Another readers poll from Empire Magazine for the Greatest films of all time unveiled in 1999. Titanic remarkably makes the top 10 although this was only 2 years after its release. There’s even a top 20 place for The Sound of Music!
1
Star Wars
1977
2
Jaws
1975
3
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
1980
4
Shawshank Redemption, The
1994
5
Goodfellas
1990
6
Pulp Fiction
1994
7
Godfather, The
1972
8
Saving Private Ryan
1998
9
Schindler’s List
1993
10
Titanic
1997
11
Usual Suspects, The
1995
12
Citizen Kane
1941
13
Godfather: Part II, The
1974
14
Aliens
1986
15
Blade Runner
1982
16
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
17
Casablanca
1942
18
Gone with the Wind
1939
19
Sound of Music, The
1965
20
It’s a Wonderful Life
1946
21
Reservoir Dogs
1992
22
Apocalypse Now
1979
23
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
24
L.A. Confidential
1997
25
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1975
26
Silence of the Lambs, The
1991
27
Return of the Jedi
1983
28
Professional, The
1994
29
Braveheart
1995
30
Se7en
1995
31
Die Hard
1988
32
North by Northwest
1959
33
Truman Show, The
1998
34
Taxi Driver
1976
35
Jurassic Park
1993
36
Alien
1979
37
Psycho
1960
38
Raging Bull
1980
39
Some Like It Hot
1959
40
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
41
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
1966
42
Rear Window
1954
43
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
44
Deer Hunter, The
1978
45
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
46
Terminator, The
1984
47
Fargo
1996
48
Great Escape, The
1963
49
Face/Off
1997
50
Speed
1994
51
Matrix, The
1999
52
Singin’ in the Rain
1952
53
Exorcist, The
1973
54
Ben-Hur
1959
55
Trainspotting
1996
56
Forrest Gump
1994
57
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
58
Zulu
1964
59
Vertigo
1958
60
Wild Bunch, The
1969
61
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
62
Italian Job, The
1969
63
Shining, The
1980
64
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
65
English Patient, The
1996
66
Heat
1995
67
Wizard of Oz, The
1939
68
A Clockwork Orange
1971
69
Grease
1978
70
Platoon
1986
71
Stand by Me
1986
72
Back to the Future
1985
73
Withnail & I
1987
74
JFK
1991
75
Seven Samurai
1954
76
Get Carter
1971
77
Third Man, The
1949
78
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
79
Armageddon
1998
80
Chinatown
1974
81
Goldfinger
1964
82
Untouchables, The
1987
83
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
84
True Romance
1993
85
Unforgiven
1992
86
Scarface
1983
87
Blues Brothers, The
1980
88
Graduate, The
1967
89
When Harry Met Sally…
1989
90
Dances with Wolves
1990
91
Spartacus
1960
92
Toy Story
1995
93
Cinema Paradiso
1989
93
Life is Beautiful
1997
95
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997
96
Annie Hall
1977
97
Dead Poets Society
1989
98
Good Will Hunting
1997
99
12 Angry Men
1957
100
Easy Rider
1969
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1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
3. Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
4. Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
6. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
7. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
8. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
9. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
10. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
11. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
12. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
14. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
15. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
17. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
18. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
19. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
20. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
21. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
22. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
23. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
25. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)
26. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
27. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
28. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
29. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
30. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
31. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
32. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
33. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
34. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
35. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
36. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
37. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
38. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
39. The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 1999)
40. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
41. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
42. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
43. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
44. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
45. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
46. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
47. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
48. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
49. Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1987)
50. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
51. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
52. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
53. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
54. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
55. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
56. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
57. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
58. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
59. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
60. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
61. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
62. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
63. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
64. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
65. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
66. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
67. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
68. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
69. Three Colours Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
70. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
71. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
72. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
73. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
74. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
75. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
76. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
77. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
78. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
79. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
80. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
81. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
82. The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
83. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
84. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
85. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
86. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
87. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
88. Ferris Bueller’s Day off (John Hughes, 1986)
89. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
90. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
91. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)
92. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
93. Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
94. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
95. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
96. American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
97. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
98. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
99. Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
100. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
101. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1987)
102. The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
103. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
104. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
105. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
106. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
107. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
108. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
109. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
110. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
111. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
112. I Am Cuba (Alexander Payne, 1964)
113. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
114. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
115. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
116. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
117. Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990)
118. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
119. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
120. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
121. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
122. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
123. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
124. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
125. A Bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
126. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
127. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
128. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
129. Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
130. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)
131. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
132. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
133. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
134. Seven (David Fincher, 1995)
135. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
136. Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
137. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
138. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
139. Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
140. As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
141. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
142. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
143. Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1991)
144. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
145. Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
146. Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
147. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
148. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
149. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
150. The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)
151. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
152. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
153. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
154. Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986)
155. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
156. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
157. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
158. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
159. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
160. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
161. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982)
162. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
163. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
164. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
165. Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936)
166. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
167. Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
168. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
169. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
170. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
171. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
172. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
173. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
174. Superman the Movie (Richard Donner, 1978)
175. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
176. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
177. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)
178. Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter, 1941)
179. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
180. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
181. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970)
182. Performance (Donald Cammell, Nic Roeg, 1970)
183. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
184. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
185. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
186. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
187. The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
188. School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
189. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
190. Big (Penny Marshall, 1988)
191. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
192. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
193. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
194. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
195. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
196. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1999)
197. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
198. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
199. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
200. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
201. JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
202. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
203. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
204. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
205. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
206. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
207. The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)
208. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
209. Local Hero (Billy Forsyth, 1983)
210. Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
211. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
212. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
213. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
214. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
215. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
216. Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971)
217. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
218. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
219. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
220. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
221. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
222. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
223. Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
224. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
225. Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
226. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
227. Léon (Luc Besson, 1994)
228. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
229. Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
230. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
231. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
232. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
233. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
234. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)
235. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
236. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
237. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, 1991)
238. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
239. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
240. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
241. Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947)
242. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
243. Heimat (Edgar Reitz, 1984)
244. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
245. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
246. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
247. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
248. Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
249. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
250. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
251. Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965)
252. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1980)
253. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
254. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
255. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
256. Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938)
257. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
258. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
259. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
260. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robisnon, 1989)
261. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
262. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
263. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)
264. American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
265. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
266. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
267. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
268. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
269. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
270. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
271. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
272. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
273. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
274. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, 2005)
275. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
276. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004)
277. On the Town (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949)
278. Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
279. National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
280. Mad Max 2 (George Miller, 1982)
281. Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994)
282. The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
283. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
284. Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
285. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
286. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
287. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
288. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
289. John Carpenter’s The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
290. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
291. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
292. Le belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
293. La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
294. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
295. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
296. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
297. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
298. Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
299. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
300. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
301. Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
302. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
303. Together (Lukas Moodyson, 2000)
304. Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)
305. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
306. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
307. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
308. The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
309. Transformers (Michael Bay, 2007)
310. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
311. American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)
312. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
313. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
314. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
315. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
316. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
317. Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
318. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
319. The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994)
320. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
321. Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957)
322. Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992)
323. The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)
324. Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
325. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
326. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
327. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
328. The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
329. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
330. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
331. The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999)
332. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)
333. Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978)
334. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
335. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
336. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
337. 300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
338. Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
339. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
340. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
341. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
342. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
343. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
344. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
345. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987)
346. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
347. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
348. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
349. Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981)
350. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
351. Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
352. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
353. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
354. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
355. Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
356. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
357. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
358. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
359. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
360. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
361. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
362. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
363. Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)
364. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)
365. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
366. Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
367. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
368. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980)
369. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
370. Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
371. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003)
372. Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992)
373. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
374. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
375. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994)
376. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
377. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
378. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
379. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
380. Children of Men (Alfondo Cuarón, 2006)
381. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1975)
382. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
383. Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
384. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
385. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
386. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
387. Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
388. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)
389. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
390. 2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, 2007)
391. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
392. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
393. Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
394. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
395. Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
396. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
397. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
398. Killer of Sheep (Charless Burnett, 1977)
399. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
400. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
401. Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
402. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)
403. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
404. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
405. Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
406. Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)
407. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967)
408. Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
409. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)
410. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
411. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
412. Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989)
413. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
414. The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
415. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
416. Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987)
417. Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke, 2005)
418. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005)
419. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
420. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)
421. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987)
422. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
423. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
424. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
425. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
426. Enduring Love (Roger Michell, 2004)
427. Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei, 1948)
428. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
429. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
430. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
431. Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)
432. X-Men 2 (Bryan Singer, 2003)
433. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
434. The Cat Concerto (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, 1947)
435. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
436. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1991)
437. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
438. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
439. Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage, 1997)
440. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
441. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
442. Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
443. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
444. Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
445. Dumb and Dumber (Peter and Bobby Farrelly, 1994)
446. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
447. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
448. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
449. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999)
450. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
451. Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
452. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
453. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
454. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)
455. Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986)
456. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
457. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
458. Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
459. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
460. Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
461. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
462. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
463. Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
464. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, 1954)
465. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
466. Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
467. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
468. The Crow (Alex Proyas, 1994)
469. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
470. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)
471. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón, 2004)
472. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)
473. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
474. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
475. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
476. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
477. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
478. Flesh (Paul Morrissey, 1968)
479. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947)
480. The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
481. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
482. Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
483. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
484. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
485. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
486. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
487. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
488. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
489. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
490. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007)
491. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
492. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
493. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
494. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
495. Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957)
496. Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006)
497. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
498. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
499. Saw (James Wan, 2004)
500. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001)
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In 2005, as part of the AFI 100 Years… series, The American Film Institute unveiled its 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. Casablanca features a staggering six times on the list. Sunset Boulevard appears twice in the top 25. Buy – Afi’s 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes (DVD)
1
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Gone with the Wind
1939
2
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
The Godfather
1972
3
“You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
On the Waterfront
1954
4
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
The Wizard of Oz
1939
5
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
Casablanca
1942
6
“Go ahead, make my day.”
Sudden Impact
1983
7
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
Sunset Boulevard
1950
8
“May the Force be with you.”
Star Wars
1977
9
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
All About Eve
1950
10
“You talkin’ to me?”
Taxi Driver
1976
11
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
Cool Hand Luke
1967
12
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Apocalypse Now
1979
13
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
Love Story
1970
14
“The stuff that dreams are made of.”
The Maltese Falcon
1941
15
“E.T. phone home.”
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
16
“They call me Mister Tibbs!”
In the Heat of the Night
1967
17
“Rosebud.”
Citizen Kane
1941
18
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”
White Heat
1949
19
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
Network
1976
20
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Casablanca
1942
21
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
22
“Bond. James Bond.”
Dr. No
1962
23
“There’s no place like home.”
The Wizard of Oz
1939
24
“I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.”
Sunset Boulevard
1950
25
“Show me the money!”
Jerry Maguire
1996
26
“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”
She Done Him Wrong
1933
27
“I’m walking here! I’m walking here!”
Midnight Cowboy
1969
28
“Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.'”
Casablanca
1942
29
“You can’t handle the truth!”
A Few Good Men
1992
30
“I want to be alone.”
Grand Hotel
1932
31
“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
Gone with the Wind
1939
32
“Round up the usual suspects.”
Casablanca
1942
33
“I’ll have what she’s having.”
When Harry Met Sally…
1989
34
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
To Have and Have Not
1944
35
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Jaws
1975
36
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
37
“I’ll be back.”
The Terminator
1984
38
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
39
“If you build it, he will come.”
Field of Dreams
1989
40
“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Forrest Gump
1994
41
“We rob banks.”
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
42
“Plastics.”
The Graduate
1967
43
“We’ll always have Paris.”
Casablanca
1942
44
“I see dead people.”
The Sixth Sense
1999
45
“Stella! Hey, Stella!”
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
46
“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
Now, Voyager
1942
47
“Shane. Shane. Come back!”
Shane
1953
48
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Some Like It Hot
1959
49
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
Frankenstein
1931
50
“Houston, we have a problem.”
Apollo 13
1995
51
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
Dirty Harry
1971
52
“You had me at ‘hello.'”
Jerry Maguire
1996
53
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.”
Animal Crackers
1930
54
“There’s no crying in baseball!”
A League of Their Own
1992
55
“La-dee-da, la-dee-da.”
