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The 1,000
Greatest Films |
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As voted by 1,604 critics, filmmakers, reviewers, scholars and
other likely film types. |
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Current Version: December 2007 |
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The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
The Top 250 Films
The Top 100 Directors
Full List by Ranking
Full
List by Title
Full List by Director
Full
List by Year
Full List by Country
Alternative Titles |
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Ins & Outs
The Lists
PDF Companion
Links
Other
Bits |
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Note: We've
scheduled the next version of TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
to be up-and-running sometime during December 2008. Fingers
crossed! |
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◊
ESSENTIAL
Take a look
at
Shooting Down Pictures'
video essays of many of
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films. See the video index at
YouTube. |
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NEW →
Our graphical (more
detailed) listing of the most acclaimed films of all-time has
just got bigger. We've expanded it from the top 100 films to the
top 250
films,
and we hope you enjoy it. Our goal, eventually, is to have all
1,000 films listed in this manner. |
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◊
Based on
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films, the
Cinematheque of Cuba shows the
best twenty movies of all-time.
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TSPDT dedicates this version of the 1,000 Greatest Films
to Angel Gonzalez Garcia. Angel provided us with literally
hundreds of lists from Europe, which in turn has had a huge
impact on the makeup of the 1,000 (139 changes speaks for
itself). We can't thank him enough for his enthusiasm and
effort. |
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A Shooting Down Pictures Introduction |
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Kevin B. Lee has
written a pair of terrific articles on the new 1,000 Greatest
Films listing. They can be found at his website Shooting
Down Pictures. They both serve perfectly as an introduction
to the new list, so please take a look. |
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Part 1:
100 - 40 = 99. Roll film, Sisyphus
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Part 2:
The new 1000 Greatest Films: statistics
and opinions |
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Another year has
passed, and another version of TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
has sprung to life. We hope you enjoy the new list and the new
design, and we would love to hear any
feedback you have on this
ongoing project. |
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The December 2007 list of the
1,000 Greatest Films of all-time has primarily been compiled
by using 1,604 individual critics' and filmmakers'
best-films-of-all-time lists/ballots. That's 284 more ballots
than our December 2006 update. As mentioned above, Angel
Gonzalez Garcia kindly provided us with most of those
ballots. He is the main reason that our 1,000 Greatest Films
list is now based on over 1,600 individual lists. Also, a warm
thank you to Zlatan Skobic who also made a significant contribution. |
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In summary, here is
the exact breakdown of individual ballots used, or if you like, where we
have begged, borrowed and stolen from...
Sight &
Sound
1952-2002 polls (541 ballots),
Senses of Cinema's
ongoing poll (155),
Time Out's 1995 poll (110),
Your
Movie Database's
(YMDB) Critics Corner (75), El
Mundo's 1995 poll (72),
Positifs 1991 poll (66),
The Cinematheque Top 10 Project
(66),
Facets 2003 poll (63),
Cinematheque Belgique's 1952 poll (52), the 1988 publication,
John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies
(44),
PBS's Independent Lens series (44), Steadycam's
1997 & 2007 polls (40),
The
Village Voice's 1999 poll (38),
Nickel Odeon's 1994-1998 polls (34), BBC's Calling the
Shots series (31),
Epoca Onlines 2000 poll (28),
Profil's 2004 poll (25), and 120 miscellaneous lists
from a variety of other sources, some of which you can view
here. |
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As per previous versions, we have also
factored in (although to a much lesser degree than the aforementioned
individual ballots) over 650 magazine polls, film institute polls, individual polls
from 'esteemed' critics or filmmakers, specialty polls of note, and
other polls of interest. These include: Halliwell's Top 100 Films
(2005), Time magazine's All-Time 100 Movies (2005), Jonathan
Rosenbaum's 100 Favourite Films (2004), Derek Malcolm's Century of Film
(2001) and Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
(2000). Smaller lists, also incorporated, include:
Jean-Luc Godard's Six Best French
Films Since the Liberation (1965),
Jim
Jarmusch's 10 Best Films of the 1980's (1989),
Terry Gilliam's 10 Best Animated
Films of All-Time (2001), Roger Ebert's 20 Best Political Films of the
Last Two Decades (1996) and
Bertrand
Tavernier's 10 Overlooked French Films (2003).
