The Best 500 Films of All-Time

I love days of the future past. I used to watch it every day. I don’t think it is near the same visual experience as kubrick or hitchcock. But it is personal for myself, and has great acting.

Ok I always change up my top 10 list because I just love so many films so I decided I’ll do it this way, put films together that I feel tie with each other, are equal, for example raging bull and taxi driver, i have a bunch of films in these ties and im still missing films i love like fistful of dollars and sixth sense. and of course the whole first six star wars films would be up there.

1. The Wizard Of Oz- Fleming/ Breaking Bad (television series)- Gilligan
2. Raging Bull/ Taxi Driver- Scorsese
3. Searchers- Ford/ Star Wars (1977)- Lucas/ Annie Hall- Allen/ Revenge Of The Sith- Lucas
4. Once Upon A Time In America- Leone/ Schindler’s List- Spielberg/ The Kid- Chaplin/ Where To Invade Next- Moore/ Citizen Kane- Welles/Godfather- Coppola/ Gone With The Wind-Fleming
5. Pulp Fiction- Tarantino/ Raiders Of The Lost Ark- Spielberg/ Grave Of The Fireflies- Takahata/ Joker- Phillips/ Terminator- Cameron
6. Vanilla Sky- Crowe/ O Brother Where Art Thou- Coen Brothers/ Do The Right Thing- Lee/ Apocylypse Now- Coppola
7. Cloud Atlas- Wachowski/ Return Of The King- Jackson/ Carrie- DePalma/ The Stand- Garris (TV Miniseries)
8. Clockwork Orange- Kubrick/ Blue Velvet-Lynch/ Chinatown- Polanski/ 2001- Kubrick/ Ad Astra- Grey/ Up- Docter/ Dr. Strangelove- Kubrick/ metropolis-lang
9. Meyerowitz Adventures- Baumbach/ Punch-Drunk Love/ Passion Of Joan Of Arc- Dreyer/ Roma- Cuaron/ Silence Of The Lambs
10.Broken Blossoms- Griffith/ Steve Jobs- Boyle/ Logan- Mangold/ 8 Mile- Hanson/ Days Of The Future Past- Singer/ Halloween- Carpenter/ Purple Rose Of Cairo/ Yellow Submarine- dunning/ 81/2- fellini/ vertigo- hitchcock

My Top Ten Of All Time as of right now is
1.Taxi Driver
2.Pulp Fiction
3.Magnolia
4.Spiderman 2
5.The Master/Manhattan
6.Chinatown
7.LA Confidential
8.Mean Girls (I love this film to death and I don’t care what anyone says)
9.Jackie Brown
10.Inception
HM: Agent Cody Banks( A guilty pleasure lol I watched this all the time as a kid), The Lion King, Fargo, Rush Hour 1 And 2, Alice doesn’t live here anymore, Blue Jasmine, There Will Be Blood, The Shawshank Redemption,And Home Alone 2 among others

Here’s a Topic Idea What are the biggest Oscar Snubs Of The 21st Century ? Some big ones include
Inside Llewelyn Davis for best picture
Before Sunset and Midnight for Best Picture
Jim Carrey for Best Actor for eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind for Best Picture
Zodiac for Best Picture
Paul Dano for Best Supporting Actor for There Will Be blood
The Master for best picture
Oscar Isaac for Best Actor for Inside Llewelyn Davis
The Dark Knight for Best Picture
The 25th Hour for Best Picture
Adam Driver for Best Actor for Paterson
Uma Thurman for Kill Bill 1 and 2 for best Actress
Kill Bill 1 and 2 for Best Picture
A History Of Violence for Best Picture
The Royal Tenebaums for Best Picture
Memento for Best Picture
Mulholland Drive for Best Picture
Naomi Watts for Best Actress for Mulholland Drive
Children of Men for Best Picture
I could go on and on it’s crazy how many great films are snubbed each year

Why are you on aboard with Deniro not getting a nomination?

