The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1952
Critics' Poll
1. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
4. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5. Intolerance (Griffith)
5. Louisiana Story (Flaherty)
7. Greed (von Stroheim)
7. Le Jour se lève (Carné)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
10. Brief Encounter (Lean)
10. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1962
Critics' Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. L'avventura (Antonioni)
3. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
4. Greed (von Stroheim)
4. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
7. Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
9. La terra trema (Visconti)
10. L'Atalante (Vigo)
The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1972
Critics' Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
4. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
5. L'avventura (Antonioni)
5. Persona (Bergman)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
8. The General (Keaton)
8. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
10. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
10. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1982
Critics' Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
3. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen)
5. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
7. L'avventura (Antonioni)
7. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
7. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
10. The General (Keaton)
10. The Searchers (Ford)
The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1992
Critics' Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
5. The Searchers (Ford)
6. L'Atalante (Vigo)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
6. Pather Panchali (Ray)
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
It seems that Renoir's Rules of the Game and Welles's Citizen Kane are the most consistent amongst critics.
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Sight and Sound top 10 as chosen by directors.
Directors' Top Ten Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
Dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, Citizen Kane reinvented the way stories could be told in the cinema, and set a standard generations of film-makers have since aspired to. An absorbing account of a newspaper tycoon's rise to power, Orson Welles' debut film feels as fresh as tomorrow's headlines. And he was only 26 when he made it.
2. The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola)
Few films have portrayed the US immigrant experience quite so vividly as Coppola's Godfather films, or exposed the contradictions of the American Dream quite so ruthlessly. And what a cast, formidable talent firing all cylinders: Brando, De Niro, Pacino, Keaton, Duvall, Caan. Now that's an offer you can't refuse.
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
Wonderfully freefloating, gleefully confusing reality and fantasy, 8 1/2 provides a ringside seat into the ever active imaginative life of its director protagonist Guido, played by Fellini's on-screen alter-ego Marcello Mastroianni. The definitive film about film-making - as much about the agonies of the creative process as the ecstasies - it's no wonder the movie is so popular with directors.
4. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Filmed in the desert in lavish widescreen and rich colours, Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean at his most epic and expansive. You can almost feel the waves of heat glowing from the cinema screen
5. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
A black comedy about impending nuclear annihilation that was made at the height of the cold war, Dr. Strangelove is perhaps Kubrick's most audacious movie and certainly his funniest. Peter Sellers has never been better, and provides good value playing three roles.
6. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Mixing melodrama, documentary and social commentary, De Sica follows an impoverished father and son treading the streets of post-war Rome, desperately seeking their stolen bicycle. Deeply compassionate, this poignant film is one of the outstanding examples of Italian neorealism.
6. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
An unblinkingly honest biopic of Jake La Motta - a great prizefighter but a deeply flawed human being - this catches Scorsese in fighting fit form. The boxing sequence are both brutal and beautiful, and De Niro, who famously put on weight to play the middle-aged La Motta, gives one of the performances of modern cinema.
6. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
A gripping detective story or a delirious investigation into desire, grief and jealousy? Hitchcock had a genius for transforming genre pieces into vehicles for his own dark obsessions, and this 1958 masterpiece shows the director at his mesmerising best. And for James Stewart fans, it also boasts the star's most compelling performance.
9. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Offering four differing accounts of a rape and murder, all told in flashbacks, Kurosawa's 1951 film is a complex meditation on the distortive nature of memory and a gripping study of human behaviour at its most base. Mifune Toshiro is magnetic as the bandit Tajomaru.
9. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
Tragedy and comedy effortlessly combine in Renoir's country house ensemble drama. A group of aristocrats gather for some rural relaxation, a shooting party is arranged, downstairs the servants bicker about a new employee, while all the time husbands, wives, mistresses and lovers sweetly deceive one another and swap declarations of love like name cards at a dinner party.
9. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The blueprint for The Magnificent Seven was Kurosawa's magnificent swordplay epic of self-sacrifice about a band of hired samurai who come together to protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of 40 thieves who descend every year to steal the harvest and kidnap women. The final sequence of the fight in the mud and rain has never been bettered.
