Here's a quick list of where to watch on Various Streaming Services 30- Bladerunner directors cut (rent or buy) 29- Chinatown (paramount+) 28 - Do the right thing (Rent) 27 - Lawrence of Arabia (Prime) 26 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 qui du commerce, 1080 bruxelles (MAX) 25 - The dark knight (MAX) 24 - Jaws (Netflix) 23 - Dr Strangelove (Prime) 22 - In the mood for love (MAX) 21 - Star Wars (Disney+) 20 - Persona (MAX) 19 - Tokyo Story (MAX) 18 - Taxi Driver(Prime) 17 - City Lights (MAX) 16 - Schindlers List (Rent) 15 - The Shawshabk Redemption (Hulu) 14 - The godfather 2 (Paramount+) 13 - Some like it hot (Hulu) 12 It's a wonderful life (Prime) 11- Casablanca (MAX) 10 - Apocalypse now (Rent) 9- Pulp Fiction (Paramount+ and Prime) 8- Singing in the rain (Max) 7 - Virtigo (Prime own) 6 - 2001: Space odyssey (MAX) 5- Seven Samuri (MAX) 4 - Psycho (Prime) 3- Goodfellas (Rent) 2- Citizen Kane (Rent) 1 - The Godfather (Paramount+)
Great list. Thanks for posting it. FYI, 5. should be Seven Samurai, (not Samuri) and 7. should be Vertigo, (not Virtigo). 15 should be "Shawshank Redemption".
Ridley Scott considers "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" - to be the definitive version, not the "Director's Cut". But if you ask me, I recommend seeing ALL of the different cuts, including the original theatrical release. Following the evolution of the different versions is fascinating in and of itself. My favorite film. Glad to see it made your list.
When people talk abt the greatest directors of all time Louis C.K. gets overlooked everytime bc of his small body of work. However, if he never directed another movie after Pootie Tang he'd still be in the top 3 of all time with Roger Corman and Ed Wood.
To everyone getting angry that their favorites are not on the list, he explains in detail how he came up with it. It is a unique way of compiling a greatest films list. Your films are on other lists....they just didn't meet the cross-referencing criteria. I think he did a great job.
Agreed. However, the lists used are flawed as they only take into account western taste and the more famous eastern movies like Kurosawa hence the heavy repetition. The list also missed any Jean-Luc Goddard.
I wouldn't call that a detailed explanation. I'm curious as to how he weighted each movie and why he chose these specific lists to draw from over other lists.
Actually, "Jaws" did not mark the beginning of Spielberg and John Williams' partnership. They first worked together on "Sugarland Express", released just the year before.
Would anyone like to guess what my top 10 favorite films are? Don't be shy, and yes I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you. And you will never guess my top 10 musicians and bands. And you will never guess my top 10 books because I have never read 10 books in my life. I started Ulysses by James Joyce and can't finish it out of boredom and looking up the meaning.
@@matteg490 Good for you. Joyce was diagnosed a schizophrenic by Carl Jung (who later helped diagnose and treat Joyce's daughter Lucia). Dumb people are easily impressed by his published mental health crises.
How many people skipped through the beginning where he said that he did not personally curate this list? Its compiled from a few different perspectives' best films list, audience and critic scores combined. People acting so personally offended really should calm down a bit. This is a great list!
@@Laceykat66 lolwut? It wasn't that early. The Searchers, High Noon, and The Big Country I'd probably peg as the best 3 and they were all earlier, and already playing with genre conventions. Johnny Guitar was earlier and absolutely wild. Stagecoach was much earlier and probably better (haven't seen it in ages). Even Hawks' own, much earlier movie Red River was more interesting than Rio Bravo. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is the only big classic Western I can think of after Rio Bravo.
I’ve now read that he followed the American edition which omitted chapter 21 as well. So, there are two versions now: bad characters never change and even bad characters always have the opportunity to better themselves.
Certainly a difficult undertaking, but it sort of feels like there are some kind of insane omissions here. For example, how did NONE of the three movies that have won 11 Oscars not make it? My pick would be LotR, but I'd take any of them on a list of the thirty greatest films. Alien? The Exorcist? The Wizard of Oz? These movies (and many others that could have made the list over some that did) changed cinema.
That is the nature of any of these lists. People aren't going to agree. Personally, I put Alien and Wizard of Oz on any list. Alien was so incredibly influential, whereas Blade Runner was a fascinating failure. This is a best all time list? How about Annie Hall or Manhattan? Are these off the table due to cancel culture? How about a western? No "The Searchers?" or "Unforgiven". No "On the Waterfront?" Where is "There Will Be Blood"? Personally, I put "Fog of War" on any list, or at least have some representation of the Documentary genre. Internationally you could have a lot of films: Breathless, Wages of Fear, Rules of the Game, La Dolce Vita, Bicycle Thieves........ could go on for days. All you hope for in any list like this, is that it inspires some people to check out films they might otherwise not have seen, and perhaps from there they'll develop an interest in a wider range of films.
I know this will make no one's list, but I always loved the Westerns from the early 70s. Little Big Man. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Jeremiah Johnson. I don't know where they would be ranked in terms of technique, but when it comes to storytelling, they turn the John Ford, John Wayne Westerns on their head by not romanticizing the Wild West, but rather, humanizing people who were never humanized before. Characters once portrayed as caricatures are more fleshed out. No one is completely noble or completely evil. I just felt those films reflect a change in cinematic storytelling, where they myths the movies created over decades were shattered, where voices were given to those who never had them before, and where the heroes are deeply flawed.
That was already done years before by the Sergio Leone movies. BCATSK is romanticized more than those and a few other Eastwood movies. Little Big Man is a comedy set in the west.
I agree with you but 30 is a low number for over a century of cinematic history. Only ONE silent film made the list? Ridiculous, but 30 is a small number.
#26 is unbearably dull. I’ve watched plenty of 3 hr movies and this one had me banging my head trying to stay awake. I appreciate that menial tasks are dull, but i enjoy doing these tasks way more than watching this movie.
It's not only dull...to suggest that it belongs amongst the 30 greatest movies OF ALL TIME, is quite the amusement. I love how its merits to be on the list are political, NOT because of great film making. How politically progressive a movie is for its time decides nowadays apparently if it's good or not. Amazing
Exactly what is wrong with this list... that movie is on the list, because two of the lists have this movie in their top 5, and one of them has it at #1! Both of the lists that have it top 5 are essentially represented by the same population with the same principles for grading movies. Look at other movies these lists didn't even have in their top 50 or top 100, but are clearly all-time greats.
I have seen exactly half of these and most of them are still on my list of movies I need to watch. I would argue that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy needs to be on this list. All three were filmed entirely over 438 days, green lit before the first one even hit theaters with a somewhat unknown director, outside of his previous genres, and mostly unknown actors at the time. Something like this would never happened today, and possibly never again. The massive budget, beautiful location filming, practical special effects only supplemented with CGI, set design, costume design, film score, casting, etc... they truly are masterpieces.
Yes, I think I agree with you: although I would include them as one entry rather than individual films. I think there’s a bit of film snobbery about films like those because they are blockbusters and incredibly mainstream, but that shouldn’t diminish the technical accomplishment of them.
@@TheMediaInsider oh %100. they were filmed as one, there should count as one LOL. I enjoy the occasional blockbuster and Star Wars and Jaws made this list. I don't think they should be held to any lesser regard to these movies.
I 100% agree. It truly is one of the greatest films projects ever produced, and the fact it even got made with the largest budget of all-time (at that time) with no studio oversight whatsoever, and became such a monumental achievement commercially, culturally and critically is remarkable. Unfortunately, we will probably never see anything like it ever happen again. But I'd rather have it happen once than never to have happened at all.
I just don't agree. You could make those movies today because Hollywood has been making them for over 100 years. Big ensemble casts with gigantic set pieces have ALWAYS been a thing and doable, "Intolerance" much? The set was on Hollywood and Sunset for 6 years AFTER the movie came out before it finally got demolished. Perhaps Stanley Kramer had to get into a pact with the devil to make "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"? James Cameron could have built 4 full sized replicas of the Titanic (yes adjusted for inflation) with the budget for the movie, "Titanic" and had money left over to hire the cast. Many of the actors were VERY well known already from being in the industry for decades. Viggo was a Hollywood gad fly for 20+ years and was married to X singer, Exene Cervenka, Sean Astin (apart from being a legacy/nepo baby) was in a slew of films throughout the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, Cate Blanchett had already been nominated for her role in "Elizabeth," Hugo Weaving was HOT for "The Matrix," Elijah Wood... don't even pretend, Peter Jackson was a proven and reliable director known for being economical, hands on, and was just coming off an Oscar nod his first time out doing a serious movie. "Lord of the Rings" was a phenomenon, just like MANY movies that came before ("The Matrix" 2 years earlier) and the countless that have yet to be made.
@@satsubatsu347 Yes, the money can be spent, the workers in front of and behind the camera assembled, the lot edited into a releasable form and then put into cinemas. What now comes out is not true to any reasonable source, however. All are warped to a false vision of humanity, at least among the blockbuster pop category, whether for horror, comedy, epic fantasy or superhero. LOTR was written from what is now almost an obsolete point of view in that it is resolutely pre-modern and does not partake at all of Enlightenment tropes, even in adaptation, which is the element which most astounds commentators. I might note that a good number of the films on this list also show the world view I attribute to LOTR, even Pulp Fiction in its weird way. Until the industry stops trying to redefine humanity, what we see on this list and in films like LOTR won't be made. But I would suggest such films are being made, but as yet I have not seen one to equal any of these titans of the art. My own regret is there is no film from Buster Keaton or DW Griffith, as others have noted. Perhaps critics lean too dependently on a small set of directors.