It’s weird… I really, really loved Bad Times At The El Royale – I’d probably have it as a low MP on your scale, honestly. I get why a lot of people don’t love it. But it is a genre film, through and through. And it’s probably the most fun I had watching a movie in a cinema in 2018. I’m probably slightly bias as I would rank Jeff Bridges as being, definitely, one of the best actors of all-time – his performances in Fearless, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, Crazy Heart and Hell Or High Water are mind-blowing to me – and this is without mentioning other great performances of his, which I haven’t the time to go through lol.* I, also, thought Cynthia Erivo gave a terrific performance. Lewis Pullman was great in his role. And Chris Hemsworth gave a came for the ages. The cinematography was engaging, as was the script. I, also, have to give credit for the use of music in the film – the use of Bernadette by The Four Tops was particularly striking to me. Granted, I can understand why you might not like him.

*If I was gonna do a Top Actors of all-time, it’d probably be DiCaprio as No. 1, followed by Bridges, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Cary Grant, Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood, in no particular order – in years to come, it would be possible that Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mahershala Ali and Oscar Isaac would find a place on my list, but it depends on what their future output is like.

Well, I think the thing for me with Brando is that I don’t really love his performance in Apocalypse Now (I haven’t seen any of his work on the Godfather or prior – the only supposedly great performance of his I’ve is Apocalypse Now), so I’m not a big fan, so far. (I’ve only seen a certain amount of movies – I am only 18, at the moment and am only recently emerging as a cinephile, so it’ll probably be a long while before I end up as well-read as you). The thing about the to-come actors I’ve listed is that I’ve loved, at least, two of their performances. So with Oscar Isaac, for example, I have 3 – Inside Llewyn Davis, A Most Violent Year and Ex Machina. Mahershala Ali, I have 2 – Moonlight (he makes this movie a great one, in my opinion, in spite of Barry Jenkins’ superb direction) and Green Book (Movie is HR, at best, but his performance is mesmerising in a way that I haven’t seen an actor be since Hoffman in The Master). Ryan Gosling was one I was tempted to put on the main list. His body of work in this decade is astounding – Blue Valentine, Drive and La La Land are the three highlights, but he is immensely charismatic and funny in The Nice Guys and Crazy, Stupid, Love. His performance in The Place Beyond The Pines is underrated and is one of the best parts of one of my favourite movies of all time (this one really connected with me, for some reason). However, his work in First Man is offputting a little to me – I thought the movie was visually stunning, but his acting was too dry this time. And I wasn’t as big a fan of 2049 as everyone else. To be fair to Gosling, though, I thought his performance was good, albeit not great.
Anyway, to answer your question, which is what I was gonna do before I went on a tangent (sorry lol), the issue with Kaluuya and Driver for me is that- actually, there’s two issues – but the main one for me is that they only have one truly masterful performance each. Kaluuya – Get Out. Driver – Marriage Story. Although, in all fairness, they are very good in Widows and BlacKKKlansman – but not masterful. The other problem with them both is is that, in a weird way, in spite of them both being fairly engaging, they do not have the charisma of the others, which is, usually, what makes an actor stand out for me. For example, in Ex Machina, it’s hard to look away from Oscar Isaac, just because of his phenomenal screen presence in it. The same goes for most of the roles of the actors on that list. They dominate the movies they’re in, but, also, have a way of bringing up the other actors around them. This is a a key asset I find in many of the great actors. I.e. Bridges in The Big Lebowski gets tons and tons of laughs and is one of the great performances of cinema, but the entirety of that ensemble, also, shines.
I don’t know. I feel like I’ve gone on a mega-tangent. Haha sorry.

Most apparitions in the « Best Performances of the Year » category, of all time (at least 2):

Robert DeNiro (9) :
} 2# en 1973.
} 2# en 1974.
} 1# en 1976.
} 1# en 1978.
} 1# en 1980.
} 5# en 1982.
} 3# en 1984.
} 3# en 1990.
} 1# en 1995.

Jack Nicholson (9) :
} 5# en 1969.
} 1# en 1970.
} 4# en 1971.
} 3# en 1973.
} 4# en 1974.
} 2# en 1975.
} 3# en 1980.
} 6# en 1989.
} 6# en 1992.

