Great list. My top 10 (in chronological order): - Fantasia (1940) - The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Seven Samurai (1954) - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - The French Connection (1971) - Taxi Driver (1976) - Blade Runner (1982) - Ghost in the Shell (1995) - The Fog of War (2003) - Up (2009) Honorable mentions: Citizen Kane, Vertigo, 2001, Patton, The Godfather I & II, The Star Wars trilogy, Akira, Pulp Fiction
Luckily I already had a list made. My top 10 would be: The Dekalog (1989) Mirror (1975) The Rules of the Game (1939) La Dolce Vita (1960) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Sátántangó (1994) Out 1 (1971) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Nazarin (1959) Late Spring (1949) Love seeing Playtime and Dekalog (My #1 pick) on your list, fantastic films. Very good choice picking The Sacrifice.
I'm so happy that The Thin Red Line is on your list. Such an underrated film. I was blown away when it first came out that I saw it in the theaters 12 times! and of course bought it on DVD. 1. The Thin Red Line 2. Sans Soliel 3. Breaking the Waves 4. Festen 5. In the Mood for Love 6. Back to the Future 7. Streetwise 8. Amadeus 9. L'argent 10. Mulholland Drive
Intresting im seeing Amadeus a lot on here, and I know so many people who are recommending it to me. The trailer I saw looked a little bit goofie to me, but maybe I should just give it a shot.
Great list! I’m no film scholar so I’m just going to do my top 10 of all time off of Letterboxd with some changes. 1) Once Upon a Time in America 2) Star Wars (1977) 3) The Godfather 4) Amadeus 5) There Will be Blood 6) Titanic 7) Taxi Driver 8) Barry Lyndon 9) The Prince of Egypt 10) Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring
I think Paolo Sorrentino agrees with you about Once Upon a Time. Interesting that the LoTR movies are showing up in your lists. I suspect that it might end up being like Star Wars, quite influential on 20-30 somethings for the rest of their lives, and so it will begin showing up in greatest-of lists as people in this age-range have more votes.
@@LearningaboutMovies yah I think the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is a worthy selection because it really opened up one of the most beloved and well crafted fantasy series of all time which really demonstrates the power of movie making.
1 life and death of colonel blimp 2 Bicycle thieves 3 Tokyo story 4 The third man 5 In a lonely place 6 The 400 blows 7 The red shoes 8 A special day 9 Groundhog day 10 Raging bull
My list in chronological order: -Safety Last! -Gone With the Wind -Citizen Kane -Casablanca -Bicycle Thieves -North By Northwest -Psycho -Pulp Fiction -American History X (If I changed one out, it would be this replaced with the long version of Fanny & Alexander) -Return of the King Other films that would have made the cut: Tokyo Story, Rules of the Game, Once Upon a Time In America (long version), Amadeus, Schindler's List, Beauty and the Beast 1991, Vertigo
this is great. I thought hard about putting Lloyd in here, who I really love. The problem is I have to choose from Why Worry, The Freshman, and Speedy. Wish I could just package them and put them together in this list! Really interesting on American History X. I haven't seen that since it was released, so I should rewatch. good reminder.
@@jiten2023 Thanks! The shocker on the list seems to be American History X. Edward Norton's performance is my favourite film performance ever, so I had to include it.
I have submitted this list to BFI a few days ago. My top 10 films(not in any particular order)- 1. The Seventh Seal 2. 400 Blows 3. Amarcord 4. The discreet charm of the bourgeois 5. Solaris 6. Tokyo Story 7. Lawrence of Arabia 8. Amadeus 9. Eyes Wide Shut 10. Tree of Life
1) The Red Shoes; 2) Grease; 3) There's Something About Mary; 4) Singing in the Rain; 5) Mulholland Drive 6) War and Peace (Bondarchuck); 7) Raiders of the Lost Ark; 8) The Matrix; 9) The Talented Mr. Ripley; 10) The Karate Kid; 11) Lord of the Rings;
1. Umberto D. 2. Once upon a time in the West 3. All Quiet on the Western Front 4. Das Boot 5. Judgement at Nuremburg 6. Casablanca 7. Grave of the Fireflies 8. Diabolique 9. Battle of Algiers 10. Grapes of Wrath had to leave out way too many! Loved your list, was so excited Children of Paradise was included. Thanks for the quality and variety of your channel's movie content!
1. Synecdoche, New York 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Baraka 4. Star Wars 5. The Big Lebowski 6. 12 Angry Men 7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8. The Dark Knight 9. La La Land 10. Pulp Fiction
TOP 10 (Sorted by release date) 1: 2001: A Space Odyssee (1968) 2: Blade Runner (1982) 3: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 4: A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 5: Chungking Express (1994) 6: Fallen Angels (1995) 7: Yi Yi (2000) 8: In the Mood for Love (2000) 9: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 10: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
@@KimRoesener glad to see someone else with Blade Runner 2049 on their list. Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think it’s actually better than the original. Not only does it expand on the universe and introduce more philosophical ideas but it’s gotta be the most gorgeous movie ever made visually. Not sure why it isn’t as revered as it deserves to be. Maybe cos it’s still so new and only time will tell if people remember it in 20 years but something tells me it’ll go down in history as one of the best sequels ever.
@@q-q__b4175 I agree with you. It made me appreciate the first one even more because of the continuation of its story and the world that it builds upon. Both of them are fantastic and I do prefer 2049 to the first one as well.
My Greatest 10 films are : 1. The Godfather (1972) 2. Once Upon A Time In America (1984) 3. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) 4. War & Peace (1966) 5. Seven Samurai (1954) 6. The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) 7. Taxi Driver (1976) 8. The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966) 9. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 10. Amadeus (1984)
@@LearningaboutMovies Oh I just looked it up, I never heard of this. That's why I like coming to your channel. I always learn more things and expand my horizons.
Good stuff Josh. So very difficult. A list of some favourites. Floating Weeds - Ozu. Illustrious Corpses - Rosi. The Killing - Kubrick. The Red Shoes - Powell and Pressburger. Bringing out the dead - Scorsese The Man who Shot Liberty Valance - Ford. Rio Bravo - Hawks. Rififi - Dassin. Canal - Wajda. Great Expectations - Lean.
What an amazing list! I have my own list of top 250 greatest movies ever made, which I made with my friends. But this here are my favourite movies. Here's my top 10 10- Flowers of Shanghai - hsiao-hsien 9- Burning - Lee Chang-dong 8- Chungking Express - WKW 7- Life of Oharu - Mizoguchi 6- Red Desert - Antonioni 5- The Pornographers - Immamura 4- Hero - Yimou Zhang 3- Tokyo Story - Ozu 2- Rashomon - Kurosawa 1- In The Mood For Love - WKW
excellent, thank you. Feel free to post that list. If you don't have it recorded online, you can pretty easily make one at letterboxd and link to it here, if you wish.
Thank you for asking us to create our own lists. Here goes... (In descending order) 1. 12 Angry Men 2. The Seven Samurai 3. The Guns of Navarone 4. The Apu Trilogy 5. Up 6. Modern Times 7. Rope 8. The Last Hurrah 9. The Sting 10. Ace in the Hole I like movies to be entertaining and inspiring. I like to leave the viewing with some profound questions or a levity of senses. Dr. Josh, your list was astonishing and honest. Now I realise how difficult is it to create such a short list. Thank you again❤
Thank you Josh. What I like about these lists is that each is unique. Simply because we all are unique in our thoughts. Can you review The Apu Trilogy? The Criterion restoration is extraordinary.
I did a short video, kind of an introductory thing, on the Apu Trilogy. It's on the channel somewhere. Probably should do something in-depth in the future on each film in the trilogy.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Citizen Kane 3. Tokyo Story 4. Sherlock Junior 5. The Passion of Joan of Arc 6. Psycho 7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 8. Dog Day Afternoon 9. Blue Velvet 10. The Battle of Algiers
1. Mulholland drive 2. 2001: A space odyssey 3. Stalker 4. Fanny and Alexander 5. Satantango 6. The color of pomegranates 7. Blade runner 8. Perfect Blue 9. Taxi Driver 10. Contempt
1. Rashomon 2. The Kid 3. Rear Window 4. Citizen Kane 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey 6. La Strada 7. Wild Strawberries 8. Tokyo Story (or Late Spring, my personal favorite) 9. The Godfather 10. Fargo If I spend too long thinking, I’ll be changing this list for days. I know of some movies that I haven’t seen that would probably replace other movies (such as possibly La Dolce Vita for my Fellini pick, or a different Chaplin movie in place of The Kid), but I guess that’s part of the experience of Cinema, there’s always going to be another movie.
thank you! The Kid, and actually most or all of these, are contenders on mine. Really picking one silent would be tough. Probably should have a list like this just for silents.
The two most controversial and yet the two most influential movies in the History of film is (whether you may or may not want to hear it depending on whether you are WOKE or not) The Birth of A Nation and Citizen Kane. Few people have ever seen or even know about D. W. Griffith's Intolerance or Orphans of the Storm and these films are monumental in the History of the Motion Picture. As time goes by we forget about the Silent and early talkie period which is the beginning of the entire Motion Picture Industry. D. W. Griffith and Orson Welles are the two most influential men in the History of Motion Pictures. The title of Lillian Gish's autobiography is "The Movies, Mr. Griffith and me" That just about sums it up.
My picks currently, in no particular order, would be: • Tokyo Story (1952) - Yasujirō Ozu • In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai • Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick • Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders • There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson • Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott • Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock • Three Colours: Red (1994) - Krzysztof Kieślowski • 8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
Not a list I know (I might think of one in due course) but one film that I would always put would actually be "Kind Hearts and Coronets". Why a light comedy? Well, for a start it's not really that light but more of a black comedy. Also, in my view, it's one of those "perfect" films. The plot, the script, the performances (Sir Alec Guinness playing multiple roles is a joy and Joan Greenwood could read the telephone book and make it gripping) and the direction all just work.
