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The 1,000
Greatest Films |
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As voted by 2,041 critics, filmmakers, reviewers, scholars and
other likely film types. |
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Current Version: January 2010 |
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The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
The Top 400 Films
The Full List
The Top 200 Directors
PDF Companion
Links |
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The Top 400
Films:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-100
101-150
151-200
201-250
251-300
301-350
351-400 |
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The highest-ranked
newbie in this year's 1,000 list...
Albert
Lamorisse's "The Red Balloon". |
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new THE
TOP 200 DIRECTORS |
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We've expanded our
list of the most acclaimed filmmakers of all-time from 100 to
200. But heck, there's still no
Michael Haneke, or
Monte Hellman,
or Seijun
Suzuki, or
Jerry Lewis, or
Terence Davies,
or Maurice
Pialat, or
Jia Zhangke, and so on, and so
forth. |
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new DOUBLING
THE CANON 2010 Update: Call for Nominations |
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Link for this
year's process-:
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/thread/155899192?d=155899192&p=1#155899192 |
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The IMDB "Classic
Film" board folks (led by Lee Price, with sturdy assistance from
Angel Gonzalez Garcia) are once again getting together to update
their complementary list of 1,000 essential movies, entitled
"Doubling the Canon". Many extremely astute, passionate and
knowledgeable film lovers have contributed in the past and will
continue to do so again this year. I'm in the process of
throwing in my ten cents worth, so don't be shy, head on over
and give it a try. It's a terrific exercise, and has brought to our attention many
film titles that are well and truly outside the acclaimed-film
square. So, if you are interested in participating in this
year's voting and/or want to have your say, you can link to the
rules and results by following the above link. |
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Introduction to current version |
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By
Bill Georgaris |
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Dear Film Lovers, |
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Welcome aboard
again as we roll out, with much pleasure (and a smidgeon of pain), our annual update of
the 1,000
Greatest Films. This is - as far as our own record books are
concerned - the 4th version of this
list (following on from the December 2006, December 2007, and
December 2008 versions). As you may know, we did publish some
1,000 lists prior to December 2006, however, due to our lack of
housekeeping skills (call it negligence, if you must) these
efforts have now faded into oblivion. We honestly didn't think
anyone would care! |
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We received a
tremendous amount of feedback regarding last year's list, and we
hope for the same again this year. I must say this (for the
most part) is pretty rewarding, and your collective patronage makes
our efforts easy to justify and enjoy. Additionally, the
pleasant (though still modest) level of coverage TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
venture has garnered on the film-side of the internet jungle has
been surprising and much appreciated. Many film-bloggers in
particular have not only taken on the challenge of watching all
1,000 films but have, more importantly, brought to the attention
of their readers a range of films (from our 1,000 list)
deserving of everybody's time. This is what it is all about at the
end of the day, and it is basically TSPDT's modus
operandi. We're in the 'business' of bringing to the fore
as many worthwhile films as we can, and the 1,000 Greatest
Films list works as a decent enough place to start. |
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So what have we
been up to since December 2008's edition? Well, to quote
directly from last year's introduction, "we've spent another baffling year sifting (sometimes
aimlessly) through film polls and best-of film ballots,
collating them, weighting them and, hey presto, here are the
goddamn results." |
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The most
significant highlight of this update has probably been the inclusion in
this year's calculations of many best-of-decade lists for
2000-2009. This has seen a sharp rise in films from the 21st
Century entering the 1,000 Greatest Films listing, which
I know for a fact, will please many 1,000 Greatest films
followers. Who doesn't like a happy face? Of course, you can see
a more comprehensive list of the 21st Century's most acclaimed
films (to date) by going
here. |
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Now, lets' talk statistics. The January 2010 list of the
1,000 Greatest Films of all-time has primarily been compiled
by using 2,041 individual critics' and filmmakers'
personal lists/ballots of their favourite/best films. That's 216 more ballots
than our December 2008 list. A very warm thank you to everyone that