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
Dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, Citizen Kane reinvented the way stories could be told in the cinema, and set a standard generations of film-makers have since aspired to. An absorbing account of a newspaper tycoon's rise to power, Orson Welles' debut film feels as fresh as tomorrow's headlines. And he was only 26 when he made it.
2. The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola)
Few films have portrayed the US immigrant experience quite so vividly as Coppola's Godfather films, or exposed the contradictions of the American Dream quite so ruthlessly. And what a cast, formidable talent firing all cylinders: Brando, De Niro, Pacino, Keaton, Duvall, Caan. Now that's an offer you can't refuse.
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
Wonderfully freefloating, gleefully confusing reality and fantasy, 8 1/2 provides a ringside seat into the ever active imaginative life of its director protagonist Guido, played by Fellini's on-screen alter-ego Marcello Mastroianni. The definitive film about film-making - as much about the agonies of the creative process as the ecstasies - it's no wonder the movie is so popular with directors.
4. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Filmed in the desert in lavish widescreen and rich colours, Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean at his most epic and expansive. You can almost feel the waves of heat glowing from the cinema screen
5. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
A black comedy about impending nuclear annihilation that was made at the height of the cold war, Dr. Strangelove is perhaps Kubrick's most audacious movie and certainly his funniest. Peter Sellers has never been better, and provides good value playing three roles.
6. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Mixing melodrama, documentary and social commentary, De Sica follows an impoverished father and son treading the streets of post-war Rome, desperately seeking their stolen bicycle. Deeply compassionate, this poignant film is one of the outstanding examples of Italian neorealism.
6. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
An unblinkingly honest biopic of Jake La Motta - a great prizefighter but a deeply flawed human being - this catches Scorsese in fighting fit form. The boxing sequence are both brutal and beautiful, and De Niro, who famously put on weight to play the middle-aged La Motta, gives one of the performances of modern cinema.
6. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
A gripping detective story or a delirious investigation into desire, grief and jealousy? Hitchcock had a genius for transforming genre pieces into vehicles for his own dark obsessions, and this 1958 masterpiece shows the director at his mesmerising best. And for James Stewart fans, it also boasts the star's most compelling performance.
9. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Offering four differing accounts of a rape and murder, all told in flashbacks, Kurosawa's 1951 film is a complex meditation on the distortive nature of memory and a gripping study of human behaviour at its most base. Mifune Toshiro is magnetic as the bandit Tajomaru.
9. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
Tragedy and comedy effortlessly combine in Renoir's country house ensemble drama. A group of aristocrats gather for some rural relaxation, a shooting party is arranged, downstairs the servants bicker about a new employee, while all the time husbands, wives, mistresses and lovers sweetly deceive one another and swap declarations of love like name cards at a dinner party.
9. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The blueprint for The Magnificent Seven was Kurosawa's magnificent swordplay epic of self-sacrifice about a band of hired samurai who come together to protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of 40 thieves who descend every year to steal the harvest and kidnap women. The final sequence of the fight in the mud and rain has never been bettered.
Sight and Sound - top 10 based on critics (2002 - done every 10 years)
Critics' Top Ten Poll
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
Dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, Citizen Kane reinvented the way stories could be told in the cinema, and set a standard generations of film-makers have since aspired to. An absorbing account of a newspaper tycoon's rise to power, Orson Welles' debut film feels as fresh as tomorrow's headlines. And he was only 26 when he made it.
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
A gripping detective story or a delirious investigation into desire, grief and jealousy? Hitchcock had a genius for transforming genre pieces into vehicles for his own dark obsessions, and this 1958 masterpiece shows the director at his mesmerising best. And for James Stewart fans, it also boasts the star's most compelling performance.
3. La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game) (Renoir)
Tragedy and comedy effortlessly combine in Renoir's country house ensemble drama. A group of aristocrats gather for some rural relaxation, a shooting party is arranged, downstairs the servants bicker about a new employee, while all the time husbands, wives, mistresses and lovers sweetly deceive one another and swap declarations of love like name cards at a dinner party.
4. The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola)
Few films have portrayed the US immigrant experience quite so vividly as Coppola's Godfather films, or exposed the contradictions of the American Dream quite so ruthlessly. And what a cast, formidable talent firing all cylinders: Brando, De Niro, Pacino, Keaton, Duvall, Caan. Now that's an offer you can't refuse.
