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The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films (BBC Poll, 177 worldwide critics)
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Seriously, people in this thread are acting like it's Inland Empire or something.
Fancy Clown
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Good list
I get the movie's appeal, and its impact / legacy, I just think in terms of content it's sort of a vacuous summer blockbuster. Which the list is otherwise pretty free of.
But you know, different strokes and all that. Dark Knight was a huge deal when it came out and the list is a pretty excellent one overall. I'm just some guy on the Internet.
Moulin Rouge is straight garbage tho
AHA-Lambda
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Oh! Apologies.
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That, Lost Highway and Eraserhead would blow their minds.
Revolutionary
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List invalidated.
ViewtifulJC
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They also did a Top 100 Greatest American Films list, but I didnt like that one as much. 41 films shouldn't be owned by 10 directors. Spread the love around, get more comedies/genre in there, be bold! I did my own Top 100 American Films in response, added Fury Road and Carol from last year since its inception.
1. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
2. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
4. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
5. The General (Keaton, 1926)
6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
7. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
8. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
9. Singin in the Rain (Kelly & Donen, 1952)
10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
11. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
12. All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
13. The Lady Eve (P. Sturges, 1941)
14. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
15. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (Ford, 1962)
16. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
17. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
18. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
19. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
20. Unforigiven (Eastwood, 1992)
21. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
22. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
23. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
24. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
25. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
26. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
27. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
28. The Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
29. Millers Crossing (Coens, 1990)
30. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
31. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
32. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz, 1938)
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
34. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
35. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2016)
36. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
37. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
38. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
39. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1984)
40. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1977)
41. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
42. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
43. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
44. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
45. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
46. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
47. The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
48. Alien (Scott, 1979)
49. Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
50. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
51. Carol (Haynes, 2015)
52. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
53. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
54. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
55. Schindlers List (Spielberg, 1993)
56. My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)
57. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
58. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
59. Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
60. Toy Story 2 (Lasseter, 1999)
61. The Right Stuff (Kaufman, 1983)
62. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
63. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
64. The Last of the Mohicans (Mann, 1992)
65. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
66. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
67. Winchester 73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
68. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
69. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
70. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
71. Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
72. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
73. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
74. Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959)
75. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
76. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan, 2000)
77. The Terminator (Cameron, 1983)
78. Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973)
79. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
80. Blow Out (DePalma, 1981)
81. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)
82. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
83. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
84. Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
85. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)
86. Ed Wood (Burton, 1995)
87. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
88. Dangerous Liaisons (Frears, 1988)
89. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
90. The Lion King (Allers & Minkoff, 1994)
91. Rosemarys Baby (Polanski, 1968)
92. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)
93. Young Frankenstein (M. Brooks, 1974)
94. No Country for Old Men (Coens, 2007)
95. Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
96. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
97. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
98. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
99. All the Presidents Men (Pakula, 1976)
100. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
1. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
2. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
4. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
5. The General (Keaton, 1926)
6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
7. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
8. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
9. Singin in the Rain (Kelly & Donen, 1952)
10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
11. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
12. All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
13. The Lady Eve (P. Sturges, 1941)
14. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
15. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (Ford, 1962)
16. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
17. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
18. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
19. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
20. Unforigiven (Eastwood, 1992)
21. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
22. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
23. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
24. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
25. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
26. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
27. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
28. The Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
29. Millers Crossing (Coens, 1990)
30. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
31. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
32. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz, 1938)
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
34. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
35. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2016)
36. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
37. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
38. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
39. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1984)
40. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1977)
41. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
42. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
43. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
44. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
45. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
46. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
47. The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
48. Alien (Scott, 1979)
49. Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
50. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
51. Carol (Haynes, 2015)
52. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
53. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
54. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
55. Schindlers List (Spielberg, 1993)
56. My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)
57. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
58. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
59. Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
60. Toy Story 2 (Lasseter, 1999)
61. The Right Stuff (Kaufman, 1983)
62. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
63. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
64. The Last of the Mohicans (Mann, 1992)
65. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
66. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
67. Winchester 73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
68. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
69. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
70. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
71. Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
72. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
73. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
74. Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959)
75. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
76. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan, 2000)
77. The Terminator (Cameron, 1983)
78. Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973)
79. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
80. Blow Out (DePalma, 1981)
81. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)
82. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
83. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
84. Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
85. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)
86. Ed Wood (Burton, 1995)
87. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
88. Dangerous Liaisons (Frears, 1988)
89. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
90. The Lion King (Allers & Minkoff, 1994)
91. Rosemarys Baby (Polanski, 1968)
92. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)
93. Young Frankenstein (M. Brooks, 1974)
94. No Country for Old Men (Coens, 2007)
95. Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
96. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
97. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
98. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
99. All the Presidents Men (Pakula, 1976)
100. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
Fancy Clown
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Also good list ^
Mortimer Brewster
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Muholland Drive is along with Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet part of what I view as the Gateway to David Lynch's more outlandish films. They feature a lot of the thematic and structural qualities Lynch likes while still being palatable to most watchers. How you view them helps determine if Lynch is for you before getting into his more abstract films ie Erasherhead, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Inland Empire.
starchild excalibur
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I love PT Anderson but Inherent Vice shouldn't be anywhere on that list. And it definitely shouldn't be above those 24 other films.