Al Pacino (8) :
} 1# en 1972.
} 6# en 1973.
} 7# en 1973.
} 1# en 1974.
} 1# en 1975.
} 4# en 1983.
} 5# en 1990.
} 4# en 1999.

James Stewart (8) :
} 2# en 1939.
} 3# en 1940.
} 1# en 1946.
} 5# en 1950.
} 5# en 1953.
} 5# en 1954.
} 1# en 1958.
} 2# en 1959.

Humphrey Bogart (7) :
} 1# en 1941.
} 3# en 1941.
} 1# en 1942.
} 2# en 1944.
} 2# en 1946.
} 2# en 1948.
} 6# en 1950.

Leonardo DiCaprio (6) :
} 1# en 2004.
} 2# en 2006.
} 1# en 2010.
} 3# en 2013.
} 1# en 2015.
} 3# en 2019.

Daniel Day-Lewis (6) :
} 5# en 1989.
} 4# en 1992.
} 4# en 1993.
} 1# en 2002.
} 1# en 2007.
} 1# en 2017.

Marlon Brando (5) :
} 1# en 1951.
} 1# en 1954.
} 1# en 1972.
} 1# en 1972.
} 2# en 1979.

William Holden (5) :
} 1# en 1950.
} 4# en 1953.
} 3# en 1957.
} 1# en 1969.
} 2# en 1976.

Dustin Hoffman (5) :
} 1# en 1967.
} 1# en 1969.
} 4# en 1970.
} 6# en 1974.
} 5# en 1979.

Paul Newman (5) :
} 1# en 1961.
} 5# en 1963.
} 2# en 1967.
} 3# en 1969.
} 4# en 1982.

Gene Hackman (5) :
} 2# en 1971.
} 5# en 1973.
} 5# en 1974.
} 4# en 1992.
} 1# en 2001.

Brad Pitt (5) :
} 3# en 1995.
} 2# en 1999.
} 3# en 2007.
} 2# en 2011.
} 2# en 2019.

Kirk Douglas (5) :
} 2# en 1947.
} 4# en 1951.
} 5# en 1951.
} 4# en 1956.
} 5# en 1957.

Cary Grant (4) :
} 1# en 1937.
} 1# en 1938.
} 2# en 1940.
} 1# en 1959.

Tom Cruise (4) :
} 2# en 1983.
} 6# en 1988.
} 1# en 1996.
} 1# en 1999.

Ryan Gosling (4) :
} 2# en 2010.
} 3# en 2011.
} 1# en 2016.
} 2# en 2017.

Bill Murray (4) :
} 3# en 1993.
} 3# en 1998.
} 1# en 2003.
} 3# en 2005.

Joaquin Phœnix (4) :
} 1# en 2012.
} 4# en 2013.
} 5# en 2019.
} 4# en 2008.

Laurence Olivier (4) :
} 4# en 1939.
} 1# en 1944.
} 6# en 1948.
} 6# en 1960.

Toshiro Mifune (4) :
} 2# en 1950.
} 2# en 1954.
} 6# en 1957.
} 2# en 1961.

Edward Norton (4) :
} 6# en 1998.
} 3# en 1999.
} 3# en 2002.
} 3# en 2014.

Johnny Depp (4) :
} 4# en 1990.
} 5# en 1994.
} 2# en 1995.
} 4# en 1998.

Gary Copper (4) :
} 3# en 1929.
} 3# en 1936.
} 3# en 1943.
} 4# en 1952.

Charlie Chaplin (3) :
} 1# en 1925.
} 3# en 1931.
} 1# en 1936.

John Wayne (3) :
} 3# en 1939.
} 1# en 1948.
} 1# en 1956.

Henry Fonda (3) :
} 1# en 1940.
} 3# en 1946.
} 1# en 1968.

James Cagney (3) :
} 2# en 1931.
} 2# en 1942.
} 1# en 1949.

Marcelo Mastroianni (3) :
} 2# en 1960.
} 4# en 1961.
} 1# en 1963.

Emil Jannings (3) :
} 1# en 1924.
} 2# en 1925.
} 3# en 1930.

