January 3, 1987--Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert each pick the ten best films of 1986...
(intro CLIP): Peggy Sue Got Married… Blue Velvet… ‘Round Midnight… What do these three films have in common? Well, they all feature music on their soundtrack, but more important they appear on either Roger or My Ten Best Films of 1986 list, the annual rite of critics nationwide. I’m Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune…
SISKEL
And I’m Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times… For the purposes of building the drama here, we’re gonna start down around the bottom of each of our lists and then work our way up toward the individual choices for the year’s best films and these are individual choices – we do not collaborate on these lists – or on much of anything else for that matter…
EBERT
Now here’s a rundown of my list from bottom to top... (SISKEL)
And now let’s take a look at my top 10 list… (EBERT)
And it was a good year for movies; I was surprised when I made up my list, how many titles contended for those top 10 positions — (EBERT)
— I had 19 (that’s a record for me) and you know what – we agreed on 5 films, that means you were half right and I was half right – first agreement in a long time… (SISKEL)