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Top 10 Greatest Films According To 358 Directors

posted 5 years ago by BillHicksFan (10087)
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1. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
= 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
= 2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
4. 8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
= 7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
= 7. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
9. Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky (1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1949)

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Hmm.. never heard of Tokyo Story. I thought Seven Samurai would be on the list instead.

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 5 years ago

Late Autumn is my favorite Ozu... Most of his movies are alike, same actors, same characters.

[–] rudeboymurray (3241) 5 years ago

No real surprises but a respectable list and the magnificent Tokyo Story is as good a no. 1 choice as anything.

I need to see Mirror again as I have always considered it by some way the least brilliant of Tarkovsky’s three seventies classics.

[–] strntz (10779) 5 years ago

The only two with repeatability viewings IMO are 2001 and The Godfather, and I never watch the last act of 2001 once it becomes a drug fueled hallucination.

Tokyo Story is a good story but a mediocre film.

[–] Knish (1721) 5 years ago

Apocalypse now is so rewatchable.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

You can fast forward the psychedelic rainbow scene if you want.

[–] strntz (10779) 5 years ago

You can't, it's the last act of the film! 😆

[–] Stratego (29190) 5 years ago

I enjoy The Godfather.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

None of those films would be in a top ten list of mine. Especially the four I haven't seen...

[–] dmac8 (5050) 5 years ago

hmmm... I'm down with half of them.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I wouldn't consider any of those to be great.

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 5 years ago

Bicycle Thieves is my favorite, and I love Taxi Driver and The Godfather, and to a lesser extent Citizen Kane, but I don't think its a GREAT list.

Most are overrated.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

The problem with making a list aggregated from multiple people is that we have so many movies to choose from.
That means overrated movies would come up the most often in many individual lists. When the lists are combined, the most popular ones came out higher on the final list.