Vanity Fair's 50 Greatest Films of All Time

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Vanity Fair Magazine (in their September 2005 issue) offered their picks for the "50 Greatest Films" (plus one) of all-time (unranked and alphabetical) in a special tear-out section of the magazine.

Note: The Godfather & The Godfather Part II were counted as one entry.

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  1. 1.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  2. 2.
    Amarcord - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  3. 3.
    Annie Hall

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  4. 4.
    Blow Up
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  5. 5.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  6. 6.
    Breathless

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  7. 7.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

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  8. 8.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  9. 9.
    Chinatown

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  10. 10.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  11. 11.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  12. 12.
    Die Hard
    by John McTiernan

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  13. 13.
    Dirty Harry

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  14. 14.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

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  15. 15.
    Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

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  16. 16.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  17. 17.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  18. 18.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  19. 19.
    Goldfinger
    by Guy Hamilton

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  21. 21.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Victor Fleming

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  22. 22.
    Goodfellas
    by Martin Scorsese

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  23. 23.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

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  24. 24.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  25. 25.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

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  26. 26.
    It's a Gift
    by Norman Z. McLeod

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  28. 29.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  29. 30.
    National Lampoon's Animal House
    by John Landis

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  30. 31.
    North by Northwest

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  31. 32.
    Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
    by Irving Rapper

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  32. 33.
    Old School (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
    by Todd Phillips

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  33. 34.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  34. 35.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  35. 36.
    Red River
    by Howard Hawks

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  37. 38.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  38. 39.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  39. 40.
    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  40. 41.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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

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  43. 44.
    Stagecoach
    by John Ford

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  44. 46.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  45. 47.
    Toy Story
    by John Lasseter

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  46. 49.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  47. 50.
    The Wild Bunch Special Edition - Widescreen
    by Sam Peckinpah

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Comments

Trying to be clever, I guess — 17 weeks ago

See – we’re not all old fogies! We’re with it! Probably, the makers of this list found Old School hilarious and it seemed dishonest for them not to include it, because funny is funny, right? But I don’t necessarily think humor should be the primary judge of which films are the “best.” Too often “best” gets confused with “favorite” and a lot of cultural commentators don’t like to draw the line.

Frankly, I didn’t find Old School all that funny anyway. It was amusing, but I laughed harder at, say, Superbad (which would not be on my list of “50 Greatest Films” by the way, nor on a list of “50 Favorite Films” for that matter).


greenfruit
Augusta

Old School?! — 18 weeks ago

I just added this list as it was written but I certainly don’t agree with all of their choices.

It’s almost sad to see Old School sitting there in between such classics as Now, Voyager and Paths of Glory. I have no idea what they were thinking.

A few other questionable titles were also included but I won’t go on about that here. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. And there are still some very worthy films on this list as well.