I guess this guy prefers The Dark Knight to those great films. If he was going to do sci-fi action, at least do Terminator 2 or Aliens or Predator. The Dark Knight isn't even the best Batman movie.
I agree with all three but 30 is a small number. Also, this is a list of several other lists and those styles of movies are not as resected as the bulk of the films here. I would have included Steel Magnolias for a number of reasons.
Last words: 2001 might be the greatest endeavor ever. Basically silent. Chaplin’s “Times” could be another one. We love this craft. Best film ever made? We have no idea. Francis’ “Outsiders” ripped me apart. The original “Insomnia” blew my mind. As a musical, “The Sound and of Music” is the best thing I’ve ever seen. So, that’s it. No perfect answer to this multi-million film industry. Thanks for this magnificent show!
Almost irrelevant to comment, but 'Cabaret', 'Three Colours: Red', and 'Alien' should surely be on somebody's list, as well as my own. Nice to have spent time watching your video, though.
Thank you very much! Yes, alien seems to be coming up in the comments a lot as a film that most definitely should be in the top 30, and would likely be in my personal top 10
It's worth mentioning that colorizing films like "It's A Wonderful Life" is a travesty. Also, though everyone has their own taste, it's borderline insane Metropolis isn't here. The Wizard of Oz isn't here. Kubrick is barely represented. And "Goodfellas", which is very good, is #3 while "Lawrence of Arabia is low. Other must see classics: "Easy Rider", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Network", "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", "The French Connection", "Grand Prix", "The Searchers", ""The Right Stuff", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Alien", "12 Angry Men" and pretty much Kubrick's entire catalog.
No list can be complete, particularly when you limit it to 30. I agree with all of your additions, particularly Grand Prix which is so often missed by so-called film critics and historians. I also agree that colonizing is a travesty however in today's modern world it is often the only way a "younger generation" can be introduced to these classics. A necessary evil.
@@Laceykat66 don't budge. If the younger generation cannot stomach b&w movies - their loss! It's almost as bad as autotuning classic pop music. It is sinful, abhorrent, shameful.
How can you say that Kubrick is underrepresented, when he has two films on this list and Kurosawa, in my opinion (and Coppola's and Spielberg's and Scorsese's and probably even Kubrick's) the greatest director who ever lived, is represented by just one? Where is Rashomon, Ikiru, the criminally underrated The Lower Depths, Yojimbo, High and Low, Ran? Non-English-language films in general are much too rare on this list. I know the video maker's hands were tied because of the pre-existing lists he had to use, but there's an irony to this somehow.
Colorizing is better than dull black and white. Are you colourblind or something? You can turn down the colour if you don't like it. Turn the the volume if your hearing is like your eyesight. I bet there's a hundred films better than all of the ones you proposed. There's nothing good about films that were amazing 70 years ago. We live in 2024 not 1954
I guess the two blockbuster color films of 1939 that I grew up from the 1950 through the 1970s as the greatest ever films ever made have finally become passé that they aren’t even on the list? I don’t need to name them.
Matrix, Grave of the Fireflies, Akira, Naussica Valley of the Wind, Conan the Barbarian, The Professional, Team America, Aliens, Terminator, Princess Bride, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 1917, Back to the Future, Young Frankenstein, The Thing, Predator, Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Flies (1963), Come and See, Europa Europa, Mad Max, Braveheart, Heat, Karate Kid, Dances with Wolves, Top Gun, Last Samurai, Ghostbusters, Trading Places, Coming to America, Kickboxer, Enter the Dragon, Caddyshack, Animal House, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Drunken Master,
@@Technique-kj2bp well I can’t fault you for giving it a chance. But the soundtrack alone is one of the best of all time. Thought you may have watched one of the sequels which were not so good. 😆 as for Kubrick, you can’t go wrong with any of his films. 👍
I have seen all of these films. Some of them multiple times. I own copies of at least half of them, probably more. But such lists, whilst being excellent for introducing students and new film enthusiasts to a broad spectrum of classic cinema, cannot account for personal tastes. I think this is important, because we are allowed to say some films are overrated or perennially misunderstood, without being tossed out of the, “club,” so to speak. Personal taste must be allowed and respected in film appreciation. It is in the differences in our tastes that the most interesting discussions occur. And it is in this dialectic cauldron that new and exciting things can be stimulated, producing original ideas that develop the art form.
The website "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" is my go-to for movie rankings cause it combines an insane number of lists into one master list. No movie buff or cinephile should deprive themselves of this great resource!
Oh c'mon, everyone knows the best Christmas movie is Die Hard. On a serious note, Robbins was just as good in The Player, and I find the lack of any Altman, Fellini, Truffaut, or Satyajit Ray disheartening.
If you love film, then Cinema Paradiso should be in the list. The Odyssey Cinema in St. Albans shows classic films, and has Cinema Paradiso on Thursday 22nd august. I am going by myself, just so I can be like the end of the film.
Great list. Impossible to declare or include all of the Masterpieces of Film Making within a 30 count. What a wonderful time to be alive. There are so many we could include: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
I'm doing my own film challenge this year. Watching a National Film Registry inductee every week. It started with Home Alone and continued through such films as The Best Years of Our Lives, The Apartment, Unforgiven, the original Star Wars trilogy, the Golden Age of the Disney Animated Canon amongst others. In later weeks I will be watching some Hitchcock and films like Dirty Harry, Hoosiers and Groundhog Day
Try to sneak in a couple of non-American films once in a while. The American film industry is the greatest but other cultures can make bangers as well and they are often a bit different.
The Best Years of Our Lives! Wow. I really watched that the first by accident about 30 years ago thinking it was another movie. But it blew me away. I had no idea the kind of depth on the aftermath of WW2 was represented in film back then. It’s one of my all time favorite films.
Greatest films? Geez, that's pretty damned subjective! Rather than greatest, I usually go with personal favorite lists, like this: 1. Wizard of Oz 2. Grapes of Wrath 3. The Third Man 4. The Searchers 5. Casablanca 6. The Crowd 7. City Lights 8. The Ox-Bow Incident 9. Apocalypse Now 10. Lawrence Of Arabia 11. Treasure Of The Sierra Madre 12. Last Picture Show 13. Goodfellas 14. The Conformist 15. No Country For Old Men 16. Singin’ In The Rain 17. The Seventh Seal 18. Wild Strawberries 19. Psycho 20. Strangers on a Train 21. North By Northwest 22. Stagecoach 23. The Wild Bunch 24. Twelve Angry Men 25. Palm Beach Story 26. A Street Car Named Desire 27. The Apartment 28. Taxi Driver 29. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 30. The Pianist Runner-Ups: Annie Hall Open City Bicycle Thief I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang Best Years Of Our Lives Cabaret Chinatown Mon Oncle M. Hulot's Holiday Airplane! Young Frankenstein Black Narcissus Metropolis Alien The Usual Suspects Pulp Fiction Koyaanisqatsi Baraka Best Years Of Our Lives The Big Sleep
Shawshank Redemption is definitely one of the greatest films of all time. Loved it ever since I was a kid, when my mom would have it on tv whenever she did house chores. Now as an adult, it is a go-to when I do work around the house. The last time I watched it was when i recently assembled my 4th DVD shelf. I've probably seen it 50 times. Great list!
That is one of the greats. I tell you why length. It never gets air play once maybe twice a year it gets shown. Great Great movie the best Western ever shot. But this list ignored the whole of westerns
Dark Knight in the 30 greatest films, ever? Where's The Searchers? The Conversation? The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly? The Shining? Alien? Snow White (1937)? A Streetcar Named Desire? Frankenstein? I think anyone of those films belong ahead of Dark Knight. I don't think it's even Nolan's best film. Just my opinion, of course.
Reportedly, before Orson Wells died filmmaker Henry Jaglom quoted the director of Citizen Kane as telling him not to “let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.” I think “It’s a Wonderful Life” deserves similar courtesy.
I deeply appreciate you including Tokyo Story, one of my favorite films which I discovered by accident. What do you think about Kurosawa's very early film 'Stray Dog'? It shares many of the same elements of Japanese ability to embrace an entirely new and truly alien culture into its own ancient world, holding the one in a kind of sacred embrace while taking the other as the lower status. I found Mifune's performance especially good here, far more nuanced than any of his others, perhaps because it was also one of his first.
Thank you! I feel lucky that I’ve seen 25 of these on your list. But I feel even luckier that there are five films that I have not seen, that I get to treat myself to! 👍🏽
12 Angry Men (1957), Alien (1979), Fargo (1996), The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966), Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975) The Princess Bride (1987) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Rashomon (1950) Saving Private Ryan (1998) The Shining (1980) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
I've never understood the complaint about the lack of women in Lawrence of Arabia and I'm a woman. Even now, in more conservative parts of the "Arab" world, it's a man's world out there and they were also literally in a war. I'd rather take realism over a "strong female lead".
Singing in the Rain is SUCH a sleeper! I stayed away from it for so long just because I thought it was going to be a boring "fall asleep watching it on your couch on Sunday" kind of move, but it was actually REALLY good. Make sure you put this on your short list of movies to see soon!!
No room for a Sergio Leone film? "Once Upon a Time in the West", " The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ", " Once Upon a Time in America " are epic masterpieces! At least one of them, and there are more than three movies on the list that these movies could replace. "A Clockwork Orange" is a "no-brainer", but I understand the problem. We Are talking about the " Thirty greatest films ", and as such it comes down to taste, and I suppose that the author gets the spoils of his/her labor. Cheers Sir, you did an exemplary job!
