10 Greatest Films

This is not a favorites list thread. Post what you think are the best ten films of all time. This list of mine might fluctuate. I put them in ABC order because it's very hard to order in best-worst.
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Apocalypse Now
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Dolce Vita, La
The Godfather
Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Short Cuts
Vertigo

I haven't seen that many movies that I could put into a top 10 list as "the greatest ever." But from what I have seen, I'd put at least these 5 in no order

-The Godfather
-The Godfather Part II
-Raging Bull
-Goodfellas
-Schindler's List

In order:

The Godfather
The Godfather part 2
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Shawshank Redemption
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
Once Upon a Time in America
On the Waterfront
Dr. Strangelove

Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, and Dr. Strangelove aren't some of my favorites, but they were made very well, and they are very complete movies.

1. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
2. Mon Oncle d'Amerique
3. Days of Heaven
4. Greed
5. A Woman Under the Influence
6. Short Cuts
7. Breathless
8. Duck Soup
9. Love Streams
10. Chelsea Girls

Two from Godard and Cassavetes. Resnais and Altman both have one in the top 10 and another in the top 15, or so.

Citizen Kane would probably be 11 or 12.

Thug

Thug, is A Woman Under the Influence a musical? I'm surprised there's no Dekalog there. :p

It's certainly not a musical, in any way, shape, or form. Haven't you heard of it? It's a shame Cassavetes is such an unbelievably underrated director; I'd easily rank him in the ten best of all time, and perhaps the only American director who can compete with him is Kubrick (Hitchcock is British, whether his films are or not). Cassavetes is known mostly for his acting today, starring in such films as The Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby, but he is easily one of the ten greatest directors of all time. I must admit that before the Criterion box set of his work that I did not know very much about him. But the set was amazing; I recommend going out and buying it ASAP as it is worth double the listing price.

I took The Decalogue out of my top 10 a while ago, as I felt I wanted to watch it in its entirety once more before I give it such high praise. After viewing individual episodes, for the MFA review, I was a little dissapointed, but remembered the greatness lied in the piece as a whole. Alas, I still have not rewatched it due to its mammath length.

Thug

Ah, I'm sorry. I confused it with A Woman Is a Woman which I have seen in stores a lot.

Tomorrow I will try to get a Criterion DVD since I've saved money. I just don't know what to get. I really wanna see Down By Law after seeing Dead Man, but there are several other films I might buy over it such as The Seventh Seal, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Leopard, or Seven Samurai.

What do you think of Jarmusch's other films, Thug?

When I think of the "10 Greatest" films, I think of films that made folks think, and maybe even started a cultural or social transformation. No, they're not all my favorites, and some of 'em did nothing for me, necessarily, but history says they're significant (I guess):

Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Inherit the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Easy Rider
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Die Hard (hey, it started the action films!)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Schindler's List

I could have mentioned Saturday Night Fever, but I purposely didn't...disco still sucks!

Okay, gotcha. A Woman is a Woman is great, as are nearly all of Godard's films, but it certainly is no where near his best.

I've only seen Dead Man from Jarmusch, but he is considered one of the most important independent filmmakers of all time so I look forward to seeing more.

But I recommend saving up even more money until you can afford the Cassavetes box (as I mentioned above). I'm off on a rant now since I've been reminded how much I love A Woman Under the Influence and nearly all of the films I've seen from Cassavetes (Shadows is rather weak in comparison to his best, though, I thought) that I can't stop from trying to get you to enjoy it, too.

Omar also is a big fan of the box set, if I'm not mistaken.

Thug

I saw his boxset but I want those other films above it. Besides, I'll probably buy Brazil before any other boxset from Criterion. As for Cassavetes, I have yet to see a movie from him. I really wanna see Mikey and Nicky, which isn't in the box. I have a movie from his son called The Notebook which is supposedly a over-sentimental chick-flick.

But hell, my biggest annoyance is finding the film I wanna see the most, Le Samourai.

Taxi Driver
The Godfather
Citizen Kane
Ben Hur
Clockwork Orange
12 Angry Men
Schindlers List
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
2001: A Space Odessey

Hmmm... A difficult, but worth-while decision:

(In no particular order")
-Citizen Kane
-The Godfather Trilogy
-Raging Bull
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
-Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone is one of the true greats...)
-On the Waterfront
-Taxi Driver
-Pulp Fiction
-The Shawshank Redemption

I'm going to be watching Chinatown for the first time tonight, for the record.

Enjoy Chinatown LLC. It's the greatest Neo-Noir ever.

Ben Hur was a masterpiece and one of my favorite movies of all time, but it doesn't belong on THIS list simply because the acting was absolutely terrible.

I agree with all of your choices but I'd add Gladiator.

Casablanca
Dog Day Afternoon
Goodfellas
Heat
Lawrence Of Arabia
Raging Bull
Scarface
Taxi Driver
The Godfather Part 1
The Godfather Part 2

I'm gonna change my list

The Godfather
Citizen Kane
The Godfather pt. 2
Vertigo
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull
Gone With the Wind
Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
The Pianist

With the exception of The Pianist, yet another list of American productions.

Venture out, people.

Mick

Not in order:

Ikiru (1950/Akira Kurosawa)
8 1/2 (1963/Federico Fellini)
Vertigo (1958/Alfred Hitchcock)
Greed (1924/Erich von Stroheim)
Casablanca (1942/Michael Cutiz)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962/David Lean)
Singin' in the Rain (1952/Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen)
Duck Soup (1933/Leo McCary)
Modern Times (1936/Charles Chaplin)
The Big Red One: The Restoration (1980-2004/Sam Fuller)
The Maltese Falcon (1941/John Huston)

Yes, I can count. There's 11 films on there but hell, these are the films I consider the greatest ever produced and my favorites.

1st let me say I think the whole favorite vs. greatest thing is a lil overrated

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Godfath...o wait
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Scarface
Paths of Glory
Cool Hand Luke
The Deer Hunter
Goodfellas

In chronological order:

Citizen Kane
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Godfather Trilogy
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Requiem for a Dream (The best film of the new Millenium)

1. Amores Perros (Gael Garcia Marquez, Spanish)
2. La Vita e Bella (Roberto Benigni, Italian)
3. The Classic (Korean)
4. The Godfather
5. Hable con Ella (Spanish)
6. El Crimen del Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Marquez, Spanish)
7. Cidade de Deus (Portuguese)
8. Il Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
9. Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks)
10. Jan Dara (Thai)

The Godfather
Godfather, Part II
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump
Green Mile
Good'Fellas
Star Wars
Back to the Future