My Vote for the Greatest 10 Movies. What's Yours? 

To see A Brighter Summer Day on your list is just beautiful.

excellent, thank you.

I love la dolce vita but as far as Fellini films go I would probably put 8 1/2 above it.

@@dylanalogy1456 I'd put Amarcord above both of them.

Great list. Seen them all except Sátántangó and Out 1.

thank you. A French Connection sighting, plus Errol Morris shows up!

The seventh seal is my favorite movie of all time Thanks for voting 😫😍

thank you. Wow, you get a BFI vote!

The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeois is such a terrific film!

Thank you for including THE SEVENTH SEAL. It is a pity that more of your peers did not do the same.

I think Paolo Sorrentino agrees with you about Once Upon a Time. Interesting that the LoTR movies are showing up in your lists. I suspect that it might end up being like Star Wars, quite influential on 20-30 somethings for the rest of their lives, and so it will begin showing up in greatest-of lists as people in this age-range have more votes.

great list

Happy you choose Once upon a time. Totally enthralled by it when I saw it last year and planning to rewatch again sometime this year.

Like that you have Titanic on the list, everything apart from the screenplay is masterful. Love that movie.

@@LearningaboutMovies yah I think the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is a worthy selection because it really opened up one of the most beloved and well crafted fantasy series of all time which really demonstrates the power of movie making.

thank you.

Intresting im seeing Amadeus a lot on here, and I know so many people who are recommending it to me. The trailer I saw looked a little bit goofie to me, but maybe I should just give it a shot.

thank you. Colonel Blimp is great.

thank you.

My two all time favorites are: Blade Runner 2049 and A Brighter Summer Day.

@@KimRoesener glad to see someone else with Blade Runner 2049 on their list. Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think it’s actually better than the original. Not only does it expand on the universe and introduce more philosophical ideas but it’s gotta be the most gorgeous movie ever made visually. Not sure why it isn’t as revered as it deserves to be. Maybe cos it’s still so new and only time will tell if people remember it in 20 years but something tells me it’ll go down in history as one of the best sequels ever.

@@q-q__b4175 I agree with you. It made me appreciate the first one even more because of the continuation of its story and the world that it builds upon. Both of them are fantastic and I do prefer 2049 to the first one as well.

Nice, two Edward Yang Films.

That's a lot of Wong Kar Wai!

this is great. I thought hard about putting Lloyd in here, who I really love. The problem is I have to choose from Why Worry, The Freshman, and Speedy. Wish I could just package them and put them together in this list! Really interesting on American History X. I haven't seen that since it was released, so I should rewatch. good reminder.

"Safety Last" was briefly my favourite film when I was about 6 years old. I vividly remember the sense of peril I felt.

I like your list. Every list here seems unique and alluring. ❤

@@jiten2023 Thanks! The shocker on the list seems to be American History X. Edward Norton's performance is my favourite film performance ever, so I had to include it.

@@linkbiff1054 Edward Norton is one of the underrated actors. His performance contains some amount of pathos that can rarely be achieved.

episodes 1, 5, 6 and 10 are pure masterpieces

you're welcome.

you're welcome. I appreciate your comment and viewing.

thank you very much. Please post your list at some point. Given the responses, I think I'll gather then up a present a readers' choice of top picks in some future video.

@@LearningaboutMovies I think my list will be in no order and just my personal favourites: 1. Barry Lyndon 2. Cries and Whispers 3. Nosferatu (Herzogs one) 4. Sunrise a song of two humans 5. The thin blue line 6. The Vanishing 1988 7. Picnic at Hanging Rock 8. Vertigo 9. All About Eve 10. Bad Timing I hate to admit I haven't seen a lot of movies from different countries (Asia mostly), and I know Akira Kurosawa would definitely make this list once I get around to watching his movies. I'm raising two young babies so I find it hard to commit to movies longer than 2 hours haha

Great list!

Wild Strawberries 😍

excellent, thank you.

thank you.

thank you very much, Garrett. I appreciating you watching, and keep watching movies!

thank you! The Kid, and actually most or all of these, are contenders on mine. Really picking one silent would be tough. Probably should have a list like this just for silents.

thank you very much.

