate Tables
285 A Late Quartet
286 Desperately Seeking Susan
287 Straight Time
288 Atlantic City
289 High Sierra
290 A Canterbury Tale
291 A Matter Of Life And Death
292 Nashville
293 The Leopard
294 Strictly Ballroom
295 The Matrix
296 Mystic River
297 A Place In The Sun
298 Wilde
299 The Last Seduction
300 Kramer Versus Kramer

Favourite Films 300 to 201  This way up

 

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Favourite Films 301 to 400


Rank Title
301 Nebraska
302 The Hustler
303 Educating Rita
304 The Woman In The Window
305 New York, New York
306 Cabaret
307 The House Of Mirth
308 The Theory Of Everything
309 The Story Of Qiu Ju
310 Revanche
311 Trainspotting
312 The Star
313 Heavenly Creatures
314 Rumble Fish
315 Blue Jasmine
316 The Big Clock
317 The Meaning Of Life
318 As Good As It Gets
319 The Big Heat
320 The Palm Beach Story
321 Shine
322 The Seven Year Itch
323 The Magnificent Ambersons
324 Simple Men
325 Diner
326 Bad Timing
327 Trouble In Paradise
328 The Cement Garden
329 10 Rillington Place
330 A Clockwork Orange
331 The Innocents
332 Festival
333 The Class
334 Pleasantville
335 Deep End
336 Triple Agent
337 Sullivan's Travels
338 A Streetcar Named Desire
339 A Fish Called Wanda
340 She's The One
341 Brassed Off
342 Sunshine State
343 Betrayal
344 Dance Of The Vampires
345 Love Is Better Than Ever
346 Black Narcissus
347 Round Midnight
348 The Outlaw Josey Wales
349 Love And Death On Long Island
350 The Lavender Hill Mob
351 State Of Siege
352 Dead Of Night
353 The Bridges Of Madison County
354 Breathless
355 L'Enfant Sauvage
356 Les Deux Anglaises Et Le Continent
357 Funny Face
358 Cold War
359 The Brother From Another Planet
360 Love On The Run
361 The Killers
362 Taxi Driver
363 Le Beau Mariage
364 Mutiny On The Bounty
365 Night And The City
366 Capote
367 Applause
368 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
369 Deliverance
370 Salvador
371 Moonlighting
372 Queen Christina
373 The Producers
374 The Trials Of Oscar Wilde
375 Seven Years In Tibet
376 Onegin
377 Bedazzled
378 Finding Neverland
379 Wild Strawberries
380 Newsfront
381 Les Enfants Terribles
382 A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
383 Wuthering Heights
384 Raging Bull
385 Roma
386 I Am A Cat
387 All The President's Men
388 Tape
389 Misery
390 Days And Nights In The Forest
391 The Search
392 To Be Or Not To Be
393 La Sirène Du Mississippi
394 Broadway Danny Rose
395 Cinema Paradiso
396 Local Hero
397 Shooting Dogs
398 Summer Of Sam
399 Little Children
400 The Tailor Of Panama

