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Avant-garde Iceberg

54 films

Avant-garde or Experimental Film. Perhaps best described as "how much can I get away with and still be able to…

  • Citizen Kane
  • The Godfather
  • Seven Samurai
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 8½

Ostensibly the Greatest Films... So Far

100 films

Ranking the greatest films to have ever been made is a pointless exercise, even more so if the ranking avows…

  • The Godfather
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Casablanca
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Winners for the Academy Award for Best Picture... Ranked

54 films

Sometimes the Academy gets it right when awarding the Oscar for Best Picture. Most of the time it doesn't... sometimes…

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Citizen Kane
  • The 400 Blows
  • Pather Panchali
  • The Maltese Falcon

Ranking Directorial Debuts

58 films

If I've seen a director's debut feature, I rank it. For some, it was all downhill from there; for others,…

  • Psycho
  • Yojimbo
  • Harakiri
  • High and Low
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The Yearly Best: 1960s

10 films

My flawed and subjective opinion on what is the best film of each calendar year of the 1960s, or the…

  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • For a Few Dollars More
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • A Fistful of Dollars

The Films of Sergio Leone: Ranked

7 films

The films of Sergio Leone ranked from best to worst. There's only a fistful of them, but they're almost all…

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Parasite
  • The Third Man
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Pulp Fiction

Palme d'Or Winners Ranked

31 films

Cannes will never admit this, but their hit rate is about as bad as the Academy's wherein sometimes they get…

  • Seven Samurai
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Harakiri
  • Yojimbo

Personal Greatest Films

20 films

Films or movies (or whateveryou call pictures moving at many frames per second) for the metaphorical desert island.

  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Ace in the Hole
  • Ikiru
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Seven Samurai

The Yearly Best: 1950s

10 films

My flawed and subjective opinion on what is the best film of each calendar year of the 1950s which also…

  • The Great Dictator
  • Citizen Kane
  • Casablanca
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • Double Indemnity

The Yearly Best: 1940s

10 films

My flawed and subjective opinion on what is the best film of each calendar year of the 1940s which have…

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • The Phantom Carriage
  • Nosferatu
  • Our Hospitality
  • Sherlock Jr.

The Yearly Best: 1920s

10 films

My flawed and subjective opinion on what is the best film of each calendar year of the 1920s or the…

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • City Lights
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Duck Soup
  • It Happened One Night

The Yearly Best: 1930s

10 films

My flawed and subjective opinion on what is the best film of each calendar year for the 1930s when so…