Time have published the All Time Greatest 100 best films as chosen by Richard Corlis and Richard Schickel. Some of them are on my favourite film list but not always for the reason they’ve chosen;
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- I read about the making of this, in a Kubrick Biography, before I saw it. Not really my type of film but the direction and lighting are magic.
- Blade Runner (1982)
- The film is great but I really love the design (Syd Mead) and sound track (Vangelis).
- Brazil (1985)
- It’s too long, has too many endings but a great story, acting, design and sound track make it a classic. Post 9/11 it’s seems closer to a documentary.
- Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Peter Sellers + Kubrick = Masterpiece
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Soppy but still great
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Great characters make it the best of the computer animated films, so far.
- Léolo (1992)
- Amazed to see this in the list. Its a strange, perhaps the strangest I’ve seen, captivating movie which you have to see to believe! Black humour at its blackest.
- Metropolis (1927)
- Justifiable Sci fi classic, perhaps the first.
- The Singing Detective (1986)
- Saw this and thought they’d picked the awful Mel Gibson remake but no, they class the made for TV original as a 6hr. 48min film. Dennis Potter’s finest work and Michael Gambon’s finest role mean this deserves to be here. Mel Gibsons movie length re-make belongs at the top of the 100 worst movies.
Missing?
- 2001: A Space Odessey
- Clarke + Kubrick = Masterpiece
- Lost in La Mancha
- The best “the making of” documentary ever and glimpses of a film I hope gets made one day.
- Radio Days
- I think this is Woody Allens best film.