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Favourite Films 401 to 500


Rank Title
401 Bridge Of Spies
402 Death In Venice
403 Christmas In Connecticut
405 They Live By Night
406 La Belle Et La Bête
407 Make Way For Tomorrow
408 The Corn Is Green
409 Tora-San's Sunrise And Sunset
410 Purple Haze
411 Rhapsody
412 Gods And Monsters
413 Body Heat
414 Mutiny On The Bounty
415 Animal Kingdom
416 Eraserhead
417 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
418 Blue Collar
419 Choose Me
420 The Thief Who Came To Dinner
421 Shall We Dance?
422 All Or Nothing
423 Obsession
424 The Queen
425 The Misfits
426 The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
427 L.A. Confidential
428 Strangers On A Train
429 Next Stop Greenwich Village
430 Kundun
431 Mr Holland's Opus
432 My Left Foot
432 The Rose Tattoo
433 On Golden Pond
434 Love In The Afternoon
435 Buffalo Soldiers
436 Missing
437 The Reader
438 Life Is Sweet
439 Maggie's Plan
440 In My Father's Den
441 Junebug
442 Quatre Nuits D'un Rêveur
443 Scarlet Street
444 The Squid And The Whale
445 Ninotchka
446 Frenzy
447 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
448 Serpico
449 The Social Network
450 These Three
451 The Artist
452 Kind Hearts And Coronets
453 The Wife
454 Beware of Pity
455 The Importance of Being Earnest
456 I Vitelloni
457 Greed
458 The Party
459 Once
460 Witness
461 Hannibal Brooks
462 A Touch Of Love
463 Brighton Rock
464 Miracle On 34th Street
465 Repulsion
466 Faces
467 Paper Moon
468 The Marriage Of Maria Braun
469 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
470 Deception
471 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
472 Ran
473 Dark Victory
474 They Drive By Night
475 First Men In The Moon
476 Birdy
477 The Front Page
478 Everybody Knows
479 Lantana
480 Asphalt
481 The Imitation Game
482 Gregory's Girl
483 Milk
484 The Children Act
485 Take Care Of My Little Girl
486 Me Before You
487 Wild River
488 Sabrina
489 The Story Of The Weeping Camel
490 Carrie
491 Kid Galahad
492 The Draughtman's Contract
493 All Of Me
494 Cradle Will Rock
495 Bleak Moments
496 Carmen
497 Mr. Lucky
498 Half Nelson
499 The Hudsucker Proxy
500 The Wave

Favourite Films 500 to 401 This way up


Reserve


Title
Zazie Dans Le Métro
Police
Naked
Rob Roy
Manpower
I, Robot
Melody
Lady Bird
The Cotton Club
Red Dust
Three Days Of The Condor
An Ideal Husband
The Return
Gorillas In The Mist
The Killing
Les Valseuses
Party Girl
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Same Time, Next Year
Total Recall
Three Coins In The Fountain
Ossessione
Last Orders
High Plains Drifter
The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel
The Cobweb
Entertaining Mr Sloane
The Moon And Sixpence
Enduring Love
Love Is the Devil
Bus Stop
Bulworth
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
The Devil's Disciple
Accident
Welcome To L.A.
Great Expectations
The Matador
Jane Eyre
True Stories
The Romantic Englishwoman
The Janitor
A Good Woman
Firelight
Before Sunset
The Edge of Love
Platoon
Rear Window
Henry & June
Travels With My Aunt
The Color Purple
Destry Rides Again
The Orphanage
Blue Velvet
Faithless
Reality Bites
The Last Metro
Spider-Man 2
Regeneration
Greenberg
Swann In Love
Synecdoche, New York
The Birthday Party
Falling In Love
City Slickers
The School Of Rock
Millions Like Us
Nowhere Boy
Alone Across The Pacific
The Beguiled
A Fistful Of Dollars
Savage Grace
Static
The Killing Of Sister George
Taking Off
Monsieur Hire
Quiet Chaos
Happiness
Wah-Wah
Bridget Jones's Diary
L.A. Story
Docteur Popaul
The Last Days Of Disco
Boom Town
Show Me Love
Me And You And Everyone We Know
La Luna


Cartoons, Documentaries and TV movies of equivalent calibre


Rank Title
5 Capturing The Friedmans
82 Castle In The Sky
89 Waking Life
109 Lost In La Mancha
111 Pinocchio
117 Looking For Richard
132 The Naked Civil Servant
138 Quartermaine's Terms
140 Meantime
141 A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
148 Inside Job
152 Être Et Avoir
177 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
178 The Accountant
181 The Knowledge
196 Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
202 Belleville Rendez-Vous
220 A Question Of Attribution
223 The Young Visiters
225 Wide Awake
227 Me! I'm Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
242 Koyaanisqatsi
246 F For Fake
266 Spellbound
280 Man on Wire
299 Death Of A Salesman
309 Spend Spend Spend
311 Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
322 Love Again
330 Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
339 Fahrenheit 9/11
350 Searching for Sugar Man
363 Flamenco
372 Good And Bad At Games
379 Hancock & Joan
389 Woody Allen: A Documentary
391 The Incredibles
392 Woodstock
397 Waltz With Bashir
410 The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
419 Christopher and His Kind
426 Yellow Submarine
440 Spirited Away
478 Fantastic Planet
480 Blood Wedding
495 A Trick of The Light
499 The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
500 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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Unsubstantiated Rumours

