The 1000 Greatest Films of All Time
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It's taken me 12 years to reach a 1000 films. The first DVD I bought was The Spy Who Shagged Me when i was 11. Every film on this list I've seen and reviewed. Also it constantly changes as I watch about 3 films a day. AH old age virginity here I come.
*also I had nothing to do with these beeps.
It's taken me 12 years to reach a 1000 films. The first DVD I bought was The Spy Who Shagged Me when i was 11. Every film on this list I've seen and reviewed. Also it constantly changes as I watch about 3 films a day. AH old age virginity here I come.
*also I had nothing to do with these beeps.
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- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
Not only is Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece true cinematic ecstasy, it also happens to be the greatest film ever made. Every aspect is perfect, right down to the sound mixing. I challenge anyone to point out a single flaw in this epic New York crime drama. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
"What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
This is Martin Scorsese's masterpiece and the career high for everyone involved. My favourite type of film is organised crime, The Godfather and this, are the two finest examples of the genre. Many filmmakers like PTA, have successfully imitated it's energetic style. - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption."Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!"
I've always loved Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece. So much so that about 20 years ago I ripped the audio off the DVD & converted it to a MP3. The finest ever movie dialogue. - DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist."
The amount of people who have told me they're ashamed to watch this perfect movie is bewildering. Just because Kevin Spacey (the greatest actor of the 90s) & Bryan Singer are dodgy characters doesn't mean this masterpiece doesn't deserve the worship.
The scene in which Verbal walks out of the police station, is for me, the greatest film scene of all time. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god." I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end."
Francis Ford Coppola's 70s films are easy to review because they're all extraordinary.
Okay, so this is the greatest ever; war film, movie I've seen in the cinema, performance from Martin Sheen, & it has the most beautiful cinematography ever put to celluloid. - DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends."There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
Danny Boyle's masterpiece is without question, the greatest British film ever made. A perfect piece of work. It's the film I've seen the most. If you've never seen it, choose Trainspotting.
It's got the greatest soundtrack of all time. - DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more."The things you own end up owning you."
I know I'm breaking Tyler Durden's first and second rule right now, but this is one of my all time favourites. David Fincher's masterpiece is an anarchic & anti-materialist bible with glorious levels of ultraviolence. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis."It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.""
Steven Spielberg's masterpiece. No other filmmaker could have found exactly the right balance between respect & entertainment in a Holocaust film. He told a German's story while simultaneously reminding the world how much devastation the Jews suffered. - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsMark WahlbergJulianne MooreBurt ReynoldsAn idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent."I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out."
It blows my mind that Paul Thomas Anderson was just 26 years old when he made his masterpiece, one of those rare perfect films. It has everything I want from a movie.
It's Trainspotting's closest rival to the greatest soundtrack of all time. PTA what a genius. - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsHarvey KeitelTim RothMichael MadsenWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant."I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless."
I doubt anyone would disagree with the reality that Quentin Tarantino's first full-length feature film is the greatest directorial debut of all time.
Possibly the greatest screenplay ever written. - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonA banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion."Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things & no good thing ever dies."
Frank Darabont's perfect masterpiece is the greatest prison film ever made. Andy & Red reuniting with a hug on a beach in Zihuatanejo might be the happiest ending ever. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down."You're gonna need a bigger boat."
When Steven Spielberg made his first perfect film, he wasn't just making a monster movie, he was also inventing the summer blockbuster & creating the greatest horror film ever made. There are so many genius elements but John William's score has to be the highlight.
I'm still terrified of the water. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action."Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."
Martin Scorsese's bleak drama was his first perfect film. The finest character study told in the first person.
Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro's second collaboration produced one of the most iconic characters, Travis Bickle. He's the ultimate characterisation of the human race that deteriorates due to seclusion & disconnection in the grimy inferno of 70s New York City. - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice."... Rollo Tamasi."
The late great, Curtis Hanson, gave the cinematic world the perfect delight that was L.A. Confidential (the greatest crime neo-noir) back in 1997. And although I'm a fan of Titanic, it never deserved to win Best Picture over this phenomenal masterpiece. - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown."Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
Great Scott!, Robert Zemeckis' masterpiece is 35 years old this, a sci-fi classic that's pure escapism cinema at its best. One of those super-rare perfect popcorn movies that I adored when I first saw it aged 3 & I know I'll love til the day I die. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate."Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Francis Ford Coppola's examination of the corrupting influence of power is still the greatest sequel ever made. An epic chocked-full of extraordinary achievements, making the career of Robert DeNiro & providing Al Pacino with his finest ever performance. - DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson."Well the little one wasn't circumcised."
The Coen Brothers' masterpiece is the greatest comedy ever made. All their usual collaborators are here and have never been better. - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHeath LedgerAaron EckhartWhen a menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman, James Gordon and Harvey Dent must work together to put an end to the madness."some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn"
Christopher Nolan's masterpiece features the finest ever portrayal of The Joker, a role for which Heath Ledger deservedly won a posthumous Oscar. - DirectorsLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence."There is no spoon"
The Wachowskis' cyberpunk masterpiece is one of the greatest action movies of all-time. The groundbreaking visuals blew everyone's minds back in 1999 but the reason The Matrix has stood the test of time is the Baudrillard (the theorist of simulation) inspired mythology.
I only recently got the opportunity to see it in the cinema for the first time. There were 18 films I considered perfect, there are now 19. - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsTom CruiseJason RobardsJulianne MooreAn epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley."Respect the cock! And tame the cunt!"
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic awesome melodrama gave Tom Cruise the opportunity to do his best ever work. Frank T.J. Mackey is a fascinating character, a charlatan televangelist who preaches male chauvinism as therapy. - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven BauerIn the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction."Say hello to my little friend!"
Al Pacino's Tony Montana is still the ultimate portrayal of the rise & fall of a gangster. Brian De Palma's crime masterpiece is definitely one of the best crime movies of all time. It's ironic that Oliver Stone wrote it to deal with his cocaine addiction. - DirectorWes AndersonStarsGene HackmanGwyneth PaltrowAnjelica HustonThe eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons."I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum, you know?"
I just adore Wes Anderson's masterpiece. I first saw it in 2001, ever since; I haven't stopped listening to Elliott Smith, Paul Simon & Nico, and I have dressed up as Ritchie Tenenbaum for fancy dress many times. - DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes."I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."
Richard Kelly's's masterpiece about a troubled young man and his visions of a demonic 6-foot rabbit is one of my favourite films. - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict."The first casualty of war is innocence."
Oliver Stone's masterpiece is based upon his experiences as a U.S. grunt in Vietnam. He was supposedly inspired to write the script after seeing how inarticulately the war was portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets. - DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist."Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
Folk always underestimate how much adoration there is for Heat. For example; a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend an evening with Al Pacino. Fans got to ask the film legend some questions & ninety percent of them were about Michael Mann's masterpiece.