has contributed lists and/or lent their support towards the current
version. In particular, thanks to
Angel Gonzalez Garcia, Aaron
Dumont and Rob Sheehy for their steady supply of lists
throughout 2009. |
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In summary, here is
the exact breakdown of individual ballots used, or if you like, from where we
have begged, borrowed and stolen: |
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Sight &
Sound's
1952-2002 polls (524 ballots) |
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Senses of Cinema's
2000-2007 Top Tens (147 ballots) |
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Time Out's
1995 poll (107 ballots) |
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Nickel Odeon's 1994-1998
polls (100 ballots) |
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Steadycam's
1995 & 2007 polls (80 ballots) |
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El
Mundo's 1995 poll (72 ballots) |
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Your
Movie Database's
(YMDB) Critics Corner (71 ballots) |
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Rotten Tomatoes' lists
from 2003-2009 (70 ballots)
New |
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Facets polls (69
ballots) |
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One-Line Review's
2009 poll (66 ballots)
New |
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Positifs 1991 poll (63
ballots) |
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The Cinematheque's Top 10 Project
(62 ballots) |
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PBS's Independent Lens lists
(59 ballots) |
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Cinematheque Belgique's 1952 poll (52 ballots) |
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Libre Journal
du Cinιma's 2009 poll (50 ballots)
New |
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John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies (44 ballots) |
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PopCornQ's 1997 poll (39
ballots) |
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The
Village Voice's 1999 poll (37
ballots) |
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Epoca Onlines
2000 poll (28 ballots) |
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Kinema Junpo lists from
1999-2002 (25 ballots)
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BBC's Calling the
Shots series (25 ballots) |
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Plus 251 more ballots from a
variety of other sources. |
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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 1,100 magazine polls, film institute polls, individual polls
from 'esteemed' critics or filmmakers, specialty polls of note, and
other polls of interest. As mentioned above, many best -of-the-decade
lists (2000-2009) have been incorporated for the first time. Some 2009
polls included are: indieWIRE's Best of the Decade
Critics Survey, Time Out's 101 Films of the Decade,
One-Line Review's Beyond the Canon: 100 Films Deserving of
Greater Attention,
Quentin Tarantino's Top 20
Movies To Have Been Released Since He Became A Filmmaker,
David Ehrenstein's Most Beautiful Films in Color, and many, many
more. You can view all
the sources used by clicking on the 'Sources' tab on
this
page. |
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This time round, a
total of 68 films have come and gone (that's 28 less changes
than the December 2008 version).
As we say each year, I'm sure you will be
- as we are - both delighted and disappointed with many of the
comings and goings. To view all the
films that fell off the list please go
here, and click on the
'Ex-Top1000' tab. |
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There has also
been some noteworthy movements at the top end of the 1,000
list. Here is a handful-: |
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Just one change
to the top-10 (Donen
& Kelly dislodge
Ozu), and no change to the top
7. |
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La Dolce vita
is the only new entry into the top-25 (at the expense of
Carol Reed's
The Third Man). That makes (along with 8½) two
films for
Fellini in the top-25 (he joins
Ford,
Coppola,
Kurosawa,
Renoir and Welles
on that number - elite company indeed). |
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Ugetsu
monogatari and
Lang's M are the only
two films that moved into the top 50 (at the expense of Modern
Times and North by Northwest). |
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In terms of the
top 100, some sharp risers include Once Upon a Time in the
West (up 11 spots), Jaws (up 17 spots, and into the
top 100 for the first time - this may surprise some - it
certainly surprised us), and On the Waterfront (back into
the top 100, jumping from 104 to 94). |
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Directors with
2-plus new films in the 1,000 Greatest Films listing are
Stan Brakhage
(Mothlight and Dog Star Man),
Peter Jackson
(The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King.),
John Landis
(National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues
Brothers),
Steven Spielberg (Saving
Private Ryan and A.I. Artificial Intelligence), and
Gus Van Sant (Elephant
and My Own Private Idaho). |
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You can't keep a