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
A poignant story of family relations and loss, Ozu's subtle mood piece portrays the trip an elderly couple make to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children. The shooting style is elegantly minimal and formally reticent, and the film's devastating emotional impact is drawn as much from what is unsaid and unshown as from what is revealed.
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
One of the most ambitious Hollywood movies ever made, 2001 crams into its two-hour plus running time a story that spans the prehistoric age to the beginning of the third millennium, and features some of the most hypnotically beautiful special effects work ever committed to film. After seeing this, you can never listen to Strauss' Blue Danube without thinking space crafts waltzing against starry backdrops.
7. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
Eisenstein's recreation of a mutiny by sailors of the battleship Potemkin in 1905 works as daring formal experiment - which pushed the expressive potential of film editing to its limit - and rousing propaganda for the masses. The Odessa Steps sequence remains one of the most memorable set-pieces in cinema.
7. Sunrise (Murnau)
Having left his native Germany for the US, F.W. Murnau had all the resources of a major Hollywood studio at his disposal for this, his American debut. What he produced was a visually stunning film romance that ranks as one of the last hurrahs of the silent period.
9. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
Wonderfully freefloating, gleefully confusing reality and fantasy, 8 1/2 provides a ringside seat into the ever active imaginative life of its director protagonist Guido, played by Fellini's on-screen alter-ego Marcello Mastroianni. The definitive film about film-making - as much about the agonies of the creative process as the ecstasies - it's no wonder the movie is so popular with directors.
10. Singin' In the Rain (Kelly, Donen)
Impossible to watch without a smile on your face, this affectionate tribute to the glory days of Hollywood in the 1920s is pleasure distilled into 102 minutes. With Gene Kelly dance sequences that take your breath away and a great score by Brown and Freed, this is the film musical at its best.
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
Dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, Citizen Kane reinvented the way stories could be told in the cinema, and set a standard generations of film-makers have since aspired to. An absorbing account of a newspaper tycoon's rise to power, Orson Welles' debut film feels as fresh as tomorrow's headlines. And he was only 26 when he made it.
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
A gripping detective story or a delirious investigation into desire, grief and jealousy? Hitchcock had a genius for transforming genre pieces into vehicles for his own dark obsessions, and this 1958 masterpiece shows the director at his mesmerising best. And for James Stewart fans, it also boasts the star's most compelling performance.
3. La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game) (Renoir)
Tragedy and comedy effortlessly combine in Renoir's country house ensemble drama. A group of aristocrats gather for some rural relaxation, a shooting party is arranged, downstairs the servants bicker about a new employee, while all the time husbands, wives, mistresses and lovers sweetly deceive one another and swap declarations of love like name cards at a dinner party.
4. The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola)
Few films have portrayed the US immigrant experience quite so vividly as Coppola's Godfather films, or exposed the contradictions of the American Dream quite so ruthlessly. And what a cast, formidable talent firing all cylinders: Brando, De Niro, Pacino, Keaton, Duvall, Caan. Now that's an offer you can't refuse.
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
A poignant story of family relations and loss, Ozu's subtle mood piece portrays the trip an elderly couple make to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children. The shooting style is elegantly minimal and formally reticent, and the film's devastating emotional impact is drawn as much from what is unsaid and unshown as from what is revealed.
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
One of the most ambitious Hollywood movies ever made, 2001 crams into its two-hour plus running time a story that spans the prehistoric age to the beginning of the third millennium, and features some of the most hypnotically beautiful special effects work ever committed to film. After seeing this, you can never listen to Strauss' Blue Danube without thinking space crafts waltzing against starry backdrops.
7. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
Eisenstein's recreation of a mutiny by sailors of the battleship Potemkin in 1905 works as daring formal experiment - which pushed the expressive potential of film editing to its limit - and rousing propaganda for the masses. The Odessa Steps sequence remains one of the most memorable set-pieces in cinema.
7. Sunrise (Murnau)
Having left his native Germany for the US, F.W. Murnau had all the resources of a major Hollywood studio at his disposal for this, his American debut. What he produced was a visually stunning film romance that ranks as one of the last hurrahs of the silent period.
9. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
Wonderfully freefloating, gleefully confusing reality and fantasy, 8 1/2 provides a ringside seat into the ever active imaginative life of its director protagonist Guido, played by Fellini's on-screen alter-ego Marcello Mastroianni. The definitive film about film-making - as much about the agonies of the creative process as the ecstasies - it's no wonder the movie is so popular with directors.
10. Singin' In the Rain (Kelly, Donen)
Impossible to watch without a smile on your face, this affectionate tribute to the glory days of Hollywood in the 1920s is pleasure distilled into 102 minutes. With Gene Kelly dance sequences that take your breath away and a great score by Brown and Freed, this is the film musical at its best.
Another Poll! The Imdb Poll... (numbers represent votes)
1. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 227,086
2. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 269,346
3. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 129,387
4. 8.8 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 69,609
5. 8.8 Pulp Fiction (1994) 231,389
6. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 158,087
7. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 168,540
8. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 105,123
9. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 116,215
10. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 58,021
11. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 207,903
12. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 206,927
13. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 68,016
14. 8.7 12 Angry Men (1957) 52,902
15. 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 144,270
16. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 244,856
17. 8.7 Cidade de Deus (2002) 72,915
18. 8.7 Goodfellas (1990) 123,179
19. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 163,826
20. 8.6 C'era una volta il West (1968) 35,898
21. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 99,449
22. 8.6 Psycho (1960) 84,291
23. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 91,171
24. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 56,349
25. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 198,477
26. 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 144,297
27. 8.6 Memento (2000) 153,439
28. 8.5 Fight Club (1999) 203,232
29. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 49,417
30. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 29,263
31. 8.5 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 63,063
32. 8.5 The Matrix (1999) 226,715
33. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 105,148
34. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 174,958
35. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976) 83,826
36. 8.5 Vertigo (1958) 53,944
37. 8.5 The Departed (2006) 112,501
38. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979) 104,903
39. 8.5 Se7en (1995) 152,220
40. 8.5 Léon (1994) 100,604
41. 8.4 American History X (1998) 114,238
42. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957) 24,706
43. 8.4 Laberinto del fauno, El (2006) 60,083
44. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 114,059
45. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 49,803
46. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) 43,684
47. 8.4 M (1931) 21,885
48. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 30,334
49. 8.4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 17,882
50. 8.4 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 109,624
51. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 64,591
52. 8.4 Alien (1979) 102,342
53. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 98,565
54. 8.4 Ratatouille (2007) 19,684
55. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 37,978
56. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 52,239
57. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 35,484
58. 8.4 L.A. Confidential (1997) 105,259
59. 8.4 The Shining (1980) 92,037
60. 8.4 Double Indemnity (1944) 19,994
61. 8.4 Boot, Das (1981) 44,904
62. 8.4 The Maltese Falcon (1941) 31,320
63. 8.3 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 95,901
64. 8.3 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 119,701
65. 8.3 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 160,678
66. 8.3 Metropolis (1927) 21,467
67. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 43,113
68. 8.3 Raging Bull (1980) 49,306
69. 8.3 Aliens (1986) 100,224
70. 8.3 Rashômon (1950) 21,376
71. 8.3 Sin City (2005) 129,916
72. 8.3 Forrest Gump (1994) 157,922
73. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 32,884
74. 8.3 Leben der Anderen, Das (2006) 16,919
75. 8.3 Modern Times (1936) 18,402
76. 8.3 Rebecca (1940) 19,613
77. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963) 34,514
78. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 98,087
79. 8.3 All About Eve (1950) 20,863
80. 8.3 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 126,532
81. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 40,198
82. 8.3 Amadeus (1984) 58,223
83. 8.3 Touch of Evil (1958) 18,847
84. 8.3 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 18,209
85. 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997) 61,266
86. 8.3 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 22,268
87. 8.2 The Prestige (2006) 72,575
88. 8.2 Jaws (1975) 79,614
89. 8.2 On the Waterfront (1954) 22,930
90. 8.2 The Sting (1973) 38,503
91. 8.2 Strangers on a Train (1951) 18,528
92. 8.2 The Elephant Man (1980) 29,841
93. 8.2 The Simpsons Movie (2007) 3,778
94. 8.2 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 81,745
95. 8.2 City Lights (1931) 13,576
96. 8.2 Grindhouse (2007) 35,419
97. 8.2 Batman Begins (2005) 127,353
98. 8.2 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) 24,659
99. 8.2 Braveheart (1995) 146,328
100. 8.2 The Apartment (1960) 19,013
2. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 269,346
3. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 129,387
4. 8.8 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 69,609
5. 8.8 Pulp Fiction (1994) 231,389
6. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 158,087
7. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 168,540
8. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 105,123
9. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 116,215
10. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 58,021
11. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 207,903
12. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 206,927
13. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 68,016
14. 8.7 12 Angry Men (1957) 52,902
15. 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 144,270
16. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 244,856
17. 8.7 Cidade de Deus (2002) 72,915
18. 8.7 Goodfellas (1990) 123,179
19. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 163,826
20. 8.6 C'era una volta il West (1968) 35,898
21. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 99,449
22. 8.6 Psycho (1960) 84,291
23. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 91,171
24. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 56,349
25. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 198,477
26. 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 144,297
27. 8.6 Memento (2000) 153,439
28. 8.5 Fight Club (1999) 203,232
29. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 49,417
30. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 29,263
31. 8.5 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 63,063
32. 8.5 The Matrix (1999) 226,715
33. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 105,148
34. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 174,958
35. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976) 83,826
36. 8.5 Vertigo (1958) 53,944
37. 8.5 The Departed (2006) 112,501
38. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979) 104,903
39. 8.5 Se7en (1995) 152,220
40. 8.5 Léon (1994) 100,604
41. 8.4 American History X (1998) 114,238
42. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957) 24,706
43. 8.4 Laberinto del fauno, El (2006) 60,083
44. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 114,059
45. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 49,803
46. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) 43,684
47. 8.4 M (1931) 21,885
48. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 30,334
49. 8.4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 17,882
50. 8.4 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 109,624
51. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 64,591
52. 8.4 Alien (1979) 102,342
53. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 98,565
54. 8.4 Ratatouille (2007) 19,684
55. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 37,978
56. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 52,239
57. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 35,484
58. 8.4 L.A. Confidential (1997) 105,259
59. 8.4 The Shining (1980) 92,037
60. 8.4 Double Indemnity (1944) 19,994
61. 8.4 Boot, Das (1981) 44,904
62. 8.4 The Maltese Falcon (1941) 31,320
63. 8.3 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 95,901
64. 8.3 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 119,701
65. 8.3 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 160,678
66. 8.3 Metropolis (1927) 21,467
67. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 43,113
68. 8.3 Raging Bull (1980) 49,306
69. 8.3 Aliens (1986) 100,224
70. 8.3 Rashômon (1950) 21,376
71. 8.3 Sin City (2005) 129,916
72. 8.3 Forrest Gump (1994) 157,922
73. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 32,884
74. 8.3 Leben der Anderen, Das (2006) 16,919
75. 8.3 Modern Times (1936) 18,402
76. 8.3 Rebecca (1940) 19,613
77. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963) 34,514
78. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 98,087
79. 8.3 All About Eve (1950) 20,863
80. 8.3 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 126,532
81. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 40,198
82. 8.3 Amadeus (1984) 58,223
83. 8.3 Touch of Evil (1958) 18,847
84. 8.3 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 18,209
85. 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997) 61,266
86. 8.3 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 22,268
87. 8.2 The Prestige (2006) 72,575
88. 8.2 Jaws (1975) 79,614
89. 8.2 On the Waterfront (1954) 22,930
90. 8.2 The Sting (1973) 38,503
91. 8.2 Strangers on a Train (1951) 18,528
92. 8.2 The Elephant Man (1980) 29,841
93. 8.2 The Simpsons Movie (2007) 3,778
94. 8.2 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 81,745
95. 8.2 City Lights (1931) 13,576
96. 8.2 Grindhouse (2007) 35,419
97. 8.2 Batman Begins (2005) 127,353
98. 8.2 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) 24,659
99. 8.2 Braveheart (1995) 146,328
100. 8.2 The Apartment (1960) 19,013
Now see what happens when you take a poll... 1999 Empire Magazine Poll
1. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. Goodfellas (1990)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. The Godfather (1972)
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Titanic (1997)
11. The Usual Suspects (1995)
12. Citizen Kane (1941)
