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The 101 greatest movies of all time ranked and critiqued. Fully updated for the paperback edition with new films.
From The Godfather (#1) to Groundhog's Day (#101) The Greatest Movies Ever is fun and controversial ranking of the greatest movies of all time, as selected by film critics Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza and including comedies, dramas, musicals, romances, and action films compiled from 80 years of movie making and from all around the world. The list includes such classics as Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, and Schindler's List; international films such as The 400 Blows and Roshomon; as well as more recent films including Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Slumdog Millionaire.
Kinn and Piazza offer smart, insightful, and often hilarious commentary for each film as well as cast lists, plot synopses, a tribute to their favorite scene, biographies of the director and key actors, award nominations and wins, behind-the-scene anecdotes, quotes from critics, and more.
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal; Reprint edition (January 18, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 324 pages
ISBN-10 : 1579128904
ISBN-13 : 978-1579128906
Item Weight : 2.7 pounds
Dimensions : 1 x 1 x 1 inches
Reviewer: Ladylou312
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Movie Buffs Will Love It!
Review: Perfect for a quick read or a longer leisurely perusal.
Reviewer: sallie coltharp
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: looks great
Review: I had an old book of this sort and wanted an updated guide for movies we might like and could get on Nexflix or Amazon.We don't like CRAP! & there's so much of that out here now!!thanks
Reviewer: Cheryl Thurber
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not the Greatest Movie book
Review: I am a sucker for movie guides, always looking for overlooked gems. There are better books out there. The selections are odd, and definitely the authors' personal tastes. I quibble about the order of most of them, and the inclusion of some. Godfather to Groundhog probably says it all. The type size is incredibly small especially for the plot summaries, and the index. The index needs to be more inclusive. I just read the latest edition at the library, and I am very glad I did not buy the book.
Reviewer: James Looman
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not what I hoped for, but...
Review: I have very mixed feelings about this book. What I found interesting and why I bought it is they list 10 other top 100ish lists that the films chosen were also on. I thought they had complied those ten different lists together to find a general consensus. However after looking closer at the book several of these 10 lists were not mentioned with some of the films. Even looking at these 10 top lists the Sight and Sound decade polls wasnât mentioned which I would consider one of the more famous lists. Anyway I was curious to see how their choices compared overall. I took all the lists they mentioned and put them in a database and sorted by mention and rank (if used). Of the lists they mentioned the Godfather was #1 and so it was in their book. Citizen Kane was #2 and so it was in the book. I thought maybe I had gotten what I wanted but after that it fell apart. Based on the mentioned lists 2001 would have been #3, but they place it at #49; Vertigo would have been #4 but they put it at #24. But it is based on their opinions so itâs not a bad place to start even with some picks of movies that werenât on any of the lists. Ones they left out that were on the other best lists (and would have been in the top 50) were Fritz Langâs M & Metropolis, Intolerance, Sunrise, Tokyo Story, Blow-Up, Wild Bunch, Battleship Potemkin, Duck Soup, Rebel without A Cause, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Modern Times. It did inspire me to look at all these other lists and find some really great movies so overall I would have to recommend it as a decent starter book.
Reviewer: Book Trope 9
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Why is My Favorite Movie Included? It Would be Nice to Know.
Review: The book represents a stellar idea, but it's executed very poorly. The authors' definition of "Greatness" is too vague. Worse, each entry in their list isn't given a reason for its inclusion. Several pages are devoted to each entry in the list, but the authors give only a paragraph discussing the overall merits of each movie. And since they like every movie on their list (of course), there's no clear reason why, for example, Double Indemnity lands at #22, while The Maltese Falcon is way down at #72.This is really a missed opportunity, especially since so much of the list is predictable (guess where Casablanca, The Godfather, and Citizen Kane land on this list? Hint: They're all between #1 and #3), it would be interesting to understand why they included a few obscure gems and why they left off some films that normally appear on such lists (Rear Window and Bridge on the River Kwai - two mainstays of "Best of" lists - are nowhere to be found). Instead, they waste space telling us which other films the director directed.The rest of each movie's entry is filled with a listing of the cast, a spoiling of the plot, still images from the flick, and all sorts of trivia. This is all interesting, but none of it serves any function in telling readers why the film is on the list and why it's positioned where it is on the list. Each entry also includes a box titled "The Other Lists," which is a listing of other "Best of" lists that the film appears on. But this, again, is too vague to serve much good. For example, the first listing says "American Film Institute," but is this a reference to AFI's first or second Top 100 list? Or is it one of their many other lists? An appendix covering this, and other items, would be a welcome addition.
Reviewer: M.G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I bought this for my grandson who is doing film studies and he was delighted with the format and information.
Reviewer: ramon
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: very good