The British Film Institute asked 900 film critics, academics, distributors and programmers from around the globe which was their favourite film and compiled a list of the top 10 films of all time, and i have seen one of them.Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo took top spot with Citizen Kane second and Tokyo Story third. The only film that i have watched out of the top 10 came in sixth and is 2001: A Space Odyssey which I never thought was anything to get excited about, needed more HAL and less apes in my humble opinion but then that could explain why i'm not a film critic.
The second surprising thing from the list is that the most recent film to be included is from 1968 which means that all the films that have come since have not been so good which i find quite amazing.
As i said, i haven't seen nine of the top ten so i can't really agree or disagree but they would have to be some pieces of cinema to edge out films like Papillon, Grapes of Wrath, Full Metal Jacket, Good, Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, A Bronx Tale or
Back to the Future which would be in my list along with A Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from pre-68 which would be fighting it out to be in my own top 10.
Anyway, the experts have spoken and the top films ever are:
1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Tokyo Story (1953)
4. La Règle Du Jeu (1939)
5. Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
10. 8 ½ (1963)
3 comments:
i liked gone with the wind and to kill a mocking bird much better than about 9 of these movies...
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i liked gone with the wind and to kill a mocking bird much better than about 9 of these movies...
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I have never seen Gone with the Wind but i agree with you about To Kill a Mocking bird, great film.
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