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State of the City Jan. 24, 2018
Intro Good morning!
Thank you, Congressman Larsen, for that wonderful introduction. And thank you to Patrick Pierce and Economic Alliance Snohomish County for hosting this great event.
It’s truly a privilege to be here this morning and to share my vision for Everett. As I look around this room, I see a wealth of creativity, experience and passion for our city – you’re absolutely inspiring.
I want to acknowledge and thank my fellow elected officials who are here today. After just two years as a councilmember and now three weeks as mayor, I have an even greater respect for the tremendous commitment and energy it takes to do this job well.
I especially want to recognize our Everett City Councilmembers who are here this morning: Council Vice President Scott Bader, and Councilmembers Jeff Moore, Scott Murphy and Judy Tuohy. And a special welcome to our newest councilmember, Ethel McNeal.
I also want to thank the members of our City team who are here today, including my executive team: Chief of Staff Lyle Ryan, as well as Nick Harper, Paul Kaftanski, Bob Bolerjack, Jim Iles and Meghan Pembroke.
And most importantly, I want to thank my husband, David, for being a wonderful partner and father, and for his unending patience and support over the past year and always.
Strong foundation It is both an absolute honor and incredibly humbling to take on this leadership role in our community.
Throughout my career, I have had a passion for serving others, primarily in the nonprofit world. When I was asked to serve on the Community Streets Initiative task force in 2014, I saw firsthand what an important impact public servants can have in their communities. I also saw an opportunity for me to contribute my skills and experiences – and my deep love for our city – to help Everett grow and prosper.
I am fortunate to follow in the footsteps of incredible City leaders. When I became a councilmember, I joined a team of dedicated and thoughtful elected officials. It was an honor to serve with my council colleagues, and I look forward to working even more collaboratively with the council as we move forward.
And I am also incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Mayor Stephanson while I was on the council, and to have had his support and guidance during the transition. Mayor Stephanson leaves such a remarkable and wide-ranging legacy that it’s difficult to sum up what his 14 years of service has meant to Everett – and what it will mean to future generations.
Everett’s future is what I want to talk about this morning.
Our strengths are well known. In Snohomish County we have more manufacturing jobs than any other county in the state and we’re number 2 in tech-based jobs. Everett is the hub of all of that activity.
We have an amazing arts and music scene, exciting restaurants, pubs and breweries, and beautiful parks and open spaces. Combined with our unique location between Port Gardner Bay and the Snohomish River, there is no better place to live and work.
We have incredible opportunities in front of us, and we have a lot of hard work to accomplish if we want to take advantage of those opportunities.
This morning I’d like to share my team’s priorities for public safety, economic development and community engagement, and to preview the directives that will guide our work in 2018 and beyond. Each of these areas contributes to our economic vitality as a city, and helps to attract new people and businesses to our region.
Before I begin, I want to acknowledge and thank a special group of people who played a role in shaping my team’s short- and long-term goals.
In December, I asked 55 community leaders to serve on my transition advisory team and to provide feedback on Everett’s strengths and the opportunities they want to see us pursue. We had representation from across the city, and from different age groups, income brackets and industries. The team provided incredibly valuable input that helped influence the priorities I’ll share with you today.
Public Safety:
Our first priority is public safety. Everett is fortunate to have exceptional police officers and firefighters. I’d like to ask our chiefs and our first responders in the audience to please stand and be recognized for your service to our community.
One of the strong themes of the transition advisory team’s work was the importance of fully staffing our police department. I’m pleased to report that we have made significant progress toward that goal this past year.
The department has lost 52 commissioned officers since 2014, largely due to retirements. In response, we’ve taken several steps to accelerate hiring while still maintaining our high standards, including offering incentives for lateral officers.
We hired 16 new officers last year, and are down to just 10 vacancies – our lowest vacancy rate since April 2013. Our goal for 2018 is to fill those remaining positions. The department will begin participating in virtual career fairs this spring, offering another platform to engage potential candidates.
This month Everett Police is launching a new data-driven initiative, known as E-stat. The program will allow us to analyze crime, develop responses and evaluate what we’re doing using timely, accurate data. After the initial rollout, we’ll expand the work group to include other City teams to help tackle more persistent problems.
In our fire department, my main priority is developing a positive working relationship with our firefighters.
These men and women provide exceptional, selfless service to the people of Everett, whether they are responding to a car accident, a heart attack or a house fire. Rebuilding a cooperative, mutually respectful partnership will be vital as we move forward.
Chief of Staff Lyle Ryan and I are working with interim Chief Tim Key and his team to gather data that will help us assess our current fire operations and community needs. We’ll use that information, and the input of our firefighters, to determine where we need to go in terms of deployment.
Looking ahead: We are making progress to address our public safety challenges. But as we’ve heard from our community, we still have work ahead of us.
We are seeing far too many violent crimes involving teens and young adults, including the murder of 14-year-old David Sandoval last fall, allegedly at the hands of a 13-year-old boy. Any loss of life is heartbreaking, but it’s especially painful when the victim is so young.
On January 11, I issued the first directive of my administration, focused on reducing this devastating violence and providing positive pathways for our youth.
There were 219 gang-related offenses reported in Everett in 2017 – a 59 percent increase over 2016. There were 24 drive-by shootings last year – a 167 percent increase. These numbers are unacceptable. Our response, which will be led by Chief Templeman, balances prevention and intervention programs with targeted, proactive enforcement. We will also engage communities affected by gang violence and launch a public education campaign to encourage gun safety.
Work is already underway to fulfill the directive, and I look forward to updating you on our progress over the next year.
Another complex challenge is the visible effects of addiction, mental illness and homelessness on our streets.
We are not unique. Communities large and small across the country are facing these challenges. And while I share the frustrations of our residents and businesses, I believe we are ahead of the curve in bringing innovative, collaborative solutions to our community.
Yesterday Catholic Housing Services broke ground on the Safe Streets Supportive Housing facility. The building will provide homes and around-the-clock support for 65 chronically homeless individuals when it opens next year. Housing is absolutely critical to a person’s chance of achieving stability and overcoming addiction, and I’m thrilled to see construction get underway.
Other programs launched under the Safe Streets plan are also seeing results. The Everett Police Community Outreach and Enforcement Team, which includes two embedded social workers, provided more than 1,300 services last year to those on our streets – everything from ID cards to mental health resources.
We have sent 27 individuals to out-of-state treatment – at no cost to the City – through the Police Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative (PAARI).
While I am encouraged by our initial progress, it’s clear we have more to do.
This week I will issue a Mayoral Directive that builds on the programs Everett has already implemented and the partnerships we’ve developed with our service provider network. We will not solve these problems on our own, and we will have the greatest impact by working collaboratively.
Under the first initiative, we will continue to advocate for more permanent supportive housing options and will support projects being developed by our community partners. At the same time, we must expand our temporary and emergency shelter options. I’m directing staff to work closely with Snohomish County and our current shelter providers to identify potential ways to grow our shelter capacity.
Under our diversion efforts, I’ve directed staff to explore the possibility of expanding our Safe Streets Work Crew program. Last year, participants picked up more than 11,000 gallons of garbage from streets and homeless camps, and many of those individuals were connected to housing and services.
This program has been well received by our businesses, and I believe it could make a visible, positive impact in other affected areas of the city.
For many of the individuals we work with, the next step after housing and treatment is reentering the workforce – and that’s a goal our entire community supports. We will explore the potential for a pilot program that would help promote existing supportive employment opportunities and connect local businesses with individuals who are ready to work.
Responding to the opioid epidemic will remain a priority for the City. Our officers have reversed 71 overdoses using Naloxone since 2015. And we continue to pursue our lawsuit against Purdue Pharmaceuticals for allowing OxyContin to flood the black market.
But even as we respond to the immediate, visible effects of addiction on our streets, we must also step up our efforts to stop the disease before it starts.
We will continue to partner with Snohomish County and the Snohomish Health District through the Multi-Agency Coordination effort to keep opioids out of our community and to expand our prevention and intervention programs. I want to thank Executive Somers for his leadership in this important work.
I’ve also asked our team to explore how we can expand our pilot program for medication-assisted treatment to connect even more individuals with treatment at the moment they’re ready.
Under the directive, we’ll increase our use of data to evaluate our current programs and will develop tools to track our spending on street-level social issues. This analysis will help us fine tune our approach as we move forward and give our residents and businesses a better understanding of how our efforts are positively impacting the community.
Everyone in our city deserves to feel safe. Achieving that goal will be critical as we encourage new employers and families to make Everett their home.
Economic Development: Our next priority is economic development.
Everett is poised for prosperity. We have all of the ingredients we need to promote positive growth and create a vibrant, attractive community. I am thrilled to help lead the charge as we strengthen our economy, bring new jobs and job centers to Everett, and take advantage of the innovative, creative institutions that are the foundation of our city.
We have a strong base to grow from and many incredible developments currently underway. It all begins with our large job centers.
The entire Everett community benefits from the jobs and opportunities created by our major employers. From Boeing and the aerospace sector to Providence Regional Medical Center to the waterfront presence of the Port of Everett and Naval Station Everett, these institutions are the bedrock of our economy and a magnet for future growth.
Boeing, which broke records for airplane deliveries last year, began assembly of the 777X in October. The first jets are expected to be delivered in 2020. Boeing, its workers and their families are an incredible piece of Everett’s identity, and an inspiring and vital force in our community. Boeing employees also broke records for giving last year, donating more than $350,000 to local charities and families during the holiday season.
Last summer Funko, another homegrown company, opened its doors on Wetmore, to the delight of Everett families and “funatics” from around the world. Funko is more than a toy maker – it’s a creative powerhouse, and the perfect anchor for fun, innovative, and community-oriented businesses. I am thrilled that they have decided to invest in our downtown and I’m excited to partner with them as they continue to innovate and grow.
In August, Seattle Children’s Hospital will open a new branch on the Providence campus, adding to our world-class health care sector. The new branch will offer more than 15 pediatric subspecialties of care, and will be an incredible asset for the city and families throughout our region.
We must continue to advocate for and support these institutions and industries to ensure they have the workforce, transportation networks and resources they need to thrive. When they succeed, we all succeed.
We continue to see more positive changes taking place throughout the city.
Last month Angel of the Winds Casino Resort became the naming sponsor of our events center, bringing an infusion of new energy and the chance to attract new and bigger acts to Everett.
Our downtown is transforming with new restaurants, breweries, shops and major attractions. Farms & Market on Grand Avenue will celebrate its soft opening in February, and expects to announce several exciting tenants very soon. The year-round market will feature a kitchen and deli, and provide space for area farmers to sell their produce and other goods.
New housing and retail options are taking shape after being on hold for years during the recession. At the Riverfront, 140 homes have already sold and another 42 are pending. At the Port, construction is beginning on Fisherman’s Harbor, the first phase of their Waterfront Place Central development. This district will be a hub of activity, with more than 260 apartments and a 142-room hotel with meeting and event space.
Our Grand Avenue Park Bridge project – currently under construction – will provide a new way for Everett residents and visitors to connect to waterfront attractions, concerts, shops and restaurants.
And after far too long, one of the missing pieces of our economic landscape is finally nearing reality – commercial air service at Paine Field.
United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have both signed on to provide daily flights out of the two-gate terminal now under construction. We expect the first flights to begin before the year is out and – like many of you in this room – I hope to be on one of them.
Economic development also relies on a quality education system. As the proud mother of an Everett student, I can vouch for the priceless asset we have in our local school districts.
Everett School District students outperform the state on assessments in every subject and every grade. Nearly 91 percent of students graduate in four years; nearly 95 percent graduate in 5 years. The district also has the highest graduation rate in the state for students who speak a language other than English in their homes.
Mukilteo School District boasts equally impressive outcomes and a track record of partnering with nonprofits and service providers to provide community-based programs for our students. The district also hosts the Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center, which offers hands-on training for students as they consider their future careers. We are fortunate to have two amazing local K through 12 partners achieving remarkable results with our youth.
Under Mayor Stephanson’s leadership, we’ve seen higher education opportunities in Everett expand greatly.
Our world-class higher education partners are constantly evolving to respond to the needs and opportunities presented by Everett industries. Everett Community College is the first college in the state to offer an advanced avionics program, equipping students to maintain, troubleshoot and repair aircraft electronic systems.
Washington State University at Everett is in its new home on North Broadway, and now enrolls about 200 full-time students – nearly 600 for the University Center as a whole.
Students can earn degrees in a growing range of programs that are relevant to our region, such as electrical engineering and organic agriculture systems.
WSU’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine welcomed its first class of students this fall, many of whom will spend their third and fourth years training at health care institutions in Everett. We will continue to advocate for WSU and support its plans to expand its physical footprint here, as well as its academic offerings.
Looking ahead: While we have a strong foundation to grow from, we also have immediate needs to address to sustain our existing job centers and recruit new businesses and ideas to Everett.
As Boeing considers its new mid-market airplane, I will work tirelessly to make sure that plane is built here in Everett.
Without question, there is no better place for Boeing to build. We are home to the country’s biggest aerospace cluster, which accounts for almost half of the state’s aerospace workforce. We have the suppliers, subcontractors and transportation networks that Boeing relies on.
Most importantly, we have a community that understands Boeing’s incredible value and takes immense pride in being at the forefront of the aerospace world.
At the same time that we are working to retain and support our major employers, we have to be focused on what comes next.
One opportunity for growth is entrepreneurs, and I’m so excited about the Innovation Center that we are developing in partnership with Snohomish County, the Economic Alliance, Everett Community College and the Northwest Innovation Resource Center.
The Innovation Center will be a hub for entrepreneurs, providing them with co-working space and the resources and mentors they need to turn their ideas into successful businesses.
We’ve received a grant from the Community Economic Revitalization Board to help plan the center, and we’ve identified potential locations near the community college. Stay tuned for details on the center later this spring.
With our region’s incredible beauty and strong sense of environmental responsibility, Everett also seems a natural fit to become a leader in sustainable, green technologies. At the same time that we work to reduce the City’s carbon footprint through our own climate action plan, I will also support efforts to recruit new businesses and jobs in the emerging clean energy economy.
Another opportunity is at the City itself, as Lanie McMullin, our longtime economic development director, will retire next month. Lanie has provided tremendous service to our community as a champion for Everett, and has helped bring exciting new businesses to our downtown core.
We will soon begin recruiting for a new economic development director, who will work closely with Deputy Mayor Nick Harper and Planning Director Allan Giffen to help us capitalize on the incredible opportunities ahead of us.
Today I’ll issue a Mayoral Directive that builds on our existing programs and takes advantage of this transitional time to realign our staff and strategic plans to help us achieve our economic development goals.
We have so much going for us – from incredible schools and colleges to leaders in industry and health care to an amazing natural setting. There is no better place to live or to start a business. We need a comprehensive, proactive marketing and branding effort that highlights those strengths.
My directive establishes an Office of Communications and Marketing, under the leadership of Executive Director Meghan Pembroke. This team will create and manage our marketing campaigns, including our tourism initiative, and support the economic development team with targeted recruitment and retention campaigns.
We will also establish an Office of Community Planning and Economic Development. In the short term, this team will accelerate our efforts to attract and promote more startups and entrepreneurs in Everett and to recruit new investment in key industrial and commercial properties throughout the city.
Commercial air service at Paine Field opens up potential for new private investors and family-wage jobs, and I’ve directed our team to come up with a plan to make the most of those possibilities.
We must also be actively pursuing and advocating for our long-term priorities, which are in line with those identified by the transition advisory team: transportation and critical infrastructure needs, education and workforce training, and a comprehensive affordable housing strategy.
One of our greatest strengths as a community is the passion and expertise of our business leaders – and many of you are in the room today.
Under my directive, we’ll establish an economic development advisory committee of local business leaders, as well as representatives from our City Council. The committee will work closely with the City team on economic development initiatives and will provide an avenue for two-way communication with the business community.
The final two initiatives in the directive are focused on activating key corridors and business districts within the city.
Our planning department is finalizing the Metro Everett plan, which includes innovative strategies and incentives to encourage and guide future growth downtown and near the event center and Everett Station. With City Council’s approval of the plan and its components, I will direct City staff to immediately begin implementation.
The Metro Everett vision includes using developer incentives and tax credits to encourage job growth and additional market-rate housing in our metropolitan center. It also includes strategies to make the district more inviting and attractive to new businesses and residents by addressing vacant properties and creating new paths and destinations.
Finally, I’ve directed the team to take a closer look at key business districts throughout the City, including the college district and North Broadway, Paine Field, Evergreen Way, and the Everett Mall. We can do more to support small businesses and share prosperity throughout our city.
I believe there are opportunities to apply the tools we’ve developed during the Metro Everett effort in other parts of the city, including simplifying our regulations to streamline development.
Our plans for these areas should consider future opportunities, such as transit-oriented development, and should help facilitate coordination among stakeholders.
Community Engagement: My final immediate priority as mayor is community engagement and inclusion.
As a councilmember, I brought forward a resolution affirming Everett’s commitment to ensuring a safe and welcoming community for everyone who lives, works and visits here. I want to again recognize and thank our City Councilmembers, who were unanimous in supporting that resolution.
Everett is rich in diversity of cultures, experiences and faith, and I believe we should not only protect and preserve that diversity, but look for ways to include those diverse voices in the City’s work.
In my conversations with community members, both as a candidate and now as mayor, I have been energized by how much our residents care about our city and how much they want to be a part of Everett’s success. Our community wants a government that is approachable, transparent and responsive, and I am committed to delivering on those fronts.
I believe that the City – and especially its leaders – has a responsibility to connect with and engage our residents in a meaningful way. What we do is vitally important to the lives of our community members, and they deserve the opportunity to ask questions, share concerns and have a say in how we conduct our work.
We have a strong base of engagement to build on, especially when it comes to our community leaders. Our nearly 160 board and commission volunteers invest their time and expertise to serve our City and provide community representation on important projects and programs.
For instance, last year the Board of Park Commissioners worked to update the six-year Parks Capital Improvement Plan and advised staff on key projects, including the potential YMCA partnership. Planning Commissioners provided input on the changes and incentives included in the Metro Everett plan.
We also convened the EnvisionEverett Committee, which met throughout early 2017. Members updated Everett’s 2005 vision report and set new goals and strategies for the City to pursue.
I’m grateful for the contributions of our boards and commissions, and I’m eager to get more people involved – particularly those who are not currently connected to their City government.
Over the past year we’ve stepped up our efforts to diversify of our boards and commissions, which often serve as a pipeline to elected office or City employment, and we’re seeing initial progress.
The 22-member EnvisionEverett Committee had representation from 14 of our 19 neighborhoods. In December, nearly 30 individuals applied for my former City Council seat, representing 13 neighborhoods.
This month we welcomed eight new members to the Diversity Advisory Board, and I am excited about the new energy and vision that they are bringing to such a critically important area of our work.
We’ve also added new ways for our residents to engage with the City and each other.
Last summer we launched the Community Sparks program, which provides small matching grants for community projects and events. Nine new projects were completed under the inaugural program, including the SnoHomo Pride festival, a historical walking tour and a “wall of kindness,” dreamed up and put into action by Evergreen Middle School students.
These kinds of events and programs, generated by creative, community-minded residents, cultivate important civic pride and can help us reach people that we aren’t currently reaching.
Last fall we also launched Everett Essentials, the City’s first-ever civics academy. Twenty-nine Everett residents spent nine weeks in an intensive, hands-on course that gave them a behind-the-scenes look at City services and programs.
The course received positive feedback from students and City instructors. And we’re already seeing how this kind of investment in our community members can pay off: Four of our graduates were appointed to boards and commissions positions, and several more have stepped up as neighborhood leaders.
Looking ahead: As Mayor, I will continue to support our community leaders and volunteers and recruit new residents to take on these important roles. I’m committed to ensuring that our community members have a voice in what we do, especially when it comes to public safety.
This summer Chief Templeman and I will launch a Chief’s Community Advisory Committee made up of community members and leaders. The group will work with the Chief to advise the department on recruiting, training, community outreach and promoting public awareness of police services and programs.
I also believe that our City workforce must reflect the population we serve.
Everett is increasingly diverse. In the Everett School District, 88 languages are now spoken in students’ homes, and 13 percent of students are learning to speak English. In the Mukilteo district, one in five students is learning to speak English, and 91 different languages are spoken in students’ homes.
Currently, nearly 90 percent of City employees identify as white, compared to 76 percent of Everett residents. We have a great opportunity to diversify our workforce and find new and better ways to reach and engage all members of our community.
This week I will issue a Mayoral Directive on Community Engagement and Inclusion, which will help guide our efforts in this vitally important area.
Our first task will be to develop a clearly defined vision for an engaged community. This was a strongly supported recommendation from the transition advisory team, and something I’ve heard repeatedly from our residents and neighborhood leaders.
With a clear vision for engagement we can identify the tools and policies we need to support City staff in providing effective outreach and meaningful engagement opportunities for all members of our community.
My directive also calls for a plan to improve inclusion and equity at the City and develop a workforce that represents the diverse population we serve. An interdepartmental City team will evaluate our current practices and develop recommendations to make sure the way we recruit, hire and train is in line with our inclusion and diversity goals. The team will work closely with the Diversity Advisory Board and Chief’s Community Advisory Committee.
Under the directive, we’ll also look for ways to increase access to City government. We’ll start by evaluating our facilities and service hours for accessibility and the potential for co-locating related City services to provide easy, “one-stop shopping” for our residents and businesses. We’ll also launch a citywide data initiative, to make it easier for the public to find and explore City data through our website.
The directive establishes a second interdepartmental team focused on customer service and complaint resolution. This team will recommend ways to improve how we interact with our community members when they have a question or concern, and how we identify and respond to recurring issues.
We’ll also make sure our City employees are engaged and informed about what the City is doing; our City team members are our best ambassadors to the broader community.
Finally, the directive includes a youth engagement initiative to encourage youth participation in boards and commissions and other City programs, and to evaluate a potential City-wide internship and apprenticeship program for high school and college students.
Conclusion It is so exciting to reflect on all of the milestones Everett has achieved in the last several years. It’s even more exciting to consider all of the incredible opportunities in our future.
I believe that leaders are most effective when they have a deep, personal connection to the people and places they serve, and I couldn’t be prouder to be Everett’s mayor.
I love this city. Everett is full of creative, compassionate people who recognize its strengths and potential, and want to be a part of its successes. That’s why I moved my family here. That’s why I’m excited to raise my daughter here. And that’s why I’m so eager to help move Everett forward.
Thank you for the chance to share my vision for our city, and thank you for all of the passion and energy you invest in our community. We have truly unlimited possibilities ahead of us, and I can’t wait to see what we accomplish together.
Thank you.
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Skills day and ride 5/20