Robert Mitchum (3) :
} 1# en 1947.
} 3# en 1955.
} 3# en 1962.

Montgomery Clift (3) :
} 4# en 1948.
} 2# en 1951.
} 1# en 1953.

Joe Pesci (3) :
} 2# en 1980.
} 1# en 1990.
} 4# en 2019.

Christian Bale (3) :
} 1# en 2000.
} 4# en 2010.
} 2# en 2013.

Harrison Ford (3) :
} 4# en 1977.
} 1# en 1981.
} 4# en 2017.

Ralph Fiennes (3) :
} 2# en 1993.
} 2# en 1996.
} 2# en 2014.

Sean Connery (3) :
} 3# en 1964.
} 2# en 1965.
} 3# en 1987.

Clint Eastwood (3) :
} 4# en 1964.
} 2# en 1966.
} 3# en 1992.

Orson Welles (3) :
} 2# en 1941.
} 4# en 1949.
} 3# en 1958.

Burt Lancaster (3) :
} 3# en 1947.
} 3# en 1953.
} 4# en 1957.

Warren Beatty (3) :
} 3# en 1967.
} 3# en 1971.
} 5# en 1981.

Ewan McGregor (3) :
} 4# en 1996.
} 3# en 2001.
} 5# en 2010.

Tom Hanks (3) :
} 3# en 1988.
} 5# en 1993.
} 4# en 2013.

Russell Crowe (3) :
} 4# en 1997.
} 4# en 1999.
} 4# en 2003.

John Garfield (3) :
} 4# en 1946.
} 4# en 1947.
} 5# en 1948.

Clark Gable (2) :
} 1# en 1934.
} 1# en 1939.

Jean-Paul Belmondo (2) :
} 1# en 1960.
} 1# en 1965.

Heath Ledger (2) :
} 1# en 2005.
} 1# en 2008.

Buster Keaton (2) :
} 2# en 1924.
} 1# en 1926.

Edward G. Robinson (2) :
} 2# en 1930.
} 1# en 1945.

Frank Sinatra (2) :
} 2# en 1953.
} 1# en 1955.

Klaus Kinski (2) :
} 2# en 1972.
} 1# en 1982.

Harvey Keitel (2) :
} 1# en 1973.
} 2# en 1992.

Adam Driver (2) :
} 2# en 2016.
} 1# en 2019.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman (2) :
} 2# en 2005.
} 2# en 2012.

Christoph Waltz (2) :
} 1# en 2009.
} 3# en 2012.

Peter O’Toole (2) :
} 1# en 1962.
} 4# en 1968.

Max Von Sydow (2) :
} 1# en 1957.
} 4# en 1988.

Denzel Washington (2) :
} 4# en 1989.
} 1# en 1992.

Jeff Bridges (2) :
} 1# en 1998.
} 5# en 1991.

Michael B. Jordan (2) :
} 5# en 2015.
} 1# en 2018.

Maurice Chevalier (2)
} 2# en 1929.
} 2# en 1932.

James Dean (2) :
} 2# en 1955.
} 2# en 1956.

George C. Scott (2) :
} 2# en 1964.
} 2# en 1970.

Ethan Hawke (2) :
} 2# en 2004.
} 2# en 2013.

Ray Liotta (2) :
} 2# en 1986.
} 2# en 1990.

Joseph Cotton (2) :
} 2# en 1943.
} 3# en 1949.

Errol Flynn (2) :
} 2# en 1935.
} 3# en 1942.

Takashi Shimura (2) :
} 2# en 1952.
} 3# en 1954.

Christopher Walken (2) :
} 2# en 1978.
} 3# en 1983.

Daniel Kaluuya (2) :
} 3# en 2017.
} 2# en 2018.

Casey Affleck (2) :
} 2# en 2007.
} 3# en 2016.

John Goodman (2) :
} 4# en 1991.
} 2# en 1998.

Bruce Willis (2) :
} 2# en 1988.
} 4# en 1994.

Mickey Rourke (2) :
} 5# en 1987.
} 2# en 2008.

Sean Penn (2) :
} 5# en 1995.
} 2# en 2003.

