The 10 Greatest Films of All Time
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- If I had to send my very own list for the Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, this is the list I'd make! This week at least.
These 10 films represent the best that movies can be, they are the audiovisual language's greatest achievement. Perfect screenplays with perfect characters, plots and dialogue (I'm into dialogue) and perfect direction with perfect framing, staging and camerawork (I'm into depth).
A film can't make the list without a perfect combination of narrative and style and every film here (including the honorable mentions in the end) does it sublimely. And that combination is not casual, since these are difficult screenplays with difficult directing to match.
And all these films contain some element of risk. No great film can be made without risk. A film might risk being stagy, pretentious, long, confusing, silly or many other failures, but, with the right visuals, the right narrative and the right cast, that risk pays off and the result is a masterpiece.
In chronological order.
00:00 The 10 Greatest Films of All Time
00:57 1
02:51 2
05:17 3
07:29 4
09:31 5
13:20 6
15:51 7
18:48 8
21:08 9
23:08 10
25:19 Honorable Mentions
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I'm 95 and remember Charlie Chaplin in a silent film. Throughout my life I loved and enjoyed the cinema. In these later years, I have been able to view great productions I missed earlier in life. As a common average person, I am grateful to be the recipient of the talent of the great ones. That said, I do wish the great ones I admired so much (they are all dead, now) can stand tall before our Intelligent Creator. My experience, in my lifetime, tells me that too many will not. Time passes so quickly.
You don't sound like a common average person at all. What are your favorite films? You were born the same year as the incomparable Audrey Hepburn. Eva Marie Saint will be 100 on July 4th!
@@lnl3237 I was born in 1928, a bookkeeper turned farmer at age 50. I have to give email credit because it gave me a chance to see what comes out of my mouth, reconsider it, and make the changes that werre usually necessary. It has only been in this later part of my life that I have had the time to sit back and appreciate the talent like that of Audrey Hepburn and Eva Marie Saint. Acting is an art and many have attained perfection in that field and many other art forms. The beauty of life is that although we may have no talent at all, it doesn't stop us from enjoying the fruits of others. My life has been "the movies". Favorites - "Gone with the Wind" and "The Ten Commandments". My favorite musical group is the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
@@lnl3237 You sound as "subtle" as if saying: " Oh my gosh , you're so jurassic quirk! Could you sing and dance for me right now?"
Love, love, love this! Thank you for including The Big Country... the most overlooked great western!
It all comes down to personal preferences, a matter of choice. Some great films here, particularly "Lawrence of Arabia", "Citizen Kane", "Vertigo".
Because yesterday was WWII Memorial Day in the Netherlands, a local theater had a showing of Bridge on the River Kwai. If it weren’t for your video I probably would have ignored it, but I’m so glad that I decided to go with a friend. It was an absolute blast, brilliant film.
I'm very glad to hear! I myself have never watched the film in a theater, it must have been a blast!
It is one of my favorite movies. It was also a surprising gem, far better than I thought beforehand.
Do they ever play SOLDIER OF ORANGE at those things?
I just watched a double feature of Soldier of Orange and The Black Book.
The ONLY way to watch 'Bridge on the River Kwai'. I was fortunate enough to see it on a big screen at an old school 'movie palace' a few years ago. Needless to say, I also have the video and the DVD..@@Moviewise
Humphrey Bogart is probably the actor who appeared in the most classic films of any other.
This list is STAGGERING:
The Maltese Falcon. High Sierra. Sahara. Sabrina. The Caine Mutiny. The African Queen. In a Lonely Place. Key Largo. Dark Victory. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
AND CASABLANCA!
The Big Sleep. To Have and Have Not.
The Barefoot Contessa. Beat the Devil...
Ward Bond was in way more.
Yeah, but he always played the same character. It never varied. He was so lucky.
Brando and Jimmy Stewart both have three each in AFI's top 30 films. Incidentally, the absolutely amazing Casablanca is in my fave-ever top ten movies, but so is The Godfather😊
@@snatchhog I've seen 'the big sleep' far more than 'casablanca'. 'Beat the Devil', kind of underrated but it's a favorite such a talented cast.
I detect a touch of the melodramaphile. Pleasantly surprised to see The Big Country. Thanks for the list, good to know where you're coming from!
