250 most acclaimed films ever. Your thoughts Sup Forums?

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250 La Belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau
249 Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks
248 The Quiet Man, John Ford
247 The Crowd, King Vidor
246 Eraserhead, David Lynch
245 Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis
244 Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard
243 Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg
242 The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith
241 Underground, Emir Kusturica
240 Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
239 The Music Room, Satyajit Ray
238 Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders
237 An Autumn Afternoon, Yasujiro Ozu
236 My Neighbour Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki
235 The Graduate, Mike Nichols
234 F for Fake, Orson Welles
233 The Piano, Jane Campion
232 The Exorcist, William Friedkin
231 Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero
230 Three Colours: Blue, Krzysztof Kieslowski
229 Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen
228 Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, Sergei Eisenstein
227 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper
226 Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti
225 Kind Hearts and Coronets, Robert Hamer
224 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Huston
223 The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick
222 Wavelength, Michael Snow
221 Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren
220 Red River, Howard Hawks
219 Breaking the Waves, Lars von Trier
218 Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese
217 Faces, John Cassavetes
216 Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki
215 The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
214 Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick
213 The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli
212 Kes, Ken Loach
211 Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges
210 Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders
209 Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn
208 Fargo, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
207 The Colour of Pomegranate, Sergei Parajanov
206 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman
205 Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles
204 Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky
203 Ashes and Diamonds, Andrzej Wajda
202 Celine and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette
201 The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris

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200 Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg
199 Belle de jour, Luis Buñuel
198 Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini
197 Paisan, Roberto Rossellini
196 Meet Me in St. Louis, Vincente Minnelli
195 Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bresson
194 The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock
193 Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville
192 Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai
191 Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman
190 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene
189 Rocco and His Brothers, Luchino Visconti
188 Umberto D., Vittorio De Sica
187 Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski
186 Black Narcissus, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
185 The Best Years of Our Lives, William Wyler
184 The River, Jean Renoir
183 Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur
182 Ran, Akira Kurosawa
181 Brazil, Terry Gilliam
180 Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick
179 Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer
178 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg
177 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk
176 Performance, Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
175 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini
174 Mouchette, Robert Bresson
173 Earth, Alexander Dovzhenko
172 L'Argent, Robert Bresson
171 The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni
170 The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau
169 Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty
168 The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino
167 The Great Dictator, Charles Chaplin
166 The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford
165 The Travelling Players, Theo Angelopoulos
164 The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola
163 A City of Sadness, Hou Hsiao-hsien
162 The Red Shoes, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
161 The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini
160 Night and Fog, Alain Resnais
159 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy
158 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel
157 Beau travail. Claire Denis
156 On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

156 On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan
155 His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks
154 King Kong, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
153 Stagecoach, John Ford
152 Brief Encounter, David Lean
151 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
150 Partie de campagne, Jean Renoir
149 Napoléon, Abel Gance
148 Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch
147 Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder
146 Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski
145 Duck Soup, Leo McCarey
144 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone
143 Come and See, Elem Klimov
142 Spring in a Small Town, Fei Mu
141 My Darling Clementine, John Ford
140 Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick
139 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman
138 Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee
137 Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg
136 Un Chien andalou, Luis Buñuel
135 The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel
134 Rome, Open City, Roberto Rossellini
133 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
132 Yi yi, Edward Yang
131 Alien, Ridley Scott
130 A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
129 Badlands, Terrence Malick
128 Madame de..., Max Ophüls
127 Vivre sa vie, Jean-Luc Godard
126 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg
125 Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau
124 The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice
123 Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa
122 Letter from an Unknown Woman, Max Ophüls
121 The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges
120 L'Âge d'or, Luis Buñuel
119 Los Olvidados, Luis Buñuel
118 Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock
117 Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton
116 Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone
115 A Woman Under the Influence, John Cassavetes
114 The Mother and the Whore, Jean Eustache
113 Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks
112 All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
111 Histoire(s) du cinéma, Jean-Luc Godard
110 Manhattan, Woody Allen

