MyTopmostFilmsOfAllTimeInAlphabeticalOrder;NoPreferance(OftenCalledTheTopTenFilmsOfAllTime)
*Studied 'film' at a U.S. university; and teach 'film history' at college now!
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*This is a 'PERSONAL LIST'; MY idea; MY opinion; MY list! It is a plain simple 'PERSONAL LIST' just like 'ANY OTHER PERSONAL LIST/LISTS'! SO, PLEASE TREAT IT JUST AS SUCH!
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- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterWhen a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
My rating: 10/10
* 2001... RENDERED ALL SPACE SI-FIs TO COME AFTER FOREVER OBSOLETE! - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
My rating:10/10
* What a FEAT of creativity!!!
* NO OTHER SUPER-MASTERPIECE HAS BEEN MADE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD SINCE THIS EXCEPTIONAL FEAT OF BRAIN BITING MONUMENTAL WORK! - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenA mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorsJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsGanjirô NakamuraMachiko KyôHaruko SugimuraThe head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
My rating: 10/10
* IN MY OPINION, THE SINGLE BEST YASUJIRO OZU FILM! SURELY SUPERIOR TO HIS OTHER SUPER-MASTERPIECE "TOKYO MONOGATARI" ALSO (10/10)! AND THOUGH ROGER EBERT ALSO BELIEVED THAT "FLOATING WEEDS" IS A BETTER FILM THAN "TOKYO STORY", I HAVE TO AND I DO EMPHASIZE HERE THAT MY OPINION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS!!! ONE OF THE VERY BEST IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA! MAKE SURE TO WATCH IT BEFORE YOU DIE, THAT IS IF YOU ARE A FAN OF ELITE JAPANESE MASTERS SUCH AS OZU, MIZOGUCHI, KUROSAWA, KOBAYASHI, SHINDO, ETC. AND IF YOU DO, FOCUS ON EVERY MINUTE DETAIL IN THE VERY LAST OR TWO SEQUENCES AT THE END OF THE FILM - ONE OF THE GREATEST ENDINGS IN FILM HISTORY (JUST LIKE THE HEART-WRENCHING ENDING OF "PATHS OF GLORY" BY KUBRICK, OR THE SUPER-GREAT CYNICAL/SATIRICAL/RIDICULOUS ENDING OF HIS "DR. STRANGELOVE"... JUST TWO EXAMPLES AMONG THE MANY FEW... AND OF COURSE, DO NOT EVER FORGET THE ABSOLUTELY ULTRA-INTELLIGENT ENDING OF "KISS ME DEADLY" BY ROBERT ALDRICH...!!! - DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyMikhail NazvanovElza RadzinaAfter the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
My rating: 10/10
* THE TOP SHAKESPEAREAN FILM EVER MADE BY ANYONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT!
* KOZINTSEV ALSO MADE ANOTHER SHAKESPEAREAN SUPER-MASTERPIECE IN 1970, "KING LEAR"! SIMPLY ASTONISHING!
* NO ONE HAS EVER COME SO CLOSE TO SHAKESPEARE IN CINEMA SO FAR AS ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE IS CONCERNED, AND IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THEY EVER WILL! - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorsGrigoriy KozintsevIosif ShapiroStarsJüri JärvetElza RadzinaGalina VolchekA Soviet adaptation of a world-famous tragedy about an aged king and how cruelly he lose his illusions.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRalph MeekerAlbert DekkerPaul StewartA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
My rating: 10/10
*** WOW!!!
* WHAT A “PREMONITION” OF “WWIII” AND ITS “END RESULT”!!!
* WHAT A CONVINCING POSSIBILITY OF PANDORA’S BOX” MYTH TO COME TRUE IN ACTUAL LIFE”!!!
* WHAT A GENIUS CINEMATIC “BEGINNING” AND “ENDING” FOR A FILM … TO RUN LIKE HELL, PRACTICALLY NAKED UNDER YOUR OVERCOAT, TO SAVE YOUR LIFE AT “THE BEGINNING”; AND TO DESTROY THE WHOLE LIFE ON THE PLANET, EVEN MICROSCOPIC LIFE, AND SEND IT BACK, PERHAPS A COUPLE OF BILLION YEARS, RIGHT INTO THE “PREMORDIAL OCEAN” WHERE IT ALL BEGAN IN THE FIRST PLACE AT “THE END”!!!
* WHAT A PALEONTOLOGICAL “PRIMEVAL OCEAN” FOR THE BIRTH OF LIFE ON EARTH “IN REVERSE”!!!
