Time selection of the best 100 films from 1923 to 2005
The Time selection of the best 100 films from 1923 to 2005 (Time's All-Time 100 Movies) is a non-ranking list of films compiled in 2005 by well-known film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss and published on the US website - Time magazine was published. The compilation received a lot of attention, so the page with the list was visited around 7.8 million times in the first week alone and the magazine received thousands of commendatory and critical letters.
Corliss and Schickel initially each created their own lists, which they then processed into a joint list in a discussion process that lasted months. Only films from 1923, the year Time magazine was founded, could be recorded. The oldest film on the list is therefore Sherlock, Jr. (1924), the youngest Finding Nemo (2003). Films of all genres and countries could be selected for the list, so that a great diversity and representativeness should be achieved - although according to Corliss it is difficult to achieve with a list of 100 films, all trends and areas of film history are sufficient over a period of 80 years to represent. Corliss explained that one could possibly criticize the fact that Leni Riefenstahl is only represented by one woman as a director, and that the first decades in particular were dominated by American films. There are just over 100 films, as a few related productions - such as the first two " The Godfather " films or the Dekalog film cycle - share one of the 100 seats.
With Metropolis , Olympia , Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes , Berlin Alexanderplatz and Der Himmel über Berlin , five German film productions are represented in the list. It also includes films by directors Billy Wilder , Ernst Lubitsch , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , William Wyler , Josef von Sternberg and Edgar G. Ulmer from Germany and Austria , which they shot in Hollywood after they emigrated.
list
Original title | German title | Director | Publishing year | Publication country |
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Aguirre, the wrath of God | Aguirre, the wrath of God | Werner Herzog | 1972 | FRG |
Apu trilogy (film trilogy) | Apu trilogy | Satyajit Ray | 1955-1959 | India |
The awful truth | The terrible truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 | United States |
Baby face | Baby face | Alfred E. Green | 1933 | United States |
Gang à part | The gang of outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 | France |
Barry Lyndon | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 | UK / USA |
Bàwáng Bié Jī | Farewell my concubine | Chen Kaige | 1993 | China |
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV movie) | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 | FRG |
Blade runner | Blade runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | United States |
Bonnie and Clyde | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 | United States |
Brazil | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 | Great Britain |
Bride of Frankenstein | Frankenstein's bride | James Whale | 1935 | United States |
Il buono, il gross, il cattivo | Two glorious scoundrels | Sergio Leone | 1966 | Italy |
Camille | The lady of the camellias | George Cukor | 1936 | United States |
Casablanca | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | United States |
C'era una volta il West | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 | Italy, USA |
Charade | Charade | Stanley Donen | 1963 | United States |
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie | The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | 1972 | France, Spain |
Chinatown | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 | United States |
Cunghìng Sam lam | Chungking Express | Wong Kar-Wai | 1994 | Hong Kong, China |
Citizen Kane | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | United States |
City lights | City lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 | United States |
Cidade de Deus | City of God |
Fernando Meirelles , Kátia Lund |
2002 | Brazil, France, USA |
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange | The crime of Mr. Lange | Jean Renoir | 1936 | France |
The crowd | A person of the crowd | King Vidor | 1927 | United States |
La Nuit américaine | The American night | François Truffaut | 1980 | France |
Decalogue (ten-part television film series) | Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988-1990 | Poland |
Detour | detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 | United States |
Dodsworth | Time of love, time of parting | William Wyler | 1936 | United States |
Double indemnity | Woman without a conscience | Billy Wilder | 1944 | United States |
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 | UK, USA |
Les enfants du paradis | Children of Olympus | Marcel Carné | 1945 | France |
ET The Extra Terrestrial | ET - The Alien | Steven Spielberg | 1982 | United States |
Finding Nemo | Find Nemo |
Andrew Stanton , Lee Unkrich |
2003 | United States |
The Fly | The fly | David Cronenberg | 1986 | Canada, USA |
The Godfather, Parts I and II | The Godfather and The Godfather - Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972, 1974 | United States |
Goodfellas | Good Fellas - Three decades in the Mafia | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | United States |
Hable con ella | Talk to her | Pedro Almodovar | 2002 | Spain |
A hard day's night | Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! | Richard Lester | 1964 | Great Britain |
His Girl Friday | His girl for special cases | Howard Hawks | 1940 | United States |
Hsia-nǚ | A touch of zen | King Hu | 1971 | Taiwan |