I have only really been fascinated with movies for the last five months, so I have not had enough of a chance to see many of the most talked-about films, but here is my Top 10 in no particular order: - The Dekalog - Citizen Kane - Ikiru - The Night of the Hunter - The Searchers - Raging Bull - Apocalypse Now - Dr. Strangelove - Vivre Sa Vie - Vertigo
86 vote update 2001: A Space Odyssey - 25 Apocalypse Now - 20 Taxi Driver - 18 The Godfather - 15 Seven Samurai - 13 Mulholland Drive/Stalker - 12 Citizen Kane/In the Mood for Love - 11 Persona/Pulp Fiction/Rear Window/Tokyo Story - 10 The 400 Blows/Vertigo - 9 Lawrence of Arabia - 8 8 1/2/A Brighter Summer Day/Bicycle Thieves/Casablanca/Dr. Strangelove/Paris, Texas - 7 Andrei Rublev/Blade Runner/Chungking Express/Late Spring/The Mirror/The Passion of Joan of Arc/The Searchers/The Seventh Seal - 6 12 Angry Men/Come and See/Dekalog/Fanny and Alexander/Raging Bull/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/There Will Be Blood/Wild Strawberries - 5 But now I've hit the limit of comments that load when sorting by top. Counting more might be awkward.
My Top 10 list would change from month to month, year to year, and below, even as I type, I can see how many great films I have overlooked, (such as Barry Lyndon, Thin Red Line, Rebecca, Manhattan, Autumn Sonata, Double Indemnity, Leave Her To Heaven, Chinatown, Godfather two, Taxi Driver, 12 Angry Men, On The Waterfront, etc. So, with that aside, here goes: 1. Mouchette ( 1967) Bresson 2. Contempt (1963) Godard 3. Paris, Texas ( 1984) Wim Wenders 4. Repulsion (1965) Polanski 5. Laura ( 1944) Otto Preminger 6. All About Eve ( 1950) Mankiewicz 7. L' Avventura ( 1960) Antonioni 8. Jackie Brown ( 1997) Tarantino 9. Goodfellas ( 1990) Scorsese 10. The Third Man ( 1949) Carol Reed
In no particular order: Kung Fu Hustle, Straw Dogs, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, Rocky, The Magnificent Seven, Sorcerer and The Poseidon Adventure.
1. Amadeus 2. To Kill a Mockingbird 3. Ed Wood 4. National Lampoons Vacation 5. The Great Dictator 6. Last Tango In Paris 7. Brazil 8. Citizen Kane 9. 2001: A Space Odyssey 10. Patton
1. end of evangelion 2. her 3. mirror 4. before sunrise 5. moonligth 6. yi yi 7. there will be blood 8. solaris 9. synecdoche, new york 10. in the mood for love
Bit late to the party, but here goes: Die Nibelungen (1924) It Happened One Night (1934) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) The Ladykillers (1955) Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) Culloden (1964) Szindbad (1971) Chinatown (1974) The Tin Drum (1979) My 20th Century (1989) But then I also want to include Russ Meyer's Vixen, Hard to Be a God, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Raging Bull, Stroszek, Brighton Rock (1948 version), The Thief of Bagdad (1924)... Jeez, this is hard!
I always hated making a Top 10 _Greatest_ list since that is a truly amorphous undertaking. I mean, after all, what exactly is meant by great? Great in what way? Great to audiences? Great aesthetically? Great because it is generally considered a Classic? Just too many ways to approach and try and justify such a list. In the end, your top 10 personal favorites is always a much easer list to make and that is what I am listing below. 01. Ben-Hur (1959) 02. Apocalypse Now (1979) 03. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 04. Excalibur (1981) 05. The Abyss (1989) 06. Blue Velvet (1986) 07. The Graduate (1967) 08. Field of Dreams (1989) 09. Open Your Eyes (1997) 10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) I Could very easily have included such bona-fide classics as Twelve Angry Men, The Third Man, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Exorcist, Jaws, Blade Runner etc... but from a personal perspective the films listed above hold a certain aesthetic fascination for me and I never tire of them. So many to choose from!
A pretty surprising but definitely great and interesting top 10! Mine are (in no particular order) - Taxi Driver - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - The Royal Tenenbaums - Mulholland Dr. - The Tale of Princess Kaguya - Harlan County, USA - Bicycle Thieves - The Godfather Pt.2 - Eyes Wide Shut - Do The Right Thing
In no order, I would look at these to include in my top 10: The Godfather Part 1 and Part 2 The 400 Blows The Shining 2001 A Space Odyssey Jaws Raiders of the Lost Ark Ivan's Childhood The French Connection The Passion of Joan of Arc Schindler's List Come and See Chinatown The Last Picture Show The Conversation Fanny and Alexander (long version)
1. Alien 2. Blade Runner 3. Tokyo Story 4. The good, the bad and the ugly 5. Mon oncle 6. A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence 7. Stalker 8. 2001 9. Grizzly man 10. Angels egg
1. Whiplash 2. Punch-Drunk love 3. La La Land 4. The Fisher King 5. The Florida Project 6. Inglorious Basterds 7. Birdman 8. Baby driver 9. Jojo rabbit 10. Paris,Texas I have to say top 10 isn’t enough.
Yes, I would like a list of 30, three tiers, each tier gets different point value. That would make it easier to insert multiple films from the same director/time period/genre.
My Top 10 (likely to change within the next month or so) (also, sorry, I don't have any international films on here) 1. Pulp Fiction 2. The Silence of the Lambs 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. The Shining 5. The Shawshank Redemption 6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 7. American Beauty 8. Reservoir Dogs 9. 12 Angry Men 10. Fight Club
I think that a top 10 movie list can give insight into a person. My list, in order of release: Metropolis 1926 Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Citizen Kane Vertigo Persona 1966 2001: A Space Odyssey Aguirre, the Wrath of God Ran 1985 Come and See 1985 Baraka 1992 It's painful to have to leave out so many films that you love.
I tried to come up with ten movies that haven’t appeared on any of the lists I’ve seen here, which is only difficult because the best movies ever have been accounted for. Also Dr. Matthews, that I am a huge fan of Brad Bird, and your appreciation for Ratatouille and his general work in direction made me very excited. This is my list: 1. The Iron Giant (1999) 2. Ran (1985) 3. Notorious (1946) 4. Arrival (2016) 5. Some Like It Hot (1959) 6. Almost Famous (2000) 7. When Harry Met Sally… (1989) 8. Singin’ In The Rain (1952) 9. City Lights (1931) 10. Three Colors: Red (1994)
My Top 10(sorted by release date) 1. Man with a Movie Camera(1928) 2. The Third Man(1949) 3. Vertigo(1958) 4. La Dolce Vita(1960) 5. Harakiri(1962) 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(1966) 7. Taxi Driver(1976) 8. Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979) 9. Mulholland Drive(2001) 10. Caché(2005)
I would pick the following: - Bicycle Thieves (1947) - A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - City Lights (1931) - Do the Right Thing (1989) - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - Parasite (2019) - Rear Window (1954) - Spirited Away (2001) - Touch of Evil (1958) - Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Also, no need to be ashamed of adding Star Wars to your list, it ended up in the top 250!
Victoria - Schiller 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Mungiu Pearl in the Crown - Kutz Camera Buff - Kieślowski Grizzly Man - Herzog Playtime - Tati Deer Hunter - Cimino Funny Games - Haneke Pulp Fiction - Tarantino Fargo - Cohen
These are in no particular order but oh well Lawrence of Arabia(1962) Sunset Boulevard(1950) Psycho(1960) Jaws(1975) Ben-Hur(1959) The Great Dictator(1940) Joan the Maid(1993) Shichin no Samurai(1954) The Seventh Seal(1957) A Place in the Sun(1951) What do you think???
love it and am grateful. I have tried to dig Ben Hur, but .... really it has two unforgettable sequences, the naval battle and the chariot race. That's pretty good, to have two memorable scenes from one movie.
@@LearningaboutMovies Aw yeah, it’s a hard one to warm up to Now, it was really hard for me not to put babettes feast and kin dza dza on here, I absolutely love them but I feel like they arent necessarily the most influential
Most of these picks are in my top 10 favorites. It can be hard for me to differentiate my favorites against my view of the best. In chronological order: - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (HM: Passion of Joan of Arc, City Lights) - La Strada (HM: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita) - The Seventh Seal (HM: Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers) - The 400 Blows - Andrei Rublev (HM: Mirror, Sacrifice) - Badlands - Barry Lyndon (HM: 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Taxi Driver - Apocalypse Now (HM: The Godfather I and II, Come and See) - Chungking Express (HM: In the Mood for Love)
Solid list. There is a couple on that list I have yet to see and will definitely have to check out sooner rather than later. I don't think you either fully can or even should try to seperate your favorites from "the best," as if there even is some scientifically objective way to measure such a thing in a manner completely detatched from ypur experience of a thing. Obviously you can love movies that you acknowledge aren't particularly great, but you can also recognize that something is great and not personally love it. In that case, why put it on your list in the first place? At that point, you'd just be regurgitating something closer to consensus rather than providing your own unique perspective that balances both your recognition of quality and your equally valid experience with something. Is The Godfather a better movie than Return of the King? Probably, and purely on a technical level, I would probably completely agree (for the record, I love them both), but I can't and won't deny that ROTK spoke to something in my soul on a deeper level than The Godfather did or probably ever will. I think that's something that ought to be taken heavily into account and shouldn't be ignorwd. While I think there's value in acknowledging that which is widely recognized for its greatness, putting that at the forefront of one's judgment with no regard for how it did or didn't personally resonate with you defeats the purpose of making your own list, I think. It says nothing about the films themselves other than what everyone else says, and it reveals nothing about the person making the list. At the same time, I might rather watch Zombieland over Taxi Driver more often than not at any given time, but I'm not going to pretend as though Taxi Driver isn't both an excellent film and in a completely different league above Zombieland. My point is that there's an intangible but clear balance between objective quality and subjective experience, and you can't really quantify that sort of thing. They are both equally important and our experience with the art form is uniquely valuable.
I liked that you went honest with what you love (Star Wars deserves a shot). And my list (glad you asked)? 10. The Empire Strikes Back 9. Come and See 8. Tokyo Story 7. The Godfather 6. Breathless 5. Rear Window 4. Spirited Away 3. The Seven Samurai 2. Citizen Kane And my favourite movie is... 1. Shoot the Piano Player (come at me, bro!)
