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| Sean |
Posted - 10/22/2010 : 23:06:33
I haven't had a good look through them yet, so am not sure about obvious omissions, but as a compulsive watcher-by-top-movies-lists I'll be going through this carefully and catching some I've missed.
Here's the list.
...and here's the same list as a spreadsheet, one genre per page. Click "File" and download as Excel for the .xls.
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| [matt] |
Posted - 11/03/2010 : 14:38:43
Cheers for the link.
It's quite funny (pun intended) that every one of the comedies is from the US or UK.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/03/2010 : 07:59:50
I cannot believe that ANY comedy came in higher than "Some Like it Hot". Sure, I might give you that "Annie Hall" is a very good film and pretty funny, but I don't think it is better than "Some Like it Hot". But what really stunned me was BORAT! coming in 2nd. Really? That piece of toilet humor? Ten years from now no one will remember it and people who see it will wonder what it is all about. Even "Annie Hall" looks a bit dated these days. But "Some Like it Hot" you can watch today and still love each and every minute of it!
HARUMPH!
(And what's more, my favourite film of all time didn't make ANY of the lists - "Philadelphia Story"! Double and triple HARUMPH!)
((But did you all notice the one film that isn't here that doesn't deserve to be here? Hello? Avatar isn't here at all under any genre! HURRAY for that, at least!)) |
| Sean |
Posted - 11/02/2010 : 23:12:44
quote:
Originally posted by RockGo11f
Here's a list I wouldn't make an accolade on:
Brad Bourland's 10,000 best English language films of the 20th Century
He excludes silent films, cartoons, short subjects and documentaries.
Holy crap, at five per week that's 40 years of viewing.  I'd better get cracking!  |
| RockGolf |
Posted - 11/02/2010 : 16:41:22
Here's a list I wouldn't make an accolade on:
Brad Bourland's 10,000 best English language films of the 20th Century
He excludes silent films, cartoons, short subjects and documentaries. |
| AC |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 18:41:33
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
By the way AC... you seem to have a few of these accolades already... 
Nice one! That's the reason I took on the Top 1000 films accolades from MOrkeleb - it meant I spread myself far and wide to ensure that I have no gaps when it comes to the great films! |
| GHcool |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 18:29:16
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
I haven't had a good look through them yet, so am not sure about obvious omissions, but as a compulsive watcher-by-top-movies-lists I'll be going through this carefully and catching some I've missed.
Here's the list.
...and here's the same list as a spreadsheet, one genre per page. Click "File" and download as Excel for the .xls.
I'm confused. Who is voting or choosing the movies on the list? I'll give 1 glaring omission per genre:
Romance - Forrest Gump
Crime - L.A. Confidential
Comedy - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Action - In the Line of Fire
Drama - Schindler's List
Sci-Fi/Fantasy - What Dreams May Come
Horror - 28 Days Later |
| demonic |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 14:15:48
Sure, I'll do it. They're pretty good lists- i'm still looking for the glaring omissions. I'll report back. :-)
Edit:
I've done them in their seven genre blocks to make the whole thing a little less daunting (also so a Sci-fi fan doesn't necessarily have to review obscure foreign language romance films to get the accolade). I'll add some text and images later, but I have to say I noticed some really odd choices and omissions along the way. Rome, Open City but no Bicycle Thieves? Ran but no Seven Samurai? Rules of the Game but no Grand Illusion? La Dolce Vita but no 8 1/2? Once Upon a Time in the West but no The Good The Bad and the Ugly? Wild Strawberries but no Seventh Seal? Life of Brian but no Holy Grail? I'd argue the inclusion of the latter in every case in addition to, if not instead of, the former.
