Posted on 08/02/2012 7:46:04 AM PDT by OneVike
“846 critics and 358 film directors all voted”
That’s all I needed to read.
Neither of them is on my list of good movies.
Yentl should have made the top 5. /s
The Godfather.
And how is Apocalypse Now higher on the list? These people are on drugs.
Hey, that’s more than usually voted. So it would be more accurate than it was for the last 50 years when Citizen Kane won. Plus many of the new critics and directors are from America.
After all, we are talking about an institution that only cares what the movie critics think, not you. They just want your money, not your opinion.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure? Hello!
If all “Conservatives” were as loathsome as Jimmy Stewart was as a human being, this would be a sorry world indeed.
I never got the fuss about “Citizen Kane”. I found it good, but not great, certainly not the “greatest”. Thought I might be missing something, and gave it a second and a third chance. Doesn’t work for me.
War and Peace, 1973 (TV series), based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy; John Howard Davies, director; Anthony Hopkins as PierreI also recommend all of the novels on which these movies are based.Pride and Prejudice, 1995 (TV series), based on the novel by Jane Austen; Simon Langton, director; Jennifer Ehle; Colin Firth
Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai), 1954: Akira Kurosawa, director
I, Claudius, 1976 (TV series), based on the novel by Robert Graves; Herbert Wise, director; Derek Jacobi; Sian Phillips
Gone with the Wind, 1939, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
Tomorrow, 1972 (TV), based on the short story by William Faulkner; Joseph Anthony, II, director; Robert Duvall
Los Olvidados, 1950; Luis Bunuel, director
East of Eden, 1955, based on the novel by John Steinbeck; Elia Kazan, director; James Dean; Julie Harris
The Godfather, Part I, 1972, based on the novel by Mario Puzo: Francis Ford Coppola, director; Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
The Godfather, Part II, 1974: Francis Ford Coppola, director; Al Pacino, Robert Duvall
My favorites didn’t make the list. Casablanca and High Noon.
Alfred Hitchcock was embittered at the critical and commercial failure of the film in 1958. He blamed this on James Stewart for "looking too old" to attract audiences any more. Hitchcock never worked with Stewart, previously one of his favorite collaborators, again.
It's good to see poor Jimmy Stewart vindicated.
Ridiculous. Vertigo isn’t even Hitchcock’s best film.
I think it’s hard to get the full impact of Kane if you weren’t around to see it when it came out. A lot of filmmaking techniques that were pioneered in CK are commonplace nowadays, so most people see it and don’t understand what the big deal is about.
James Stewart is my favorite actor and I’m always pretty keen on Hitchcock, but “Vertigo” was never particularly a favorite of mine. Been many years since I last saw it, but I always thought it a bit uneven and far-fetched.
As for “Citizen Kane,” well, it’s nowhere near the top in terms of entertainment, but I could always understand why the critics put it on a pedestal. Especially if one puts it in its historical context of 1941, when it would have seemed wildly innovative, in so many different ways, from structure (flashbacks) to little things like showing off ceilings, etc. You could just see how its influence started to affect films immediately.
All I remember about Vertigo as a kid in 1958 was the TV plug with the bulging staring eye that turned into the rotating vortex that got closer and closer and the creepy neenie noo nee music. Gave me nightmares (the worst ones ever since always involve one big eye).
Then I saw the movie as an adult. It was a letdown, I was expecting Vincent Price gooseflesh instead all I can recall is a series of anguished expressions and little action.
Oh, well.
“I think it’s hard to get the full impact of Kane if you weren’t around to see it when it came out. A lot of filmmaking techniques that were pioneered in CK are commonplace nowadays, so most people see it and don’t understand what the big deal is about.”
That part I get completely. But that was then; this is now. By that standard, “A Trip To The Moon” should be at the top, or very close to it.
If the Godfather isn't near the top, the list is bogus!
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