Quite an amazing list of films! I will have to watch Children of Paradise soon. Here's my top 10 (in no particular order): 1. Chinatown (1974) 2. 8 1/2 (1963) 3. Taxi Driver (1976) 4. His Girl Friday (1940) 5. Cache (2005) 6. Night and Fog (1955) 7. Apocalypse Now (1979) 8. Chungking Express (1994) 9. La grande Illusion (1937) 10. Brief Encounter (1945)/Ugetsu (1953) I had to pick 11 since I can't leave out any among these. I have picked only one film released after 2000, but there were quite a few which I really liked but couldn't put them in top 10: In the mood for love, The Royal Tenenbaums, Memories of Murder and The Social Network.
1. Grand Illusion 2. Andrei Rublev 3. Citizen Kane 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. Brokeback Mountain 6. The Passion of Joan of Arc 7. The Wizard of Oz 8. City Lights 9. Sansho the Bailiff 10. A Man Escaped Will cheat. Wish I could include 10 more including All About Eve; Au Hasard Balthazar; Rashomon; Children of Paradise; Gone with the Wind; Lawrence of Arabia; The Crowd; Breaking the Waves; The Grapes of Wrath; City of God. Bothers me that certain great films are ignored, including these 10: Wuthering Heights (1939); The Pianist; The Wages of Fear; Ballad of a Soldier; The Shop on Main Street; In the Year of 13 Moons; Water (by Deepa Mehta); Farewell, My Concubine; Cabaret; and Napoleon (1927).
My late top 10! A mix of personal favourites and ones which I feel are real cinematic achievements. 10- Sunset Boulevard (1950) 9- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8- Citizen Kane (1941) 7- Gone with the Wind (1939) 6- GoodFellas (1990) 5- Barry Lyndon (1975) 4- The Searchers (1956) 3- City Lights (1931) 2- Psycho (1960) 1- The Godfather (1972) Very much enjoying your videos friend. You've got good film taste !
Schindler's List, High Noon, On the Waterfront, Ran, Lawrence of Arabia, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars, Godfather, Young Frankenstein and Crimes and Misdemeanors
A Love Song For Bobby Long, The Lord of the Rings, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Tree of Life, Apocalypse Now, Le Notti Bianchi, Chinatown, The Third Man, Blade Runner. It is a difficult to make this list. I've left films from my favourite directors such as Tarkovsky, Bergman and Hitchcock out!
Casablanca (1942) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) M (1931) Paris, Texas (1984) Ran (1985) Rear Window (1954) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) The Godfather (1972) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
1. Late Spring 2. Dr Strangelove 3. His Girl Friday 4. My Neighbor Totoro 5. Sherlock Jr 6. Pather Panchali 7. Yojimbo 8. A Moment of Innocence 9. Rear Window 10. Arrival Leaving off The Red Shoes hurt me. Recently found your channel after seeing the 400 Blows and wanting to chew over it - enjoyed the movie and your review, thanks
The battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo) The 400 blows (Truffaut) Au hazard Balthazar (Bresson) The good the bad and the ugly (Leone) L’avventura (Antonioni) In the mood for love (Kar-Wai) 2001 a space odyssey (Kubrick) Persona (Bergman) Good morning (Ozu) Dog day afternoon (Lumet)
Top 10 favourite films of all time Apocalypse Now Lord of the rings ROTK Alien A Nightmare on elm street No County for old men Once upon a time in America 12 Angry Men Cinema Paradiso Blade Runner Portrait of a lady on fire No order because that’s just impossible for me lol.
Star Wars and Rear Window were definitely two that immediately came to mind for me. I was in high school when Star Wars came out and it had a huge impact on me. To this day it remains the only film I've gone to the theater multiple times to see. I saw Star Wars at the movie theater 4 times. Of course that was before home video existed.
Mine would be in no particular order: Blue Velvet The wind rises We all loved each other so much 12 angry man Do the right thing The royal tenenbaums barry lyndon Decision to leave Porco rosso
I made mine when the BFI came out as well! -Patterson (Jarmusch) -2001 (Kubrick) -Paris, Texas (Wenders) -Mirror (Tarkovsky) -Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma) -The Irishman (Scorsese) -Do the Right Thing (Lee) -Memories of Murder (Bong) - The Shinning (Kubrick) - Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch) I used your limited series excuse to sneak in The return which to me is just an 18 hour experimental epic! A lot of newer films but I’m only 23 so these are the ones that stick with me! Also gonna try and put that excel sheet together😂
Just started following with your discussion about 'Stalker '. Thanks for the insight. My favorite...best is 'Locke.' I love Tom Hardy. This film is one in a million. The making of it is unique and the supporting cast is perfect. What is it about? The meaning of life, what else is there..
Planet of the Apes/ Manhattan / American Beauty / Raise the Red Lantern/ Farewell My Concubine/ All About My Mother/ Brokeback Mountain/ The Master/ The Grand Budapest Hotel / Man on Wire/ The Matrix
Why Sunrise dropped at all in the latest Sight and Sound poll is a bloody shame. You CAN NOT make a more visually or emotionally compelling film. But with all the young and younger critics voting on the list I might have expected it. Just for the record my favorite films (I don't like to say "best") are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, The Rules of the Game, I Walked With a Zombie, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Searchers, Kiss Me Deadly, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, Demy's Lola, Shoot the Piano Player, Contempt and Goodfellas I love noir above all so 3 have made my list.
1. Come and See 2. The Godfather 3. Eyes Wide Shut 4. Days of Heaven 5. In the Mood for Love 6. Senna 7. The Thin Red Line 8. Rear Window 9. Drive 10. Chinatown
The General - The Conversation - Bicycle Thieves - Chinatown - A Canterbury Tale - Kes - The Hours - The Passenger- The Lives of Others - Wings of Desire. though of course my list will have changed again by tomorrow...
In no particular order: 1. The General 2. 12 Angry Men 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey 4. Citizen Kane 5. Star Wars 6. It’s a Wonderful Life 7. West Side Story (1961) 8. Psycho 9. Inception 10. Metropolis (1927)
1. Thin Red Line 2. Dear Hunter 3. Feear and loathing 4. Bladerunner 5. English Patient 6. Tree of life 7. Memories of Murder 8. Seven 9. Life of Brian 10. 12 Monkeys
In no particular order; Titanic, Back to the Future, Red River, Stagecoach, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Terminator 2, It’s a Wonderful Life, Aladdin (animated movie)
I have a top 100, but I am going to revise it for this presentation to coincide with your selection process - Kurosawa is Ran (32) Favourite film, also a war movie is Casablanca (1) Silent is The General (10) Science Fiction is Blade Runner FC (16) Hitchcock is Vertigo (6) French, also about the WWII Resistance is L'Armee des Ombres (5) Animated is Dumbo (24) Documentary is Of Time and the City (3) Tarkovsky is Stalker (unplaced but likely top 10) My cheat is the polar opposite of Citizen Kane, come on, there has to be a musical comedy to balance all the po faced stuff - This Is Spinal Tap (57)
Interesting Pull! Mine would be: - Mulholland Drive - Taxi Driver - Blade Runner - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Rare Window - Harold and Maude - Easy Rider - The Big Lebowski - Matrix - Shrek
this is a mix of my favorites and films that i genuinely think are the greatest. 1. a bout de souffle 2. the apartment 3. l'avventura 4. pierrot le fou 5. some like it hot 6. le cercle rouge 7. the bad sleep well 8. annie hall 9. a brighter summer day 10. stray dog if i could have five more: 1. manila in the claws of light 2. black orpheus 3. jules and jim 4. the umbrellas of cherbourg 5. two (satyajit ray short)
Thank you Josh. I enjoy your channel and you've inspired my love of film. Choosing 10 is not easy but Citizen Kane is basically a flawless film to me. Artistic with a strong story. Tough to choose between Rashomon and Seven Samurai, Mirror versus Stalker, etc. If the list was larger I would probably include Star Wars, Mulholland Drive, and Parasite. Citizen Kane Godfather Mirror 8-1/2 Rashomon Taxi Driver Sunset Blvd Gone With the Wind Bicycle Thieves Rear Window
My list: 1. Persona 2. A Brighter summer day 3. It's a wonderful life 4. It's such a beautiful day 5. As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of Beauty 6. Portrait of a lady on Fire 7. Paris, Texas 8. Spirited Away 9. High and Low 10. Soy Cuba
@@ranganmajumder2200 I haven't and I'm definitely not planning to. I may be pretentious, but not pretentious enough to watch 8 hours of the empire state building. I genuinely enjoy the films on my list which probably won't be the case with warhol films
My Top Ten, in no particular order 1. Vertigo 2. Double Indemnity 3. Apocalypse Now 4. El Sur 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey 6. Stalker 7. Fanny And Alexander 8. Picnic At Hanging Rock 9. Taxi Driver 10. No Country For Old Men
1) The Godfather pt.1 or pt.2 2) Star wars: a new hope 3) Once upon a time in America 4) Psycho 5) La dolce vita 6) Schindler's list 7) Shawshank redemption 8) The seventh seal 9) Taxi driver 10) Lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring Honarable mentions: Pulp fiction, Apocalypse now, Goodfellas, City of god, Citizen kane, Lawrence of Arabia, 12 angry men
This would be my list: 1.Persona 2.Enter the Void 3.Fallen Angels 4.Nostalghia 5.2001 6.Stalker 7.Parasite 8.Requiem for a Dream 9.Pi 10.Enemy Greeting from Germany! Love your stuff!