And no Schindler's List? Cuckoo's Nest? Empire Strikes Back? Silence of the Lambs? It's a Wonderful Life? Sunset Boulevard? Taxi Driver? Lawrence of Arabia? Amelie? The Lives of Others? Singin' in the Rain? Downfall? All About Eve? Elephant Man? Oldboy? Fargo? Cool Hand Luke? Donnie Darko? The General? Come and See? Raging Bull? Amores Perros? The Thing? Dog Day Afternoon? Night of the Hunter? Streetcar Named Desire? Magnolia? Toy Story? M? Rear Window? 12 Angry Men? Platoon? The Battle of Algiers? Wings of Desire? Dawn of the Dead? Rebel without a Cause?
Obviously personal choice is a necessarily selective thing - but most if not all of the above defy most criticism as essential to their genres. Ah well. What's a good list without a good argument?
By the way AC... you seem to have a few of these accolades already... |
| AC |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 01:33:48
So who's going to make the Accolades?
I am really enjoying completing MOrkeleb's 'They Shoot Pictures, Don't They' Top 1000 accolades at the moment - this would be another good one to put together! |
| Sean |
Posted - 10/22/2010 : 23:07:31
...and for the lazy, here are the cut-down lists:-
Romance
Brief Encounter (1945)
Casablanca (1942)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Breathless (1960)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
The Apartment (1960)
Hannah & Her Sisters (1986)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Room With a View (1985)
Jules et Jim (1962)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Wall-E (2008)
My Night With Maud (1969)
Voyage to Italy (1954)
Dr Zhivago (1965)
Harold & Maude (1971)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Say Anything.... (1989)
Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
A Matter of Life & Death (1946)
Crime
Chinatown (1974)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Badlands (1973)
Rashomon (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Get Carter (1971)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Hidden (2005)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Conversation (1974)
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
The Killing (1956)
French Connection (1971)
The Big Sleep (1946)
La Ceremonie (1995)
Point Blank (1967)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Long Good Friday (1980)
A Prophet (2009)
Heat (1995)
Scarface (1983) (1983)
Miller�s Crossing (1990)
Postman Always Rings Twice (1942) (1946)
Jour Se Leve (1939)
Comedy
Annie Hall (1977)
Borat (2006)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Team America (2004)
Dr Strangelove (1964)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Duck Soup (1933)
Rushmore (1998)
Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949)
Monty Python�s Life of Brian (1979)
Airplane! (1980)
Election (1999)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
There�s Something About Mary (1998)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
MASH (1970)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Clueless (1995)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Clerks (1994)
The Jerk (1979)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Action
Apocalypse Now (1979)
North by Northwest (1959)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Deliverance (1972)
City of God (2002)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Bullitt (1968)
Ran (1985)
Die Hard (1988)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Searchers (1956)
Goldfinger (1964)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Deer Hunter (1978)
Gladiator (2000)
Rome Open City (1945)
Butch Cassidy (1969)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Incredibles (2004)
Arthouse and Drama
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Mulholland Dr (2001)
L�Atalante (1934)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
White Ribbon (2009)
The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964)
Aguirre Wrath of God (1972)
Pather Panchali (1955)
The Conformist (1970)
Death in Venice (1971)
The Godfather Parts I and II (1972)
The Graduate (1967)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Rules of the Game (1939)
Shadows ()
Distant Voices Still Lives (1988)
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2001 (1968)
Metropolis (1927)
Blade Runner (1982)
Alien (1979)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
ET (1982)
Solaris (1972)
Spirited Away (2001)
Star Wars (1977) (1977)
Close Encounters (1977)
King Kong (1933)
Terminator/Terminator 2 (1984/1991)
The Matrix (1999)
Alphaville (1965)
Back to the Future (1985)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Brazil (1985)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
Dark Star (1974)
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Akira (1988)
Princess Bride (1987)
Pan�s Labyrinth (2006)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Horror
Psycho (1960)
Rosemary�s Baby (1968)
Don�t Look Now (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Shining (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
Nosferatu (1922) (1922)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Vampyr (1932)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Innocents (1961)
Ringu (1998)
The Haunting (1963)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
Halloween (1978)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Audition (1999)
Dracula (1958) (1958)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Evil Dead/Evil Dead II (1981/ 1987)
Carrie (1976)
Les Vampires (1915) (1915)
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