Annie Hall
1977
56
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
Psycho
1960
57
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Wall Street
1987
58
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
The Godfather Part II
1974
59
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
Gone with the Wind
1939
60
“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
Sons of the Desert
1933
61
“Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!”
Scarface
1983
62
“What a dump.”
Beyond the Forest
1949
63
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”
The Graduate
1967
64
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
65
“Elementary, my dear Watson.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
66
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.”
Planet of the Apes
1968
67
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Casablanca
1942
68
“Here’s Johnny!”
The Shining
1980
69
“They’re here!”
Poltergeist
1982
70
“Is it safe?”
Marathon Man
1976
71
“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
The Jazz Singer
1927
72
“No wire hangers, ever!”
Mommie Dearest
1981
73
“Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
Little Caesar
1931
74
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Chinatown
1974
75
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
76
“Hasta la vista, baby.”
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
77
“Soylent Green is people!”
Soylent Green
1973
78
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
79
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.”
Rumack: “I am serious … and don’t call me Shirley.”
Airplane!
1980
80
“Yo, Adrian!”
Rocky
1976
81
“Hello, gorgeous.”
Funny Girl
1968
82
“Toga! Toga!”
National Lampoon’s Animal House
1978
83
“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
Dracula
1931
84
“Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”
King Kong
1933
85
“My precious.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
86
“Attica! Attica!”
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
87
“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!”
42nd Street
1933
88
“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!”
On Golden Pond
1981
89
“Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”
Knute Rockne, All American
1940
90
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”
Goldfinger
1964
91
“Who’s on first?”
The Naughty Nineties
1945
92
“Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!”
Caddyshack
1980
93
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
Auntie Mame
1958
94
“I feel the need—the need for speed!”
Top Gun
1986
95
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
Dead Poets Society
1989
96
“Snap out of it!”
Moonstruck
1987
97
“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
98
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
Dirty Dancing
1987
99
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
The Wizard of Oz
1939
100
“I’m the King of the World!”
Titanic
1997
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In June 1999 the AFI unveiled their 100 Years… series, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list of the top 50 male and 50 female greatest screen legends in American film history. The 100 stars are made up of 25 male legends, 25 female legends with 50 current actors making the presentations (listed below the table). Buy – AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Stars: American Film Institute (CBS Television Special) (DVD)
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In 2008 AFI’s 10 Top 10 honoured the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres from 500 nominated films. Some of the films could make more than one category, for example Fields of Dreams is listed in fantasy rather than sport, although I would except that baseball is more of a backdrop to the supernatural elements. Unsurprisingly, Disney dominates the animation category with only Shrek the exception. Buy – American Film Institute Presents : 10 Top 10 / AFI’s 100 years , 100 movies (DVD)
Animation
AFI defines “animated” as a genre in which the film’s images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
#
Film
Year
1
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
2
Pinocchio
1940
3
Bambi
1942
4
The Lion King
1994
5
Fantasia
1940
6
Toy Story
1995
7
Beauty and the Beast
1991
8
Shrek
2001
9
Cinderella
1950
10
Finding Nemo
2003
Fantasy
AFI defines “fantasy” as a genre in which live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world.
#
Film
Year
1
The Wizard of Oz
1939
2
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
3
It’s a Wonderful Life
1946
4
King Kong
1933
5
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
6
Field of Dreams
1989
7
Harvey
1950
8
Groundhog Day
1993
9
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
10
Big
1988
Gangster
AFI defines the “Gangster film” as a genre that centres on organised crime or maverick criminals in a 20th-century setting.
#
Film
Year
1
The Godfather
1972
2
Goodfellas
1990
3
The Godfather Part II
1974
4
White Heat
1949
5
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
6
Scarface
1932
7
Pulp Fiction
1994
8
The Public Enemy
1931
9
Little Caesar
1931
10
Scarface
1983
Science fiction
AFI defines “science fiction” as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.
#
Film
Year
1
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
2
Star Wars
1977
3
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
4
A Clockwork Orange
1971
5
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
6
Blade Runner
1982
7
Alien
1979
8
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
9
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956
10
Back to the Future
1985
Western
AFI defines “western” as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier.