My top ten in order 10.Synecdoche, new york - Kaufman (2008) 9.Pulp fiction - Tarantino (1994) 8.The tree of life - Malick (2011) 7.In the mood for love - WKW (2000) 6.The shawshank redemption - Darabont (1994) 5.Psycho - Hitchkock (1960) 4.Raging bull- Scorsese (1980) 3.2001 a space odyssey - Kubrick (1968) 2.The godfather - Coppola (1972) 1.Persona - Bergman (1966)
Barry Lyndon, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wild Bunch, Seventh Seal, Platoon, Great Expectations (Lean), Nosferatu, The God Father, Alexander Nevsky, Seven Samurai
Mine (not in order): -Citizen Kane -2001 a space Odyssey -Casablanca -The Seven Samurais -Ran -Star Wars (Original Trilogy) -The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) -Mulholland Drive -North by Northwest -The Searchers
Okay let me think… Paris, Texas which is maybe my favorite film. A Documentary spot would go to Crumb. Animated film? The Illusionist, the Tati script adapted into an animated film by Sylvan Chomet. My favorite comedy? Kicking and Screaming by Noah Baumbach. The rest of my list doesn’t really fit into categories. I guess they’re dramas basically. Nothing pre-1970 either. That’s a deficiency probably. Days of Heaven My Father’s Glory The Straight Story Chocolat (Claire Denis) Ruby in Paradise For the last spot I’m deliberating between Still Walking by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, or The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Ermanno Olmi. I think instead I’ll go with Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
great stuff. You remind me to rewatch My Father's/My Mother's. I would consider them one long movie. The Straight Story is arguably the greatest movie about the American Midwest.
@@LearningaboutMovies Thanks for the reply! You’re right they work as one film. I felt that My Father’s is the pitch perfect one, but the ending of My Mother’s brings it all together quite movingly. I’m surprised and a little in wonder about what you think about The Straight Story. There’s something indelible about it right, not the least being the kind of miraculous performance we get from Richard Farnsworth. He would be my Grandparents age who both served in WW 2. My Grandfather on my dad’s side was from Wisconsin, and my moms side is from Yokohama. It’s like a tome to Midwestern Decency and Landscapes. (Tome isn’t quite right.) I love the bartender near the end. Mark Cousins is right. He’s straight out of an Ozu film.
1. Amadeus - 1984 2. Wizard of Oz - 1939 3. Casablanca - 1942 3. Forbidden Planet - 1956 4. Island of Terror - 1966 5. Vertigo - 1958 6. Psycho - 1960 7. Village of the Damned - 1960 8. The China Syndrome - 1979 9. Planet of the Apes - 1968 10. The Illustrated Man - 1969
1. About Endlessness 2. An American in Paris 3. Citizen Kane 4. Come and See 5. The General 6. Grand Illusion 7. The Magnificent Ambersons 8. The Passion of Joan of Arc 9. Raging Bull 10. The Rules of the Game
For me atm: - Citizen Kane - Cinema Paradiso - Life Of Others - Amarcord - The Godfather - Star Wars, Episode IV - Schindler's list - Apocalypse Now - Return To The Future ...
The first movie that popped into my head was “Tree of Life”. For a week after initially seeing it, I kept thinking about it went back to the theater saw it again and watched it again when it first came out on DVD. Long movie but captured my mind. Similar to my experience with “Playtime”. Both movies I was not blown away by but there was something on some level kept at me.
#10 Mr Hulots holiday, #9 Babette's feast, #8 apocalypse now, #7 rear window, #6 sorcerer, #5 LOTR: two towers, #4 days of heaven, #3 voyager, #2 Aguirre the wrath of God, #1 the thin red line. This is definitely not final and I could easily name another 10 that I love.
1. LOTR Trilogy (2001-2003) 2. The Thin Red Line (1998) 3. Satantango (1994) 4. Sunrise (1927) 5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 6. Stalker (1979) 7. Xi you (Journey to the west) (2014) 8. 12 angry men (1957) 9. Magnolia (1999) 10. Barry Lyndon (1975)
1. Drive 2. The Godfather 3. Thelma & Louise 4. Kevin home alone 5. Annie Hall 6. Working girl 8. Frantic 9. Blade Runner 10.Batman the dark knight And the list goes on❤️
My top 10 1.Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman) 2. Close Up (Kiarostami) 3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) 4. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) 5. Persona (Bergman) 6. Playtime (Tati) 7. The Night Of The Hunter (Laughton) 8. L'Avventura (Antonioni) 9. The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger) 10. The 400 blows (Truffaut) Honorable mention: Mulholland Dr. (Lynch), BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
in no order, but these first five are the ones I picked based on the fact they speak to me the most: Apocalypse now stalker Beau Travail Come and see Viridiana The next 4 are favourites but would include them because I don't think they're appreciated enough, so kinda underrated picks but not really? Diabolique Sleuth The 1934 Raymond Bernard 4-hour version of Les miserables Ballad of Narayama (or maybe swap for I am Cuba) then I'd probably throw in Once upon a time in the West as a final pick. just some honourable mentions I'd consider maybe changing around with the ten: Cinema paradiso 12 angry men seven samurai pierrot le fou fanny and Alexander
The amount of overlap this had with mine stunned me. What would you most highly recommend to someone whose favorite movies include Apocalypse Now, Stalker, Come and See, 12 Angry Men and Seven Samurai? Completely hypothetical.
@Alex Roodman Maybe if you like films related to war, try something called the Burmese harp. if you like Stalker and come & see, try Ken Russels the Devils discusses similar themes to Stalker and has the shock factor of come and see. Z (Costa gavras) is a good movie you may not have seen. People who like come and see like the ascent, its good but not close to come and see. for 12 angry men? witness for the prosecution is a good court room drama also, but quite different movies
My top 10 (there are two three was ties but quite frankly I don’t care lol) 1. The End of Evangelion 2. Andrei Rublev 3. Harold and Maude 4. Fallen Angels 5. Seven Samurai 6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 7. The Before… Trilogy 8. My Neighbor Totoro 9. Mulholland Drive 10. Singin' in the Rain Honorable mentions: Ikiru, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Taxi Driver
My top ten list: Dr. Strangelove Sunset Blvd. The Great Dictator City Lights The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly The Battle of Algiers Playtime Germany Year Zero Papillon It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
yes, Come and See. I predict that that will move up the BFI's list in the 2022 poll very fast and high, perhaps more than any other upward-mover. It really seems to have a lot of momentum. Great movie and definitely worthy to be on a list like this. I am due to watch it with a class in a few weeks.
Probably: 1. Godfather 1 & 2 2. Whiplash 3. The Shining 4. Lord of the Rings trilogy 5. Pan's Labyrinth 6. Psycho 7. Blade Runner & 2049 8. The Prestige 9. The Apartment 10. City Lights Changes all the time though. Some other films that enter and exit my top 10 often are 'Parasite', 'Good, Bad, and the Ugly', 'Shawshank', 'Ratatouille' (very glad to see this on your list), 'Das Boot', 'The Wicker Man', 'Mary and Max', 'Robocop', 'Evil Dead', 'Dawn of the Dead', 'The Wrestler', 'Raging Bull', 'Casino', 'Taxi Driver', 'Fight Club', etc. There's too many to choose from!!!
@@LearningaboutMovies I agree! I’d like to call it my favourite Darren Aronofsky movie but I haven’t seen Black Swan or Pi so I can’t say. Not sure what your thoughts are on Requiem for a Dream but when I saw it I found it a little less impactful than many others did. Not to say it isn’t a good movie, just seems a bit overrated to me with how everyone praises it as one of the most disturbing movies and all.
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Great list. My top 10 (in chronological order):
- Fantasia (1940)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- The Fog of War (2003)
- Up (2009)
Honorable mentions: Citizen Kane, Vertigo, 2001, Patton, The Godfather I & II, The Star Wars trilogy, Akira, Pulp Fiction
thank you. A French Connection sighting, plus Errol Morris shows up!
Luckily I already had a list made. My top 10 would be:
The Dekalog (1989)
Mirror (1975)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Sátántangó (1994)
Out 1 (1971)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Nazarin (1959)
Late Spring (1949)
Love seeing Playtime and Dekalog (My #1 pick) on your list, fantastic films. Very good choice picking The Sacrifice.
To see A Brighter Summer Day on your list is just beautiful.
excellent, thank you.
I love la dolce vita but as far as Fellini films go I would probably put 8 1/2 above it.
@@dylanalogy1456 I'd put Amarcord above both of them.
Great list. Seen them all except Sátántangó and Out 1.
I'm so happy that The Thin Red Line is on your list. Such an underrated film. I was blown away when it first came out that I saw it in the theaters 12 times! and of course bought it on DVD.
1. The Thin Red Line
2. Sans Soliel
3. Breaking the Waves
4. Festen
5. In the Mood for Love
6. Back to the Future
7. Streetwise
8. Amadeus
9. L'argent
10. Mulholland Drive
thank you.
Intresting im seeing Amadeus a lot on here, and I know so many people who are recommending it to me. The trailer I saw looked a little bit goofie to me, but maybe I should just give it a shot.
Great list! I’m no film scholar so I’m just going to do my top 10 of all time off of Letterboxd with some changes.
1) Once Upon a Time in America
2) Star Wars (1977)
3) The Godfather
4) Amadeus
5) There Will be Blood
6) Titanic
7) Taxi Driver
8) Barry Lyndon
9) The Prince of Egypt
10) Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring
I think Paolo Sorrentino agrees with you about Once Upon a Time. Interesting that the LoTR movies are showing up in your lists. I suspect that it might end up being like Star Wars, quite influential on 20-30 somethings for the rest of their lives, and so it will begin showing up in greatest-of lists as people in this age-range have more votes.
great list
Happy you choose Once upon a time. Totally enthralled by it when I saw it last year and planning to rewatch again sometime this year.
Like that you have Titanic on the list, everything apart from the screenplay is masterful. Love that movie.
@@LearningaboutMovies yah I think the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is a worthy selection because it really opened up one of the most beloved and well crafted fantasy series of all time which really demonstrates the power of movie making.
1 life and death of colonel blimp
2 Bicycle thieves
3 Tokyo story
4 The third man
5 In a lonely place
6 The 400 blows
7 The red shoes
8 A special day
9 Groundhog day
10 Raging bull
thank you. Colonel Blimp is great.
My list in chronological order:
-Safety Last!
