OT - The greatest films you've seen

There must me some mistake. I don't see "From Justin to Kelly" on that list.

I am amazed when someone comes up with a Top 100 or 500 and they are actually ranked by number. What’s the difference between number 157 and 158, I wonder. Anyhow, I, being a list maker myself, several years ago (the latest film is from 2014), I tried to put together a Top All-Time Ranking using my list of individual decades’ top films. Here is the unsatisfying result, a very (emphasis on “very”) loosely ranked Top 50. Titles are more in tiers than in a strict ranking order. Someday I will have to perform a do-over. but I don’t have time for a major revision at the moment. Sorry, no Shawshank Redemtion nor The Dark Knight.

1. Ikiru (1952)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
5. The Godfather (1972)
6. Some Like It Hot (1959)
7. Notorious (1946)
8. Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua (1991) (Raise The Red Lantern)
9. Psycho (1960)
10. The Birds (1963)
11. Memento (2000)
12. La Passion De Jeanne D'arc (1928) (The Passion Of Joan Of Arc)
13. Chinatown (1974)
14. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
15. Babettes Gæstebud (1987) (Babette's Feast)
16. Ace In The Hole (1951)
17. The General (1926)
18. King Kong (1933)
19. Key Largo (1948)
20. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
21. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
22. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
23. Double Indemnity (1944)
24. Margaret (2011)
25. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
26. Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964) (The Gospel According To St. Matthew)
27. Phoenix (2014)
28. Horse Feathers (1932)
29. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
30. 4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni Si 2 Zile (2007) (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)
31. High Noon (1952)
32. Ran (1985)
33. Ida (2013)
34. House Of Games (1987)
35. The Wild Bunch (1969)
36. Le Fils (2002) (The Son)
37. Morocco (1930)
38. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
39. Banshun (1949) (Late Spring)
40. Incendies (2010) (Scorched)
41. The King Of Comedy (1982)
42. Les Adieux À La Reine (2012) (Farewell, My Queen)
43. Offret (1986) (The Sacrifice)
44. Being There (1979)
45. And Then There Were None (1945)
46. The Congress (2013)
47. Zemlya (1930) (Earth)
48. The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)
49. Aliens (1986)
50. Shi Yue Wei Cheng (2009) (Bodyguards And Assassins)

Congratulations, sir!  It takes a bucket of balls to post your top 100 and #1 is a movie glorifying the old racist slave-owning South.

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