Alamo 100
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100 Essential Favorite Movies chosen by
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
"Asking an Alamo programmer to name his or her favorite movie is like asking a mother to name her favorite child. Wait, no, that makes it sound too easy.
Asking an Alamo programmer to name his or her favorite movie is like asking a mother to name her favorite child, knowing that the rest of her kids will be taken away. Nope, that still makes it sound too easy.
Asking an Alamo programmer to name his or her favorite movie is like asking a mother to name her favorite child, knowing that the rest of her kids will be killed. Okay yes, that's exactly how it feels.
And that, ladies and gentleman, is why we are presenting the Alamo 100, and not the Alamo 10 or the Alamo 50.
When we first had the idea of compiling a list of our most cherished films, we spent a considerable amount of time discussing the criteria, and not just because we wanted to put off this Sophie's Choice for a while longer. There are plenty of lists, based on everything from cinematic achievement to popularity, floating around the celluloid landscape, and we wished to avoid redundancy in adding our own voice to the pile.
In the end, it all boiled down to the fact that we just love the hell out of movies. And so this list is defined, not by filmmaking genius or cultural impact, but by the space reserved in our hearts. The Alamo 100 encompasses the movies that we wore out on VHS, the films our friends are sick of hearing us rave about, the cinematic gems that feel like living, breathing members of our family. This is a list that reminds us why we fell in love with cinema in the first place, and why the magic of that romance will never fade.
A quick glance at the Alamo 100 reveals the incredible diversity of taste on the national programming team, which consists of Tim League, RJ LaForce, Greg MacLennan, Tommy Swenson, Joe Ziemba and myself. We're incredibly proud of the fact that our passions encompass 1960s French films and modern day rom coms, Kubrick masterpieces and epic action flicks, obscure trash-horror and feel-good classics. There is simply no classification that can contain our devotion to the silver screen.
In order to generate the Alamo 100, each programmer first created his or her own list of 100 favorites, a Herculean task that caused a fair amount of heartache in the office. These titles were then compiled and ranked based on two factors: 1. their rank on each programmer's list 2. the number of times the title appeared on more than one list. The results are an eclectic mix of shoe-ins and surprises, and we hope that this wildly divergent collection leads to many conversations within the Alamo community. You can explore the full list at Alamo100.com, where you can see which titles drew the most votes and also check out each programmer's individual favorites to find out with whom your tastes most align.
In January, we're launching the Alamo 100 in all of our theaters with seven titles that capture the spirit of this list, and throughout the year, we'll be screening many more. Because we can't live without these movies, and we can't let you live without seeing them."
(Note: the list counts The Lord of the Rings Trilogy as one entry.)
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Dark Knight
2008, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003, in 29 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
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Love Actually
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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Home Alone
1990, in 6 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
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You've Got Mail
1998, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Mean Girls
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Royal Tenenbaums
2001, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Princess Bride
1987, in 19 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 23 top lists Check -
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A Christmas Story
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
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Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check -
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Léon
1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check -
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009, in 9 top lists Check -
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Clueless
1995, in 8 top lists Check -
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Ghostbusters
1984, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Goonies
1985, in 5 top lists Check -
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Dazed and Confused
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
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10 Things I Hate About You
1999, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rushmore
1998, in 11 top lists Check -
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RoboCop
1987, in 15 top lists Check -
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Evil Dead II
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ed Wood
1994, in 9 top lists Check -
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Raising Arizona
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Pride & Prejudice
2005, in 1 top list Check
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