Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time was a two-hour television special that aired on March 22, 2011, on ABC in the United States. Hosted by Tom Bergeron and Cynthia McFadden, it was a collaboration between ABC News and People magazine that gave American film fans the chance to choose their favourite movies of all time. The results were presented on the program, which included interviews with some of the stars and directors of the chosen films including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Olivia Newton-John. The categories for the special were Best Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Best Action Film, Greatest Film Character, Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Greatest Screen Kiss, Best Comedy, Best Animated Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Greatest Line, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film.
To vote for their favourite films, movie fans went online at abcnews.com and people.com to select the winners from a list of nominees created by a group of film industry experts. Online voting was open from late November 2010 to January 2011. The televised special counted down the top five films in 10 of the 15 categories: Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Greatest Screen Kiss, Greatest Line, Best Action Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Best Animated Film, Greatest Film Character and Best Film. The results in the remaining five categories (Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film) were revealed online.
Television Results
Best Comedy
Airplane! (1980)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Tootsie (1982)
Best Sci-fi film
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Avatar (2009)
The Matrix (1999)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Best Musical
The Sound of Music (1965)
Grease (1978)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
West Side Story (1961)
Greatest On Screen Kiss
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Casablanca (1942)
Greatest Line
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” – Gone with the Wind (1939)
“Go ahead, make my day!” – Sudden Impact (1983)
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – The Godfather (1972)
“I’ll have what she’s having.” – When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” – Casablanca (1942)
Best Action Film
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Die Hard (1988)
Gladiator (2000)
Best Suspense/Thriller
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jaws (1975)
Psycho (1960)
The Shining (1980)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Best Animated Film
The Lion King (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Fantasia (1940)
Greatest Film Character
Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)
James Bond in the James Bond films
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones films
Best Film
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Godfather (1972)
Casablanca (1942)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Online Results
Most Romantic On Screen Couple
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet – Titanic (1997)
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind (1939)
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman (1990)
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman – Casablanca (1942)
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn – Adam’s Rib (1949)
In November 2009 Telegraph film critics David Gritten, Tim Robey and Sukhdev Sandhu compiled a list of 100 films that defined the noughties. The list will surprise some but, as the title suggests, it appears that the ranking order is stressing the importance of the films to their time rather than which they consider the best. For example, Saw is placed at 14th presumably because it was at the forefront of the horror/torture genre that became so prominent and not because it’s a brilliant example of 21st century cinema while there have been far funnier and cleverer films than Kocked Up but the film is a prime example of the New American Comedy that was brought in by director Judd Apatow.
Michael Phillips is an American film critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Previously he was the drama critic of the Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; The San Diego Union-Tribune; and the Dallas Times Herald. Below is his top 10 films 2000-2009.
10. Minority Report
9. Gosford Park
8. Mulholland Drive
7. United 93
6. Zodiac
5. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. Once
3. Climates
2. Ratatouille 1. THERE WILL BE BLOOD
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criticstop10.com compiles critics top 10 lists together to make best of lists for each year, the order of films depending on how many times they appeared on the lists.
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Nick Schager is a staff film critic for Slant magazine, a contributor to Time Out New York, and a columnist and features writer for the Independent Film Channel. His work – which is compiled at Lessons of Darkness – has also appeared in, among other publications, The Village Voice, indieWire, Cinematical, The Independent, The Screengrab, PLANET magazine and SOMA magazine.
His 2007 list includes some interesting entries, Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn placing 5th and the anime Paprika also included. Most interesting is Charles Burnett’s acclaimed Killer of Sheep at no. 3. The film was shot in the late 70s but couldn’t be given a proper release due to complications in securing the rights to the 22 songs on the soundtrack. The rights were purchased in 2007 for $150,000 and the film got a limited release 30 years after its original completion.
1 There Will Be Blood
2 Zodiac
3 Killer of Sheep
4 No Country for Old Men
5 Rescue Dawn
6 Persepolis
7 Away from Her
8 A Band’s Visit
9 Assassination of Jesse James
10 Paprika
In 2017 the chief film critics of The Times, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott decided to rank the top 25 movies of the 21st Century that are destined to be the classics of the future. It’s an interesting list but you have to wonder where the likes of Lord of the Rings, No Country For Old Men, The Lives of Others and City of God are when you see they’ve included films like Munich (hardly a good representation of Spielberg’s talent) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. According to Dargis the film is “a defining movie about stunted masculinity” but, in my opinion, one that falls too much into stereotypical caricatures and struggles to be remotely funny.