Behind the scenes at the national goings-on
Hand-cranked piffle as published in The Rockall Times Warning: These stories are mildly amusing
Title Section Date
This week's unsubstantiated rumours in full Yeast Logic 2nd August 2004
Revealed: The national shame of a UK stuck in the 1960s Society 9th August 2004
Moribund FTSE awaits injection of Mediterranean magic World News 16th August 2004
UK government seeks public consensus on zinc World News 23rd August 2004
British public out of whack on Iraq Politics 23rd August 2004
Streetwalker's TV torment led to triple murder horror The Other 30th August 2004
University selectors to favour the truly gifted Society 6th September 2004
Tory luminaries pierce gloom of Orwellian nanny state Politics 13th September 2004
Catherine Zeta Jones on casting couch for penury The Arts 20th September 2004
Wobble-free Blair hails new world order Politics 27th September 2004
Alan Milburn wows Labour conference Politics 4th October 2004
Scientists fight scourge of Rapid Abdominal Growth Syndrome Science 11th October 2004
Celebrity fever as Hartlepool hero hits Westminster Politics 18th October 2004
Westminster debutant seizes the day in stunning coup Politics 25th October 2004
Loonygate: Mentally ill expelled from hospital to boost throughput Politics 25th October 2004
Parliament wakes up to the chilling threat of marbles Politics 1st November 2004
Brother Jeb's unshakeable faith sweeps Bush to victory World News 8th November 2004
Brit lit starlet Cherie tainted by 'servant' smear The Arts 15th November 2004
Downing Street rocked by diary scandal The Other 22nd November 2004
War on Terror™ update: You're all going to die and so are your kids Politics 29th November 2004
Britain left unprotected as Blunkett jumps ship Politics 20th December 2004
Poetry corner presents: The Godlies Yeast Logic 27th December 2004
God smiles on Diego Garcia World News 3rd January 2005
Foreign Office shaken by tsunami aftershock Politics 10th January 2005
Blair-Brown bloodbath: Business as usual Politics 17th January 2005
Charles Ingram in audacious name-clearing bid Politics 24th January 2005
Snap election prank provokes parliamentary pandemonium Politics 11th April 2005
Wheels fall off Tony's election bandwagon Politics 18th April 2005
Labour in disarray over mislaid soundbite Politics 25th April 2005
Hopes fade in hunt for missing blind bloke Politics 2nd May 2005
Blair rips open shirt on open government Politics 9th May 2005
Blair 'fired up and hell-bent' Politics 16th May 2005
Blair fires broadside of flagship Bills Politics 23rd May 2005
Blair drops policy bombshell Politics 30th May 2005
Greed and lust: The new family values Society 6th June 2005
Professor Roy Meadow drama wows West End The Arts 4th July 2005
National treasure Meadow put out to pasture The Arts 18th July 2005
Blair wows parliament with record-breaking statesmanship Politics 25th July 2005
Where is Lord Birt? ask kerfuffled MPs Politics 28th November 2005
Dancing crowds celebrate revised Terror Bill Politics 19th December 2005
Andy Murray: 'I played like a pansy, a great mincing poofter' Sport 23rd January 2006
Lib Dem leadership romp heads for explosive climax Politics 30th January 2006
Lib Dems braced for sticky leadership climax Politics 20th February 2006
Muck-raking press hammer biologically-white Jowell Politics 6th March 2006

 

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