I loved the character of Gregory Peck in "The Big Country". He did not let himself be challenged like a small boy. When he saw a challenge, he proved it to himself.
Like with the horse they wanted to get him on. Then in the night, he rode the horse, got thrown off again and again, until his determination prevailed over the will of the horse.
It requires character and confidence to NOT let yourself be manipulated, stand to how you are.
Great selections. There’s a few on here I plan on viewing again. Thank you kindly for your insight!
Absolutely a great list and video. Thank you!
One of the best courses I ever took in college was genres and modes of comedy. We began with the Greeks-Lysistrata, examined the comic archetype of the weak character who through wit and flexibility bests the stronger rigid adversary. We went on to Ben Jonson, Shakespeare (focus on Falstaff), Moliere. The beauty of the course was how beautifully “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”, a play I would not have thought to be a comedy, is in fact a classic one.
Sounds fascinating! Do you remember if there was a reference book?
In college, I played Sganarelle (the lead character) in Moliere's The Doctor In spite of Himself. It's a hilarious play about the phoniness of doctors. I was seen and asked to audition for a local non-union film that was being produced. It was called Skeleton Key, and I got the lead! It took more than a year to film (funding ran out half way through), but it was shown on local prime time tv (buffalo, NY), and the lead girl and I were on the cover of tv guide locally. I had my chance to go Holly wood, but passed it up, and wound up teaching middle school and being a father of four boys, one of whom is a professional performer. Seven years after we started making the film, kids came into school, swearing that they had seen me on tv the night before. turns out the film was being shown on the Lifetime Network. I still sing with a band, and do comedy songs of my own making as a folk act...once you have ti in your blood, you have to keep going.
All the comments here are interesting, but nobody bothered to list Moviewise's titles for quick reference!:
00:00 The Ten Greatest Films of All Time
00:57 1 The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
02:51 2 Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
05:17 3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
07:29 4 The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
09:31 5 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
13:20 6 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
15:51 7 A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988) (script by John Cleese)
18:48 8 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
21:08 9 JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
23:08 10 Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, 1996)
25:19 Ten Honorable Mentions:
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankeiwicz, 1950)
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
Thank you!
Pin this.
wuthering heights?
This list is depressing
Mildred Pierce, Sudden Feàr
The MOST interesting best movie list I’ve seen in forever. So great. And funny. And clearly articulated. So good!
I've watched "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover numerous times but never noticed in those gorgeous tableaux that all four of them are in the shot. Thank you for increasing my appreciation of that film even more. A superlative list and a peerless paean to cinematic excellence.
OMG and the most exquisitely perfect line from the Blackadder time-travel special at the end, sublime.
Wow! I could only sit through it once and that was brutal. Terrible film! 😳
I love The Big Country for it's subtlety. My absolute favourite scene is when Charlton Heston reluctantly follows the Major into Blanco Canyon. The Major never looks behind him as Heston rides up; he's going on whether alone or not. But Heston glances behind when the rest of the crew come galloping up, and then glances at the Major; who is still looking rigidly ahead, now with a wry smile. You can see Heston thinking: "There'll be no fucking living with him now"!
That scene is perfect! I’m gonna make a video about The Big Country next month and I’ll talk about that scene and how it speaks so much about both characters.
Every moment Burl Ives is on screen is mesmerising. A villain? Perhaps...a man finally realising he's paying the price for being a bad influence on his sons but who has more honesty and integrity than the supposed pillar of the community. My goodness, everyone brings their A game to this movie. Chuck Connor's best bit of acting and the duel is my absolute favourite part...closely followed by the Major riding alone and Steve and the other cow hands riding up to join him.
A chronically under appreciated epic. Outstanding cast, acting, writing, filming and score.
I've always thought this was an underrated masterpiece.
Burl Ives was amazing, when he gate crashed the party
Mine Are
1. Twin Peaks: FWWM
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Moneyball
5. i'm thinking of ending things
6. Suspiria
7. All That Jazz
8. Barry Lyndon
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. Vertigo
Someone enjoys a Puzzle! Plus... Suspiria ❤️❤️
Very nice
Ah … thanks for mentioning Mulholland Drive … a movie so surreal it almost seems real.
The rest of your choices are great too.
I think you should make a video.