There Will Be Blood
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007
Spirited Away
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2002
Million Dollar Baby
Directed by Clint Eastwood, 2004
A Touch of Sin
Directed by Jia Zhangke, 2013
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Directed by Cristi Puiu, 2006
Yi Yi
Directed by Edward Yang, 2000
Inside Out
Directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, 2015
Boyhood
Directed by Richard Linklater, 2014
Summer Hours
Directed by Olivier Assayas, 2009
The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, 2009
Inside Llewyn Davis
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013
Timbuktu
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, 2015
In Jackson Heights
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, 2015
L’Enfant
Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2006
White Material
Directed by Claire Denis, 2010
Munich
Directed by Steven Spielberg, 2005
Three Times
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2006
The Gleaners and I
Directed by Agnès Varda, 2000
Mad Max: Fury Road
Directed by George Miller, 2015
Moonlight
Directed by Barry Jenkins, 2016
Wendy and Lucy
Directed by Kelly Reichardt, 2008
I’m Not There
Directed by Todd Haynes, 2007
Silent Light
Directed by Carlos Reygadas, 2008
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Directed by Michel Gondry, 2004
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Directed by Judd Apatow, 2005
In 2004 The New York Times published a book that listed the 1000 films that they consider the finest ever made. The book features a collection of original reviews by the critics of the paper, and the list encompasses movies of every conceivable genre, including musicals, dramas, comedies, foreign films and animated features. The films are listed in alphabetical order. Buy – The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made: An Indispensable Collection of Original Reviews of Box-Office Hits and Misses (Film Critics of the New York Times)
A Nous La Liberte 1931 René Clair
About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne
Absence Of Malice 1981 Sydney Pollack
Adam’s Rib 1949 George Cukor
Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze
The Adjuster 1991 Atom Egoyan
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Affliction 1997 Paul Schrader
The African Queen 1951 John Huston
L’Age D’Or 1930 Luis Buñuel Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg
Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Aladdin 1992 Ron Clements, John Musker
Alexander Nevsky 1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese
Alice’s Restaurant 1969 Arthur Penn
Aliens 1986 James Cameron
All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone
All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
All The King’s Men 1949 Robert Rossen
All The President’s Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula
Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman
Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
America America 1963 Elia Kazan
Der amerikanische Freund 1977 Wim Wenders
American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli
The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller
American Movie 1999 Chris Smith
Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Anastasia 1956 Anatole Litvak
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger
The Angry Silence 1960 Guy Green
Anna and the King of Siam 1946 John Cromwell
Anna Christie 1930 Clarence Brown
Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
The Apostle 1997 Robert Duvall
L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
Popiól i diament 1958 Andrzej Wajda
The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston
L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
Atlantic City, USA 1980 Louis Malle
Au revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle
L’avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey
Babettes gæstebud 1987 Gabriel Axel
Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan
Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges
Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
La femme du boulanger 1938 Marcel Pagnol
Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks
The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah
Bambi 1942 Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid, James Algar, David Hand, Norman Wright, Bill Roberts
The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock
The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline
Barfly 1987 Barbet Schroeder
Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
Barton Fink 1991 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
La battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
Le beau mariage 1982 Éric Rohmer
Beautiful People 1999 Jasmin Dizdar
La belle et la bête 1946 Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Domicile conjugal 1970 François Truffaut
Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton
Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel
Before the Rain 1994 Milcho Manchevski
Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze
Being There 1979 Hal Ashby
Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest
Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan
The Big Clock 1948 John Farrow
I soliti ignoti 1958 Mario Monicelli
The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang
Big Night 1996 Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller
The Big Sky 1952 Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger
Biloxi Blues 1988 Mike Nichols
The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock
Birdy 1984 Alan Parker
Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Orfeu Negro 1959 Marcel Camus
Black Robe 1991 Bruce Beresford
Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks
Bloody Sunday 2002 Paul Greengrass
Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader
Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1969 Paul Mazursky
Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson
Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone
Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor
Le boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol
Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby
Boys Don’t Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce
Boyz n the Hood 1991 John Singleton
Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
Pane, amore e fantasia 1953 Luigi Comencini
‘Breaker’ Morant 1980 Bruce Beresford
The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes
Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates
Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
La mariée était en noir 1968 François Truffaut
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
A Brief History of Time 1991 Errol Morris
Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks
Brother’s Keeper 1992 Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Steve Rash
Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton
Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates
Bus Stop 1956 Joshua Logan
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
The Butcher Boy 1997 Neil Jordan
Bye Bye Brasil 1980 Carlos Diegues
Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls
Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk
California Suite 1978 Herbert Ross
Calle 54 2000 Fernando Trueba
Camelot 1967 Joshua Logan
Camille 1936 George Cukor
Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming
Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger
Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks
Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols
Cavalcade 1933 Frank Lloyd
Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg
La cérémonie 1995 Claude Chabrol
Chan Is Missing 1982 Wayne Wang
Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson
Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel
Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall
Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord, Nick Park
La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
L’amour l’après-midi 1972 Éric Rohmer
Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström
The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström
The Citadel 1938 King Vidor
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
Le genou de Claire 1970 Éric Rohmer
L’horloger de Saint-Paul 1974 Bertrand Tavernier
A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
Nema-ye Nazdik 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling
Coal Miner’s Daughter 1980 Michael Apted
The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese
Come Back, Little Sheba 1952 Daniel Mann
Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby
Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
The Conquest of Everest 1953 George Lowe
Le mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg
The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 Rowland V. Lee
The Country Girl 1954 George Seaton
Les cousins 1959 Claude Chabrol
Letyat zhuravli 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
Viskningar och rop 1972 Ingmar Bergman
Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk
Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff
Cry, the Beloved Country 1951 Zoltan Korda
The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan
Damn Yankees 1958 George Abbott, Stanley Donen
La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) 1969 Luchino Visconti
Dance with a Stranger 1985 Mike Newell
Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears
Daniel 1983 Sidney Lumet
Danton 1983 Andrzej Wajda
Oci ciornie 1987 Nikita Mikhalkov
Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding
Darling 1965 John Schlesinger
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger 1935 George Cukor
David Holzman’s Diary 1967 Jim McBride
Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
La nuit américaine 1973 François Truffaut
The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards
The Dead 1987 John Huston
Dead Calm 1989 Phillip Noyce
Dead End 1937 William Wyler
Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins
Dead of Night 1945 Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti
Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
Morte a Venezia 1971 Luchino Visconti
Death of a Salesman 1951 Laslo Benedek
Dekalog 1989
Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski
The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino
The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer
Deliverance 1972 John Boorman
Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 Susan Seidelman
Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall
Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
Le journal d’une femme de chambre 1964 Luis Buñuel
Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951 Robert Bresson
Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
Diner 1982 Barry Levinson
Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor
The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich
Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
Disraeli 1929 Alfred E. Green
Ashani Sanket 1973 Satyajit Ray
Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix
Divorzio all’italiana 1961 Pietro Germi
Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean
Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler
La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell
Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch
Dracula 1931 Tod Browning
La vie rêvée des anges 1998 Erick Zonca
Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma
The Dresser 1983 Peter Yates
Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford
Drowning by Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway
Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant
Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey
The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott
Dumbo 1941 Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Wilfred Jackson, John Elliotte, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan
Easy Living 1937 Mitchell Leisen
Yin shi nan nu 1994 Ang Lee
Fontane Effi Briest 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles
The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch
Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks
Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg
Enemies: A Love Story 1989 Paul Mazursky
Les enfants du paradis 1945 Marcel Carné
The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella
The Entertainer 1960 Tony Richardson
Coup de foudre 1983 Diane Kurys
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
Europa Europa 1990 Agnieszka Holland
Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 Jean-Luc Godard
The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
El ángel exterminador 1962 Luis Buñuel
A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan
Ansikte mot ansikte 1976 Ingmar Bergman
Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
Kazoku gêmu 1983 Yoshimitsu Morita
Fanny och Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
Fantasia 1940 Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Hamilton Luske, Paul Satterfield, James Algar, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
Ba wang bie ji 1993 Kaige Chen
Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes
Fargo 1996 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 Errol Morris
Atanarjuat 2001 Zacharias Kunuk
Fat City 1972 John Huston
Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne
Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli
Fellini – Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini
La Femme Infidèle 1969 Claude Chabrol
Nikita 1990 Luc Besson
The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam
I pugni in tasca 1965 Marco Bellocchio
Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog
Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson
The Flamingo Kid 1984 Garry Marshall
The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann
Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood
Jeux interdits 1952 René Clément
A Foreign Affair 1948 Billy Wilder
The Fortune Cookie 1966 Billy Wilder
Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
Frankenstein 1931 James Whale
The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock
Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler
From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann
The Fugitive 1947 John Ford, Emilio Fernández
Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo
Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen
Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler
Fury 1936 Fritz Lang
Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir
Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough
Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini 1970 Vittorio De Sica
Gas, Food Lodging 1992 Allison Anders
Gaslight 1944 George Cukor
Jigokumon 1953 Teinosuke Kinugasa
Gion bayashi 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
The General 1998 John Boorman
Il generale Della Rovere 1959 Roberto Rossellini
Genevieve 1953 Henry Cornelius
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks
Georgy Girl 1966 Silvio Narizzano
Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
Préparez vos mouchoirs 1978 Bertrand Blier
Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff
Giant 1956 George Stevens
Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli
Gimme Shelter 1970 David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
The Girl Can’t Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin
La ragazza con la valigia 1961 Valerio Zurlini
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 Agnès Varda
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter 1972 Wim Wenders
The Go-Between 1971 Joseph Losey
The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey
Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton
Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
The Good Earth 1937 Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý, Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman
The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding
La grande illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford
The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
The Great Man 1956 José Ferrer
The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges
The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille
Green for Danger 1946 Sidney Gilliat
Gregory’s Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth
The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears
Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King
Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens
Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges
Hair 1979 Milos Forman
Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier
Hamlet 2000 Michael Almereyda
Handle with Care 1977 Jonathan Demme
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen
Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz
A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple
Harry and Tonto 1974 Paul Mazursky
A Hatful of Rain 1957 Fred Zinnemann
The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Elaine May
Heartland 1979 Richard Pearce
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1991 George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr
Heat and Dust 1983 James Ivory
Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann
Heavy Traffic 1973 Ralph Bakshi
Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik 1984
The Heiress 1949 William Wyler
Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France 1944 Laurence Olivier
Henry Fool 1997 Hal Hartley
Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall
Tengoku to jigoku 1963 Akira Kurosawa
The High and the Mighty 1954 William A. Wellman
High Art 1998 Lisa Cholodenko
High Hopes 1988 Mike Leigh
High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh
The Hill 1965 Sidney Lumet
Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
The Homecoming 1973 Peter Hall
Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James
Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman
Hôtel Terminus 1988 Marcel Ophüls
The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry
Household Saints 1993 Nancy Savoca
House of Games 1987 David Mamet
How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco
Howards End 1992 James Ivory
Hud 1963 Martin Ritt
Huey Long 1985 Ken Burns
Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen
The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen
‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
I Remember Mama 1948 George Stevens
I Want to Live! 1958 Robert Wise
If…. 1968 Lindsay Anderson
Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
I’m All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting
Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks
In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field
In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison
The Informer 1935 John Ford
Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer
The Insider 1999 Michael Mann
Internal Affairs 1990 Mike Figgis
The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie
It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
It’s a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra
Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe
Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland
Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri
Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe
Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray
Le juge et l’assassin 1976 Bertrand Tavernier
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer
Ju Dou 1990 Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut
Giulietta degli spiriti 1965 Federico Fellini
Junior Bonner 1972 Sam Peckinpah
Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa
The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak
The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
The King and I 1956 Walter Lang
King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
King Lear 1971 Peter Brook
The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese
The King of Marvin Gardens 1972 Bob Rafelson
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Hector Babenco
Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula
Nóz w wodzie 1962 Roman Polanski
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton
L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle
The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
Ladybird Ladybird 1994 Ken Loach
Lamerica 1994 Gianni Amelio
The Last American Hero 1973 Lamont Johnson
The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci
Le dernier métro 1980 François Truffaut
The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich
The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl
Ultimo tango a Parigi 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese
The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese
Laura 1944 Otto Preminger
The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall
Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis
Il gattopardo 1963 Luchino Visconti
The Letter 1940 William Wyler
A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Les liaisons dangereuses 1959 Roger Vadim
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Life Is Sweet 1990 Mike Leigh
The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle
Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz
Como agua para chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau
Lili 1953 Charles Walters
Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn
Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy
The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler
Little Fugitive 1953 Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin
The Kidnappers 1953 Philip Leacock
Malenkaya Vera 1988 Vasili Pichul
Little Women 1933 George Cukor
Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Henry Hathaway
Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo
Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth
Lola 1981 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls
Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick
Lone Star 1996 John Sayles
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
Long Day’s Journey Into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet
The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman
The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie
The Long Voyage Home 1940 John Ford
The Longest Day 1962 Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald
Look Back in Anger 1959 Tony Richardson
Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra
Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks
The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder
Szerelem 1971 Károly Makk
Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey
Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen
Eine Liebe in Deutschland 1983 Andrzej Wajda
Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder
Lovely & Amazing 2001 Nicole Holofcener
L’amour en fuite 1979 François Truffaut
Lover Come Back 1961 Delbert Mann
Les amants 1958 Louis Malle
Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 Milos Forman
Loving 1970 Irvin Kershner
Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
M 1931 Fritz Lang
Mad Max 1979 George Miller
The Madness of King George 1994 Nicholas Hytner
Trollflöjten 1975 Ingmar Bergman
The Major and the Minor 1942 Billy Wilder
Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey
Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee
The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann
Man Hunt 1941 Fritz Lang
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley
L’homme qui aimait les femmes 1977 François Truffaut
The Man Who Wasn’t There 2001 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
Manon des sources 1986 Claude Berri
Matrimonio all’italiana 1964 Vittorio De Sica
Married to the Mob 1988 Jonathan Demme
The Marrying Kind 1952 George Cukor
Marty 1955 Delbert Mann
Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson
MASH 1970 Robert Altman
Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö 1990 Aki Kaurismäki
Mayerling 1936 Anatole Litvak
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
Melvin and Howard 1980 Jonathan Demme
Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
The Memory of Justice 1976 Marcel Ophüls
The Men 1950 Fred Zinnemann
Tenue de soirée 1986 Bertrand Blier
Metropolitan 1990 Whit Stillman
Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen
Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
Minnie and Moskowitz 1971 John Cassavetes
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 Preston Sturges
Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton
The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn
Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski
The Misfits 1961 John Huston
Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge 1990 James Ivory
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 1953 Jacques Tati
Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra
Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler
Mon oncle d’Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais
Mona Lisa 1986 Neil Jordan
Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin
Monsters, Inc. 2001 David Silverman, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich
Moonlighting 1982 Jerzy Skolimowski
Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison
The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966 Karel Reisz
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage
Mother 1996 Albert Brooks
Moulin Rouge 1952 John Huston
The Mouthpiece 1932 James Flood, Elliott Nugent
Much Ado About Nothing 1993 Kenneth Branagh
Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
Le souffle au coeur 1971 Louis Malle
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd
My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears
My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
My Dinner with Andre 1981 Louis Malle
My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown 1989 Jim Sheridan
Mitt liv som hund 1985 Lasse Hallström
My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava
Ma nuit chez Maud 1969 Éric Rohmer
My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
Az én XX. századom 1989 Ildikó Enyedi
Mon oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker
Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
Animal House 1978 John Landis
National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown
Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
Pote tin Kyriaki 1960 Jules Dassin
Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero
A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven
Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci
Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch
Nobody’s Fool 1994 Robert Benton
Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt
North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
Nothing But the Best 1964 Clive Donner
Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper
La nuit de Varennes 1982 Ettore Scola
The Nun’s Story 1959 Fred Zinnemann
Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed
Of Mice and Men 1939 Lewis Milestone
Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann
Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean
Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel
On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer
On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan
One False Move 1992 Carl Franklin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
One Foot in Heaven 1941 Irving Rapper
One Hour with You 1932 Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
One Night of Love 1934 Victor Schertzinger
One Potato, Two Potato 1964 Larry Peerce
One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder
Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
Roma città aperta 1945 Roberto Rossellini
Operation Crossbow 1965 Michael Anderson
The Opposite of Sex 1998 Don Roos
Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford
Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1951 Orson Welles
Our Town 1940 Sam Wood
Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood
The Overlanders 1946 Harry Watt
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman
Paint Your Wagon 1969 Joshua Logan
Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini
The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges
The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula
A Passage to India 1984 David Lean
En passion 1969 Ingmar Bergman
Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner
The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet
Payday 1973 Daryl Duke
Pelle erobreren 1987 Bille August
The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
Screen Two: Persuasion 1995 Roger Michell
Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Jean Renoir
Petulia 1968 Richard Lester
The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor
The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller
The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway
Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon
The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards
Pinocchio 1940 Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco 1981 Hector Babenco
A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton
Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone
Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood
The Player 1992 Robert Altman
Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper
Ponette 1996 Jacques Doillon
Il postino 1994 Massimo Troisi, Michael Radford
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett
Pretty Baby 1978 Louis Malle
Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard
The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood
Prince of the City 1981 Sidney Lumet
The Prisoner 1955 Peter Glenville
The Private Life of Henry VIII. 1933 Alexander Korda
Prizzi’s Honor 1985 John Huston
The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman
Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen
Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Quadrophenia 1979 Franc Roddam
The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford
Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson
Da hong deng long gao gao gua 1991 Yimou Zhang
Raising Arizona 1987 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa
The Rapture 1991 Michael Tolkin
Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon
Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray
Trois couleurs: Rouge 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston
Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory
Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox
Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino
Le retour de Martin Guerre 1982 Daniel Vigne
Reuben, Reuben 1983 Robert Ellis Miller
Reversal of Fortune 1990 Barbet Schroeder
Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier
Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah
Du rififi chez les hommes 1955 Jules Dassin
The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman
Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman
River’s Edge 1986 Tim Hunter
Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Luchino Visconti
Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore
Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler
Romeo and Juliet 1936 George Cukor
Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli
Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton
A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory
The Rose Tattoo 1955 Daniel Mann
Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
‘Round Midnight 1986 Bertrand Tavernier
Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey
La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak
Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson
Ruthless People 1986 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Sahara 1943 Zoltan Korda
Salaam Bombay! 1988 Mira Nair
Salesman 1969 David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Tsubaki Sanjûrô 1962 Akira Kurosawa
Sanshô dayû 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham
Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe
Sayonara 1957 Joshua Logan
Scener ur ett äktenskap 1973
Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
The Scoundrel 1935 Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann
The Searchers 1956 John Ford
Secret Honor 1984 Robert Altman
Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh
Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee
Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks
Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet
The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise
Pasqualino Settebellezze 1975 Lina Wertmüller
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen
Seven Days to Noon 1950 John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond
The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder
Det sjunde inseglet 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh
Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer
Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock
Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks
Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden
Shane 1953 George Stevens
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford
Sherman’s March 1985 Ross McElwee
She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee
The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller
Sciuscià 1946 Vittorio De Sica
Tirez sur le pianiste 1960 François Truffaut
The Shooting Party 1985 Alan Bridges
The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel
The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch
Obchod na korze 1965 Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár
A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards
Shrek 2001 Vicky Jenson, Andrew Adamson
Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox
Tystnaden 1963 Ingmar Bergman
The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
Le monde du silence 1956 Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Silk Stockings 1957 Rouben Mamoulian
Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols
Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Sitting Pretty 1948 Walter Lang
Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen
A Slight Case of Murder 1938 Lloyd Bacon
Smash Palace 1981 Roger Donaldson
Smile 1975 Michael Ritchie
Sommarnattens leende 1955 Ingmar Bergman
The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 William Cottrell, David Hand, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey
Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
Le chagrin et la pitié 1969 Marcel Ophüls
The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan
Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock
The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 2001 Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan
Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava
Stagecoach 1939 John Ford
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder
A Star Is Born 1937 Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer
Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
Starman 1984 John Carpenter
The Stars Look Down 1940 Carol Reed
State Fair 1933 Henry King
Stevie 1978 Robert Enders
Baisers volés 1968 François Truffaut
Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme
Stormy Monday 1988 Mike Figgis
L’histoire d’Adèle H. 1975 François Truffaut
Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman
Qiu Ju da guan si 1992 Yimou Zhang
Une affaire de femmes 1988 Claude Chabrol
Storytelling 2001 Todd Solondz
La strada 1954 Federico Fellini
The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch
Straight Time 1978 Dustin Hoffman, Ulu Grosbard
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch
Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan
Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog
Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Sugarland Express 1974 Steven Spielberg
Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
Le rayon vert 1986 Éric Rohmer
Summertime 1955 David Lean
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger
Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray 1962 Serge Bourguignon
Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder
Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock
The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 1971 Melvin Van Peebles
Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto 1974 Lina Wertmüller
Swing Time 1936 George Stevens
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent
Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami
Ta’m e guilass 1997 Abbas Kiarostami
A Taste of Honey 1961 Tony Richardson
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
Marusa no onna 1987 Jûzô Itami
Marusa no onna 2 1988 Jûzô Itami
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 1969 Abraham Polonsky
10 1979 Blake Edwards
The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille
Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford
The Tender Trap 1955 Charles Walters
Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks
La terra trema 1948 Luchino Visconti
Tess 1979 Roman Polanski
Cet obscur objet du désir 1977 Luis Buñuel
That’s Life! 1986 Blake Edwards
Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott
These Three 1936 William Wyler
They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969 Sydney Pollack
They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford, Robert Montgomery
They Won’t Forget 1937 Mervyn LeRoy
The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Alexander Korda, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan, Zoltan Korda, Michael Powell, William Cameron Menzies
The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke
The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