-Gone With the Wind
-Citizen Kane
-Casablanca
-Bicycle Thieves
-North By Northwest
-Psycho
-Pulp Fiction
-American History X (If I changed one out, it would be this replaced with the long version of Fanny & Alexander)
-Return of the King
Other films that would have made the cut: Tokyo Story, Rules of the Game, Once Upon a Time In America (long version), Amadeus, Schindler's List, Beauty and the Beast 1991, Vertigo
this is great. I thought hard about putting Lloyd in here, who I really love. The problem is I have to choose from Why Worry, The Freshman, and Speedy. Wish I could just package them and put them together in this list!
Really interesting on American History X. I haven't seen that since it was released, so I should rewatch. good reminder.
"Safety Last" was briefly my favourite film when I was about 6 years old. I vividly remember the sense of peril I felt.
I like your list. Every list here seems unique and alluring. ❤
@@jiten2023 Thanks! The shocker on the list seems to be American History X. Edward Norton's performance is my favourite film performance ever, so I had to include it.
@@linkbiff1054 Edward Norton is one of the underrated actors. His performance contains some amount of pathos that can rarely be achieved.
Dekalog was one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. Thank you for including it.
episodes 1, 5, 6 and 10 are pure masterpieces
you're welcome.
I have submitted this list to BFI a few days ago.
My top 10 films(not in any particular order)-
1. The Seventh Seal
2. 400 Blows
3. Amarcord
4. The discreet charm of the bourgeois
5. Solaris
6. Tokyo Story
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Amadeus
9. Eyes Wide Shut
10. Tree of Life
The seventh seal is my favorite movie of all time
Thanks for voting 😫😍
thank you. Wow, you get a BFI vote!
The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeois is such a terrific film!
Thank you for including THE SEVENTH SEAL. It is a pity that more of your peers did not do the same.
1) The Red Shoes; 2) Grease; 3) There's Something About Mary; 4) Singing in the Rain; 5) Mulholland Drive 6) War and Peace (Bondarchuck); 7) Raiders of the Lost Ark; 8) The Matrix; 9) The Talented Mr. Ripley; 10) The Karate Kid; 11) Lord of the Rings;
1. Umberto D.
2. Once upon a time in the West
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Das Boot
5. Judgement at Nuremburg
6. Casablanca
7. Grave of the Fireflies
8. Diabolique
9. Battle of Algiers
10. Grapes of Wrath
had to leave out way too many!
Loved your list, was so excited Children of Paradise was included. Thanks for the quality and variety of your channel's movie content!
1. Synecdoche, New York
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Baraka
4. Star Wars
5. The Big Lebowski
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. The Dark Knight
9. La La Land
10. Pulp Fiction
thank you.
TOP 10 (Sorted by release date)
1: 2001: A Space Odyssee (1968)
2: Blade Runner (1982)
3: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
4: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
5: Chungking Express (1994)
6: Fallen Angels (1995)
7: Yi Yi (2000)
8: In the Mood for Love (2000)
9: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
10: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
My two all time favorites are:
Blade Runner 2049
and
A Brighter Summer Day.
@@KimRoesener glad to see someone else with Blade Runner 2049 on their list. Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think it’s actually better than the original. Not only does it expand on the universe and introduce more philosophical ideas but it’s gotta be the most gorgeous movie ever made visually. Not sure why it isn’t as revered as it deserves to be. Maybe cos it’s still so new and only time will tell if people remember it in 20 years but something tells me it’ll go down in history as one of the best sequels ever.
@@q-q__b4175 I agree with you. It made me appreciate the first one even more because of the continuation of its story and the world that it builds upon. Both of them are fantastic and I do prefer 2049 to the first one as well.
Nice, two Edward Yang Films.
That's a lot of Wong Kar Wai!
My Greatest 10 films are :
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
3. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
4. War & Peace (1966)
5. Seven Samurai (1954)
6. The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
7. Taxi Driver (1976)
8. The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
9. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
10. Amadeus (1984)
Amadeus 😎
1. 2001 Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
3. Mirror (Tarkovsky)
4. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
5. Amour (Haneke)
6. City Lights (Chaplin)
7. Godfather (Coppola)
8. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
9. Ordet (Dreyer)
10. Sunrise (Murnau)
Great list!
Wild Strawberries 😍
excellent, thank you.
The fact rhat you left out 'Road House' with Patrick Swayze is a sin.
I feel quite awful for not including Manos Hands of Fate.
@@LearningaboutMovies Oh I just looked it up, I never heard of this. That's why I like coming to your channel. I always learn more things and expand my horizons.
Good stuff Josh. So very difficult. A list of some favourites.
Floating Weeds - Ozu.
Illustrious Corpses - Rosi.
The Killing - Kubrick.
The Red Shoes - Powell and Pressburger.
Bringing out the dead - Scorsese
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance - Ford.
Rio Bravo - Hawks.
Rififi - Dassin.
Canal - Wajda.
Great Expectations - Lean.
great list, thank you.
What an amazing list!
I have my own list of top 250 greatest movies ever made, which I made with my friends. But this here are my favourite movies.
Here's my top 10
10- Flowers of Shanghai - hsiao-hsien
9- Burning - Lee Chang-dong
8- Chungking Express - WKW
7- Life of Oharu - Mizoguchi
6- Red Desert - Antonioni
5- The Pornographers - Immamura
4- Hero - Yimou Zhang
3- Tokyo Story - Ozu
2- Rashomon - Kurosawa
1- In The Mood For Love - WKW
excellent, thank you. Feel free to post that list. If you don't have it recorded online, you can pretty easily make one at letterboxd and link to it here, if you wish.
going to heaven for#6
1. The Innocents (1961)
2. Once (2007)
3. Naked (1993)
4. Withnail & I (1987)
5. Spirited Away (2001)
6. Brief Encounter (1945)
7. Stalker (1979)
8. Breaking The Waves (1996)
9. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. Beau Travail (1999)
Thank you for asking us to create our own lists.
Here goes... (In descending order)
1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Seven Samurai
3. The Guns of Navarone
4. The Apu Trilogy
5. Up
6. Modern Times
7. Rope
8. The Last Hurrah
9. The Sting
10. Ace in the Hole
I like movies to be entertaining and inspiring. I like to leave the viewing with some profound questions or a levity of senses.
Dr. Josh, your list was astonishing and honest. Now I realise how difficult is it to create such a short list.
Thank you again❤
Thank you. Rope is a real Hitchcock sleeper, probably a rare pick but of course the formal experimentation there is close to unparalleled.
Thank you Josh. What I like about these lists is that each is unique. Simply because we all are unique in our thoughts.
Can you review The Apu Trilogy?
The Criterion restoration is extraordinary.
I did a short video, kind of an introductory thing, on the Apu Trilogy. It's on the channel somewhere. Probably should do something in-depth in the future on each film in the trilogy.
Though it doesn't quite crack my top ten, 12 Angry Men is indeed first-rate cinema.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. Sherlock Junior
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc
6. Psycho
7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
8. Dog Day Afternoon
9. Blue Velvet
10. The Battle of Algiers
Sacrifice is one of The most influential movies in my life. I'm glad it is in your list.
thanks. just fyi, in case: there's a video about it on this channel.
1. Mulholland drive
2. 2001: A space odyssey
3. Stalker
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. Satantango
6. The color of pomegranates
7. Blade runner
8. Perfect Blue
9. Taxi Driver
10. Contempt
Great list!
This is a great list
very good, thank you.
1. Rashomon
2. The Kid
3. Rear Window
4. Citizen Kane
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. La Strada
7. Wild Strawberries
8. Tokyo Story (or Late Spring, my personal favorite)
9. The Godfather
10. Fargo
If I spend too long thinking, I’ll be changing this list for days. I know of some movies that I haven’t seen that would probably replace other movies (such as possibly La Dolce Vita for my Fellini pick, or a different Chaplin movie in place of The Kid), but I guess that’s part of the experience of Cinema, there’s always going to be another movie.
thank you! The Kid, and actually most or all of these, are contenders on mine. Really picking one silent would be tough. Probably should have a list like this just for silents.
The two most controversial and yet the two most influential movies in the History of film is (whether you may or may not want to hear it depending on whether you are WOKE or not) The Birth of A Nation and Citizen Kane. Few people have ever seen or even know about D. W. Griffith's Intolerance or Orphans of the Storm and these films are monumental in the History of the Motion Picture.
As time goes by we forget about the Silent and early talkie period which is the beginning of the entire Motion Picture Industry.
D. W. Griffith and Orson Welles are the two most influential men in the History of Motion Pictures.
The title of Lillian Gish's autobiography is "The Movies, Mr. Griffith and me" That just about sums it up.
My picks currently, in no particular order, would be:
• Tokyo Story (1952) - Yasujirō Ozu
• In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai
• Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
• Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders
• There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
• Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
• Three Colours: Red (1994) - Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
Nice mix and choices
thank you.
Tokyo Story deserves it 😍
1. Barry Lyndon
2. Ran
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Taxi Driver
5. The 400 Blows
6. Amacord
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Chungking Express
9. Mishima
10. The Godfather 2
Not a list I know (I might think of one in due course) but one film that I would always put would actually be "Kind Hearts and Coronets". Why a light comedy? Well, for a start it's not really that light but more of a black comedy. Also, in my view, it's one of those "perfect" films. The plot, the script, the performances (Sir Alec Guinness playing multiple roles is a joy and Joan Greenwood could read the telephone book and make it gripping) and the direction all just work.
I have only really been fascinated with movies for the last five months, so I have not had enough of a chance to see many of the most talked-about films, but here is my Top 10 in no particular order:
- The Dekalog
- Citizen Kane
- Ikiru
- The Night of the Hunter
- The Searchers
- Raging Bull
- Apocalypse Now
- Dr. Strangelove
- Vivre Sa Vie
- Vertigo
great list, thank you.
