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Time releases list of 100 all-time great movies (Gone with the wind fails the test)
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| 11 june 2005
| Richard Corliss
Posted on 06/11/2005 8:50:34 AM PDT by voletti
The All-TIME 100 Movies featurecompiled by Richard Schickel and me, and handsomely packaged by Josh Macht, Mark Coatney and all the smart folks at TIME.comattracted a record-busting 7.8 million page views in its first week, including 3.5 million on May 23rd, its opening day. Thousands of readers have written in to cheer or challenge our selections, and thousands more have voted for their own favorites. The response simply underscores Richard's and my long-held belief that everybody has two jobs: his own and movie critic.
The idea was to assemble 100 estimable films since TIME began, with the March 3, 1923 issue. Later, each of us was asked to contribute five items in sidebars called Great Performances (acting), Guilty Pleasures (trash treasures) and Top Scores (soundtracks). Essentially, though, a century of movies from 82 years. That shouldn't be hard: pick a picture for each year, with 18 slots left for honorable mentions.
Not so simple, in fact, for we faced a couple of complications. The first was that two of us were to agree on the selections; and, though my admiration for Schickel is hardly bounded, and he probably doesn't mind me, no two critics will agree on all, or even most, great films. The other is the onus of the list-making process. It's a truism that a list like this takes either an hour (go with your initial inspirations) or a month (weigh every film with Solomonic probity). Our effort clocked in at about four months, off and on. And the clock is still running.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinemaparadiso; timemag; topten
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To: voletti
I read the list to be outraged that "Blade Runner" was not on it.
As usual in these pre-outrage moments, I was wrong.
Still trying to get an original copy of the book.
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posted on
06/11/2005 9:19:18 AM PDT
by
mmercier
(a little while we tarry upon this earth)
To: dts32041
What! Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 didn't make it. Michael Moore's gonna be angry. Time must now be part of the VRWC.
To: KarlInOhio
>> Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Several years back I had four bouts of "alien hand syndrome", the humorous disorder the good Doctor in this movie exhibited.
It is not humorous in person.
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posted on
06/11/2005 10:06:17 AM PDT
by
mmercier
(a little while we tarry upon this earth)
To: fso301
I'm glad Pulp Fiction at least made it on there.
Many people don't like Quentin Terentino, so they aren't going to like his disorted mind or way of directing.
Pulp Fiction is like Fargo (which didn't make the list), people either like it or hate it.
I like both movies.
To: No Blue States
,Gladiator,Saving Private Ryan, Tombstone,These are all great movies.
As a more recent western, Tombstone is my favorite, followed closely by Unforgiven.
"I'm your huckleberry."
To: MotleyGirl70
disorted=distorted
To: voletti
"Essentially, though, a century of movies from 82 years...."
What is this, a Canadian century?
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:40:05 AM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke? Sluthering, perhaps?)
To: voletti
This list is nearly comical.
The FLY?
Finding NEMO?
Purple Rose of Cairo?
A Hard Day's Night?
WHATEVER....
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:42:28 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Ailerons make the world go 'round!)
To: decal
A grand total of 7 silents made the list, all except "Sherlock, Jr" from the very end of the era.
That's probably why they only went back to 1924 - didn't want to put "Birth Of A Nation" on the list...
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:43:41 AM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke? Sluthering, perhaps?)
To: shotokan
Ben-Hur isn't on the list?
Whatever credibility the list had has vanished.
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:44:50 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Really. No, I'm serious. I really mean it this time.)
To: Skooz
Neither one - the original from 1925 is superior in several ways.
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:46:14 AM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke? Sluthering, perhaps?)
To: decal
I've seen both and they are both excellent.
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:47:37 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Really. No, I'm serious. I really mean it this time.)
To: Skooz
And where the #&|| is "M"??
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posted on
06/11/2005 11:51:53 AM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke? Sluthering, perhaps?)
To: JimSEA
I agree. with you movies.<P.I would also include several more Jack Lemmon movies including, Irma La Douce, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Odd Couple.
To: Rennes Templar
I'm shocked that Grease 2 is absent.
To: Young Werther
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posted on
06/11/2005 1:01:35 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: voletti; Do not dub me shapka broham; Clemenza; cyborg; Kashei64; martin_fierro; nutmeg; ...
NO Ben Hur, No Cleopatra, No Ten Commandments, No North by Northwest, No Birds. And they're mostly American films, a masterpiece like "The Bicycle Thief" is missing. This list was put together by a moron.
Patoruzú and his loyal steed Pampero brought to you by Frank M. Pohole
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posted on
06/11/2005 1:43:37 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Cacique; dts32041; ALPAPilot; shotokan; JimSEA; Dashing Dasher; martin_fierro
There are a few worthy selections, e.g. Farewell My Concubine, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, The Decalogue, The Manchurian Candidate, etc., but the vast majority of it is dross that's better left on the cutting room floor.
Ulysses Gaze???!!!
Can you say "completely bereft of taste?"
Because that describes Richard Corliss and his team of cinematic aesthetes perfectly.
(Prolonged eye roll.)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
To: Cacique
Yep...
I'm just sitting down to watch The Bicycle Thief" - as soon as I'm done pontificating on FR.
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posted on
06/11/2005 2:23:23 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Ailerons make the world go 'round!)
To: MotleyGirl70
"I'm your huckleberry."
You know, everytime this movie is brought up someone quotes that line, and everytime I read it I think "Why are people so enamored of that stupid, meaningless line?" No offense to fans, I just don't understand what's so great about that line. But then I think the whole movie, from the director of Rambo, is like a comic book. I'll take The Wild Bunch or the Leone spaghetti westerns or Ride the High Country or Naked Spur, Bend of the River, Unforgiven...over that.
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posted on
06/11/2005 2:28:50 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(Dems, the annoying vegetarians of politics)
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