Die dritte Generation 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 François Girard
This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner
Que la bête meure 1969 Claude Chabrol
This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson
Three Comrades 1938 Frank Borzage
Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack
Kumonosu-jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa
Whisky Galore! 1949 Alexander Mackendrick
Die Blechtrommel 1979 Volker Schlöndorff
To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock
To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
Huo zhe 1994 Yimou Zhang
Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson
Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack
Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich
Topaz 1969 Alfred Hitchcock
Topkapi 1964 Jules Dassin
Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven
Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh
The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan
L’albero degli zoccoli 1978 Ermanno Olmi
The Trip to Bountiful 1985 Peter Masterson
Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel
Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock
True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway
True Love 1989 Nancy Savoca
Trust 1990 Hal Hartley
Tunes of Glory 1960 Ronald Neame
12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
Twelve O’Clock High 1949 Henry King
Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks
Les deux Anglaises et le continent 1971 François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
La ciociara 1960 Vittorio De Sica
Ugetsu monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
Ulzana’s Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich
Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman
Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood
The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer
Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 Louis Malle
The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet
Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
Violette Nozière 1978 Claude Chabrol
Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan
The Voice of the Turtle 1947 Irving Rapper
Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater
Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
A Walk in the Sun 1945 Lewis Milestone
The War Game 1965 Peter Watkins
The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito
The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill
Watch on the Rhine 1943 Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
The Waterdance 1992 Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg
The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack
Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Todd Solondz
La fille du puisatier 1940 Marcel Pagnol
West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
The Whales of August 1987 Lindsay Anderson
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström
What’s Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich
When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner
White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols
The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
L’enfant sauvage 1970 François Truffaut
Les roseaux sauvages 1994 André Téchiné
Smultronstället 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Wilson 1944 Henry King
Der Himmel über Berlin 1987 Wim Wenders
Wise Blood 1979 John Huston
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, Norman Taurog, King Vidor, Victor Fleming
Suna no onna 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens
The Women 1939 George Cukor
Women in Love 1969 Ken Russell
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de “nervios” 1988 Pedro Almodóvar
Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh
Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols
Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
The World of Henry Orient 1964 George Roy Hill
Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk
Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz
The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir
The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown
Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning
Yi yi 2000 Edward Yang
Yôjinbô 1961 Akira Kurosawa
You Can Count on Me 2000 Kenneth Lonergan
You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang
Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford
Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón
Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège 1933 Jean Vigo
In response to the American Film Institute announcing its list of 400 films to be voted upon for their selection of the 100 years…100 American movies, the Los Angeles Daily News conducted its own poll in late 1997 asking their readers to choose their own top feature films of the century from the same list of 400 candidates. The results were published in the December 3, 1997 issue of the paper.
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The African Queen (1951)
8. The Sound of Music (1965)
9. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
12. Schindler’s List (1993)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
14. It Happened One Night (1934)
15. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
16. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
17. Patton (1970)
18. Dances with Wolves (1990)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
21. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
22. All About Eve (1950)
23. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
24. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
25. Stagecoach (1939)
26. Fantasia (1940)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. Ben-Hur (1959)
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
30. Psycho (1960)
31. (tie) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
31. (tie) Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
31. (tie) Oklahoma! (1955)
31. (tie) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
35. (tie) Forrest Gump (1994)
35. (tie) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. (tie) My Fair Lady (1964)
38. (tie) E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
38. (tie) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
38. (tie) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
38. (tie) Some Like It Hot (1959)
38. (tie) To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
38. (tie) West Side Story (1961)
44. (tie) An American In Paris (1951)
44. (tie) Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. (tie) From Here to Eternity (1953)
44. (tie) Laura (1944)
44. (tie) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
44. (tie) On The Waterfront (1954)
44. (tie) The Quiet Man (1952)
51. (tie) Frankenstein (1931)
51. (tie) The Graduate (1967)
51. (tie) North By Northwest (1959)
51. (tie) Rocky (1976)
51. (tie) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
51. (tie) The Ten Commandments (1956)
57. (tie) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
57. (tie) Braveheart (1995)
57. (tie) Double Indemnity (1944)
57. (tie) Lost Horizon (1937)
57. (tie) Mary Poppins (1964)
57. (tie) M*A*S*H (1970)
57. (tie) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
64. (tie) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
64. (tie) Giant (1956)
64. (tie) The Jazz Singer (1927)
64. (tie) Midnight Cowboy (1969)
64. (tie) Mrs. Miniver (1942)
64. (tie) Raging Bull (1980)
64. (tie) Rebecca (1940)
64. (tie) Wings (1927)
72. (tie) American Graffiti (1973)
72. (tie) Annie Hall (1977)
72. (tie) The Color Purple (1985)
72. (tie) The French Connection (1971)
72. (tie) The Gold Rush (1925)
72. (tie) The Longest Day (1962)
72. (tie) Rain Man (1988)
72. (tie) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
72. (tie) The Sting (1973)
72. (tie) Tootsie (1982)
72. (tie) 12 Angry Men (1957)
72. (tie) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
84. (tie) Apocalypse Now (1979)
84. (tie) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
84. (tie) Chinatown (1974)
84. (tie) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
84. (tie) Funny Girl (1968)
84. (tie) Gunga Din (1939)
84. (tie) Shane (1953)
84. (tie) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
84. (tie) The Third Man (1949)
93. (tie) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
93. (tie) Blade Runner (1982)
93. (tie) Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
93. (tie) The Caine Mutiny (1954)
93. (tie) Chariots of Fire (1981)
93. (tie) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
93. (tie) East of Eden (1955)
93. (tie) Field of Dreams (1989)
93. (tie) 42nd Street (1933)
93. (tie) The Godfather, Part II (1974)
93. (tie) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
93. (tie) The Lion King (1994)
93. (tie) The Lost Weekend (1945)
93. (tie) Marty (1955)
93. (tie) Mister Roberts (1955)
93. (tie) On Golden Pond (1981)
93. (tie) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
93. (tie) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
93. (tie) Rear Window (1954)
93. (tie) Stalag 17 (1953)
93. (tie) Taxi Driver (1976)
93. (tie) Vertigo (1958)
93. (tie) The Way We Were (1973)
In 1999 American publication, Rolling Stone Magazine, in their end of the year Millennium issue, and film critic Peter Travers published a list of the 100 best maverick movies of the 20th century. Films made by those who “busted rules to follow their obsessions…in the defiant spirit of rock & roll.”
