16.4.09

Andrew and his Amazing Technicolor List

So I've mentioned that for the upcoming Do You Have a Flag? Podcast (to be recorded this weekend outside on a sunporch while drinking many a beer... jealous?), I'll be joined by best friends and fellow cinefiliacs Andrew and Theo. Their credibility doesn't need to be proven, but just today I received the following list which Andrew spent the last two weeks making. In this list he compiled the 500 Greatest films of all time according to research on various top lists, critics pics and general audience approval. Each film is given a numerical rating and thus ranked...

#

Title

Date

Director

Country

Score

  1.  

The Godfather

1972

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

861

  1.  

Citizen Kane

1941

Orson Welles

USA

836

  1.  

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

David Lean

UK

769

  1.  

The Godfather Part II

1974

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

755

  1.  

Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)

1954

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

755

  1.  

Psycho

1960

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

736

  1.  

Singin’ in the Rain

1952

Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

USA

730

  1.  

Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

USA

687

  1.  

Vertigo

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

680

  1.  

Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)

1948

Vittorio De Sica

Italy

677

  1.  

Rashômon

1950

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

669

  1.  

Some Like it Hot

1959

Billy Wilder

USA

665

  1.  

Raging Bull

1980

Martin Scorsese

USA

653

  1.  

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Stanley Kubrick

UK/USA

652

  1.  

1963

Federico Fellini

Italy

640

  1.  

Sunset Boulevard

1950

Billy Wilder

USA

629

  1.  

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

Stanley Kubrick

UK/USA

625

  1.  

Taxi Driver

1976

Martin Scorsese

USA

622

  1.  

Chinatown

1974

Roman Polanski

USA

618

  1.  

C’era una volt il West (Once Upon a Time in the West)

1968

Sergio Leone

Italy

597

  1.  

Metropolis

1927

Fritz Lang

Germany

597

  1.  

Schindler’s List

1993

Steven Spielberg

USA

592

  1.  

Apocalypse Now

1979

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

592

  1.  

Star Wars: A New Hope

1977

George Lucas

USA

586

  1.  

City Lights

1931

Charlie Chaplin

USA

577

  1.  

La Régle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)

1939

Jean Renoir

France

570

  1.  

Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal)

1957

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

567

  1.  

M

1931

Fritz Lang

Germany

563

  1.  

On the Waterfront

1954

Elia Kazan

USA

549

  1.  

Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story)

1953

Yasujiro Ozu

Japan

538

  1.  

It’s a Wonderful Life

1946

Frank Capra

USA

527

  1.  

Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

USA

516

  1.  

La Dolce Vita

1960

Federico Fellini

Italy

507

  1.  

Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly)

1966

Sergio Leone

Italy

487

  1.  

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1975

Milos Forman

USA

480

  1.  

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Victor Fleming

USA

469

  1.  

Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)

1925

Sergei M. Einstein

Soviet Union

469

  1.  

Cidade de Deus (City of God)

2002

Fernando Meirelles & Káti Lund

Brazil/France

464

  1.  

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

John Huston

USA

461

  1.  

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

1928

Carl Theodor Dreyer

France

459

  1.  

The Searchers

1956

John Ford

USA

450

  1.  

The Maltese Falcon

1941

John Huston

USA

450

  1.  

À bout de souffle (Breathless)

1960

Jean-Luc Godard

France/USA

441

  1.  

All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

USA

437

  1.  

The General

1927

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

USA

432

  1.  

The Third Man

1949

Carol Reed

UK

432

  1.  

La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)

1937

Jean Renoir

France

429

  1.  

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Robert Mulligan

USA

427

  1.  

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

1955

Satyajit Ray

India

423

  1.  

Gone with the Wind

1939

Victor Fleming

USA

422

  1.  

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

David Lean

UK

421

  1.  

Pulp Fiction

1994

Quentin Tarantino

USA

401

  1.  

Rear Window

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

400

  1.  

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

John Ford

USA

389

  1.  

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

Peter Jackson

New Zealand/USA

388

  1.  

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975

Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones

UK

386

  1.  

Ran

1985

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

386

  1.  

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Frank Capra

USA

380

  1.  

North By Northwest

1959

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

376

  1.  

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

Steven Spielberg

USA

369

  1.  

Das Boot (The Boat)

1981

Wolfgang Peterson

West Germany

365

  1.  

La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)

1997

Roberto Benigni

Italy

365

  1.  

La Strada (The Road)

1954

Federico Fellini

Italy

364

  1.  

The Graduate

1967

Mike Nichols

USA

361

  1.  

Saving Private Ryan

1998

Steven Spielberg

USA

358

  1.  

Modern Times

1936

Charlie Chaplin

USA

357

  1.  

