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The Online Film Community Announces the Top 100 Films of All-Time
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 30, 2007
A few weeks back we had a chance to participate in a very interesting project. Members of the online film community (everything from bloggers to Variety.com) got together to select the Top 100 Films of All-Time. Both myself and Kevin Carr were able to submit our nominations to this list, which serves as the communities response to the AFI’s Top 100 Films of All-Time, which can be found here.
Check out the Online Community’s list below.
The Online Film Community’s Top 100
1. Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
5. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
6. Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982)
7. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
8. Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974)
9. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
10. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
11. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
12. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
13. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
15. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
16. Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
17. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
18. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
19. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
20. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
21. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
22. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
23. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
25. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
26. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
27. Wizard of Oz, The (Fleming, 1939)
28. Matrix, The (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999)
29. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
30. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
31. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985
32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
33. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
34. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
36. Usual Suspects, The (Singer, 1995)
37. Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
38. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
39. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
40. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
41. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
42. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
43. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
44. E.T. (Spielberg, 1982)
45. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
46. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
47. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
48. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
49. Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
50. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
51. Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
52. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
53. M (Lang, 1931)
54. Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
55. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
56. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
57. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
58. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
59. General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
60. Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
61. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
62. Incredibles, The (Bird, 2004)
63. Silence of the Lambs, The (Demme, 1991)
64. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
65. Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
66. Heat (Mann, 1995)
67. Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
68. Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
69. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
71. Graduate, The (Nichols, 1967)
72. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
73. Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
74. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
75. Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
76. American History X (Kaye, 1998)
77. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
79. King Kong (Cooper/Shoedsack, 1933)
80. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
81. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1992)
82. Manchurian Candidate, The (Frankenheimer, 1962)
83. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
84. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
86. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
87. Leon (Besson, 1994)
88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
90. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
91. 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
92. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
93. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)
94. Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)
95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
96. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
97. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
98. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
99. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
100. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
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Adam Ross - DVD Panache
Alex Vo - Rotten Tomatoes
Andrew Olson - Movie Patron
Anne Thompson - Variety | Thompson on Hollywood
Brendan Connelly - Film Ick
Collin Smith, That Movie Site
Damian Arlyn - Windmills of My Mind
Dan Eisenberg - Cinemathematics
Daniel Johnson - Film Babble
Dennis Cozzalio - Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
Domenic Lanza - Cinema Fusion
Edward Copeland - Eddie on Film
Gareth Watkins - Film Rotation
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Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
Jennifer Yamato - Rotten Tomatoes
Jim - Talking Moviezz
John Allison - Film Grotto
John Campea - The Movie Blog
Jonathan Burdick - Cinema Fusion
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10 Comments
July 31st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
[...] Internet. It seems appropriate now that a consortium of online film blogs and critics has released their list of the Top 100 Films. This list is a breath of fresh air in the modern-dominated Top lists that I’ve seen [...]
August 1st, 2007 at 7:50 am
Why not Ben Hur and the Greatest Story Ever Told. Cleopatra wasnt all that bad either.
Ben Hur needs to be on the list.
The Fight club and Gostbusters out.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:25 am
A decent list, but like all compilations not without some problems. For starters, whassup with all the Edward Norton love? “The Fight Club” ahead of “Raging Bull”? and “American History X” tops “North by Northwest”?
August 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
The Great Dictator probably should be in the top 10 as it was innovative and tremendously influential on subsequent directors and people like Mel Brooks and Peter Sellers.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:20 am
No “Gone With the Wind”?
August 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
List should be called “Most often televised recent movies.” Has nothing to do with how good they are, just how often people have seen them. LotR better than On the Waterfront? Ha, ha. Shawshank Redemption in the top 50? Get busy watching more movies or get busy not participating in these polls when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Nosferatu makes the list and Gone With the Wind fails to make the cut?
PLEASE!
August 1st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
What is Run Lola Run doing on this list?? I liked it, but to 100? please.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Some of you seem to have forgotten that “Online Film Critics” most likely will be made up of a ounger demographic than the Roger Eberts of the world. I’d guess that 75% of the participants are age 40 or younger. I’m sure there are many folks like myself that have a hard time enjoying the classics as much as some of the modern greats, as the classics are made somewhat irrelevant over time, either due to the socio-political climate (statement films tend to lose their meaning when people don’t remember the meaning - take Fahrenheit 9/11, for example - good as it may be, no new viewer will care all that much about it in 25 years) or the acting/directing style.
I’d pick Fight Club and Pulp Fiction over most of the classics, too. Just my personal taste - but then again, I’m 30. If I was 60, I’m sure I wouldn’t.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:28 am
¨Top 100¨? Or ¨FAVORITE 100¨? There is a big difference.