* WHAT A “SUPER-INTELLIGENT” USE OF THE SILVER SCREEN CONVENTION, “THE END”, IN A HINT TO THE RETURN OF LIFE TO THE “PRIMEVAL OCEAN” “ON THE VERY LAST SCENE” OF A FILM!!!
* “NO WONDER” THIS ANTI-ARMAGEDDON PIECE OF ART IS CONSIDERED BY THE CONSCIOUS AND CONSCIENTIOUS FILM BUFFS AND CRITICS AS THE “ULTIMATE FILM NOIR OF ALL TIME” IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA!!!
* SIMPLY AN “ASTONISHING/STARTLING AND EVEN STUNNING” FILM ONLY IF ONE KNEW HOW TO READ IT!!!
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* THIS FILM IS DEFINITELY THE ULTIMATE FILM NOIR OF ALL TIME IN THE FILM HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!! ABSOLUTELY SUPERIOR TO ALL THE OTHER FILM NOIR MASTERPIECES MADE THROUGHOUT THE AGES; AND I HAVE TO EMPHASIZE THAT ALTHOUGH I RARELY COMMENT IN ABSOLUTE TERMS, I AM SPEAKING IN ABSOLUTE TERMS ON THIS OCCASION AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE WITH 100% POSITIVITY!!! ON THE WHOLE, I VERY STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THIS SUPER-MASTERPIECE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN IGNORED (EXCEPT BY A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF THE ELITE IN EUROPE - CAN FIND BY/FOR YOURSELVES) IN ORDER TO BE FORGOTTEN PREMEDITATEDLY AND PURPOSEFULLY; ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY ON PURPOSE; JUST LIKE A PREMEDITATED MURDER; AND I HAVE A PERSONAL THEORY ABOUT THIS "KISS ME, DEADLY" CASE THAT I DO NOT WISH TO SHARE WITH ANY-SINGLE-BODY ELSE BECAUSE I THINK EVERY BODY IF HE OR SHE IS A REAL BODY SHOULD TRY AND FIND IT OUT FOR THEMSELVES!!! YES, ON THE WHOLE, THIS MAGNIFICENT ULTRA-MASTERPIECE HAS DEFINITELY BEEN THE VICTIM OF A PREMEDITATED MURDER ATTEMPT SINCE 1955 ALTHOUGH IT IS STILL HAPHAZARDLY ALIVE, THOUGH RELATIVELY UNKNOWN, EVEN TODAY!!! I FEEL SO SORRY FOR ART AND THE ARTS, ALL OF THEM I MEAN, TO HAVE FALLEN VICTIM TO SINISTER SCHEMES PLANNED AND PROMOTED BY CERTAIN CLIQUES INSIDE THE HUMAN RACE TO FURTHER THEIR ....... !!!??? YES, I'M SO SORRY; SO VERY SORRY ABOUT ....... !!!??? FIND THIS "TOUR DE FORCE/ULTIMATE/TOPMOST FILM NOIR OF ALL TIME" BEFORE YOU DIE, FOR YOUR OWN SAKE IF YOU ARE A REAL ART BUFF AND/OR A TRUE FILM BUFF AT ALL!!! AND THE LAST POINT WHICH IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE: HOW THE FILM ENDS AT THE LAST THREE MINUTES NEEDS PALEONTOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL/MYTHOLOGICAL/POLITICAL/THE INVENTION OF N-BOMB HISTORY, ETC. KNOWLEDGE, AND CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE I MEAN, WHILE WATCHING THE FILM - AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THIS IS TO AT LEAST KNOW ABOUT "THE PRIMEVAL OCEAN" AND WHY THE PHRASE "THE END" APPEARS ON THE SCREEN WHILE THE COUPLE ARE ENTERING INTO THE WATER AT THE VERY LAST MOMENTS OF THE EXISTENCE OF LIFE ON THE PLANET BEFORE LIFE AND THE WHOLE LIFE IS BEING TOTALLY OBLITERATED AND ETERNALLY DELETED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH - AND EVEN EXPERTISE IN HOW TITLES AND CREDITS AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF A FILM ARE DESIGNED, IF DESIGNED SO INTELLIGENTLY AS IN THIS VERY UNIQUE FILM NOIR, AND HOW TO DECODE THEM AS INTELLIGENTLY AS THE FILM WANTS YOU TO!!! SO, GET THE CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE, AND BE CONSCIOUS OF IT WHILE WATCHING THE FILM AND FOLLOW ALL THE CUES NO MATTER HOW LITTLE/BIG SUCH AS ”””PANDORA’S BOX; THE GATES OF HELL; THE MANHATTAN PROJECT; THE DYING OF THE SCIENTIST AND AS A METAPHOR THE SELF-COMMITTED MURDER AND