86 vote update
2001: A Space Odyssey - 25
Apocalypse Now - 20
Taxi Driver - 18
The Godfather - 15
Seven Samurai - 13
Mulholland Drive/Stalker - 12
Citizen Kane/In the Mood for Love - 11
Persona/Pulp Fiction/Rear Window/Tokyo Story - 10
The 400 Blows/Vertigo - 9
Lawrence of Arabia - 8
8 1/2/A Brighter Summer Day/Bicycle Thieves/Casablanca/Dr. Strangelove/Paris, Texas - 7
Andrei Rublev/Blade Runner/Chungking Express/Late Spring/The Mirror/The Passion of Joan of Arc/The Searchers/The Seventh Seal - 6
12 Angry Men/Come and See/Dekalog/Fanny and Alexander/Raging Bull/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/There Will Be Blood/Wild Strawberries - 5
But now I've hit the limit of comments that load when sorting by top. Counting more might be awkward.
Thank you!
My Top 10 list would change from month to month, year to year, and below, even as I type, I can see how many great films I have overlooked, (such as Barry Lyndon, Thin Red Line, Rebecca, Manhattan, Autumn Sonata, Double Indemnity, Leave Her To Heaven, Chinatown, Godfather two, Taxi Driver, 12 Angry Men, On The Waterfront, etc. So, with that aside, here goes:
1. Mouchette ( 1967) Bresson
2. Contempt (1963) Godard
3. Paris, Texas ( 1984) Wim Wenders
4. Repulsion (1965) Polanski
5. Laura ( 1944) Otto Preminger
6. All About Eve ( 1950) Mankiewicz
7. L' Avventura ( 1960) Antonioni
8. Jackie Brown ( 1997) Tarantino
9. Goodfellas ( 1990) Scorsese
10. The Third Man ( 1949) Carol Reed
In no particular order: Kung Fu Hustle, Straw Dogs, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, Rocky, The Magnificent Seven, Sorcerer and The Poseidon Adventure.
Interesting. Would love to hear what you like about Poseidon Adventure. I only saw it on TV as a kid.
1. Amadeus
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Ed Wood
4. National Lampoons Vacation
5. The Great Dictator
6. Last Tango In Paris
7. Brazil
8. Citizen Kane
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Patton
Ed wood!!! I totally forgot to put that one on my list. What a phenomenal film.
Damn I love To Kill a Mockingbird. I feel a bit guilty to put it on a top 10 because I never see it there but yes let's promote it!
An Ed Wood sighting! Comedy gets no respect in awards on on lists. It's in short supply, but you've got four of them and Patton is pretty funny to me.
1. end of evangelion
2. her
3. mirror
4. before sunrise
5. moonligth
6. yi yi
7. there will be blood
8. solaris
9. synecdoche, new york
10. in the mood for love
excellent, thank you.
My 10 picks are:
- Solaris (Tarkovskiy)
- 2001 a space odissey (Kubrick)
- Clockwork orange (Kubrick)
- Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
- Climax (G.Noe)
- Werckmeister harmonies (B.Tarr)
- Holy mountain (Jodorowsky)
- The Lighthouse (Eggers)
- Eraserhead (Lynch)
- Oldboy (P.C.Wook)
This list, watched all in a row, would really mess with your head! thank you.
Love Exposure blew my mind 🤯
Bit late to the party, but here goes:
Die Nibelungen (1924)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
Culloden (1964)
Szindbad (1971)
Chinatown (1974)
The Tin Drum (1979)
My 20th Century (1989)
But then I also want to include Russ Meyer's Vixen, Hard to Be a God, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Raging Bull, Stroszek, Brighton Rock (1948 version), The Thief of Bagdad (1924)... Jeez, this is hard!
Wow so glad you included Tarkovsky, and the Sacrifice of all films! Nicely done.
thank you very much.
I always hated making a Top 10 _Greatest_ list since that is a truly amorphous undertaking. I mean, after all, what exactly is meant by great? Great in what way? Great to audiences? Great aesthetically? Great because it is generally considered a Classic? Just too many ways to approach and try and justify such a list. In the end, your top 10 personal favorites is always a much easer list to make and that is what I am listing below.
01. Ben-Hur (1959)
02. Apocalypse Now (1979)
03. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
04. Excalibur (1981)
05. The Abyss (1989)
06. Blue Velvet (1986)
07. The Graduate (1967)
08. Field of Dreams (1989)
09. Open Your Eyes (1997)
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
I Could very easily have included such bona-fide classics as Twelve Angry Men, The Third Man, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Exorcist, Jaws, Blade Runner etc... but from a personal perspective the films listed above hold a certain aesthetic fascination for me and I never tire of them. So many to choose from!
The Wizard of Oz ,Chinatown,Seven Samurai,Psycho,Jaws,2001,Ivan’s Childhood,The Godfather,Days of Heaven,All About Eve.
A pretty surprising but definitely great and interesting top 10! Mine are (in no particular order)
- Taxi Driver
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Mulholland Dr.
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
- Harlan County, USA
- Bicycle Thieves
- The Godfather Pt.2
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Do The Right Thing
excellent, thank you.
In no order, I would look at these to include in my top 10:
The Godfather Part 1 and Part 2
The 400 Blows
The Shining
2001 A Space Odyssey
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ivan's Childhood
The French Connection
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Schindler's List
Come and See
Chinatown
The Last Picture Show
The Conversation
Fanny and Alexander (long version)
great stuff here. I recently (two days ago) rewatched French Connection and was blown away.
1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Tokyo Story
4. The good, the bad and the ugly
5. Mon oncle
6. A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence
7. Stalker
8. 2001
9. Grizzly man
10. Angels egg
1. Whiplash
2. Punch-Drunk love
3. La La Land
4. The Fisher King
5. The Florida Project
6. Inglorious Basterds
7. Birdman
8. Baby driver
9. Jojo rabbit
10. Paris,Texas
I have to say top 10 isn’t enough.
Yes, I would like a list of 30, three tiers, each tier gets different point value. That would make it easier to insert multiple films from the same director/time period/genre.
My Top 10 (likely to change within the next month or so) (also, sorry, I don't have any international films on here)
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Shining
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. American Beauty
8. Reservoir Dogs
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Fight Club
excellent, thank you!
I think that a top 10 movie list can give insight into a person. My list, in order of release:
Metropolis 1926
Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Citizen Kane
Vertigo
Persona 1966
2001: A Space Odyssey
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ran 1985
Come and See 1985
Baraka 1992
It's painful to have to leave out so many films that you love.
Passion of Joan of Arc is a top 5 for me as well. Hard even calling it a film because it is one of the most transcendent works of art I've ever seen.
I tried to come up with ten movies that haven’t appeared on any of the lists I’ve seen here, which is only difficult because the best movies ever have been accounted for. Also Dr. Matthews, that I am a huge fan of Brad Bird, and your appreciation for Ratatouille and his general work in direction made me very excited. This is my list:
1. The Iron Giant (1999)
2. Ran (1985)
3. Notorious (1946)
4. Arrival (2016)
5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
6. Almost Famous (2000)
7. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
8. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
9. City Lights (1931)
10. Three Colors: Red (1994)
excellent, thank you. Iron Giant is the very rare movie that gets a tear from me.
My Top 10(sorted by release date)
1. Man with a Movie Camera(1928)
2. The Third Man(1949)
3. Vertigo(1958)
4. La Dolce Vita(1960)
5. Harakiri(1962)
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(1966)
7. Taxi Driver(1976)
8. Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)
9. Mulholland Drive(2001)
10. Caché(2005)
thank you!
LA Dolce vita 😍
I would pick the following:
- Bicycle Thieves (1947)
- A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
- City Lights (1931)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- Parasite (2019)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Also, no need to be ashamed of adding Star Wars to your list, it ended up in the top 250!
Victoria - Schiller
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Mungiu
Pearl in the Crown - Kutz
Camera Buff - Kieślowski
Grizzly Man - Herzog
Playtime - Tati
Deer Hunter - Cimino
Funny Games - Haneke
Pulp Fiction - Tarantino
Fargo - Cohen
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a tremendous film.
Ah, Camera Buff as your Kieslowski. A sleeper!
These are in no particular order but oh well
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Sunset Boulevard(1950)
Psycho(1960)
Jaws(1975)
Ben-Hur(1959)
The Great Dictator(1940)
Joan the Maid(1993)
Shichin no Samurai(1954)
The Seventh Seal(1957)
A Place in the Sun(1951)
What do you think???
Sunset Boulevard is my favorite here, the most iconic movie ever
Ben Hur is great 😍
love it and am grateful. I have tried to dig Ben Hur, but .... really it has two unforgettable sequences, the naval battle and the chariot race. That's pretty good, to have two memorable scenes from one movie.
@@LearningaboutMovies Aw yeah, it’s a hard one to warm up to
Now, it was really hard for me not to put babettes feast and kin dza dza on here, I absolutely love them but I feel like they arent necessarily the most influential
Most of these picks are in my top 10 favorites. It can be hard for me to differentiate my favorites against my view of the best. In chronological order:
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (HM: Passion of Joan of Arc, City Lights)
- La Strada (HM: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita)
- The Seventh Seal (HM: Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers)
- The 400 Blows
- Andrei Rublev (HM: Mirror, Sacrifice)
- Badlands
- Barry Lyndon (HM: 2001: A Space Odyssey)
- Taxi Driver
- Apocalypse Now (HM: The Godfather I and II, Come and See)
- Chungking Express (HM: In the Mood for Love)
thank you. I hope everyone gets a chance to watch these at some point.
Solid list. There is a couple on that list I have yet to see and will definitely have to check out sooner rather than later.
I don't think you either fully can or even should try to seperate your favorites from "the best," as if there even is some scientifically objective way to measure such a thing in a manner completely detatched from ypur experience of a thing. Obviously you can love movies that you acknowledge aren't particularly great, but you can also recognize that something is great and not personally love it. In that case, why put it on your list in the first place? At that point, you'd just be regurgitating something closer to consensus rather than providing your own unique perspective that balances both your recognition of quality and your equally valid experience with something. Is The Godfather a better movie than Return of the King? Probably, and purely on a technical level, I would probably completely agree (for the record, I love them both), but I can't and won't deny that ROTK spoke to something in my soul on a deeper level than The Godfather did or probably ever will. I think that's something that ought to be taken heavily into account and shouldn't be ignorwd. While I think there's value in acknowledging that which is widely recognized for its greatness, putting that at the forefront of one's judgment with no regard for how it did or didn't personally resonate with you defeats the purpose of making your own list, I think. It says nothing about the films themselves other than what everyone else says, and it reveals nothing about the person making the list. At the same time, I might rather watch Zombieland over Taxi Driver more often than not at any given time, but I'm not going to pretend as though Taxi Driver isn't both an excellent film and in a completely different league above Zombieland. My point is that there's an intangible but clear balance between objective quality and subjective experience, and you can't really quantify that sort of thing. They are both equally important and our experience with the art form is uniquely valuable.
