BFI Sight & Sound top 50 Films! but ...

['Foretold' Joker]

According to the BFI - 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors have voted on the best films of all time and this was the list ....

www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

1. Vertigo
2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. La Règle du jeu
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Searchers
8. Man with a Movie Camera
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. 8 1/2
11. Battleship Potemkin
12. L' Atalante
13. Breathless
14. Apocalypse Now
15. Late Spring
16. Au hasard Balthazar
17= Seven Samurai
17= Persona
19. Mirror
20. Singin' in the Rain
21= L'avventura
21= Le Mépris
21= The Godfather
24= Ordet
24= In the Mood for Love
26= Rashomon
26= Andrei Rublev
28. Mulholland Drive
29= Stalker
29= Shoah
31= The Godfather Part II
31= Taxi Driver
33. Bicycle Thieves
34. The General
35= Metropolis
35= Psycho (1960)
35= Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
35= Sátántangó
39= The 400 Blows
39= La dolce vita
41. Journey to Italy
42= Pather Panchali
42= Some Like It Hot
42= Gertrud
42= Pierrot le fou
42= Play Time
42= Close-Up
48= The Battle of Algiers
48= Histoire(s) du cinéma
50= City Lights
50= Ugetsu monogatari
50= La Jetée

I could have gone down the usual path of seeing if people agree but it is film and everyone has an opinion, so instead how many of these films have you seen?

[Deleted]

Thirty-two. Realized that the Renoir film, La Règle du jeu, translates into "The Rules of the Game", which I have seen.

[Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen]

4

['Foretold' Joker]

I've seen 11 myself.

[TCA]

Only 8 for me.

[bob]

21

[turkeysandwich]

I've seen 37 of them and own all but 1 of the ones I haven't seen on DVD, which is Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma. But I'm a film nerd and a collector of Criterion Collection DVDs.

[darthalexander]

Only 13. I need to fix that.

I'm surprised Vertigo is now number 1. It usually seems like Citizen Kane is always first overall.

I didn't think The Searchers would be so high on a list like this. I need to get that on Blu-Ray.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

10. I've never even heard of most of them.

I know it's all opinions, (what I'm about to say included) but I'm always surprised to see 2001 so high on these lists. I tried to watch it and after 45 minutes of screaming monkeys, I turned it off.

[ShaolinHandLock]

3.

[Some Guy]

I thought Rear Window was the most praised Hitchcock movie? Dammit.

[Sc]

I have only seen the Godfather movies out of that list.

[Todd's crazy , Man.]

Seven.


Also since it was ranked by the british , The Holy Grail should've been there.


Brave Sir Robin ran away... bravely ran away away... When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled...