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BBC Culture's list of the 100 greatest American films according to 62 international critics. -- (link)

Posted by LMS (aka RufusS) Jul 21 '15, 07:50

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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films (www.bbc.com)

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Nice to see 25th Hour get a nod; it's criminally underrated. -- nm - emoticripple Jul 21, 08:21
No Goonies. No Love Actually. No Clue. This list is DTM. -- nm - ty97 Jul 21, 08:08 3
- I don't think I saw any John Hughes movies. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 08:24 1
  - *head explodes* -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 08:27
- And I guess Love Actually is kinda British - ty97 Jul 21, 08:08
Eyes Wide Shut????????? - groiny Jul 21, 07:59 12
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- I know and I agree. but I'm starting to hear (via podcasts) people re-evaluating that movie. -- nm - Remlik Jul 21, 08:28
- and the Tree of Life. good lord. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 08:14
- Have you ever watched the Golden Globes? Foreign movie press is a bunch of freaky pervs -- nm - ty97 Jul 21, 08:03
- Critics love Kubrick (even bad Kubrick) -- nm - LMS Jul 21, 08:02 3
  - No Clockwork Orange though (Too British?) -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 08:06 2
    - Kubrick never went further than 20 miles away from his London home to shoot. - LMS Jul 21, 08:12 1
      - And is another film left off the list. Great film and I liked it more than 2001. -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 08:15
- Also Back to the Future at 56 - eag Jul 21, 08:01
- it was a cinematic tour-de-force! -- nm - decline Jul 21, 08:00
- There are some pretty sketchy ones there. I love the movie, but Groundhog Day? Really? -- nm - Shaun Jul 21, 08:00 1
  - and Mulholland Drive is an odd one for sure. - groiny Jul 21, 08:00
Trick question: all our movies are great -- nm - jangles Jul 21, 07:57
I consider no 4 to be British. -- nm - LMS Jul 21, 07:57 3
- Yup. It was paid for by an American studio but it was all British otherwise. -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 07:58 2
  - American director, American actors... -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 08:02 1
    - Good point. It's a shared film. -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 08:06
Did they only ask critics that were 65 and older? -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 07:56 2
- Critics who study cinema -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 07:57
- Though this list would be a good place to start noting films I need to watch. -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 07:57
No Shawshank and the most recent movie in the top 10 is 40 years old? -- nm - decline Jul 21, 07:54
Whoa whoa whoa... wasn't #98 a notorious bomb? -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 21, 07:53 1
- Plenty of bombs are great films (though #98 is being reappraised these days) - Roger More Jul 21, 07:55
ST Sub Poll: There are 4 movies from the last 15 years on that list. Name them -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 07:52 11
- There Will Be Blood, The Master -- nm - emoticripple Jul 21, 08:03 1
  - No and no -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 08:03
- There's got to be a Pixar movie on here. Nemo? Cars? Up? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 07:58 3
  - No. Zero pixar -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 07:59 2
    - Wow. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 08:00 1
      - Only one Disney movie at all Lion King at 86 -- nm - eag Jul 21, 08:04
- Dark Knight? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 07:55 1
  - #96 -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 07:56
- No Country for Old Men, 12 Years a Slave -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 07:54 1
  - No. #99 -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 07:54
- Sorry, 6 movies -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 07:52

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