OBLIGATORY FILLER MATERIAL – Giving thanks edition: Kickin’ around Caracas, Pt. 5

Continuing… (It's Part 6 in the saga, I fucked up. Sorry.)
So, after a few re-fueling and impromptu cigar-purchasing stops in South and Central America, we wheel up to the deserted jetway at LAX.
“Thought we were going to Elmendorf?” I asked.
“This isn’t it?” the pilot replied, feigning worry.
“No.”, I replied, “Looks like California. Fruits and nuts. All around. What’s going on? One minute we’re off to Texas, then Cali, then Texas again, now we end up here at the California airport of the iconic tower.”
“Yeah, it’s confusing enough haulin’ civilians around. But when we get a call from Virginia, we tend to comply without any questions,” the pilot explains.
“Aw, shit!”, I sort of exclaim, “Rack and Ruin called?”
“Yeah”, the pilot replies, “Figures you’d know these guys. They said they were closer to LAX rather than Texas and had us divert here. In fact, you look over there, see that dark blue Chevy? That’s them; and evidently, your ride.”
I tipped the airman from earlier a couple of cigars as he helped me with my gear off the plane and into the trunk of Rack and Ruin’s plain-Jane blue late modeled Chevy. Had to move the Sidewinder Missiles off to one side, though.
“Most honorable Agents Lack and Luin!” I quipped in my faux-racist greeting. “What the hell, guys? I’ve got to get to Japan and get some newly rigidified digits.”
“Let’s see your hand”, Agent Rack asks. “Nasty.”
“Yeah”, I sigh “And with the medicos in South America and their penchant for plaster, I don’t so much have a left hand as more of an ankylosaur tail.”
“Or Thagomizer”, Agent Ruin tittered. “Anyone gives you grief, and one upside the head should set them right. Or dead.”
“You’re a riot, Ruin.” I replied, “But not entirely incorrect.”
We all agreed that I really didn’t need any extra accouterments to make myself look more dangerous. I mean with my severe haircut, stern beard clip, and perpetual ‘Go fuck yourself’ scowl.
“Yeah”, I replied, stroking the aforementioned beard, “I just can’t get that. I’m such a people person.”
After Agents Rack and Ruin finished drying their eyes from laughing what I thought was en extremis, we finally got down to business.
“So, what’s the skinny, guys”, I asked. “New marching orders?”
“No. Not as such”, Agent Ruin said, still sniggering over my ‘people person’ comment.
I see we’re moving. Agent Rack is just driving casually, like Chewbacca when they were waiting to see if the Empire went for that expensive Bothan code.
“Then, what?” I asked, getting a slight bit piqued.
“Well”, Agent Ruin noted, “When you went to South America, you took some of your artillery collection with, correct?”
“You know I did. You even made some snide comments about my personal choice of sidearms and their ‘excessive’ calibers, if memory serves”, I reiterated.
“And if you are proceeding normally, as you always do, they’re all nestled in the trunk of this very car. All cleaned, quiet, unloaded, and smelling sweetly of Hoppe’s Number 9 and WD 40, correct?” Rack inquired.
“Yes?” I cautiously venture.
“Well, ya’ big dummy, do you think they’re going to let you saunter into Tokyo armed like the Third Fleet?” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Um…well…I do have a Diplomatic Passport.” I ventured.
“That’s not going to work this time.”, Agent Ruin said, shaking his head. “They’re tighter than Dick’s Hatband about sidearms. Want to bring in your Rigby SXS .500 Nitro Express double rifle? Not a problem. Sidearms, especially in your alien hunting calibers, nope.”
Well, that’s just….*dandy!”, I reply, semi-put out. “Now what the hell am I going to do?”
“Ever think that’s why Ruin and I are here, now?”, Rack asks.
“And here I thought it was just so you could bask in the warm glow of my fucking wonderful personality. Or that you actually cared about me as a real goddamn human”, I joshed.
“Ummm…yeah”, Rack replies, “There’s no way we can answer that without going on some Deadpool list. “
I agreed.
“OK, here’s the deal: you get your sidearms, ammunition, speed loaders, brass knuckles, Asp, laser range finders, Sap, Zeiss scopes, Kukri, Wisconsin Cheese Whittler, Buck folding skinner, Marine K-Bar, those two ultra-illegal Cheburkov Cobra titanium switchblades...”
“Three. Olga the KGB lady sent me one for Geologist’s Day.”
“Ahem. Those three ultra-illegal Cheburkov switchblades, that Wyoming Speedholer, your MASER Time-Distance Computer, garrote, pocket rail gun and whatever else lethal you carry and deposit it in the iron box in the trunk. We’ll ensure that it’s delivered to Esme post-haste. And by post-haste I mean one of our guys will deliver it personally.”
“Well…I suppose”, I conceded, “But best send someone who’s been to the house recently. I don’t know how much bigger Khan has grown since I left on this little fantasy trip. Wouldn’t want a star on the wall in Langley for someone eaten by a mastiff. Want to see a picture….Oh, bother. That’s right. My phone’s at the bottom of fucking Lake Maracaibo.”
“Good point”, Ruin interjects, “Guess we’ll do a little road trip and deliver it ourselves. Best call Esme and let her know what’s going on.”
“I have no objections to your proposals. Please give Esme this when you see her. I had some luck in the Calaveras Casino and if I don’t send her some mad money. Ouch. She’ll never forgive me for not taking her along to Japan.” I asked.
“But I thought Esme hated Japan? Too crowded and too ‘fussy’, I believe was her estimation.” Ruin asked.
“Yes, but once she saw the Ginza, all bets were off. Shopping the likes of which even Allah himself hasn’t seen.” I replied, slowly shaking my head.
“I see”, Ruin said, “Well, since you’re off to Sapporo, perhaps you can do a recon for Esme on the shopping there.”
“Not bad. Not bad at all.”, I smiled, “Now I know why I let you guys hang around with me.”
So, as advertised, I am now standing on the tarmac at LAX, basically feeling naked.
“Can’t I keep just one switchblade?” I moaned to Agent Rack.
“Go ahead, if you’re really keen on donating it to Japanese customs”, he replied.
“Fuckbuckets.” I groused.
“There, there now. That’s the usual Dr. Rocknocker of which we’re all so fond.” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Remember, you do have that wallet-sized credit card gizmo from the Company. So you’re not entirely ‘naked’. Think of it as an emergency breechcloth.” He smiled.
“I’d like a larger model if you don’t mind. It’s chilly out here.” I joshed.
After Agents Rack and Ruin stripped me metaphorically naked as they de-weaponized me, they handed me a Business Class ticket to Tokyo, and a pass to the Japan Airlines Hospitality Suite and Lounge.
“So sorry you guys can’t hang around and have a few farewell snorts”, I chided, “But you’ve got a bit of a drive, so best be off before the weather turns to shit.”
“Who says we’re driving?” Agent Rack asked as he hooked a thumb over his shoulder at the ready and waiting C-130 cargo plane currently taxiing slowly in our direction.
“Well, in that case”, I smiled even more broadly, “Let’s invite the flight crew to join us. That’ll make the flight home all that much more interesting.”
After near tear-jerking farewell sentimentalities, i.e., “Piss on you”, “Get stuffed” and “Take a fuckin’ hike”; Agents Rack and Ruin, my weapons and the Agency’s plain-Jane Blue Chevy were all nestled snugger than buggers in ruggers in the belly of the thundering C-130.
Now truly on my own, I trudge the hundred thousand or so centisteps to my departure terminal, make a quick recon that my flight’s still slated to go in a generally westward direction, and hightail it to the nearest courtesy desk to ask for a motorized cart to take me and my remaining luggage to the JAL Hospitality Suite.
Hey. I’m old, infirm, and currently among the walking wounded.
Anyone that disagrees risks an Ankylosaur tail club swat or Thagomizer to the skull.
Finally ensconced in the JAL Hospitality Suite, Polo Lounge of course; I was drinking Tokyo Teas (3 oz. vodka, 2 oz. gin, 2 oz. rum, 1 oz. triple sec, 1 oz. Midori, good splash of lime juice, a slight splash of 7-Up (diet, of course), over ice with a lime wheel) with Pabst Blue Ribbon Extra 1844 chasers and Hangar One’s “Fog Point” vodka on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year of two thousand and twenty-something, Common Era…
I’ve already called Esme and we’ve had a good, long chat. She still managed to give me her shopping list for whenever I find myself bored on the Ginza.
She’ll be shocked when she learns that I’m not going to be in Tokyo long, but have 1st class tickets on the Bullet Train to Sapporo. Still, I’ll probably find myself in Pole Town or the Stellar Place there, trading piles of US greenbacks for locally produced Japanese curios and clothing.
I can hardly wait.
I order another round of drinks, as the wonderful attendants in the Hospitality Suite were bored out of their skulls because of the COVID-induced drop-in customers flying anywhere that requires a hospitality room stay, and I was virtually the only one around. They tried their level best to outdo each other when it comes to Japanese efficiency and friendliness.
After a couple of hours, they ask if I would like something from the grill, as the day chef had “the COVID” and the night chef just arrived. A quick perusal of the menu and I chose a 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse and another round of drinks.
I usually don’t like to eat too much before I fly, but JAL tells me the flight is going to be virtually empty, something like <121 pax, all told, so restroom availability shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Plus, who am I to say no to a free, blue 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse?
There was a bit of difficulty conveying to the chef through the intermediaries of the hospitality just how I wanted my steak.
“Blue,” I said.
“Brue?” was the reply.
“Rare. Very, very rare.” I continued.
Look of total bewilderment.
I drag out my Personal Language Pro, speak “Steak, very, very rate” into the infernal gizmo, and hand the contraption to the attendant.
“珍しい、非常に珍しいステーキ?”[ Mezurashī, hijō ni mezurashī sutēki?]
“Raw! Nama!” I say, louder than need be.
They toddle off to find the chef.
“How is it sir, that you would like your steak cooked?” he asks.
“Very rare. Just a minute or two per side. Inside still cold.” I instructed.
All I got for the trouble was a puzzled smile.
“Give me the language gizmo…” I type in a few words…
“お尻を洗い、角をノックオフして、ここから出してください”
[O shiri o arai,-kaku o nokkuofu shite, koko kara dashite kudasai.]
“Wash its ass, knock its horns off, and walk it out here.”
“OH!” as the lightbulb pops. “Rare. Got it! Excellent!” the chef laughs and zips back to the kitchen.
Like I always say, I’m nothing if not the international ambassador of amity and goodwill.
“Crack tubes!”
Dinner was fantastic. I do wish I could have somehow mailed the Porterhouse bone back home for Khan. After that hambone incident, he might even taste it.
Finally on the plane, in an almost empty Business Class, the flight captain informs us that we’re headed to Haneda Airport Tokyo and anyone not headed in that direction better ‘haul ass off’ the flight or forever hold their peace.
Late-night international flights tend to be a bit more wooly than your average Chicago to Omaha gig.
Especially when the flight’s damn near empty and we have the next 12 hours or so to be best friends.
We taxi, turn and head into the wind. I’m doctoring up a couple of dossiers and keeping my personal cabin attendant, Luna since there were two of us in Business and two business flight attendants, busy with her trying to play ‘Stump the Geologist’.
“I’ll bet you never had this before.” She beamed and handed me a tumbler of very dangerous-looking brown liquor.
I cautiously sniff, take a modest gulp, swirl and glug the rest down.
“Ohishi Single Sherry Cask”, I say with a muffled belch. “Light. Fruity. An Englishman’s drink.”
“Oh. You knew. Let me try again.” She smiles beatifically.
“I have no objections to your proposal.” I smile as nicely as this crotchety old Komodo Dragon could.
She returns with another flagon of spirits; it smells of obsidian, leather, and earth.
I just had some of this back in LAX. I take a snort, smile, and shotgun the rest.
“Hibiki Japanese Harmony…lovely stuff.” I smile. “A little light for my jaded palate, but I’d never turn it down if it were free.”
“Oh, you win again. Wait. One more.” She smiles and skitters off to the galley.
She returns with another soupçon of some more dangerous brown liquor.
“Here, try this. It will make you very popular at social gatherings”. She smiles.
Sniff. “Splendid.” Snort. Swirl. Smile. Shotgun.
“Kanosuke New Born, if I’m not mistaken.” I smile back. “Very nice. I really do like this one.”
“You too good at this. One more!” she stands and stomps off defiantly. She returns in a trice and hands me the glass.
“Hmm…brown. Light notes of earth, leather, dating your daughter, and Kentucky…
“Beam Suntory, right?”
“You know them all!” she says, feigning irritation.
“And I thank you. Those were all excellent. Now, anything in the dangerous clear liquor category? I asked.
Luna smiled as I palmed off a 20k yen tip.
“Oh, no sir. Wait until we land.” She demurred, referring to the gratuity; which is know is not de rigueur in the Orient, but she didn’t seem to mind.
“Just in case we never make it to Tokyo”, I laughed, unknowingly presciently.
We both chuckled about that last line as she tried out various sakes and shōchūs and an actual Japanese ‘White Liquor’ (ホワイトリカー), which were all excellent as was the company.
I tell her that I need to get some work done and could she bring me a tall Rocknocker. After explain the origins and construction of the eponymous drink, she brings me one that must tip the scales at 1 or so liters.
She settles down to an empty seat and I get after the work that I need to finish before we land. I’m about ½ way through my drink when it felt as if the plane hit a brick wall. She quivered and quaked and clutched at herself while I made some comments about the pilot’s mental health.
We dropped like a paralyzed falcon, then just as suddenly, felt like it was an express elevator to Angel’s 11. The plane bucked and shimmied, wickedly. Then we slam-danced right and fell a few more stories. It was like we were in a Mixmaster and the owner was trying out every speed.
The emergency lights in the 777-300ER popped on, and the fasten seat belt sign barked loudly so even sleeping travelers could enjoy the show.
Rinse. Spin. Shudder. Repeat.
Finally, the ride smooths out and we hear the captain on the blower.
“This is your captain speaking…ah, we seem to have hit some uncharted turbulence back there.”
“Thanks, Captain Obvious”, I muttered.
“Everything’s A-OK. “ he reports.
“That’s good”, I note.
“But…”
“There’s always the but…” I groan.
“…we have a couple of warning lights for which we can’t quite account. So to just be safe and certain, we’re going to divert to Hawaii, get a clean bill of health and resume this flight once we make sure everything here is hunky-dory.”
There were scattered groans and applause. Add them together and divide by two and the average response on the flight was “Meh. Whatever.”
Except for the other guy in Business, with whom I hadn’t shared two words. He began to absolutely lose his shit.
“Oh, man! We’re so screwed! Mechanical malfunction? What does that mean?” he positively fizzed with fear.
The flight attendants tried to calm him down, to no avail. They basically gave up and said they’d report his misgivings to the Captain.
I motioned over to my personal flight attendant, Luna, and asked if I could be of service.
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled at me, “If you could speak with him. You are so calm, and he is…”
“Losing his bloody mind”, I chuckled as I finished her sentence for her. “Of course, I’ll take a stab at it.”
So, I grab my drink and ease over to my Business Class partner and introduce myself.
“Hey, pal. How’s it going? I’m Dr. Rock, gentleman, scholar, and connoisseur of cigars and things alcoholic. You doing OK?”
He looks at me with an ashen face and his eyes the size of bloodshot dinner plates.
“Yeah. I’m Todd Schotts. I’m flying to Japan for business.” He mumbles
“No surprise there,” I reply calmly and take a slug of my drink.
“But now we’re all going to die. The plane is busted and we’ll crash…” he started off again.
“So, Todd is it? Good. You drink?” I asked.
“Yeah?”, he stammered back.
I asked Luna to make us a fresh batch of my eponymous cocktails.
“OK, Todd, listen up”, I began after the drinks were served, “I have flown literally millions of miles over the last 4 decades. On Aeroflot when it was still the USSR. On TACA (Take A Chance Airways), on Chalk’s in the Caribbean, on Bob’s Verrifast Plane Company in Rhodesia, on regional carriers that don’t even exist anymore. All over the world. Had some bad experiences flying, and me ol’ mugger, this ain’t one of them. This is nothing more than the glitch for this mission.”
I chuckled lightly and complimented Luna on a fantastic drink.
“Yeah…yeah…yeah…but we have to land and check out some lights…” Todd squealed.
“Well now, Todd. It would be rather difficult to do any external assessment while in flight, don’t you agree?” I asked.
“But we’re diverting. We have to land and that adds more risk. We’re going to crash and die!” he was coming more and more unglued.
“I will bet you every cent you have on your person and home bank accounts that that will not happen”, I chuckled.
That took him by surprise. At least it shut him up for a while.
“Look, Todd. This is Boeing’s latest model. They have the most incredible safety record. And if a little clear air turbulence were to be knocking planes out of the sky, don’t you think we’d hear about it as the press went berserk?” I asked.
“But they don’t know what the lights mean! What if one of the engines’s out? How far can we fly on one engine?” Todd stuttered.
Having my fill of a supposedly grown man with inane childlike fears, I calmly replied,
“All the way to the crash site.”
He went white.
“...hope we hit something hard. I don’t want to limp away from this.”
He went limp.
Then I went to my seat and motioned for Luna to prepare a reload.
Of course, 45 minutes later, we land without incident at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu Hawaii.
We were told to just wait around until they figure out what the problem if any, was.
They had officials waiting at the end of the jetway to check our COVID status and passports before they let us loose in the terminal.