good hobbit down... The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is now
part of TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing. |
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Directors with
2-plus films that dropped off the 1,000 Greatest Films
listing are
Bernardo Bertolucci (The
Sheltering Sky and Luna),
Frank Capra
(Lost Horizon and Arsenic and Old Lace),
Werner Herzog
(Land of Silence and Darkness and Lessons of Darkness),
Masaki
Kobayashi (Harakiri and Kwaidan),
Jerry Lewis
(The Bellboy and The Ladies' Man),
Joseph Losey (The Go-Between
and Accident),
Nikita Mikhalkov (Dark Eyes
and Burnt by the Sun), and
Kenji Mizoguchi (Utamaro and
His Five Women and My Love Has Been Burning),
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Where is the
love? Some notable directors still without a film in the
1,000 Greatest Films listing include: Aleksandr Sokurov,
Michael Haneke, Chuck Jones, Stephen Frears, Abel Ferrara, James
Ivory, Frederick Wiseman, Ernie Gehr, Peter Watkins, Peter
Kubelka, Ettore Scola, Steven Soderbergh, Cameron Crowe, Jules
Dassin, Jonas Mekas, Raul Ruiz, Tex Avery, Yvonne Rainer, Derek
Jarman, Aki Kaurismδki, Richard Donner, Tsai Ming-Liang, Jan
Svankmajer, Alan Parker, Frank Tashlin, Jean Epstein, and so on,
and so on. |
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Narrowed down from
a starting list of over 8,800 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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See the TSPDT
starting list
of over 8,800 films (Amazon, Google and IMDB links
included). File size: 9.2MB. |
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Please take a
look at the updated
402-page
PDF Companion to the 1,000 Greatest Films
(file size: 3.4MB).
This document contains every critic's 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 8,800 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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As per previous
updates, we've provided a selection of PDF's and Excel files
(including the two files mentioned above) for
your enjoyment and statistical pleasure. These can be viewed
here
on the full list page, under 'additional resources.' |
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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 more lists than we can poke a stick at (and continues to do
so), and who also contributes heavily to the "Doubling the
Canon" project. Aaron Dumont and Rob Sheehy have also been
important contributors over the last year or so. 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 cannot afford to be missed. Thanks also to all the
TSPDT-friendly bloggers who have helped promote this
venture, via their own endeavours. |
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You
can help |
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If you have access to any additional film
lists from
critics and/or filmmakers that you think we may have missed, then of course we'd love to see them.
Please send all lists to
bill@theyshootpictures.com. And,
as
always, we would love to read any
feedback (good, bad, or
otherwise) you have on this
ongoing project. |
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A big fish catches
us by surprise... "Jaws" enters the
TSPDT Top 100. |
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Reactions |
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Cinematical
"As
a confessed list junkie, one of my regular web haunts is
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?,
which collects all kinds of movie lists and, using some kind of
complex mathematical formula, sorts them into an all-time,
weighted, ranked consensus of the 1,000 greatest films." |
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Shooting Down Pictures
Shuffling the Deck (& Losing Cards): Thoughts on the Latest
Update to the TSPDT 1,000. |
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The Auteurs
(forum)
"I
dont mind the canon, because it supplies a gateway into good
cinema, or at least it did for me when I was younger. However I
agree that it is very important to wander out of the canon much
more than every once in awhile." |
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IMDB Classic Film Board
"I consider
this to be the best list of great movies available anywhere.
Yes, it's far from perfect -- and not necessarily getting
better! -- but no other list of its kind is prepared with more
intelligence and thoroughness." |
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IMDB Film General Board
"But by far and
away the greatest addition is one of my all time favorites,
which i'm glad to see get the recognition and hopefully much
more people will see it, and that is The Red and the White. Has
the best cinematograph yi've ever seen." |
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Rotten Tomatoes
(forum) "Please tell me they removed Heaven's Gate. I always
think I'm hallucinating when I come across that." |
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The 1,000
Greatest Films Home
The Top 400 Films
The Full List
The Top 200 Directors
PDF Companion
Links |
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The Top 400
Films:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-100
101-150
151-200
201-250
251-300
301-350
351-400 |
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