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Monday 6 October 2008

Empire Magazine - Top 500 movies

Empire Magazine has just published their 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, the result of “the biggest movie poll of all time. Here are the top 50 movies from the poll (the full list is here EmpireOnline.com/500).

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)

3. Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner,1980)

4. Shawsank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)

5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

6. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

7. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

8. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)

9. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

10. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)

11. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

12. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

14. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

15. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2007)

16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

17. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

18. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

19. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

20. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

21. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

22. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)

23. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)

25. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)

26. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)

27. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

28. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

29. Die Hard (John McTiernan 1988)

30. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)

31. Gone with The Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood, 1939)

32. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)

33. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)

34. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)

35. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991)

36. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)

37. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

38. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)

39. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999)

40. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

41. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

42. Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)

43. The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers, 1998)

44. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

45. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

46. On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan 1954)

47. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

48. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)

49. Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi, 1987)

50. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

I've seen 43 out of the top 50 and I'm made up (but surprised) Evil Dead 2 is in there. The top 5 is pretty solid and I'm not that surprised that The Dark Knight is so high (always the way in these polls that the latest blockbusters show up). We'll get a true showing of The Dark Knight's popularity in a few years time on other polls.

What do you think of the list? Do you agree / disagree? What should have been in the top 50 that isn't there.
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4 comments:

Mr. Shhh said...

Why always The Lord of the Rings? ¬¬

Live for films said...

"Protect the Hobbits" Not a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies Mr Shhh?
I must admit I really enjoyed them. Still mulling over the list

Anonymous said...

there it is again, on #1, The godfather, in my opinion, a very BORING movie, ugh, oh well.
my favorite movie is on 25, so i cant complain about that, i only saw 23 titles on that list.

Live for films said...

Number 25. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Great film Daan and funnily enough my Wife is out today picking up tickets for us to go and see it at the Liverpool Philharmonic. They show loads of classic movies. Can't wait to see it on the big screen, plus before it's on they have a bloke playing tunes on a big wurlitzer style organ. Once he finishes the screen rises up out of the stage floor. It's great.