I asked Luna if she knew this airport. She noted that she did.
“Is there a JAL hospitality room here at this airport? I asked.
“Yes, Doctor. It’s the Sakura Lounge. It is located on the third level above The Local, Terminal 2.” She replied.
“Please notify whoever needs to know that that’s where I’ll be for the duration”, I smiled and handed her my business card. “See you soon, I hope.”
“Oh, Dr. Rock”, she replied, “I am sure it is nothing much. We’ll be back in the air within mere hours.”
“Well then”, I smiled, “Guess I’d better get ready to hoof it to the lounge.”
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled, “No rush. I will call for you a courtesy cart. You are injured, you are Business, you are priority.”
“I love that Asian efficiency.” I smiled back and toddled down the jetway.
At the terminus of the jetway, I show my COVID-clear papers, dates and times of my Anti-Virus vaccine administrations, the letter from Virginia clearing me of all detention, and my red Russian diplomatic passport.
While in the cart, whizzing our way to the JAL lounge, the driver said “Man! You must be some kind of VIP. You were through that welcoming committee in less than two minutes!”
“Me? Nah!”, I chuckled, “Just an old phart of a geologist that they didn’t want to mess with. Not on such a bright, sunny day as this.”
“I see you’re not wearing a mask.” The driver quipped.
“Very observant. There are reasons for that.” I replied.
He careens around a corner and if this were a normal pre-Covid day, I’m certain we’d have killed hundreds. However, the airport, as I’ve come to grow accustomed to, was virtually deserted.
“Yeah? Like what?” he asks.
“Well, Scooter, 1. I have an active and hardworking immune system that I let off the chain every once in a while for exercise. Got to let it know what it’s up against, right? 2. I’ve had all my shots and some that were experimental. They seem to have worked. And 3. I find it difficult to drink and smoke cigars while wearing a mask. However, if you’d prefer, I will mask up. No problem, though it still is optional.”
“Nah, man”, he said, “I was just wondering if you were one of those religious idiots or conspiracy nuts.”
Nope”, I smiled back, “Just another geologist out in the world plying his trade for cash. Y’know, whorin’ around for money.”
He laughs aloud as we skid to a stop right in front of Lounge.
I slip the guy a $20 and ask if he’d listen for the JAL flight I was just on. If we’re going on ahead today, I’d need him to scoot by and putt-putt me back to the plane.
He laughs and pockets the $20 as quick as a mink ruts.
“No worries. I’ll just hang around this area. I hear anything about the flight, I’ll come and let you know.” He grins.
“Good man”, I say, as I hand him my card. “I’m Dr. Rocknocker. Call me Rock”.
“And I’m Kapula Mano, call me Kap” he replies.
“Good man”, I say again, “Hope to see you in a while.”
He grins, floors his electric cart, and peels out at speeds approaching 4.5 MPH.
I wander into the lounge, show my credentials, and am escorted to a post up on Mahogany Ridge.
The bar is very quiet. Besides the bartender, I can’t see anyone else in the darkened and Smooth Jazz-infused drinking emporium.
I order a local drink, a Mai Tai, just for the experience and something a bit different.
It’s served in a goldfish bowl on a stem, bedecked with a slice of lime, a sprig of mint, a stick of sugar cane, a polychromatic orchid, and the obligate paper umbrella.
“Ah. Mai Tai. I will enjoy it.” I said to no one in particular.
One was enough, and I decided to go back to the old standard. Once I explained to the bartender what that was, he made them heroic and enthusiastically.
I’m reading up on a random dossier, making notes in a new file, and puffing away on a Fuentes Onyx double Maduro Churchill cigar.
I hear a slight cough coming from my right, and this here lovely lady, she sat to my immediate starboard and looked at me semi-quizzically.
Not in the mood for shenanigans of any stripe, I give her the obligate Baja Canada nod and tilt of the drink. I return to my dossiers and continue to read and take notes.
“Excuse me!” I hear.
Fearing the worst, either the woman is Karen-oid anti-smoking or a religious fruit-and-nutburger, I slowly turn to face her and reply, somewhat glacially, I have to admit.
“What?”
“That cigar…”
“Here we go…” I mutter, eyes rolling northward.
“Smells exquisite. Could you tell me the brand? My husband would enjoy some like that.” She notes.
Instantly my demeanor switches 180^0.
“Yes, ma’am. It’s an Arturo Fuentes Onyx. Churchill size, or 60 ring x 7” length, double Maduro. Here, take one for your husband. I have an ample supply.” I smile.
“Oh, no. I couldn’t. Could I?” she asks.
“Please. I insist.” I smile the best I could given the circumstances.
“Thank you. You’re too kind…umm…Mr….?”
“Doctor. Doctor Rocknocker. World traveler, oilman, and international ambassador of amity, good drinks, and fine cigars. Call me Rock” I said.
“Oh! A Doctor?” she brightens.
“Yes, of Petroleum Geology and Engineering. Not medicine.” I chuckle.
She chuckles back.
“And I am Hella Aaberg”, as she offers her hand for a quick shake.
“Interesting name, Hella. Scandinavian or Old German heritage?” I ask.
“On my father’s side. He’s Finnish.” She replies.
“But I’ll wager your mother is not Scandinavian, correct?” I ask.
“She was from Truk, an island…”
“In the South Pacific, Micronesia. Was she from Weno city?” I asked.
“Why yes. How could you possibly know that?” she asked.
“Oh, I’ve been there. Great diving amongst the WWII wrecks. I think it’s actually called ‘Chuuk Lagoon’ or something like that now.” I said.
“That’s right! Amazing. Where else have you been?” she asked.
“Anywhere there’s oil, strife, booze, cigars, heavy explosives and typically long distances from whatever most normal people call civilization,” I replied with a chuckle.
Suddenly, I hear a voice booming out behind me.
“Why don’t you save that rapier-like wit for those musky-fuckers back home, Rocko?”
My expression changes. My eyes pop fully wide open.
“Hella?” I asked.
“Yes?”
“May I ask you a favor?”
“You can ask…”
“Thank you. Now, looking over my shoulder, is there a hulking goon of a person, thin up top, paunchy halfway down with the most ridiculously tiny sized shoes you’ve ever seen for a so-called grown man?” I ask.
“Yes. Yes, there is.” She replies.
“I thought so. Many thanks.”
I spin and launch off my barstool and grab Toivo by the hand. He hadn’t seen my left-hand Thagomizer yet.
“Toivo! You old sumbitch. What the flying fennec fox fuck are you, of all people, doing in Hawaii?” I laughed.
“Just keeping an eye on you, Rock!” he laughed equally as loud.
“No, fucking-A, seriously. What the actual fuck? What are you doing in this actual nice place?” I asked.
“Just headed to Tokyo to conduct a bit of service company business. I walked into the lounge and smelled a foul cigar. I figured it can’t be the venerable Dr. Rocknocker. He’s back at some school up north terrorizing geology and engineering grads and undergrads.” Toivo laughed.
“But there I was. Surprise!”, I laughed and pumped his hand.
“What the fuck, Rock. Now what did you do?” he asks, referring to my Ankylosaur tail club left hand.
“Ah, fuck. Long story. Oh, pardon me. Toivo, this is Hella. We were just talking about the South Seas Islands.” I said.
“Planning on running off together?” Toivo laughs, to the amusement of neither party.
“Oh, and this idiot is Toivo, a man with a congenital foot-in-mouth disorder. He’s mostly harmless.” I noted to Hella.
Greetings were shared all around. Hella made some small excuses and said she needed to depart. I gave her another cigar for her husband, shook her hand, and wished her well.
“Here’s my business card. If your husband has any questions, have him drop me a line.” I noted.
Hella smiled beautifully. She said she would. Then she thanked me shook our hands, and like that, there she was, gone.
“Well Toivo, you old bastard. Don't just stand there in the doorway like some lonesome goddamn mouse shit sheepherder, get your ass over here and have a drink.” I motioned over to my perch on Mahogany Ridge.
“Don’t mind if I do”, he says as he deftly winds his way to a seat to my left, snagging a cigar out of my pocket on the way over.
“You might want these”, I say in an exasperated tone, and hand him my gold Dunhill Hobnail lighter and V-cutter gizmo.
He cuts and fires up his heater.
“What you drinkin’, Rock”, he asks.
“Anything with alcohol, as usual. You know that Toiv.” I reply.
“No. I mean right now.” He clarifies.
“Well, I had a Mai Tai. Very nice if you like fruity, flowery drinks. It’s the locals’ favorite.” I reply.
“Sounds good. I’ll have several. And you?” Toivo asks.
“My usual. The bartender is already apprised of the situation.” I reply.
Toivo smiles the smile of one knowing his sobriety is going to be taken out for a swim. Hell, taken out and tossed into the deep end.
Toivo and I sit there, swapping lies, smoking cigars and sipping at our toddies.
Hell, Toivo was slurping them like a sump-pump during an extra-wet summer.
We chattered about family, work, whether or not Tokyo was going to host the Olympics or if the COVID-boogie man scared everyone off.
Toivo, always one afflicted with TB (“Tiny Bladder”) got up to go to the loo for the third time that hour. He left his pocket organizer on the bar and I swear on a stack of Origins of Species, I didn’t touch it.
I reached over to his vacated seat to retrieve my cigar lighter when I looked down and saw in his organizer a tab that reads “Rack & Ruin”.
“Oh. No. Fucking. Way.” I recoiled as I’d just reached out and petted a 6-foot hungover scorpion.
“One of my best friends? Secretly allied with the Agency? No. Not possible.” I drained my drink and called for another.
“No. No. No. It can’t be. No. No fucking way…” as doubt began to dissolve when I thought back to all those times I had just ‘run into’ Toivo.
“But he’s oil patch as well. That could be chalked up to coincidence.” I ruminated quizzically in my brain.
I quickly reflected back on J.M. Darhower: “Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.”
She may be the author of the execrable New Adult Sempre series, which Esme likes and I loathe, but she might just be right on this occasion.
Toivo return, lighter in the bladder and good sense. He never even noticed he’d left his organizer out in broad bar light for all to see.
“So, Toivo, when’s your flight?” I ask.
“Oh, man. Was I lucky. The JAL flight to Tokyo from Los Angeles had mechanical trouble and had to divert here. I got a ticket on the plane for that flight, when it continues.
“You mean ‘if it continues’,” I replied.
“Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I meant. Hey! Was that your flight?” he asks innocently. He’s really innocent of fieldcraft.
I decide to have some fun at my old friend’s expense.
“Yep. Hit some CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the JAL pilots reported some lighting problem. No apparent ruin to any of the systems. They relay racked their brains to figure it out, but they couldn’t that’s why I here.” I said, waiting for the words to swim upstream in Toivo’s coconut and make some sort of connection.
“Yeah. Double lucky. No problem with the plane and I get to go to Japan early.” Toivo crookedly grins.
“So, no trouble with the plane? Then why haven’t I heard that the flight’s going to resume?” I asked as I pushed a fresh, seriously strong drink to Toivo.
“Oh, must have heard it in the john.” Toivo countered and tried to cover his tracks by taking a huge gulp of his drink and damn near dying coughing.
I pound on Toivo’s back.
“Heimlich time?” I ask.
Toivo signals ‘no’.
“Jesus Christ, Rock. What was that?” he asks.
“Just my usual”, I innocently replied.
“Holy fuck. No wonder you have the reputation of…” Toivo realizes too late that he’s said too much.
“Yeah. They can rack you out. Really ruin a person if they’re not careful.” I reply icily.
“Why, Rock. Whatever do you mean?” Toivo slurred as he realized he’s been caught out.
“The jig is up, you turncoat. You know Agents Rack and Ruin from the agency. Right? You keeping tabs on me for them? You Quisling! You Benedict Arnold!” I almost was on the verge of losing my cool.
“It was nothing. They approached me years ago as I kept being mentioned in your reports. They asked me for some information. One thing leads to another…” Toivo was ready for an Ankylosaur tail club swat to the bean.
“Oh, put your fucking hands down, you asshole.” I smiled and chuckled.
“You’re not mad?” Toivo slurred badly. I had the bartender make him another special drink.
“No, Toivo. Not mad. Just disappointed.” I said, smiling like a Komodo Dragon just finishing up a fortnight-old wildebeest.
Toivo sat there and puzzled and puzzled until his puzzler was sore.
“You’re not going to kill me or anything rude like that?” Toivo asked, half-assedly trying to inject humor into the proceedings.
“Nah. The paperwork’s too ridiculous for me to do another liberation. But, Jesus Fucking Christwagons, Toivo; you could have mentioned it to me. Fuck, I thought we were friends to the end?” I said, dejectedly.
I was really getting through to Toivo. I could tell he was loaded; feeling like shit and massively deplorable.
Great fieldcraft, indeed.
I told him things “are what they are” and that I won’t blow his cover nor his honorarium.
He began to feel better. I often wonder if he was serious about the sanctioning thing.
Then I delivered the strategic missile strike.
“Just remember, Toivo. I wrote your dossier for the Company…”
He swivels to look at me.
“And one for the KGB. Olga says ‘howdy’.” I grin evilly.
Toivo short-circuited at that. Russia is his company’s bread and butter. Now he has the KGB as well as his best buddy looking over his shoulder at every move.
I bought him a few more drinks and continued to needle him about his ’leading a double life’. He was well and truly fuckered when the electric tap-tap driver from before came looking for me to whisk me back to the plane.
Seems it was simply some knocked-out wires on the plane, or slammed bulbs that were generating a false positive, indicating something other than the system that alerts one to something haywire went haywire.
Toivo was pretty much down for the count. I got him sober enough to hand them his ticket and ensure that he was really supposed to be on this flight. Thing was; h e was in Economy, and I was, as always, in Business.
I spoke to Luna, and the plane was going to be even less crowded than previously because some folks could or wouldn’t wait, or didn’t want to go on with the rest of the trip on a ‘damaged’ aircraft, or were just stupid and superstitious.
“Luna, could I pay for the difference between Business and Economy for my less than 100% conscious friend here? He’s had a rough day.” I asked.
“Dr. Rock. Just put him into Business. No one will be the wiser. Luna says so.” As she gave us a grand smile.
“Luna, I owe you. Thanks so much.” I said.
“Now get on board. Your friend looks like he needs all the downtime he can get.”
“Yes, ma’am!” I said and saluted here be best I could which dragging a schnozzled Toivo down the jetway.
I dumped Toivo in a window seat well away from my seat. I know Toivo. He snores like a semi-load of live hogs rocketing downhill locking up the brakes at 88 MPH.
Surprise! There was no one else in Business. Luna looked at me, at Toivo, and gave me a thumbs up.
Whatever I can write to further her career at JAL, she’ll have it before I deplane.
We finally get everyone settled, and with Captain Kangaroo at the helm, we bounced gracelessly off the tarmac, into the warm, tropical Hawaiian air, finally headed for the Land of the Rising Sun.
Toivo was snoring like a chainsaw hitting rusty nails as I worked on the various letters, communiques, and dossiers which needed updating before we reached touchdown. I gave Luna a thick letter with instructions not to open it until we were on the ground and Toivo and I were well off and away into the terminal.
We left Hawaii at 1300 hours, so we should arrive at Tokyo Nareda around 4:00 pm, the previous day. I was so bereft of time and time zones, I couldn’t figure out what time it really was, as judged by my biometric rhythms, so I asked Luna for a stiff drink as I was kicking off my boots and going to attempt to get some kip.
She brought me another liter or so eponymous drink. I was sawing logs by the time I slurped the last swig of that nifty drink.
Suddenly, or later, I have no idea really, some loudmouth drunk asshole from way-the-fuck-back in economy-land toward the ass end of the plane staggered into Business demanding free drinks.
Luna was nothing but civil, and asked him to both shut up and return to his seat. His air cabin hostess, or whatever the fuck they’re calling them these days, will attend to his needs.
“Naw they won’t! They want me to pay for more drinks! I’m broke but I demand more booze! You fucking owe me.” railed the asshole. “I sat at the bar in Hawaii for four hours. Them fuckers charged me an arm and a leg!”
“No, they don’t owe you shit”, I said in a voice that unmistakably loud and clear.
“Fuck you, old man! You stay the fuck out of this!” he bellowed. “Shut up or I’ll do ya’!”
“’Old man’? ‘Do me’? Excuse me. Luna, may I have a word alone with this individual?” I asked sweetly.
Luna shook her head in the affirmative, and I stood up to confront this flagrant asshole.
“Now look, Scooter. You have gone way, way over the fucking line. You are loud. You are abusive. You are obnoxious. And you stink. Plus you insulted a person who is just barely containing his righteous wrath right now. So, I’m giving you one and one only chance to shut up, sit back down before your body spontaneously develops all sort of bruises, contusions, broken bones, and unconsciousness.” I said calmly, evenly, and threateningly.
“What da’ fuck you think you’re going to do…old man?” he screeched, trying to inflate himself into full mammalian threat posture, all 5’ 9” of it.
He didn’t notice Toivo walking up quietly behind him, as Toivo was returning from the head, quiet as a moose.
“Well, Scooter, I am an Air Marshall. Duly appointed, fully trained, and properly pissed off. Right now, I can arrest you, physically detain you, turn this flight around and take you to the Hawaiian police, at your cost for the inconvenience of the entire flight. Or I could arrest you, physically detain you, and turn you over to the Japanese authorities when we land. It’s really your choice. Choose wisely.”
To be continued…⇝

