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Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:08 pm
by Magpiespower
Announced every ten years. Latest list released today...

Top 10
1. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock
2. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
3. Tokyo Story (1953) Ozu
4. The Rules of the Game (1939) Renoir
5. Sunrise (1927) Murnau
6. 2001 (1968) Kubrick
7. The Searchers (1956) Ford
8. Man with a Movie Camera (1939) Vertov
9. The Passion of Joan Arc (1927) Dreyer
10. 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini

Rounding out the list...
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:20 am
by fish
Magpiespower wrote:Announced every ten years. Latest list released today...

Top 10
1. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock
2. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
3. Tokyo Story (1953) Ozu
4. The Rules of the Game (1939) Renoir
5. Sunrise (1927) Murnau
6. 2001 (1968) Kubrick
7. The Searchers (1956) Ford
8. Man with a Movie Camera (1939) Vertov
9. The Passion of Joan Arc (1927) Dreyer
10. 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini

Rounding out the list...
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time
Any top whatever film list without Groundhog Day on it isn't worth the paper/pixels it's printed on. [-X

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:08 am
by Magpiespower
fish wrote:Any top whatever film list without Groundhog Day on it isn't worth the paper/pixels it's printed on. [-X


Clearly none of those fillum snobs have seen Police Academy, either...

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:31 pm
by Booney
I've seen 3 of them.

Godfather and Godfather II, Taxi Driver.

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:45 pm
by JK
Booney wrote:I've seen 3 of them.

Godfather and Godfather II, Taxi Driver.


7 for me

Apocolypse Now
Mulholland Drive
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Taxi Driver
Psycho
Some Like It Hot

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:55 pm
by scoob
One night in Paris anyone?

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:54 pm
by Lightning McQueen
scoob wrote:One night in Paris anyone?


carp.

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:28 pm
by scoob
Lightning McQueen wrote:
scoob wrote:One night in Paris anyone?


carp.


Not a fan LM?

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:50 pm
by Leaping Lindner
I don't consider myself a film bluff by any means and I've seen 14...

Vertigo
Citizen Kane
2001
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
Mullholland Drive
Godfather II
Taxi Driver
Metropolis
Psycho
The General
Some Like it hot
Battle of Algiers
City Lights

Re: Sight + Sound's Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:53 am
by Lightning McQueen
scoob wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:
scoob wrote:One night in Paris anyone?


carp.


Not a fan LM?


Na, was expecting better.