#
Film
Year
1
The Searchers
1956
2
High Noon
1952
3
Shane
1953
4
Unforgiven
1992
5
Red River
1948
6
The Wild Bunch
1969
7
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
8
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
9
Stagecoach
1939
10
Cat Ballou
1965
Sports
AFI defines “sports” as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.
#
Film
Year
1
Raging Bull
1980
2
Rocky
1976
3
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
4
Hoosiers
1986
5
Bull Durham
1988
6
The Hustler
1961
7
Caddyshack
1980
8
Breaking Away
1979
9
National Velvet
1944
10
Jerry Maguire
1996
Mystery
AFI defines “mystery” as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.
#
Film
Year
1
Vertigo
1958
2
Chinatown
1974
3
Rear Window
1954
4
Laura
1944
5
The Third Man
1949
6
The Maltese Falcon
1941
7
North by Northwest
1959
8
Blue Velvet
1986
9
Dial M for Murder
1954
10
The Usual Suspects
1995
Romantic comedy
AFI defines “romantic comedy” as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.
#
Film
Year
1
City Lights
1931
2
Annie Hall
1977
3
It Happened One Night
1934
4
Roman Holiday
1953
5
The Philadelphia Story
1940
6
When Harry Met Sally…
1989
7
Adam’s Rib
1949
8
Moonstruck
1987
9
Harold and Maude
1971
10
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
Courtroom drama
AFI defines “courtroom drama” as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film’s narrative.
#
Film
Year
1
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
2
12 Angry Men
1957
3
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
4
The Verdict
1982
5
A Few Good Men
1992
6
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
7
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
8
In Cold Blood
1967
9
A Cry in the Dark
1988
10
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Epic
AFI defines “epic” as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past.
Channel 4’s 2001 poll attracted more than 20,000 votes from viewers, who were asked to choose their top 10 films from a shortlist of 100, drawn up by industry experts and filmmakers. The results were shown in a countdown show presented by Irish comedian Graham Norton. Unsurprisingly it’s the first two Star Wars films that top the list.
1. Star Wars: A New Hope/Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Godfather/The Godfather (Part II)
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Some Like It Hot
6. Gladiator
7. It’s A Wonderful Life
8. Blade Runner
9. Schindler’s List
10. Goodfellas
11. Jaws
12. Psycho
13. Apocalypse Now
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
15. The Matrix
16. Casablanca
17. The Usual Suspects
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
19. Citizen Kane
20. Raging Bull
21. E.T,The Extra-Terrestrial
22. Taxi Driver
23. The Life of Brian
24. Singin’ in the Rain
25. LA Confidential
26. The Wizard of Oz
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey
28. Kes
29. Vertigo
30. Lawrence of Arabia
31. Fargo
32. Gone with the Wind
33. Trainspotting
34. The Full Monty
35. The Graduate
36. Alien
37. The Silence of the Lambs
38. Withnail and I
39. The Great Escape
40. Toy Story
41. The Third Man
42. Four Weddings and a Funeral
43. The Sound of Music
44. Fitzcaraldo
45. Deliverance
46. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
47. Kind Hearts and Coronets
48. Chinatown
49. The Exorcist
50. Annie Hall
51. The Italian Job
52. Sunset Boulevard
53. The Jungle Book
54. Titanic
55. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
56. Dr Strangelove
57. Rebel Without a Cause
58. Seven Samurai
59. A Matter of Life and Death
60. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
61. Secrets and Lies
62. Blue Velvet
63. La Dolce Vita
64. Spartacus
65. Metropolis
66. Bonnie and Clyde
67. King Kong
68. Get Carter
69. The Searchers
70. The Seventh Seal
71. Don’t Look Now
72. Brief Encounter
73. M*A*S*H
74. The French Connection
75. Top Hat
76. The Producers
77. Three Colours Trilogy
78. Cabaret
79. Goldfinger
80. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
81. The Gold Rush
82. High Noon
83. Saturday Night Fever
84. The Adventures of Robin Hood
85. Enter the Dragon
86. Breathless
87. Ice Cold in Alex
88. Battleship Potemkin
89. African Queen
90. The General
91. A Hard Day’s Night
92. Way Out West
93. Henry V
94. Easy Rider
95. My Beautiful Launderette
96. Belle de Jour
97. The Bride of Frankenstein
98. Terminator
99. Saturday Night Sunday Morning
100. Do The Right Thing
MovieMaker is an American magazine focused on the art and business of making movies with a special emphasis on independent film. In 2002 the Magazine came up with a list of the Top 25 Film Directors of all-time. moviemaker.com
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. D. W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Ingmar Bergman
14. John Cassavetes
15. Billy Wilder
16. Jean Renoir
17. Francis Ford Coppola
18. Howard Hawks
19. Francois Truffaut
20. Buster Keaton
21. Fritz Lang
22. John Huston
23. Woody Allen
24. Luis Bunuel
25. Ernst Lubitsch
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A list Compiled by Bill Mousoulis in 2003. Mousoulis is an award-winning Greek-Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.
