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The 1,000
Greatest Films
The Top 100 (1-25) |
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• The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
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The Top 100 Films
• The Top 100 Directors
• Full List by Ranking
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Full List by Director
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The Top 100
Films:
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1-25
• 26-50
• 51-75
• 76-100 |
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• Here is the
supposed cream of the crop. Based on our calculations, these are the 100
most critically acclaimed films of all-time. If you've only seen a
handful of these, then you better get cracking! Or then again, please
yourself. |
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• Alongside each director's name is the
position each film held prior to our December 2007 update. For each film, we've also
included a list of 5 well-known critics and/or filmmakers that have
included it in their best-film-of-all-time lists. |
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• Follow the above links to view the full list of 1,000 films either by ranking, title, by director, by
year or by country. |
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The directors with more
than one film in the Top 100 are:
Ingmar
Bergman (4 films),
Robert Bresson
(2), Luis Buñuel
(2), Charles Chaplin (3),
Francis Ford Coppola (3),
Carl Dreyer (3),
Federico Fellini (4),
Victor Fleming (2),
John Ford (3),
Jean-Luc Godard (3),
D.W. Griffith (2)
Howard Hawks (3),
Alfred Hitchcock (5),
Buster Keaton (2),
Stanley Kubrick (4),
Akira Kurosawa (3),
Fritz Lang (2),
Kenji Mizoguchi (2),
F.W. Murnau (2),
Max Ophüls (2),
Jean Renoir (2),
Martin Scorsese
(2), Andrei Tarkovsky (2),
François Truffaut (2),
Orson Welles (3) and
Billy Wilder (4).
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• The years represented by
the most films in the Top 100 are 1954 (5 films) and 1959 (6). The
decade split is as follows: 1910's (2), 1920's (10), 1930's (10), 1940's
(13), 1950's (28), 1960's (23), 1970's (11), and the 1980's (3). |
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Vertigo |
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ALFRED
HITCHCOCK (3) |
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1958
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"Of all
Hitchcock's films the one nearest to perfection. Indeed, its profundity
is inseparable from the perfection of form: it is a perfect organism,
each character, each sequence, each image, illuminating each other."
- Robin Wood, Hitchcock's Film's Revisited, 1989 |
| Selected by
Andrew Sarris, Robin Buss, Amy Taubin, Stig
Bjorkman,
Catherine Breillat. |
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Images Journal
Bright Lights Film Journal |
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The Rules
of the Game |
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JEAN
RENOIR (2) |
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| 1939
| 113m | BW | France | Comedy
Drama, Comedy of Manners |
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brilliantly Renoir focuses the confusion! The rather fusty luxury of the
chateau, the constant mindless slaughter of wild animals, the minuets of
adultery and seduction, the gavottes of mutual hatred or
mistrust..." - Basil Wright, 1972 |
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Carrie Rickey,
Carlos Diegues,
David Robinson,
Yvonne Rainer,
Thomas Elsaesser. |
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The Criterion Collection
The A.V. Club |
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2001:
A Space Odyssey |
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STANLEY
KUBRICK
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1968
| 139m | Col | UK | Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi |
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"A parable of
a future toward which metaphysical dread and mordant amusement trip side
by side...I have never seen the death of the mind rendered more
profoundly or poetically...." - Andrew Sarris |
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Selected by Bennett Miller,
Tony Scott, Chris Hegedus, Michel
Chion,
Alex Cox. |
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kubrick2001.com
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Lawrence
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DAVID
LEAN (13) |
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1962
| 216m | Col | UK | Epic, British Empire Film |
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"Here is an
epic with intellect behind it, an unforgettable display of action staged
with artistry. A momentous story told with moral force...A revolutionary
film in possessing an epic hero whom it doesn't hero-worship."
- Alexander Walker, Evening Standard |
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Selected by
Ridley Scott,
Martin Campbell, John Walker, Andrew Stanton,
Roger Michell. |
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Screen Online
Washington Post |
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The
Godfather Part II |
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FRANCIS
FORD COPPOLA (18) |
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1974
| 200m | Col | USA | Gangster Film, Crime Drama |
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"The
daring of Part II is that it enlarges the scope and deepens the meaning
of the first film...It's an epic vision of the corruption of America."
- Pauline Kael, New Yorker |
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Selected by
Carrie Rickey, Alan Parker, Jonathan
Glazer, Ann Hui, David Siegel. |
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Pop Matters |
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Casablanca |
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MICHAEL CURTIZ
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1942 | 102m | BW | USA |
Drama, War Romance |
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"The director's
one enduring masterpiece is, of course, Casablanca, the happiest
of happy accidents, and the most decisive exception to the auteur
theory."
- Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema, 1968 |
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Michel Chion, Richard Lester,
Sydney Pollack,
George A. Romero,
Norman Jewison. |
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Roger Ebert's Great Movies
The A.V. Club |
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Notes on 1-25
| • CITIZEN KANE
remains clearly the most acclaimed film of all-time. Only
Sight & Sound's forthcoming 2012 poll would seemingly
have any chance of altering that, and we know how that story
normally goes. |
| • VERTIGO
regains the number 2 spot after relinquishing it in last year's
update. |
| • The only
change in the Top 10 sees SUNRISE replace SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
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| • CASABLANCA
is the biggest riser, moving from 25 to 20. |
| • RASHOMON
takes the largest tumble from 15 to 19. |
• To 26-50 |
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• The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
•
The Top 100 Films
• The Top 100 Directors
• Full List by Ranking
• Full
List by Title
•
Full List by Director
• Full
List by Year
•
Full List by Country
• Alternative Titles |
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The Top 100
Films:
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1-25
• 26-50
• 51-75
• 76-100 |
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