I want to thank you for this list. You inspire me to do my own top 10 as your list isnt even close.
Glad _Unforgiven_ made it in there somewhere. "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it" may be my favorite line in all of cinema. And it's a film FULL of great lines.
I just watched Sunset Blvd on your recommendation. Hollywood just doesn't make movies like that anymore. Of course, people don't think, talk, or live like that anymore. Today a movie like this would have been slammed with accusations of exploiting mental illness for entertainment. And the accusers wouldn't get the movie at all. They would only care about checking off an offense box.
My favorite film and citizen Kane
Pretty solid list dude. Here's mine:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Ran
6. City Lights
7. La Dolce Vita
8. Sunrise
9. GoodFellas
10. The Wild Bunch
With the exception of "Lawrence of Arabia" and "La Dolce Vita", the other movies on your list are absolutely horrible.
@@bobblowhard8823 that's your opinion. To each their own.
@@bobblowhard8823 The Godfather, Ran, Sunrise, Goodfellas and The Wild Bunch are horrible movies? Lame joke.
@@bobblowhard8823 Haha, that's a bit extreme. I don't like some of them either but "horrible"?!
Excellent choice, Ran (Kurosawa). Almost every one of Kurosawa's films is a masterpiece, but Ran might be the best.
Hello: Enjoyed your video and your choices - and the analysis of why you chose the films you did. I don't agree with your every choice, or the films that should have but didn't make your list. But again, your commentary was very interesting. Cheers!
Keep making videos. Your content is really great!
For me:
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Hoop Dreams (1994)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Hoop Dreams is in my top 15.
Thanks … I was going through comment after comment to see if anybody mentioned Barry Lyndon.
So many layers of human emotions, ambitions and betrayals, it needs to be watched over and over again for its true depths to be fathomed.
I'm with you on '4,5 and 7. Whenever there is a chance to see Barry Lyndon on the big screen I go and watch it.
IF there is Goodfellas in your list and not The godfather then you have no brain my friend.
Someone who put spider man movie in a top 10 has zero knowledge on Cinema
I would include "The Passion of Joan of Arc" in here. I've never seen another movie filmed entirely in closeup. I was immersed and mesmerized.
Just about the best of this type of list thing I’ve seen… nice work. 👍
Awesome review. Thank you!
I'm surprised you included only as memorable mention what I thought was a favourite of yours, an rightfully so: "All about Eve", perfect screenplay perfectly delivered by perfect cast.
Truly one of the greatest films ever made.
@@2vintage68 Why?
The only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations @@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
10: Singin' In The Rain (1952)
9: Fellini's 8 and a Half (1963)
8: Sunrise (1927)
7: Persona (1966)
6: The Searchers (1956)
5: His Girl Friday (1940)
4: The Godfather Part II (1974)
3: La Grande Illusion (1937)
2: Hold Back The Dawn (1941)
1: Rear Window (1953)
Or, alternatively:
10: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
9: Tokyo Story (1953)
8: The General (1926)
7: Double Indemnity (1945)
6: In The Mood For Love (2000)
5: Love Me Tonight (1932)
4: Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
3: Psycho (1960)
2: It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
1: L' Atalante (1933)
Hold Back the Dawn! Now there’s an underrated Billy Wilder script with a great Charles Boyer character
@@Moviewise Indeed! Thank you and congratulations on creating such a highly individual 10 best list that eschews convention and celebrates NARRATIVE cinema
Jeanne Deilman 23 Commerce Quay 1080 Brussels?
Love Rear Window. I’ve always thought that Double Indemnity was highly overrated.
Virginia Wolf is a brilliant film.
GREAT list !!
Absolutely refreshing channel.
Loved that you have The Big Country on the list. Very underated. Your list reminded me of a film I haven't seen for years and that's Lina Wermullers Seven Beauties. Wondered what you thought of it
I'd add Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, et al.
The Last Emperor and Amedeus.
I remember watching La Belle et Le Bete in French class and it absolutely blew me away. It’s in my top 15.
The 2versions i've seen of "Beauty ..." were fantastic.
I'd add Black Orpheus. Wizard of Oz terrified me as a child. I still consider it the scariest movie I've ever seen.
