Entertainment Weekly: All-Time 100 Greatest Movies

[Harold]

Here's the All-Time 100 Greatest Movies list from the new issue of Entertainment Weekly:

1 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
2 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972
3 Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
4 Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 1967
5 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
6 It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946
7 Mean Streets Martin Scorsese 1973
8 The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin 1925
9 Nashville Robert Altman 1975
10 Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming et al. 1939
11 King Kong Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933
12 The Searchers John Ford 1956
13 Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977
14 Bambi David Hand 1942
15 Blue Velvet David Lynch 1986
16 Singin' in the Rain Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952
17 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954
18 Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
19 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
20 The Sorrow and the Pity Marcel Ophuls 1969
21 Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder 1959
22 Toy Story John Lasseter 1995
23 Notorious Alfred Hitchcock 1946
24 The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965
25 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
26 Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica 1948
27 The Maltese Falcon John Huston 1941
28 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming et al. 1939
29 North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959
30 Sunrise F.W. Murnau 1927
31 Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974
32 Duck Soup Leo McCarey 1933
33 The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967
34 Adam's Rib George Cukor 1949
35 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979
36 Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski 1968
37 Manhattan Woody Allen 1979
38 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958
39 The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 1939
40 Double Indemnity Billy Wilder 1944
41 The Road Warrior George Miller 1981
42 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
43 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Peter Jackson 2003
44 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
45 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 1939
46 The Adventures of Robin Hood Michael Curtiz/William A. Keighley 1938
47 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971
48 It Happened One Night Frank Capra 1934
49 Goldfinger Guy Hamilton 1964
50 Intolerance D.W. Griffith 1916
51 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester 1964
52 Titanic James Cameron 1997
53 The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner 1980
54 Breathless Jean-Luc Godard 1960
55 Frankenstein James Whale 1931
56 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 1993
57 Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger 1969
58 The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman 1957
59 All the President's Men Alan J. Pakula 1976
60 Top Hat Mark Sandrich 1935
61 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991
62 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982
63 Network Sidney Lumet 1976
64 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946
65 Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci 1972
66 The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980
67 Rebel Without a Cause Nicholas Ray 1955
68 GoodFellas Martin Scorsese 1990
69 Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick 1964
70 L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni 1960
71 American Graffiti George Lucas 1973
72 The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut 1959
73 Cabaret Bob Fosse 1972
74 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 2009
75 Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958
76 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962
77 Dog Day Afternoon Sidney Lumet 1975
78 Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981
79 Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero 1968
80 Dazed and Confused Richard Linklater 1993
81 Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982
82 Scenes from a Marriage Ingmar Bergman 1973
83 The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969
84 Olympia Leni Riefenstahl 1938
85 Dirty Harry Don Siegel 1971
86 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
87 La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini 1960
88 The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan 2008
89 Woodstock Michael Wadleigh 1970
90 The French Connection William Friedkin 1971
91 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
92 The Piano Jane Campion 1993
93 A Face in the Crowd Elia Kazan 1957
94 Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee 2005
95 Rushmore Wes Anderson 1998
96 Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges 1941
97 Diner Barry Levinson 1982
98 All About My Mother Pedro Almodovar 1999
99 There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 2007
100 Sweet Smell of Success Alexander Mackendrick 1957

The most glaring omission here is The Godfather, Part II, but if you read the entry for Part I it almost seems to cover both films. Others that immediately jump out: no Raging Bull, no Sunset Blvd., no Buster Keaton, no Coen brothers.

[Henrik]

The 2000s is once again underrated by film critics.

(I'm not talking about the positions of Rings and Batman - they should have been replaced by others IMO)

[Gillingham]

Weak list. Very US-focused. First non-US film at 17? Are you kidding me?
And I agree that the choices for the films of this century are very poor, especially the first three.

[Mattceinicram]

The Dark Knight is the most overrated movie of the century. I completely agree it has no place on this list.

[Jirin]

As usual, most of the films mentioned are great films, but has a heavy prejudice in favor of American films and another in favor of big budget films with straightforward narratives.

A decent list but an unchallenging one that seeks to affirm the audience's expectations rather than be inclusive to all varieties of films from all countries with all budgets and lead the audience to films they wouldn't have thought of watching otherwise.

Huge points though for including Empire Strikes Back and not Star Wars.

[JimmyJazz]

As Jirin said, most of the films included on this list are not bad choices by any means (albeit many of them are very safe canonical picks), although I can certainly say a few of them definitely do not belong on a list like this IMO (I'm thinking of numbers 24, 52, and 88). There is a ridiculous bias towards American films, with foreign films included for mere token respectability. Furthermore, major directors are not represented at all... Hawks, Minnelli, Sirk, Sternberg, Stroheim, Keaton, Dreyer, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Mizoguchi, Kiarostami, Hou, Kieslowski, the Coens (this was particularly surprising considering the source)... Of course, the magazine is entertainment and celebrity oriented, so what do you expect. It isn't an auterist or serious film magazine. I will say, though, that when non-film specific sources put out lists like these (such as TIME or the Guardian), they are never even as mediocre and half-assed as this list.

[Bruce]

I don't see my all time favorite movie on the list