Everyone complaining that their fav movie didn't make the list must seriously lack comprehension skills. This list is an aggregate of a NUMBER of lists - if your movie didn't' make it into the top 30 then its because it didn't qualify after all the lists had been gathered and cross referenced. He CLEARLY states this in the beginning of the video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together and provide context for each film - I'm sure it will be very helpful to people new to cinema especially.
Night Of The Living Dead should be on the list as it was a game changer in all genres of film, not just Horror because this film, along with In Cold Blood, caused the MPAA ratings system, freeing the hands of the filmmakers. Rocky was another game changer, bringing back the underdog story as well as the uplifting ending. In an art form that was pretty nihilistic.
Personal recommendations: Agree with most here - AT LEAST one animation Russian film? Battleship Potemkin Abbas Kiarostami Butch Cassidy Coen Brothers - no Some LIke Hot Woody Allen A documentary Where is Italian film? Fellini? I am very confused on how the Jeanne Dielman film has moved into so many group's top 5 of all time so suddenly.
The fact that there are no animated films on this list is a real let down. If this list is truly supposed to show the innovation of filmmaking then I would have expected to see at least one animated piece. Animation is one of the most rigorous and captivating forms of storytelling, and yet also one of the most overlooked.
List in order: 1. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola 2. Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles 3. Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese 4. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock 5. Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick 7. Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock 8. Singin' in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen 9. Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino 10. Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola 11. Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz 12. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra 13. Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder 14. The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola 15. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont 16. Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg 17. City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin 18. Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese 19. Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirô Ozu 20. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman 21. Star Wars (1977) George Lucas 22. In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-wai 23. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick 24. JAWS (1975) Steven Spielberg 25. The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan 26. Jean Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Chantal Akerman 27. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean 28. Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee 29. Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski 30. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
1977's Slap Shot starring Paul Newman would have made my #1, and I have seen 17 of the films on this list. Slap Shot was dismissed as vulgar when it came out, but it has stood the test of time as an excellent example of 1970's North American culture, attitudes, fashion, and music. I'm not sure there is a film with more quotable one-liners? My opinion, thanks.
Thanks for the tip: I’ve not seen that one so I’ll definitely add it to my watchlist! Love Newman in Butch Cassidy, which would be in my personal top 10
I love Slap Shot, but, dude, c'mon! LOL. Here, I'll send you through the roof and tell you that Slap Shot isn't even the best Hockey movie out there...that would be Goon.
@@unprofound Respectfully, I've seen both GOON films, and they are a 4 to Slap Shot's 10. My second favorite hockey film is YOUNGBLOOD staring a really young Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.
This list holds tremendous value. Everyone should write down all the titles' names on paper, making brief notes about each, and carry these sheets with you for those times you are caught in the toilet without any dunny paper. Just do this with all "best of" lists, actually.
Well, I have 13 all time FAVORITE films (I don't like to say "best" It's all a matter of taste, but it does make for lively discussion) and amazingly two are on this list----Vertigo and Goodfellas. For any of you who might be curious, and I know there are precious few, here are the others that are mu favorites. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, Either Renoir's The Rules of the Game or his The River (I go back and forth). The Flowers of St. Francis, I Walked with a Zombie, Kiss Me Deadly, The Searchers, Touch of Evil, Demy's Lola, Shoot the Piano Player and Contempt
I understand your methodology. my personal list has Night of the Hunter (1955), Ran (1985), the Conversation (1974), the Deerhunter (1978), Gandhi (1982) Prospero's Books (1991) but NOT goodfellas, Godfather (1 or 2), It's a wonderful life. Maybe not even Pulp Fiction, but definitely lower on the list if I have to cater to Tarantino fans...
Toy Story over The Lion King? Still one of the most beautiful, well acted, and most incredibly scored films of all time. Toy Story, however, looks like '90's CGI. It's well performed, and well written, and incredibly groundbreaking, but it really doesn't hold up at all visually. But, yeah, animation still gets little to no respect from your average cinephile.
Wayyyy to many film greats excluded from this list. This list should really be around 100 to satisfy most movie buffs. Time to craft a part 2 and part 3 in this series.
I was about to be appalled by your use of the colorized ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ when I was reminded of the gag in Christopher Guest’s ‘The Big Picture.’
Quite a heavy lift to bring together all this data, and some pretty interesting results. Well done! I suspect almost everyone will have one or two others they think should have been on here, but this does a great job of being a Film Buff 101 required viewing list.
Ok, I am not telling you what movies had to be in that list instead of X or Y, because it is not even your list but just a collection of best lists as you mentioned not just once.😊 From these 30 movies (I probably would had done a top-50 list) I only haven’t seen 5 of them and only of one of them I never heard of (Jeanne Dielman). I always wanted to watch Persona and Schindler's List as well as Tokyo Story. Only to Do The Right Thing I fail to connect. Maybe someday …
They are all worth watching, although I will admit that Deilman is quite love it or hate it. I’ve never met someone who wasn’t blown away by Schindler‘s list. Enjoy!
Media Insider. The method you came up with to perform this Herculean labor was inspired. There was only one film on the list I hadn't seen #22 In the mood for Love, Wong Kai Wai. I didn't expect my own favorite film of all time to appear on ANY list because it's a strange concoction of my personal interests. German Language and Culture, Classical music, Surrealism and Film. It's Hans Jurgen Syberberg's Hitler, ein Film Aus Deutschland. I'd be surprised if it made that master list of yours at all. I was asked in the early 2000s by a fellow film buff to make a top 100 list. I made a general list of my favs which came to around 2000 films. Then whittled it down to a working list of 600. and finally the arbitrary and painful task of honing that down to 100. But the final list could have looked different for so many reasons. I basically did one film from each of my fav directors. This was great fun for me. Thanks for doing the calculations and your elucidating commentary. Is there somewhere one might see the complet list? I'm subscribed and looking forward to more of your content. All the best Jacques Mexico Retired
@@SAMTYLER1974 Hi Sam, I'm of a 1952 vintage myself and ignorant of technology but let's see what we can get done here. I will have to dig up the list. Until then I'm going to 'wing it" Hitchcock's Vertigo was on the final list, but it could just as easily been a dozen other films (Lady Vanishes, Psycho, Rebecca, etc) Bergman's Cries and Whispers (but his 1960 Devil's Eye is hilarious, as biographers tell us Ingmar himself was) . Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, my dark fav, The Duchess & Dirtwater Fox, hilarious, relentless, 1976, Melvin Frank. Cabiria, 1914, GiovanniPastrone. Intolerance 1916 Griffith (Broken Blossoms, 1919). Best of the worst Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959 Ed Wood Jr. 1962 Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill's pitiless masterpiece Sidney Lumet,1962 Hepburn Stockwell Robards Richardson all in top form, Andre Previn music. Lubitsch 1943 Heaven Can Wait (a series of birthdays) Tierney Ameche Coburn. Well that's 10 (or 60 if you keep digging) Let me know if this is what you want and I will be happy to keep digging. Jacques Mexico Retired
This list just taught me how much I diverge from what other people like; how different and subjective personal taste can be. There were some films that made the list that I find absolutely terrible, but in the end, it comes down to what people enjoy and just because I don't like it doesn't mean it isn't good.
I simply cannot believe that movie beats out literally hundreds of better films for top 30. I feel modern list makers feel the need to be "inclusive" with their top-whatever lists. Just like Hildegard of Bingen or Clara Schumann are added to modern "best composers of all time" lists even though there are dozens of better composers.
@@JohnPrepuce , if you were to say there are dozens of composers you prefer to Hildegard, I'd be fine with your argument. But "better"? What are your criteria?
The top 30 paintings. Top 30 novels. Top 30... what?... Garden designs? Symphonies? It's all art. And it's all entertaining, though in vastly different ways. And I have lots of reasons for my choices... but it's still subjective. Even if I tried to list the best 100, by the time I got to the end I'd have to lengthen it.
I’m absolutely amazed at your take. We are professors. Nobody is ever going to agree with us. I wouldn’t agreee with your list without Fanny och Alexander. Or how a short story became such a masterful piece like Stand by Me. I’m not absolutely sure about this one: Billy Elliott directed (as a first timer on film) by Stephen Daldry. And, above all, Metropolis… But, then, there’s The Exorcist. As with Jaws, they changed everything. I absolutely agree with you: there’s no way to get the list “right”. You are the first film teacher I agree with. Hollywood had its time, sometimes. This is the best list I’ve ever seen. I just miss Fanny och Alexander and The 400 blows. Maybe a couple more. Wow! You rock!
Thank you for the kind words! 400 blows would be in my personal top 20 and although I don’t like the exorcist - it’s definitely one of the greatest films ever made due to its cultural impact. Thanks for watching.
- Not one film by Sergio Leone? Not even The Good the Bad & the Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the West? - No studio Ghibli film? Or are animated films "just for kids"? - With Singing in the Rain at least one musical is on the list, but I'd also add The Wizard of Oz. - Lots of dramas but only two comedies. Shows again that there's not much respect for comedy. - Only one film from this millennium? Obviously good film making stopped 18 years ago? ^^
@@TheMediaInsider To be fair I don't think it's possible to create a "greatest" list that includes every "greatness" aspect of film with only 30 entries. The art form of film is too complex, too diverse and too extensive to make a well-balanced 30 movies list possible.