13. The Godfather, Part II (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. The Sound of Music (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. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
28. Leon (1994)
29. Braveheart (1995)
30. Se7en (1995)
31. Die Hard (1988)
32. North by Northwest (1959)
33. The Truman Show (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. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
44. The Deer Hunter (1978)
45. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
46. The Terminator (1984)
47. Fargo (1996)
48. The Great Escape (1963)
49. Face/Off (1997)
50. Speed (1994)
51. The Matrix (1999)
52. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
53. The Exorcist (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. The Wild Bunch (1969)
61. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
62. The Italian Job (1969)
63. The Shining (1980)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The English Patient (1996)
66. Heat (1995)
67. The Wizard of Oz (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 and I (1987)
74. JFK (1991)
75. The Seven Samurai (1954)
76. Get Carter (1971)
77. The Third Man (1949)
78. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
79. Armaggedon (1998)
80. Chinatown (1974)
81. Goldfinger (1964)
82. The Untouchables (1987)
83. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
84. True Romance (1993)
85. Unforgiven (1992)
86. Scarface (1983)
87. The Blues Brothers (1980)
88. The Graduate (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 Point 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)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. Goodfellas (1990)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. The Godfather (1972)
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Titanic (1997)
11. The Usual Suspects (1995)
12. Citizen Kane (1941)
13. The Godfather, Part II (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. The Sound of Music (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. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
28. Leon (1994)
29. Braveheart (1995)
30. Se7en (1995)
31. Die Hard (1988)
32. North by Northwest (1959)
33. The Truman Show (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. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
44. The Deer Hunter (1978)
45. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
46. The Terminator (1984)
47. Fargo (1996)
48. The Great Escape (1963)
49. Face/Off (1997)
50. Speed (1994)
51. The Matrix (1999)
52. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
53. The Exorcist (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. The Wild Bunch (1969)
61. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
62. The Italian Job (1969)
63. The Shining (1980)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The English Patient (1996)
66. Heat (1995)
67. The Wizard of Oz (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 and I (1987)
74. JFK (1991)
75. The Seven Samurai (1954)
76. Get Carter (1971)
77. The Third Man (1949)
78. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
79. Armaggedon (1998)
80. Chinatown (1974)
81. Goldfinger (1964)
82. The Untouchables (1987)
83. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
84. True Romance (1993)
85. Unforgiven (1992)
86. Scarface (1983)
87. The Blues Brothers (1980)
88. The Graduate (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 Point 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)
Sunday
AFI's top 100
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE'S GREATEST MOVIES
1. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
2. "The Godfather" (1972)
3. "Casablanca" (1942)
4. "Raging Bull" (1980)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
7. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
8. "Schindler's List" (1993)
9. "Vertigo" (1958)
10. "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
11. "City Lights" (1931)
12. "The Searchers" (1956)
13. "Star Wars" (1977)
14. "Psycho" (1960)
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
16. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
17. "The Graduate" (1967)
18. "The General" (1927)
19. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
20. "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
21. "Chinatown" (1974)
22. "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
23. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
24. "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)
25. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
27. "High Noon" (1952)
28. "All About Eve" (1950)
29. "Double Indemnity" (1944)
30. "Apocalypse Now" (1979)
31. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
32. "The Godfather, Part II" (1974)
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
35. "Annie Hall" (1977)
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
39. "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
40. "The Sound of Music" (1965)
41. "King Kong" (1933)
42. "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
43. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
44. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
45. "Shane" (1953)
46. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
48. "Rear Window" (1954)
49. "Intolerance" (1916)
50. "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)
51. "West Side Story" (1961)
52. "Taxi Driver" (1976)
53. "The Deer Hunter" (1978)
54. "MASH" (1970)
55. "North by Northwest" (1959)
56. "Jaws" (1975)
57. "Rocky" (1976)
58. "The Gold Rush" (1925)
59. "Nashville" (1975)
60. "Duck Soup" (1933)
61. "Sullivan's Travels" (1941)
62. "American Graffiti" (1973)