1. The Godfather Trilogy
The Godfather, Part I (1972), The Godfather, Part II (1974), and The Godfather, Part III (1990), Francis Ford Coppola
2. Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
3. The Searchers (1956), John Ford
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick
5. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
6. Raging Bull (1980), Martin Scorsese
7. Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), John Huston
9. Blue Velvet (1986), David Lynch
10. Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
11. King Kong (1933), Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
12. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), John Frankenheimer
13. Fargo (1996), Joel Coen
14. All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz
15. Do The Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee
16. The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton
17. Sherlock, Jr. (1924), Buster Keaton
18. Some Like It Hot (1959), Billy Wilder
19. Nashville (1975), Robert Altman
20. The Wizard of Oz (1939), Victor Fleming
21. Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Alexander Mackendrick
22. Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam
23. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Don Siegel
24. Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick
25. Don’t Look Now (1973), Nicolas Roeg
26. Gone With The Wind (1939), produced by David O. Selznick
27. Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz
28. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Frank Capra
29. Singin’ In The Rain (1952), Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
30. On The Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
31. Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
32. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Milos Forman
33. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean
34. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme
35. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Irvin Kershner
36. Ed Wood (1994), Tim Burton
37. Faces (1968), John Cassavetes
38. Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen
39. Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn
40. Straw Dogs (1971), Sam Peckinpah
41. The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed
42. All The President’s Men (1976), Alan J. Pakula
43. Bride of Frankenstein (1935), James Whale
44. Rebel Without A Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray
45. Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk
46. Swing Time (1936), George Stevens
47. The Red Shoes (1948), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
48. Network (1976), Sidney Lumet
49. Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Preston Sturges
50. The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols
51. M (1931), Fritz Lang
52. Zero For Conduct (1933), Jean Vigo
53. Rules of the Game (1939), Jean Renoir
54. Children of Paradise (1945), Marcel Carné
55. The Bicycle Thief (1948), Vittorio De Sica
56. The Earrings of Madame De… (1953), Max Ophuls
57. Tokyo Story (1953), Yasujiro Ozu
58. The Seven Samurai (1954), Akira Kurosawa
59. Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray
60. Breathless (1959), Jean-Luc Godard
61. The 400 Blows (1959), Francois Truffaut
62. La Dolce Vita (1960), Federico Fellini
63. Viridiana (1961), Luis Bunuel
64. Persona (1966), Ingmar Bergman
65. The Conformist (1971), Bernardo Bertolucci
66. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), Werner Herzog
67. Seven Beauties (1976), Lina Wertmuller
68. Wings of Desire (1988), Wim Wenders
69. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Pedro Almodovar
70. The Killer (1989), John Woo
71. City Lights (1931), Charles Chaplin
72. Cabaret (1972), Bob Fosse
73. Quiz Show (1994), Robert Redford
74. A Night at the Opera (1935), Sam Wood
75. The Producers (1967), Mel Brooks
76. Lost in America (1985), Albert Brooks
77. The Terminator (1984), James Cameron
78. White Heat (1949), Raoul Walsh
79. His Girl Friday (1940), Howard Hawks
80. Out of the Past (1947), Jacques Tourneur
81. The Piano (1993), Jane Campion
82. Blow-Up (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni
83. Blow Out (1981), Brian De Palma
84. The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
85. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), John Sturges
86. Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch
87. Diner (1982), Barry Levinson
88. To Sleep With Anger (1990), Charles Burnett
89. Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood
90. Midnight Cowboy (1969), John Schlesinger
91. Lone Star (1996), John Sayles
92. The Naked Kiss (1964), Samuel Fuller
93. The Crying Game (1992), Neil Jordan
94. Broadcast News (1987), James L. Brooks
95. Dead Ringers (1988), David Cronenberg
96. My Little Chickadee (1940), Edward Cline
97. The Night of the Living Dead (1968), George Romero
98. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Terry Jones
99. Intolerance (1916), D. W. Griffith
100. Freaks (1932), Tod Browning
Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn for ABC News.
1,000 Best Movies on DVD (book)
The story behind The Exorcist (book)
The Rolling Stone Film Reader: The Best Film Writing from Rolling Stone Magazine (book)
ROLLING STONE Daniel Craig Peter Travers Chuch Berry George McGovern 11/22 2012 (magazine)
ROLLING STONE Philip Seymour Hoffman Drake Pete Seeger Peter Travers + 2/27 2014 (magazine)
Charlie Rose with Peter Travers & John Lasseter; Vince Vaughn (June 2, 2006) (book)
In 2002 The National Society of Film Critics brought out the book “The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films”, edited by Jay Carr. It features 100 essays on the 100 Films. The essays look at the origins of the films, why the critics love them and their significance within the context of film history. The list is in alphabetical order. Buy – The A List: The National Society Of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films (book/kindle)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
42nd Street (1933)
The 400 Blows (1959, Fr.) (aka Les Quatre Cents Coups)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Poland)
L’Atalante (1934, Fr.)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925, Soviet Union)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
Blow-Up (1966, UK)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960, Fr.) (aka À Bout de Souffle)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Casablanca (1942)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Australia)
Children of Paradise (1945, Fr.) (aka Les Enfants du Paradis)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czech) (aka Ostre Sledované Vlaky)
Close-up (1990, Iran) (aka Nema-ye Nazdik)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
The Decalogue (1989, Polish)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Fr.)
Diner (1982)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
La Dolce Vita (1959, It.)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Duck Soup (1933)
Easy Rider (1969)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Entertainer (1960, UK)
The Exorcist (1973)
Faces (1968)
Fargo (1996)
Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, It./Fr.)
