Here is a quick list of the top 100 greatest movies. You may be surprised by how many you haven't seen.

You might be even more surprised by the fact that in several months james has not made one singe post to this area?

Rank Title Director Year Country Mins
1 Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941 US 119
2 Vertigo Hitchcock, Alfred 1958 US 128
3 Rules of the Game, The Renoir, Jean 1939 France 113
4 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968 UK 139
5 8½ Fellini, Federico 1963 Italy 135
6 Godfather, The Coppola, Francis 1972 US 175
7 Searchers, The Ford, John 1956 US 119
8 Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei 1925 Russia 65
9 Seven Samurai, The Kurosawa, Akira 1954 Japan 200
10 Tokyo Story Ozu, Yasujiro 1953 Japan 134
11 Singin' in the Rain Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly 1952 US 102
12 Sunrise Murnau, F.W. 1927 US 110
13 Lawrence of Arabia Lean, David 1962 UK 216
14 Bicycle Thieves De Sica, Vittorio 1948 Italy 90
15 Casablanca Curtiz, Michael 1942 US 102
16 Atalante, L' Vigo, Jean 1934 France 89
17 Passion of Joan of Arc, The Dreyer, Carl 1928 France 77
18 Raging Bull Scorsese, Martin 1980 US 128
19 Rashomon Kurosawa, Akira 1950 Japan 88
20 Godfather Part II, The Coppola, Francis 1974 US 200
21 Touch of Evil Welles, Orson 1958 US 108
22 Some Like it Hot Wilder, Billy 1959 US 119
23 City Lights Chaplin, Charles 1931 US 86
24 Third Man, The Reed, Carol 1949 UK 104
25 Grande illusion, La Renoir, Jean 1937 France 117
26 Dolce vita, La Fellini, Federico 1960 Italy 175
27 Gold Rush, The Chaplin, Charles 1925 US 82
28 Taxi Driver Scorsese, Martin 1976 US 113
29 Sunset Blvd. Wilder, Billy 1950 US 110
30 General, The Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman 1926 US 74
31 Enfants du paradis, Les Carné, Marcel 1945 France 195
32 Psycho Hitchcock, Alfred 1960 US 109
33 Breathless Godard, Jean-Luc 1959 France 89
34 Ordet Dreyer, Carl 1955 Denmark 125
35 Apocalypse Now Coppola, Francis 1979 US 150
36 Chinatown Polanski, Roman 1974 US 131
37 Night of the Hunter, The Laughton, Charles 1955 US 93
38 Avventura, L' Antonioni, Michelangelo 1960 Italy-France 145
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned… Kubrick, Stanley 1964 UK 93
40 Persona Bergman, Ingmar 1966 Sweden 81
41 Andrei Rublev Tarkovsky, Andrei 1966 Russia 185
42 Jules et Jim Truffaut, François 1961 France 104
43 Magnificent Ambersons, The Welles, Orson 1942 US 88
44 400 Blows, The Truffaut, François 1959 France 99
45 It's a Wonderful Life Capra, Frank 1946 US 129
46 Blade Runner Scott, Ridley 1982 US 118
47 Rear Window Hitchcock, Alfred 1954 US 112
48 Modern Times Chaplin, Charles 1936 US 89
49 North by Northwest Hitchcock, Alfred 1959 US 136
50 Strada, La Fellini, Federico 1954 Italy 115

Rob

"Removed - James can put in a review in it's place"

Ah come on Rob. Just last night I watched Playtime and was excited to read your thoughts on it today, only to find out that you've deleted all your posts in some sort of half-hearted effort to inspire James. Now don't get me wrong, the interest in classic, intelligent film around here is mostly in the shitter, but that doesn't mean you have to rebel against the establishment like this. I can understand leaving, but why delete all your thoughts? You're doing us all a great disfavor and wasting more time on a forum you're fed up with.

P.S. If you do read this and have your write-up on Playtime sitting around, could you send it to me? I'm mighty curious to find out what you thought.

Ah come on Rob. Just last night I watched Playtime and was excited to read your thoughts on it today, only to find out that you've deleted all your posts in some sort of half-hearted effort to inspire James. Now don't get me wrong, the interest in classic, intelligent film around here is mostly in the shitter, but that doesn't mean you have to rebel against the establishment like this. I can understand leaving, but why delete all your thoughts? You're doing us all a great disfavor and wasting more time on a forum you're fed up with.

P.S. If you do read this and have your write-up on Playtime sitting around, could you send it to me? I'm mighty curious to find out what you thought.

I wish Rob hadn't done that. Berardinelli's participation (or lack thereof) aside, it undermines the participation of those that had written extensively on the films singled out as somehow worthy of getting the tag of "Removed - James can put in a review in it's place". It overvalues James as a forum member (and, in total fairness, he is going to write about what interests him) and colors the participation of everyone else as less worthy. That's unfair to everyone no matter how "minor" the contribution may have been. So, for the record, no matter the state of the forum and how sketchy its future may be, this is no way for someone to make a final appearance.

Oh and all the topic titles are back up to what they were. I guess the next step is to put all of Rob's comments back in.

Its on Page 16

Hey guys,

Rob is not to pleased that I resurrected this area against his wishes and he wants those posts removed or things will get "formal". I don't know or care if he has a case or not but I will be respecting his wishes and be deleting his posts/topics and then making new topics.