63. "Cabaret" (1972)
64. "Network" (1976)
65. "The African Queen" (1951)
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)
68. "Unforgiven" (1992)
69. "Tootsie" (1982)
70. "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)
71. "Saving Private Ryan" (1998)
72. "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994)
73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
74. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
75. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967)
76. "Forrest Gump" (1994)
77. "All the President's Men" (1976)
78. "Modern Times" (1936)
79. "The Wild Bunch" (1969)
80. "The Apartment" (1960)
81. "Spartacus" (1960)
82. "Sunrise" (1927)
83. "Titanic" (1997)
84. "Easy Rider" (1969)
85. "A Night at the Opera" (1935)
86. "Platoon" (1986)
87. "12 Angry Men" (1957)
88. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
89. "The Sixth Sense" (1999)
90. "Swing Time" (1936)
91. "Sophie's Choice" (1982)
92. "Goodfellas" (1990)
93. "The French Connection" (1971)
94. "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
95. "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
96. "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
97. "Blade Runner" (1982)
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)
99. "Toy Story" (1995)
100. "Ben-Hur" (1959)
1. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
2. "The Godfather" (1972)
3. "Casablanca" (1942)
4. "Raging Bull" (1980)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
7. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
8. "Schindler's List" (1993)
9. "Vertigo" (1958)
10. "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
11. "City Lights" (1931)
12. "The Searchers" (1956)
13. "Star Wars" (1977)
14. "Psycho" (1960)
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
16. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
17. "The Graduate" (1967)
18. "The General" (1927)
19. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
20. "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
21. "Chinatown" (1974)
22. "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
23. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
24. "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)
25. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
27. "High Noon" (1952)
28. "All About Eve" (1950)
29. "Double Indemnity" (1944)
30. "Apocalypse Now" (1979)
31. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
32. "The Godfather, Part II" (1974)
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
35. "Annie Hall" (1977)
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
39. "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
40. "The Sound of Music" (1965)
41. "King Kong" (1933)
42. "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
43. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
44. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
45. "Shane" (1953)
46. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
48. "Rear Window" (1954)
49. "Intolerance" (1916)
50. "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)
51. "West Side Story" (1961)
52. "Taxi Driver" (1976)
53. "The Deer Hunter" (1978)
54. "MASH" (1970)
55. "North by Northwest" (1959)
56. "Jaws" (1975)
57. "Rocky" (1976)
58. "The Gold Rush" (1925)
59. "Nashville" (1975)
60. "Duck Soup" (1933)
61. "Sullivan's Travels" (1941)
62. "American Graffiti" (1973)
63. "Cabaret" (1972)
64. "Network" (1976)
65. "The African Queen" (1951)
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)
68. "Unforgiven" (1992)
69. "Tootsie" (1982)
70. "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)
71. "Saving Private Ryan" (1998)
72. "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994)
73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
74. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
75. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967)
76. "Forrest Gump" (1994)
77. "All the President's Men" (1976)
78. "Modern Times" (1936)
79. "The Wild Bunch" (1969)
80. "The Apartment" (1960)
81. "Spartacus" (1960)
82. "Sunrise" (1927)
83. "Titanic" (1997)
84. "Easy Rider" (1969)
85. "A Night at the Opera" (1935)
86. "Platoon" (1986)
87. "12 Angry Men" (1957)
88. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
89. "The Sixth Sense" (1999)
90. "Swing Time" (1936)
91. "Sophie's Choice" (1982)
92. "Goodfellas" (1990)
93. "The French Connection" (1971)
94. "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
95. "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
96. "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
97. "Blade Runner" (1982)
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)
99. "Toy Story" (1995)
100. "Ben-Hur" (1959)
Thursday
emails
Rob and I have been having an interesting and fun conversation all day starting off from the Best Movies Never Made.
Rob has been a mentor of mine and a terrific friend. I've been accused of knowing a lot about film but I humbly admit that I am a freshman in the company of Mr. Mills. I've learned a lot about film, life, art and free spirit from Rob and his wonderful wife Karen. They are compassionate, talented and loving people and I am pleased to share some of our conversation here.
Feel free to chime in.
Rob has been a mentor of mine and a terrific friend. I've been accused of knowing a lot about film but I humbly admit that I am a freshman in the company of Mr. Mills. I've learned a lot about film, life, art and free spirit from Rob and his wonderful wife Karen. They are compassionate, talented and loving people and I am pleased to share some of our conversation here.
Feel free to chime in.
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