1. Roberto Rossellini
2. Robert Bresson
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Frank Borzage
5. Chantal Akerman
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini
7. Jean Renoir
8. Michelangelo Antonioni
9. Yasujiro Ozu
10. Wong Kar-wai
11. Eric Rohmer
12. John Cassavetes
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Carl Theodor Dreyer
15. Frank Capra
16. Abbas Kiarostami
17. Jean Eustache
18. Claude Chabrol
19. Theo Angelopoulos
20. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
21. Jacques Rivette
22. Orson Welles
23. John Ford
24. Alfred Hitchcock
25. Jacques Demy
26. Alan Clarke
27. Andrei Tarkovsky
28. Ingmar Bergman
29. Michael Haneke
30. Jacques Tati
31. Max Ophüls
32. Mike Leigh
33. Ken Loach
34. Martin Scorsese
35. Jean-Marie Straub
36. Charles Chaplin
37. Philippe Garrel
38. R. W. Fassbinder
39. Tony Gatlif
40. Jerry Lewis
41. Chris Marker
42. Jon Jost
43. F. W. Murnau .
44. Ermanno Olmi
45. Kenji Mizoguchi
46. Vittorio De Sica
47. Jean Vigo
48. Agnes Varda.
49. D. W. Griffith
50. Wim Wenders
Total Film, is a film magazine in the United Kingdom. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. In 2007 the magazine came up with their list for the 100 Greatest Directors ever. Some will dislike Spielberg being placed as high as 3 and I wasn’t expecting to see Howard Hawks above the likes of Welles, Coppola, Bergman and Kurosawa. Kubrick is surprisingly only placed 8th!
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Howard Hawks
5. Francis Ford Coppola
6. Orson Welles
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Peter Jackson
10. David Fincher
11. Akira Kurosawa
12. Quentin Tarantino
13. Billy Wilder
14. John Ford
15. Steven Soderbergh
16. Michael Powell
17. David Cronenberg
18. Coen Brothers
19. Woody Allen
20. Paul Thomas Anderson
21. Clint Eastwood
22. David Lynch
23. Jean Renoir
24. Tim Burton
25. Hayao Miyazaki
26. Robert Altman
27. Sam Peckinpah
28. Michael Mann
29. Jean Pierre Melville
30. Luis Bunuel
31. Terence Malick
32. Christopher Nolan
33. Yasujiro Ozu
34. Carol Reed
35. Rob Reiner
36. Roman Polanski
37. Sergio Leone
38. James Cameron
39. Ridley Scott
40. David Lean
41. Ang Lee
42. Frank Capra
43. Preston Sturges
44. Francois Traffaut
45. Werner Herzog
46. Alexander Payne
47. Kryzsztof Kieslowski
48. Fritz Lang
49. Mike Leigh
50. Sam Fuller
51. Robert Wise
52. Michael Haneke
53. Don Siegel
54. Brian DePalma
55. John Huston
56. Nicholas Ray
57. Spike Lee
58. Hal Ashby
59. Jean-Luc Godard
60. John Cassavetes
61. Sam Raimi
62. Robert Bresson
63. John Carpenter
64. Richard Linklater
65. Bryan Singer
66. Ken Loach
67. Federico Fellini
68. Pedro Almodovar
69. Alexander Mackendrick
70. Michael Curtiz
71. John Sayles
72. Sergei Eisenstein
73. Nicolas Roeg
74. Tony Scott
75. Milos Forman
76. Kenji Mizoguchi
77. William Friedkin
78. Oliver Stone
79. George A. Romero
80. Satyajit Ray
81. Cameron Crowe
82. James Whale
83. Wes Anderson
84. Carl Dreyer
85. John Woo
86. Lars Von Trier
87. Gus Van Sant
88. Buster Keaton
89. Peter Weir
90. Curtis Hanson
91. D. W. Griffith
92. Paul Verhoeven
93. Alan J Pakula
94. Wong Kar-Wai
95. George Lucas
96. M Night Shyamalan
97. Baz Luhrmann
98. John Sturges
99. Sofia Coppola
100. Abel Ferrara
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. EW compiled this list of best directors in 1996. Kubrick doesn’t even make the top 20 while Hitchcock once again tops a best directors list. Buy – Entertainment Weekly Magazine (The 50 Greatest Directors & Their 100 Best Movies, April 19 , 1996)
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. John Ford
4. Howard Hawkes
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Buster Keaton