2 Falcons of Fury (1956)
1 The Anvil Hoarder (1930)

109 Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni
108 Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais
107 To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch
106 L'Eclisse, Michelangelo Antonioni
105 Star Wars, George Lucas
104 The Shining, Stanley Kubrick
103 Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming
102 Intolerance, D.W. Griffith
101 The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming

100 Greed, Erich von Stroheim
99 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford
98 A Brighter Summer Day, Edward Yang
97 Sátántangó, Béla Tarr
96 La Jetée, Chris Marker
95 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman
94 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Werner Herzog
93 Sansho the Bailiff, Kenji Mizoguchi
92 Jaws, Steven Spielberg
91 A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson
90 The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles
89 Sans soleil, Chris Marker
88 Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino
87 Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais
86 Jules et Jim, François Truffaut
85 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra
84 Close-Up, Abbas Kiarostami
83 Annie Hall, Woody Allen
82 Voyage in Italy, Roberto Rossellini
81 Pickpocket, Robert Bresson
80 Nashville, Robert Altman
79 Viridiana, Luis Buñuel
78 The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci
77 Gertrud, Carl Theodor Dreyer
76 A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick
75 Blue Velvet, David Lynch
74 Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese
73 Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Luc Godard
72 The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman
71 Amarcord, Federico Fellini
70 The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin
69 The Leopard, Luchino Visconti
68 Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks
67 The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah
66 Mulholland Dr., David Lynch
65 Late Spring, Yasujiro Ozu
64 North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock
63 La Strada, Federico Fellini
62 Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone
61 The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo
60 Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman

59 Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray
58 Ugetsu monogatari, Kenji Mizoguchi
57 Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
56 Shoah, Claude Lanzmann
55 The Apartment, Billy Wilder
54 Les Enfants du paradis, Marcel Carné
53 Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman
52 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick
51 The Third Man, Carol Reed
50 In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai
49 Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick
48 Playtime, Jacques Tati
47 M, Fritz Lang
46 Chinatown, Roman Polanski
45 La Grande illusion, Jean Renoir
44 The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton
43 Metropolis, Fritz Lang
42 Modern Times, Charles Chaplin
41 Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock
40 Au hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson
39 Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard
38 The General, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
37 Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
36 Ordet, Carl Theodor Dreyer
35 Touch of Evil, Orson Welles
34 Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
33 Sunset Blvd., Billy Wilder
32 Some Like it Hot, Billy Wilder
31 L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni
30 La Dolce vita, Federico Fellini
29 City Lights, Charles Chaplin
28 The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky
27 Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
26 Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky
25 Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean
24 The 400 Blows, François Truffaut
23 Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese
22 The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola
21 Persona, Ingmar Bergman
20 Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa
19 L'Atalante, Jean Vigo
18 The Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov
17 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer
16 Singin' in the Rain, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
15 Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese
14 Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard
13 Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein
12 Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica
11 Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola
10 The Searchers, John Ford
9 Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa
8 Sunrise, F.W. Murnau
7 8½ , Federico Fellini,
6 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola

5 The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir
4 Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu
3 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
2 Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock
1 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles

Best movie lists are always the same shit, kill yourself OP

I haven't even heard of most of these movies desu

>Anything Horror or SciFi on the list

Into the garbage it goes

No they aren't, dumb IMDb poster.

>Gertrud not higher than Ordet

I am not ok with this.

Why exactly did you post the link and then proceeded to post all the films int the t250? Too much autism, mate.
The list is great, but for obvious reasons will be shat upon and miscomprehended on Sup Forums as a collective.

t. embryo shits

fuck off back to imdb, tspdt is a coagulation of all existing greatest movie lists into one list. Sure it includes a bunch of shit lists and it means obscure chinkshit gets place undeservedly highly but your criticisms of it expose your own ignorance in film. Kindly fuck off from the thread and leave film discussion to the true cinéaste patricians.

