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  1. IMDb's 1930s Top 50's icon

    IMDb's 1930s Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 127:6. The 1930s decade has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few). It was the era in which the silent period ended, with many silent film stars not making the transition to sound. It was in the 30s that Disney produced the first feature-length animated film, an animation hallmark.
  2. BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films's icon

    BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films

    Favs/dislikes: 126:2. For our poll to determine the 100 greatest American films, we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses from 177 – from every continent except Antarctica. Some are newspaper or magazine reviewers, others write primarily for websites; academics and cinema curators are well-represented too. For the purposes of this poll we have decided that a list of the greatest films of the 21st Century should include the year 2000, even though we recognise that there was no ‘Year Zero’ and that 2001 is mathematically the start of the century. Not only did we all celebrate the turn of the millennium on 31 December 1999, but the year 2000 was a landmark in global cinema, and, in particular, saw the emergence of new classics from Asia like nothing we had ever seen before. [url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films]Source[/url]
  3. IMDb's 1950s Top 50's icon

    IMDb's 1950s Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 126:5. In the period following WWII when most of the films were idealized with conventional portrayals of men and women, young people wanted new and exciting symbols of rebellion. Hollywood responded to audience demands through the rise of the anti-hero and anti-heroines, with Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe being the main stars. Studios tried to counter the rise of television through all sorts of (mostly failed) inventions like 3-D, Smell-O-Vision, and cinerama. Risks were taken with lavish, overstated, spectacular epics and musicals.
  4. AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions's icon

    AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions

    Favs/dislikes: 125:4. Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that are considered the most passionate. [url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/passions.aspx]Source[/url]
  5. Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time's icon

    Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time

    Favs/dislikes: 124:0. In 2014, Sight & Sound polled 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers asking for top 10 documentary lists. Over 1000 films got votes, from years as early as 1892 to as recent as 2013. This list is the combined critics and filmmakers list of all films that received 3 or more votes. You can find the films receiving just one or two votes: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/sight+and+sound+-the+greatest+documentaries+of+all+time+1+and+2+votes/peacefulanarchy/]here[/url] [url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs]Source[/url]
  6. BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project's icon

    BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project

    Favs/dislikes: 122:0. Deciding that Londoners should have the opportunity to view a film masterpiece approximately every day during the course of the year, BFI film archivist David Meeker approached the board of directors at the BFI in 1982 with his idea of compiling a list of 360 of the world’s cinema masterpieces, collect brand new, state-of-the-art prints of each film and issue a companion book for each movie. This list of films, referred to as the 360 Classic Feature Films project, was published in Sight and Sound's June 1998 issue.
  7. IMDb's 1920s Top 50's icon

    IMDb's 1920s Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 122:5. The 1920s were an innovative decade in which both "talkies" and color films made their first appearance. Film became so popular that the first real stars arose in the persons of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. A lot of European stars were imported during the 20s, such as Fritz Lang and Greta Garbo. That was not all Europe had to offer as German Expressionism became an influential artistic movement. The most popular genres were swashbucklers, historical extravaganzas and melodramas. The greatest output of films was actually in the 1920s and 1930s, which was made possible by the studios' factory-like production system.
  8. Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics's icon

    Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics

    Favs/dislikes: 121:5. This list has been compiled by aggregating the movies in three different lists: [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2007-08)]The Deuce Top 20 (2007-08)[/url], [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2008-09)]The Deuce Top 20 (2008-09)[/url] and [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Quentin_Tarantino%27s_Top_20_Grindhouse_Classics]Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Grindhouse Classics[/url]. The movies in this list all belong to classic international exploitatation/cult cinema movies.
  9. BAFTA Award - Best Film's icon

    BAFTA Award - Best Film

    Favs/dislikes: 120:1. The Best Film as chosen by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts charity. [url=http://www.imdb.com/awards-central/baftas/]Source[/url]
  10. BFI's 100 European Horror Films's icon