High Noon

1952

Fred Zinnemann

USA

357

  1.  

Annie Hall

1977

Woody Allen

USA

340

  1.  

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Jonathan Demme

USA

337

  1.  

L’Atalante

1934

Jean Vigo

France

336

  1.  

Bonnie and Clyde

1967

Arthur Penn

USA

335

  1.  

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, Wrath of God)

1972

Werner Herzog

West Germany

335

  1.  

King Kong

1933

Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Scoedsack

USA

326

  1.  

Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise)

1946

Marcel Carné

France

324

  1.  

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

F.W. Murnau

USA

324

  1.  

A Clockwork Orange

1971

Stanley Kubrick

UK

323

  1.  

The Apartment

1960

Billy Wilder

USA

320

  1.  

Jaws

1975

Steven Spielberg

USA

318

  1.  

GoodFellas

1990

Martin Scorsese

USA

316

  1.  

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982

Steven Spielberg

USA

315

  1.  

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Frank Darabont

USA

313

  1.  

It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Capra

USA

313

  1.  

Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows)

1959

François Truffaut

France

312

  1.  

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

1980

Irvin Kershner

USA

311

  1.  

Touch of Evil

1958

Orson Welles

USA

310

  1.  

Forrest Gump

1994

Robert Zemeckis

USA

308

  1.  

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2003

Peter Jackson

New Zealand

307

  1.  

Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Amelie)

2001

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

France

307

  1.  

Blade Runner

1982

Ridley Scott

USA

306

  1.  

Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Ugetsu)

1953

Kenji Mizoguchi

Japan

304

  1.  

L’avventura (The Adventure)

1960

Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy/France

299

  1.  

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)

2001

Hayao Miyazaki

Japan

296

  1.  

Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso)

1988

Giuseppe Tornatore

Italy

292

  1.  

Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

2006

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Germany

288

  1.  

Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim)

1962

François Truffaut

France

282

  1.  

Unforgiven

1992

Clint Eastwood

USA

279

  1.  

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

William Wyler

USA

277

  1.  

12 Angry Men

1957

Sidney Lumet

USA

275

  1.  

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

Peter Jackson

New Zealand/USA

274

  1.  

The Birth of a Nation

1915

D.W. Griffith

USA

265

  1.  

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Elia Kazan

USA

261

  1.  

The Deer Hunter

1978

Micael Cimino

USA

251

  1.  

The Dark Knight

2008

Christopher Nolan

USA

245

  1.  

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

James Cameron

USA

240

  1.  

Slumdog Millionaire

2008

Danny Boyle

UK

239

  1.  

Notorious

1946

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

237

  1.  

American Beauty

1999

Sam Mendes

USA

235

  1.  

Amadeus

1984

Miloš Forman

USA

235

  1.  

The Usual Suspects

1995

Bryan Singer

USA

229

  1.  

Memento

2000

Christopher Nolan

USA

224

  1.  

The Manchurian Candidate

1962

John Frankenheimer

USA

223

  1.  

The Matrix

1999

Larry & Andy Wachowski

USA

222

  1.  

The Departed

2006

Martin Scorsese

USA

220

  1.  

The Pianist

2002

Roman Polanski

France/Poland/ Germany/UK

220

  1.  

WALL-E

2008

Andrew Stanton

USA

220

  1.  

Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

1956

Satyajit Ray

India

220

  1.  

Fight Club

1999

David Fincher

USA

219

  1.  

The Sound of Music

1965

Robert Wise

USA

218

  1.  

Léon (The Professional)

1994

Luc Besson

France

217

  1.  

Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)

1957

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

216

  1.  

The African Queen

1951

John Huston

USA/UK

215

  1.  

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

George Roy Hill

USA

215

  1.  

Andrey Rublyov (Andrei Rublev)

1966

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet Union

213

  1.  

Paths of Glory

1957

Stanley Kubrick

USA

212

  1.  

Alien

1979

Ridley Scott

UK/USA

212

  1.  

The Gold Rush

1925

Charlie Chaplin

USA

210

  1.  

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)

1959

Satyajit Ray

India

210

  1.  

Se7en

1995

David Fincher

USA

208

  1.  

Duck Soup

1933

Leo McCarey

USA

206

  1.  

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

1937

David Hand

USA

206

  1.  

American History X

1998

Tony Kaye

USA

205

  1.  

Midnight Cowboy

1969

John Schlesinger

USA

201

  1.  

Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear)

1953

Henri-Georges Clouzot

France

200

  1.  

The Wild Bunch

1969

Sam Peckinpah

USA

198

  1.  

Dekalog (The Decalogue)

1989

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Poland

197

  1.  

