Out of the Past 1947

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time?ok=

From https://letterboxd.com/reelstats/list/the-500-greatest-movies-of-all-time-according/

Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a list I made back in April, where I made a list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a preview of this list I made last month.

I want to emphasize that this is NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.

I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies, 11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and 9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).

As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations, Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.

Any feedback is appreciated, especially other sites I may not have sourced. If you found this list interesting, I would really appreciate it if you can give my newish Youtube channel a subscribe. It really helps a lot. Thanks guys.

Some stats:

Decades:
1900s - 1 film
1910s - 1
1920s - 22
1930s - 22
1940s - 40
1950s - 65
1960s - 75
1970s - 58
1980s - 54
1990s - 64
2000s - 55
2010s - 43

Directors with multiple films:
12 films - Akira Kurosawa
10 - Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman
8 - Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick
7 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Hayao Miyazaki, Steven Spielberg
6 - Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel
5 - Christopher Nolan, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen
4 - David Lynch, Ernst Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, Lee Unkrich, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Yasujirō Ozu
3 - Brad Bird, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clint Eastwood, Coen Brothers, David Fincher, David Lean, François Truffaut, Frank Capra, Hirokazu Koreeda, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Huston, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pete Docter, Peter Jackson, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Robert Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Sidney Lumet, Vittorio De Sica, Wim Wenders
2 - Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Andrew Stanton, Arthur Penn, Béla Tarr, Bong Joon-ho, Brian De Palma, Chris Marker, Edward Yang, Elia Kazan, Emir Kusturica, Frank Darabont, George Cukor, George Roy Hill, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Isao Takahata, Jacques Tati, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Jim Sheridan, John Cassavetes, John Lasseter, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kenji Mizoguchi, Leo McCarey, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Max Ophüls, Mike Leigh, Mike Nichols, Mikhail Kalatozov, Miloš Forman, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Park Chan-wook, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Weir, Raoul Walsh, Robert Zemeckis, Sam Mendes, Stanley Donen, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Vinterberg, Victor Fleming, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou

Based on TMC limited series: FOLLOW THE THREAD June/July 2022
Inspired by The Met Exhibition (2022) — IN AMERICA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FASHION

— June 4, 2022 - The Stars and Their Designers (mini documentary)
* 01. Love in the Afternoon / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 02. Belle de Jour / fet: Yves Saint Laurent
* 03. …And God Created Woman / fet: Pierre Balmain
* 04. Stage Fright / fet: Christian Dior
* 05. Bonnie and Clyde / fet: Theadora Van Runkle
* 06. Sabrina (1954) / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 07. Funny Face / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 08. Breakfast at Tiffany's / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 09. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon / fet: Halston
* 10. Cabaret / fet: Halston
* 11. The Hunger / fet: Yves Saint Laurent
* 12. Bay of Angels fet: Pierre Cardin
* 13. Tonight or Never / fet: Coco Chanel

— June 11, 2022 - Turning Points: Character Transformation Through Clothing (mini documentary)
* 14. Pygmalion (1938)
* 15. Now Voyager / featuring: Orry-Kelly
* 16. My Fair Lady
* 17. Crazy Rich Asians
* 18. Tootsie
* 19. The Joker
* 20. The Wizard of Oz
* 21. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
* 22 Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

— June 18, 2022 - Fashion Rule-Breakers (mini documentary)
* 23. Morocco
* 24. When Harry Met Sally
* 25. Victor/Victoria
* 26. Grand Hotel (1932)
* 27. The Aviator (2004)
* 28. Annie Hall
* 29. Sex and the City 2 (2010)
* 30. Jackie Brown
* 31. Woman of the Year
* 32. The Single Standard
* 33. A Woman of Affairs
* 34. Queen Christina
* 35. Christopher Strong
* 36. Sylvia Scarlett
* 37. The Philadelphia Story
* 38. Paris is Burning
* 39. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

— June 25, 2022 - 70's Styles
* 40. Mahogany
* 41. Taxi Driver

— July 2, 2022 - When Costume and Fashion Collide (mini documentary)
* 42. Sex and the City (2008)
* 43. Klute
* 22 Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
* 44 The Women (1939)
* 13 Tonight or Never / fet: Coco Chanel
* 02. Belle de Jour / fet: Yves Saint Laurent
* 23. Morocco
* 08. Breakfast at Tiffany's / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 04. Stage Fright / fet: Christian Dior
* 45. Mildred Pierce (1945)
* 46. Yankee Doodle Dandy
* 47. The Ambassador’s Daughter
* 48. Indiscretion of an American Wife
* 49. Roman Holiday
* 06. Sabrina (1954) / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 07. Funny Face / fet: Hubert de Givenchy
* 50. Paris When it Sizzles
* 51. American Gigolo / fet: Giorgio Armani
* 52. The Great Gatsby (2013)
* 53. Babette’s Feast / fet: Karl Lagerfeld
* 54. The Haunting / fet: Mary Quant