The Graduate (1967)
Greed (1924)
Happy Together (1997, HK/Jp./S.Kor.)
High Noon (1952)
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Ju Dou (1990, China/Jp.), Raise the Red Lantern (1991, China/HK), Red Sorghum (1987, China)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Landscape in the Mist (1988, Greece)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
M (1931, Germ.)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Soviet Union)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, W.Germ.)
Metropolis (1927)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Nashville (1975)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nosferatu (1922, Germ.)
Los Olvidados (1950, Mex.)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Rome: Open City (1945, It.) (aka Roma Città Aperta)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Pandora’s Box (1929, Germ.)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Fr.) (aka La passion de Jeanne d’Arc)
Pather Panchali (1955, India), Aparajito (1956, India), The World of Apu (1959, India)
The Piano (1993, NZ)
Psycho (1960)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashomon (1950, Jp.)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) (aka La Règle du Jeu)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
The Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Swe.)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Star Wars (1977)
La Strada (1954, It.) and The Nights of Cabiria (1957, It.)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Tokyo Story (1953, Jp.)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Jp.)
Unforgiven (1992)
Les Vampires (1915, Fr.)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time was a two-hour television special that aired on March 22, 2011, on ABC in the United States. Hosted by Tom Bergeron and Cynthia McFadden, it was a collaboration between ABC News and People magazine that gave American film fans the chance to choose their favourite movies of all time. The results were presented on the program, which included interviews with some of the stars and directors of the chosen films including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Olivia Newton-John. The categories for the special were Best Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Best Action Film, Greatest Film Character, Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Greatest Screen Kiss, Best Comedy, Best Animated Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Greatest Line, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film.
In November 2009 Telegraph film critics David Gritten, Tim Robey and Sukhdev Sandhu compiled a list of 100 films that defined the noughties. The list will surprise some but, as the title suggests, it appears that the ranking order is stressing the importance of the films to their time rather than which they consider the best. For example, Saw is placed at 14th presumably because it was at the forefront of the horror/torture genre that became so prominent and not because it’s a brilliant example of 21st century cinema while there have been far funnier and cleverer films than Kocked Up but the film is a prime example of the New American Comedy that was brought in by director Judd Apatow.
Michael Phillips is an American film critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Previously he was the drama critic of the Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; The San Diego Union-Tribune; and the Dallas Times Herald. Below is his top 10 films 2000-2009.
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877. It is the largest newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, and has a particular emphasis on national politics.
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The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It is published by Condé Nast.
Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang’s Vault. Its tagline is “Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture.” The magazine began as a website in 1998. It ran as a print publication from 2002 to 2010 before converting to online-only.
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.
Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. The blog promoted itself as “the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip.
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The Busan International Film Festival, held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held from 13 to 21 September 1996, was also the first international film festival in Korea. The focus of the BIFF is introducing new films and first-time directors, especially those from Asian countries.
American Cinematographer is a magazine published monthly by the American Society of Cinematographers. It focuses on the art and craft of cinematography, covering domestic and foreign feature productions, television productions, short films, music videos and commercials.
criticstop10.com compiles critics top 10 lists together to make best of lists for each year, the order of films depending on how many times they appeared on the lists.
National Review is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by the author William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955.
The Goethe-Institut is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.
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Nick Schager is a staff film critic for Slant magazine, a contributor to Time Out New York, and a columnist and features writer for the Independent Film Channel. His work – which is compiled at Lessons of Darkness – has also appeared in, among other publications, The Village Voice, indieWire, Cinematical, The Independent, The Screengrab, PLANET magazine and SOMA magazine.
In 2017 the chief film critics of The Times, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott decided to rank the top 25 movies of the 21st Century that are destined to be the classics of the future. It’s an interesting list but you have to wonder where the likes of Lord of the Rings, No Country For Old Men, The Lives of Others and City of God are when you see they’ve included films like Munich (hardly a good representation of Spielberg’s talent) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. According to Dargis the film is “a defining movie about stunted masculinity” but, in my opinion, one that falls too much into stereotypical caricatures and struggles to be remotely funny.
In 2004 The New York Times published a book that listed the 1000 films that they consider the finest ever made. The book features a collection of original reviews by the critics of the paper, and the list encompasses movies of every conceivable genre, including musicals, dramas, comedies, foreign films and animated features. The films are listed in alphabetical order. Buy – The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made: An Indispensable Collection of Original Reviews of Box-Office Hits and Misses (Film Critics of the New York Times)
1931 René Clair
2002 Alexander Payne
1981 Sydney Pollack
1949 George Cukor
. 2002 Spike Jonze
1991 Atom Egoyan
1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
1997 Paul Schrader
1951 John Huston
1930 Luis Buñuel
2001 Steven Spielberg
1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
1992 Ron Clements, John Musker
1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
1974 Martin Scorsese
1969 Arthur Penn
1986 James Cameron
1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1999 Pedro Almodóvar
1930 Lewis Milestone
1955 Douglas Sirk
1949 Robert Rossen
1976 Alan J. Pakula
1984 Milos Forman
1973 Federico Fellini
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In 1999 American publication, Rolling Stone Magazine, in their end of the year Millennium issue, and film critic Peter Travers published a list of the 100 best maverick movies of the 20th century. Films made by those who “busted rules to follow their obsessions…in the defiant spirit of rock & roll.”
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In 2002 The National Society of Film Critics brought out the book “The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films”, edited by Jay Carr. It features 100 essays on the 100 Films. The essays look at the origins of the films, why the critics love them and their significance within the context of film history. The list is in alphabetical order. Buy – The A List: The National Society Of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films