Nice mix and choices

thank you.

Tokyo Story deserves it 😍

Great list!

This is a great list

very good, thank you.

Ed wood!!! I totally forgot to put that one on my list. What a phenomenal film.

Damn I love To Kill a Mockingbird. I feel a bit guilty to put it on a top 10 because I never see it there but yes let's promote it!

An Ed Wood sighting! Comedy gets no respect in awards on on lists. It's in short supply, but you've got four of them and Patton is pretty funny to me.

great list, thank you.

excellent, thank you. Feel free to post that list. If you don't have it recorded online, you can pretty easily make one at letterboxd and link to it here, if you wish.

going to heaven for#6

Yes, I would like a list of 30, three tiers, each tier gets different point value. That would make it easier to insert multiple films from the same director/time period/genre.

excellent, thank you.

Black narcissus 😯😯😯😯 it's an extraordinary movie most of the people don't even know it. Micheal Powell is an extraordinary director

thank you. I'd gladly swap your list for mine.

Amadeus 😎

great stuff here. I recently (two days ago) rewatched French Connection and was blown away.

great list, thank you.

This list, watched all in a row, would really mess with your head! thank you.

Love Exposure blew my mind 🤯

"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a tremendous film.

Ah, Camera Buff as your Kieslowski. A sleeper!

thank you.

excellent, thank you.

thank you!

thank you very much. The bluray version of Gone with the Wind is one of the best looking digital versions I've seen.

thanks. just fyi, in case: there's a video about it on this channel.

thank you very much. Great list!

thank you. Good Morning might be my favorite Ozu.

Thank you. Rope is a real Hitchcock sleeper, probably a rare pick but of course the formal experimentation there is close to unparalleled.

Thank you Josh. What I like about these lists is that each is unique. Simply because we all are unique in our thoughts. Can you review The Apu Trilogy? The Criterion restoration is extraordinary.

I did a short video, kind of an introductory thing, on the Apu Trilogy. It's on the channel somewhere. Probably should do something in-depth in the future on each film in the trilogy.

Though it doesn't quite crack my top ten, 12 Angry Men is indeed first-rate cinema.

great list, thank you.

thank you!

LA Dolce vita 😍

thanks. If I didn't put Ratatouille in, I'd put Wall-E, or Totoro/Nausicaa/Castle in the Sky.

thank you. I hope everyone gets a chance to watch these at some point.

Solid list. There is a couple on that list I have yet to see and will definitely have to check out sooner rather than later. I don't think you either fully can or even should try to seperate your favorites from "the best," as if there even is some scientifically objective way to measure such a thing in a manner completely detatched from ypur experience of a thing. Obviously you can love movies that you acknowledge aren't particularly great, but you can also recognize that something is great and not personally love it. In that case, why put it on your list in the first place? At that point, you'd just be regurgitating something closer to consensus rather than providing your own unique perspective that balances both your recognition of quality and your equally valid experience with something. Is The Godfather a better movie than Return of the King? Probably, and purely on a technical level, I would probably completely agree (for the record, I love them both), but I can't and won't deny that ROTK spoke to something in my soul on a deeper level than The Godfather did or probably ever will. I think that's something that ought to be taken heavily into account and shouldn't be ignorwd. While I think there's value in acknowledging that which is widely recognized for its greatness, putting that at the forefront of one's judgment with no regard for how it did or didn't personally resonate with you defeats the purpose of making your own list, I think. It says nothing about the films themselves other than what everyone else says, and it reveals nothing about the person making the list. At the same time, I might rather watch Zombieland over Taxi Driver more often than not at any given time, but I'm not going to pretend as though Taxi Driver isn't both an excellent film and in a completely different league above Zombieland. My point is that there's an intangible but clear balance between objective quality and subjective experience, and you can't really quantify that sort of thing. They are both equally important and our experience with the art form is uniquely valuable.

Sunset Boulevard is my favorite here, the most iconic movie ever

Ben Hur is great 😍

love it and am grateful. I have tried to dig Ben Hur, but .... really it has two unforgettable sequences, the naval battle and the chariot race. That's pretty good, to have two memorable scenes from one movie.

