ufoclub said:

PurpleJedi said:

So apparently Hitchcock's "Vertigo" finally topped "Citizen Kane" as the greatest film of all time.

LONDON – Orson Welles' Citizen Kane no longer enjoys the moniker of greatest film of all time, a plaudit it has held for 50 years.

The movie has occupied top billing in the British Film Institute published magazine Sight & Sound's once-a-decade international critics’ film poll since 1962.

The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

full story HERE

So as I'm reading this, I realize that out of all those films, the only one I've seen is "2001: A Space Odyssey"

I've always wanted to see Citizen Kane, and I may have seen bits of Vertigo once but I can't recall.

Have you all seen any/most of the films on that list?

I've seen Vertigo, Citizen Kane, Tokyo Story and 2001: A Space Odyssey

I liked them alot. I especially loved Tokyo Story, one of my very favourite films.

I was looking for films to add to my rental queue and remembered this thread. I added a few of the top 50 and then found the complete Sight and Sound top 250 list:

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)

10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

11. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

12. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

13. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

15. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)

16. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

=17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)

=17. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

=19. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951)

=19. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)

=21. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

=21. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

=21. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

=24. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)

=24. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

=26. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)

=26. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

=29. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

=29. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

=31. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

=31. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

33. Bicycle Thieves (Vittoria De Sica, 1948)

34. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926)

=35. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

=35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

=35. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

=35. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)

=39. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)

=39. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

41. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

=42. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

=42. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

=42. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)

=42. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

=42. Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)

=42. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)

=48. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

=48. Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)

=50. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

=50. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)

=50. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

=53. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

=53. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

=53. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

56. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)

=57. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

=57. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)

=59. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)

=59. Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

=59. La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)

=59. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

=63. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)

=63. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)

=63. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

=63. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

=63. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1958)

=63. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

=69. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)

=69. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

=69. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1982)

=69. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

=73. La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

=73. Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carne, 1945)

=73. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

=73. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

=73. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

=78. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

=78. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

=78. Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1998)

=81. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)

=81. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)

=81. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)

=84. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1925)

=84. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

=84. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)

=84. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

=84. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1984)

=84. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

=90. Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936)

=90. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1946)

=90. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

=93. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)

=93. Un chien andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1928)

=93. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1943)

=93. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls, 1953)

=93. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

=93. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

=93. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)

=93. Fear Eats the Soul (R.W. Fassbinder, 1974)

=93. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

=102. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1945)

=102. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

=102. Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

=102. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)

=102. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

=102. The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975)

=102. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid, 1943)

=102. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

=110. L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930)

=110. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

=110. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

=110. Los olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950)

=110. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)

=110. Performance (Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell, 1970)

=110. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1974)

=117. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

=117. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)

=117. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1944)

=117. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

=117. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

=117. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1963)

=117. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1966)

=117. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1972)

=117. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

=117. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989)

=127. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924)

=127. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)

=127. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)

=127. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)

=127. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)

=127. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

=127. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

=127. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)

=127. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

=127. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

=127. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

=127. L'argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)

=127. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

=127. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1990)

=127. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)
=127. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

=127. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

=144. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)

=144. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

=144. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)

=144. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

=144. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)

=144. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

=144. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

=144. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)

=144. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
=144. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

=154. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)

=154. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

=154. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

=154. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

=154. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

=154. Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)

=154. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

=154. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1966)

=154. Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)

=154. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)

=154. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

=154. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

=154. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1983)

=154. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)

=154. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)

=154. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)

=154. Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)

=171. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902)

=171. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)

=171. Tabu (F.W. Murnau, 1931)

=171. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

=171. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1939)

=171. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

=171. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)

=171. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)

=171. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

=171. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

=171. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

=171. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)

=183. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)

=183. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)

=183. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

=183. Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings/Steward McAllister, 1942)

=183. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)

=183. "I Know Where I'm Going!" (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1945)

=183. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)

=183. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

=183. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)

=183. Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)

=183. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1969)

=183. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Luis Bunuel, 1972)

=183. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

=183. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

=183. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)

=183. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

=183. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

=183. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)

=183. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

=202. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)

=202. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

=202. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)

=202. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)

=202. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)

=202. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

=202. La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)

=202. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)

=202. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)

=202. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962)

=202. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

=202. Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey, 1966)

=202. Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)

=202. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

=202. Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)

=202. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)

=202. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)

=202. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)

=202. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)

=202. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977)

=202. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)

=202. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)

=202. A Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979)

=202. Berlin Alexanderplatz (R.W. Fassbinder, 1980)

=202. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

=202. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)

=202. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

=202. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

=202. West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2002)