That’s a great list and a super engaging watch. The only two I think challenge this list are 12 Angry Men and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. However, despite all that my favourites will never make a top 30 like this :)
Appalling representation of Monroe here. Juxtaposition of her character saying “not very bright” with the editorial narration claiming she was difficult to work with, supported by zero proof, comes across as mean spirited at best, downright misogynistic at likely. Poor show, ruining a perfectly fine video. Do better.
A somewhat odd list. How is Lawrence of Arabia so low on it? And I think Some Like it Hot is a hilarious movie, I'm not sure it is one of the top 30 greates movies - although it has one of the greatest closing lines ever. And why were the clips from It's a Wonderful Life colourized. I know it's all a matter of taste, but I feel as if this is skewed. It reminds me a lot of the films a lot of my friends loved when they were in their 20s.
This list isn’t bad though I would add Stalker, Akira, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Metropolis, Alien, and Harikiri off the top of my head. Have seen 25 of the 30.
Schindler's List is still one of the films that should be mandatory watching for every school kid on the planet to make sure this period in history is never ever downplayed or forgotten.
Blade Runner is one of my top 5 best ever. I cannot watch the directors cut it is terrible without the voice over. Took me a long time to find a DVD theatrical version with the voice over. I don't dislike the directors cut, I own a copy, it's just that I watched the original movie so many times it just seems strange without the voice over. I appreciate that even Harrison Ford thought it was unnecessary to have the voice over. Still one of my favorite movies with or without the voice over.
I appreciate you’ve taken the time to aggregate various lists. We all love a list! Lol! Your comments and delivery shows great awareness, I love it and thank you. How about you poll all these cynical ones giving their best neg vibes? Sod them. Your work is great. Thanks again.
Asking someone which three films they think that I _must_ watch (and why) is a really useful way of getting them display their self (vs. persona). Meanwhile, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and 12 Angry Men?
Two that should have been considered are "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet", two films that took the sci-fi genre to a level that allowed it to mature into a serious category all its own.
I think you made a good list, and have undertaken this mission myself also. I came up with the same movies. People will always say that a movie is missing, but you cant deny that every movie in this list should at least be high on everybody's "to watch list".
Seeing as there’s no accounting for taste, I’ll add my 3 cents… Touch of Evil - 1958, Orson Welles L'Avventura - 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni Howl's Moving Castle - 2004, Hayao Miyazaki These movies made me want to be a filmmaker. The depth of technical artistry and mastery of the medium in these films has ruined my ability to watch mediocre movies, while simultaneously igniting my desire to find their peers.
Making this list has really opened my eyes to what makes a great film - very rarely do we seem to talk about how much we actually enjoy the film! The dark Knight is one of the most entertaining films I’ve seen, even if it isn’t as artistically impressive as Oppenheimer or Dunkirk
Here's a quick list of where to watch on Various Streaming Services
30- Bladerunner directors cut (rent or buy)
29- Chinatown (paramount+)
28 - Do the right thing (Rent)
27 - Lawrence of Arabia (Prime)
26 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 qui du commerce, 1080 bruxelles (MAX)
25 - The dark knight (MAX)
24 - Jaws (Netflix)
23 - Dr Strangelove (Prime)
22 - In the mood for love (MAX)
21 - Star Wars (Disney+)
20 - Persona (MAX)
19 - Tokyo Story (MAX)
18 - Taxi Driver(Prime)
17 - City Lights (MAX)
16 - Schindlers List (Rent)
15 - The Shawshabk Redemption (Hulu)
14 - The godfather 2 (Paramount+)
13 - Some like it hot (Hulu)
12 It's a wonderful life (Prime)
11- Casablanca (MAX)
10 - Apocalypse now (Rent)
9- Pulp Fiction (Paramount+ and Prime)
8- Singing in the rain (Max)
7 - Virtigo (Prime own)
6 - 2001: Space odyssey (MAX)
5- Seven Samuri (MAX)
4 - Psycho (Prime)
3- Goodfellas (Rent)
2- Citizen Kane (Rent)
1 - The Godfather (Paramount+)
This is brilliant - I’m pinning
MVP right here.
Hero!!
Great list. Thanks for posting it. FYI, 5. should be Seven Samurai, (not Samuri) and 7. should be Vertigo, (not Virtigo). 15 should be "Shawshank Redemption".
@@martihelmick2359 Thanks!
Ridley Scott considers "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" - to be the definitive version, not the "Director's Cut". But if you ask me, I recommend seeing ALL of the different cuts, including the original theatrical release. Following the evolution of the different versions is fascinating in and of itself. My favorite film. Glad to see it made your list.
Challenge accepted!
@@TheMediaInsidercould you do a video on the evolution of the movie. Could talk about how films change from vision to production and back to vision.
If I could only watch one version, which one do you recommend?
@@bandelay2134 Final Cut is the only one you need to see. Despite the name confusion, it's Scott's director's cut.
@@bandelay2134 Final Cut
How did Pootie Tang not make the list?
Hahaha Pootie Tang masterpiece !!
ima sign your pinny on the runny kine
When people talk abt the greatest directors of all time Louis C.K. gets overlooked everytime bc of his small body of work. However, if he never directed another movie after Pootie Tang he'd still be in the top 3 of all time with Roger Corman and Ed Wood.
Setting the bar pretty low there, huh?
And what if you list Die Hard as your favorite Christmas Film ???
To everyone getting angry that their favorites are not on the list, he explains in detail how he came up with it. It is a unique way of compiling a greatest films list. Your films are on other lists....they just didn't meet the cross-referencing criteria. I think he did a great job.
Many thanks! I think a lot of people just click the video and check the timestamps, so thank you for reiterating the purpose of this experiment
You really did a great job. 👍@@TheMediaInsider
Agreed. However, the lists used are flawed as they only take into account western taste and the more famous eastern movies like Kurosawa hence the heavy repetition. The list also missed any Jean-Luc Goddard.
I wouldn't call that a detailed explanation. I'm curious as to how he weighted each movie and why he chose these specific lists to draw from over other lists.
nah I'm pissed Jeanne Dielman is on the list. social engineering.
Actually, "Jaws" did not mark the beginning of Spielberg and John Williams' partnership. They first worked together on "Sugarland Express", released just the year before.
I stand corrected, thank you!
I would agree the music is the most important part of the movie.
Would anyone like to guess what my top 10 favorite films are? Don't be shy, and yes I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you. And you will never guess my top 10 musicians and bands. And you will never guess my top 10 books because I have never read 10 books in my life. I started Ulysses by James Joyce and can't finish it out of boredom and looking up the meaning.
@@matteg490 Good for you. Joyce was diagnosed a schizophrenic by Carl Jung (who later helped diagnose and treat Joyce's daughter Lucia). Dumb people are easily impressed by his published mental health crises.
How many people skipped through the beginning where he said that he did not personally curate this list? Its compiled from a few different perspectives' best films list, audience and critic scores combined. People acting so personally offended really should calm down a bit. This is a great list!
Lists are hard, but this has a nice logic to it. And the Singing in the Rain entry is - wait, I like this bit - just wonderful
Thank you, and I’m glad you enjoyed and saw my logic!
In principle, yes... in execution, no! It's all about which lists you choose... and he chose some bad lists.
Battleship Potemkin, Das Boot, Stagecoach, all immediately come to mind
Agreed, and I would add to that Rio Bravo. However, they did not "add up" on the lists he chose to use.
@@Laceykat66 Eh, I own Rio Bravo and I wouldn't even put it in top 5 Westerns. Too dated/cheesy/tropey.
@@concinnus It MADE the tropes.
@@Laceykat66 lolwut? It wasn't that early. The Searchers, High Noon, and The Big Country I'd probably peg as the best 3 and they were all earlier, and already playing with genre conventions. Johnny Guitar was earlier and absolutely wild. Stagecoach was much earlier and probably better (haven't seen it in ages). Even Hawks' own, much earlier movie Red River was more interesting than Rio Bravo. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is the only big classic Western I can think of after Rio Bravo.
I would have included the movie that really put Jack Nicholson at the top of his game. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. My all-time fave...
A very good, almost 1:1 adaptation of a very good novel. Same with "A Clockwork Orange".
I was really surprised it didn’t make the list
@@TheHesseJames Except "A Clockwork Orange" makes better sense WITH Chapter 21 than Kubrick's cynical omission of it.
@@satsubatsu347 it’s about 40 years I had read the novel, now I have to look up chapter 21!
I’ve now read that he followed the American edition which omitted chapter 21 as well. So, there are two versions now: bad characters never change and even bad characters always have the opportunity to better themselves.
Thank you for this. At 29:53, you call "it's a wonderful life" "it's a beautiful life.". A video that's good is worth getting perfect
We all make mistakes
I actually consider Coppola's "The Conversation" to be his best film.
I agree
Great shout
It might be his only good film other than Godfather . I will never understand why Godfather II is loved or liked. Apocalypse Now! is a bore.
Hear hear!
I am a film fan and work in the industry. I’ve never understood the fandom of the godfather movies. They are completely boring.
Certainly a difficult undertaking, but it sort of feels like there are some kind of insane omissions here. For example, how did NONE of the three movies that have won 11 Oscars not make it? My pick would be LotR, but I'd take any of them on a list of the thirty greatest films. Alien? The Exorcist? The Wizard of Oz? These movies (and many others that could have made the list over some that did) changed cinema.