Jack Gyllenhaal (2) :
} 2# en 2001.
} 5# en 2014.

Adam Sandler (2) :
} 2# en 2002.
} 6# en 2019.

Jean Gabin (2) :
} 3# en 1937.
} 3# en 1952.

Jean-Louis Trintignant (2) :
} 4# en 1969.
} 3# en 1970.

Rod Steiger (2) :
} 5# en 1964.
} 3# en 1965.

Bruno Ganz (2) :
} 3# en 1977.
} 5# en 2004.

Matt Damon (2) :
} 3# en 1997.
} 5# en 1999.

Robert Shaw (2) :
} 4# en 1966.
} 4# en 1975.

John Hurt (2)
} 4# en 1978.
} 4# en 1980.

Tony Curtis (2) :
} 4# en 1957.
} 6# en 1959.

Michael Fassbender (2) :
} 4# en 2011.
} 5# en 2013.

Kevin Spacey (2) :
} 4# en 1995.
} 7# en 1999.

John Turturro (2) :
} 6# en 1990.
} 3# en 1991.

Jim Broadbant (2) :
} 6# en 1999.
} 3# en 2001.

Jack Lemmon (2) :
} 5# en 1959.
} 4# en 1960.

Bruce Dern (2) :
} 5# en 1978.
} 4# en 2013.

Viggo Mortensen (2) :
} 4# en 2005.
} 5# en 2003.

Benicio Del Toro (2) :
} 4# en 2000.
} 6# en 2015.

Alain Delon (2) :
} 5# en 1960.
} 5# en 1967.

Robert Downey Jr. (2) :
} 5# en 2007.
} 5# en 2008.

Hey Drake.
Ranking movies is becoming very challenging for me. I’ve thought of a new way of ranking movies. So basically there are 5 levels, the top level being perfect movies like Chinatown and the bottom not so good. Kinda like your ranking system but more like Roger Ebert’s. I will still think of a top 10 maybe like most critics for sight and sound. Do you think this is a decent way to rank movies?

Hello:

I’ve certainly lurked but have never commented here yet. Anyhow, your top 20 films are hard to argue with, even if it wouldn’t necessarily be my list, although I’m not sure I’d have Bicycle Thieves so high. I’m glad you have Jules and Jim and La Dolce Vita as high as you do. They’re among the most taken for granted films in cinema history I think. The Searchers would be a no-brainer top ten film. Likewise 2001, even if I probably personally prefer Barry Lyndon. I’ve often wrestled between L’Avventura and Rules of the Game as the Greatest Film of All Time, but I could certainly argue Vertigo as well. Lola Montes would also be up there for me. Likewise PlayTime. Granted, I’m not a very list-minded person, so I probably think in somewhat different terms. There are other films I personally love that are maybe not top 20 of all time material, such as The Long Goodbye and Maurice Pialat’s We Won’t Grow Old Together. However, I’d go to the mat insisting In A Lonely Place, Love Streams, and Two-Lane Blacktop all belong in a top 100, but I respect they’re not everybody’s cup of tea. I’d probably throw PTA’s The Master into a top 25, and you seem to rate that film pretty highly.

As for the greatest all around director of all time, it would be a toss up for me between Hitchcock and Ozu, since Antonioni doesn’t quite have the body of work as a whole to compete with those two. On the directors’ side of things I’d probably have Bresson, Cassavetes, and even Bunuel a bit higher than you do, but that’s just me. At any rate, you have an excellent blog.

What’s your top 10 of every decade (1920s + 1910s counted together ) ? Of course this question is not directed towards Drake (since we can know his top films through the lists on the blog) but towards each of the readers of the blog.