CONDEMNATION OF SCIENCE BY SCIENTISTS THEMSELVES WHEN IT IS USED FOR MURDEROUS OBJECTIVES; THE INTENSE LIGHT (THE CURSE OF PANDORA) ON THE FACE AND BODY OF THE TWO HUMAN BEINGS (AND NOT JUST PARTNERS) WHICH IS FILLING UP THE WHOLE SCREEN INCLUDING “THE OCEAN/WATER” (THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH) A PROPHECY OF WHAT IS TO BECOME OF LIFE ON THE PLANET AS A WHOLE NOT JUST FOR HUMANITY TO HAVE A DEAD COUPLE OR A COUPLE OF DEAD HUMAN BEINGS ON ITS HANDS - NO SURVIVORS AT ALL IN THIS ENDING, NONE WHATSOEVER, NOT ON THIS PARTICULAR COAST IN THIS PARTICULAR FILM, EVEN THE MOTHER OF ALL LIFE, “THE OCEAN” (CHECK THE MEANING OF "THE OCEAN" WITH THE DEFINITE ARTICLE “THE” IN DICTIONARIES) IS GOING TO END UP BEING JUST A DESOLATE “THE DEAD OCEAN” WITHOUT ANY SIGN OF LIFE; OR THE BEST OF ALL: "KISS ME ... KISS ME ... KISS ME ..." ……. AND ALL THE REST OF SUCH METAPHORICAL HINTS AND CLUES””” BEFORE YOU RATE THIS MAGNIFICENT ULTRA-MASTERPIECE!!!
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*** P.S. -- I SAW SOMEONE YELLING IN A VERY SHORT NEGLIGIBLE COMMENT ON THIS FILM COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WOMAN, WHO WAS FRANTICALLY FLEEING/RUNNING FROM SOMETHING EXTREMELY DREADFUL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM, HANGING (APPARENTLY NUDE - MY WORD) SOME MINUTES LATER INTO THE FILM WHILE BEING SAVAGELY TORTURED, DEAFENINGLY SCREAMING AND ULTIMATELY GETTING KILLED AND ALL THE REST …….!!! WHAT AN “IGNORANT” PERSON WHEN IT COMES TO “HOW TO READ A FILM”!!! IT REALLY TAKES “LOTS OF GUTS” TO NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF A WORD IN A SENTENCE OR A SENTENCE IN A PARAGRAPH AND “DARE” COMMENT ON IT FOR SUCH LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ON THE NET TO SEE HOW “ILLITERATE” ONE CAN TRULY BE!!! INSTEAD OF SUCH “SELF-INFLICTING DISGRACE”, ONE SHOULD GO PICK UP AND STUDY A COUPLE OF GOOD BOOKS ON “HOW TO READ A FILM” BEFORE OPENING HIS/HER MOUTH OR TURN HIS/HER PEN OR FINGERS LOOSE ON THE WEB!!! “WHAT A SHAME/WHAT A GOOF AND A GAFFE/WHAT AN UNNECESSARY SHAME”!!! - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
My rating: 10/10
* BEST FELLINI FILM! - DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsDavid AlbrittonArvo AskolaJack BeresfordThe document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
My rating: 10/10
* SPECTACULAR DIRECTING; UNPARALLELED MOVING IMAGES ON THE SCREEN; SIMPLY STARTLING! - DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsShigeo AraiJack BeresfordRalf BerzsenyiThe document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
My rating: 10/10
* SPECTACULAR DIRECTING; UNPARALLELED MOVING IMAGES ON THE SCREEN; SIMPLY STARTLING! - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
My rating: 10/10
* BEST KUROSAWA FILM! - DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJoel McCreaRandolph ScottMariette HartleyAn ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
My rating: 10/10
* THIS IS NOT JUST A MERE WESTERN! IT GOES FAR BEYOND WHAT THE WESTERN GENRE HAS TO OFFER TO THE VIEWER!!!
* This Peckinpah immortal super-masterpiece was very well-received and loved in Europe and beat Fellini's OTTO E MEZZO for the fist prize at a competition in Belgium in 1964!!!
* WAS RELEASED AS "GUNS IN THE AFTERNOON" IN ALMOST ALL COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE U.S. -- AFTER THE ORIGINAL NOVEL I BELIEVE! - DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
My rating: 10/10 - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
My rating: 10/10