That is the nature of any of these lists. People aren't going to agree. Personally, I put Alien and Wizard of Oz on any list. Alien was so incredibly influential, whereas Blade Runner was a fascinating failure. This is a best all time list? How about Annie Hall or Manhattan? Are these off the table due to cancel culture? How about a western? No "The Searchers?" or "Unforgiven". No "On the Waterfront?" Where is "There Will Be Blood"? Personally, I put "Fog of War" on any list, or at least have some representation of the Documentary genre. Internationally you could have a lot of films: Breathless, Wages of Fear, Rules of the Game, La Dolce Vita, Bicycle Thieves........ could go on for days. All you hope for in any list like this, is that it inspires some people to check out films they might otherwise not have seen, and perhaps from there they'll develop an interest in a wider range of films.
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We all allowed to make our own lists
Lots of people asking which film the thumbnail is from. Answer: Apocalypse Now
From the Playmate scene at the river base when the boat stops in for resupply.
A list without "Raging Bull" can't be taken seriously...
Wait for part 2!
I know this will make no one's list, but I always loved the Westerns from the early 70s. Little Big Man. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Jeremiah Johnson. I don't know where they would be ranked in terms of technique, but when it comes to storytelling, they turn the John Ford, John Wayne Westerns on their head by not romanticizing the Wild West, but rather, humanizing people who were never humanized before. Characters once portrayed as caricatures are more fleshed out. No one is completely noble or completely evil. I just felt those films reflect a change in cinematic storytelling, where they myths the movies created over decades were shattered, where voices were given to those who never had them before, and where the heroes are deeply flawed.
The Searchers and Ince Upon a Time in the West. Perhaps High Noon, and Shane.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was so much funnier than I expected. Great chemistry between the two leads.
Don't forget My Darling Clementine
That was already done years before by the Sergio Leone movies. BCATSK is romanticized more than those and a few other Eastwood movies. Little Big Man is a comedy set in the west.
I don't know if I am talking nonsense, but... I would like to add Metropolis (1927) to this list.
Good call - Metropolis came in at #127
@@TheMediaInsider Too low. It deserves better.
I agree with you but 30 is a low number for over a century of cinematic history. Only ONE silent film made the list? Ridiculous, but 30 is a small number.
@@Laceykat66 imagine living in the year 2525 and trying to make a top 30 list 😀
Bro, I had to watch that film in one of my classes. I figured there’d be a lot I’d think was cool but I didn’t expect it to be so AMAZING!
13:29. Thank you for correctly calling the film “Star Wars” and for not referring to it as the other, incorrect episode number retitle
#26 is unbearably dull. I’ve watched plenty of 3 hr movies and this one had me banging my head trying to stay awake. I appreciate that menial tasks are dull, but i enjoy doing these tasks way more than watching this movie.
It's not only dull...to suggest that it belongs amongst the 30 greatest movies OF ALL TIME, is quite the amusement.
I love how its merits to be on the list are political, NOT because of great film making. How politically progressive a movie is for its time decides nowadays apparently if it's good or not. Amazing
Worst movie on the list by far.
Exactly what is wrong with this list... that movie is on the list, because two of the lists have this movie in their top 5, and one of them has it at #1! Both of the lists that have it top 5 are essentially represented by the same population with the same principles for grading movies. Look at other movies these lists didn't even have in their top 50 or top 100, but are clearly all-time greats.
I have seen exactly half of these and most of them are still on my list of movies I need to watch.
I would argue that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy needs to be on this list. All three were filmed entirely over 438 days, green lit before the first one even hit theaters with a somewhat unknown director, outside of his previous genres, and mostly unknown actors at the time. Something like this would never happened today, and possibly never again. The massive budget, beautiful location filming, practical special effects only supplemented with CGI, set design, costume design, film score, casting, etc... they truly are masterpieces.
Yes, I think I agree with you: although I would include them as one entry rather than individual films. I think there’s a bit of film snobbery about films like those because they are blockbusters and incredibly mainstream, but that shouldn’t diminish the technical accomplishment of them.
@@TheMediaInsider oh %100. they were filmed as one, there should count as one LOL. I enjoy the occasional blockbuster and Star Wars and Jaws made this list. I don't think they should be held to any lesser regard to these movies.
I 100% agree. It truly is one of the greatest films projects ever produced, and the fact it even got made with the largest budget of all-time (at that time) with no studio oversight whatsoever, and became such a monumental achievement commercially, culturally and critically is remarkable. Unfortunately, we will probably never see anything like it ever happen again. But I'd rather have it happen once than never to have happened at all.
I just don't agree.
You could make those movies today because Hollywood has been making them for over 100 years. Big ensemble casts with gigantic set pieces have ALWAYS been a thing and doable, "Intolerance" much? The set was on Hollywood and Sunset for 6 years AFTER the movie came out before it finally got demolished. Perhaps Stanley Kramer had to get into a pact with the devil to make "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"? James Cameron could have built 4 full sized replicas of the Titanic (yes adjusted for inflation) with the budget for the movie, "Titanic" and had money left over to hire the cast.
Many of the actors were VERY well known already from being in the industry for decades. Viggo was a Hollywood gad fly for 20+ years and was married to X singer, Exene Cervenka, Sean Astin (apart from being a legacy/nepo baby) was in a slew of films throughout the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, Cate Blanchett had already been nominated for her role in "Elizabeth," Hugo Weaving was HOT for "The Matrix," Elijah Wood... don't even pretend, Peter Jackson was a proven and reliable director known for being economical, hands on, and was just coming off an Oscar nod his first time out doing a serious movie.
"Lord of the Rings" was a phenomenon, just like MANY movies that came before ("The Matrix" 2 years earlier) and the countless that have yet to be made.
@@satsubatsu347 Yes, the money can be spent, the workers in front of and behind the camera assembled, the lot edited into a releasable form and then put into cinemas. What now comes out is not true to any reasonable source, however. All are warped to a false vision of humanity, at least among the blockbuster pop category, whether for horror, comedy, epic fantasy or superhero. LOTR was written from what is now almost an obsolete point of view in that it is resolutely pre-modern and does not partake at all of Enlightenment tropes, even in adaptation, which is the element which most astounds commentators. I might note that a good number of the films on this list also show the world view I attribute to LOTR, even Pulp Fiction in its weird way. Until the industry stops trying to redefine humanity, what we see on this list and in films like LOTR won't be made.
But I would suggest such films are being made, but as yet I have not seen one to equal any of these titans of the art. My own regret is there is no film from Buster Keaton or DW Griffith, as others have noted. Perhaps critics lean too dependently on a small set of directors.
2001 is the GOAT
I think I agree
Barry Lyndon is better ;)
@@TheMediaInsider Nah dude, you're either with us......or against us. LMAO, just kidding............no I'm not.
Gone With The wind…… Sound Of Music…The Adventures of Robin Hood
I guess this guy prefers The Dark Knight to those great films. If he was going to do sci-fi action, at least do Terminator 2 or Aliens or Predator. The Dark Knight isn't even the best Batman movie.
@JohnPrepuce I agree. Batman 1989 is the best, IMO.
@@JohnPrepuce They are not his choices.
I agree with all three but 30 is a small number. Also, this is a list of several other lists and those styles of movies are not as resected as the bulk of the films here. I would have included Steel Magnolias for a number of reasons.
Rear Window, North by Northwest
Other than swapping in AMADEUS somewhere, cinema's greatest biopic, a splendid list.
Thank you! Amadeus would also be in my top 20
Last words: 2001 might be the greatest endeavor ever. Basically silent. Chaplin’s “Times” could be another one. We love this craft. Best film ever made? We have no idea. Francis’ “Outsiders” ripped me apart. The original “Insomnia” blew my mind. As a musical, “The Sound and of Music” is the best thing I’ve ever seen. So, that’s it. No perfect answer to this multi-million film industry. Thanks for this magnificent show!
100% agree about sound of music - way better than singing in the rain.
@@TheMediaInsideroh you guys are funny! Singing in the Rain is the single perfect musical. SoM is terrific, and there are certainly others... but.
Almost irrelevant to comment, but 'Cabaret', 'Three Colours: Red', and 'Alien' should surely be on somebody's list, as well as my own. Nice to have spent time watching your video, though.
Thank you very much! Yes, alien seems to be coming up in the comments a lot as a film that most definitely should be in the top 30, and would likely be in my personal top 10
Dekalogue, a made for TV series should be on TV list. The colors Trilogy is excellent, yes.
Aren't these your personal top 30?@@TheMediaInsider
Three Colours: White is my favorite, but all three films are excellent.
It's worth mentioning that colorizing films like "It's A Wonderful Life" is a travesty. Also, though everyone has their own taste, it's borderline insane Metropolis isn't here. The Wizard of Oz isn't here. Kubrick is barely represented. And "Goodfellas", which is very good, is #3 while "Lawrence of Arabia is low.
Other must see classics: "Easy Rider", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Network", "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", "The French Connection", "Grand Prix", "The Searchers", ""The Right Stuff", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Alien", "12 Angry Men" and pretty much Kubrick's entire catalog.
No list can be complete, particularly when you limit it to 30. I agree with all of your additions, particularly Grand Prix which is so often missed by so-called film critics and historians. I also agree that colonizing is a travesty however in today's modern world it is often the only way a "younger generation" can be introduced to these classics. A necessary evil.
@@Laceykat66 don't budge. If the younger generation cannot stomach b&w movies - their loss! It's almost as bad as autotuning classic pop music. It is sinful, abhorrent, shameful.
How can you say that Kubrick is underrepresented, when he has two films on this list and Kurosawa, in my opinion (and Coppola's and Spielberg's and Scorsese's and probably even Kubrick's) the greatest director who ever lived, is represented by just one? Where is Rashomon, Ikiru, the criminally underrated The Lower Depths, Yojimbo, High and Low, Ran? Non-English-language films in general are much too rare on this list. I know the video maker's hands were tied because of the pre-existing lists he had to use, but there's an irony to this somehow.