This is going to be a lot of fun haha
Okay, here go

1910-1929
1. Sunrise-Murnau
2. The passion of Joan of Arc- Dreyer
3. Battleship Potemkin- Eisenstein
4. Intolerance-Griffith
5. Metropolis- Lang
6. Nosferatu- Murnau
7. The The Birth of a Nation- Griffith
8. The General- Keaton
9. The Gold Rush- Chaplin
10. Greed-Von Stroheim

1930
1. The Rules of the Game- Renoir
2. M- Lang
3. City Lights-Chaplin
4. Gone With the Wind- Fleming
5. The Blue Angel- von Sternberg
6. The Wizard of Oz- Fleming
7. Stagecoach- Ford
8. The Grand Illusion- Renoir
9. Modern Times- Chaplin
10. Bringing Up Baby- Hawks

1940
1. Citizen Kane- Welles
2. Bicycle Thieves- De Sica
3. The Third Man- Reed
4. Casablanca- Curtiz
5. The Magnificent Ambersons-Welles
6. It’s a Wonderful Life- Capra
7. The Big Sleep- Hawks
8. Late Spring- Ozu
9. Red River- Hawks
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre- Huston

1950
1.Vertigo- Hitchcock
2. Tokyo Story- Ozu
3. Seven Samurai- Kurosawa
4. The searchers-Ford
5. Rashoman- Kurosawa
6. Touch of Evil- Welles
7. The 400 Blows- Truffaut
8. Rear window-Hitchcock
9. The Seventh Seal- Bergman
10. La strada-Fellini

1960
1. 8 1/2 – Fellini
2. 2001 A Space Odyssey- Kubrick
3. Lawrence of Arabia- Lean
4. Breathless- Godard
5. Jules and Jim- Truffaut
6. Psycho-Hitchcock
7. La Dolce Vita- Fellini
8. Persona-Bergman
9. Once Upton a Time in the West – Leone
10. Shoot the Piano Player – Truffaut

1970
1. Apocalypse Now-Coppola
2. The Godfather –Coppola
3. The Godfather Part II-Coppola
4. Taxi Driver- Scorsese
5. A Clockwork Orange- Kubrick
6. Stalker-Tarkovsky
7. Nasville-Altman
8. Days of Heaven – Malick
9. Aguirre, the Wrath of God – Herzog
10. The conformist-Bertolucci

1980
1. Raging Bull- Scorsese
2. Blade Runner –Scott
3. Nostalgia – Tarkovsky
4. Blue Velvet – Lynch
5. Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee
6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – Greenaway
7.The Shining – Kubrick
8. Fitzcarraldo – Herzog
9. Fanny and Alexander- Bergman
10. Brazil- Gilliam

1990
1. Pulp Fiction – Tarantino
2. Magnolia – P.T. Anderson
3. Breaking the Waves – Von Trier
4. Goodfellas – Scorsese
5. The Thin Red Line- Malick
6. Heat- Mann
7. Boogie Nights – P.T. Anderson
8. JFK- Stone
9. Fargo – Coen
10. Schindler’s List – Spielberg

2000
1. There Will Be Blood – P.T. Anderson
2. In the Mood for Love – Kar-Wai Wong 
3. Children of Men – Cuaron
4. Mulholland Drive – Lynch
5. Lost in Translation – Coppola
6. Punch-Drunk Love – P.T. Anderson
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Dominik
8. The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson
9. Werckmeister Harmonies – Tarr
10. Dancer in the Dark – Von Trier 

2010
1. The Tree of Life – Malick
2. The Master – P.T. Anderson
3. Roma – Cuaron
4. Dunkirk – Nolan
5. Mad Max Fury Road-Miller
6. Birdman – Iñárritu
7. La La Land – Chazelle
8. The Revenant – Iñárritu
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson
10. The Favourite – Lanthimos

Since I’m the visionary mind behind the conversation- hahaha, it’s my time to share my list. Let’s go!

1910-1929
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
2. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
4. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
5. Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929)
6. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
7. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)
8. The General (Keaton, 1926)
9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
10. (tie) Greed (von Stroheim, 1924)
10. (tie) The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)

1930-1939
1. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
2. M (Lang, 1931)
3. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
4. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
5. Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
6. The Blue Angel (von Sternberg, 1930)
7. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
8. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
9. The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
10. (tie) Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
10. (tie) The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg, 1934)

1940-1949
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
3. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
4. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
6. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
7. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
8. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
9. (tie) Red River (Hawks, 1948)
9. (tie) Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
10. (tie) Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
10. (tie) My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
10. (tie) Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)