@@LearningaboutMovies Aw yeah, it’s a hard one to warm up to Now, it was really hard for me not to put babettes feast and kin dza dza on here, I absolutely love them but I feel like they arent necessarily the most influential

Interesting. Would love to hear what you like about Poseidon Adventure. I only saw it on TV as a kid.

Thank you!

thank you.

yeah, Empire could be subbed for A New Hope. I really would rather rewatch that one out of any of them.

thank you. I have a video on Grand Illusion coming out very soon.

1. Grand Illusion 2. Andrei Rublev 3. Citizen Kane 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. Brokeback Mountain 6. The Passion of Joan of Arc 7. The Wizard of Oz 8. City Lights 9. Sansho the Bailiff 10. A Man Escaped Will cheat. Wish I could include 10 more including All About Eve; Au Hasard Balthazar; Rashomon; Children of Paradise; Gone with the Wind; Lawrence of Arabia; The Crowd; Breaking the Waves; The Grapes of Wrath; City of God. Bothers me that certain great films are ignored, including these 10: Wuthering Heights (1939); The Pianist; The Wages of Fear; Ballad of a Soldier; The Shop on Main Street; In the Year of 13 Moons; Water (by Deepa Mehta); Farewell, My Concubine; Cabaret; and Napoleon (1927).

you're welcome. Locke is indeed a great movie, and I should get to that on this channel. good reminder, thank you.

Great movie. It takes a special kind of actor to carry a story like that, and Tom Hardy is definitely one of them.

thank you!

Nice

excellent, thank you. Iron Giant is the very rare movie that gets a tear from me.

@@ranganmajumder2200 I haven't and I'm definitely not planning to. I may be pretentious, but not pretentious enough to watch 8 hours of the empire state building. I genuinely enjoy the films on my list which probably won't be the case with warhol films

thank you.

4th is really heavy and dark, a consideration of Freud, among other things. But 1 is the darkest maybe.

thank you.

great list -- in fact, a lot of life-giving films here. I wish the BFI were more like that, at least with a few more positive/comedic films.

@@LearningaboutMovies It took me awhile to figure out why the BFI critics list disappointed me, and I have come to believe many of the academic choices lack the joy of cinema, the emotional and visceral celebration of visual storytelling. Jeanne Dielman may be a fine exercise in dogmatics, but if you wanted to introduce someone to the possibilities of cinema would that be your first gut reaction choice to show someone? Singin in the Rain, yes; The Godfather, yes; La Strada, yes; Seven Samauri, yes; Notorious, yes...Jeanne Dielman? Hopefully, in 20 years (if I live that long, Lord willing) I will see a Malick at top spot. Your choice or mine would be fine...

thank you.

thank you.

Papillion has been a longtime personal favorite of mine. thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead! I assume you mean sifting through the comments here. I would do a video on that and give you credit.

@@LearningaboutMovies yes indeed! If you like I can email you to keep in touch and inform you about the details of how I compile the list!

Paris, Texas is something else. Fantastic movie

great stuff. You remind me to rewatch My Father's/My Mother's. I would consider them one long movie. The Straight Story is arguably the greatest movie about the American Midwest.

@@LearningaboutMovies Thanks for the reply! You’re right they work as one film. I felt that My Father’s is the pitch perfect one, but the ending of My Mother’s brings it all together quite movingly. I’m surprised and a little in wonder about what you think about The Straight Story. There’s something indelible about it right, not the least being the kind of miraculous performance we get from Richard Farnsworth. He would be my Grandparents age who both served in WW 2. My Grandfather on my dad’s side was from Wisconsin, and my moms side is from Yokohama. It’s like a tome to Midwestern Decency and Landscapes. (Tome isn’t quite right.) I love the bartender near the end. Mark Cousins is right. He’s straight out of an Ozu film.

No, and that is a good suggestion. Thank you.

thank you.

interesting inclusion of American in Paris. One of my absolute favorites is Gene Kelly.

@@LearningaboutMovies I think it’s beautifully directed and all of the musical numbers hit

thank you. We have an "Only Angels" sighting!

thank you.

Shhh! Do ya want to be sued?

thank you