Pierro Scaruffi's Top 40 Films of all Time

The fact that so many books still name Citizen Kane as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" film ever only tells you how far film still is from becoming a serious art. Television critics have long recognized that the greatest television programs of all times are The Wire and The Sopranos, which were not the most famous or highest rated or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Broadway critics rank the highly controversial Les Miserables over rock operas that were highly popular in circles around New York. Film critics are still blinded by commercial success. Citizen Kane sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore it must have been the greatest. Television critics grow up watching to a lot of television of the past, Broadway critics grow up watching a lot of stage musicals of the past. Film critics are often totally ignorant of the films of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that Orson Welles did anything worthy of being saved.

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I'm surprised he has Hero on there. It feels too much like Chinese propaganda for me.

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>Christopher Nolan

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Not a single Godard, Rivette, or Edward Yang film there ugh

Also, lol@ memento

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>1. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)

Stopped reading there

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The lower half of the lsit is great. Sympathy for mr Vengeance and Lost highway are some of the best movies and are criminally under recognized by everyone else.

North by Northwest isnt my favorite of his but to each their own I guess

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Scruffy is literally the most patrician man in existence. Sorry you brainlets don't realize this

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Fuck off

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>Avventura, L'
1960
Michelangelo Antonioni

>Intolerance
1916
D.W. Griffith

>Jules et Jim
1962
François Truffaut

>Lawrence of Arabia
1962
David Lean

>Lola
1961
Jacques Demy

>Magnificent Ambersons, The
1942
Orson Welles

>Nashville
1975
Robert Altman

>Nouvelle Vague
1990
Jean-Luc Godard

>Passion of Joan of Arc
1927
Carl Theodor Dreyer

>Sansho Dayu
1954
Mizoguchi Kenji

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THE

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>Godard
even Bergman said that he was a pretentious hack

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I clicked on this thread hoping for this pasta and you didn't disappoint, thanks

he specifically says that's not his list, but what his tastes are sorta like

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>1. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
is this how you know a person has 0 personality

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>no Ford
>no Lubitsch

Who knew he was such a pleb?