Does the fact that my favorite movie is in the top 15 mean that i'm patrician ?

Well I never pretended I was a film expert. Just saying I haven't even heard of most of these movies. Not everyone took a film studies course in uni or something.

Because the 90% of Sup Forums doesn't even know how to open a link.

This board is for film experts, fuck off back to Sup Forums if you want entry level discussion.

Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.

>leave film discussion to the true cinéaste patricians.

like yourself? hahahah

They are pretty conventional desu: no Straub-Huillet, no Paul Vecchiali, no Manoel de Oliveira, no Jacques Rozier, no Jonas Mekas, no Joao Cesar Monteiro...

>This post
>That image

Show me 5 lists like this one, that isn't the S&S poll.

Lol what is this pretentious shit. Post the IMDb one

>175 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini

I thought this was just edgy bullshit. Didn't know it was actually kino.

>weeb avataring with a director he probably never watched on a uncontexted headline-type quote

Shut the fuck up. Calling something pretentious is just another way of saying you're too dumb to understand it. If you don't like something give actual critique

the most pleb post in the history of Sup Forums

Long live the King.

The IMDB rating is more accurate for it, surprisingly. Many older critics and commentators hail it more on the condemnation of fascism through scatology method- and being the final very odd duckling film of the soon to be killed Pasolini- than as high quality cinema.

>Bresson starts at 40
That's were you fucked up TSP

It's what Bergman said
Hnng Out 1 Juliet Berto sit on my face pls

The last top 50 is the most controversial imo. There are good films, exceptional films, and overrated garbage meshed together. Solid list nonetheless. Too much chink shit though

none of those are important enough to be in the top 250, maybe de Oliveira only for the sheer number of films he made

>meet someone who's intimidated by Kane because it's a "great film" which must mean it's difficult and boring
>show them the scene where Charlie BTFOs Thatcher

Always works.

>Jonas Mekas
>non important
Are you fucking stupid? Did you even know what he did for American cinema?

>American cinema
Lmao next you're going to advocate for Michael Bay in top 100

no I don't, how about you tell me? I'm sure you know

Bay is more important (as in influence) for cinema than Mekas.
Of course lots of people are important, but on a limited number, plenty will be left out.

He worked with the whole underground scene in 60's New York, he revolutionized film as a medium and had a very unique artistic vision, he worked with Warhol, Beavers, Markapoulous, Brakhage, Baillie and others, he's definitely very important for cinema as a whole, no to mention many of his literary and filmic works are still being studied and analyzed to this day.
Cool buddy

Mate, I'm not analyzing quality, but Mekas is obviously less important than Bay.
Bay is mainstream, money rolling, kabooms happening, Mekas is known by a few people and watched by less.

all the other directors you mentioned are more revolutionary then Mekas, he basically made home movies with bells and whistles, I'll never understand how he ever got so much praise for as I was moving ahead.
Frampton, Snow, Sharits all did more with the medium than he did.

>Pulp Fiction at 88
>No Reservoir Dogs
>Taxi Driver that high
>All these literal whos
This is justifiably the worst list of all time

Almost as good as Sup Forums's cinema list.

>He's on a film board, and he doesn't know who is Rivette, Godard, Bresson & Ozu.

kill yourself back to reddi.t pleb

Watch Walden again, also yeah, the other directors and the ones you listed were more experimental than Mekas, I'll agree on that.

You can't deny this list, but there should be more pre-code Hollywood 30s movies like Twentieth Century.

Bump.

Bump. The plebs from this board the to apply.

I don't think anybody here watches movies, OP.

that list is dildos

Also, he published Andrew Sarris's film criticism in his magazine Film Culture, introducing auteurism to English-speaking audiences. The way everyone who cares about cinema talks about it was shaped by Jonas Mekas.

His films are mostly faux-naif home movies though, I wouldn't dispute that.

