EDitorial ± 9-May-2006
Channel 4 100 Greatest Films
Back in 2001 -- have those list programs really been going on that long? -- Channel 4 announced the results of their poll to find the 100 Greatest Films. Ever!
(for an alternative, you could always try Barry Norman's 100 top films instead)
Here's their list:
- Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back
- The Godfather/The Godfather (Part II)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Some Like it Hot
- Gladiator
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Blade Runner
- Schindler's List
- GoodFellas
- Jaws
- Psycho
- Apocalypse Now
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Matrix
- Casablanca
- The Usual Suspects
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Citizen Kane
- Raging Bull
- ET
- Taxi Driver
- The Life of Brian
- Singin' in the Rain
- LA Confidential
- The Wizard of Oz
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Kes
- Vertigo
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Fargo
- Gone with the Wind
- Trainspotting
- The Full Monty
- The Graduate
- Alien
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Withnail and I
- The Great Escape
- Toy Story
- The Third Man
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The Sound of Music
- Fitzcarraldo
- Deliverance
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Chinatown
- The Exorcist
- Annie Hall
- The Italian Job
- Sunset Boulevard
- The Jungle Book
- Titanic
- Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
- Dr Strangelove
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Seven Samurai
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Secrets and Lies
- Blue Velvet
- La Dolce Vita
- Spartacus
- Metropolis
- Bonnie and Clyde
- King Kong
- Get Carter
- The Searchers
- The Seventh Seal
- Don't Look Now
- Brief Encounter
- M*A*S*H
- The French Connection
- Top Hat
- The Producers
- Three Colours Trilogy
- Cabaret
- Goldfinger
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- The Gold Rush
- High Noon
- Saturday Night Fever
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Enter the Dragon
- Breathless
- Ice Cold in Alex
- Battleship Potemkin
- African Queen
- The General
- A Hard Day's Night
- Way Out West
- Henry V
- Easy Rider
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Belle de Jour
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- Terminator
- Saturday Night Sunday Morning
- Do the Right Thing