Posted on 11/01/2023 3:56:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out.
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Where the white women at?
So Gator, what was good about it?
Had to double-dip on Bogart - hard not to.
They were very good mini-series with excellent casts...
Also “Twelve Angry Men”. Watched it on TV in my early teens...great movie!
Didn’t care for his private life, but Gielgud was just amazing in War And Remembrance.
“Lost me on #85……”Natural Born Killers”. Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson
The Most disgusting movie of all time. THE only movie I ever walked out on in my life. Absolutely pointless.”
agreed.
And they’re free on youtube if you look for them.
It was well made with solid writing and acting.
A solid commentary on our glorification and commercialization of sex and violence in our society.
It depends on one’s taste, but the soundtrack was good too.
Thanks....I watch quite a bit off Youtube....
Great music, too.
No Schindler’s List?
No Metropolis?
No Clockwork Orange?
No Best Years of Our Lives?
No The Birds?
What! No “My Man Godfrey”. No stooges? What a list for the art house crowd
The Pacific, was very good, too. I found it much more intense than Band of Brothers.
I rather enjoyed the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy, but, of course, did not expect to see them on this list!
And, To Kill a Mockingbird was, IMHO, an excellent movie! Certainly one of the top 100 movies!
Man, am I ever glad to see someone else puts “Zhivago” (1965) at the top.
I can give you a quote from that film about every phenomenon we are witnessing in 2023. “A cautionary tale about communism” is right.
It is not surprising to me that the critics love movies about oppression theory (aka racism) and freudian psychobabble (”it’s not his/her/their/its fault”).
From that list of 100, I found maybe a dozen outstanding films.
I haven’t seen that one...
It’s been nearly twenty years and I still have no interest in watching it.
No, but I'm intrigued.
You could have made 13 movies with the amount Lean spent on this one alone!
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