— July 9, 2022 - Dressed to Kill: Film, Crime and Fashion (mini documentary)
* 55. Double Indemnity (1944)
* 56. The Lady Eve
* 05. Bonnie and Clyde / fet: Theadora Van Runkle
* 57. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
* 58. The Arrangement
* 59. The Godfather Part II
* 60. Peggy Sue Got Married
* 61. Blow-Up
* 62. Morgan!
* 63. Mademoiselle
* 64. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
* 19. The Joker
* 65. Pulp Fiction
* 66. GoodFellas
* 67. The Public Enemy
* 68. A Clockwork Orange
* 30. Jackie Brown
* 69. Chinatown
* 70. Kill Bill
* 71. The Untouchables
* 72. Fatal Attraction
* 73. American Psycho
* 74. North by Northwest
* 45. Mildred Pierce
* 75. The Maltese Falcon
* 76. The Big Sleep
* 77. The Letter
* 78. Badlands
* 79. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
* 80. Nightmare Alley
* 43. Klute
* 81. Out of the Past
* 82. Dressed to Kill

— July 16, 2022 - Fashion and Interior Design
* 83. The Fountainhead
* 84. Dangerous Liaisons

— July 23, 2022 - Films that Changed Everything (mini documentary)
* 85. Rebel Without a Cause
* 86. The Wild One
* 87. Breathless (1960)
* 88. Bonjour Tristesse
* 89. The Harder They Fall (1956)
* 90. Grey Gardens
* 05. Bonnie and Clyde / fet: Theadora Van Runkle
* 68. A Clockwork Orange
* 91. Risky Business
* 61. Blow-Up
* 92. Flash Dance
* 93. Blade Runner (1982)
* 94. Out of Arica
* 44 The Women (1939)
* 45. Mildred Pierce
* 37. The Philadelphia Story
* 77. The Letter
* 04. Stage Fright / fet: Christian Dior
* 95. Dinner At Eight (1933)
* 96. Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
* 78. Badlands
* 97. Singing In The Rain
* 98. Thriller
* 99. Gone With The Wind
* 100. The Red Shoes (1948)
* 19. The Joker
* 101. Urban Cowboy
* 102. La La Land
* 52. The Great Gatsby (2013)
* 103. Broadcast News
* 104. Black Magic
* 105. Marie Antoinette (1938)
* 106. Marie Antoinette (2006)

— July 30, 2022 - Obsessions Of An Artist
* 107. Phantom Thread
* 108. Falbalas

— July 31, 2022 - Bonus Evening | The Truth About Fashion
* 109. Bill Cunningham New York
* 38. Paris is Burning

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I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.

The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 1000 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.

Taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3hbiio/update_1001_greatest_movies_of_all_time_plus/

An list of all the movies discussed on The Incomperable podcast.

Note: I have excluded the movies that are mentioned on episodes that talk about more than three movies such as the Harry Potter and Film Festival episode.

Movies of the 40's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.

Noir movies I've watched.

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X

The so-called golden age of Hollywood begins with advancements in film technology and also marks the creation of the Hay's Code. This was also the period when new genres of film emerged and further diverged into many sub genres. By the 1950s, heavy emphasis on spectacles and big-budget productions was also prominent. The period came to an end as the "New Wave" started.
[This is a series of lists listing films deemed important based on their technical, artistic, historical or cultural significance. This shall also serve as a good resource for film studies however it is extensively based on my own personal preferences.
Resources:
[1]r/truefilm, IMDb, AFI's top 100, Sight & Sound Critic's Directors' Top 100, and various others.
[2] Looking at Movies: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Movies-Fifth-Richard-Barsam/dp/0393600653 and The Movie Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained-ebook/dp/B017AR0MUS
[3] Download Links:Qxr, Sartre, Garshasp for more iconic ones. Yify and others for the rest. (Piracy Is Illegal ffs & I shall not be responsible)
Excerpt From https://www.imdb.com/user/ur73738276/watchlist?sort=release_date%2Casc&view=detail listing films from 1932's **Scarface to 1960's The Naked Island
PS: Trakt has incorrect dates for a great many titles. so use IMDb or wikipedia! This list uses IMDb and 'Rank' is the correct order. ]
Films already watched have been exempted. Imported 192/193

/u/StopReadinMyUsername on reddit created a list called "1001 'GREATEST' MOVIES OF ALL TIME" in 2015.

Since this list is still very popular, he posted an updated list on reddit in April 2020.

For this list he combined the average scores from IMDb, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic, and tweaked the results with data from Letterboxd, iCheckMovies, TSPDT?, TMDb and IMDb.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/fswg60/by_combining_the_average_scores_from_imdb/

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

A bunch of films with White people in them, and can involve White culture. They have to show them in a positive light, that's really it. This is built off Yggdrasil's pro-White list and many others from forums/greentext boards. These are what I'd consider great films, most of which teach good morals, that feature predominantly White casts. Given the extreme anti-White rhetoric plaguing American mainstream right now, it's nice to have a reliable list of watchable films. This list encompasses all genres, that's why it's a mess.

If you have a problem with this list existing, move on. There are plenty of racial pride lists for other ethnicities on Letterboxd, including black nationalism. This is just to catalog the best of cinema featuring Europeans.