And of course the moment when the cat rubs against a shoe in a doorway, and Orson Welles makes the most dramatic entrance in the history of the cinema. After voting in 1972, 1982 and 1992, I came up with these ten titles in 2002: "Bonnie and Clyde 2. These are films that moved me deeply in one way or another. Ask what it really says. It is all done with hypnotic visual beauty. Favorites: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Citizen Kane (1941), The Tree of Life (2011). The Great Movies, published in November 2003 (544 pages, Three Rivers Press, ISBN 978-0767910385) The Piano (1993) 4. Enjoy! He begins to quiz his brother (Joe Pesci). In the world of film he was known simply as The Master. His wife comes in, says hello, kisses his brother, and goes upstairs. "Ulysses" 3. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Siskel & Ebert top 10 lists for 1969-1998 Then look what Michael Apted does with time in this documentary, which he began more than 30 years ago. Roger Ebert reviewed films from 1967 until his death. "A Man for All Seasons" 6. Harry treats her horribly, but she loves her idea of him, he neither he nor Holly can ever change that. Scorsese used the same actor, Robert De Niro, and the same screenwriter, Paul Schrader, for both films, and they have the same buried themes: A man's jealousy about a woman, made painful by his own impotence, and expressed through violence. What's Love Got To Do With It (1993) 10. "Ulysses"3. "Parasite" "Mississippi Burning"9. Orson Welles, with his radio background, was able to segue from one scene to another using sound as his connecting link. If there is ever a time when they decide that some movies should be spelled with an upper-case M, "Casablanca" should be voted first on the list of Movies. Black Swan: 4. He points his camera at his subjects and lets them talk. 1. Some went on to be established classics others forgotten. Roger Ebert's Yearly Top Films Lists-- 1980 - 1989 by kingwilson | created - 30 Apr 2011 | updated - 26 May 2011 | Public Each year is a "Top Ten". He has made a film about life and death, pride and shame, deception and betrayal, and the stubborn quirkiness of human nature. "My Dinner with Andre"6. This movie is on the altar of my love for the cinema. It’s not because of the romance, or the humor, or the intrigue, although those elements are masterful. But Morris is not concerned with his apparent subject. The movies themselves play with time, condensing days or years into minutes or hours. "The Family Way"12. Some went on to be established classics others forgotten. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. The American: 9. He made a movie called "7-Up" for British television. "Uncut Gems" 4. He seeks it in miracles and drunkenness, at night and at dawn. I am sure than Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin" is a great film, but it's not going on my list simply so I can impress people. "The Nightingale" 5. "Floating Weeds," like many of his films, is deceptively simple. It's not because of the romance, or the humor, or the intrigue, although those elements are masterful. Audiences never stop to think, when they go to the movies, how they understand what a close-up is, or a reaction shot. The Joy Luck Club (1993) 6. Forget about its message, about the "sweet life" along Rome's Via Veneto, or about the contrasts between the sacred and the profane. Sometimes two films shared a ranking, some years he did more than 10 films. The debates about the "meaning" of this film still go on. "Elvira Madigan"10. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. "Small Change"2. No other film I have ever seen does a better job of illustrating the mysterious and haunting way in which the cinema bridges time. Note: Ebert did not produce an actual top ten list this year due to his lengthy recovery from surgery, which forced him to miss a significant portion of the year's offerings. Simply look at Fellini's ballet of movement and sound, the graceful way he choreographs the camera, the way the actors move. "The Irishman" 2. The movie lyrically and brutally challenges us to break out of the illusion that everyday mundane concerns are what must preoccupy us. 1. 1,683 films watched. Then came "21 Up" and, in 1985. Few films are more complex, or show more breathtaking skill at moving from one level to another. The cinema is the greatest art form ever conceived for generating emotions in its audience. Ebert once again offered his selection, despite his qualms about reducing his passion for the medium into a tidy Top-10 list. He thinks he can glimpse it in the life of his friend Steiner, who has a wife and children and a home where music is played and poetry read. But the secret and mystery of human personality is there from the first. "Rocky"8. This film, not to be confused in any way with "Heaven's Gate" (or with "Gates of Hell," for that matter) is a bottomless mystery to me, infinitely fascinating. Roger Ebert's best feature films; 1. "Platoon"10. Yes, it was a landmark of special effects, so convincing that years later the astronauts, faced with the reality of outer space, compared it to "2001." These ten best lists for movie critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have been collected from various postings in the Usenet movies newsgroups and from their best of the year TV show for 2000 thru 2005. Film can take us where we cannot go. "As Time Goes By." "Cool Hand Luke" 9. INCOMPLETE. "Fargo"5. He made movies that do not date, that fascinate and amuse, that everybody enjoys and that shout out in every frame that they are by Hitchcock. "Leaving Las Vegas"9. Surely the whole point of the film is that it is beyond meaning, that it takes its character to a place he is so incapable of understanding that a special room--sort of a hotel room--has to be prepared for him there, so that he will not go mad. "All the President's Men"9. I do not have the secret of Alfred Hitchcock and neither, I am convinced, does anyone else. He never made a more "Felliniesque" film, or a better one. "Arbitrage"6. It is a challenge. Had we known that some of the images in "Life Itself" would be some of Roger's final images, perhaps we wouldn't have allowed the film to be made. "The Right Stuff"3. The Piano (Jane Campion) 04. Kalifornia (1993) 7. Click here to read his full article about the best films of 1967. Then the movies toy with our personal time, when we revisit them, by recreating for us precisely the same experience we had before. The Fugitive (1993) 5. Why I Loathe Top 10 Film Lists Movie rankings are all the rage—too bad that they have next to nothing to do with the quality of movies Is 'The Shawshank Redemption' the greatest film of all time? Roger Ebert reviewed films from 1967 until his death. I am faced once again with the task of voting in Sight & Sound magazine's famous poll to determine the greatest films of all time. Greenstreet and Lorre. The Extra-Terrestrial"4. 