MovieGuide Top 100 Films of All Time

I use MovieGuide.org a lot to see if a movie will be acceptable for my kids. In general their opinions and mine about a film's appropriateness are pretty much in-line. Anyway, they have started a countdown of their opinion of the top 100 movies of all time. I thought I'd share it here and see what the people here thought of the choices. They've been doing it for two weeks, so far. I'll post each week with their updates.

Week 1 - 100-91:
http://movieguide.org/list/top-10-li...countdown.html

100. MODERN TIMES (1936)
dir: Charlie Chaplin
starring: Charlie Chaplin

99. Shirley Temple Tie:
THE LITTLE COLONEL (1935)
dir: David Butler
starring: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1936)
dir: Irving Cummings
starring: Shirley Temple, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart
HEIDI (1937)
dir: Allan Dwan
starring: Shirley Temple
WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937)
dir: John Ford
starring: Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1938)
dir: Allan Dwan
starring: Shirley Temple, Jack Haley, Randolph Scott, Gloria Stuart

98. YOU CAN’T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939)
dir: George Marshall
starring: WC Fields, Edgar Burgen

97. TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM (1988)
dir: Francis Ford Coppola
starring: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau

96. STAND AND DELIVER (1988)
dir: Ramon Menendez
starring: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips

95. INTOLERANCE (1916)
dir: DW Griffith
starring: Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks

94. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922)
dir: Robert J. Flaherty
starring: Allakariallak, Nyla, Canayou

93. THE PINK PANTHER (1963)
dir: Blake Edwards
starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner

92. BAMBI (1942)
dir: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong
starring: Sam Edwards, Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander

91. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
dir: Michael Curtiz
starring: James Cagney, Walter Huston
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

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Week 2 - 90-81:
http://movieguide.org/list/top-10-li...89/Page-1.html

90. THE GENERAL (1926)
dir: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
starring: Buster Keaton

89. GREED (1924)
dir: Erich von Stroheim
starring: Zasu Pitts

88. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (1950)
dir: Walter Lang
starring: Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy

87. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
dir: Don Siegel
starring: Kevin McCarthy, Carolyn Jones

86. TOP HAT (1935)
dir: Mark Sandrich
starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

85. GOING MY WAY (1944)
dir: Leo McCarey
starring: Bing Crosby, Gene Lockhart
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

84. THE SEVENTH SEAL (1941)
dir: Ingmar Bergman
starring: Max von Sydow

83. EL CID (1961)
dir: Anthony Mann
starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren

82. RASHOMON (1950)
dir: Akira Kurosawa
starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura

81. SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
dir: Akira Kurosawa
starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
(#45 on MoFo 100 2010)

Four very good picks, IMO. Intolerance is a good pick, too, but I'm not convinced that it's top 100 'good'. Still, interesting nonetheless.

Week 3 - 80-71:
http://www.movieguide.org/list/top-1...own-80-71.html

80. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1935)
dir: Frank Capra
starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

79. CASABLANCA (1942)
dir: Michael Curtiz
starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
(#17 on MoFo 100 2010)
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

78. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993)
dir: James Ivory
starring: Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson

77. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
dir: Orson Welles
starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead
(#22 on MoFo 100 2010)
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

76. GOODBYE MR. CHIPS (1939)
dir: Sam Wood
starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

75.Dr. Jekyll tie:
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941)
dir: Victor Fleming
starring: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920)
dir: John S. Robertson
starring: John Barrymore

74. VERTIGO (1958)
dir: Alfred Hitchcock
starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
(#29 on MoFo 100 2010)

73. THE QUIET MAN (1952)
dir: John Ford
starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

72. SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER (1995)
dir: Steven Zaillian
starring: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne

71. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)
dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley
starring: Gene Kelley, Debbie Reynolds
(#52 on MoFo 100 2010)

I'm actually interested in why Intolerance beat out Birth Of A Nation. Not that I prefer either, but Birth was more culturally significant I think.

Why is Citizen Kane & Casablanca so low on the list ??? Explain Movieguide...EXPLAIN!!!?

Probably because they've been seen so many times by the public, and that there may be some movie fatigue there. Who knows?

