_The 100 Best Films of All Time (54-50)
54. City Lights
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Florence Lee, Virginia Cherrill
Genre: Comedy
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1931
Imdb-Rating: 8.5
Critic's opinion (Brian Koller):
"City Lights" has been billed as Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece. I can't agree with that description, as several other Chaplin films that I have seen, made both before and after "City Lights", appear to be clearly better.
53. Tokyo Monogatari
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
Genre: Drama
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1953
Imdb-Rating: 8.0
52. The Wild Bunch
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Genre: Western
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1969
Imdb-Rating: 8.0
Critic's opinion (Dragan Antulov): THE WILD BUNCH is, like the majority of films, also a product of its time and the influences of Vietnam War could be found in its content. Peckinpah in this film captures the spirit of America coming to grips with its worst national trauma and fills the screen with images from Southeast Asia battlefields. We see foreign advisors aiding corrupt and bloodthirsty third world dictators, boy soldiers dying like flies and, finally, hundreds of innocent people getting caught in the crossfire and foreshadowing of another war which is supposed to show the ultimate destructive potential of the new technology. Perhaps today's audience, people who grew up after Cold War or had another, more romantic vision of Vietnam and similar carnage in Ramboid movies, won't understand this aspect of film. But they would nevertheless enjoy it in an excellent piece of cinema that connects the classic and modern in the best possible way.
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Genre: Drama
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1946
Imdb-Rating: 8.2
Critic's opinion (Brian Koller): "Les Enfants du Paradis" is a French film better known in the United States by its English translation, "Children of Paradise". It is an outstanding film with a great cast, script and story; thoughtfully directed by Marcel Carné.
50. Bonnie & Clyde
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Genre: Thriller
Academy Awards: 2
Year: 1967
Imdb-Rating: 7.8
Critic's opinion (Walter Frith): Warren Beatty's film debut in 1961 with 'Splendor in the Grass' would prove enormously successful and it wasn't long before Beatty would turn to producing and he did so with 'Bonnie and Clyde'. 'Bonnie and Clyde' does what its supposed to do like every other classic film; it draws the audience in from the opening minutes as it centres on being a two character study for the first several minutes. Just moments after they meet and are immediately attracted to each other, we find out that Clyde has just been released from jail and to immediately impress Bonnie, he robs a grocery store and the story continues from there all the way to its conclusion which was very controversial in 1967 when audience's jaws dropped in view of it. Certainly a timely film in view of the social changes of the 1960's, 'Bonnie and Clyde' will leave an impression on audiences for all time with its message of anti-violence stemming from violence spawned by the poverty of the great depression.
Half-time. Ouf!
What do all of you think of these 50 movies, and which films MUST be in the top 10?
Top 10:
(No Order - I'm Not That Good!)
The Godfather
Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind (?)
Shawshank Redemption (outside chance)
Rear Window
The Godfather Part II (Dosen't deserve it though)
actually thats as many as i can think of really.
Nice guess. All of them will be in the remaining 50, 3 in the top 10.
i dread seeing the top ten... but it is nice to hear that only half of those six are on it.
Yeah. Actually there are at least 3 films in the top 10 that surprised me very much!
btw... i love this list(the whole compilation)... it is really validating my hatred of critics and their ridiculous choices... wild bunch over Ouatitw and high noon(to keep in the genre) is the perfect example...
I agree. OUATITW would have deserved a higher ranking than it finally got. It is simply much better than The Wild Bunch.
The Wild Bunch's highest ranking on a list was 20, while OUATITW only made 32 as a highest position.
(High Noon --> #27)
Thanks for keeping up your interest.
Great list.
I'm hoping to see "12 Angry Men" in the rest of the list. Also kind of hoping on "Once Upon a Time in America" and maybe some Woody Allen and one of the two pairings of Paul Newman and Robert Redford ("The Sting" or "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", one of them will do. ;) )
Anyway, whatever comes, it's a very good read. So keep it up. :)
Thx very, very much for the compliment. Sometimes I really do need some nice words to go on with list, but as long as I see that there is still enough interest, I'll keep it definetly up.
For the first 49 movies, be ready for some surprises...
Is this list entirely of your own making, i.e. your favorite films of all time? Or, your estimation of the 'best' films of all time?
You may remember my list composed of several lists by critics and public about the 100 best films ever. Well, this is the updated and extended version.
Are you (to some degree, at least) satisfied with this collection of movies?