=202. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

=202. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

=202. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)

=202. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)

=235. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)

=235. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)

=235. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

=235. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)

=235. Red River (Howard Hawks/Arthur Rosson, 1947)

=235. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1958)

=235. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)

=235. The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962)

=235. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

=235. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

=235. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

=235. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1989)

=235. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzystzof Kieslowski, 1991)

=235. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)

=235. Three Colors: Red (Krzystzof Kieslowski, 1994)

=235. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

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[Edited 3/26/16 21:15pm]

sexton said:

I was looking for films to add to my rental queue and remembered this thread. I added a few of the top 50 and then found the complete Sight and Sound top 250 list:

1. thru 250.

right-click + print

PurpleJedi said:

sexton said:

I was looking for films to add to my rental queue and remembered this thread. I added a few of the top 50 and then found the complete Sight and Sound top 250 list:

1. thru 250.

right-click + print

I've seen Star Wars already (#171) so I can cross that one off my list.

I saw Vertigo

Lammastide said:

All of y'all who don't like 2001: A Space Odyssey are Nazis! And baby eaters! ...And Blue Meanies. That film is a damned revelation!

Citizen Kane, on the other hand...

[Edited 8/5/12 20:02pm]

I agree.

One of my all-time favorite movies. Saw it on the big screen. That monolith gives me chills to this day.

I also liked Vertigo. I love all of Hitchcock's films. Just watched The Birds again last night. Tried to watch Citizen Kane but never can sit through the entire film.

42 (of the 250). Did I win anything?

I think I like movies off the beaten path more most of the time.

Though, I bought a Hitchcock collection series, his lesser know stuff, I'm not enjoying so much.

morningsong said:

42 (of the 250). Did I win anything?

No, because I've seen 44.

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

13. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

24. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

35. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

39. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

50. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

56. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)

69. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

69. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

73. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

78. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

84. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1984)

84. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

90. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1946)

102. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

110. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)

117. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

117. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

127. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

127. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

127. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

127. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

144. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

144. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
144. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

154. Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)

154. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

154. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)

171. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

171. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

171. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)

183. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

183. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

183. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

202. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

202. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

202. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

235. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

235. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

235. Three Colors: Red (Krzystzof Kieslowski, 1994)

Well, dammit, I just knew I was on to somethin'.

morningsong said:

Well, dammit, I just knew I was on to somethin'.

Someone who has seen more than both of us will post soon enough.

-0-

And it's not a real Top Ten List - and certainly not a Top 250 List - if "Animal House" isn't on it.

I mean, come on! The following films should be on any Top 250 List ever compiled by anyone from now until the end of time:

Animal House

Caddyshack

Spinal Tap

Stripes

Alien Opponent

Rocky III

Courageous

Bronco Billy

And about 50 more excellent films that never make any lists but should make every list.

.

[Edited 9/24/12 15:11pm]

sexton said:

morningsong said:

Well, dammit, I just knew I was on to somethin'.

Someone who has seen more than both of us will post soon enough.

I'm amazed at two things: 1) that I'm anywhere close to you in my count (41) & 2) that Salo is on this list.

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

=26. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)

28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

=31. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

=35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

=50. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

=53. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

=53. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

=53. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

=63. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

=69. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

=69. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

=93. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

=117. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1963)

=127. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

=127. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

=127. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

=127. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

=144. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

=154. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

=154. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

=154. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)

=154. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)

=171. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

=171. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

=183. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)

=183. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)

=183. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

=183. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

=202. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

=202. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

=202. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

=202. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)

=235. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)

=235. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

=235. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)

=235. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

=235. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1989)

I've seen 54 and I don't think myself to be very film-y at all anymore. I've had a bit of a Cary Grant thing the past year or so which has added a few on there but most of those films I saw in the '90s and then when dvds started flooding in excellent new reproductions of old films. The last 10 years I could count on my fingers the number of times I've sat in a theatre and watched a film.

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

=17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)

=21. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

=26. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)

=31. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

=31. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

=35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

=35. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)

=42. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

=53. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

=53. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

=53. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

=57. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

=59. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

=69. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

=69. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

=73. Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carne, 1945)

=81. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)

=81. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)

=84. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

=84. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

=110. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

=117. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1963)

=117. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

=127. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

=127. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

=127. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)

=127. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

=127. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

=144. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

=154. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

=154. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

=154. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

=154. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1983)

=171. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

=171. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

=171. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1939)

=171. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

=183. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)

=183. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

=183. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

=183. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

=183. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)

=183. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)

=202. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

=202. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

=202. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)

=235. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)

=235. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

=235. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)

=235. Three Colors: Red (Krzystzof Kieslowski, 1994)

ZERO.

zero here too . sigh .