“The Canadian Epstein” — Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes By Guy Adams Investigates For The Daily Mail
15 Jan 2021
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'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Kai Bickle's world came tumbling down one night in May 2019, when he attended a dinner party at a lavishly decorated mansion overlooking the golden sands of Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
The host was his father, Peter Nygard, a Canadian fashion tycoon famed for the hedonistic lifestyle he pursued at a global portfolio of high-end properties, including vast residences in Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, as well as New York, and, most notoriously, a Mayan-themed 'private luxury resort' in the Bahamas.
Modelling himself on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, the flamboyant Nygard, now 79, kept a revolving harem of girlfriends. Those caught up (often completely unwittingly) in this web had included actresses Susan Anton and Jennifer O'Neill, stripper-turned-reality star Anna Nicole Smith, and a former Wheel Of Fortune card turner by the name of Vanna White.
His Caribbean parties, meanwhile, tended to attract a better class of A-lister. Past visitors to the island property had ranged from Jane Seymour and Bo Derek to Robert De Niro, , Michael Jackson and Joan Collins, not to mention and , who were photographed there in the early 2000s on an innocuous family holiday.
The 2019 bash, during one of Peter's occasional business trips to LA, was to be a more down-to-earth affair. Roughly 20 guests, including Kai, 38, and his younger brother Jessar (one of roughly ten offspring Nygard has fathered via more than seven women) had been invited for food and drinks, followed by a late-night poker game.
That was the plan, at least. But Kai never made it to the card- table. Instead, he fled the lavish premises in a state of distress, shortly after dinner, believing that he had just witnessed his father attempting to sexually assault an eight-year-old girl.
Details of this ugly development are (it should be stressed) strongly disputed, and we shall examine them later. But the incident would kick-start an extraordinary chain of events that culminated just before Christmas, with the arrest of Peter Nygard on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Currently behind bars, with his $900 million (£660 million) business empire in tatters and the FBI poring over his computer hard-drives, the fallen tycoon has now been accused of rape or sexual assault by at least 57 women. Several of Nygard's accusers were children when the alleged crimes took place, and many claim they were drugged.
At least 57 women have accused him.
He will appear in court in Canada next week, seeking bail as he fights extradition to the USA.
It is, perhaps, the most high-profile and shocking sex case since handcuffs were slapped on Jeffrey Epstein. And in a remarkable twist, it turns out that a leading figure in the increasingly public campaign to prosecute Mr Nygard is his aforementioned son, Kai.
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Behind the scenes, I can reveal that Kai has spent the past 18 months secretly helping both the U.S. and Canadian authorities investigate his own father's alleged crimes. Keeping his role hidden from Nygard and his associates for several months, he has worked tirelessly to assist victims, and their legal teams.
On the personal front, he has changed his name (taking up his mother's surname to become Kai Zen Bickle) and used his influence over various Nygard companies to block efforts to move his assets offshore, fearing that would allow him to flee. 'We have been engaged in a brutal battle against my father and his enablers,' is how Kai summed things up when we spoke this week.
'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Perhaps most remarkably of all, Kai recently helped two of his younger siblings, one of whom remains a minor, to sue Peter Nygard over claims he 'engineered' the rape of his own sons. In an extraordinary lawsuit filed in August, the boys claimed that their leathery, multi-millionaire father instructed one of his long-standing girlfriends (who was also a sex worker) to 'make a man' out of them.
The first of these alleged attacks (which, again, are vehemently denied by Nygard) took place in the Bahamas 2004, when the son was 15 and the woman was in her mid-20s. The second occurred in Winnipeg in 2018, when the younger child was 14 and the woman was in her 40s. Court papers filed by the boys stated that the unnamed girlfriend was instructed to seduce Nygard's son by showering in his bathroom so that he 'could see her naked'. Then she raped him.
Afterwards, she allegedly told the boy he 'wasn't bad' for a 'baby.' The next morning, Nygard's girlfriend brought him breakfast in bed, kissing him on the lips and announcing: 'Mommy's got you.' Kai says he first became aware of this appalling incident last spring, and was 'sickened' to hear his brothers' claims.
He would often yell and scream at his staff.
'We all spoke and decided the best course of action was to file a lawsuit publicly in the hope that other survivors would feel safe to come forward and also file criminally against Nygard,' he says. 'We were originally going to have me in the suit as my young brother's guardian, but in the end decided not to because it would reveal to Nygard that I was working against him . . . At the time I was [secretly] doing everything I could to improve the odds that he would get arrested.'
To appreciate the extraordinary journey taken by Kai, we must wind the clock back to the mid-1980s, when his father was one of Canada's most talked-about self-made millionaires.
The son of penniless immigrants from Finland, Peter Nygard had launched his empire in the late 1960s, with an $8,000 (£6,000) investment in a struggling fashion firm. By the time he was 30, the company had become one of North America's most successful suppliers of leisure and sportswear, while his flamboyant eccentricities, which included keeping parrots in his office and filling the lobby of Nygard HQ with bronze busts of himself, turned him into an object of public fascination.
In 1987, the party-loving entrepreneur purchased a 4.5-acre patch of the island of New Providence in the Bahamas and set about turning it into a 'dream home' where he could indulge his champagne lifestyle. Over the ensuing years, he built 150,000 sq ft of Mayan-themed buildings, stretching over a dozen 'cabana-style' residences. The buildings at Nygard Cay eventually included a casino, a disco hut (with cameras beneath the dance floor, reportedly to shoot images of revellers from below), and the world's largest sauna, a 6,000 sq ft lodge made from 2ft-thick Canadian pine logs.
In the grounds were fake volcanoes that belched dry ice, a flock of peacocks, stone cobras which hissed steam at sunset, 60 ft towers festooned with hundreds of flaming torches (lit nightly by staff) and giant statues of nude women, purportedly modelled on some of Nygard's favourite girlfriends.
At weekends, he would host lavish parties, which appeared on various TV documentaries, including Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.
The place became a magnet for freeloading celebrities and, while Kai believes they generally had the most fleeting and brief relationship with Nygard, photos of their visits were then plastered across company literature and websites.
Prince Andrew, to cite one example, was recorded for posterity wandering with the long-haired fashion magnate on the beach, wearing blue shorts and boat shoes.
Born in the 1980s, Kai spent the first three years of his life in the Bahamas until his mother, Patricia, left Nygard, with whom she'd had three children but never married.
They moved first to California and then to the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. Over subsequent years, he had almost no regular contact with the fashion tycoon aside from occasional visits during school holidays, where he met various half-siblings.
'He would have one family weekend per year at his lake cottage, and a few days set aside for Christmas,' says Kai of the somewhat unorthodox arrangement. 'During those times, the days were filled with activities like horseback riding or mini golf.
'He could be a very charismatic person when he wanted to be and the family weekends were very light and brief.'
In the very limited time he spent with his father during childhood, Kai saw nothing that gave him reason to suspect that Peter Nygard was guilty of criminality, though he did have a highly volatile personality.
'He would yell and scream at his staff often, and that always was upsetting to everyone around it, but he would describe his yelling as 'passion' because of his 'high standards',' Kai says.
Nygard's children were further told that he 'lived a consensual, non-monogamous lifestyle,' Kai says. 'He made speeches at dinner to family when we were together to talk about how he hoped everyone got a wonderful partner and wished that he could find that special someone, but that it wasn't the life for him.
'He also had girlfriends that were persistently with him, always two or three, and often they were around for years. He wasn't embarrassed about it. He flaunted it on TV, it was part of his brand, something he showed the whole world. He was proud of it.'
Be that as it may, rumours of predatory behaviour by Nygard —and worse — had occasionally reared their ugly head, only to be quickly suppressed: a relatively easy task before the internet.
In 1980, for example, he was charged with the rape of an 18-year-old, but the charge was dropped when the complainant refused to testify. In 1996, three female employees meanwhile filed sexual harassment complaints in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
It looked like his hand was on her thigh, rubbing.
One, a 39-year-old communications manager, said that, when called into Nygard's office, she would 'find him in a state of undress . . . with his hands down the front of his pants, fondling himself.' He settled by giving the women $18,500 (£13,600) and denied any wrongdoing.
Then, in 2010, a Canadian TV network put out a Panorama-style documentary about Nygard, focusing on alleged sex abuse and harassment of former employees.
It quoted a former stewardess on his private plane who alleged that on one journey — during which Nygard was accompanied by a troupe of topless women — he lost his temper with staff, shouting: 'You are nothing! You are garbage! I am God!'
The programme also alleged that Nygard had engaged in 'inappropriate sexual contact' with a young woman who had been brought to his home in 2003 from the Dominican Republic. Nygard denied that either incident had happened, and sued to stop the documentary being broadcast.
Fast forward to May 2019, however, and those ugly incidents were largely forgotten. Kai, who was by then in his late 30s, had worked for his father's companies for just over two years after leaving college, but quit to pursue a career in activism and health science.
Nygard's trip to Los Angeles afforded them a rare opportunity to catch up, so he attended the aforementioned dinner party in Venice Beach.
As the night wore on, he recalls becoming uncomfortable about his father's behaviour towards an eight-year-old girl, who was attending with her mother, one of Nygard's old girlfriends.
'He's got her sitting right next to him at dinner, which is usually his girlfriend chair. And he's a creature of routine. So I'm already thinking this is weird.
'He's trying to act like the Papa. It was just weird . . . I'm noticing things. I'm noticing that he's telling her little secrets at dinner. Putting his hand close to her ear and going all hush-hush.' At the end of dinner, most of the other 20-odd guests got up to adjourn to the card table. However, Kai adds: 'I'm still watching him. Her chair gets pushed back. He brings her round to him.
'She was on his right side. He brings her to his left side, with his arm around her waist, and I see his elbow change and start moving as if — it looked to me, I couldn't see, but it looked like his hand was on her upper thigh, and rubbing. That's what it looked like to me . . . Everything in my body told me he was doing something terrible.'
'I had a huge adrenaline rush and I immediately told the mother to get her daughter away from him,' he adds. 'I stood up next to him and looked in his eyes. At that moment, for me, it was like all the walls were crashing down around him . . . And I realised that, yeah, he's probably trying to groom that girl.'
Nygard vigorously denied wrongdoing, and even called Kai 'sick' for thinking as much. But Kai was unconvinced.
Then, in February last year, ten women filed a bombshell lawsuit in New York claiming that the fashion magnate had used wealth and status to 'entice underage girls' from 'young, impressionable and often impoverished backgrounds' into his home, where they would be 'plied with alcohol' and (some allege) date-rape drugs, before being taken to Nygard's private quarters, where he would 'assault, rape and sodomise' them. Court papers claimed they were then coerced into joining a globe-trotting harem of sex workers paid thousands of dollars from Nygard's company funds and trafficked around the world on his company's private jet, which reportedly boasts a stripper pole.
One alleged victim, who was just 14 at the time, claimed Nygard raped her and paid her $5,000 (£3,700).
Another said her encounter with Nygard began with him showing her pornography after which he raped her, 'causing her extraordinary trauma and pain', the suit states.
Three of his existing ten accusers were 14 at the time. Three more were 15.
Within days, dozens more alleged victims had come forward. By the summer, some 57 survivors were pursuing legal action — and the number of alleged victims had reached 100.
Kai again confronted his father, only to be told it was all 'lies' and asked to speak out publicly in his father's support. But days later a friend texted Kai to complain about a recent visit to Nygard's house in Los Angeles.
'He said he'd brought a female friend with him, who had one or two drinks and had started to feel very high. Nygard took her up to his room and aggressively had sex with her, not using a condom.
'When I heard that, I knew he was not only as bad as people said he was, but was a dangerous criminal and had to be stopped.' He duly alerted the authorities about the friend's message. In a podcast called Live To Walk Again, released this week, he revealed that he began helping both the police and the alleged victims' lawyers, who he regards as 'heroes'.
Over the summer, Kai also used official positions held in Nygard firms to block two apparent efforts to move assets overseas, amid concerns that the tycoon might flee to evade justice.
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'Through the course of ten months I also helped several survivors to file criminally against him, and spent countless hours on the phone with survivors, lawyers and authorities,' he says. Last month Nygard was arrested on U.S. charges at a home in the Royalwood area of Winnipeg. He spent Christmas behind bars and has consistently denied any wrongdoing, saying he 'expects to be vindicated' in court.
Kai has renounced his inheritance and is working on 'making the world a better place' by campaigning to close legal loopholes exploited by sex offenders.
'I'm very happy earning my own money, as I have all my life. We've never had a trust fund or an allowance, and since his money has been made through pain and suffering, I won't accept a potential inheritance,' he says.
His father's cash, he says, should instead go towards compensating victims. 'My focus now is to help the healing process.'

Which Actress had the best run in the 60s?