Gone with wind
Akira Kurosawa didn't even sniff the Top 10? As good as A Fish Called Wanda is, is it really better than Rashomon, Ran, High and Low and Seven Samurai?
Dude, I just subscribed, not only because your content, but it seems the comments are high quality also.
Great list. A little less known. I love that you put Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" in there. That film really made me understand my feuding parents a bit more. An Branaugh's Hamlet, and The Bridge ofer River Kwai. So many! I would have added a few though, but you know lists!!!
Thought I was a movie buff. Got humbled by your top ten. Get a lot of work ahead of me this weekend. Thanks for sharing these masterpieces with the commoners ^_^
Your taste in movies is impeccable. Tack on your sense of humor and good editing … I’m hooked. Been going through your uploads, watching all of your videos and taking notes on what movies to check out soon.
Anyone who leaves Lawrence Of Arabia and The Searchers off of a 10 greatest list but includes that nonsense Oliver Stone work of fiction JFK does not have impeccable taste.
Dr Zhivago
Your analyses is greatly appreciated. You have given me more incentive to see the few that I have missed and encouraged me tio give some yet another view. True, my list wiould be different and for very different reasons. "Greatest" a term that begs for clarity or subdivision.
so many 'great movie lists' eschew comedies. thank you so much!!!
Here are mine, in order of release date:
Rear Window (1954)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Godfather (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Raging Bull (1980)
Fargo (1996)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Parasite (2019)
Great movies!! Parasite was so entertaining from start to finish!! I tell everyone to see this film!!!
The only one of your list is 2001
Fargo, yes
Oh yes! The Lord of the Rings. I forgot about it.
You put the best, greatest, most perfect movie of all time in the honorable mentions - Dr Strangelove...or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.. This move had everything. Satirical humor, great acting, great directing, great writing, great character development, great special effects, great script and dialog, bawdy humor, gallows humor, great filmography, amazing use of Black and White, Great score, great costumes...I dunno; maybe I love this movie because I'm a baby boomer who grew up during the height of the cold war and I remember events like JFK, MLK, RFK, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sputnik, Frances Gary Powers, Race riots, Kent State, Oswald, Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe, Backyard bomb shelters, Vietnam, Napalm, Mai Lai, Tet...one fearful and worrisome event after another all while living under a constant fear of global nuclear annihilation. The storyline of Dr Strangelove was more than merely a plausible what if. Maybe thats why I always considered it to be the greatest film of all time..
a lot of good reasons but you left out slim pickens.
This is an AMAZING list. Well done.👍👍
Your videos are incredible, it's clear how much enthusiasm for cinema that you put into them. Btw what is the movie at 0:23?
Here's my list with release dates:
Metropolis (1927)
King Kong (1933)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Moby Dick (1956)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Solaris (1972)
Andrei Rublev (1973)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Harry Dean Stanton and a soundtrack by Ry Cooder, what's not to love.
@@TheThaggs Even the toughest guys in the audience left the theater crying!
The Deer Hunter, yes! And the Wizard of Oz
Well done. A fine list, well-reasoned, well-presented, and, of course, completely wrong lol.
Many thanks.
If only there was a MoviewiseAI, I'd have bombarded it with so many questions. You've completely changed my view as a cinema lover. Thank you so much. Please keep making such videos. Humankind needs it.
Thank you for this list!!
Seriously, JFK instead of Lawrence Of Arabia?
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Rules of the Game
His Girl Friday
The Magnificent Ambersons
Late Spring
A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor)
Vertigo
Yojimbo
Au hasard Balthazar
Nashville
A fine list to remind me to watch some of the classics from time to time.
A fascinating video. You take the movie making to a Himalayan height, through your comments. I plan to watch Virginia, The big country again. Quite curious about A fish called Wanda….Thanks.
Many I agree with, but I'd absolutely have added "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", "A Man for All Seasons" and "Lion in Winter" (I also love the cruel dialogue, and these films EXCEL at that.)
Lion in winter....... without a doubt
A Man for All Seasons was an excellent movie. Too bad it was a fiction that lionized a really terrible, violent religious bigot who liked to burn his enemies alive.
"A Man for All Seasons" is in my top five.
Thanks for including "Who's Afraid of VW" . . . that movie just doesn't seem to get the credit it's due. Glengarry Glen Ross is another one in which the playwright's dialogue absolutely sparkles, especially coming from such great actors in both movies.