CarrieMpls said:

I haven't officially seen any of them.

I tired watching 2001 w/my bf some time last year and found it to be incredibly boring. Perhaps if I were in the right mindset and went to see it on the big screen when it first came out it would make some kind of sense but late on a Friday night in my pajamas I could barely keep any interest. We tried skipping ahead here and there and finally turned it off.

I thought the same thing at first, the few times I've seen it. When I first saw it, I just wanted to look at the special effects. I think 2001 is the "Thriller" of movies

But I couldn't fully understand the story, and none of the scenes made any sense to me. The movie is about metaphysics. I could explain it, but I don't want to hijack the thread lol. Anyway, that's why the movie goes over a LOT of people's heads, because it's not the typical "beginning-plot establish-high speed chase-sex scene-fight scene-climax" type of Hollywood movie we're used to seeing.

Folks around haven't seen

Do the Right Thing

The Wizard of Oz (heck this one came on tv for Christmas for years)

Pulp Fiction

The Shining

really?

OK, I'll play!

These are the ones I've seen (that I can recall)...

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

=21. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

=31. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

=35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

=42. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

=53. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

=63. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) (saw last half-hour of it...does that count?)

=69. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

=84. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

=127. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

=144. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

=154. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

=171. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

=171. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

=171. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

=183. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

=202. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

=235. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)

=235. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

I DO NOT get why The Searchers is so good top 10???

I mean that movie got shown a lot on FOX western sunday's.. i watched it many times with my grandpa & thought it was one of those movies i would enjoy when older.

Nope... boring and silly, idk i guess i just don't get the film

Tokyo story is great as is Citizen Kane, Vertigo & 2001.

can you imagine if Alfred Hitchcock & Stanley Kubrick made a movie together? i am still convinced that would be the greatest/weirdest movie ever made for American audiences.

damosuzuki said:

sexton said:

Someone who has seen more than both of us will post soon enough.

I'm amazed at two things: 1) that I'm anywhere close to you in my count (41) & 2) that Salo is on this list.

=144. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

What did you think of Blow Up? I love that movie.

Now I have an excuse to watch that sleazy Salo film.

ZombieKitten said:

I'm amazed I saw 43!!!

Which did you see more times: Star Wars or WALL-E?

morningsong said:

Folks around haven't seen

Do the Right Thing

The Wizard of Oz (heck this one came on tv for Christmas for years)

Pulp Fiction

The Shining

really?

I'm guessing the people that said zero are replying to the original question of how many of the top ten films they have seen, not all 250.

All the movies I have seen of the top 250, I would rate from good to excellent--except for ET. So maybe I should give that one another viewing since it has been 30 years now since I saw it.

I do find it funny that Genesia made light of my likening ET to Doctor Zhivago as classic films and ET is on this list, but Doctor Zhivago isn't.

sexton said:

PurpleJedi said:

sexton said:

I was looking for films to add to my rental queue and remembered this thread. I added a few of the top 50 and then found the complete Sight and Sound top 250 list:

1. thru 250.

right-click + print

I did the same. I'd kind of like to make it a goal to see all of these since I've only watched about 22 of them so far

If its "Kane" vs "Vertigo", I'd pick Kane. Not just for entertainment, but for also the narrative, camera tricks, cinematography, how "modern" the film still seems when compared to other films of that time period, the risks it took in its story etc....

I do like "Vertigo" though. It does get pretty weird and its a great film.

sexton said:

morningsong said:

Folks around haven't seen

Do the Right Thing

The Wizard of Oz (heck this one came on tv for Christmas for years)

Pulp Fiction

The Shining

really?

I'm guessing the people that said zero are replying to the original question of how many of the top ten films they have seen, not all 250.

Yeah, I did think of that. But honestly we don't know, so I thought I'd ask. Now getting an answer is a whole other ballgame.

sexton said:

damosuzuki said:

I'm amazed at two things: 1) that I'm anywhere close to you in my count (41) & 2) that Salo is on this list.

=144. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

What did you think of Blow Up? I love that movie.

Now I have an excuse to watch that sleazy Salo film.

I really like it too, a lot. One of my very favourite movies, though I haven't seen it in years. I also really like Blow-out, the Brian De Palma that was loosely inspired by Blow Up, as well as by the Conversation apparently.

I actually wouldn't mind if I could scrub a few scenes from Salo out of my memory. Once you've watched it, you can't un-watch it.

[Edited 9/25/12 17:16pm]