Basically, after a certain tipping point in terms of numbers polled, you end up with plebbishness, because most critics are just reviewers, and most reviewers are mainstream fans who got lucky. Nothing by Billy Wilder should be higher than Ordet, obviously. Nothing by Fellini should be in the top fifty, equally obviously. The Seven Samurai isn't even among Kurosawa's top ten accomplishments, let alone the ten best films ever made. But there it is, a list of the most acclaimed only tells you the quantity of acclaim, not the quality.

It's a great argument for orthodoxy, in fact. I don't think a community dumb enough to put The Godfather at 6 really knows enough to put Citizen Kane at 1. Kane is there because the majority of critics, knowing how bogus their expertise is, uphold the orthodoxy of its greatness. As it is in fact one of the greatest films ever made, this is a good thing. In criticism, conformity, if it results in a more correct answer than would individuality, is preferable. And when so many people with so little ability are writing so much of film criticism, its their inertia, or cowardice, that minimizes the damage they cause to people's understanding of art.

Sounds like shitskin names, they are non entities probably only popular in your third world country. Fuck off, cuck.

>doesn't understand how influential Pulp Fiction was
>doesn't appreciate Taxi Driver as a masterpiece of cinema
>thinks a glorified film student flick should be anywhere near a 250 best films of all time list
>doesn't know some of the most popular and best directors of actual cinema

the only thing I read in film culture was when he was dissing Deren, Brakhage, Markoupoulos & co. as the 'conspiracy of homosexuality', was pretty funny. But you peaked my interest, anything specific I should read?

good point, do you think things are changing now there are websites like imdb, themoviedb, letterboxd etc. that the userbase is basically creating its own canon? For instance what you said about Kurasawa where his most popular film is not his best is true for many directors on the list, it would be interesting if it started to change.

Pretty good overall post, when you named names it really was bad. Wilder has at least half a dozen films better than Ordet, and Fellini obviously should be with one of his two megamasterpieces on the top fifty. There's more, but, eh.

>Citizen Kane
>#1 yet again
It's a meme at this point

If you mean Sarris, you should read The American Cinema.

I don't think userbase-sourced lists are going to lessen the problem of there being too many critics.

No, Wilder has no film even as good as Ordet. You can't have seen much if you seriously think Fellini has anything worthy of being included among the best fifty films.

Yeah the 14 year olds who would put together a top 250 of nothing but crime drama and sci-fi genre horse shit are the true patricians! they know what they're talking about!

The problem is that the more inclusive a vote is the less accurate it becomes. When you widen the net of voters you shrink the average knowledge of the individual voter.

The average IMDB pleb who votes 10/10 on the latest capeshit release has probably seen less than 200 movies in his life and almost none made before he was born.

Of course someone who's knowledge of cinema ends at Nolan, Lucas and Cameron will think the likes of Inception and Star Wars are the greatest things ever. He simply doesn't know better.

These are also the same people who bring up the "it's all subjective" horseshit. Subjectivity is the codeword used by the uneducated to mask their ignorance.

Which is why the right approach is not looking at aggregate lists but finding the most well versed and studied critics and learning from each individually and eventually maturing your taste enough that you become capable of judging for yourself.

By saying Wilder hasn't anything as good as Ordet and claiming Fellini doesn't belong even on a top fifty- both laughable claims-, it very much seems that it's you who hasn't seen much or didn't take 'rightfully' from what was watched.

>obscure chinkshit
Speaking of ignorance in film.

You're making a false dichotomy. That list would be worthless, but at least it would be consistently worthless.

No, both of them are correct claims, and you're hoping it seems that way. You wouldn't be attempting to defend the idea that anything of Wilder's is as good as Ordet if you had taken anything from Ordet. If you had seen a hundred great films, you wouldn't be putting anything of Fellini's in the top half of your list.

This is a great analysis. With the Sight and Sound poll too, the individual critics' lists are always far more enlightening and interesting than the final tally.