Colorizing is better than dull black and white. Are you colourblind or something? You can turn down the colour if you don't like it. Turn the the volume if your hearing is like your eyesight.
I bet there's a hundred films better than all of the ones you proposed.
There's nothing good about films that were amazing 70 years ago. We live in 2024 not 1954
I'm glad you listed the right stuff.
I guess the two blockbuster color films of 1939 that I grew up from the 1950 through the 1970s as the greatest ever films ever made have finally become passé that they aren’t even on the list?
I don’t need to name them.
Oz and wind? Both just missed out on the top 30!
@@TheMediaInsiderTop 100 at a minimum.
Matrix, Grave of the Fireflies, Akira, Naussica Valley of the Wind, Conan the Barbarian, The Professional, Team America, Aliens, Terminator, Princess Bride, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 1917, Back to the Future, Young Frankenstein, The Thing, Predator, Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Flies (1963), Come and See, Europa Europa, Mad Max, Braveheart, Heat, Karate Kid, Dances with Wolves, Top Gun, Last Samurai, Ghostbusters, Trading Places, Coming to America, Kickboxer, Enter the Dragon, Caddyshack, Animal House, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Drunken Master,
some great one in there, but... Conan the barbarian???
@@Technique-kj2bp go rewatch it. James Earl Jones was incredible (RIP). Also Gerry Lopez was great.
@@ed1pk i tired watching it for the first time recently and gave up half way 🤣
@@ed1pk btw eyes wide shut is kubrick's sleeper hit imo, might actually be my fave kubrick film
@@Technique-kj2bp well I can’t fault you for giving it a chance. But the soundtrack alone is one of the best of all time. Thought you may have watched one of the sequels which were not so good. 😆 as for Kubrick, you can’t go wrong with any of his films. 👍
I have seen all of these films. Some of them multiple times. I own copies of at least half of them, probably more. But such lists, whilst being excellent for introducing students and new film enthusiasts to a broad spectrum of classic cinema, cannot account for personal tastes. I think this is important, because we are allowed to say some films are overrated or perennially misunderstood, without being tossed out of the, “club,” so to speak.
Personal taste must be allowed and respected in film appreciation. It is in the differences in our tastes that the most interesting discussions occur. And it is in this dialectic cauldron that new and exciting things can be stimulated, producing original ideas that develop the art form.
I always think/thought the film experience is subjective, not objective.
Totally agree with you.
What are a few films in your top 50 not included here?
The website "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" is my go-to for movie rankings cause it combines an insane number of lists into one master list. No movie buff or cinephile should deprive themselves of this great resource!
Oh c'mon, everyone knows the best Christmas movie is Die Hard.
On a serious note, Robbins was just as good in The Player, and I find the lack of any Altman, Fellini, Truffaut, or Satyajit Ray disheartening.
If you love film, then Cinema Paradiso should be in the list. The Odyssey Cinema in St. Albans shows classic films, and has Cinema Paradiso on Thursday 22nd august. I am going by myself, just so I can be like the end of the film.
Great film - it came in at #209 on the list. If I was local, I'd definitely go to the screening.
Great list. Impossible to declare or include all of the Masterpieces of Film Making within a 30 count. What a wonderful time to be alive.
There are so many we could include: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
I'm doing my own film challenge this year. Watching a National Film Registry inductee every week. It started with Home Alone and continued through such films as The Best Years of Our Lives, The Apartment, Unforgiven, the original Star Wars trilogy, the Golden Age of the Disney Animated Canon amongst others. In later weeks I will be watching some Hitchcock and films like Dirty Harry, Hoosiers and Groundhog Day
Try to sneak in a couple of non-American films once in a while. The American film industry is the greatest but other cultures can make bangers as well and they are often a bit different.
All great films.
The Best Years of Our Lives was stunning.
The Best Years of Our Lives! Wow. I really watched that the first by accident about 30 years ago thinking it was another movie. But it blew me away. I had no idea the kind of depth on the aftermath of WW2 was represented in film back then. It’s one of my all time favorite films.
Greatest films? Geez, that's pretty damned subjective! Rather than greatest, I usually go with personal favorite lists, like this:
1. Wizard of Oz
2. Grapes of Wrath
3. The Third Man
4. The Searchers
5. Casablanca
6. The Crowd
7. City Lights
8. The Ox-Bow Incident
9. Apocalypse Now
10. Lawrence Of Arabia
11. Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
12. Last Picture Show
13. Goodfellas
14. The Conformist
15. No Country For Old Men
16. Singin’ In The Rain
17. The Seventh Seal
18. Wild Strawberries
19. Psycho
20. Strangers on a Train
21. North By Northwest
22. Stagecoach
23. The Wild Bunch
24. Twelve Angry Men
25. Palm Beach Story
26. A Street Car Named Desire
27. The Apartment
28. Taxi Driver
29. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
30. The Pianist
Runner-Ups:
Annie Hall
Open City
Bicycle Thief
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Best Years Of Our Lives
Cabaret
Chinatown
Mon Oncle
M. Hulot's Holiday
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
Black Narcissus
Metropolis
Alien
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Koyaanisqatsi
Baraka
Best Years Of Our Lives
The Big Sleep
Not that i care but It's GANDHI not Ghandi.
Ahhhhh there’s always one typo! I must have checked 100 times!
And “It’s a Beautiful Life”?
You obviously care, or you wouldn't have commented, doofus.
No, it's ગાંધી
If you don't care then why mention it? Lol
Shawshank Redemption is definitely one of the greatest films of all time. Loved it ever since I was a kid, when my mom would have it on tv whenever she did house chores. Now as an adult, it is a go-to when I do work around the house. The last time I watched it was when i recently assembled my 4th DVD shelf. I've probably seen it 50 times. Great list!
How comes “Once Upon a Time in America” didn’t make it in this list?
Was #71 on the list!
@@TheMediaInsider😮
That is one of the greats. I tell you why length. It never gets air play once maybe twice a year it gets shown. Great Great movie the best Western ever shot. But this list ignored the whole of westerns
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@@TheMediaInsiderOne MUST see the full, uncut version, which is hard to find.
Dark Knight in the 30 greatest films, ever? Where's The Searchers? The Conversation? The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly? The Shining? Alien? Snow White (1937)? A Streetcar Named Desire? Frankenstein?
I think anyone of those films belong ahead of Dark Knight. I don't think it's even Nolan's best film. Just my opinion, of course.
Is this your list??? NO make your own fucking list and make a video and you can do whatever tf you want
Dark Knight is ridiculous
If Nolan, then INCEPTION
@@klartext2225 Ick. Boring and done better in, literally, a dozen other films.
@@satsubatsu347 Really? Bet you can't name THREE!
Colorized footage of “It’s a Wonderful Life?” Really?
That upset me too.
I thought it was just me.
Terrible!
Also - he said Stewart was in "It's A Beautiful Life".
Reportedly, before Orson Wells died filmmaker Henry Jaglom quoted the director of Citizen Kane as telling him not to “let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.” I think “It’s a Wonderful Life” deserves similar courtesy.
I deeply appreciate you including Tokyo Story, one of my favorite films which I discovered by accident. What do you think about Kurosawa's very early film 'Stray Dog'? It shares many of the same elements of Japanese ability to embrace an entirely new and truly alien culture into its own ancient world, holding the one in a kind of sacred embrace while taking the other as the lower status. I found Mifune's performance especially good here, far more nuanced than any of his others, perhaps because it was also one of his first.
Wow, no ALIEN.
Would definitely be in my personal top 30! It was actually #43 on the list
Film lists are heavily skewed against sci-fi.
Well you can't include every single last popular / great / notable movie on a list of only 30. I can probably think of 30 more important than Alien.
LOL
@@philipgwyn8091 I'm counting four science fiction films on this list (five with Dark Knight). Pretty good representation, actually. So few musicals.
Thank you! I feel lucky that I’ve seen 25 of these on your list. But I feel even luckier that there are five films that I have not seen, that I get to treat myself to! 👍🏽
Pleased to hear it, thanks for watching
12 Angry Men (1957),
Alien (1979),
Fargo (1996),
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966),
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981),
Rashomon (1950)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Laurence of Arabia needed a strong female lead? Thank God these movies were made before people lost their minds.
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I've never understood the complaint about the lack of women in Lawrence of Arabia and I'm a woman. Even now, in more conservative parts of the "Arab" world, it's a man's world out there and they were also literally in a war. I'd rather take realism over a "strong female lead".
Needed more editing
He didn’t say a female lead, a character was all he wanted .
@julieturner5281 doesn't matter. In what context would there be a female character? Like, where would you shoehorn a girl and for what reason?
Great work! Always nice to see a refreshing take on a never ending debate, regardless of how much one agrees.
Singing in the Rain is SUCH a sleeper! I stayed away from it for so long just because I thought it was going to be a boring "fall asleep watching it on your couch on Sunday" kind of move, but it was actually REALLY good. Make sure you put this on your short list of movies to see soon!!
Yes, and Danny Kaye absolutely steals the show. What a genius.
@@Chrisyade His not in the movie, his in other golden age movies.
@@Chrisyadeit’s not Danny Kaye. It’s Donald O’Connor.
Pure and simply... a Greatest Films list that doesn't have Unforgiven on it... is not worth wiping your a$$ with!
My list would have The Remains of the Day somewhere on it.
