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Vertigo has always been one of my favorite James Stewart films. It's nice to see a good conservative replace the leftist Orson Wells for the best film of all time.
1 posted on 08/02/2012 7:46:12 AM PDT by OneVike
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“846 critics and 358 film directors all voted”

That’s all I needed to read.


2 posted on 08/02/2012 7:54:09 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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3 posted on 08/02/2012 7:54:33 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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Neither of them is on my list of good movies.


4 posted on 08/02/2012 7:55:13 AM PDT by Savage Beast (History is not just cruel. It's witty. --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: JesusBmyGod; buffyt; rom; persistence48; Hanna548; DvdMom; leftyontheright; FrdmLvr; jblann1; ...
"Movie Ping"

"Vertigo" dethrones "Citizen Kane" for the all time best movie.

I don't ping very often lately, I guess I have become more erratic as time goes by in what sparks my fancy even, but I thought you all would enjoy this. Especially since Stewart who was a great conservative, has replaced Wells for best movie ever. By a panel that is full of leftist no less.

I hope you enjoy it. Well it's off to work. I'll catch up on the comments when I get there.

OV, Chuck
5 posted on 08/02/2012 7:56:21 AM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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Yentl should have made the top 5. /s


6 posted on 08/02/2012 7:57:54 AM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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The Godfather.

And how is Apocalypse Now higher on the list? These people are on drugs.


7 posted on 08/02/2012 7:58:06 AM PDT by CollegeRepublican
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Pee Wee’s Big Adventure? Hello!


9 posted on 08/02/2012 8:01:21 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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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.


11 posted on 08/02/2012 8:05:24 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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My top 10:
War and Peace, 1973 (TV series), based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy; John Howard Davies, director; Anthony Hopkins as Pierre

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

I also recommend all of the novels on which these movies are based.
12 posted on 08/02/2012 8:05:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (History is not just cruel. It's witty. --Charles Krauthammer)
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My favorites didn’t make the list. Casablanca and High Noon.


13 posted on 08/02/2012 8:10:24 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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I've been memorized by this movie since the first time I saw it on TV in the 1960's. I saw it on a movie screen for the first time in the 1980's when it was given a revival. I love the doomed romance, the look and atmosphere of the film and one of the best music scores in film history. It received a mixed critical reception when it first opened, which didn't sit well with Hitchcock. From IMDB;

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.

14 posted on 08/02/2012 8:12:56 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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Ridiculous. Vertigo isn’t even Hitchcock’s best film.


15 posted on 08/02/2012 8:17:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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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.


17 posted on 08/02/2012 8:24:39 AM PDT by greene66
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Vertigo was a fine movie; however, the best movie ever made, The Best Years of Our Lives, isn't even on this list.

Coincidentally, Turner Classic Movies is airing it this evening at 8:00pm Eastern. Watch it once, and marvel.

23 posted on 08/02/2012 8:44:57 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (You didn't build it, but the private sector is doing fine.)
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This list is worthless.

America owns the movies. Sorry, Europe. Sorry, World. Your “films” are giant sucking soporific exercises in tedium and self-indulgence.

You’re still learning... slowly. You should stick to painting, piano, and pastry.

The only movies on this list that are any good are the American ones. Except, oddly enough, “Citizen Kane” and “Vertigo.” Which both drip with unfortunate European influences.

(P.S. Don’t say Hitchcock was a Brit. He came to America to make American movies. And he learned how.)


26 posted on 08/02/2012 8:53:34 AM PDT by Blue Ink
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Vertigo isn’t even Hitchcock’s best...The Birds and Psycho are both better films.

Citizen Kane is AMAZING. I’ve seen it over thirty times and every time I watch it...I see something new for me.

Just another opinion...yours may be different...that’s baseball.


27 posted on 08/02/2012 8:54:03 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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I thought Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest” was better than “Vertigo”. Of course, I’m a Cary Grant and James Mason fan.


28 posted on 08/02/2012 8:55:08 AM PDT by mtg
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And the real best movie ever made, Casablanca, doesn’t make the top 50. Oh, well. Everyone has an opinion.


29 posted on 08/02/2012 8:58:22 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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“Best of” lists are always funny as hell but the voters of this poll are collectively the most pretentious bunch I have seen in a long,long time. I defy anyone to watch these top ten and not snooze through at least 4 of the films.


32 posted on 08/02/2012 9:09:09 AM PDT by Cyman
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The best thing about Vertigo, is that it inspired High Anxiety.


33 posted on 08/02/2012 9:09:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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