I liked that you went honest with what you love (Star Wars deserves a shot).
And my list (glad you asked)?
10. The Empire Strikes Back
9. Come and See
8. Tokyo Story
7. The Godfather
6. Breathless
5. Rear Window
4. Spirited Away
3. The Seven Samurai
2. Citizen Kane
And my favourite movie is...
1. Shoot the Piano Player
(come at me, bro!)
thank you.
Quite an amazing list of films! I will have to watch Children of Paradise soon. Here's my top 10 (in no particular order):
1. Chinatown (1974)
2. 8 1/2 (1963)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. His Girl Friday (1940)
5. Cache (2005)
6. Night and Fog (1955)
7. Apocalypse Now (1979)
8. Chungking Express (1994)
9. La grande Illusion (1937)
10. Brief Encounter (1945)/Ugetsu (1953)
I had to pick 11 since I can't leave out any among these.
I have picked only one film released after 2000, but there were quite a few which I really liked but couldn't put them in top 10: In the mood for love, The Royal Tenenbaums, Memories of Murder and The Social Network.
thank you. I have a video on Grand Illusion coming out very soon.
1. Grand Illusion
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Citizen Kane
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Brokeback Mountain
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. The Wizard of Oz
8. City Lights
9. Sansho the Bailiff
10. A Man Escaped
Will cheat. Wish I could include 10 more including All About Eve; Au Hasard Balthazar; Rashomon; Children of Paradise; Gone with the Wind; Lawrence of Arabia; The Crowd; Breaking the Waves; The Grapes of Wrath; City of God.
Bothers me that certain great films are ignored, including these 10: Wuthering Heights (1939); The Pianist; The Wages of Fear; Ballad of a Soldier; The Shop on Main Street; In the Year of 13 Moons; Water (by Deepa Mehta); Farewell, My Concubine; Cabaret; and Napoleon (1927).
My late top 10! A mix of personal favourites and ones which I feel are real cinematic achievements.
10- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
9- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8- Citizen Kane (1941)
7- Gone with the Wind (1939)
6- GoodFellas (1990)
5- Barry Lyndon (1975)
4- The Searchers (1956)
3- City Lights (1931)
2- Psycho (1960)
1- The Godfather (1972)
Very much enjoying your videos friend. You've got good film taste !
thank you very much. Great list!
Schindler's List, High Noon, On the Waterfront, Ran, Lawrence of Arabia, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars, Godfather, Young Frankenstein and Crimes and Misdemeanors
A Love Song For Bobby Long, The Lord of the Rings, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Tree of Life, Apocalypse Now, Le Notti Bianchi, Chinatown, The Third Man, Blade Runner. It is a difficult to make this list. I've left films from my favourite directors such as Tarkovsky, Bergman and Hitchcock out!
Casablanca (1942)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
M (1931)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Ran (1985)
Rear Window (1954)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Godfather (1972)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
yeah, Empire could be subbed for A New Hope. I really would rather rewatch that one out of any of them.
Here's my Top 10:
10. "Sunset Boulevard" (Billy Wilder, 1950)
09. "Three Colors: Blue" (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
08. "Paris, Texas" (Wim Wenders, 1984)
07. "My Darling Clementine" (John Ford, 1946)
06. "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
05. "8 1/2" (Federico Fellini, 1963)
04. "Tokyo Story" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
03. "Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles, 1941)
02. "Persona" (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
01. "The Mirror" (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
1. Late Spring
2. Dr Strangelove
3. His Girl Friday
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Sherlock Jr
6. Pather Panchali
7. Yojimbo
8. A Moment of Innocence
9. Rear Window
10. Arrival
Leaving off The Red Shoes hurt me. Recently found your channel after seeing the 400 Blows and wanting to chew over it - enjoyed the movie and your review, thanks
thank you!
The battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
The 400 blows (Truffaut)
Au hazard Balthazar (Bresson)
The good the bad and the ugly (Leone)
L’avventura (Antonioni)
In the mood for love (Kar-Wai)
2001 a space odyssey (Kubrick)
Persona (Bergman)
Good morning (Ozu)
Dog day afternoon (Lumet)
thank you. Good Morning might be my favorite Ozu.
Top 10 favourite films of all time
Apocalypse Now
Lord of the rings ROTK
Alien
A Nightmare on elm street
No County for old men
Once upon a time in America
12 Angry Men
Cinema Paradiso
Blade Runner
Portrait of a lady on fire
No order because that’s just impossible for me lol.
thank you!
Star Wars and Rear Window were definitely two that immediately came to mind for me. I was in high school when Star Wars came out and it had a huge impact on me. To this day it remains the only film I've gone to the theater multiple times to see. I saw Star Wars at the movie theater 4 times. Of course that was before home video existed.
Mine would be in no particular order:
Blue Velvet
The wind rises
We all loved each other so much
12 angry man
Do the right thing
The royal tenenbaums
barry lyndon
Decision to leave
Porco rosso
I made mine when the BFI came out as well!
-Patterson (Jarmusch)
-2001 (Kubrick)
-Paris, Texas (Wenders)
-Mirror (Tarkovsky)
-Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
-The Irishman (Scorsese)
-Do the Right Thing (Lee)
-Memories of Murder (Bong)
- The Shinning (Kubrick)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch)
I used your limited series excuse to sneak in The return which to me is just an 18 hour experimental epic! A lot of newer films but I’m only 23 so these are the ones that stick with me!
Also gonna try and put that excel sheet together😂
Shhh! Do ya want to be sued?
Just started following with your discussion about 'Stalker '. Thanks for the insight.
My favorite...best is 'Locke.' I love Tom Hardy. This film is one in a million. The making of it is unique and the supporting cast is perfect. What is it about? The meaning of life, what else is there..
you're welcome. Locke is indeed a great movie, and I should get to that on this channel. good reminder, thank you.
Great movie. It takes a special kind of actor to carry a story like that, and Tom Hardy is definitely one of them.
Planet of the Apes/ Manhattan / American Beauty / Raise the Red Lantern/ Farewell My Concubine/ All About My Mother/ Brokeback Mountain/ The Master/ The Grand Budapest Hotel / Man on Wire/ The Matrix
In my top 10 the following would be in it: One-eyed Jacks, Shadow of a Doubt, The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, Paths of Glory...
Why Sunrise dropped at all in the latest Sight and Sound poll is a bloody shame. You CAN NOT make a more visually or emotionally compelling film. But with all the young and younger critics voting on the list I might have expected it. Just for the record my favorite films (I don't like to say "best") are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, The Rules of the Game, I Walked With a Zombie, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Searchers, Kiss Me Deadly, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, Demy's Lola, Shoot the Piano Player, Contempt and Goodfellas I love noir above all so 3 have made my list.
1. Come and See
2. The Godfather
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Days of Heaven
5. In the Mood for Love
6. Senna
7. The Thin Red Line
8. Rear Window
9. Drive
10. Chinatown
The General - The Conversation - Bicycle Thieves - Chinatown - A Canterbury Tale - Kes - The Hours - The Passenger- The Lives of Others - Wings of Desire. though of course my list will have changed again by tomorrow...
In no particular order:
1. The General
2. 12 Angry Men
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Citizen Kane
5. Star Wars
6. It’s a Wonderful Life
7. West Side Story (1961)
8. Psycho
9. Inception
10. Metropolis (1927)
thank you.
1. Thin Red Line
2. Dear Hunter
3. Feear and loathing
4. Bladerunner
5. English Patient
6. Tree of life
7. Memories of Murder
8. Seven
9. Life of Brian
10. 12 Monkeys
In no particular order; Titanic, Back to the Future, Red River, Stagecoach, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Terminator 2, It’s a Wonderful Life, Aladdin (animated movie)
Awesome list. I'm Definitly going to put some of those onto my watchlist.
Some movies which would be on my list: 12 angry men. Stalker. Wall-E. 2001.
thanks. If I didn't put Ratatouille in, I'd put Wall-E, or Totoro/Nausicaa/Castle in the Sky.
I have a top 100, but I am going to revise it for this presentation to coincide with your selection process -
Kurosawa is Ran (32)
Favourite film, also a war movie is Casablanca (1)
Silent is The General (10)
Science Fiction is Blade Runner FC (16)
Hitchcock is Vertigo (6)
French, also about the WWII Resistance is L'Armee des Ombres (5)
Animated is Dumbo (24)
Documentary is Of Time and the City (3)
Tarkovsky is Stalker (unplaced but likely top 10)
My cheat is the polar opposite of Citizen Kane, come on, there has to be a musical comedy to balance all the po faced stuff - This Is Spinal Tap (57)
Interesting Pull!
Mine would be:
- Mulholland Drive
- Taxi Driver
- Blade Runner
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- Rare Window
- Harold and Maude
- Easy Rider
- The Big Lebowski
- Matrix
- Shrek
thank you.
this is a mix of my favorites and films that i genuinely think are the greatest.
1. a bout de souffle
2. the apartment
3. l'avventura
4. pierrot le fou
5. some like it hot
6. le cercle rouge
7. the bad sleep well
8. annie hall
9. a brighter summer day
10. stray dog
if i could have five more:
1. manila in the claws of light
2. black orpheus
3. jules and jim
4. the umbrellas of cherbourg
5. two (satyajit ray short)
two Kurosawas and not the most common ones. Bad Sleep Well is really amazing movie.
@@LearningaboutMovies kurosawa and shakespeare really works great together ❤️
Thank you Josh. I enjoy your channel and you've inspired my love of film. Choosing 10 is not easy but Citizen Kane is basically a flawless film to me. Artistic with a strong story. Tough to choose between Rashomon and Seven Samurai, Mirror versus Stalker, etc. If the list was larger I would probably include Star Wars, Mulholland Drive, and Parasite.