Mune would have included Chariots of Fire or The Big Fish.
Remains is such a strong movie.
No room for a Sergio Leone film? "Once Upon a Time in the West", " The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ", " Once Upon a Time in America " are epic masterpieces! At least one of them, and there are more than three movies on the list that these movies could replace. "A Clockwork Orange" is a "no-brainer", but I understand the problem. We Are talking about the " Thirty greatest films ", and as such it comes down to taste, and I suppose that the author gets the spoils of his/her labor. Cheers Sir, you did an exemplary job!
Thank you for this video ❤️
Hope you enjoy and find a few things to add to your watchlist
Everyone complaining that their fav movie didn't make the list must seriously lack comprehension skills. This list is an aggregate of a NUMBER of lists - if your movie didn't' make it into the top 30 then its because it didn't qualify after all the lists had been gathered and cross referenced. He CLEARLY states this in the beginning of the video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together and provide context for each film - I'm sure it will be very helpful to people new to cinema especially.
Night Of The Living Dead should be on the list as it was a game changer in all genres of film, not just Horror because this film, along with In Cold Blood, caused the MPAA ratings system, freeing the hands of the filmmakers. Rocky was another game changer, bringing back the underdog story as well as the uplifting ending. In an art form that was pretty nihilistic.
Totally agree.
Rocky would probably be in my top 50
Personal recommendations:
Agree with most here - AT LEAST one animation
Russian film? Battleship Potemkin
Abbas Kiarostami
Butch Cassidy
Coen Brothers - no Some LIke Hot
Woody Allen
A documentary
Where is Italian film? Fellini?
I am very confused on how the Jeanne Dielman film has moved into so many group's top 5 of all time so suddenly.
For the record - I entirely agree with each of your points!
Trading places, one of the best movies of all time ..
In Philadelphia it's worth 50 bucks.
The Black Stallion is a masterpiece, that deserves a place in every home. I rewatched it after 30 plus years and was in awe.
The fact that there are no animated films on this list is a real let down. If this list is truly supposed to show the innovation of filmmaking then I would have expected to see at least one animated piece. Animation is one of the most rigorous and captivating forms of storytelling, and yet also one of the most overlooked.
Wall-E would definitely like to have a word.
This list tells me one thing, I need to see more foreign movies.
In the Mood for Love is one of the greatest films every made. In my opinion its my no 1. Its a perfect film.
I’m glad it made the list
Understated. Modern audiences don't have the attention span.
@TeddyRumble the slow drawn out shots destroy me. I've never had a film make me cry from just a shot. No action. No dialogue. It's beautiful.
@@tylero8595 yes, it is. I saw it in my film studies class at Sacramento City College.
'Apocalypse Now-Reddux', 'The Godfather Part I', 'Catch-22', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Alien', 'Amadeus' and 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
No "Plan 9 from Outer Space" makes this list VERY suspect! Ya slippin' man, ya slippin'...
I agree. Screenplay and dialogue is almost unmatched in this one.
True true
Actually, I prefer Bride of the Monster.
List in order:
1. The Godfather
(1972) Francis Ford Coppola
2. Citizen Kane
(1941) Orson Welles
3. Goodfellas
(1990) Martin Scorsese
4. Psycho
(1960) Alfred Hitchcock
5. Seven Samurai
(1954) Akira Kurosawa
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968) Stanley Kubrick
7. Vertigo
(1958) Alfred Hitchcock
8. Singin' in the Rain
(1952) Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
9. Pulp Fiction
(1994) Quentin Tarantino
10. Apocalypse Now
(1979) Francis Ford Coppola
11. Casablanca
(1942) Michael Curtiz
12. It's a Wonderful Life
(1946) Frank Capra
13. Some Like It Hot
(1959) Billy Wilder
14. The Godfather Part II
(1974) Francis Ford Coppola
15. The Shawshank Redemption
(1994) Frank Darabont
16. Schindler's List
(1993) Steven Spielberg
17. City Lights
(1931) Charlie Chaplin
18. Taxi Driver
(1976) Martin Scorsese
19. Tokyo Story
(1953) Yasujirô Ozu
20. Persona
(1966) Ingmar Bergman
21. Star Wars
(1977) George Lucas
22. In the Mood for Love
(2000) Wong Kar-wai
23. Dr. Strangelove
(1964) Stanley Kubrick
24. JAWS
(1975) Steven Spielberg
25. The Dark Knight
(2008) Christopher Nolan
26. Jean Dielman,
23 Quai Du Commerce,
1080 Bruxelles
(1975) Chantal Akerman
27. Lawrence of Arabia
(1962) David Lean
28. Do the Right Thing
(1989) Spike Lee
29. Chinatown
(1974) Roman Polanski
30. Blade Runner
(1982) Ridley Scott
Thank you ❤
1977's Slap Shot starring Paul Newman would have made my #1, and I have seen 17 of the films on this list. Slap Shot was dismissed as vulgar when it came out, but it has stood the test of time as an excellent example of 1970's North American culture, attitudes, fashion, and music. I'm not sure there is a film with more quotable one-liners? My opinion, thanks.
Thanks for the tip: I’ve not seen that one so I’ll definitely add it to my watchlist! Love Newman in Butch Cassidy, which would be in my personal top 10
Very well said. But ... now I feel so philistine for liking it mostly bc I got to see "a Christmas Story" mom's hooters.
I love Slap Shot, but, dude, c'mon! LOL.
Here, I'll send you through the roof and tell you that Slap Shot isn't even the best Hockey movie out there...that would be Goon.
@@unprofound Respectfully, I've seen both GOON films, and they are a 4 to Slap Shot's 10.
My second favorite hockey film is YOUNGBLOOD staring a really young Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.
@@RedStarSanJose I appreciate your take, my friend! BTW, grew up in the Bay Area. Hope all is good there!
This list holds tremendous value. Everyone should write down all the titles' names on paper, making brief notes about each, and carry these sheets with you for those times you are caught in the toilet without any dunny paper. Just do this with all "best of" lists, actually.
Empire Strikes Back instead of Star Wars and Raiders of the lost Ark, the perfect action/adventure film
Raiders is best action adventure flick in my book
@@TheMediaInsider I would not argue with you, but I would secretly say Last Crusade under my breath. 😊😊
hope that line about the favorite christmas movie wasn't meant to be taken seriously
Well, I have 13 all time FAVORITE films (I don't like to say "best" It's all a matter of taste, but it does make for lively discussion) and amazingly two are on this list----Vertigo and Goodfellas.
For any of you who might be curious, and I know there are precious few, here are the others that are mu favorites.
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, Either Renoir's The Rules of the Game or his The River (I go back and forth). The Flowers of St. Francis, I Walked with a Zombie, Kiss Me Deadly, The Searchers, Touch of Evil, Demy's Lola, Shoot the Piano Player and Contempt
Great list. Favourites are always so much more interesting than ‘greatest’.
@@steve4films agree
I understand your methodology. my personal list has Night of the Hunter (1955), Ran (1985), the Conversation (1974), the Deerhunter (1978), Gandhi (1982) Prospero's Books (1991) but NOT goodfellas, Godfather (1 or 2), It's a wonderful life. Maybe not even Pulp Fiction, but definitely lower on the list if I have to cater to Tarantino fans...
The fact that there wasn’t an animated film on here is crazy. At least I don’t think there was.
Agreed! At least one studio Ghibli should have appeared. I think Toy Story was the closest
Many filmmakers and critics consider animation a completely separate art form.
Toy Story over The Lion King? Still one of the most beautiful, well acted, and most incredibly scored films of all time. Toy Story, however, looks like '90's CGI. It's well performed, and well written, and incredibly groundbreaking, but it really doesn't hold up at all visually.
But, yeah, animation still gets little to no respect from your average cinephile.
I agree. There are many films I would have excluded as "stereotypical" and added several animation classics.
Akira would be mine
Wayyyy to many film greats excluded from this list. This list should really be around 100 to satisfy most movie buffs. Time to craft a part 2 and part 3 in this series.
I was about to be appalled by your use of the colorized ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ when I was reminded of the gag in Christopher Guest’s ‘The Big Picture.’
It was the only version of the film I could source, but sincere apologies for the upset.
@@TheMediaInsider ua-cam.com/video/SXKaUDW2VlA/v-deo.html
I’m surprised I have seen all but 5 of these. The older movies I saw as a kid on TBS in the 80s.
25 is very impressive!
Quite a heavy lift to bring together all this data, and some pretty interesting results. Well done!
I suspect almost everyone will have one or two others they think should have been on here, but this does a great job of being a Film Buff 101 required viewing list.
Ok, I am not telling you what movies had to be in that list instead of X or Y, because it is not even your list but just a collection of best lists as you mentioned not just once.😊
From these 30 movies (I probably would had done a top-50 list) I only haven’t seen 5 of them and only of one of them I never heard of (Jeanne Dielman).
I always wanted to watch Persona and Schindler's List as well as Tokyo Story. Only to Do The Right Thing I fail to connect. Maybe someday …
They are all worth watching, although I will admit that Deilman is quite love it or hate it. I’ve never met someone who wasn’t blown away by Schindler‘s list. Enjoy!
As an old movie lover I really enjoyed this list and intelligent review. Subscribed.
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed
Parasite (2019)
Agreed!!!
I shall not abide any slander against the sacred masterpiece that is Elf!
