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I am faced once again with the task of voting in Sight & Sound magazine's famous poll to determine the greatest films of all time. Apart from my annual year's best lists, this is the only list I vote in.
- The greatest movies ever made
Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown...
- Great Movies
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title...
- The greatest movies ever made
- The Night of the Hunter" (1955) That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film.
- Apocalypse Now" (1979) To be useful to me, a list should contain titles I'm not familiar with, suggest directors I should be looking at, and inspire me to give some films another look.
- Sunrise" (1927) Their selection passes my most important test: It is interesting. It contains ten titles that aren't included in my ever-growing Great Movies Collection, and I am now inspired to consider them.
- "Black Narcissus" (1947) Advertisement. That said, "The Night of the Hunter" is not an absurd title for the top of the list, with the caveat that all lists are meaningless.
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered. Here are more than 300 reconsiderations and appreciations of movies from the distant past to the recent past, all of movies that I consider worthy of being called "great." - Roger Ebert.
- 1 'Casablanca'
- 2 'Citizen Kane'
- 3 'Floating Weeds'
- 4 'Gates of Heaven'
- 5 'La Dolce Vita'
- 6 'Notorious'
- 7 'Raging Bull'
- 8 'The Third Man'
- 9 '28 Up'
- 10 '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Director: Michael Curtiz
An iconic movie on multiple levels, Casablanca features Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, a pair of former lovers reuniting in the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca. Fighting their lingering feelings, Rick must help Ilsa's husband, a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape so he can continue his fight against the Nazis during World War II. Casablanca is not only a top-rated movie on Ebert's list but is currently number three on the American Film Institute's top...
Director: Orson Welles
Citizen Kane is a movie that continues to age like fine wine, retaining its status as one of the best movies of all time, currently number one on AFI's list of the best American movies ever. Directed by Orson Welles, this movie tells the story of a group of reporters desperate to decode the final words of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Welles), infamously based on real-life magnate William Randolph Hearst. In a wild original story of the Hollywood dream, Ebert wonderfully points out,...
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
An excellent international feature film, Floating Weeds flies mostly under the radar when it comes to mainstream attention. The 1959 drama tells the story of a man who returns to the small town where he left his son and attempts to make up for the missed years while the child remains under the assumption the man is his uncle. Ebert recognized that many viewers had probably never seen or heard of the film or director Yasujirô Ozu. Speaking highly of this feature, Ebert said,"Ozu fashioned his...
Director: Errol Morris
Referring to director Errol Morris, Ebert said, "He has made a film about life and death, pride and shame, deception and betrayal, and the stubborn quirkiness of human nature." A renowned documentarian, Morris' oeuvre explores knowledge itself, concerned as much with the people possessing it as it is with the highly specific nature of expertise. His ticket to mainstream recognition was Gates of Heaven, a documentary about a pet mortician and the animals he's buried in a California pet cemeter...
Director: Federico Fellini
An Oscar-winning Italian masterpiece, La Dolce Vita is a romanticized tale of a week's worth of stories for a tabloid journalist living in Rome. It secured one golden statute for Best Costume Design, yielded three other nominations, and now stands as one of its country's greatest cinematic achievements. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg and is directed by Federico Fellini. Like any good film study, Ebert's review and praise encourage viewers to look beyond the surface popul...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Adding another iconic director to the greatest of all time, Notorious was Alfred Hitchcock's ticket to Ebert's heart. A drama starring Hollywood royalty Cary Grantand Ingrid Bergman, the movie follows T.R. Devlin, who recruits the daughter of a convicted German criminal, Alicia, to act as a spy. When she becomes involved with a Nazi hiding in Brazil, their dangerous scheme threatens to slip out of their hands. Notoriousis among Hitchcock's greatest movies, a sleek and stylish spy noir elevate...
Director: Martin Scorsese
The film that perhaps knocked Taxi Driver off Ebert's top ten list, Raging Bull is one of the best sports movies of all time and arguably the all-time best boxing picture. Starring as real-life boxer Jake La Motta, Robert De Niroportrays the middleweight champ's dominating, violent force inside the ring, which translated into a volatile and painful life outside of it. Ebert commends the cinematic artwork led by director Martin Scorsese, from the black-and-white aesthetic choice to the overall...
Director: Carol Reed
One of IMDb's top-rated films, The Third Man is also within Ebert's choices. A gripping mystery and visually distinctive triumph, this film-noir tells the story of Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) in postwar Vienna as he investigates the death of his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). This cinematic masterpiece captured not only the heart of Ebert but new audiences for decades. In his review, Ebert details the physical cinematic experience he encountered when he saw the movie, capturing the impor...
Director: Michael Apted
Another documentary audiences may not be familiar with, 28 Up is a biographical piece in which director Michael Aptedinterviews the same group of British adults over several seven-year wait periods. With over two hours in runtime, it's a longer documentary but worth the watch to see the evolution of these subjects over almost 30 years. 28 Up is a prime example of how filmmaking can bridge time, according to his testimonial on the film. Apted's experiment was like nothing audiences or Ebert ha...
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Iconic, top-rated, foundational...all descriptors that apply to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this sci-fi film takes audiences through space and time as a spaceship, operated by two men and an AI computer named H.A.L 9000, is sent to Jupiter to understand a mysterious artifact. The Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects, 2001: A Space Odyssey set the bar for where technology was headed in cinematic storytelling. Ebert referred to the film as "a landmark of non-narrative, p...
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- “2001: A Space Odyssey” Roger Ebert called Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, "a great visionary leap, unsurpassed in its vision of man and the universe.
- “An Alan Smithee Film” "In taking his name off the film, Arthur Hiller has wisely distanced himself from the disaster, but on the basis of what's on the screen I cannot, frankly, imagine any version of this film that I would want to see.
- “Apocalypse Now” Of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war epic, Ebert said: "Apocalypse Now is a film which still causes real, not figurative, chills to run along my spine, and it is certainly the bravest and most ambitious fruit of Coppola's genius"
- “Aguirre, Wrath of God” Werner Herzog was among Ebert's most celebrated filmmakers. In his review of Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, he described the film as "one of the great haunting visions of the cinema"
All of our reviews of the Best Picture Winners of the Century, starting with the most recent and then moving back to 2000's " Gladiator ." 1.
Every year, the British magazine "Sight & Sound" would poll the world's top critics, asking them what they consider the best movies of all time. In honor of the great Roger Ebert, I will post his choices from over the years.