Thanks from UK. Some here are new to me. As time goes on, the number of 'must see' films increases greatly . Many great silent and foreign films to see .
Your videos, they are so awesome 🍿🍿🍿
For what it’s worth, here’s my top ten, in chronological order:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Third Man
4. The Searchers
5. Psycho
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Apocalypse Now
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. No Country for Old Men
embarrassing to admit but I've only seen 2 out of these 10 selections
@@AbrasiousProductions nothing wrong with that. it takes alotta time
plus I have to save them for reviews
@@AbrasiousProductions well, you have a lot to look forward to. 👍🏻
👌👌
Not really organized enough to come up with a real list. So here’s 10 films I have been thinking about a lot lately in no particular order:
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Swept Away
Marnie
Casablanca
Diabolique
Modern Times
Breaker Morant
Blue Velvet
Diamonds Are Forever
Fanny and Alexander
Swept Away was the last time I was blown away by a film. I don’t think I’ll ever stop thinking about it. The film and Lina Wertmuller deserve to be more well-known.
How about her other film, Seven Beauties?
Breaker Morant is a perfect film.
Great list. I love every one of these films and A Fish Called Wanda and the Cook... are two particular favorites that don't make many lists.
This list is so, so different than anything I would concoct, OTOH, I think that putting together any list of greatest films is a fool's errand to start with.
I did find it sort of funny that more of the Honorable Mentions would have had a chance at my list than the actual films listed. :)
Quite impressive how you managed to do that.
I mean even if I'm given the luxury of making a top 25 list, I would still struggle immensely since there are dozens of movies I wouldn't be able to exclude.
Here are some of my favourites:
The Red Shoes, The Ten Commandments,
A Streetcar Named Desire, Wild Strawberries, Ben-Hur, Kwaidan, The Conversation, Chinatown, Nashville, The Exorcist, Raging Bull, Amadeus, Goodfellas, Mullholland Drive etc.
Amadeus😁
@@kitrik23 Yep
Agree with Streetcar Named Desire, yes Wild Strawberries and other Ingmar Bergman films, Chinatown.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Yeah I'd also include films from Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Satyajit Ray. Some of the greatest directors ever.
"And I am physically incapable of thinking of the word 'satin' without seeing those finger waggles." :)
This is a rare event - a well made unpatronising, thoughtful youtube video. Well done. Luckily there are scores of amazing films to choose from and much can be written and said about them. None of these are in my personal top ten, and that's a great thing, but there can be no doubt that they are all excellent films.
A rare comedy was "The Great Race". & some Russian movies. Etc.
Amazing list
My 10 Greatest Films of All Time :
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
The Searchers (1956) Rocky (1976)
Psycho (1960) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8½ (1963) Blade Runner (1982)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) GoodFellas (1990)
I'm new to this channel, so here's my list fwiw:
1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
3. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
4. M (1931)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Children of Paradise (1945)
7. The Third Man (1949)
8. All About Eve (1950)
9. High Noon (1952)
10. Tokyo Story (1953)
Aw, heck. I made it through fewer than 30 years. I guess this list is going to 20.
11. Rear Window (1954)
12. Seven Samurai (1954)
13. The 400 Blows (1959)
14. The Apartment (1960)
15. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
16. The Leopard (1963)
17. Persona (1966)
18. The Godfather (1972)
19. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
20. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Guess I have to stop here and not include Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Wenders, Eastwood, Spielberg, Wong Kar-wai, Malick, Lynch, Kiarostami, Farhadi, etc. Boo.
Aguirre Wrath of God is my number 1
Great list! Love seeing The Third Man on there. Fantastic film.
I like this list. Can I recommend Pickpocket and A Man Escaped?
Great list.
You have great taste. I watched M last night. I was floored. What a great film! Peter Lorre was superb as the child killer.
Fantastic! I own all the movies you have picked. Of course I have a huge collection. I will send you some reviews I had written years ago.
Pretty interesting list. Seen most of them and you have some pretty dialogue heavy films in there. I don't want to think too much of making my own list but I'd definitely put Jaws, 2001 and North by Northwest.
I don't think horror movies rate as masterpieces. They can be very good and very effective, but they don't have the depth.
And they're sensationalistic.
