Total Film - Top 100 Films of All Time

missingtime · 25-10-2005 12:44pm #1

The full list is published in a special edition of Total Film available from October 27.

Top 25

1 Goodfellas
2 Vertigo
3 Jaws
4 Fight Club
5 The Godfather: Part II
6 Citizen Kane
7 Tokyo Story
8 The Empire Strikes Back
9 The Lord of the Rings trilogy
10 His Girl Friday
11 Persona
12 Chinatown
13 Manhattan
14 Taxi Driver
15 It’s A Wonderful Life
16 The Apartment
17 Once Upon A Time In The West
18 All About Eve
19 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
20 Apocalypse Now
21 Crash
22 Sunrise
23 The Godfather
24 Rear Window
25 Sunset Boulevard

Its an original list I'll give em that.

Hugh Hefner · 25-10-2005 1:08pm

Is that the old or new Crash at No. 21? Frankly neither deserve it.

ccd · 25-10-2005 1:21pm

I often wonder about the critera for these types of lists.Is it a list of Worthy films or of turly GREAT films. What do we use to define Great Intensity, Realism, Score, Cinematography, Direction etc etc. The majority of these films truly are Intense and Innovative. With the exception of Tokyo Story they seem to all be english speaking films. Before anyne comments about Godfather II being superior to Goodfellas. Shut your mouth Goodfellas ownes Godfather II.

ObeyGiant · 25-10-2005 1:41pm

ccd wrote:

What do we use to define Great Intensity, Realism, Score, Cinematography, Direction

Personally, I don't count "realism" as a particularly important when it comes to defining "great" movies.

ccd wrote:

With the exception of Tokyo Story they seem to all be english speaking films.

"Persona" is Swedish - Bergman.

garred · 25-10-2005 2:58pm

Only one horror in the top 20 and it has to be that texas chainsaw crap...ah jaysus:(
How in all that is holy is FightClub in the top 5

ccd · 25-10-2005 3:10pm

Mea Culpa. But only two of the top 20 greatest movies all being in English. Thats pants

Tusky · 25-10-2005 4:59pm

Is that the cronenberg crash ? I always thought it was supposed to be crap.

OfflerCrocGod · 25-10-2005 5:14pm

garred wrote:

How in all that is holy is FightClub in the top 5

Because it's better then the wast majority of modern films made by hollywood?

Karl Hungus · 25-10-2005 5:38pm

Tusky wrote:

Is that the cronenberg crash ? I always thought it was supposed to be crap.

I imagine it to be the 2004 film. I can't imagine Cronenber's film would be in any top 100 list.

Tusky · 25-10-2005 6:02pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

I imagine it to be the 2004 film. I can't imagine Cronenber's film would be in any top 100 list.

I wouldnt put crash(2004) in my top 1000.

Karl Hungus · 25-10-2005 6:10pm

Tusky wrote:

I wouldnt put crash(2004) in my top 1000.

Arguably not, but it seems a lot of people really enjoyed it. Besides, it seems that any film that touches on the subject of racism gets a kind of reverence. It's hot topic now, but I'd say people would forget about it soon enough.

Tusky · 25-10-2005 6:14pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

Arguably not, but it seems a lot of people really enjoyed it. Besides, it seems that any film that touches on the subject of racism gets a kind of reverence. It's hot topic now, but I'd say people would forget about it soon enough.

I'll racism YOU.

Karl Hungus · 25-10-2005 6:18pm

Tusky wrote:

I'll racism YOU.

Oh shut it, just go watch Romper Stomper again. Now there's a classic.

Playboy · 25-10-2005 6:37pm

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Because it's better then the wast majority of modern films made by hollywood?

No its not. It's overrated and its a joke that it made it into the top5.

Playboy · 25-10-2005 6:53pm

Imo the sight and sound list is much better and much more eclectic. Compare!

Sight and Sound Top25

1 Citizen Kane (1941)
2 Rules Of The Game (1939)
3 Tokyo Story (1953)
4 Vertigo (1958)
5 Searchers (1956) 17
6 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
7 L'Atalante (1934)
8 Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
9 Pather Panchali (1956)
10 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
11 Bicycle Thieves (1949)
12 Singin' In The Rain (1952)
13 8 1/2 (1963)
14 General (1927)
15 L'avventura (1960)
16 Sunrise (1927)
17 A bout de souffle (Breathless) (1959)
18 Andrei Rublev (1966)
19 City Lights (1931)
20 Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
21 Paisan (1946)
22 Pierrot le fou (1965)
23 Raging Bull (1980)
24 Seven Samurai (1954)
25 Ugetsu Monogatori (1953)

Total Film top25

1 Goodfellas
2 Vertigo
3 Jaws
4 Fight Club
5 The Godfather: Part II
6 Citizen Kane
7 Tokyo Story
8 The Empire Strikes Back
9 The Lord of the Rings trilogy
10 His Girl Friday
11 Persona
12 Chinatown
13 Manhattan
14 Taxi Driver
15 It’s A Wonderful Life
16 The Apartment
17 Once Upon A Time In The West
18 All About Eve
19 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
20 Apocalypse Now
21 Crash
22 Sunrise
23 The Godfather
24 Rear Window
25 Sunset Boulevard

johnny_ultimate · 25-10-2005 7:09pm

Hmm it's an odd list, but Im glad to see Fight Club near the top. It's just out there on it's own. It deserves this kinda recognition.
But i dont like the way Lord of the Rings keeps placing highly on these types of lists.. It was no 1 in the empire one a few months back...

garred · 25-10-2005 7:49pm

I hav'nt seen one of the films in that Sight and Sound top 25.

