Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times best-selling essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor; How Did You Get This Number; and the novel The Clasp. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, she is also featured in the Library of America’s The 50 Funniest American Writers. Her latest book of essays, Look Alive Out There, is out now.
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The List
1
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1964
95 min
2
Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version
Ingmar Bergman
1982
188 min
3
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
133 min
4
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
5tie
Broadcast News
UnavailableJames L. Brooks
1987
133 min
5tie
Tootsie
UnavailableSydney Pollack
1982
116 min
5tie
Sweet Smell of Success
UnavailableAlexander Mackendrick
1957
97 min
6tie
Dazed and Confused
UnavailableRichard Linklater
1993
102 min
6tie
Metropolitan
Whit Stillman
1990
99 min
6tie
Barcelona
UnavailableWhit Stillman
1994
100 min
6tie
Kicking and Screaming
UnavailableNoah Baumbach
1995
96 min
7
Harold and Maude
UnavailableHal Ashby
1971
92 min
8
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
1974
155 min
9
Days of Heaven
UnavailableTerrence Malick
1978
94 min
10
This Is Spinal Tap
UnavailableRob Reiner
1984
82 min