The Top 10 Films Of All Time

[Jello Biafra]

The Sight & Sound once a decade survey of film critics picks for best movie...EVER! Is out and Vertigo has bumped CItizen Kane off from the top spot.

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

5. Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

I have not seen 4,5,8 and 9 before but I don't have any issues with the list based on the flicks I have actually seen before aside from the lack of more modern films (anything post 1970) being included.
I am shocked that Kane got beat out for the top spot though. I figured that would hold that position forever.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Godfather one and 2 are both top 5-7 films of all time. GF1 is #1 and 2 is top 5

 

[Real]

this is completely subjective.

 

[Dooby]

The only old movie I thought was incredible was Bonnie & Clyde.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Here is the list that was decided from a poll of over 300 film directors:

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

7 The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

8. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)

10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

I tend to agree with this list more than the critics one.

 

[Dooby]

Bicycle Thieves was shyt. I had to watch that for one of my college courses.

 

[the cac mamba]

Bicycle Thieves was shyt. I had to watch that for one of my college courses.

yea lotta dikkriding of these old movies that just arent that good. i find it hard to believe that the godfathers cant crack that first list

 

[HHR]

I don't believe that the 10 best movies every made were all made before 1970. Makes ZERO sense to me

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

I don't believe that the 10 best movies every made were all made before 1970. Makes ZERO sense to me

it does to me. better acting and more creativity pre-1970. star wars pretty much ruined movies for ever

 

[HHR]

No way.

 

[Jello Biafra]

it does to me. better acting and more creativity pre-1970. star wars pretty much ruined movies for ever

The 1970s were a renaissance time for filmmaking. In that decade we got The Godfather 1 & 2, Apocalypse Now, All The President's Men, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, The Sting, Last Picture Show.
I could on and on with the movies from the 1970s that revolutionized the way movies were made and still influence filmmakers today.

 

[Red Omega]

never heard of most of these.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

it does to me. better acting and more creativity pre-1970. star wars pretty much ruined movies for ever

the acting in films pre-1970s was horrendous. i can only stomach maybe 4 or 5 movies from that era.

 

[Regular_P]

Awful list.

 

[Leonard Washington]

never heard of most of these.

Same