Citizen Kane
Godfather
Mirror
8-1/2
Rashomon
Taxi Driver
Sunset Blvd
Gone With the Wind
Bicycle Thieves
Rear Window
thank you very much. The bluray version of Gone with the Wind is one of the best looking digital versions I've seen.
My list:
1. Persona
2. A Brighter summer day
3. It's a wonderful life
4. It's such a beautiful day
5. As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of Beauty
6. Portrait of a lady on Fire
7. Paris, Texas
8. Spirited Away
9. High and Low
10. Soy Cuba
@@ranganmajumder2200 I haven't and I'm definitely not planning to. I may be pretentious, but not pretentious enough to watch 8 hours of the empire state building. I genuinely enjoy the films on my list which probably won't be the case with warhol films
thank you.
You said it! All publicly famous lists are strategized lists to make them famous.
My Top Ten, in no particular order
1. Vertigo
2. Double Indemnity
3. Apocalypse Now
4. El Sur
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Stalker
7. Fanny And Alexander
8. Picnic At Hanging Rock
9. Taxi Driver
10. No Country For Old Men
1) The Godfather pt.1 or pt.2
2) Star wars: a new hope
3) Once upon a time in America
4) Psycho
5) La dolce vita
6) Schindler's list
7) Shawshank redemption
8) The seventh seal
9) Taxi driver
10) Lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
Honarable mentions: Pulp fiction, Apocalypse now, Goodfellas, City of god, Citizen kane, Lawrence of Arabia, 12 angry men
Yeah, if I had to choose one fellowship would definitely be the one but all the Lotr movies are great
thank you.
This would be my list:
1.Persona
2.Enter the Void
3.Fallen Angels
4.Nostalghia
5.2001
6.Stalker
7.Parasite
8.Requiem for a Dream
9.Pi
10.Enemy
Greeting from Germany! Love your stuff!
My top ten in order
10.Synecdoche, new york - Kaufman (2008)
9.Pulp fiction - Tarantino (1994)
8.The tree of life - Malick (2011)
7.In the mood for love - WKW (2000)
6.The shawshank redemption - Darabont (1994)
5.Psycho - Hitchkock (1960)
4.Raging bull- Scorsese (1980)
3.2001 a space odyssey - Kubrick (1968)
2.The godfather - Coppola (1972)
1.Persona - Bergman (1966)
Nice
Barry Lyndon, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wild Bunch, Seventh Seal, Platoon, Great Expectations (Lean), Nosferatu, The God Father, Alexander Nevsky, Seven Samurai
Mine (not in order):
-Citizen Kane
-2001 a space Odyssey
-Casablanca
-The Seven Samurais
-Ran
-Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
-The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
-Mulholland Drive
-North by Northwest
-The Searchers
Ratatouille is also my favorite animation. Never fail to tug my heartstrings.
Okay let me think… Paris, Texas which is maybe my favorite film.
A Documentary spot would go to Crumb.
Animated film? The Illusionist, the Tati script adapted into an animated film by Sylvan Chomet.
My favorite comedy? Kicking and Screaming by Noah Baumbach.
The rest of my list doesn’t really fit into categories. I guess they’re dramas basically. Nothing pre-1970 either. That’s a deficiency probably.
Days of Heaven
My Father’s Glory
The Straight Story
Chocolat (Claire Denis)
Ruby in Paradise
For the last spot I’m deliberating between Still Walking by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, or The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Ermanno Olmi.
I think instead I’ll go with Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
Paris, Texas is something else. Fantastic movie
great stuff. You remind me to rewatch My Father's/My Mother's. I would consider them one long movie.
The Straight Story is arguably the greatest movie about the American Midwest.
@@LearningaboutMovies Thanks for the reply! You’re right they work as one film. I felt that My Father’s is the pitch perfect one, but the ending of My Mother’s brings it all together quite movingly.
I’m surprised and a little in wonder about what you think about The Straight Story. There’s something indelible about it right, not the least being the kind of miraculous performance we get from Richard Farnsworth. He would be my Grandparents age who both served in WW 2. My Grandfather on my dad’s side was from Wisconsin, and my moms side is from Yokohama. It’s like a tome to Midwestern Decency and Landscapes. (Tome isn’t quite right.) I love the bartender near the end. Mark Cousins is right. He’s straight out of an Ozu film.
1. Amadeus - 1984
2. Wizard of Oz - 1939
3. Casablanca - 1942
3. Forbidden Planet - 1956
4. Island of Terror - 1966
5. Vertigo - 1958
6. Psycho - 1960
7. Village of the Damned - 1960
8. The China Syndrome - 1979
9. Planet of the Apes - 1968
10. The Illustrated Man - 1969
1. About Endlessness
2. An American in Paris
3. Citizen Kane
4. Come and See
5. The General
6. Grand Illusion
7. The Magnificent Ambersons
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc
9. Raging Bull
10. The Rules of the Game
interesting inclusion of American in Paris. One of my absolute favorites is Gene Kelly.
@@LearningaboutMovies I think it’s beautifully directed and all of the musical numbers hit
For me atm:
- Citizen Kane
- Cinema Paradiso
- Life Of Others
- Amarcord
- The Godfather
- Star Wars, Episode IV
- Schindler's list
- Apocalypse Now
- Return To The Future
...
The first movie that popped into my head was “Tree of Life”. For a week after initially seeing it, I kept thinking about it went back to the theater saw it again and watched it again when it first came out on DVD. Long movie but captured my mind. Similar to my experience with “Playtime”. Both movies I was not blown away by but there was something on some level kept at me.
#10 Mr Hulots holiday, #9 Babette's feast, #8 apocalypse now, #7 rear window, #6 sorcerer, #5 LOTR: two towers, #4 days of heaven, #3 voyager, #2 Aguirre the wrath of God, #1 the thin red line.
This is definitely not final and I could easily name another 10 that I love.
thank you. Lots of LOTR showing up here, yet people are divided between the three of them. I wonder if we'll ever settle on which one is best.
1. LOTR Trilogy (2001-2003)
2. The Thin Red Line (1998)
3. Satantango (1994)
4. Sunrise (1927)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
6. Stalker (1979)
7. Xi you (Journey to the west) (2014)
8. 12 angry men (1957)
9. Magnolia (1999)
10. Barry Lyndon (1975)
1. Drive
2. The Godfather
3. Thelma & Louise
4. Kevin home alone
5. Annie Hall
6. Working girl
8. Frantic
9. Blade Runner
10.Batman the dark knight
And the list goes on❤️
My top 10
1.Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
2. Close Up (Kiarostami)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
4. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
5. Persona (Bergman)
6. Playtime (Tati)
7. The Night Of The Hunter (Laughton)
8. L'Avventura (Antonioni)
9. The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger)
10. The 400 blows (Truffaut)
Honorable mention: Mulholland Dr. (Lynch), BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
in no order, but these first five are the ones I picked based on the fact they speak to me the most:
Apocalypse now
stalker
Beau Travail
Come and see
Viridiana
The next 4 are favourites but would include them because I don't think they're appreciated enough, so kinda underrated picks but not really?
Diabolique
Sleuth
The 1934 Raymond Bernard 4-hour version of Les miserables
Ballad of Narayama (or maybe swap for I am Cuba)
then I'd probably throw in Once upon a time in the West as a final pick.
just some honourable mentions I'd consider maybe changing around with the ten:
Cinema paradiso
12 angry men
seven samurai
pierrot le fou
fanny and Alexander
The amount of overlap this had with mine stunned me.
What would you most highly recommend to someone whose favorite movies include Apocalypse Now, Stalker, Come and See, 12 Angry Men and Seven Samurai? Completely hypothetical.
@Alex Roodman Maybe if you like films related to war, try something called the Burmese harp. if you like Stalker and come & see, try Ken Russels the Devils discusses similar themes to Stalker and has the shock factor of come and see. Z (Costa gavras) is a good movie you may not have seen. People who like come and see like the ascent, its good but not close to come and see. for 12 angry men? witness for the prosecution is a good court room drama also, but quite different movies
good ones. Diabolique is a fantastic film.
My top 10 (there are two three was ties but quite frankly I don’t care lol)
1. The End of Evangelion
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Harold and Maude
4. Fallen Angels
5. Seven Samurai
6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. The Before… Trilogy
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Singin' in the Rain
Honorable mentions: Ikiru, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Taxi Driver
thank you.
My top ten list:
Dr. Strangelove
Sunset Blvd.
The Great Dictator
City Lights
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Battle of Algiers
Playtime
Germany Year Zero
Papillon
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Papillion has been a longtime personal favorite of mine. thank you.
What about Elem Klimov's Come and See? But I need to watch the sacrifice next!
yes, Come and See. I predict that that will move up the BFI's list in the 2022 poll very fast and high, perhaps more than any other upward-mover. It really seems to have a lot of momentum. Great movie and definitely worthy to be on a list like this. I am due to watch it with a class in a few weeks.
Probably:
1. Godfather 1 & 2
2. Whiplash
3. The Shining
4. Lord of the Rings trilogy
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. Psycho
7. Blade Runner & 2049
8. The Prestige
9. The Apartment
10. City Lights
Changes all the time though. Some other films that enter and exit my top 10 often are 'Parasite', 'Good, Bad, and the Ugly', 'Shawshank', 'Ratatouille' (very glad to see this on your list), 'Das Boot', 'The Wicker Man', 'Mary and Max', 'Robocop', 'Evil Dead', 'Dawn of the Dead', 'The Wrestler', 'Raging Bull', 'Casino', 'Taxi Driver', 'Fight Club', etc. There's too many to choose from!!!
I'm glad to see you love The Wrestler. That movie is far more brilliant than it appears to be.
@@LearningaboutMovies I agree! I’d like to call it my favourite Darren Aronofsky movie but I haven’t seen Black Swan or Pi so I can’t say. Not sure what your thoughts are on Requiem for a Dream but when I saw it I found it a little less impactful than many others did. Not to say it isn’t a good movie, just seems a bit overrated to me with how everyone praises it as one of the most disturbing movies and all.