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Yeah, I've gotten so tired of seeing an ever-growing number of articles pop up in my newsfeeds with lists of this and that, all "ranked". Really? Is it that important to rank them? But it seems like that's what people want to see.

OK. I interpreted your comment as saying it was on the list.

Unless you're making a play on the word "list"...hunh? What "list" are you referring to? The list Joe is referring to is the one in the original post of this thread. There is no Spielberg film on that list.

That's the most unheard-of thing I've ever heard of!

Setting aside whether one agrees or disagrees with his opinions on any given film... Wow. That was some bullshit.

Back in the day, when I was more inclined to present "best of" lists, I used to say I had two separate lists of "Ten Best Westerns". One was "Ten Best Westerns", the other "Ten Best Westerns Not By John Ford", because Ford would crowd out a lot of great Westerns by other filmmakers.

The remake is surprisingly good, but I still prefer Capra's.

Ah....lost?? ;)

But you never know what will appeal to you until you've actually seen it. In some ways, Tarr's The Turin Horse is the same sort of deal. A significant portion of it is just a lot of (a) man & daughter get up in the morning, (b) have a breakfast of boiled potatoes, (c) suffer through extreme...

I love Dersu Uzala, as I do all of Kurosawa's other pictures. But I have a different perspective than you do. I'm a guy, too. A straight white cis-male American, and have been one for 69 years. I know what it's like to grow up male in America. Not completely, as I don't know what it's like to...

That seems to me a distinction without a difference. I think "diversity of types of people that made the films" can and do affect the diversity of the film itself. I don't think, for example, that Daughters of the Dust could've been made by someone who wasn't an African-American woman. Certain...

And different people also have different opinions on what qualifies as "useless". The thing is...humans (well, all animals, really) have a competitive nature. Everyone everywhere continually has discussions, debates, polls, arguments, list-makings, and so on about what's the Best This and the...

It depends on how you look at it. And exactly what you mean when you call something "the best". Not only do different people have different opinions on what is "the best", different people have different ideas on what "the best" even means.

A friend of mine once said of A Clockwork Orange (and later, of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover as well), "It's one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life, and I hope to God I never see it again!" I've felt similarly (but without quite so much fervor) about Leaving Las Vegas.

That's what's in the movie, but it's not (in my opinion, and probably/possibly not in Kubrick's or Anthony Burgess's) what the movie is about.

Now, see, my feelings about Lolita are pretty much the same as yours for A Clockwork Orange. That's what makes horse races. As I said before, all lists like this are just the product of the opinions of individuals with differing experiences and tastes. Makes me think of a quote from Garcia...

By the by...#13 on the list, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game is getting a re-release in the US by Janus Films, in a new "4K restoration" (quotes for the benefit of Robert Harris ;) ) this month. I hope this means we might see a UHD from Criterion a few months down the road.

Now, see, I disagree. I found The Turin Horse absolutely fascinating. Sátántangó is also fascinating, though its running time definitely can tax one's patience. This reminds me that I need to get around to watching my Damnation Blu-ray...

I suppose it depends on how you look at it. True story. Back in the 70s, I went to see a re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey at a suburban cattleplex. Not many people there, but a handful of rows in front of me were three or so teens. Part way through the Dawn of Man sequence, one of them said...

I might preface an answer with, "Well, I like too many different films for too many different reasons, that I'm not sure there's any right answer to that question, but..." and then give them my go-to list of Top Five: Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, and To Kill...

It might've hypothetically been #101 on the list. We have no way of knowing.

See, I think this is creating a conflict that wasn't there to begin with. If you express your opinions on what films are worthy by virtue of a particular sort of parameters, I don't expect you to take my opinions into account when making your list. And vice versa. You do you, and I do me. You...

I don't agree. And that's sort of the point, I think. This list has the same virtues and the same failings that any similar list (whether it be movies, or books, or music, or whatever) has. It's not perfect, it will never be perfect, it'll never be accepted as gospel by anyone ever, and people...

Oh, I know. It's one I've been meaning to watch for a long time. Just never managed to actually do that yet.

Hunh. Out of the hundred, there are only 16 I haven't seen. I really need to watch Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.