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A while back, I asked everyone to suggest films to be included in an LJ meme. I've still go that list, but I'm sorry to say that I got distracted by a List of the Big and Shiny variety, and since this is me, said list underwent a painful meme conversion. (That sound you hear is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rafaela's eyes rolling.) I have to say, though, that even with the knowledge that the (obviously nutbar) writers of this list went to great lengths to make sure it's suitably comprehensive and not biased towards American or overly contemporary films, I lost count of the number of times I stopped reading to say, "What the f—?!" You'll see what I mean. Also, I am rather conflicted about completing this meme myself, as doing so will comprehensively prove just how much I really suck. C'est la vie.
So, without further ado:
The Unrepentant Film Snob's Meme to End All Film Memes
The movie fans behind the website They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have assembled what they claim to be the most definitive "greatest films ever" list by gathering no fewer than 1,604 critics' lists and 656 other miscellaneous polls from hundreds of print sources from the last several decades, and used a complicated formula to tabulate the results shown below: The 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time.
Your task:
Bold the titles you have seen.
Italicize the ones you have only partly seen.
Underline the ones you currently own.
To participate in the short form of this meme, do this for the first 100 titles only. The more daring and film-obsessed among you, however, will want to do the full 1,000 title list. Enjoy!
1) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
2) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3) The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5) 81⁄2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
6) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
7) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8) The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
9) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
10) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
11) Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
12) Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
13) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
14) L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
15) Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
16) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
17) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
18) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
19) Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
20) Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
21) City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
22) Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
23) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
24) La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
25) Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
26) La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
27) The General (Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman; 1926)
28) Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
29) Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
30) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
31) Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
32) Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
33) L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
34) The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
35) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
36) The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
37) Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955)
38) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
39) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
40) Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1961)
41) Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
42) The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
43) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
44) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
45) Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
46) The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
47) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
48) Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
49) Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
50) Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
51) M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
52) Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
53) Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
54) La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
55) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
56) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
57) Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
58) Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
59) North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
60) Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
61) The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
62) Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
63) The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1976)
64) Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
65) The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969)
66) Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
67) The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
68) Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
69) Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926)
70) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
71) The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
72) Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
73) Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
74) Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
75) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
76) Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
77) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
78) Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
79) Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
80) Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
81) Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1953)
82) Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
83) All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
84) Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
85) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
86) My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
87) Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
88) Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
89) L’àge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
90) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
91) Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
92) Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
93) A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
94) To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
95) Man with a Movie Camera, The (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
96) His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
97) Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964)
98) On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
99) Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
100) Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
( The remaining 900 titles. Fear! )
rafaela's eyes rolling.) I have to say, though, that even with the knowledge that the (obviously nutbar) writers of this list went to great lengths to make sure it's suitably comprehensive and not biased towards American or overly contemporary films, I lost count of the number of times I stopped reading to say, "What the f—?!" You'll see what I mean. Also, I am rather conflicted about completing this meme myself, as doing so will comprehensively prove just how much I really suck. C'est la vie.So, without further ado:
The Unrepentant Film Snob's Meme to End All Film Memes
The movie fans behind the website They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have assembled what they claim to be the most definitive "greatest films ever" list by gathering no fewer than 1,604 critics' lists and 656 other miscellaneous polls from hundreds of print sources from the last several decades, and used a complicated formula to tabulate the results shown below: The 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time.
Your task:
Bold the titles you have seen.
Italicize the ones you have only partly seen.
Underline the ones you currently own.
To participate in the short form of this meme, do this for the first 100 titles only. The more daring and film-obsessed among you, however, will want to do the full 1,000 title list. Enjoy!
1) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
2) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3) The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5) 81⁄2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
6) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
7) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8) The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
9) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
10) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
11) Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
12) Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
13) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
14) L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
15) Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
16) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
17) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
18) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
19) Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
20) Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
21) City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
22) Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
23) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
24) La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
25) Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
26) La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
27) The General (Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman; 1926)
28) Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
29) Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
30) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
31) Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
32) Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
33) L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
34) The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
35) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
36) The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
37) Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955)
38) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
39) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
40) Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1961)
41) Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
42) The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
43) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
44) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
45) Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
46) The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
47) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
48) Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
49) Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
50) Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
51) M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
52) Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
53) Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
54) La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
55) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
56) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
57) Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
58) Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
59) North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
60) Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
61) The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
62) Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
63) The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1976)
64) Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
65) The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969)
66) Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
67) The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
68) Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
69) Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926)
70) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
71) The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
72) Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
73) Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
74) Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
75) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
76) Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
77) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
78) Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
79) Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
80) Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
81) Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1953)
82) Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
83) All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
84) Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
85) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
86) My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
87) Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
88) Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
89) L’àge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
90) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
91) Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
92) Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
93) A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
94) To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
95) Man with a Movie Camera, The (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
96) His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
97) Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964)
98) On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
99) Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
100) Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
( The remaining 900 titles. Fear! )
