At least there is still no pandering (Star Wars...)
Here’s mine;
The Quiet Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Searchers
Footlight Parade
Casablanca
Midway
Young Frankenstein
The King’s Speech (a drama worth theatre money)
Jaws
Airplane
in no particular order, but Quiet Man is probably the best.
Greatest cult movies;
The Boondock Saints
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
anything with a blind samurai in black and white
best foreign
Gojira
Slumdog Millionaire
Ran
The Road Warrior
Guilty pleasures
Battle beyond the Stars
Once upon a time in the West
Wedding Crashers
Caddyshack is so awesome it doesn’t even fit.
I go to be entertained.
I watch to be entertained.
I find it real interesting that the critic’s list include no films made after 1970 and the directors list include no films made after 1980.
That alone says volumes about the film industry.
There is a difference between greatest “movies” and the greatest “films”.
Blazing Saddles
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
All Movies on MST 3000
Rear Window
Dr. Strangelove
Modern Times
Citizen Kane
Monkey Business
Mean Streets
The Party
The General
Animal House
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
I don’t get Taxi Driver or even 2001 on these lists. And I’m not even a big fan of Mean Streets or Citizen Kane but at least recognize the impact on other movie making.
Can’t believe Jabberwocky didn’t make it.
Can’t believe Jabberwocky didn’t make it.
2001 Space Odyssey is a snore-fest with a cool soundtrack.
“Manos: The Hands Of Fate”
Best film ever.
That is 10.
I’m very disappointed that my “Rockin’ the Wall” did not make the top ten. (www.rockinthewallstudios.com)
However, it will premiere on PBS on Nov. 9!
Vertigo is such an incredibly spectacular film! Definitely the best film by the best director of all time.
I never even heard of most of the others. Maybe I’ll have to broaden my horizons and check some of them out.
I’ve seen the Joan of Arc movie and I guess it has lost something over the years. Other silent movies have held up much better, such as Seven Chances by Buster Keaton.
The best movie ever made is “The Lives of Others”, I actually had a form of out of body experience watching it.
Some I would consider:
Hugo
Brest Fortress (Russian war movie, IMHO the best war movie I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something)
Europa, Europa
Goodbye, Lenin
One, Two, Three (Greatest single comedic performance in a movie, by James Cagney)
Doctor Zhivago
the greatest films I like best:
Doc Hollywood (with Michael Fox, great scenery, characters delightful)
Princess Mononoke,Kiki’s Delivery Service
Hal’s Moving Castle (or anything by Hayao Miyazaki)
Ben Hur (Miklos Rozsas’s score makes this)
Lawrence of Arabia( epic sweep, great music)
Doctor Zhivago (Both versions are worth watching)
Tombstone (Val Kilmer: “I got two guns, one for each of you”)
Ride With the Devil (Ang Lee directed this believe it or not)
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jim Carey in the ‘straight man’ role for once)
Fight Club (Brad Pitt is a great actor)
Burn After Reading (Brad Pitt is a great comedic actor)
Brother Were Art Though (the music alone is enough)
Last of the Mohicans (came out the same time as Unforgiven, epic scope and grand cinematography, but more cohesive)
A Little Princess ( Alfonso Cuarón Orozco director, 1995, something about the texture of this movie)
The Village (& anything else by M. Night Shyamalan, a very spooky story)
A John Wayne western in the critic’s top ten.
Those of us who are old enough remember when Wayne was always panned and mocked as an actor, but now that he is dead and not speaking out on politics, the truth is coming out.
They should have said Greatest Pop Films.
Otherwise, they need to define “greatness” by direction, cinematography, acting, screenplay, and music. Or all of the above.
Let’s run down the list.
Vertigo...a good movie that developed a cachet of forbidden fruit along with 3 other Hitchcock movies because it was unavailable to be seen for decades. That period is now over and it is readily viewable today.
Citizen Kane...another good movie but I like Touch of Evil by Welles better.
Tokyo Story...Have not seen it but have read about it. Its about aged parents from the country visiting their children in the city
La Regle du jeu. Maybe I was not the most receptive but I could barely keep awake watching it.
Sunrise Worth watching. Probably deserves a place maybe not in the top 10 but somewhere near it.
2001 Stunning visually but incomprehensible for someone viewing it cold without knowing the background or source story. That is a major flaw.
The Searchers. Another good movie but again Ford and Wayne have done better.
Man with a Movie camera.... also haven’t seen it or know anything about it.
Passion of Joan of Arc...another silent way up there in the pantheon....worth watching....top 10? Hard to say. Amazing performance by the lady who plays Joan.
8 1/2 Good Fellini movie that equates life as a carnival or movie set. Not my favourite Fellini....that would be Nights of Cabiria.