I saw Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf when it came out in a theater on Sunset Boulevard (other movie on list). It was late at night and the theater was almost deserted. It made quite an impression.
How can 'North by Northwest' and/or 'Psycho' NOT be on this list??
@ 3:45 - "I have a weakness for dialogue featuring Weary, Verbal. Cruelty". THAT got me Subscribed.
And, since you brought it up, has anyone else made the parallel between Ennio Morricone's score for
Once Upon A Time...to the fable Peter & the Wolf, since, in both cases, the characters are represented
by their own instrument/score!?!
Great list... thanks
Obviously all lists are subjective...but i wonder why "on the waterfront " is never mentioned....a great director and one of the greatest lines delivered ever.....IMO.
A very good list. I'm so glad you included The Big Country it's an unsung classic too often forgotten.
And don’t forget Some Like It Hot
A great list, a significant number of which I own! But there's one, "The Big Country," that I have a closer connection to. For almost 20 years, our rocket club has been launching at the ranch where most of the movie was shot. In fact, our launch field is even seen in the film. And in fact, in fact, you even included that shot in this video! It's the large flat area behind Gregory Peck at 8:56, bounded by the bluff partially hidden by him, the meandering creek and the two oak trees. Those trees are the only ones in nearly 1,000 acres.
An exciting list. Seen all but 'Big Country'--I'll have to check it out. I love that you can allow enough critical space for 'Who's Afraid' and 'The Quiet Man' to coexist. 'JFK' is a sorely misunderstood movie owing to its surface-level subject matter.
The Big Country will NOT disappoint you, I promise.
I've seen 8 out of the 10 and I have to say you nailed it. Each of the films I saw changed - even if a little bit - the way I framed the world and the way I appreciated cinema. And while I could easily add another 30 films to this list, it is a fine one unto itself. There are at least 3 or 4 scenes from each of these movies that I viscerally sense the light and hour; that stick with me ever since the day I first saw them. In each, I knew what it was like to live that world.
What a great and completely original list. I am so glad to see Branagh’s Hamlet on here. It is both reviled and loved, but I for one find it to be the Citizen Kane of Hamlet’s.
Unusual list. Some quite interesting choices.
I agree with many of these entries on other lists, I would like to add: "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1927) and "October: Ten Days That Shook The World" (1928)
I was wondering when I would see Passion of Joan of Arc in the comments. :) The backstory of the film itself parallels in many ways Joan's own life as well!
Excellent and non-cliche list.
Love your list and the honorable mentions. I'd put Jaws and the Wizard of Oz on there. I believe they are 2 absolutely perfect films! Thanks again!
I saw the Rules of the Game and found where you got your music from
I remember being in bed while my parents watched the Academy Awards. I found it hard to sleep because the notes of Colonel Bogey's march seemed to play over-and-over, as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" took award after award.
No one cares, but here's mine:
1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
Redux in particular. The movie that made me perk up and
actually take an interest in movies and how they’re made, and what
movies can be. Every frame is about perfect (and Hearts of
Darkness (which I’ve watched just as many times) is great, too).
2. Magnolia (1999)
Honestly, I’m kinda miffed “Save Me” lost best song at the oscars
to fucken _Tarzan._
3. Fight Club (1999)
Fincher took Palahnuik’s juvenile novel (big fan of Palahniuk here,
but he’s written much better books) and made it into something
effortlessly great. The most based choice on this list, I know, but
also the most rewatchable.
4. Wings of Desire (1987)
One of a few movies I would call pretty much perfect, and the
most evocative.
5. Solaris (1972)
2001 came first, but, great as 2001 is, Solaris taps into something
completely devoid in its Western counterpart I can never quite
grasp.
6. Kings of the Road (1976)
A black-n-white, three-hour road movie as these two strangers bum
around 70’s-era West Germany. Wistful, nostalgic. Pure mood.
7. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
“Utivich, I think this might just be my masterpiece”.
8. Blade Runner (1982)
Douglas Trumball’s effects, still fantastic to this day. A
great score from Vangelis. And of course, Rutger Hauer’s “tears in
the rain” speech, one of the greatest monologues in movie history.
9. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
I have a thing for sad, wistful road trip movies, Huh?
10. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
I must’ve watched this movie 4 times in one year, or just over a
year. Another pure mood, 70’s-era time capsule. A laid-back road
trip fronting as though it were a dude racing movie. A
counter-culture moment that captures the zen of the open road.
H.M.
Alphaville (1965)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Clerks (1994)
Trainspotting (1995)
And way too many others.
this is a good list because every one of these reminded me of another great movie.
All damn good picks. I might has substituted the first "Godfather" film and the Joeseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness" inspired "Apocalypse Now.' Or a least as honorable mentions. Enjoyed your analyses.
Branagh's Hamlet arrived in cinemas at exactly the moment we were studying the play in college. It was invaluable, unforgettable.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1947 Humphery Bogart timeless !!!
Humphrey Bogart is probably the actor who appeared in the most classic films of any other.
This list is STAGGERING. The Maltese Falcon. High Sierra. Sahara. Sabrina. The Caine Mutiny. The African Queen. In a Lonely Place. Key Largo. Dark Victory. Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
AND CASABLANCA!
For a split second when you flashed Jeanne Dielman I thought, "No, he didn't" and then immediately before the reveal I knew you were punking. Haha. I just subbed to the channel based on a couple of vids I just watched and am enjoying this one. I don't have a list because I usually can't remember it. But it would be something like: The Red Shoes, La règle du jeu, The Seven Samurai, Eyes Wide Shut, Giants & Toys, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and after that I can't remember, as I've watched films seriously since the late '70s and hit the arthouses back in my younger days and saw all the classics. You're probably too young to have seen A Fish Called Wanda when it came out, but I was there when it premiered and that audience laughed harder than any I've ever heard, apart from maybe Airplane (1980), which I also saw on first run. I'm now going to brag that I saw Casablanca twice at an old cinema in the 1990s, packed house both times, and thunderous applause at the end when Claude Rains says " Round up the usual suspects." Those were the days.
Lists are created using various criteria. For me, does the story resonate, does the film last in my memory, and will I want to see it again (and again, and again, and again). So here goes...Casablanca, Elvira Madigan, The Hairdresser's Husband, Il Postino, Bridge Over River Kwai, Once Around, Babette's Feast, Cinema Paradiso, Bullitt, and Bliss (1985). Of course there are honorable mentions, but the previous 10 always come first to mind.
Dr Strangelove is the best movie ever made - It has the very best of everything: Writing, Directing, Casting, Acting, Script writing, Costume design, Set design, Cinematography, Film media (Black and White), Every role was perfectly cast and every actor played his/her part to perfection. Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenyn Wynn...
Although I beileve Dr Strangelove stands the test of time it is possible that in order to truly appreciate this film the viewer would have had do have lived during the cold war.
I do not know what awards this movie was granted but it could have been nominated and won as best comedy, best drama, best writing, directing...
Weirdest movie ever made . Actually off the fucking planet crazy. Stanley Kubrick at his deplorable worst. Only David Lynch could produce more despicable drivel. Unwatchable.
What poor taste you have. It is Kubrick's masterpiece if you ask me and he has made several excellent movies. Or maybe you didn't get it because you did need to live during the cold war era. @@peterturner6497
then you also loathe eraserhead? @@peterturner6497
Dude, just watced "The Big Country". What a great western. It was the only one of your top 20 that I never seen before. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your choices of Rules of the Game and The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover are inspired - you do lean on epics and your comedies are quirky. An interesting list.
My Top Ten is always changing but right now (in chronological order):
Vertigo (1958)
The Graduate (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Alien (1979)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Scream (1996)
The Social Network (2010)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Parasite (2019)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
You're very young. Parasite? Dazed and Confused ? Scream ? Oh My.
@@theimp5901 I’m 21 haha
@@soapeydudd.93 Well, I can see you have great taste by having , Vertigo, Graduate and Rosmary's Baby , which still scares me . Good job . Hollywood was a terrific movie, very accurate to the time, except for the ending , that I wish was true cause I was here for it. John Lennon was killed in front of the Dakota ( Rosemary's Baby setting ) and I had a friend who lived there in the 60's-70's.There's some history for you my friend. I guess I should watch some new movies :) !!! HAHAHAHA !
Never seen a non american film?
@@theimp5901 If you don't mind me asking, what are some of your favorite movies that released recently??
