For their Jan-Feb 2012 edition the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s members voted, to celebrate their 75th anniversary, on what they considered to be the 75 best edited feature films of all time. Raging Bull a great choice for no. 1 but All That Jazz in the top 10?
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
3 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
4 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse
5 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
6 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
7 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
8 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
9 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone
10 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
11 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
12 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
13 Bronenosets Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
14 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
15 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
16 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
17 Cidade de Deus 2002 Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
18 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
19 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
20 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet
21 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
22 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
23 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
24 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
25 The Matrix 1999 Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
26 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
27 À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
28 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher
29 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky
30 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
31 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
32 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann
33 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
34 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
35 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan
36 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock
37 Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
38 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
39 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis
40 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
41 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
42 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
43 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
44 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
45 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
46 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
47 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
48 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
49 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
50 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
51 Chelovek s kino-apparatom 1929 Dziga Vertov
52 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
53 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh
54 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
55 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott
56 Titanic 1997 James Cameron
57 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh
58 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
59 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
60 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
61 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
62 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont
63 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
64 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
65 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick
66 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass
67 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
68 A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
69 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese
70 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
71 Miller’s Crossing 1990 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
72 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
73 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
74 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen
75 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
The Years
1970s – 17 films
1990s – 16 films
1960s – 13 films
1950s – 8 films
2000s – 7 films
1980s – 5 films
1940s – 3 films
The Directors
5 Films – Alfred Hitchcock
4 Films – Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola
3 Films – Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese
2 Films – Terrence Malick, Bob Fosse, William Friedkin, Akira Kurosawa, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Orson Welles and Bob Wise
The Editors
4 Films – George Tomasini
3 Films – Dede Allen, Michael Kahn and Thelma Schoonmaker
2 Films – Richard Chew, Anne V. Coates, Gerald B. Greenberg, Akira Kurosawa, Ray Lovejoy, Craig McKay, Sam O’Steen, Jay Rabinowitz, William Reynolds, Daniel Rezende, Pietro Scalia, Billy Weber and Peter Zinner