How is Fight Club out there on its own. The twist was done many times before and the end scene, well to be polite I'll use the word crap. However different strokes different folks and all that.

garred · 25-10-2005 7:51pm

missingtime wrote:

Was there racism in Cronenbergs Crash? I've seen the movie and I cant remember any racism.

Think he is talking about the newer version.

Royale with Cheese · 25-10-2005 8:03pm

Got to admit I'd never seen Fight Club until a couple of months ago. Don't ask me how but I'd managed to never see it since it came out. Obviously hearing all the hype when I eventually got round to seeing it I thought it was fairly rubbish. I was always told about a brilliant twist at the end... I saw a twist, but where was the brilliant bit? Ok the film isn't rubbish but it's not great. Fourth best film ever? I think not.

Karl Hungus · 25-10-2005 8:05pm

garred wrote:

Think he is talking about the newer version.

It's not a "Newer version" at all, it's a completely different film entirely.

garred · 25-10-2005 8:09pm

Sorry about that I meant the latest one. Won't happen again.

missingtime · 25-10-2005 8:21pm

Ok sorry lads I've managed to confuse the whole situation... my bad.

lodgepole · 25-10-2005 11:27pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

I imagine it to be the 2004 film. I can't imagine Cronenber's film would be in any top 100 list.

Mark Kermode rates it as one of his favourite films.

I loved Cronenberg's Crash, though I haven't seen it in a few years. The other Crash seems a bit recent to be included... I certainly didn't think it was that great.

Karl Hungus · 26-10-2005 6:44am

Lodgepole wrote:

Mark Kermode rates it as one of his favourite films.

I loved Cronenberg's Crash, though I haven't seen it in a few years. The other Crash seems a bit recent to be included... I certainly didn't think it was that great.

Right you are so, perhaps it's too much for me to say "Any top 100 list" but you can probably agree that it's not the most widely heralded film in recent years, and hardly Cronenberg's best offering either.

lodgepole · 26-10-2005 7:06am

Karl Hungus wrote:

Right you are so, perhaps it's too much for me to say "Any top 100 list" but you can probably agree that it's not the most widely heralded film in recent years, and hardly Cronenberg's best offering either.

Thats true... I was actually really surprised when I heard he rated it so highly. I love it, but not to that extreme.

Oblomov · 26-10-2005 7:47am

For a more realistic top 250 films as voted by IMDB movie goers.

http://uk.imdb.com/chart/top

ObeyGiant · 26-10-2005 8:59am

Playboy wrote:

Imo the sight and sound list is much better and much more eclectic. Compare!

Not one movie after 1980? There's 'eclectic' and there's 'short sighted'.

Playboy · 26-10-2005 1:14pm

ObeyGiant wrote:

Not one movie after 1980? There's 'eclectic' and there's 'short sighted'.

There is a reason for that. Sight and sound compile their list every 10 years and have been doing so since 1952. The 25 movies I posted were the movies which got most votes since 1952. Modern movies are going to be at a disadvantage becuase of this. But my statement about it being a more eclectic list is true. Just have a look at all the different film cultures represented in comparison to the americanized list from total film. And in all reality there isnt many films made after 1980 that would or should push any of those films out of the top25.

Anto and Moe · 29-10-2005 9:13pm

I wanna see more:
Fight Club
Fear and Loathing In Las Vages
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Donney Darko
and
Interview With a Vampire
's
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maquiladora · 01-11-2005 7:53pm

missingtime wrote:

4 Fight Club
...
6 Citizen Kane

No comment...

bagdaddy · 03-11-2005 8:55pm

WTF?? I'm completely ignoring this list because of Fight Club being placed in it. A great film but to be in the top 10 or even top 25 is just a complete joke.

Running Bing · 05-11-2005 6:23pm

Wow that total film list is crazy. Ive never seen such a mixed up top 20 ever.How can you have gf2 at no.5 and GF at no.23? With regards to that sight and sound one I never really got that searchers thing. Im a big western fan(more so spagetthi) but why do so many people regard this so highly? I just saw the bicycle thief yesterday(no. 11 in sight and sound) and I must say it is definately one of the best films Ive ever seen. Highly recommend it to anybody.

Total Film - Top 100 Films of All Time

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