Best Run in terms of anything
Audrey Hepburn: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, The Children's Hour, Paris When It Sizzles, My Fair Lady, Wait Until Dark, The Unforgiven, How to Steal a Million, and Two for the Road.
Natalie Wood: Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, Gypsy, Love with the Proper Stranger, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, All the Fine Young Cannibals, Cash McCall, Penelope, This Property Is Condemned, Sex and the Single Girl, The Great Race, and Inside Daisy Clover.
Julie Andrews: Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, The Americanization of Emily, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, Torn Curtain, Star!, and Think Twentieth.
Bette Davis: Pocketful of Miracles, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Nanny, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Dead Ringer, The Empty Canvas, The Anniversary, and Where Love Has Gone.
Monica Vitti: L'Avventura, Follie d'estate, La Notte, Three Fables of Love, L'Eclisse, Sex Quartet, I Married You for Fun, The Girl with the Pistol, Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold, On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who..., Help Me, My Love, The Scarlet Lady, Red Desert, Le bambole, Il disco volante, Modesty Blaise, High Infidelity, Nutty, Naughty Chateau, and Sweet and Sour.
Liv Ullmann: Persona, Kort är sommaren, Tonny, Smeltedigelen, En hyggelig fyr, Onkel Vanja, Måken, De kalte ham Skarven, Cocktailselskapet, Hour of the Wolf, An-Magritt, The Passion of Anna, and Shame.
Catherine Deneuve: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Repulsion, Belle de Jour, Les Petits Chats, L'Homme à femmes, Les Portes claquent, Ça c'est la vie, And Satan Calls the Turns, Tales of Paris, Portuguese Vacation, Vice and Virtue, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Who Wants to Sleep?, Le Chant du monde, The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers, La costanza della ragione, Male Companion, Male Hunt, Manon 70, La Chamade, Benjamin, Mayerling, The April Fools, A Matter of Resistance, Mississippi Mermaid, Tout peut arriver, and Les Créatures.
Julie Christie: Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Fahrenheit 451, Petulia, Far from the Madding Crowd, Billy Liar, Crooks Anonymous, The Fast Lady, Young Cassidy, and In Search of Gregory.
Rita Moreno: West Side Story, Popi, This Rebel Breed, The Night of the Following Day, Marlowe, Summer and Smoke, and Cry of Battle.
Judy Garland: Judgment at Nuremberg, I Could Go On Singing, Pepe, A Child Is Waiting, and Gay Purr-ee.
Joan Crawford: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Strait-Jacket, The Caretakers, The Karate Killers, Berserk!, and I Saw What You Did.
Nora Ricci: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, A Very Private Affair, Giuseppe Verdi, The Shortest Day, La fiera della vanità, The Witches, The Damned, Metti, una sera a cena, and The Libertine.
Pamela Tiffin: Summer and Smoke, One, Two, Three, The Pleasure Seekers, For Those Who Think Young, Come Fly with Me, The Lively Set, and State Fair.
Claudia Cardinale: 8 1/2, The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers, Girl with a Suitcase, Cartouche, The Pink Panther, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Hell with Heroes, Blindfold, The Professionals, Lost Command, Don't Make Waves, The Day of the Owl, Il bell'Antonio, Austerlitz, The Lovemakers, The Lions Are Loose, Auguste, Careless, La ragazza di Bube, Time of Indifference, Circus World, The Magnificent Cuckold, Sandra, The Conspirators, A Fine Pair, Diary of a Telephone Operator, and The Red Tent.
Anouk Aimée: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Lola, Justine, A Man and a Woman, The Last Judgment, The Joker, The Shortest Day, White Voices, Justine, The Appointment, Model Shop, La fuga, Sodom and Gomorrah, One Night... A Train, and The Dreamer.
Sandra Milo: 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, La visita, Méfiez-vous, mesdames, Ghosts of Rome, Weekend, Italian Style, Premio Nobel, Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better, Beautiful Families, The Strange Night, Classe Tous Risques, Adua and Her Friends, and Vanina Vanini.
Coral Browne: The Killing of Sister George, Dr. Crippen, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The Legend of Lylah Clare, Tamahine, The Night of the Generals, and Go to Blazes.
Rita Tushingham: Doctor Zhivago, Smashing Time, A Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys, The Knack ...and How to Get It, Girl with Green Eyes, A Place to Go, The Guru, The Trap, The Bed Sitting Room, and Diamonds for Breakfast.
Deborah Kerr: The Innocents, The Sundowners, The Grass Is Greener, The Night of the Iguana, Marriage on the Rocks, The Chalk Garden, The Naked Edge, Casino Royale, The Gypsy Moths, Eye of the Devil, The Arrangement, and Prudence and the Pill.
Ava Gardner: Mayerling, The Night of the Iguana, 55 Days at Peking, Seven Days in May, The Bible: In the Beginning..., and The Angel Wore Red.
Debbie Reynolds: How the West Was Won, Divorce American Style, The Singing Nun, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Rat Race, Pepe, The Pleasure of His Company, The Second Time Around, Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children, How Sweet It Is!, Mary, Mary, Goodbye Charlie, and My Six Loves.
Hermione Baddeley: Mary Poppins, Marriage on the Rocks, Harlow, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Rag Doll, Midnight Lace, Information Received, Let's Get Married, The Happiest Millionaire, and Do Not Disturb.
Virna Lisi: How to Murder Your Wife, Not with My Wife, You Don't!, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Un militare e mezzo, Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare, 5 marines per 100 ragazze, Eva, The Shortest Day, Don't Tempt the Devil, Duel of the Titans, Le bambole, The Black Tulip, Coplan Takes Risks, The 25th Hour, A Maiden for a Prince, Assault on a Queen, Made in Italy, Casanova 70, The Possessed, Kiss the Other Sheik, The Girl Who Couldn't Say No,Arabella, The Girl and the General, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, The Christmas Tree, Anyone Can Play, and Better a Widow.
Liza Minnelli: The Odd Couple, The Sterile Cuckoo, and Charlie Bubbles.
Marilyn Monroe: Let's Make Love and The Misfits.
Shirley MacLaine: The Children's Hour, The Apartment, Two for the Seesaw, Irma la Douce, Sweet Charity, Ocean's 11, Can-Can, Gambit, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!, What a Way to Go!, Woman Times Seven, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, My Geisha, All in a Night's Work, and Two Loves.
Suzy Kendall: 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia, To Sir, with Love, The Penthouse, Thunderball, The Liquidator, Circus of Fear, Up Jumped a Swagman, Up the Junction, The Sandwich Man, and Fräulein Doktor.
Angie Dickinson: Ocean's 11, The Sins of Rachel Cade, Captain Newman, M.D., Point Blank, The Killers, Jessica, The Art of Love, I'll Give My Life, The Bramble Bush, A Fever in the Blood, The Chase, The Poppy Is Also a Flower, Cast a Giant Shadow, Some Kind of a Nut, Sam Whiskey, The Last Challenge, Young Billy Young, and Rome Adventure.
Eva Marie Saint: Exodus, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, All Fall Down, 36 Hours, and The Stalking Moon.
Anne Bancroft: The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater, The Slender Thread, and 7 Women.
Patricia Neal: Hud, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Subject Was Roses, In Harm's Way, and Psyche 59.
Sue Lyon: The Night of the Iguana, Lolita, 7 Women, Tony Rome, Arsenic and Old Lace, Four Rode Out, and The Flim-Flam Man.
Ann-Margret: The Pleasure Seekers, State Fair, Bye Bye Birdie, The Cincinnati Kid, Viva Las Vegas, Stagecoach, Rebus, The Prophet, Seven Men and One Brain, The Tiger and the Pussycat, Murderers' Row, The Swinger, Bus Riley's Back in Town, Made in Paris, Once a Thief, Pocketful of Miracles, and Kitten with a Whip.
Flora Robson: 55 Days at Peking, Murder at the Gallop, Cry in the Wind, 7 Women, The Shuttered Room, Eye of the Devil, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Guns at Batasi, and Young Cassidy.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Sandpiper, Scent of Mystery, The V.I.P.s, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, BUtterfield 8, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Boom!, Secret Ceremony, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Comedians, Doctor Faustus, and The Taming of the Shrew.
Lee Remick: Days of Wine and Roses, Wild River, The Detective, Sanctuary, Experiment in Terror, Hard Contract, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Hallelujah Trail, Baby the Rain Must Fall, The Running Man, and The Wheeler Dealers.
Angela Lansbury: The Manchurian Candidate, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Breath of Scandal, Blue Hawaii, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, All Fall Down, Dear Heart, In the Cool of the Day, The World of Henry Orient, Harlow, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Mister Buddwing, and The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders.
Janet Leigh: Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Harper, Bye Bye Birdie, Pepe, Wives and Lovers, Kid Rodelo, Who Was That Lady?, Hello Down There, American Dream, Three on a Couch, and Grand Slam.
Vera Miles: Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Follow Me, Boys!, Sergeant Ryker, Mission Batangas, Kona Coast, The Green Berets, Hellfighters, One of Our Spies Is Missing, Gentle Giant, The Spirit Is Willing, Back Street, Five Branded Women, The Lawbreakers, It Takes All Kinds, Those Calloways, and A Tiger Walks.
Maria Grazia Buccella:I Married You for Fun, Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence, Sissignore, It's Your Move, Where Are You Going All Naked?, Domani non siamo pià qui, Villa Rides, A Maiden for a Prince, After the Fox, Pleasant Nights, Dead Run, L'armata Brancaleone, The Dirty Game, Man from Cocody, La donna degli altri è sempre più bella, Siamo tutti pomicioni, Canzoni in bikini, Adultery Italian Style, Up and Down, Up and Down, Menage all'italiana, La strada dei giganti, Nerone '71, Il Boom, The Fall of Rome, Il Gaucho, The Night They Killed Rasputin, and Fountain of Trevi.
Bibi Andersson: Persona, The Passion of Anna, Bröllopsdagen, The Girls, Tænk på et tal, Le Viol, Blow Hot, Blow Cold, Pardon, Are You For or Against?,Pan, All These Women, Karneval, The Devil's Eye, The Pleasure Garden, Square of Violence, The Mistress, Ön, Duel at Diablo, My Sister, My Love, and About Love.
Ingrid Thulin: Hour of the Wolf, The Judge, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Sekstet, The Damned, O.K. Yevtushenko, The Rite, Domani non siamo più qui, Adélaïde, Calda e... infedele, Badarna, Games of Desire, Winter Light, Return from the Ashes, The Silence, Night Games, and Agostino.
Jane Fonda: In the Cool of the Day, The Chase, Tall Story, Period of Adjustment, The Chapman Report, Walk on the Wild Side, Barbarella, Hurry Sundown, Barefoot in the Park, Cat Ballou, Sunday in New York, Circle of Love, Joy House, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Spirits of the Dead, The Game Is Over, and Any Wednesday.
Katharine Hepburn: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Madwoman of Chaillot, and The Lion in Winter.
Jeanne Moreau: Jules and Jim, La Notte, Seven Days... Seven Nights, Viva Maria!, Eva, Five Branded Women, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, Chimes at Midnight, A Woman Is a Woman, The Trial, Dialogue with the Carmelites, The Victors, The Fire Within, Bay of Angels, The Train, Banana Peel, The Oldest Profession, Le Corps de Diane, The Bride Wore Black, Great Catherine, The Sailor from Gibraltar, The Immortal Story, Mademoiselle, Diary of a Chambermaid, and Mata Hari, Agent H21.
Faye Dunaway: The Arrangement, Hurry Sundown, The Happening, Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair, A Place for Lovers, and The Extraordinary Seaman.
Geneviève Page: Mayerling, Belle de Jour, El Cid, Grand Prix, Three Rooms in Manhattan, Song Without End, Corsaires et Flibustiers, Le Majordome, Tender Scoundrel, The Day and the Hour, Youngblood Hawke, The Reluctant Spy, Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher, and A Talent for Loving.
Brigitte Bardot: A Very Private Affair, Affaire d'une nuit, La Vérité, Testament of Orpheus, Viva Maria!, Une ravissante idiote, Shalako, Les Femmes, Spirits of the Dead, Masculin Féminin, Two Weeks in September, Dear Brigitte, Contempt, Love on a Pillow, Marie Soleil, Please, Not Now!, and Famous Love Affairs.
Jean Seberg: Breathless, Lilith, Paint Your Wagon, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers, Diamonds Are Brittle, Backfire, The Girls, The Road to Corinth, Birds in Peru, Pendulum, Line of Demarcation, The Looters, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, Congo vivo, Time Out for Love, In the French Style, Five Day Lover, and Love Play.
Tippi Hedren: The Birds, Marnie, and A Countess from Hong Kong.
Sophia Loren: Two Women, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style, Lady L, A Countess from Hong Kong, Judith, Arabesque, More Than a Miracle, Ghosts – Italian Style, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Operation Crossbow, El Cid, Five Miles to Midnight, Boccaccio '70, The Condemned of Altona, Madame, Heller in Pink Tights, It Started in Naples, A Breath of Scandal, The and Millionairess.
Maggie Smith: Go to Blazes, Young Cassidy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The V.I.P.s, Othello, The Pumpkin Eater, Hot Millions, Oh! What a Lovely War, and The Honey Pot.
Vanessa Redgrave: Oh! What a Lovely War, Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment, Camelot, Isadora, The Charge of the Light Brigade, A Man for All Seasons, Blowup, The Sea Gull, and A Quiet Place in the Country.
Doris Day: Do Not Disturb, Midnight Lace, Send Me No Flowers, Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink, The Thrill of It All, The Glass Bottom Boat, The Ballad of Josie, With Six You Get Eggroll, Caprice, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Move Over, Darling, and Billy Rose's Jumbo.
Mia Farrow: Secret Ceremony, Guns at Batasi, John and Mary, Rosemary's Baby, and A Dandy in Aspic.
Suzanne Pleshette: The Birds, Rome Adventure, 40 Pounds of Trouble, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, The Power, Target: Harry, Mister Buddwing, Youngblood Hawke, A Distant Trumpet, Fate Is the Hunter, Wall of Noise, The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard's Ghost, Nevada Smith, and A Rage to Live.
Shelley Winters: A Patch of Blue, Lolita, Alfie, Harper, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Three Sisters, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, The Chapman Report, The Young Savages, Wives and Lovers, Time of Indifference, A House Is Not a Home, The Balcony, Arthur? Arthur!, Wild in the Streets, Enter Laughing, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, The Mad Room, and The Scalphunters.
Anna Karina: A Woman Is a Woman, Le petit soldat, Bande à part, My Life to Live, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Sweet and Sour, Lamiel, The Oldest Profession, Anna, Made in U.S.A, The Nun, Zärtliche Haie, Justine, Dämonische Leinwand, Before Winter Comes, The Stranger, Laughter in the Dark, Man on Horseback, The Magus, Circle of Love, Cléo from 5 to 7, Sun in Your Eyes, She'll Have to Go, Tonight or Never, All About Loving, Shéhérazade, The Camp Followers, Un mari à prix fixe, and The Thief of Tibidabo.
Anika Ekberg: La Dolce Vita, Le tre eccetera del colonnello, Anonima cocottes, Who Wants to Sleep?, Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa, The Cobra, Pardon, Are You For or Against?, Crónica de un atraco, Un sudario a la medida, Death Knocks Twice, Malenka, Woman Times Seven, The Glass Sphinx, How I Learned to Love Women, Way...Way Out, The Alphabet Murders, Boccaccio '70, Call Me Bwana, 4 for Texas, The Mongols, Behind Closed Doors, The Dam on the Yellow River, and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.
Geraldine Page: The Three Sisters, You're a Big Boy Now, Sweet Bird of Youth, Trilogy, The Happiest Millionaire, Dear Heart, Summer and Smoke, Toys in the Attic, What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, and Monday's Child.
Joanne Woodward: A Fine Madness, Rachel, Rachel, Winning, Signpost to Murder, The Fugitive Kind, Paris Blues, From the Terrace, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, The Stripper, and A New Kind of Love.
Mariko Okada: Eros + Massacre, A Story Written on Water, Illusion of Blood, Woman of the Lake, An Autumn Afternoon, The Scent of Incense, Akitsu Springs, and Late Autumn.
Barbra Streisand: Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl.

[US Promotion] I would like to celebrate Thanksgiving by gifting you all books!

UPDATE: More books added by siffis and West1234567890 further down
If are late coming across this post then do not worry you can still message me your email for a book.
To celebrate my day off today and Thanksgiving tomorrow I would like to gift my audiobooks.
In order to recieve a free audiobook gift just message me any title (below) along with your email address. If you have not recieved a gift before then you will get the audiobook for free. More details here and here. I am in the US market (but I hear from Canada and UK that it still works).
Books crossed out are not available.
TITLE - AUTHOR (Ordered by author)

