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 Time Magazine's All-Time
100 Best Movies were selected by respected movie critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel in mid-2005. Their unranked list comprised the 100 most
influential movies of the past 82 years (since 1923, Time's first
year of publication).
Facts
and Commentary About the List:
- The films spanned comedy, horror, drama, romance,
action and more.
- Almost half of the films were made outside the
United States.
- Best Films of the Decade: Metropolis (1927), Dodsworth
(1936), Citizen Kane (1941), Ikiru (1952), Persona (1966), Chinatown (1974), The Decalogue (1989), Pulp
Fiction (1994), Talk to Her (2002)
- Britain was represented by the Ealing comedy Kind
Hearts and Coronets, Sir David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia,
and Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
- Of the 33 chosen films before 1950,
all but six were from Hollywood during its "Golden Age." Of
those 27 American films, nearly half (13), were directed by men born
abroad: three in England (Chaplin, Hitchcock and James Whale), three
in Germany (F.W. Murnau, Wyler and Lubitsch), three in Austria (Sternberg,
Wilder and Edgar G. Ulmer - all native Viennese), one each in Hungary
(Michael Curtiz), France (Jacques Tourneur) and one in Sicily (Capra).
- Of the 100 films, all were directed by men - except
for one, Germany's Leni Riefenstahl. And there were 11 non-Caucasian
directors - all Asian: Japanese, Chinese or Indian.
- Also, the list contained more entries—two—by
each of five different directors (Lubitsch, Kubrick, Bergman, Kurosawa,
and Leone) with Martin Scorsese scoring three entries.
- Robert DeNiro,
who starred in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, had five of
his films on the list, more than any other actor.
Omissions: Some of the more obvious choices (of American
English-language films) were missing from Time's list, however,
as noted by many readers, such as:
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