The Top 10 Films Of All Time

[Turenne]

Chinatown is a top ten film in my opinion. It's probably the only film worth mentioning from the 70's.

What is with you and awful opinions?

 

[THE 101]

Indeed, but very few people are going to accept or care about this.



I've only watched a couple of movies from the above list of filmakers. I've been enjoying Fassbender and Truffuat's works however, although I assume they are a slightly later generation.

Yeah Truffaut is brilliant. The 400 Blows is probably in my top 10.

 

[thevarangian]

1-20:

Blade Runner
The Thing
The Matrix
The Lord of the Ring: Return of the King
Alien
The Shawshank Redemption
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Michael Clayton
Predator
The Professional
WALL·E
Finding Nemo
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Aliens
Sunshine
Hellboy
The Lord of the Ring: Fellowship of the Ring
Solaris
Unbreakable


This is an old list i created some time ago. It's still mostly OK to me.

 

[Majestic Pape]

Pretty much all of these movies are so I can't rock with them.

 

[feelosofer]

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

 

[feelosofer]

Not really.

The majority of the American filmmakers in the 1970s were just following the lead of the European filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s.

Without Bergman, Godard, Bresson, Fellini, Bunuel etc there would be no new Hollywood.

I don't expect most Coli posters to feel this list. But those are some great films. But I see lists like this more as a collection of not just great films, but important historical films that changed everything. Critics also love films that reflect on filmmaking itself, so that's why Vertigo is #1, and you have things like Man With a Movie Camera.

There's probably people in this thread that are shytting on this list that have seen some weak ass top 10 rappers of all time list and complained that there's so Rakim or KRS. This is the same thing. It's inarguable that early cinema was more important simply because filmmakers were still writing the rules as they went along. By the 70s, give or take everything had been done. But these films took cinema to new boundaries.

So you don't have to enjoy them, but you have to respect their importance on filmmaking as an art.

Yea, I agree, besides most of these posters are in their 20's and and many do not appreciate the subtleties of many of these films and you'd surprised how many movies from the 60's and 70's stand up today.

 

[Turenne]

Yea, I agree, besides most of these posters are in their 20's and and many do not appreciate the subtleties of many of these films and you'd surprised how many movies from the 60's and 70's stand up today.

The S&S list is one created by and for film history students. Its obvious just looking at the list they are picking films that have had a impact within the artform first and foremost. Honestly I prefer lists like this, its far less subjective imo.

 

[Turenne]

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

Aren't you the dude that thinks Hidden (Cache) is trash and and The Social Network is the greatest film of the 21st century...

 

[Box Cutta]

these lists is

If your top 10 aint got City Of God, your top ten aint shyt.

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

What is with you and awful opinions?

The critics agree with me.

Chinatown is unquestionably one of the best films to emerge from the 1970s... The production, which went in front of the cameras without a final script, marks the high-water point in the careers of both lead actor Jack Nicholson and director Roman Polanski. It also represents the finest color entry into the film noir genre.

"

TSPDT - The 1,000 Greatest Films: The Top 500 Films (26-50)


roger ebert top ten list fir 1974

Roger Ebert
1. Day for Night 1. Scenes from a Marriage
2. The Last Detail 2. Chinatown
3. Amarcord 3. The Mother and the Whore
4. The Conversation 4. Amarcord
5. Mean Streets 5. The Last Detail
6. Scenes from a Marriage 6. The Mirages
7. Lacombe, Lucien 7. Day for Night
8. Harry and Tonto 8. Mean Streets
9. The Mother and the Whore 9. My Uncle Antoine
10. Wedding in Blood 10. The Conversation

roger ebert top 100 list

rogerebert.com :: greatmovies_first100

 

[THE 101]

Yes, critics certainly agree that Chinatown was the only good film of the 1970s.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

these lists is

If your top 10 aint got City Of God, your top ten aint shyt.

you know how many classic movies there are?

city of god may get a top50 nod.

 

[THE 101]

City of God is like the token foreign film people like to name.

It's good but it ain't that good.

 

[Turenne]

Yes, critics certainly agree that Chinatown was the only good film of the 1970s.

Yeah I can just imagine Ebert saying that.

 

[Turenne]

City of God is like the token foreign film people like to name.

Indeed. Its pretty fukking good though.