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I, too, am suprised at the low placement of such critical favorites. However, Movieguide being what it is, I'm expecting very strong showings for films like The Sound of Music, The Ten Commandments, The Robe, Ben Hur, The Passion of the Christ, which, while they often appear on "best of" lists, normally appear in the lower ranks. Every list of "Best Films" is subjective to the opinions and beliefs of the compilers, and given that Movieguide has a family/religious slant, I look for films leaning that direction to perform better here than elsewhere.

Glad to see the first Capra film on the list. I highly anticipate at least one more showing up.

citizen kane is too high

Love seeing Goodbye, Mr Chips on this list. I love that film.

Thanks MovieGuide, I forgot about Searching For Bobby Fisher. I think im going to watch it this weekend. Its a good movie but I think its positon on that list is a little generous. Better than Casablanca jeez.

Week 4 - #70-61:
http://www.movieguide.org/list/top-1...own-70-61.html

70. EMPIRE OF THE SUN (1987)
dir: Steven Spielberg
starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich

69. SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946)
dir: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
starring: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett

68. FORREST GUMP (1994)
dir: Robert Zemeckis
starring: Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
(#33 on MoFo 100 2010)
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

67. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
dir: Robert Mulligan
starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall
(#73 on MoFo 100 2010)
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

66. PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942)
dir: Sam Wood
starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

65. THE YEARLING (1946)
dir: Clarence Brown
starring: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman

64. THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
dir: David Lynch
starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

63. THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965)
dir: Carol Reed
starring: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison

62. THE LION KING (1994)
dir: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
starring: Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane

61. ONCE UPON A TIME...WHEN WE WERE COLORED (1996)
dir: Tim Reid
starring: Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Salli Richardson-Whitfield

40 films revealed so far, and only 7 overlap with the current 2010 MoFo 100 (which is actually more than I expected at this stage). I've seen less of these movies than I have on the MoFo list. I've only seen 7 of them so far (not all the same 7). A lot of interesting looking picks, though.

That last lot really does little to inspire me. Empire of The Sun, Pride Of The Yankees, The Yearling and The Agony And The Ecstacy are all films I couldn't give a monkeys about. I've tried and failed to watch all of them at one time or another. In fact, the only film there that I've seen and really enjoyed is Forrest Gump and I don't think that's even close to top 100 worthy, IMO.

I don't really take this list seriously, but the fact is that if I want people to take my list seriously, then maybe I should reconsider.

From this last list, I actually REALLY like Empire of the Sun, Song of the South, Forrest Gump, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Yearling, The Elephant Man and The Lion King.

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I don't see any reason to take this list any less seriously than any other list. The only difference between this list, the AFI lists, or even the MoFo list is the personal tastes of the people compiling it. Just because this group looks at films using religious/family values viewpoint doesn't make their opinions any less ligitimate than anyone else's. Sure, there will be films here that won't be likely to show up on many other lists, but there would be several on mine that won't either, and I'd venture the same could be said for yours. If every "Best of" list was always the same, we would only need one.

ya, it seems that most of the lists are relatively the same because the people who know good movies add to the lists and they all turn out the same lol.

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Actually, I was saying that everyone's list is different because everyone's definition of what makes a "good" movie is different. There are some films that seem to pop up on almost every list - The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Casablanca - but those are exceptions, not the rule. My list of all-time "best" or "favorite" movies would include the two Clayton Moore Lone Ranger films, the three (probably four after Courageous is released) Sherwood Pictures films, and several more Frank Capra films than generally pop up. Those are films that would likely be unique to my list. After looking at Mark's list, I see his is largely unique as well. There can never be a definitive "Best Films" list because it is entirely subjective.

Week 5 - #60-51:
http://www.movieguide.org/articles/m...own-60-51.html

60. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
dir: John Ford
starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
(#58 on MoFo 100 2010)

59. AMISTAD (1997)
dir: Steven Spielberg
starring: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey

58. CRY IN THE DARK (1988)
dir: Fred Schepisi
starring: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill

57. WITNESS (1985)
dir: Peter Weir
starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lucas Haas, Danny Glover, Viggo Mortenson
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)

56. DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989)
dir: Bruce Beresford
starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

55. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
dir: William Wyler
starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews
(Academy Award Winner - Best Picture)

54. FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
dir: Fred M. Wilcox
starring: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis

53. SHANE (1953)
dir: George Stevens
starring: Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

52. METROPOLIS (1927)
dir: Fritz Lang
starring: Alfred Abel, Brigette Helm, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

51. TOY STORY 2 (1999)
dir: John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles