100 Greatest American Films (BBC)

[dark_b]

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-25-greatest-american-films

http://www.slashfilm.com/bbcs-100-greatest-american-films/
More importantly, I’m not sure how it’s possible that there are no films by The Coen Brothers or Paul Thomas Anderson on this list. Surely No Country for Old Men or Fargo deserves to be on this list from the Coens’ filmography. P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood also seems like a pretty glaring omission, not to to mention his Boogie Nights, which is about as American as a film can be, aside form being absolutely stellar.


http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/07/21/the-dark-knight-is-better-than-any-paul-thomas-anderson-movie
It's the exclusions that get me - how is Boogie Nights or There Will Be Blood not on this? How did the Coens get left off? Hell, how did David Fincher not find a place? I hate to keep harping on The Dark Knight but for real, almost any Coen Brothers movie deserves to be here before The Dark Knight. And having The Dark Knight but not having any Michael Mann is sort of like the most ass-backward thing possible.

 

[Majik1387]

Well it's true.

 

[Black Narcissus]

BBC has been having questionable taste for years now.

Not having any Coens and PTA films just makes your list worthless to me. Dark Knight still needs to be on there tho.

BFA has never nominated Denzel, not even on the years that he won his two oscars. Lawd.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Star Wars strikes me as an interesting omission from the top 25. The film critics have always treated science fiction (particularly science fiction with fantasy elements) as the redheaded stepchild of the medium. To me it's up there with Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[DA_Champion]

You get different results if you ask people their favorite films or their best films. They're not the same.

If you look at the top 25 in that list, you can see that there is only one film from the 21st century, and it's from 2001. In total the 24-year period 1991-2015 yields only one film, lol. The thing with these lists is that people vote based on reputation.

 

[Warhammer]

That list is kinda rubbish.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Why not attack the 25th Hour? It sticks out as more of a problem than TDK, though I think No Country and There Will Be Blood certainly should be in that kind of list ahead of TDK as well.

Eyes Wide Shut. That one has no business being in there. Just because it's Kubrick doesn't mean you give it a pass.