Not an argument

Name 10 films better than I Vitelloni or La Dolce Vita
Go

No point arguing with him, if he can't recognize French or Portuguese names he probably hasn't even travelled outside of the US.

Here's a question: why is 'influential' a positive thing? Influential often seems to mean 'imitable'. Pulp Fiction made what it did look easy, because what it did was easy, and then a hundred guys who liked how low the bar had been set tried their luck. That isn't a good thing. 'Caused a lot of shit to be flung at the wall' isn't a praiseworthy attribute.

No, both are incorrect claims.
Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity, Ace In the Hole, the Apartment, The Lost Weekend. All better than Ordet.
La Dolce Vita and Otto E Mezzo belong easily on a top 50.
You seem to be of the rarer species of the pleb with patrician airs.

>236: Totoro
>216: Spirited Away
Should have just excluded animation from the list entirely so as to save this embarrassment.

>implying american
>implying le travelling enlightened individual meme
He's still stupid, but come on

No, none of those are better than Ordet. You seem to be a middlebrow faker.

Name 10 films that are better than I Vitelloni and La Dolce Vita

Ten at random:
MODERN TIMES
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
EUROPA '51
VAMPYR
BLOOD OF JESUS
PICKPOCKET
JEANNE DIELMAN
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
THE LAST LAUGH
MIRROR

But there are hundreds. Have you seen anything other than what Roger Ebert told you to?

Are you saying this is an embarrassment for the list? Or are you displeased because your precious animu is not numba one?

they forgot one

>le bad ebert
>middlebrow faker
Nice try, you're already exposed. Tell us about how deep the religious aspects of Dreyer's mise-en-scène are next, pleb babby.

Do you have to type like a retard?
In no way is Jeanne Dielman or Zerkalo better than Fellini, by the way.

Every single one cited is better than Ordet, though

You know nothing about cinema. Why, when this is so obvious, are you trying to reverse this with such nonsense? You do obviously read middlebrow criticism, because nobody using only their eyes and ears would mistake Wilder for an artist on the level of Dreyer. Your second sentence is meaningless. Stop humiliating yourself, I'm not interested in wasting the time on bullying you, I'd rather discuss cinema with people who have something to say about it. Watch the recommendations list you unsubtly asked me for and come back another day.

Sad to see people resort to jej mode when their bluster outruns their erudition. Just kidding all along, eh? Cool, enjoy the recommendations.

yes they are

also gertrud > ordet deal with it

There's no kidding. What doesn't exist is your purported patricianhood, so there's no need for recommendations coming from such a person. It's a disservice to the referred films.

Pathetic, but understandable since you don't really could use another resort. Maybe I exaggerated and you're not a pleb with patrician airs, just the first. Try /lit/, they appreciate your fake type.

>patricianhood

You're the one shitting up the thread with memes. Do you want to explain the true meaning of kino?

Why make this post confirming you haven't seen any of them when you could have just remained silent and left some doubt?

>you don't really could use another resort.

Hmm, syntax breaking down with upset there. Stop typing, peasant.

MURICA: The List.

vertigo and 2001 are unwatchable GARBAGE

Why is there so much Indian shit on imdb's top 250?
I mean that list was never particularly great but it was a decent starting point.

How awful of me to disturb your fantasy status that seemed to be going so well.

But that's exactly what happened to you and everyone can see that. Stop digging, watch the films.

United States 26.2%
China 8.1%
India Flag 7.5%
The countries that most visit IMDb... Mostly because of this
alexa.com/siteinfo/imdb.com

I recommend you condescend to yourself. You need to watch cinema and try to actually get something out of it, not pseudo-knowledge that leads to the blindness you demonstrate.

Yes, you are the only true cinema patrician. Dumb nigger.

Indians are sneaky somehow, my private tracker, when sorted by IMDB rating lists many. many Indian movies as better than Seven Samurai, The Human Condition etc, etc,. They can distort their ratings somehow.