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The "Greatest" Movies (updated december 2017)
The document presents a subjective compilation of the greatest movies of all time, established through surveys by Sight and Sound and the American Film Institute. It outlines a personal plan for reviewing these films, which includes watching them and adding comments based on critics' scores. The list features iconic titles such as 'Tokyo Story,' 'Citizen Kane,' and '2001: A Space Odyssey,' among many others.
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- 1. Below is a compiled list of The Greatest Movies of All Time, based on the most recent surveys of Sight and Sound and the American Film Institute. This is a highly subjective list -‐ see below for how the list was determined. My 2018 Plan -‐ for fun: 1. Start at the top of the list, added Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics score and comment. 2. Watch Movie. 3. Jot down my comments/thoughts. Read more in-‐depth commentary about the movie.4. Movie Year Note Rotten Tomatoe s Top Critics Votes Comments from Top Critics Tokyo Story 1953) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll 100% 6 Moving, emotional, observes without condemnation, "it ennobles cinema," "an artist's vision of normal living." Citizen Kane 1941) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors The "Greatest" Movies (Updated December 2017) Tuesday, December 26, 2017 11:32 AM
- 3. 100 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 Vertigo 1958) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 8½ 1963) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Apocalypse Now 1979) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 Breathless 1960) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Mirror 1975) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll The Godfather 1972) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 Persona 1966) Sight &
- 4. Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 Persona 1966) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Seven Samurai 1954) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Taxi Driver 1976) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 Andrei Rublev 1966) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Bicycle Thieves 1948) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Ordet 1955) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll Rashomon 1950) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll The 400 Blows 1959) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and*
- 5. Poll *and* Directors Poll The 400 Blows 1959) Sight & Sound Critics Poll *and* Directors Poll The Rules of the Game 1939) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 The Searchers 1956) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 Man with a Movie Camera 1929) Sight & Sound Critics Poll The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Battleship Potemkin 1925) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Raging Bull 1980) Sight & Sound Directors Poll; AFI Top 100 L'Atalante 1934) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Late Spring 1949) Sight & Sound Critics Poll
- 6. Sound Critics Poll Late Spring 1949) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Au Hasard Balthazar 1966) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Fanny and Alexander 1982) Sight & Sound Directors Poll Barry Lyndon 1975) Sight & Sound Directors Poll Singin' in the Rain 1952) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 L'Avventura 1960) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Contempt 1963) Sight & Sound Critics Poll In the Mood for Love 2000) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Mulholland Dr. 2001) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Stalker 1979) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Shoah 1985) Sight & Sound Critics Poll The 1974) Sight &
- 7. Poll Shoah 1985) Sight & Sound Critics Poll The Godfather Part II 1974) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 The General 1926) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 Metropolis 1927) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Psycho 1960) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Sátántangó 1994) Sight & Sound Critics Poll La Dolce Vita 1960) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Journey to Italy 1954) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Pather Panchali 1955) Sight & Sound Critics Poll
