They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - The 1000 Greatest Films (December 2008 edition)

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"Well, here we go again. We’ve spent another baffling year sifting (sometimes aimlessly) through film polls and best-of film ballots, collating them, weighting them and, hey presto, here are the goddamn results. Are we unclassifiable dorks of a rather specific nature, or are we highly valued film patrons providing a harmless little public service? The truth, we’d say, lies somewhere in between. The fact remains, however, that we enjoy chugging this out once a year, and the mostly nice words and feedback we get makes it all worthwhile. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the new list and the more time-reducing (for us, that is) compact presentation. As always, we would love to hear any feedback (good, bad, or otherwise) you have on this ongoing project.

"The December 2008 list of the 1,000 Greatest Films of all-time has primarily been compiled by using 1,825 individual critics’ and filmmakers’ best-films-of-all-time lists/ballots. That’s 221 more ballots than our December 2007 list. Angel Gonzalez Garcia has continued to provide us with many ballots, as have many others. A warm thank you to everyone that has contributed and/or lent their support towards the current version."

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (1941)
    by Orson Welles

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  2. 2.
    Vertigo

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  3. 3.
    Rules of the Game
    by Jean Renoir

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  4. 4.
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  6. 6.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  7. 7.
    The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)
    by John Ford

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    Seven Samurai

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    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Donen, Stanley

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  12. 12.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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    Casablanca (1942)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  16. 16.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  17. 17.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  19. 19.
    Rashomon (1950)
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  20. 20.
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    Some Like it Hot - 1959
    by Billy Wilder

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  23. 23.
    City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

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    The Third Man - 1949 - Carol Reed

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  25. 26.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  26. 27.
    The Gold Rush (1925)
    by Charles Chaplin

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  27. 28.
    Taxi Driver [Blu-ray]
    by Martin Scorsese

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  28. 29.
    Sunset Blvd.
    by Billy Wilder

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  29. 30.
    The General (1927)
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  30. 31.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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    Psycho - 1960

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  32. 33.
    Breathless - Criterion Collection

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  33. 34.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  34. 35.
    Apocalypse Now (1979)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  35. 36.
    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

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    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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    L'Avventura - 1960
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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    Persona - 1966 - Ingmar Bergman

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  39. 41.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  40. 42.
    Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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    The Magnificent Ambersons - 1942
    by Orson Welles

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  42. 45.
    It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
    by Frank Capra

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  43. 46.
    Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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  44. 47.
    Rear Window (1954)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    North By Northwest

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  47. 50.
    La Strada - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

wrong versions of East of Eden (should be Kazan) and Madchen in Uniform (should be Sagan)


MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Untitled — 1 year ago

Thanks for this list! I am glad that someone seems to be making a new list, and not using the update to destroy the old list as has happened in the past.

Anyway, surely #6 can’t be the entire Godfather trilogy?


This list already exists — 1 year ago

Here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/591

It’s already had the December 2008 update done to it.