    BFI's 100 European Horror Films

    Favs/dislikes: 119:2. Part of the BFI Screen Gudes series, this book provides thoughtful analysis on one hundred European horror films from the silent era to the present day. This list is for those using the BFI publication as a viewing guide. [url=https://shop.bfi.org.uk/100-european-horror-films-book.html#.XoeVvogzY2w]Source[/url]
  11. Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Non-Fiction Films's icon

    Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Non-Fiction Films

    Favs/dislikes: 119:0. This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+narrative+films+2012/]Narrative Films[/url] [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+hollywood+genres+2012/mjf314/]Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era)[/url] II. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+non-fiction+films+2012/]Non-Fiction Films[/url] III. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+animated+films+2012/mjf314/]Animated Films[/url] IV. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+experimentalslashavant-gardeslashunderground+films+2012/mjf314/]Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films[/url] V. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+single-channel+video+2012/mjf314/]Single-channel Video[/url] [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416235509/https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/files/ves/files/fvs_suggested_viewing_2012.pdf]Source[/url]
  12. François Truffaut's The Films in My Life's icon

    François Truffaut's The Films in My Life

    Favs/dislikes: 117:1. "The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel." [url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Films-Life-Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut/dp/0306805995]Source[/url]
  13. AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers's icon

    AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers

    Favs/dislikes: 115:10. Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future. [url=http://www.afi.com/100years/cheers.aspx]Source[/url]
  14. BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films's icon

    BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films

    Favs/dislikes: 114:2. "Since its explosion in the 1950s, science fiction has become one of the most popular film genres, with numerous dedicated fan conventions, academic conferences, websites, magazines, journals, book clubs, memorabilia and collectibles. Once relegated to B budget status, today's science fiction films are often blockbuster productions, featuring major stars. Despite its high profile, science fiction is notoriously difficult to define. In his introduction to 100 Science Fiction Films, Barry Keith Grant explains the genre's complexities, while also providing an overview of its history, suggesting that the cinema is an ideal medium for conveying the 'sense of wonder' that critics have argued is central to the genre. From Georges Melies's Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), to the blockbusters of the 1970s that dramatically changed Hollywood, to the major releases of the past few years, the films featured in this book represent a range of periods, countries and types (including alien invasion, space travel, time travel, apocalypse, monsters and anime), and cover the key directors and writers. 100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the reader on a comprehensive tour through the rich and varied alternate universe of sci-fi cinema." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/100-science-fiction-films-book.html#.Wg3hHmhSzIU]Source[/url]
  15. Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize's icon

    Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize

    Favs/dislikes: 113:2. The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. Held in January, the festival is the premier showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature-length films and short films, and a group of non-competitive showcase sections. [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000631/]Source[/url]
  16. Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films's icon

    Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films

    Favs/dislikes: 112:1. In the year of cinematography’s centennial anniversary 1995, the Deutscher Kinematheksverbund conducted a survey in search of the 100 German films that were considered the most important. In the first poll 324 film historians, film journalists, film makers and movie owners decided about places 1 to 75, a second poll with 228 votes determinded the places 76 to 100. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928035219/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf]Source[/url]
  17. Total Film's 50 Amazing Films You've Probably Never Seen's icon

    Total Film's 50 Amazing Films You've Probably Never Seen

    Favs/dislikes: 112:3. [url]http://www.gamesradar.com/50-amazing-films-youve-probably-never-seen/[/url]
  18. TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films's icon

    TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films

    Favs/dislikes: 111:9. TSPDT has built a list of 1000 Noir films to expand on its previous 250 Quintessential Noirs. Following the [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tspdt+100+essential+noir+films/]initial collection of 100 noirs[/url], a further 900 noir films (or films with prominent noir elements) have been added (in a fairly random manner). This list contains the full 1000 films which are the 1,000 most cited noir films (according to TSPDT's research). Please note that this list has not been and will not be ranked. [url=http://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm]Source[/url]
  19. Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons's icon

    Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons

    Favs/dislikes: 110:12. The 50 greatest cartoons of all time, from a poll of 1,000 animation professionals conducted by author/film historian Jerry Beck for the 1994 book "The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals". [url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/50-Greatest-Cartoons-Animation-Professionals/dp/187868549X]Source[/url]
  20. Paul Rotha's Silent but Not Forgotten's icon

    Paul Rotha's Silent but Not Forgotten

    Favs/dislikes: 108:1. From a poll of 63 critics and film experts conducted in the 1970s by film critic and director Paul Rotha, each asked for a list of their 30 top silent films. This makes for a list of the Top 338 Silent Films. Ties are sorted by imdb original title. Several movies are considered lost: Thérèse Raquin Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines The Last Moment 4 Devils
  21. Paste's The 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time's icon

    Paste's The 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time

    Favs/dislikes: 107:2. Establishing the best anime movies can be tricky. After all, despite now being one of the most ubiquitous cultural properties of the 21st century, anime, thanks to over a century’s worth of the medium’s evolution and reinvention, is especially difficult to define. From the five-minute shorts of Oten Shimokawa in 1917, to the feature-length animations produced during World War II, to the pioneering production cycles of Tezuka in the ’60s and the auteurist innovations of the likes of Miyazaki and many others towards the latter half of the last century, anime has morphed through countless phases. Amateur efforts, nationalist propaganda fodder, niche cultural export turned eventual global phenomenon: Each iteration conforms to the shape of the times in which it was produced. Television expanded the medium during the 1960s, birthing many of the essential genres and subgenres that we know today and forming the impetus for the anime industry’s inextricable relationship to advertising and merchandising from the 1970s onward. The arrival of home video catapulted anime to its commercial and aesthetic apex, fanning outward from island nation of Nippon to the far shores of North America and back, before again being revolutionized by the unprecedented accessibility of the world wide web throughout the ’90s and early aughts. Anime film owes much to the evolving means of production and distribution throughout the late 20th century, the breadth and audacity of the medium’s content widening and contracting along with its running time to cater to the emerging palettes of audiences both new and old, at home and abroad. But where does one begin to tackle the aesthetic and historical precedent that anime film has left on pop culture and global entertainment in the last century? This list is an attempt to do just that: to create a primer of 100 of the most influential and essential films that Japanese animation has produced, and to offer a thorough aesthetic, technical and historical breakdown of why these film matter. With that aim in mind, Paste is proud to enlist the curatorial talents of Jason DeMarco, on-air creative director of Adult Swim and co-creator of Toonami, whose unique role in anime’s emerging popularity in the West has helped to hone this list. Given the shared evolution between anime film and television and the aforementioned significance of the home video revolution, this list includes not only traditional features but also original video animations made for home video (OVAs) and anthology films— with the stipulation of each entry having at some point premiered in theaters. It is our hope that in creating this list we have created an entry point for both the expert and the layperson to trace the rich history of anime’s legacy on both film and popular culture, and to offer newcomers a comprehensive guide through to learn, rediscover, and explore the fullness that the genre of Japanese animation has to offer now and into the future. Originally published in January 2017. Last updated October 23, 2023. [url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-anime-movies/the-100-best-anime-movies-of-all-time]Source[/url]
  22. IMDb's Music Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Music Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 105:7. Music films contain music performances by the cast, but necessarily not with a focus on a full-scale scores or song and dance routines (for which the musical genre exists). A music film may even be a concert recording.
  23. TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500's icon

    TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500

    Favs/dislikes: 104:1. Since the 2015 TSPDT has released a companion to their greatest 1000 films, consisting of the films ranked 1001-2500. This list contains the most recent version of this list, with all the previous lists in the history. [url=https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_startinglist_table.php]Source[/url]
  24. Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion's icon

    Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion

    Favs/dislikes: 104:2. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded 1932, the festival has since taken place every year in Venice, Italy. It is part of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art. The festival's Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) prize is awarded to the best film screened at the festival. [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/]Source[/url]
  25. Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix's icon

    Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix

    Favs/dislikes: 101:0. The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_(Cannes_Film_Festival)]Source[/url]
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