I agree with you about " Sunset Blvd." & "Bridge on the River Kwai"
both masterpieces
Great list, particularly loved the inclusion of Who's Afraid.. and The Cook the Thief.. I'm going to watch The Big Country this weekend and I'll have to check out fish called wanda.
Here's my 20
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
Floating Weeds by Yasujiro Ozu (1959)
The Travelling Players by Theo Angelopolous (1975)
City of Sadness by Hou Hsiou-Hsen (1989)
A Brighter Summer Day by Edward Yang (1991)
War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk (1966-67)
Gate of Hell by Kohei Sugiyama (1953)
Ninotchka by Ernst Lubitsch (1939)
The Man who would be King by John Huston (1975)
Prospero's Books by Peter Greenaway (1991)
Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean (1962)
Gone to Earth by Powell and Pressburger (1950)
Ordet by Carl Theodore Dreyer (1955)
Lion in Winter by James Goldman (1968)
Cleopatra by Joseph L Mankiewicz (1963)
Marriage Italian Style by Vittorio de Sica (1964)
Werkmiester Harmonies by Bela Tarr (2000)
Once upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone (1969)
Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders (1984)
Damn that’s a beautiful list!
Wow! Very interesting list, esp. the Werkmeister Harmonies. What a choice! I watched it late one night and at first thought the most boring film ever made, then it grabbed me. Very unusual. Strange you don't include any Kurosawa. Rashumon for example. He has so many masterpieces. He's one of the greatest of directors. I would also include Satyajit Ray.
love seeing Greenaway on this list. My personal fave from him is Prospero's Books, though I do admit it is somewhat less accessible than Cook/Thief... heheh
It's not a movie I'll grant you, but Brideshead Revisited is my favourite onscreen..
English writers and actors can really excel.
Casablanca is my American favourite. Scent of a Woman is right up there too.
Your list is quite interesting. I can't believe that you showed a glimpse of Amadeus and didn't rate it. I would also have rated The Good The Bad And The Ugly much higher than Once Upon A Time In America. To me the perfect adapted screenplay is the 1954 version of The Importance Of Being Ernest, and I would definitely have included a musical (Cabaret, perhaps) and a cartoon.
No on Cabaret
Yes on Cabaret
is ANYTHING in the history of movie musicals more endearing than the wide-eyed innocent yet fiercely tragic Liza Minelli doing the Kander & Ebb songs and the Bob Fosse dances as "Ze toast of Mayfair, zat inter-nazi-onal zen-zay-zhun Fraulein Sally Bowles" in Cabaret? It's gotta be one of the top five movie musicals ever. At the very least.
@@98pointseven Liza and Fosses' tour de force. Speaking of Fosse, All That Jazz gobsmacks me just about as hard, changing from heartfelt one-on-ones to heartstopping sweeping musicals in a -- heartbeat.
I love that movie. And i never get tired of playing a clip of the scene when the legendary dancer Ann Reinking and the little girl (Erzsebet Foldi) do a top-hat and stockings dance number with Peter Allen's "Everyting Old is New Again" as their music.@@dayceem
Some of these, I agree with you: "The Bridge on the river Kwai"; "Once Upon The Time In The West"; and "JFK". Some others, not so much. But some not mentioned should absolutely be on this list. "The Graduate"; "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"; "Kelly's Heroes"; and "Vertigo" should be here.
JFK by stone was so manufa cured. Out of sequence bs
Kelly's heroes is a great movie😊
@@snatchhog The All-Star cast alone, is worth the price of admission.
@@snatchhogEntertaining but def not top 10 or even top 100. You really need to watch more movies instead of the same ones over and over.
@@scotmandel6699
Thanks. Appreciate your opinion for what it's worth 👌
I've always said that Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe is the greatest horror film I've ever seen. I saw it when I was still a child. I couldn't believe people could be that cruel to each other.
Welcome to addiction!
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Far more horrifying.
I just watche with my 33 yr old daughter and she laughed all the way through it. She loved it and thought it was a hoot
I've always seen it as one of the greatest love stories ever.
That's why I don't like it.
I love films, full stop. I am incapable of picking just ten. I would have to categorize by such things as actors, directors, genres or time the film was produced. I always say, “My top-twenty favourite films”. So hard to limit!