1950-1959
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
6. The Earrings of Madame De… (Ophuls, 1953)
7. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
8. (tie) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
8. (tie) The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
9. (tie) Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
9. (tie) A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)
10. (tie) Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)
10. (tie) Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
10. (tie) Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
10. (tie) Singin’ in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
10. (tie) Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)

1960-1969
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
3. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
4. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
5. Playtime (Tati, 1967)
6. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
8. (tie) Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
8. (tie) L’ Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
8. (tie) Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
9. (tie) I Am Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
9. (tie) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Leone, 1966)
9. (tie) Once Upon A Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
10. (tie) Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
10. (tie) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
10. (tie) Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
10. (tie) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

1970-1979
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
2. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1979)
3. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
4. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
5. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
6. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
7. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
8. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
9. (tie) Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
9. (tie) Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
9. (tie) Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
10. (tie) Nashville (Altman, 1975)
10. (tie) The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
10. (tie) Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

1980-1989
1. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
2. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
3. Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch)
4. The Shining (1980, Kubrick)
5. Ran (1985, Kurosawa)
6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989, Greenaway)
7. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
8. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
9. (tie) Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
9. (tie) Dekalog (1989, Kieslowski)
9. (tie) Raiders of the Lost Art (Spielberg, 1981)
10. (tie) Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
10. (tie) Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
10. (tie) Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
10. (tie) Once Upon A Time in America (Leone, 1984)

1990-1999
1. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
2. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
3. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
4. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
5. Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
6. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
7. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
8. Heat (Mann, 1995)
9. (tie) Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
9. (tie) Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1997)
10. (tie) JFK (Stone, 1991)
10. (tie) Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
10. (tie) Satantango (Tarr, 1994)

2000-2009
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
2. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
3. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
4. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
5. Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)
6. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
7. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
8. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
9. (tie) The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007)
9. (tie) The New World (Malick, 2005)
10. (tie) Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul, 2006)
10. (tie) The Lord of the Rings (Jackson, 2001-2003)

2010-2019
NOT RANKED YET
The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
Roma (Cuaron, 2018)
The Irishman (Scorsese, 2019)
Dunkirk (Nolan, 2017)
The Master (Anderson, 2012)
La La Land (Chazelle, 2016)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
Inception (Nolan, 2010)
Birdman (Inarritu, 2014)
Gravity (Cuaron, 2013)
The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)
Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
The Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)
The Revenant (Inarritu, 2015)
The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

Hey Drake. Approximately how many films do you see that are not archiveable?

How does your tier system work as a number ranked list?

Approximately, is this how your tier list works??
MP: Top 300 Films of all time
MP/MS 300-400
MS:400-600
MS/HR 600-700
HR 700-1000
R 1000-2000
The other films are flawed/not archiveable. Is this (appox) your tier system?

Oops I posted in the wrong comment section

My updated Top Five

1. Taxi Driver
2.Pulp Fiction
3.The Master
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
5.Nashville

Honorable Mention: Raising Arizona, Broadcast News,Fargo, Manhattan, Short Cuts, and There Will Be Blood

Hey Drake I posted a comment twice on the best film of the 2000s page but nothing is showing up

I also think someone like PTA is a very lucky man. He was in the right place at the right time and established a certain degree of cultural capital for himself that’s stuck over the course of several decades, so Indiewood has given him free reign despite the occasional financial hiccup, since the critical acclaim inevitably compensates in the end. I think someone who broke in a bit later like Sean Baker or Robert Eggers would have a hard time raising ~$35 million to make ‘the film they want to make’.

I’m not sure about Portrait of a Lady on Fire yet. I certainly liked it the first time I watched it. The second I saw it, which was also in the cinema, I was a bit jet lagged and kept dozing off (the same thing happened the one time I saw The Irishman in the theater), so I’ll need to revisit.

Hey drake, I have 2 questions
1)do you ever see a run of bad unarchiveable films? That happens to be very occasionally. It frustrates me a lot. I’m sure it must be happening to you too.

2) I haven’t really seen pacing discussed that much on this page. What are some of the worst paced and best paced movies of all time for you?( the movie could be in your top 500 or even outside of it)