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To
view a complete listing of the 1,604 individual ballots and 656 miscellaneous polls
used, please click
here.
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A
total of 139 films have come and gone which makes it, from
memory, the most substantial update we have ever made. In
terms of the changes that have occurred, personally-speaking,
it's terrific to see
King Vidor's florid Western classic
"Duel in the Sun" come on board, but by the same token it's sad
to see Anthony Mann's equally sublime (but very different)
Western "The Naked Spur" leave us. I'm sure you will be, as we
are, both delighted and disappointed with many of the comings
and goings. Good to see
Sydney Pollack's "They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?" debuting on the list at number 972. It's a fine
film, arguably his best, and what a lovely title! On the
director front, it's hard to believe that
Budd
Boetticher and
Frank Tashlin (to name just two
greats) don't have a single film to show for on the list. And
what about
Raϊl Ruiz? To view all the ins and outs, please go
here. |
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Please take a
look at our
275-page
PDF Companion to the 1,000 Greatest Films.
This document contains every critics' pick that contributed to
TSPDT's current 1,000 Greatest Films. Whilst
perusing this document, please keep in mind that we use a reasonably
complicated set of formulas to come up with the Top-1000, from a
starting list of over
5,700 films. These formulas take into account,
amongst other things, the quality/reputation of the critic, the
quality/reputation of the poll, the age of the poll (e.g., the 2002
Sight and Sound poll is weighted higher than the 1992 poll), whether
a film has stood the test of time (yes, as you may have suspected, we do
mark recent films harder), etc, etc. |
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Narrowed down from
a starting list of over
5,700 films, utilizing some rather tricky
formulas, we believe that this is quite possibly the most definitive
guide to the most-acclaimed movies of all-time. At the very least, it is
a rather spiffy place for all budding/established film buffs to
commence/enhance their cinematic experiences. So what are you waiting
for? Start that
Checklist now! |
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Speaking of
checklists,
you can now simply check-off what movies you've seen on either the
1,000 Greatest Films listing, the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed
Films listing,
or the 250 Quintessential Noir Films listing and
this handy website will do the rest for you.
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1,000 Greatest Films
Checklist. |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
Checklist. |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films
Checklist. |
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Credits |
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Many thanks
to to Bill Spiby who kindly lent us his 1952, 1962 and 1982
Sight and Sound magazines. Thanks also to Harold Wexler for providing us
with the 1972 Sight and Sound lists and many others. Thanks also to Lee Price (who is curating the
"Doubling the Canon" project on the IMDB Classic Film Board) for his
enthusiasm and support, and indeed, to everybody else who has provided
us with more lists to reference and/or contacted
us (either negatively or positively) with regards to this venture.
Thanks-a-plenty to Angel Gonzalez Garcia who has provided us
with countless European lists. Thanks also to Zlatan Skobic for
his contributions. And, finally thanks also to Kevin B. Lee and Kevyn Knox for the terrific support they have given to this
project, and for their promotion of it on their own terrific
websites found
here and
here. It
must be said that Kevin B. Lee's detailed articles (sometimes
with accompanying video essays) on many of the 1,000 Greatest
Films can not afford to be missed. |
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You
Can Help |
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If you have
access to any additional film lists (not mentioned
here) from
critics and/or filmmakers, then - of course - we'd love to see them.
Please send all lists to
bill@theyshootpictures.com. |
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The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
The Top 250 Films
The Top 100 Directors
Full List by Ranking
Full
List by Title
Full List by Director
Full
List by Year
Full List by Country
Alternative Titles |
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Ins & Outs
The Lists
PDF Companion
Links
Other
Bits |
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