All time greatest movies

UK's Empire movie magazine polled 20,000 fans and came up with a list of the greatest movies of all time.
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The list is definately suspect, with titles like:
6. Pulp Fiction
85. Monty Python's Life of Brian
47. Pirates of the Caribbean
92. This is Spinal Tap
95. Edward Scissorhands
Maybe someone could point me to a betterl ist?

Sadly my knowledge of Indian cinema is mostly limited to Satyajit Ray and a handful of Bollywood films. As for Ray, "Pather Panchali," "The Music Room," and "The Big City" are all among my favorite films of all-time.

In all my time here, and with all the talk on film diversity, I don't see YOU guys recommending any Indian movies :o

chris,

i think we need to write our paper "essentialism: a defense" first. :)

eddie

Ebert's Greatest Movies list is a fine start.

If you want a truly international canon proposed by one of the world's most devoted and eloquent cinephiles, then the 1,000 Essential Films in Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Canons" is, well, essential.

Of course my own Top 100 list is best of all. If I ever convince the powers that be here to enable us critics to post their Top 100 lists with our profiles, you'll see that I'm right. :)

it's also not sufficient to look at lists compiled by people who speak the same language that you do. serious film enthusiasts should seek out top-10 and top-100 lists from countries that don't speak english to get a sense of what other good movies are out there. if only english-language movies were "good", then cinema would be in a sorry shape and deserving of the death that so many people have said is inevitable.

I've always enjoyed reading Roger Ebert's compilation of "Great Movies." Time Magazine has a nice variety in their Top 100; yet, unlike Ebert, the writers don't make any commentary available in terms of the reasoning behind their individual choices. Both lists are available for viewing on each of the respective sites.

-Kurtis

Key word being "fans" that were polled.

As Eddie says, favorite film lists are apt to reflect the age and the range of film experience of the viewer more than anything else. Cinema has been with us for well over a hundred years; it's a little sad when people honestly believe that only the best films were made in the last twenty years. But it's the nature of all young people to think that the world began when they were born.

John (old fogey)

I would never put Life of Brian or Pirates on my list.
My top 5 would look something like this:
1. The Godfather Part II (as a representative of the whole trilogy)
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Lion King
(Forrest Gump and The Lion King played an integral role in my childhood and love of movies, so they are somewhat of a bias).