Ikiru | Really live once | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 | Japan |
In A Lonely Place | A lonely place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 | United States |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | The demonic | Don Siegel | 1956 | United States |
It's a gift | That’s a gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 1934 | United States |
It's a wonderful life | The life is wonderful, is not it? | Frank Capra | 1946 | United States |
Jui Kuen II | Drunken Master |
Liu Chia Liang , Jackie Chan |
1994 | Hong Kong |
Child Hearts and Coronets | noblesse oblige | Robert Hamer | 1949 | Great Britain |
King Kong | King Kong and the white woman |
Merian C. Cooper , Ernest B. Schoedsack |
1933 | United States |
The Lady Eve | The cardsharp | Preston Sturges | 1941 | United States |
The Last Command | His last order | Josef von Sternberg | 1928 | United States |
Lawrence of Arabia | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 | Great Britain |
Léolo | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 1992 | France, Canada |
Lord of the Rings (film trilogy) | Lord of the Rings | Peter Jackson | 2001-2003 | USA, New Zealand |
The Manchurian Candidate | Ambassadors of Fear | John Frankenheimer | 1962 | United States |
Meet Me in St. Louis | Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 | United States |
Metropolis | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 | Germany |
Miller's Crossing | Miller's Crossing | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1990 | United States |
Mon oncle d'Amérique | My uncle from America | Alain Resnais | 1980 | France |
Mouchette | Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1966 | France |
Nayakan | Nayakan | Mani Ratnam | 1987 | India |
Ninotchka | Ninochka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 | United States |
Notorious | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 | United States |
Olympia (two-part film) | Olympia | Leni Riefenstahl | 1938 | Germany |
On the waterfront | The fist on the neck | Elia Kazan | 1954 | United States |
Ostře sledované vlaky | Love on schedule | Jiří Menzel | 1966 | Czechoslovakia |
8½ (Otto e mezzo) | Eight and a half | Federico Fellini | 1963 | Italy |
Out of the past | Golden poison | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 | United States |
persona | persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 | Sweden |
Pinocchio | Pinocchio |
Hamilton Luske , Ben Sharpsteen |
1940 | United States |
Psycho | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | United States |
pulp Fiction | pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 | United States |
The Purple Rose of Cairo | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | 1985 | United States |
Pyaasa | Pyaasa | Guru bun | 1957 | India |
Les Quatre Cents Coups | They kissed and they hit him | François Truffaut | 1959 | France |
Raging Bull | Like a wild bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 | United States |
Safar-e Ghandehar | Trip to Kandahar | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2001 | Iran, France |
Schindler's List | Schindlers List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 | United States |
The Searchers | The black hawk | John Ford | 1956 | United States |
Sherlock, Jr. | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 | United States |
The Shop Around the Corner | Rendezvous after closing time | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 | United States |
Singin 'in the Rain | You should be my lucky star |
Stanley Donen , Gene Kelly |
1952 | United States |
The Singing Detective (TV Miniseries) | The singing detective | Jon Amiel | 1986 | Great Britain |
Some Like It Hot | Some like it hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 | United States |
Sommarnattens end | The smile of a summer night | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 | Sweden |
Starwars | war of stars | George Lucas | 1977 | United States |
A Streetcar Named Desire | End of the line longing | Elia Kazan | 1951 | United States |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Sunrise - song of two people | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | 1927 | United States |
Sweet Smell of Success | Your fate in my hand | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 | United States |
Swing time | Swing time | George Stevens | 1936 | United States |
Taxi driver | Taxi driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | United States |
Tōkyō monogatari | The trip to Tokyo | Ozu Yasujirō | 1953 | Japan |
Tschelowek s kinoapparatom | The man with the camera | Dsiga Wertow | 1929 | Soviet Union |
Ugetsu monogatari | Ugetsu - tales under the rain moon | Mizoguchi Kenji | 1953 | Japan |
Umberto D. | Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 1952 | Italy |
Unforgiven | Merciless | Clint Eastwood | 1992 | United States |
To Vlemma tou Odyssea | The look of Odysseus | Theo Angelopoulos | 1995 | Greece |
White heat | Leap to death | Raoul Walsh | 1949 | United States |
The sky over Berlin | The sky over Berlin | Wim Wenders | 1987 | FRG |
Yōjimbō | Yojimbo - The bodyguard | Akira Kurosawa | 1961 | Japan |
Web links
- Complete list with justifications at Time.com
See also
- Time selection of the best 100 English-language novels from 1923 to 2005
- American Film Institute rankings
- Sight & Sound ranking
- BBC Culture's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Corliss: Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews . In: Time . June 2, 2005, ISSN 0040-781X ( time.com [accessed May 26, 2020]).
- ^ Richard Corliss: Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews . In: Time . June 2, 2005, ISSN 0040-781X ( time.com [accessed May 26, 2020]).