I don't have an issue with the list for the most part as they're all good, well-crafted films for the most part. I guess I just take issue with them being this century's "greatest" so far. It just seems like film critics going to their go-to directors even when some of their offerings were less than great.
Ida should be higher, 12 Years a Slave and Boyhood should be much lower, Synechdoche New York was an awful film by a great screenwriter, and how the hell isn't Punch Drunk Love on there (but again, Inherent Vice is?) And how the fuck is Moonrise Kingdom anywhere on that list but The Lobster isn't?
And I know: opinions n' all that.
I don't have an issue with the list for the most part as they're all good, well-crafted films for the most part. I guess I just take issue with them being this century's "greatest" so far. It just seems like film critics going to their go-to directors even when some of their offerings were less than great.
Ida should be higher, 12 Years a Slave and Boyhood should be much lower, Synechdoche New York was an awful film by a great screenwriter, and how the hell isn't Punch Drunk Love on there (but again, Inherent Vice is?) And how the fuck is Moonrise Kingdom anywhere on that list but The Lobster isn't?
And I know: opinions n' all that.
That's an okay list. I take issue with 12 Angry Men being that low.
Inland Empire is the only movie to ever give me an outright headache from the mindfucking.
Not sure if joking or serious.
partyphone
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yeah. i knew that piece of shit movie was going to be on there but it's so high.
Extra Sauce
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For blockbuster filmmaking you might have a point. For everything else, nah.
Yep. That's my one sticking point. Rest of the list is great. Woulda put Zodiac in the top ten, but other than that, damn fine list.
Sir_Crocodile
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I should work on my own 100
It would certainly have Blazing Saddles & Ferris Bueller's Day Off in. :/
Fancy Clown
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Probs something like this:
In the Mood for Love
Mulholland Drive
There Will Be Blood
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Tree of Life
No Country for Old Men
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hunger
Children of Men
Memories of Murder
MRrogermoore
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The movie requires a couple of viewings to make some kind of sense. I gave up after a second attempt . Do you really understand the movies plot?
This list is pretty populist. Most of the "arty" films got wide releases.
And_Gignac
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Mad Max 50 spots above Dogville = shit list
I was going to go through my list of films watched from 2000-2016 on imdb, but it was over 700 so I was like, "eff that." I was surprised by how many more modern ones I've seen because most movies I've seen are pre-2000s.
The things from this century that jump out as being absent are Drive, Zatoichi, Infernal Affairs, and George Washington. I'd have George Washington and Zatoichi in my top-10, while Drive and Infernal Affairs would be top-100 easily. I'd also throw in Red Belt, Che, Sicario, Rubber, Daytime Drinking, and lots of other random crap somewhere in the 100, too much stuff I'm forgetting. I'd throw Drama/Mex in my top-10, even though I don't think most people would like it.
Edit: just noticed the BBC had 3 films at 100, so this is a 102 film list.
Mortimer Brewster
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It's not a terrible list but it has a few headscratchers( Do the Right Thing,Fury Road, Eternal Sunshine,The Social Network, Brokeback,Grand Budapest, 12 Years A Slave etc are not top 100 goat material) and some odd choices( how Bring Me the Head of Alfreso Garcia is on a list where The Wild Bunch, Major Dundee and Ride the High Country are not). Though I do love seeing Winchester 73 on that list,
WadiumArcadium
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I'm a big Nolan fan but come on, Mad Max is a much better film than the overly long Interstellar. Mad Max looks great and is an adrenaline rush from start to finish.
Grand Budapest Hotel and Fury Road definitely deserve to be on the list, but this
, but otherwise it's one of my favorite recent movies. Mad Max isn't even in the same genre, I don't know how you can directly compare them. Does a movie need to provide constant thrills to be considered good or entertaining?
the main problem with Interstellar is the ending
LOVE
Mulholland Drive's? Yes, absolutely. The moment you realize
that 2/3 of the movie is a dream
DoctorFling
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I'm watching Mulholland Dr. for the first time now, it's great so far. Best botched assassination I've ever seen.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Gabriel_Logan
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How can Jesse James be at 92?
kitschykitty
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Yeah it should be higher
Good list. Don't agree with the rankings (who can really given the various possible permutations) but a good set of films regardless.
List is up on icheckmovies if anyone wants to track their viewings https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/bbcs+100+greatest+films+of+the+21st+century/nuked/
List is up on icheckmovies if anyone wants to track their viewings https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/bbcs+100+greatest+films+of+the+21st+century/nuked/