21 Days of Meditation - Aaptiv
5K Training - Aaptiv
What Happens Next? Conversations from MARS - Adam Savage
You Ought to Know Adam Wade - Adam Wade
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC - Adrian Goldsworthy
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection - Alexander C. Kane
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
The Story of Dr. Seuss: Theodore, Ted, Geisel Who? The Story of How Dr. Seuss Grew. - Amba Brown
You Have Arrived at Your Destination: Forward - Amor Towles
A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing 43 Students - Anabel Hernandez , John Washington - translator
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps - Andrew Rowe
Randomize: Forward - Andy Weir
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain
Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley - Antonio Garcia Martinez
Goodnight Smartphone - Arianna Huffington
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle , Stephen Fry - introductions
Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons - Ashli St. Armant
The Home Front: Life in America During World War II - Dan Gediman , Martha C. Little
Cut and Run: A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy - Ben Acker , Ben Blacker
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs: An Audible Original - Ben Garrod
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Finding Tess: A Mother’s Search for Answers in a Dopesick America - Beth Macy
Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science - Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America - Bill Bryson
Billy Kelly: This Is a Family Show! - Billy Kelly
The History of Ancient Egypt - Bob Brier]
Rage - Bob Woodward
Starsight - Brandon Sanderson
Skyward - Brandon Sanderson
Beezer - Brandon T. Snider
The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth and Passive Income Through Smart Buy & Hold Real Estate Investing - Brandon Turner
~~The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are - Brené Brown~~
Algorithms to Live The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
That Hideous Strength: Ransom Trilogy, Book 3 - C.S. Lewis
Perelandra: Ransom Trilogy, Book 2 - C.S. Lewis
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
Life Ever After - Carla Grauls
Everything is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity - Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell - translator , Erica Segre - translator
How to Build Meaningful Relationships Through Conversation - Carol Ann Lloyd]
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America - Carrie Gibson
The Flying Flamingo Sisters - Carrie Seim
Press Pause: A Young Person's Guide to Managing Life's Challenges - Catherine Singer
Cesar Millan's Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog - Cesar Millan
Cesar Millan's Guide to Audiobooks for Dogs - Cesar Millan
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder - Charles Graeber
Second Skin: Audible Original Novella - Christian White
Eldest: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2 - Christopher Paolini
The Space Race: An Audible Original - Colin Brake , Patrick Chapman , Richard Hollingham , Richard Kurti , Sue Nelson , Helen Quigley , Andrew Mark Sewell
Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life - Common , Awoye Timpo , NSangou Njikam
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther - Craig Pittman
The Dead Drink First - Dale Maharidge
House of Teeth - Dan Jolley
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime - Dan Rather
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr
The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition - Daniel N. Robinson]
My Lost Family: An Audible Original - Danny Ben-Moshe , Dasha Lisitsina
Body of Proof: An Audible Original - Darrell Brown , Sophie Ellis
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
Exploring Metaphysics - David K. Johnson]
Alone with the Stars - David R. Gillham
The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition: Your Journey to Mastery - David Thomas , Andrew Hunt
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II - Denise Kiernan
Heaven's River: Bobiverse, Book 4 - Dennis E. Taylor
All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3 - Dennis E. Taylor
For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2 - Dennis E. Taylor
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 - Dennis E. Taylor
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality - Don Lincoln]
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2 - Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3 - Douglas Adams
The Case of the Damaged Detective: 5-Minute Sherlock, Book 1 - Drew Hayes
Forging Hephaestus: Villains' Code Series, Book 1 - Drew Hayes
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa , Charles S. Terry - translator
Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire - Elaine Shannon
The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel - Erin Macdonald]
Junkyard Cats: Shining Smith, Book 1 - Faith Hunter
The Golden Orchard - Flora Ahn
The 3-Day Effect - Florence Williams
Catch Me If You Can - Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding
The Panama Papers: How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money - Frederik Obermaier , Bastian Obermayer
The American Civil War - Gary W. Gallagher]
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond - Gene Kranz
The Creative Thinker's Toolkit - Gerard Puccio]
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ - Giulia Enders
Burr: A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1) - Gore Vidal
The Getaway - Greer Hendricks , Sarah Pekkanen
The Minuteman - Greg Donahue
Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir - H. Jon Benjamin
The Beautiful Brain: An Audible Original - Hana Walker-Brown
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel - Hank Green
Bella Bella - Harvey Fierstein
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - Helen Russell
The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander - Homer , Caroline Alexander - translator
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume I: 1917-1926 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft , Finn J.D. John
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Casino Royale: James Bond, Book 1 - Ian Fleming
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Malcolm and Me - Ishmael Reed
Peter Pan: An Audible Original Drama - J. M. Barrie
Tell Me Lies - J. P. Pomare
The Return of the King: Book Three in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2 - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1 - J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over - Jack Schafer PhD , Ph.D. Marvin Karlins Ph.D.
Midnight Son - James Dommek Jr. , Josephine Holtzman , Isaac Kestenbaum
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey - James Lecesne
Break Shot: My First 21 Years: James Taylor - James Taylor
Forget Nothing - Jason Anspach , Michelle C. Meyers
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies - Jason Fagone
Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple - Jeff Guinn
1066: The Year That Changed Everything - Jennifer Paxton]
Flux - Jeremy Robinson
Space Force - Jeremy Robinson
Infinite - Jeremy Robinson
When You Finish Saving the World - Jesse Eisenberg
The Mystwick School of Musicraft - Jessica Khoury
Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation - Jim Clemente , Tim Clemente , Peter McDonnell
The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack - Jim Dutcher , Jamie Dutcher , James Manfull - contributor , Marc Bekoff - foreword PhD
Escape from Virtual Island: An Audio Comedy - John Lutz
The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie - Jon Ronson
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea - Jonathan Franklin
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things - Josh Clark , Chuck Bryant
Vroom Vroom - Josh Koenigsberg
King of Sting: The Story of Australian Conman Peter Foster: An Audible Original - Justin Armsden , Bronwen Reid , Hamish Macdonald
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella - Kelly Harms
The Vikings - Kenneth W. Harl]
Building a Better Vocabulary - Kevin Flanigan]
More Bedtime Stories for Cynics - Kirsten Kearse , Gretchen Enders , Aparna Nancherla , Cirocco Dunlap , Dave Hill
The Math of Life and Death - Kit Yates
Oz. The Complete Collection - L. Frank Baum
A Murder of Manatees: The Further Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent - Larry Correia
The Half-Life of Marie Curie - Lauren Gunderson
Interview with the Robot - Lee Bacon
The Messengers - Lindsay Joelle
African-American Athletes Who Made History - Louis Moore]
The Real Sherlock: An Audible Original - Lucinda Hawksley
The Devil's Highway: A True Story - Luis Alberto Urrea
It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli, An Audible Original - Marc Fennell
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius - Marc J. Seifer
The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition - Margaret Atwood , Valerie Martin - essay
Buried Deep - Margot Hunt
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It - Mark Cuban
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tinaca Jones - Matt Boren
Phreaks - Matthew Derby
Pont Neuf - Max Byrd
Find Another Dream - Maysoon Zayid
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War - Michael Dobbs
The Entrepreneur's Toolkit - Michael Goldsby]
The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il - Michael Malice
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World - Michael Pollan
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 - Michio Kaku
The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad - Mike Birbiglia , J. Hope Stein
Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues - Molly Harper
Motivational Runs: 3 audio-guided run stories and 6 audio-guided Olympic Interval runs - MoveWith
Half Marathon Training Part 2: To the Finish Line: 6 week training plan with 22 audio-guided runs - MoveWith
Half Marathon Training Part 1: Build Up Your Pace + Endurance: 6 week training plan with 22 audio-guided runs - MoveWith
Emergency Skin: Forward - N. K. Jemisin
Silverswift - Natalie Lloyd
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't - Nate Silver
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman , Terry Pratchett
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Nicholas A. Christakis
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road - Nick Bilton
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom
Based on a True Story: A Memoir - Norm Macdonald
Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want: Leven Thumps, #3 - Obert Skye
Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra: Leven Thumps, #4 - Obert Skye
Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder: Leven Thumps, #5 - Obert Skye
Adulthood Rites: Xenogenesis, Book 2 - Octavia E. Butler
Dawn: Xenogenesis, Book 1 - Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
The Life and Times of Prince Albert - Patrick Allitt]
The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1 - Patrick Rothfuss
Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare - Paul Rosenzweig]
Into the Water: A Novel - Paula Hawkins
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions - Peter Brannen
Terminus - Peter Clines
The Fold - Peter Clines
14 - Peter Clines
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History - Peter Houlahan
Harry Potter: A History of Magic: An Audio Documentary - Pottermore Publishing , Ben Davies
How the Stock Market Works - Ramon P. DeGennaro]
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe
The October Country - Ray Bradbury
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition - Richard Rhodes
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World - Robert Garland]
Treasure Island: An Audible Original Drama - Robert Louis Stevenson , Marty Ross - adaptation
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
The Mueller Report: The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation - Robert S. Mueller III , Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators - Ronan Farrow
Once More upon a Time: A Novella - Roshani Chokshi
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door - Roy Wenzl , Tim Potter , L. Kelly , Hurst Laviana
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch: An Audible Original - Ruth Cowen
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean
Bad Luck Charlie: The Dragon Mage, Book 1 - Scott Baron
Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World - Scott McCormick
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , Steven Pinker - foreword
Sea Wall / A Life - Simon Stephens , Nick Payne
Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark - Stephanie K. Smith
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II - Stephen E. Ambrose
The Stand - Stephen King
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte
Foreverywhere - Steve Burns , Steven Drozd , Gabe Soria
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake - Steven Novella , Bob Novella - contributor , Cara Santa Maria - contributor , Jay Novella - contributor , Evan Bernstein - contributor
Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills - Steven Novella]
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain - Steven R. Gundry MD
My Dad the Spy - Stewart Copeland
The Age of Living Machines: How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution - Susan Hockfield
~~Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett~~
History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach - The Great Courses , Gregory S. Aldrete
Great Mythologies of the World - The Great Courses , Grant L. Voth , Julius H. Bailey , Kathryn McClymond , Robert André LaFleur
This American Life - This American Life
Writing Creative Nonfiction - Tilar J J. Mazzeo]
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon - Todd Zwillich
The Hunt for Red October: A Jack Ryan Novel - Tom Clancy
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts - Tom Farley , Tanner Colby
A Crazy Inheritance: Ghostsitter 1 - Tommy Krappweis
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Thicker than Water - Tyler Shultz
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began - Valerie Hansen
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry
SmartLess - Will Arnett Jason Bateman Sean Hayes
Climbing with Mollie - William Finnegan
Alien III: An Audible Original Drama - William Gibson
Gump & Co. - Winston Groom
Life of Pi - Yann Martel

siffis has generously offered to include his collection. If you like any of the books below then message directly.

World War Z: The Complete Edition - Max Brooks
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
Halo: Shadows of Reach - Troy Denning
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling
The Last Tribe - Brad Manuel
Halo Grassland - Karen Traviss
Halo Evolutions
Halo Fractures
Halo: Mortal Dictata - Karen Traviss
Halo: The Thursday War - Karen Traviss
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Firefly: Big Damn Hero - Jame Lovegrove
After it Happened - Devron C Ford
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds - Gwenda Bond
Blade Runner - Phillip K Dick
Hell Divers 1
Hell Divers 2: Ghosts
God of War - J.M. Barlog
The Time of Contempt - Andrzej Sapkowski
Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
Solar Storms - Nicholas Sansbury
Planetside - Michael Mammay
Season of Storms - Andrzej Sapkowski
Dark Operator - Doc Spears
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps - Andrew Rowe
Tin Mans- A Galaxys Edge Prequel
Black Ops
Zero Hour
Artemis
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children
Fear the Sky
Galaxys Edge
The Tale of Beedle the Bard
Halo: The Cole Protocol
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo: First Strike
Halo: The Flood
Columbus Day
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
The Singularity Trap
Children of Time
The Martian
Halo Battle Born
Halo Battle Born: Meridian Divide
Sains Testimony
The Best of Us
Halo: Oblivion
Permanent Record
Alita : Battle Angel Iron City
Halo: Smoke and Shadow
Halo: Renegades
Halo: Legacy of Onyx
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Halo: Silent Storm
Halo: Bad Blood
Halo: New Blood
Halo: Retribution
Armada
Cast Under an Alien Sun
Sherlock Holmes
Pandemic
Halo: Envoy
Last Light
The Scorch Trials
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Maze Runner
The Death Cure
The Kill Order
The Magicians
Warm Bodies
Path of Destruction
Twas the Night Before Christmas
The Hobbit
Peter & Max
Brisingr
Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Darkness
Eldest
Eragon
Mockingjay
Catching Fire
The Hunger Games
Solaris
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
Bossypants
A Game of Thrones
Water for Elephants
-Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
I Am Legend
Star Wars: The Old Republic Fatal Alliance
Magyk
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Martin the Warrior
Halo Contact Harvest
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

West1234567890 [Also added additional books below](https://www.reddit.com/audible/comments/k0s76n/us_promotion_i_would_like_to_celebrate/gdlwylu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).

Mycroft and Sherlock - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Anna Waterhouse
Jurassic Park: A Novel - Michael Crichton
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3 - J.K. Rowling
Famous Romans - J. Rufus Fears]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2 - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1 - J.K. Rowling
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - Ben Macintyre
America's Founding Fathers - Allen C. Guelzo]
The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida - Lawrence Cahoone]
Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
Boy's Life - Robert R. McCammon
Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive - Peter M. Vishton]
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest - Jennifer Paxton]
Peace Talks: Dresden Files, Book 16 - Jim Butcher
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull , Amy Wallace
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
A Little Life: A Novel - Hanya Yanagihara
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Two Towers: Book Two in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Wandering Inn: Volume 1 - Pirate Aba](NaN debugger eval code:1:40
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
Skyward - Brandon Sanderson
Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success - Napoleon Hill , Sharon Lechter (editor)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Hero of Ages: Mistborn, Book 3 - Brandon Sanderson
Mythos - Stephen Fry
The Messengers - Lindsay Joelle
The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel - Erin Macdonald]
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition - Richard Wolfson]
Sufficiently Advanced Magic: Arcane Ascension, Book 1 - Andrew Rowe
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills - Steven Novella]
The Demon Next Door - Bryan Burrough
Ancient Mythology: An Extensive Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Worship, Rituals and Beliefs of Ancient Myths - Bernard Hayes , Hasty History
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brief Cases - Jim Butcher
Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine - Roy Benaroch]
Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases - Roy Benaroch]
The American Civil War - Gary W. Gallagher]
Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers - Andrew R. Wilson]
Dante's Divine Comedy - The Great Courses , Ronald B. Herzman , William R. Cook
English Grammar Boot Camp - Anne Curzan]
Building a Better Vocabulary - Kevin Flanigan]
Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation - Mark W. Muesse]
When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake - Tim Larkin
Can You Go?: Assessments and Program Design for the Active Athlete and Everybody Else - Dan John
The Grasshopper Trap - Patrick McManus
Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
Words of Radiance: The Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Book 1 - Brandon Sanderson
The Wise Man's Fear: Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 2 - Patrick Rothfuss
No More Mr. Nice Guy! - Robert A. Glover
Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer - Dan John
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over - Jack Schafer PhD , Ph.D. Marvin Karlins Ph.D.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael A. Singer
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream - Paulo Coelho
Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files - Jim Butcher

These are the statistical top 500 movies of all time, according to 23 different websites

Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a post I made back in April, where I made a list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a preview of this list I made last month.
I want to emphasize that this is NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.
I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies, 11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and 9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).
As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations, Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.
So without further ado, the statistical top 500 movies ever made. I separated the scores into overall, critics, domestic, and international columns to make comparisons easier. This list on Letterboxd.