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Frank Capra
10. Federico Fellini
11. Steven Spielberg
12. Jean Renoir
13. John Huston
14. Luis Bunuel
15. D. W. Griffith
16. Ernst Lubitsch
17. Robert Altman
18. George Cukor
19. Woody Allen
20. Vincente Minnelli
21. Francis Ford Coppola
22. Michael Powell
23. Stanley Kubrick
24. Billy Wilder
25. Satyajit Ray
26. Roman Polanski
27. Francois Truffaut
28. Preston Sturges
29. Sergei Eisenstein
30. Fritz Lang
31. Jean-Luc Godard
32. Sam Peckinpah
33. F. W. Murnau
34. David Lean
35. Werner Herzog
36. Nicholas Ray
37. Josef Von Sternberg
38. Douglas Sirk
39. Max Ophuls
40. Louis Malle
41. Sergio Leone
42. Sidney Lumet
43. Oliver Stone
44. Bernardo Bertolucci
45. Jonathan Demme
46. Jacques Tati
47. Otto Preminger
48. Spike Lee
49. Tim Burton
50. Jerry Lewis
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Another readers poll from Empire Magazine for the Greatest films of all time unveiled in 1999. Titanic remarkably makes the top 10 although this was only 2 years after its release. There’s even a top 20 place for The Sound of Music!
In 2005, as part of the AFI 100 Years… series, The American Film Institute unveiled its 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. Casablanca features a staggering six times on the list. Sunset Boulevard appears twice in the top 25. Buy – Afi’s 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes
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In June 1999 the AFI unveiled their 100 Years… series, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list of the top 50 male and 50 female greatest screen legends in American film history. The 100 stars are made up of 25 male legends, 25 female legends with 50 current actors making the presentations (listed below the table). Buy – AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Stars: American Film Institute (CBS Television Special)
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In 2008 AFI’s 10 Top 10 honoured the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres from 500 nominated films. Some of the films could make more than one category, for example Fields of Dreams is listed in fantasy rather than sport, although I would except that baseball is more of a backdrop to the supernatural elements. Unsurprisingly, Disney dominates the animation category with only Shrek the exception. Buy – American Film Institute Presents : 10 Top 10 / AFI’s 100 years , 100 movies
Channel 4’s 2001 poll attracted more than 20,000 votes from viewers, who were asked to choose their top 10 films from a shortlist of 100, drawn up by industry experts and filmmakers. The results were shown in a countdown show presented by Irish comedian Graham Norton. Unsurprisingly it’s the first two Star Wars films that top the list.
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MovieMaker is an American magazine focused on the art and business of making movies with a special emphasis on independent film. In 2002 the Magazine came up with a list of the Top 25 Film Directors of all-time. 
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A list Compiled by Bill Mousoulis in 2003. Mousoulis is an award-winning Greek-Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.
Total Film, is a film magazine in the United Kingdom. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. In 2007 the magazine came up with their list for the 100 Greatest Directors ever. Some will dislike Spielberg being placed as high as 3 and I wasn’t expecting to see Howard Hawks above the likes of Welles, Coppola, Bergman and Kurosawa. Kubrick is surprisingly only placed 8th!
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