Band Apart's Greatest Films
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International cinephile community A Band Apart in august of 2011 has organized voting in order to make the list of the greatest films in history of a cinema (Greatest Films Poll 2011). The sample took place with the participation of 125 film critics, bloggers, journalists and several directors from 18 countries of the world (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Estonia, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Brazil, UK, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and France). The wide geography of composers has provided a variety of tastes and opinions. In the final list there are presented 130 films from 17 countries and four parts of the world. In the top-list there are mentioned all decades, since 1920's. Also there is maintained balance between English-speaking and non-English-speaking films. All individual lists of participants can be looked here.
The first place in the top-list has taken by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which outstripped in the general offset Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Top-5 has completed with Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. The best film of 21 century by quantity of mentions has turned out to be David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (6th place).
The oldest film of the list has appeared to be a silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and the newest – 2011 Palme d'Or winner Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The list included 7 films of Stanley Kubrick, 5 films of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky, 4 films of David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Terrence Malick at once. On the basis of mentions, in lists has also been made top-50 of best directors. In total, by composers in their lists have been mentioned 3469 films and over 1500 directors.
The final list included at once 9 pictures of the Soviet production. Except Andrei Tarkovsky’s 4 pictures, there are Sergei Eisenstein, Elem Klimov, Larisa Shepitko, Dziga Vertov, and Mikhail Kalatozov movies at the list. Also have been mentioned films of Parajanov, Muratova, Sokurov, Aleksei German, Kozincev, Dovzhenko, Balabanov, Shaunas Bartas and other directors of the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.
P.S. The community A Band Apart has been created in 2009 in order to popularize little-known pictures, to exchange impressions of cinema and to make top-lists of the best films. Sample of 2011 has already become the third annual. By results of the first sample in 2009, has been made the list of 59 films (the winner was Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction). By results of the second sample in 2010, has been made the list of 120 films (the winner was Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver).
http://rottenaparts.ru/poll-2012
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96 new
Fight Club
1999, in 19 top lists Check -
2 new
Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
9 new
The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
75 new
Se7en
1995, in 29 top lists Check -
111 new
Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
48 new
The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
13 new
A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
86 new
Reservoir Dogs
1992, in 26 top lists Check -
110 new
The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
22 new
The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
114 new
Léon
1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check -
42 new
Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
45 new
12 Angry Men
1957, in 30 top lists Check -
18 new
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
58 new
The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
69 new
Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
1 new
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
46 new
Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
3 new
Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
93 new
Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
35 new
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check -
119 new
Cidade de Deus
2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check -
118 new
Fargo
1996, in 26 top lists Check -
10 new
Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
17 new
Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
52 new
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
85 new
There Will Be Blood
2007, in 20 top lists Check -
33 new
Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
59 new
Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
6 new
Mulholland Dr.
2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check -
12 new
Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
15 new
Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
130 new
It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
80 new
Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
123 new
Amadeus
1984, in 23 top lists Check -
47 new
Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
26 new
Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
73 new
Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
105 new
The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
72 new
Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
43 new
Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
68 new
C'era una volta il West
1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 29 top lists Check -
63 new
Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
34 new
Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
28 new
Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
20 new
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check -
74 new
Modern Times
1936, in 30 top lists Check -
55 new
The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
29 new
Fa yeung nin wah
2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check -
8 new
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 3, 2012; source