Ranking	Title	Overall Score	Critics	Domestic	International	Year	Director
1	The Godfather	93.89	97.73	90.50	89.36	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
2	The Godfather: Part II	91.93	93.30	89.04	88.06	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
3	Seven Samurai	91.05	97.38	87.63	85.90	1954	Akira Kurosawa
4	12 Angry Men	90.45	95.45	88.74	88.62	1957	Sidney Lumet
5	City Lights	89.94	96.75	85.67	85.93	1931	Charlie Chaplin
6	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	89.45	91.20	87.81	86.59	1966	Sergio Leone
7	The Shawshank Redemption	89.41	82.95	89.49	89.18	1994	Frank Darabont
8	Psycho	89.29	95.23	85.70	85.01	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
9	Modern Times	89.28	95.55	85.21	85.37	1936	Charlie Chaplin
10	Schindler's List	89.08	93.80	87.22	87.29	1993	Steven Spielberg
11	Pulp Fiction	88.85	92.60	87.69	86.42	1994	Quentin Tarantino
12	Rear Window	88.63	97.65	85.40	83.33	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
13	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	88.55	87.38	86.28	86.97	1975	Miloš Forman
14	Apocalypse Now	88.54	93.85	85.24	83.48	1979	Francis Ford Coppola
15	Tokyo Story	88.49	98.30	85.16	83.76	1953	Yasujirō Ozu
16	Spirited Away	88.34	93.78	86.80	85.91	2001	Hayao Miyazaki
17	GoodFellas	88.03	91.48	87.00	84.03	1990	Martin Scorsese
18	Vertigo	88.02	95.60	84.05	82.76	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
19	Singin' in the Rain	88.01	97.65	83.95	83.13	1952	Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
20	Sunset Boulevard	88.00	95.45	85.44	84.22	1950	Billy Wilder
21	Citizen Kane	87.83	99.03	83.06	82.22	1941	Orson Welles
22	Harakiri	87.79	85.83	88.00	86.29	1962	Masaki Kobayashi
23	Rashomon	87.74	96.55	83.52	82.73	1950	Akira Kurosawa
24	Once Upon a Time in the West	87.71	86.65	85.48	84.62	1968	Sergio Leone
25	Fanny and Alexander	87.54	97.30	83.15	83.00	1982	Ingmar Bergman
26	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	87.40	92.59	86.06	85.38	2003	Peter Jackson
27	Andrei Rublev	87.39	91.90	83.80	83.94	1966	Andrei Tarkovsky
28	The Passion of Joan of Arc	87.39	94.65	83.88	83.57	1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer
29	Sherlock Jr.	87.36	96.45	83.64	85.60	1924	Buster Keaton
30	Bicycle Thieves	87.35	94.70	83.91	83.46	1948	Vittorio De Sica
31	Casablanca	87.35	98.00	85.25	82.62	1942	Michael Curtiz
32	Some Like It Hot	87.28	95.30	82.11	83.73	1959	Billy Wilder
33	Persona	87.22	88.20	84.28	83.07	1966	Ingmar Bergman
34	Children of Paradise	87.21	95.33	84.81	83.27	1945	Marcel Carné
35	Taxi Driver	87.14	93.88	83.60	82.06	1976	Martin Scorsese
36	The Dark Knight	87.08	88.81	86.96	84.80	2008	Christopher Nolan
37	Metropolis	87.03	96.00	82.92	84.01	1927	Fritz Lang
38	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	87.02	93.95	82.23	84.02	1927	F. W. Murnau
39	Stalker	87.02	92.30	83.86	83.29	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky
40	Pather Panchali	86.96	94.35	84.40	82.80	1955	Satyajit Ray
41	Lawrence of Arabia	86.95	97.65	83.76	81.49	1962	David Lean
42	M	86.91	96.20	84.34	82.92	1931	Fritz Lang
43	Ordet	86.82	98.10	83.08	82.55	1955	Carl Theodor Dreyer
44	It's a Wonderful Life	86.77	90.45	85.17	84.90	1946	Frank Capra
45	Satantango	86.76	90.45	84.58	84.21	1994	Béla Tarr
46	Parasite	86.72	96.34	86.55	83.15	2019	Bong Joon-ho
47	The 400 Blows	86.70	96.70	83.14	82.60	1959	François Truffaut
48	Ikiru	86.56	93.80	85.48	84.29	1952	Akira Kurosawa
49	Mirror	86.50	95.60	82.75	82.34	1975	Andrei Tarkovsky
50	Come and See	86.50	90.50	85.22	83.13	1985	Elem Klimov
51	The Apartment	86.48	92.00	84.09	82.99	1960	Billy Wilder
52	The General	86.45	91.45	82.59	83.87	1926	Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
53	Grave of the Fireflies	86.43	95.13	85.85	82.97	1988	Isao Takahata
54	Le Trou	86.41	89.95	85.46	85.14	1960	Jacques Becker
55	The Battle of Algiers	86.37	95.40	82.64	81.24	1966	Gillo Pontecorvo
56	A Man Escaped	86.34	96.50	83.67	82.03	1956	Robert Bresson
57	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	86.34	95.85	84.37	83.03	1964	Stanley Kubrick
58	Paths of Glory	86.25	92.30	84.97	84.48	1957	Stanley Kubrick
59	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	86.24	88.75	85.61	84.31	2001	Peter Jackson
60	All About Eve	86.23	96.95	83.69	83.20	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
61	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	86.21	86.93	87.05	83.29	1980	Irvin Kershner
62	High and Low	86.16	86.55	86.08	84.26	1963	Akira Kurosawa
63	The Great Dictator	86.15	91.10	84.25	85.03	1940	Charlie Chaplin
64	The Silence of the Lambs	86.12	88.68	85.29	84.17	1991	Jonathan Demme
65	2001: A Space Odyssey	86.06	88.35	82.93	81.54	1968	Stanley Kubrick
66	North by Northwest	86.03	96.38	83.17	81.74	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
67	Double Indemnity	85.91	94.38	83.84	83.12	1944	Billy Wilder
68	Ugetsu	85.91	97.25	82.69	81.91	1953	Kenji Mizoguchi
69	Woman in the Dunes	85.91	93.95	84.71	83.77	1964	Hiroshi Teshigahara
70	Sansho the Bailiff	85.88	95.50	84.24	82.21	1954	Kenji Mizoguchi
71	Once Upon a Time in America	85.87	86.10	83.84	85.53	1984	Sergio Leone
72	City of God	85.86	84.08	86.39	84.00	2002	Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
73	Late Spring	85.81	94.75	83.74	82.27	1949	Yasujirō Ozu
74	Barry Lyndon	85.80	87.95	82.44	82.30	1975	Stanley Kubrick
75	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	85.78	88.78	85.00	84.29	2002	Peter Jackson
76	Raging Bull	85.77	90.48	82.01	81.80	1980	Martin Scorsese
77	Chinatown	85.72	94.08	83.32	80.69	1974	Roman Polanski
78	Alien	85.69	91.73	84.76	82.62	1979	Ridley Scott
79	Ran	85.68	94.70	83.93	82.52	1985	Akira Kurosawa
80	The Seventh Seal	85.67	92.10	83.52	82.13	1957	Ingmar Bergman
81	The Kid	85.61	92.85	82.91	84.94	1921	Charlie Chaplin
82	Wild Strawberries	85.51	90.05	83.38	82.24	1957	Ingmar Bergman
83	A Brighter Summer Day	85.50	93.38	84.07	81.01	1991	Edward Yang
84	8½	85.48	91.20	82.59	81.09	1963	Federico Fellini
85	The Pianist	85.38	88.69	83.31	84.80	2002	Roman Polanski
86	The World of Apu	85.38	93.20	84.38	83.09	1959	Satyajit Ray
87	La Dolce Vita	85.37	94.38	81.40	80.48	1960	Federico Fellini
88	Star Wars	85.33	90.03	85.22	81.92	1977	George Lucas
89	The Best of Youth	85.31	88.78	85.31	83.64	2003	Marco Tullio Giordana
90	The Gold Rush	85.29	94.55	81.93	83.59	1925	Charlie Chaplin
91	The Third Man	85.26	96.50	82.91	80.21	1949	Carol Reed
92	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	85.20	96.68	82.77	81.81	1948	John Huston
93	I Am Cuba	85.18	93.60	82.00	83.44	1964	Mikhail Kalatozov
94	The Lives of Others	85.14	89.03	84.12	82.73	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
95	Witness for the Prosecution	85.13	92.65	83.67	84.99	1957	Billy Wilder
96	Touch of Evil	85.11	95.70	81.36	79.65	1958	Orson Welles
97	WALL-E	85.10	92.09	82.82	82.64	2008	Andrew Stanton
98	Scenes from a Marriage	85.02	86.85	84.80	83.06	1974	Ingmar Bergman
99	To Be or Not to Be	84.99	89.58	82.52	83.39	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
100	A Separation	84.92	94.24	83.34	80.90	2011	Asghar Farhadi
101	The Night of the Hunter	84.91	96.93	81.17	79.06	1955	Charles Laughton
102	Three Colors: Red	84.87	96.78	83.32	80.78	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski
103	Yojimbo	84.87	91.55	83.85	82.99	1961	Akira Kurosawa
104	Back to the Future	84.85	89.38	84.47	81.94	1985	Robert Zemeckis
105	My Neighbor Totoro	84.84	87.53	83.44	83.17	1988	Hayao Miyazaki
106	In the Mood for Love	84.84	83.87	82.55	81.20	2000	Wong Kar-wai
107	Princess Mononoke	84.83	81.18	85.02	84.24	1999	Hayao Miyazaki
108	Saving Private Ryan	84.82	90.35	83.94	82.50	1998	Steven Spielberg
109	Cinema Paradiso	84.78	82.30	84.73	83.43	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore
110	La Jetée	84.75	89.25	83.27	81.80	1962	Chris Marker
111	The Wages of Fear	84.71	94.60	82.99	82.80	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot
112	Das Boot	84.68	90.13	83.62	82.71	1981	Wolfgang Petersen
113	Fight Club	84.65	71.18	86.39	84.95	1999	David Fincher
114	Nights of Cabiria	84.64	92.25	82.72	83.13	1957	Federico Fellini
115	La Strada	84.61	92.60	80.79	82.78	1954	Federico Fellini
116	Amadeus	84.53	89.55	82.88	82.59	1984	Miloš Forman
117	Forrest Gump	84.50	76.90	83.06	86.12	1994	Robert Zemeckis
118	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	84.49	90.41	85.03	81.69	2018	Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti
119	The Lion King	84.45	88.28	77.22	84.09	1994	Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers
120	Inception	84.43	82.07	84.18	84.17	2010	Christopher Nolan
121	Whiplash	84.42	89.53	84.87	81.96	2014	Damien Chazelle
122	The Shop Around the Corner	84.40	94.43	80.85	82.37	1940	Ernst Lubitsch
123	Rififi	84.38	92.00	83.03	81.58	1955	Jules Dassin
124	Umberto D.	84.38	92.63	82.20	81.75	1952	Vittorio De Sica
125	Army of Shadows	84.37	95.30	82.98	80.50	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville
126	Blade Runner	84.34	85.85	82.57	80.29	1982	Ridley Scott
127	Samurai Rebellion	84.33	89.05	82.85	83.84	1967	Masaki Kobayashi
128	Close-Up	84.31	85.70	81.99	80.69	1990	Abbas Kiarostami
129	The Circus	84.29	90.35	81.69	83.14	1928	Charlie Chaplin
130	Raiders of the Lost Ark	84.19	89.33	84.31	80.57	1981	Steven Spielberg
131	Grand Illusion	84.18	95.35	81.85	79.78	1937	Jean Renoir
132	A Clockwork Orange	84.18	82.78	82.37	82.51	1971	Stanley Kubrick
133	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	84.07	89.37	83.36	80.57	2004	Michel Gondry
134	A Woman Under the Influence	84.01	87.40	82.51	80.40	1974	John Cassavetes
135	The Cranes Are Flying	84.00	89.30	82.76	82.40	1957	Mikhail Kalatozov
136	Yi Yi	83.91	91.25	82.48	79.64	2000	Edward Yang
137	To Kill a Mockingbird	83.91	89.13	81.98	82.20	1962	Robert Mulligan
138	The Matrix	83.90	77.78	84.54	83.06	1999	Wachowski Sisters
139	The Sting	83.90	85.73	82.71	83.36	1973	George Roy Hill
140	The Mother and the Whore	83.87	94.55	81.24	79.82	1973	Jean Eustache
141	Se7en	83.86	72.15	84.91	84.48	1995	David Fincher
142	Early Summer	83.85	94.45	82.19	82.01	1951	Yasujirō Ozu
143	Werckmeister Harmonies	83.80	91.73	80.89	81.93	2000	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
144	Coco	83.80	86.21	82.73	83.66	2017	Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich
145	Toy Story	83.76	95.03	82.30	80.15	1995	John Lasseter
146	It Happened One Night	83.76	90.83	81.46	81.76	1934	Frank Capra
147	Reservoir Dogs	83.74	84.68	83.12	81.99	1992	Quentin Tarantino
148	Unforgiven	83.73	88.55	82.24	81.59	1992	Clint Eastwood
149	The Deer Hunter	83.73	87.68	80.57	82.06	1978	Michael Cimino
150	The Young and the Damned	83.72	87.10	82.58	80.82	1950	Luis Buñuel
151	The Best Years of Our Lives	83.68	92.63	81.19	81.20	1946	William Wyler
152	The Leopard	83.66	97.30	79.56	79.57	1963	Luchino Visconti
153	Time of the Gypsies	83.65	86.05	83.31	82.29	1988	Emir Kusturica
154	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	83.61	96.70	80.51	79.97	1974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
155	Raise the Red Lantern	83.57	90.25	82.37	81.81	1991	Zhang Yimou
156	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	83.57	82.00	84.11	81.83	1991	James Cameron
157	The Shining	83.55	75.35	84.08	81.80	1980	Stanley Kubrick
158	Viridiana	83.54	92.95	80.68	80.81	1961	Luis Buñuel
159	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	83.52	93.59	83.08	80.02	2019	Céline Sciamma
160	Greed	83.51	97.05	80.65	80.64	1924	Erich von Stroheim
161	Gone with the Wind	83.48	92.90	80.01	81.68	1939	Victor Fleming
162	There Will Be Blood	83.48	89.65	81.91	79.02	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson
163	L.A. Confidential	83.46	91.63	82.08	80.81	1997	Curtis Hanson
164	Paris, Texas	83.46	83.95	82.89	81.66	1984	Wim Wenders
165	Throne of Blood	83.45	91.30	82.18	81.49	1957	Akira Kurosawa
166	Toy Story 3	83.43	93.55	81.61	80.32	2010	Lee Unkrich
167	Memento	83.43	85.20	83.78	80.76	2000	Christopher Nolan
168	On the Waterfront	83.37	93.00	82.23	79.52	1954	Elia Kazan
169	Trip to the Moon	83.37	94.70	79.96	82.83	1902	Georges Méliès
170	The Rules of the Game	83.33	96.55	80.45	78.02	1939	Jean Renoir
171	Red Beard	83.32	74.15	83.41	83.27	1965	Akira Kurosawa
172	The Grapes of Wrath	83.32	95.45	80.42	80.34	1940	John Ford
173	Au Hasard Balthazar	83.29	98.08	77.93	77.54	1966	Robert Bresson
174	Autumn Sonata	83.29	84.85	83.09	82.66	1978	Ingmar Bergman
175	Annie Hall	83.28	93.18	80.58	80.58	1977	Woody Allen
176	The Conformist	83.27	96.68	79.92	78.58	1970	Bernardo Bertolucci
177	Rocco and His Brothers	83.24	84.73	81.95	81.68	1960	Luchino Visconti
178	Dersu Uzala	83.23	74.75	82.35	83.37	1975	Akira Kurosawa
179	Cool Hand Luke	83.21	93.05	82.22	79.83	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
180	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	83.18	91.98	82.96	79.30	1975	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
181	Le Samouraï	83.18	92.35	82.45	79.40	1967	Jean-Pierre Melville
182	Aliens	83.18	88.73	83.29	79.61	1986	James Cameron
183	PlayTime	83.16	93.50	80.22	78.80	1967	Jacques Tati
184	The Bridge on the River Kwai	83.14	90.58	81.93	80.24	1957	David Lean
185	The Red Shoes	83.13	93.15	82.82	79.96	1948	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
186	American Beauty	83.10	87.15	81.93	81.13	1999	Sam Mendes
187	To Live	83.10	84.00	82.16	82.46	1994	Zhang Yimou
188	Battleship Potemkin	83.10	95.85	77.81	80.41	1925	Sergei Eisenstein
189	Day of Wrath	83.09	93.40	81.07	81.29	1943	Carl Theodor Dreyer
190	All Quiet on the Western Front	83.07	92.85	80.05	81.48	1930	Lewis Milestone
191	It's Such a Beautiful Day	83.07	91.25	83.62	79.77	2012	Don Hertzfeldt
192	Full Metal Jacket	83.06	81.53	82.21	82.54	1987	Stanley Kubrick
193	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	83.05	96.40	79.84	81.83	1920	Robert Wiene
194	Kes	83.03	97.80	79.59	80.55	1969	Ken Loach
195	The Usual Suspects	83.02	80.23	84.08	81.48	1995	Bryan Singer
196	The Cameraman	83.00	93.90	80.77	81.57	1928	Edward Segdwick, Buster Keaton
197	Aparajito	83.00	90.90	81.81	81.20	1956	Satyajit Ray
198	The Elephant Man	83.00	83.00	82.10	81.87	1980	David Lynch
199	Rebecca	82.98	90.08	81.08	80.93	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
200	Make Way for Tomorrow	82.97	95.80	81.72	80.14	1937	Leo McCarey
201	The Great Escape	82.97	87.68	82.29	80.66	1963	John Sturges
202	Your Name	82.97	84.55	84.07	81.29	2016	Makoto Shinkai
203	Limelight	82.92	88.00	79.85	83.02	1952	Charlie Chaplin
204	Breathless	82.92	91.95	78.88	79.10	1960	Jean-Luc Godard
205	Underground	82.91	80.75	81.26	82.64	1995	Emir Kusturica
206	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	82.88	91.90	81.08	79.53	1962	John Ford
207	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	82.87	94.55	80.46	78.62	1972	Werner Herzog
208	Oldboy	82.86	78.98	84.00	81.27	2003	Park Chan-wook
209	Up	82.84	90.28	81.32	80.86	2009	Pete Docter
210	Anatomy of a Murder	82.84	94.00	80.57	80.02	1959	Otto Preminger
211	The Wild Bunch	82.84	90.35	79.45	80.12	1969	Sam Peckinpah
212	The Hunt	82.75	82.08	82.79	82.62	2012	Thomas Vinterberg
213	Il Sorpasso	82.74	95.75	82.84	79.57	1962	Dino Risi
214	The Last Laugh	82.74	95.25	79.47	81.61	1924	F. W. Murnau
215	A Streetcar Named Desire	82.73	94.60	79.89	80.26	1951	Elia Kazan
216	Life Is Beautiful	82.73	68.45	83.60	85.57	1997	Roberto Benigni
217	A Short Film About Love	82.71	87.10	81.90	81.89	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
218	The Shop on Main Street	82.71	94.45	82.15	80.43	1965	Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
219	Rio Bravo	82.71	92.10	80.46	79.80	1959	Howard Hawks
220	Roman Holiday	82.70	84.55	80.74	82.42	1953	William Wyler
221	Ivan's Childhood	82.69	94.80	81.25	80.37	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky
222	The Exterminating Angel	82.68	91.10	81.66	80.17	1962	Luis Buñuel
223	Trainspotting	82.68	85.20	81.57	81.21	1996	Danny Boyle
224	The Last Picture Show	82.67	94.15	79.90	79.56	1971	Peter Bogdanovich
225	The Truman Show	82.64	89.63	79.70	82.15	1998	Peter Weir
226	Memories of Murder	82.64	82.88	82.68	80.94	2003	Bong Joon-ho
227	Faust	82.62	89.70	80.23	81.94	1926	F. W. Murnau
228	Sans Soleil	82.62	83.90	79.45	80.51	1983	Chris Marker
229	Song of the Sea	82.57	87.63	80.59	82.23	2014	Tomm Moore
230	Léon: The Professional	82.55	67.38	84.05	84.07	1994	Luc Besson
231	Fargo	82.54	87.45	82.36	79.19	1996	Coen Brothers
232	Solaris	82.54	89.95	80.91	79.69	1972	Andrei Tarkovsky
233	Sweet Smell of Success	82.52	96.53	80.81	77.62	1957	Alexander Mackendrick
234	For a Few Dollars More	82.52	79.28	82.38	83.15	1965	Sergio Leone
235	White Heat	82.51	90.65	80.77	81.24	1949	Raoul Walsh
236	Brief Encounter	82.50	88.35	80.81	81.03	1945	David Lean
237	Wings of Desire	82.49	85.70	81.30	80.42	1987	Wim Wenders
238	Diabolique	82.47	90.70	81.27	80.73	1955	Henri-Georges Clouzot
239	An Autumn Afternoon	82.45	91.95	81.68	79.85	1962	Yasujirō Ozu
240	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	82.44	90.63	81.16	80.43	2013	Isao Takahata
241	Amarcord	82.41	85.95	79.26	80.73	1973	Federico Fellini
242	Heat	82.40	79.08	82.03	81.73	1995	Michael Mann
243	L'Atalante	82.40	95.60	78.32	78.10	1934	Jean Vigo
244	Django Unchained	82.39	83.44	82.23	81.94	2012	Quentin Tarantino
245	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels	82.38	95.50	78.73	79.69	1975	Chantal Akerman
246	Kind Hearts and Coronets	82.38	95.60	80.80	79.72	1949	Robert Hamer
247	Dog Day Afternoon	82.37	88.40	81.11	79.80	1975	Sidney Lumet
248	Forbidden Games	82.37	93.75	80.36	80.99	1952	René Clément
249	The Crowd	82.35	93.35	79.21	81.23	1928	King Vidor
