EDitorial ± 9-May-2006

Channel 4 100 Greatest Films

Back in 2001 -- have those list programs really been going on that long? -- Channel 4 announced the results of their poll to find the 100 Greatest Films. Ever!

(for an alternative, you could always try Barry Norman's 100 top films instead)

Here's their list:

  1. Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back
  2. The Godfather/The Godfather (Part II)
  3. The Shawshank Redemption
  4. Pulp Fiction
  5. Some Like it Hot
  6. Gladiator
  7. It's a Wonderful Life
  8. Blade Runner
  9. Schindler's List
  10. GoodFellas
     
  11. Jaws
  12. Psycho
  13. Apocalypse Now
  14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  15. The Matrix
  16. Casablanca
  17. The Usual Suspects
  18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  19. Citizen Kane
  20. Raging Bull
     
  21. ET
  22. Taxi Driver
  23. The Life of Brian
  24. Singin' in the Rain
  25. LA Confidential
  26. The Wizard of Oz
  27. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  28. Kes
  29. Vertigo
  30. Lawrence of Arabia
     
  31. Fargo
  32. Gone with the Wind
  33. Trainspotting
  34. The Full Monty
  35. The Graduate
  36. Alien
  37. The Silence of the Lambs
  38. Withnail and I
  39. The Great Escape
  40. Toy Story
     
  41. The Third Man
  42. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  43. The Sound of Music
  44. Fitzcarraldo
  45. Deliverance
  46. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
  47. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  48. Chinatown
  49. The Exorcist
  50. Annie Hall
     
  51. The Italian Job
  52. Sunset Boulevard
  53. The Jungle Book
  54. Titanic
  55. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
  56. Dr Strangelove
  57. Rebel Without a Cause
  58. Seven Samurai
  59. A Matter of Life and Death
  60. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
     
  61. Secrets and Lies
  62. Blue Velvet
  63. La Dolce Vita
  64. Spartacus
  65. Metropolis
  66. Bonnie and Clyde
  67. King Kong
  68. Get Carter
  69. The Searchers
  70. The Seventh Seal
     
  71. Don't Look Now
  72. Brief Encounter
  73. M*A*S*H
  74. The French Connection
  75. Top Hat
  76. The Producers
  77. Three Colours Trilogy
  78. Cabaret
  79. Goldfinger
  80. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
     
  81. The Gold Rush
  82. High Noon
  83. Saturday Night Fever
  84. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  85. Enter the Dragon
  86. Breathless
  87. Ice Cold in Alex
  88. Battleship Potemkin
  89. African Queen
  90. The General
     
  91. A Hard Day's Night
  92. Way Out West
  93. Henry V
  94. Easy Rider
  95. My Beautiful Laundrette
  96. Belle de Jour
  97. The Bride of Frankenstein
  98. Terminator
  99. Saturday Night Sunday Morning
  100. Do the Right Thing

Good stuff.