List o’ the Week: My Top 25 Films . . . Again!

In spring 2000, Bob King, the editor of the (tragically) now-defunct Classic Images newspaper, invited his readers to share their top 25 classic movies. As a frequent contributor to the publication – and a to-my-very-soul lover of lists, I broke every speed record to send in my favorites. Fourteen years later, after coming across a copy of that list, I decided to update the movies, and was interested to see that 10 films from my original list didn’t make the 2014 version. Today, while researching my blog for posts about the 1956 noir, The Killing, I spotted the list I did 12 years ago and quickly decided to give it another whirl. As always, every film on the list had to meet my personal criteria: (1) it had to be one of those movies that I’ve watched over and over again, and (2) when I thought of it, I had to say, “OH! I LOVE that movie!” Interestingly, once again, a total of 10 movies that were on my 2014 list did not make the 2026 version: The Big Heat (1953), Bombshell (1933),…