The Shining

1980

Stanley Kubrick

USA/UK

196

  1.  

The Sting

1973

George Roy Hill

USA

196

  1.  

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Michel Gondry

USA

192

  1.  

L.A. Confidential

1997

Curtis Hanson

USA

192

  1.  

The Philadelphia Story

1940

George Cukor

USA

192

  1.  

Rebecca

1940

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

190

  1.  

Aliens

1986

James Cameron

USA

189

  1.  

Requiem for a Dream

2000

Darren Aronofsky

USA

188

  1.  

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

Alexander Mackendrick

USA

187

  1.  

El Laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrith)

2006

Guillermo del Toro

Mexico/Spain

186

  1.  

Reservoir Dogs

1992

Quentin Tarantino

USA

182

  1.  

Ben-Hur

1959

William Wyler

USA

181

  1.  

West Side Story

1961

Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise

USA

180

  1.  

Platoon

1986

Oliver Stone

USA

179

  1.  

Nashville

1975

Robert Altman

USA

179

  1.  

Network

1976

Sydney Lumet

USA

178

  1.  

Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)

1961

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

173

  1.  

Der Untergang (The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich)

2004

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Germany/ Austria/Italy

171

  1.  

Oldboy

2003

Park Chan-wook

South Korea

170

  1.  

Un chien andalou

1928

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí

France

170

  1.  

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

Robert Hamer

UK

169

  1.  

C’era una volta in America (Once Upon a Time in America)

1984

Sergio Leone

Italy/USA

169

  1.  

Braveheart

1995

Mel Gibson

USA

168

  1.  

The Elephant Man

1980

David Lynch

USA/UK

166

  1.  

The Great Dictator

1940

Charlie Chaplin & Wheeler Dryden

USA

165

  1.  

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages

1916

D.W. Griffith

USA

162

  1.  

The Great Escape

1963

John Sturges

 

161

  1.  

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

1983

Richard Marquand

USA

161

  1.  

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Lewis Milestone

USA

161

  1.  

The Wrestler

2008

Darren Aronofsky

USA

160

  1.  

M*A*S*H

1970

Robert Altman

USA

159

  1.  

Full Metal Jacket

1987

Stanley Kubrick

USA/UK

158

  1.  

Tootsie

1982

Sydney Pollack

USA

158

  1.  

Sin City

2005

Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller

USA

157

  1.  

Zerkalo (The Mirror)

1975

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet Union

156

  1.  

Gladiator

2000

Ridley Scott

USA

154

  1.  

Fargo

1996

Joel Coen

USA

153

  1.  

Gran Torino

2008

Clint Eastwood

USA

152

  1.  

Back to the Future

1985

Robert Zemeckis

USA

150

  1.  

Hotel Rwanda

2004

Terry George

USA/UK/ Italy/South Africa

149

  1.  

Shane

1953

George Stevens

USA

149

  1.  

Brokeback Mountain

2005

Ang Lee

USA

149

  1.  

Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander)

1982

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden/ France/West Germany

148

  1.  

No Country for Old Men

2007

Joel & Ethan Coen

USA

147

  1.  

Batman Begins

2005

Christopher Nolan

USA

146

  1.  

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

Steven Spielberg

USA

144

  1.  

Strangers on a Train

1951

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

143

  1.  

The Green Mile

1999

Frank Darabont

USA

143

  1.  

Finding Nemo

2003

Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich

USA

142

  1.  

The Sixth Sense

1999

M. Night Shyamalan

USA

141

  1.  

Rocky

1976

John G. Avildsen

USA

140

  1.  

Umberto D.

1952

Vittorio De Sica

Italy

140

  1.  

Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)

1997

Hayao Miyazaki

Japan

136

  1.  

La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers)

1966

Gilo Pontecorvo

Italy/Algeria

136

  1.  

Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

2000

Ang Lee

Taiwan/China/ Hong Kong/USA

136

  1.  

Barry Lyndon

1975

Stanley Kubrick

UK

134

  1.  

The Big Sleep

1946

Howard Hawks

USA

133

  1.  

Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More)

1965

Sergio Leone

Italy

132

  1.  

Il Conformista (The Conformist)

1970

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italy/France/ West Germany

130

  1.  

Olympia, Parts 1 and 2

1938

Leni Riefenstahl

Germany

130

  1.  

Cool Hand Luke

1967

Stuart Rosenberg

USA

130

  1.  

Die Hard

1988

John McTiernan

USA

128

  1.  

Million Dollar Baby

2004

Clint Eastwood

USA

127

  1.  

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Billy Wilder

USA

125

  1.  

There Will Be Blood

2007

Paul Thomas Anderson

USA

124

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