- 8. Italy Sound Critics Poll Pather Panchali 1955) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Some Like It Hot 1959) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 Gertrud 1964) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Pierrot le Fou 1965) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Playtime 1967) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Close-‐Up 1990) Sight & Sound Critics Poll The Battle of Algiers 1966) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988-‐1 998) Sight & Sound Critics Poll City Lights 1931) Sight & Sound Critics Poll; AFI Top 100 Ugetsu Monogatari 1953) Sight & Sound Critics Poll La Jetée 1962) Sight & Sound Critics Poll
- 9. Monogatari Sound Critics Poll La Jetée 1962) Sight & Sound Critics Poll Casablanca 1942 AFI Top 100 Gone with the Wind 1939 AFI Top 100 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 AFI Top 100 Schindler's List 1993 AFI Top 100 The Wizard of Oz 1939 AFI Top 100 Star Wars 1977 AFI Top 100 Sunset Boulevard 1950 AFI Top 100 The Graduate 1967 AFI Top 100 On the Waterfront 1954 AFI Top 100 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 AFI Top 100 Chinatown 1974 AFI Top 100 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 AFI Top 100 E.T. the Extra-‐ Terrestrial 1982 AFI Top 100 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 AFI Top 100 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 AFI Top 100
- 10. To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 AFI Top 100 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 AFI Top 100 High Noon 1952 AFI Top 100 All About Eve 1950 AFI Top 100 Double Indemnity 1944 AFI Top 100 The Maltese Falcon 1941 AFI Top 100 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 AFI Top 100 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 AFI Top 100 Annie Hall 1977 AFI Top 100 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 AFI Top 100 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 AFI Top 100 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 AFI Top 100 Dr. Strangelove 1964 AFI Top 100 The Sound of Music 1965 AFI Top 100 King Kong 1933 AFI Top 100 Bonnie and 1967 AFI Top 100
- 11. Strangelove The Sound of Music 1965 AFI Top 100 King Kong 1933 AFI Top 100 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 AFI Top 100 Midnight Cowboy 1969 AFI Top 100 The Philadelphia Story 1940 AFI Top 100 Shane 1953 AFI Top 100 It Happened One Night 1934 AFI Top 100 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 AFI Top 100 Rear Window 1954 AFI Top 100 Intolerance 1916 AFI Top 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 AFI Top 100 West Side Story 1961 AFI Top 100 The Deer Hunter 1978 AFI Top 100 MASH 1970 AFI Top 100 North by Northwest 1959 AFI Top 100 Jaws 1975 AFI Top 100 Rocky 1976 AFI Top 100 The Gold 1925 AFI Top 100
- 12. North by Northwest 1959AFI Top 100 Jaws 1975 AFI Top 100 Rocky 1976 AFI Top 100 The Gold Rush 1925 AFI Top 100 Nashville 1975 AFI Top 100 Duck Soup 1933 AFI Top 100 Sullivan's Travels 1941 AFI Top 100 American Graffiti 1973 AFI Top 100 Cabaret 1972 AFI Top 100 Network 1976 AFI Top 100 The African Queen 1951 AFI Top 100 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 AFI Top 100 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 AFI Top 100 Unforgiven 1992 AFI Top 100 Tootsie 1982 AFI Top 100 A Clockwork Orange 1971 AFI Top 100 Saving Private Ryan 1998 AFI Top 100 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 AFI Top 100 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 AFI Top 100
- 13. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 AFI Top 100 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 AFI Top 100 In the Heat of the Night 1967 AFI Top 100 Forrest Gump 1994 AFI Top 100 All the President's Men 1976 AFI Top 100 Modern Times 1936 AFI Top 100 The Wild Bunch 1969 AFI Top 100 The Apartment 1960 AFI Top 100 Spartacus 1960 AFI Top 100 Titanic 1997 AFI Top 100 Easy Rider 1969 AFI Top 100 A Night at the Opera 1935 AFI Top 100 Platoon 1986 AFI Top 100 12 Angry Men 1957 AFI Top 100 Bringing Up Baby 1938 AFI Top 100 The Sixth Sense 1999 AFI Top 100 Swing Time 1936 AFI Top 100 Sophie's 1982 AFI Top 100
- 14. The Sixth Sense 1999AFI Top 100 Swing Time 1936 AFI Top 100 Sophie's Choice 1982 AFI Top 100 Goodfellas 1990 AFI Top 100 The French Connection 1971 AFI Top 100 Pulp Fiction 1994 AFI Top 100 The Last Picture Show 1971 AFI Top 100 Do the Right Thing 1989 AFI Top 100 Blade Runner 1982 AFI Top 100 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 AFI Top 100 Toy Story 1995 AFI Top 100 Ben-‐Hur 1959 AFI Top 100 This highly-‐subjective list was determined by the following: • The Top 50 movies of all time according to Sight and Sound's Critic's Survey. • The Top 20 movies of all time according to Sight and Sound's Director's Survey. • The Top 100 movies of all time according to AFI's 2007 100 Years 10th Anniversary poll. • Since Sight and Sound is more highly regarded and includes foreign films, those movies are placed highest on the list based on their combined survey results.