Media Insider. The method you came up with to perform this Herculean labor was inspired. There was only one film on the list I hadn't seen #22 In the mood for Love, Wong Kai Wai. I didn't expect my own favorite film of all time to appear on ANY list because it's a strange concoction of my personal interests. German Language and Culture, Classical music, Surrealism and Film. It's Hans Jurgen Syberberg's Hitler, ein Film Aus Deutschland. I'd be surprised if it made that master list of yours at all.
I was asked in the early 2000s by a fellow film buff to make a top 100 list. I made a general list of my favs which came to around 2000 films. Then whittled it down to a working list of 600. and finally the arbitrary and painful task of honing that down to 100. But the final list could have looked different for so many reasons. I basically did one film from each of my fav directors.
This was great fun for me. Thanks for doing the calculations and your elucidating commentary. Is there somewhere one might see the complet list? I'm subscribed and looking forward to more of your content. All the best Jacques Mexico Retired
In the Mood for Love I watched in Sac City's Film Studies program. It's heartbreaking, and beautiful.
I, for one, would have loved to see your list. And yes, In The Mood For Love is wonderful and now I’m in the mood for a rewatch!
@@SAMTYLER1974 Hi Sam, I'm of a 1952 vintage myself and ignorant of technology but let's see what we can get done here. I will have to dig up the list. Until then I'm going to 'wing it" Hitchcock's Vertigo was on the final list, but it could just as easily been a dozen other films (Lady Vanishes, Psycho, Rebecca, etc) Bergman's Cries and Whispers (but his 1960 Devil's Eye is hilarious, as biographers tell us Ingmar himself was) . Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, my dark fav, The Duchess & Dirtwater Fox, hilarious, relentless, 1976, Melvin Frank. Cabiria, 1914, GiovanniPastrone. Intolerance 1916 Griffith (Broken Blossoms, 1919). Best of the worst Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959 Ed Wood Jr. 1962 Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill's pitiless masterpiece Sidney Lumet,1962 Hepburn Stockwell Robards Richardson all in top form, Andre Previn music. Lubitsch 1943 Heaven Can Wait (a series of birthdays) Tierney Ameche Coburn. Well that's 10 (or 60 if you keep digging) Let me know if this is what you want and I will be happy to keep digging. Jacques Mexico Retired
This list just taught me how much I diverge from what other people like; how different and subjective personal taste can be. There were some films that made the list that I find absolutely terrible, but in the end, it comes down to what people enjoy and just because I don't like it doesn't mean it isn't good.
30 is too small a list. Missing too many bangers.
Agreed. No Dr. Zhivago? Really points an interesting picture of the rise of Communism in the Soviet Union.
Couldn’t take this seriously after seeing dark night in here
Yeah I was done with your list the moment you added Jeanne Dielman
Yeah, it probably wouldn’t have been on my list either, but the eclectic mix this list has come up with has a bit of something, including Dielman
I simply cannot believe that movie beats out literally hundreds of better films for top 30. I feel modern list makers feel the need to be "inclusive" with their top-whatever lists. Just like Hildegard of Bingen or Clara Schumann are added to modern "best composers of all time" lists even though there are dozens of better composers.
@@JohnPrepuce , if you were to say there are dozens of composers you prefer to Hildegard, I'd be fine with your argument. But "better"? What are your criteria?
The top 30 paintings. Top 30 novels. Top 30... what?... Garden designs? Symphonies? It's all art. And it's all entertaining, though in vastly different ways. And I have lots of reasons for my choices... but it's still subjective. Even if I tried to list the best 100, by the time I got to the end I'd have to lengthen it.
I know right? A recently widowed women who prostitutes herself biggest problems in life are making dinner for her son and doing laundry.
I’m absolutely amazed at your take. We are professors. Nobody is ever going to agree with us. I wouldn’t agreee with your list without Fanny och Alexander. Or how a short story became such a masterful piece like Stand by Me. I’m not absolutely sure about this one: Billy Elliott directed (as a first timer on film) by Stephen Daldry. And, above all, Metropolis… But, then, there’s The Exorcist. As with Jaws, they changed everything. I absolutely agree with you: there’s no way to get the list “right”. You are the first film teacher I agree with. Hollywood had its time, sometimes. This is the best list I’ve ever seen. I just miss Fanny och Alexander and The 400 blows. Maybe a couple more. Wow! You rock!
Thank you for the kind words! 400 blows would be in my personal top 20 and although I don’t like the exorcist - it’s definitely one of the greatest films ever made due to its cultural impact. Thanks for watching.
- Not one film by Sergio Leone? Not even The Good the Bad & the Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the West?
- No studio Ghibli film? Or are animated films "just for kids"?
- With Singing in the Rain at least one musical is on the list, but I'd also add The Wizard of Oz.
- Lots of dramas but only two comedies. Shows again that there's not much respect for comedy.
- Only one film from this millennium? Obviously good film making stopped 18 years ago? ^^
Agreed on all points! Distinct lack of British films too!
FYI - Wizard of Oz was #36, Spirited Away was #49, and Once Upon A Time In The West was #71
If you want those films on a list, make your own.
There is NO LIST that will show anything but subjectivity.
@@TheMediaInsider To be fair I don't think it's possible to create a "greatest" list that includes every "greatness" aspect of film with only 30 entries.
The art form of film is too complex, too diverse and too extensive to make a well-balanced 30 movies list possible.
Ghibli is overrated.
@@Dunderslag Ghibli >>> Disney
That’s a great list and a super engaging watch. The only two I think challenge this list are 12 Angry Men and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. However, despite all that my favourites will never make a top 30 like this :)
Appalling representation of Monroe here. Juxtaposition of her character saying “not very bright” with the editorial narration claiming she was difficult to work with, supported by zero proof, comes across as mean spirited at best, downright misogynistic at likely. Poor show, ruining a perfectly fine video. Do better.
A somewhat odd list. How is Lawrence of Arabia so low on it? And I think Some Like it Hot is a hilarious movie, I'm not sure it is one of the top 30 greates movies - although it has one of the greatest closing lines ever. And why were the clips from It's a Wonderful Life colourized.
I know it's all a matter of taste, but I feel as if this is skewed. It reminds me a lot of the films a lot of my friends loved when they were in their 20s.
Totally agree about some like it’s hot - it wouldn’t feature in my personal top 100
@@TheMediaInsider wherasit would in mine. But Jaws, 2001, The Godfather movies, Casablanca wouldn't.
@@TheMediaInsiderheresy!! ;)
@@TheMediaInsiderIt was amazing for its time.
Happily, I've seen the vast majority of these films. Oddly, I haven't seen The Godfather for a couple of decades.
No need for female character for Lawrence of Arabia.
That was a strange comment.
I know, right??? Like criticizing Alien for not have a cartoon character in it.
This list isn’t bad though I would add Stalker, Akira, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Metropolis, Alien, and Harikiri off the top of my head. Have seen 25 of the 30.
Good list but again, only one silent film. You can't please everyone.
29.35... Surpise Shymalan mention in such a list 😁
He’s like Steven King, can’t help but like his stuff
Schindler's List is still one of the films that should be mandatory watching for every school kid on the planet to make sure this period in history is never ever downplayed or forgotten.
Dr. Zhivago, another Lean film, merits a mention. Beautiful film, unforgettable score and visuals.
Yea that’s a classic
Blade Runner is one of my top 5 best ever. I cannot watch the directors cut it is terrible without the voice over. Took me a long time to find a DVD theatrical version with the voice over. I don't dislike the directors cut, I own a copy, it's just that I watched the original movie so many times it just seems strange without the voice over. I appreciate that even Harrison Ford thought it was unnecessary to have the voice over. Still one of my favorite movies with or without the voice over.
I think both are great but my preference is without the VO
Really? Wow. I like the directors cut. I have the original version.
Blade Runner is tied with 2001 for world building. Wow, such a great fikm.
I appreciate you’ve taken the time to aggregate various lists. We all love a list! Lol!
Your comments and delivery shows great awareness, I love it and thank you.
How about you poll all these cynical ones giving their best neg vibes?
Sod them. Your work is great. Thanks again.
Asking someone which three films they think that I _must_ watch (and why) is a really useful way of getting them display their self (vs. persona).
Meanwhile, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and 12 Angry Men?
Totally agree! I really like Letterboxd UA-cam shorts where they literally ask celebrities that
Everybody here reacting like this is this guy's personal list...
It is. Compiled by referencing 8 other lists that had little variation to them.
Two that should have been considered are "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet", two films that took the sci-fi genre to a level that allowed it to mature into a serious category all its own.
I think you made a good list, and have undertaken this mission myself also. I came up with the same movies. People will always say that a movie is missing, but you cant deny that every movie in this list should at least be high on everybody's "to watch list".
Seeing as there’s no accounting for taste, I’ll add my 3 cents…
Touch of Evil - 1958, Orson Welles
L'Avventura - 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni
Howl's Moving Castle - 2004, Hayao Miyazaki
These movies made me want to be a filmmaker. The depth of technical artistry and mastery of the medium in these films has ruined my ability to watch mediocre movies, while simultaneously igniting my desire to find their peers.
The Dark Knight is an entertaining film but the idea it’s one of the 30 best movies ever is nonsensical
It’s arguably the greatest film of the 2000s. A perfect crime thriller that was never done as well. A true masterpiece of film.
Making this list has really opened my eyes to what makes a great film - very rarely do we seem to talk about how much we actually enjoy the film! The dark Knight is one of the most entertaining films I’ve seen, even if it isn’t as artistically impressive as Oppenheimer or Dunkirk
@@barkley8285 or Mulholland Drive.....
Cerebral killjoy.
I agree. That fake voice by Christian Bale takes you out of scenes. It’s so weird. And I love Christopher Nolan