250	Notorious	82.35	96.78	79.96	78.21	1946	Alfred Hitchcock
251	Mary and Max	82.35	88.05	80.95	82.42	2009	Adam Elliot
252	Persepolis	82.34	88.95	80.09	80.77	2007	Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
253	Howl's Moving Castle	82.33	78.71	82.63	83.10	2004	Hayao Miyazaki
254	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	82.33	85.10	81.54	82.03	1984	Hayao Miyazaki
255	Safety Last!	82.33	92.25	80.95	81.10	1923	Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
256	Rosemary's Baby	82.32	94.78	79.99	78.69	1968	Roman Polanski
257	L'Avventura	82.32	92.10	79.08	78.03	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni
258	The Searchers	82.32	93.90	78.16	76.66	1956	John Ford
259	La Haine	82.30	90.60	82.38	79.56	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz
260	Three Colors: Blue	82.30	88.28	81.55	79.23	1993	Krzysztof Kieślowski
261	Chungking Express	82.30	79.95	82.29	80.73	1994	Wong Kar-wai
262	Inside Out	82.29	93.66	80.27	79.85	2015	Pete Docter
263	Where is the Friend's Home?	82.28	89.25	81.22	80.21	1987	Abbas Kiarostami
264	Cries and Whispers	82.27	85.45	81.02	80.80	1972	Ingmar Bergman
265	Napoleon	82.22	93.25	81.89	78.99	1927	Abel Gance
266	Paper Moon	82.19	83.08	81.37	81.29	1973	Peter Bogdanovich
267	The Spirit of the Beehive	82.17	89.83	79.31	78.91	1973	Víctor Erice
268	A Special Day	82.16	90.20	81.11	81.25	1977	Ettore Scola
269	Nostalghia	82.15	83.00	80.91	81.23	1983	Andrei Tarkovsky
270	Network	82.13	85.45	82.36	79.08	1976	Sidney Lumet
271	L'Eclisse	82.11	84.70	79.78	78.81	1962	Michelangelo Antonioni
272	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	82.09	80.83	81.78	81.15	1939	Frank Capra
273	Sanjuro	82.09	91.90	81.67	80.85	1962	Akira Kurosawa
274	Badlands	82.06	93.38	79.77	77.21	1973	Terrence Malick
275	Vivre Sa Vie	82.06	85.20	80.12	79.83	1962	Jean-Luc Godard
276	Nobody Knows	82.06	87.18	81.12	81.15	2004	Hirokazu Koreeda
277	No Country for Old Men	82.05	90.68	80.56	78.47	2007	Coen Brothers
278	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	82.05	86.05	80.76	80.62	2003	Kim Ki-duk
279	La Notte	82.04	78.35	81.45	81.11	1961	Michelangelo Antonioni
280	The Celebration	82.04	84.23	81.34	80.08	1998	Thomas Vinterberg
281	In the Name of the Father	82.04	84.90	81.14	81.85	1993	Jim Sheridan
282	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	82.02	89.55	80.18	81.56	1932	Mervyn LeRoy
283	Shoplifters	82.01	92.39	80.60	79.31	2018	Hirokazu Koreeda
284	Finding Nemo	82.01	92.60	80.13	78.76	2003	Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
285	Z	81.98	87.55	82.21	79.59	1969	Costa-Gavras
286	The Phantom Carriage	81.96	95.00	80.01	80.32	1921	Victor Sjöström
287	Manhattan	81.95	86.23	80.50	79.81	1979	Woody Allen
288	Rome, Open City	81.94	95.40	80.45	79.27	1945	Robert Rossellini
289	Children of Heaven	81.93	80.15	81.24	82.01	1997	Majid Majidi
290	The Green Mile	81.92	71.93	82.95	84.38	1999	Frank Darabont
291	The Iron Giant	81.91	86.61	80.88	79.95	1999	Brad Bird
292	The Sacrifice	81.90	80.30	80.47	81.37	1986	Andrei Tarkovsky
293	The Philadelphia Story	81.90	94.95	79.79	77.86	1940	George Cukor
294	The Twilight Samurai	81.90	86.10	81.07	81.13	2002	Yôji Yamada
295	Before Sunset	81.88	87.79	81.42	78.41	2004	Richard Linklater
296	Before Sunrise	81.86	84.40	82.24	79.44	1995	Richard Linklater
297	Castle in the Sky	81.85	81.63	81.49	82.06	1986	Hayao Miyazaki
298	The Departed	81.84	86.92	82.82	79.04	2006	Martin Scorsese
299	Brazil	81.83	90.23	80.61	78.37	1985	Terry Gilliam
300	Incendies	81.81	83.85	81.88	80.74	2011	Denis Villenueve
301	The Maltese Falcon	81.81	95.65	80.24	77.28	1941	John Huston
302	The Wizard of Oz	81.77	98.03	79.38	77.17	1939	Victor Fleming
303	Le Cercle Rouge	81.76	90.03	80.81	78.54	1970	Jean-Pierre Melville
304	Monsieur Verdoux	81.76	89.80	78.55	81.34	1947	Charlie Chaplin
305	The Return	81.72	84.85	80.02	80.96	2003	Andrey Zvyagintsev
306	Secrets & Lies	81.71	90.73	80.29	78.66	1996	Mike Leigh
307	The Hidden Fortress	81.70	91.25	80.79	80.72	1958	Akira Kurosawa
308	Pan's Labyrinth	81.69	92.59	81.60	76.08	2006	Guillermo del Toro
309	Amélie	81.69	79.64	81.96	80.27	2004	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
310	Ben-Hur	81.67	86.93	79.86	80.22	1959	William Wyler
311	Fitzcarraldo	81.67	75.80	81.06	81.21	1982	Werner Herzog
312	American History X	81.63	70.13	83.58	83.00	1998	Tony Kaye
313	Ace in the Hole	81.62	79.10	80.88	81.36	1951	Billy Wilder
314	Capernaum	81.62	81.83	80.52	82.18	2018	Nadine Labaki
315	Still Walking	81.61	90.30	80.92	79.48	2008	Hirokazu Koreeda
316	All About My Mother	81.61	88.77	79.56	78.80	1999	Pedro Almodóvar
317	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	81.60	92.28	78.82	78.83	1972	Luis Buñuel
318	Platoon	81.60	88.70	79.52	80.45	1986	Oliver Stone
319	Farewell My Concubine	81.60	80.50	80.49	81.04	1993	Chen Kaige
320	Letter from an Unknown Woman	81.59	93.10	79.84	79.31	1948	Max Ophüls
321	The Grand Budapest Hotel	81.58	87.64	80.72	79.19	2014	Wes Anderson
322	The Virgin Spring	81.58	82.45	80.70	80.66	1960	Ingmar Bergman
323	The Red Balloon	81.57	90.20	79.93	80.30	1956	Albert Lamorisse
324	Stagecoach	81.57	94.58	77.69	78.94	1939	John Ford
325	Mulholland Drive	81.56	80.61	79.60	77.87	2001	David Lynch
326	A Matter of Life and Death	81.49	92.60	81.91	76.27	1946	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
327	High Noon	81.48	90.58	79.27	78.94	1952	Fred Zinnemann
328	Orpheus	81.48	96.20	79.88	78.90	1950	Jean Cocteau
329	Life of Brian	81.47	82.98	80.78	79.81	1979	Terry Jones
330	Casino	81.46	74.23	81.54	81.75	1995	Martin Scorsese
331	Kagemusha	81.44	82.93	80.01	80.43	1980	Akira Kurosawa
332	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	81.43	76.08	80.53	81.85	1969	George Roy Hill
333	In a Lonely Place	81.43	92.45	80.42	78.77	1950	Nicholas Ray
334	Scarface	81.43	71.30	81.97	82.18	1983	Brian De Palma
335	A Short Film About Killing	81.42	87.35	79.89	80.38	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
336	Beauty and the Beast	81.41	92.05	79.28	78.32	1946	Jean Cocteau
337	The Hustler	81.39	92.45	80.43	78.97	1961	Robert Rossen
338	Cléo from 5 to 7	81.38	91.65	80.03	79.11	1962	Agnès Varda
339	Fireworks	81.37	90.15	80.01	79.63	1997	Takeshi Kitano
340	Room	81.36	88.41	80.43	79.48	2015	Lenny Abrahamson
341	Mad Max: Fury Road	81.35	90.39	79.76	77.80	2015	George Miller
342	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	81.32	95.75	79.30	79.23	1928	Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
343	Judgment at Nuremberg	81.31	71.58	82.24	83.03	1961	Stanley Kramer
344	The Straight Story	81.30	87.15	79.64	79.88	1999	David Lynch
345	Meshes of the Afternoon	81.29	96.25	77.91	79.99	1943	Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied
346	Alice in the Cities	81.28	86.70	79.60	80.20	1974	Wim Wenders
347	Akira	81.28	80.90	81.12	79.98	1988	Katsuhiro Otomo
348	Good Will Hunting	81.27	79.38	81.97	81.05	1997	Gus Van Sant
349	The Miracle Worker	81.25	85.15	78.88	81.55	1962	Arthur Penn
350	Talk to Her	81.25	87.48	79.33	78.71	2002	Pedro Almodóvar
351	The Graduate	81.24	85.58	78.91	79.97	1967	Mike Nichols
352	Beauty and the Beast	81.22	92.28	79.20	78.77	1991	Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
353	The Heiress	81.19	94.45	80.20	79.76	1949	William Wyler
354	Fantasia	81.18	93.03	76.76	79.95	1940	Samuel Armstrong, James Algar
355	Au Revoir les Enfants	81.18	94.25	80.14	78.92	1987	Louis Malle
356	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	81.18	88.62	79.36	79.90	2017	Martin McDonagh
357	Inglourious Basterds	81.17	79.05	81.06	80.51	2009	Quentin Tarantino
358	Elevator to the Gallows	81.16	90.45	79.31	78.56	1958	Louis Malle
359	Gladiator	81.16	75.39	81.69	81.52	2000	Ridley Scott
360	Through a Glass Darkly	81.15	93.60	81.11	78.86	1961	Ingmar Bergman
361	Million Dollar Baby	81.15	87.41	77.43	80.72	2004	Clint Eastwood
362	Days of Heaven	81.15	90.75	80.19	77.08	1978	Terrence Malick
363	Do the Right Thing	81.15	90.78	80.26	77.04	1989	Spike Lee
364	Out of the Past	81.14	91.40	80.73	77.92	1947	Jacques Tourneur
365	Strangers on a Train	81.11	93.30	80.01	78.68	1951	Alfred Hitchcock
366	Blue Velvet	81.11	83.48	78.98	77.09	1986	David Lynch
367	That Obscure Object of Desire	81.09	89.40	79.59	78.11	1977	Luis Buñuel
368	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	81.08	80.23	80.74	80.75	1962	Robert Aldrich
369	My Night at Maud's	81.07	88.15	79.51	79.42	1969	Éric Rohmer
370	The Earrings of Madame de…	81.07	92.15	80.36	77.05	1953	Max Ophüls
371	The Conversation	81.04	89.23	80.03	77.44	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
372	The Killing	81.03	91.50	79.51	79.21	1956	Stanley Kubrick
373	The Servant	81.03	87.83	79.45	78.57	1963	Joseph Losey
374	The Intouchables	81.03	67.15	82.13	84.70	2011	Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
375	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	81.01	94.15	81.57	75.44	1943	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
376	Jaws	81.01	90.98	79.91	75.70	1975	Steven Spielberg
377	Winter Light	81.01	73.55	81.51	79.95	1963	Ingmar Bergman
378	Love Exposure	81.01	80.88	82.23	79.55	2008	Sion Sono
379	Hiroshima Mon Amour	81.00	92.95	80.13	77.99	1959	Alain Resnais
380	Day for Night	80.98	92.55	80.21	78.27	1973	François Truffaut
381	Ratatouille	80.97	92.73	78.72	78.68	2007	Brad Bird
382	Ghost in the Shell	80.97	81.43	79.98	81.15	1995	Mamoru Oshii
383	Germany Year Zero	80.95	92.00	77.80	80.03	1948	Roberto Rossellini
384	Spotlight	80.93	93.00	79.75	77.55	2015	Tom McCarthy
385	Die Hard	80.93	79.58	81.11	79.43	1988	John McTiernan
386	Laura	80.93	93.80	79.70	78.47	1944	Otto Preminger
387	Sleuth	80.93	89.95	79.16	80.87	1972	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
388	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	80.92	88.64	79.69	77.84	2007	Julian Schnabel
389	The Handmaiden	80.92	85.99	82.55	77.41	2016	Park Chan-wook
390	Stand by Me	80.90	80.20	81.28	79.54	1986	Rob Reiner
391	Wolf Children	80.90	80.15	80.40	81.27	2012	Mamoru Hosoda
392	Marriage Story	80.88	92.86	79.40	77.75	2019	Noam Baumbach
393	Shoeshine	80.87	93.75	79.02	79.38	1946	Vittorio De Sica
394	Freaks	80.85	84.70	77.66	80.31	1932	Tod Browning
395	Nosferatu	80.85	93.75	78.29	79.14	1922	F. W. Murnau
396	Dial M for Murder	80.84	77.60	81.17	81.31	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
397	Amour	80.81	90.90	77.74	78.19	2012	Michael Haneke
398	12 Years a Slave	80.80	94.00	79.74	76.94	2013	Steve McQueen
399	The Nightmare Before Christmas	80.77	85.38	79.26	79.69	1993	Henry Selick
400	Cabaret	80.77	84.68	77.34	80.69	1972	Bob Fosse
401	Central Station	80.77	83.28	80.91	78.52	1998	Walter Salles
402	Landscape in the Mist	80.74	71.35	80.76	80.28	1988	Theo Angelopoulos
403	1917	80.73	84.37	80.65	79.33	2019	Sam Mendes
404	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	80.71	93.98	75.69	78.01	1916	D. W. Griffith
405	Call Me by Your Name	80.71	91.25	79.43	77.87	2017	Luca Guadagnino
406	Midnight Cowboy	80.71	82.98	79.10	79.50	1969	John Schlesinger
407	Shadow of a Doubt	80.70	94.38	79.31	76.04	1943	Alfred Hitchcock
408	Interstellar	80.70	74.16	81.30	82.25	2014	Christopher Nolan
409	Hannah and Her Sisters	80.69	88.95	79.15	77.98	1986	Woody Allen
410	Monsters, Inc.	80.68	85.29	79.37	80.08	2001	Pete Docter, David Silverman
411	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse	80.65	85.85	79.40	79.38	1933	Fritz Lang
412	Downfall	80.64	83.53	81.54	78.55	2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel
413	Being There	80.64	87.30	79.42	78.06	1979	Hal Ashby
414	The Killer	80.63	92.60	79.27	78.66	1989	John Woo
415	My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown	80.63	93.23	78.13	79.15	1989	Jim Sheridan
416	Jean de Florette	80.60	88.40	80.18	79.69	1986	Claude Berri
417	The Big Lebowski	80.57	74.80	82.28	78.57	1998	Coen Brothers
418	The King's Speech	80.57	90.86	78.50	78.59	2010	Tom Hooper
419	Whisper of the Heart	80.55	79.98	80.80	80.31	1995	Yoshifumi Kondō
420	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	80.54	93.08	77.22	77.82	1982	Steven Spielberg
421	Infernal Affairs	80.54	79.83	79.92	80.22	2002	Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
422	The Prestige	80.54	72.22	82.71	81.38	2006	Christopher Nolan
423	Our Hospitality	80.54	92.85	77.72	79.58	1923	Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
424	Zootopia	80.53	85.22	78.84	80.18	2016	Byron Howard, Rich Moore
425	Toy Story 2	80.49	92.59	78.51	77.05	1999	John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
426	Klaus	80.48	75.00	81.07	81.41	2019	Sergio Pablos
427	The Big Sleep	80.45	92.10	79.74	77.58	1946	Howard Hawks
428	Ford v Ferrari	80.45	83.94	79.37	80.01	2019	James Mangold
429	Dead Poets Society	80.44	78.70	79.43	80.75	1989	Peter Weir
430	The Terminator	80.43	89.08	78.26	78.13	1984	James Cameron
431	Naked	80.43	84.48	80.39	77.34	1993	Mike Leigh
432	Dangal	80.41	83.00	79.68	80.56	2016	Nitesh Tiwari
433	Kwaidan	80.40	81.80	79.75	79.42	1964	Masaki Kobayashi
434	The Man Who Would Be King	80.40	90.55	78.24	77.79	1975	John Huston
435	Wild Tales	80.38	82.57	80.48	79.22	2014	Damián Szifron
436	Groundhog Day	80.38	80.08	79.31	79.35	1993	Harold Ramis
437	Catch Me If You Can	80.38	83.44	78.74	80.57	2002	Steven Spielberg
438	I Vitelloni	80.36	90.28	77.64	78.06	1953	Federico Fellini
439	The Big Heat	80.35	92.90	79.27	77.87	1953	Fritz Lang
440	The Double Life of Véronique	80.35	82.63	80.19	77.87	1991	Krzysztof Kieślowski
441	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	80.35	82.58	80.19	78.43	1966	Mike Nichols
442	Requiem for a Dream	80.33	71.39	81.39	80.93	2000	Darren Aronofsky
443	Rope	80.33	79.20	80.31	79.30	1948	Alfred Hitchcock
444	Love and Death	80.33	89.83	77.55	78.50	1975	Woody Allen
445	The Remains of the Day	80.29	86.88	78.75	78.80	1993	James Ivory
446	Jules and Jim	80.28	93.70	78.30	77.94	1962	François Truffaut
447	The Gospel According to Matthew	80.28	88.30	76.50	78.52	1964	Pier Paolo Pasolini
448	How to Train Your Dragon	80.27	81.97	79.45	80.24	2010	Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
449	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	80.27	88.50	78.81	78.53	2011	David Yates
450	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	80.26	87.05	79.46	79.79	1958	Richard Brooks
451	The French Connection	80.26	93.35	78.04	76.89	1971	William Friedkin
452	Opening Night	80.25	78.05	80.50	79.25	1977	John Cassavetes
453	Hotel Rwanda	80.24	84.54	79.34	79.40	2004	Terry George
454	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	80.22	92.51	77.76	76.22	2007	Cristian Mungiu
455	Tampopo	80.22	92.40	81.20	77.01	1985	Juzo Itami
456	Scarface	80.22	93.50	76.43	79.55	1932	Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes
457	The Face of Another	80.21	87.50	79.61	79.34	1966	Hiroshi Teshigahara
458	The Roaring Twenties	80.21	86.20	77.79	80.68	1939	Raoul Walsh
459	Pickpocket	80.20	93.80	76.41	76.47	1959	Robert Bresson
460	Kiki's Delivery Service	80.20	85.45	79.87	78.84	1989	Hayao Miyazaki
461	A Prophet	80.19	89.61	79.53	76.14	2009	Jacques Audiard
462	Zelig	80.19	90.00	76.50	80.29	1983	Woody Allen
463	Trouble in Paradise	80.18	88.20	79.35	77.62	1932	Ernst Lubitsch
464	Gran Torino	80.17	76.27	78.57	82.36	2008	Clint Eastwood
465	Last Year at Marienbad	80.16	88.25	78.29	77.37	1961	Alain Resnais
466	All the President's Men	80.15	85.95	80.48	76.46	1976	Alan J. Pakula
467	Breaking the Waves	80.15	79.85	78.46	79.55	1996	Lars von Trier
468	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	80.14	74.28	81.44	80.57	1989	Steven Spielberg
469	Divorce Italian Style	80.12	91.00	79.28	78.26	1961	Pietro Germi
470	Edward Scissorhands	80.12	78.65	78.09	80.73	1990	Tim Burton
471	The Thing	80.12	67.98	82.60	79.34	1982	John Carpenter
472	Perfect Blue	80.11	74.05	80.91	80.09	1997	Satoshi Kon
473	Down by Law	80.10	79.03	78.98	79.61	1986	Jim Jarmusch
474	Bringing Up Baby	80.10	90.75	78.25	76.45	1938	Howard Hawks
475	The Phantom of Liberty	80.09	85.10	78.89	78.66	1974	Luis Buñuel
476	Bonnie and Clyde	80.07	85.38	78.16	78.23	1967	Arthur Penn
477	The Incredibles	80.07	89.69	79.77	75.78	2004	Brad Bird
478	Rocky	80.04	79.73	79.17	79.29	1976	John G. Avildsen
479	His Girl Friday	80.03	94.15	79.24	76.72	1940	Howard Hawks
480	Mommy	80.03	80.79	80.39	79.13	2014	Xavier Dolan
481	Mon Oncle	80.03	88.00	78.03	78.76	1958	Jacques Tati
482	My Fair Lady	79.99	91.85	77.53	78.00	1964	George Cukor
483	Charade	79.98	85.55	79.37	78.72	1963	Stanley Donen
484	Stalag 17	79.95	87.13	79.62	77.79	1953	Billy Wilder
485	Boyhood	79.95	97.08	76.08	75.95	2014	Richard Linklater
486	The Secret in Their Eyes	79.95	82.49	81.27	77.67	2009	Juan José Campanella
487	Ninotchka	79.95	90.15	77.99	78.50	1939	Ernst Lubitsch
488	Pierrot le Fou	79.94	81.75	77.84	76.65	1965	Jean-Luc Godard
489	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	79.94	89.10	78.30	78.27	1974	Werner Herzog
490	Stroszek	79.94	88.40	79.50	77.77	1977	Werner Herzog
491	A Hard Day's Night	79.93	93.73	76.82	77.08	1964	Richard Lester
492	Onibaba	79.90	74.75	79.42	79.96	1964	Kaneto Shindo
493	Repulsion	79.85	92.68	77.29	76.57	1965	Roman Polanski
494	Like Stars on Earth	79.85	80.50	79.54	79.86	2007	Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte
495	Duck Soup	79.84	92.33	79.01	74.92	1933	Leo McCarey
496	Carlito's Way	79.83	70.28	79.16	82.01	1993	Brian De Palma
497	Nashville	79.82	93.23	76.89	74.92	1975	Robert Altman
498	The Triplets of Belleville	79.82	88.97	76.57	78.66	2003	Sylvain Chomet
499	Dr. Mabuse the Gambler	79.81	85.10	76.88	79.98	1922	Fritz Lang
500	Gone Girl	79.79	83.03	79.32	78.87	2014	David Fincher

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