'Great Movies' are marked with a heart. "Pulp Fiction"3. We get a three-part miniseries in five minutes. Roger Ebert's Yearly Top Films Lists-- 2000 - 2010 by kingwilson | created - 28 Apr 2011 | updated - 28 Apr 2011 | Public 2000 to 2007 are typical "Top Ten" lists. As always, Roger knew how to pick 'em. About this list: If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. "Transit" 3. Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t /; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. It was about a group of British 7-year-olds, their dreams, fears, ambitions, families, prospects. It tells of a troupe of traveling actors who return to an isolated village where their leader left a woman behind many years ago -- and, we discover, he also left a son. These lists are broken up into decades. Chaz is the CEO of several Ebert enterprises, including the President of The Ebert Company Ltd, and of Ebert Digital LLC, Publisher of RogerEbert.com, President of Ebert Productions and Chairman of the Board of The Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation, and Co-Founder and Producer of Ebertfest, the film festival now in its 18th year. "Elvira Madigan" 10. He made pure movies. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. "Sunset" 7. If a movie changes your vote or your mind, it does so by appealing to your emotions, not your reason. We’ve been releasing the top ten lists of our regular critics all week, and wanted to bring in the rest of our incredibly talented contributors, providing an overview of the entire year of film. A Top 20 one year, then multiple years with several categories. "In the Heat of the Night" 11. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. Instead, this is a listing of the films that he gave four stars to during the year. Bogart with his cigarette and his bottle. He would throw over all of Nazi Germany for her, probably -- if he were not under the spell of his domineering mother, who pulls his strings until they choke him. Roger Ebert 01. Nor will I avoid "Casablanca" simply because it's so popular: I love it all the same. I figure it's a good way to find new movies. Apart from my annual year's best lists, this is the only list I vote in. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. Inception: 7. Every 10 years, the ancient and venerable British film magazine, Sight & Sound, polls the world's directors, movie critics, and assorted producers, cinematheque operators and festival directors, etc., to determine the Greatest Films of All Time. All done to the music of a single zither. And step by step, word by word, we witness a man helpless to stop himself from destroying everyone who loves him. Forget what made this film trendy and scandalous more than 30 years ago. The brother says he don't know nothin'. The Social Network: 2. Sometimes two films shared a ranking, some years he did more than 10 films. "Two for the Road"15. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. I do not expect many readers to have heard of this film, or of Yasujiro Ozu, who directed it, but this Japanese master, who lived from 1903 to 1963 and whose prolific career bridged the silent and sound eras, saw things through his films in a way that no one else saw. In 1991 Roger Ebert put out this list of his top 10 films of all time: “Casablanca” After seeing this film many times, I think I finally understand why I love it so much. It was so sad, so beautiful, so romantic, that it became at once a part of my own memories -- as if it had happened to me. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) 03. There are also lists for the film critics who filled in after Siskel's passing. "2001" is a spiritual experience. It argues that surely man did not learn to think and dream, only to deaden himself with provincialism and selfishness. But what was he the Master of? I Am Love: 5. 1. Some day if you want to see movie acting as good as any ever put on the screen, look at a scene two-thirds of the way through "Raging Bull." But there has to be something that made it move. A list of 616 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Ulysses (1967), Blow-Up (1966), The Graduate (1967) and A Man for All Seasons (1966). Spike Lee Recieves American Cinematheque Award, America Has to Come to a Reckoning: Director Sam Pollard on MLK/FBI, The TV Homages of WandaVision are an Amusing, Unfulfilling Distraction. ", 1. "The Graduate" 5. Of "Raging Bull," Roger wrote, "[it] is not a film about boxing but about a man with paralyzing jealousy and sexual insecurity, for whom being punished in the ring serves as confession, penance and absolution. "Breaking the Waves"8. That's where the Marxists were wrong. "A Man for All Seasons"6. Three months before his death, Roger published his final Top Ten list, headed by the film that would go on to win Best Picture that year. These are not heroes -- not except for Paul Heinreid's resistance fighter, who in some ways is the most predictable character in the film. Schindler's List (1993) 2. "Malcolm X"10. It ends its search for "Rosebud," his dying word, with a final image that explains everything and nothing, and although some critics say the image is superficial, I say it is very deep indeed, because it illustrates the way that human happiness and pain is not found in big ideas but in the little victories or defeats of childhood. (If you argue instead for dance or music, drama or painting, I will reply that the cinema incorporates all of these arts). Ten years ago, Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" was on my list of the ten best films. Ebert's Best Film Lists1967 - present If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. Several of them proved to be classics, and all of them are worth revisiting. 1) "Gravity" 2) "Before Midnight" 3) "Snowpiercer" 4) "The Past" 5) "The Great Beauty" 6) "The Hunt" 7) "All Is Lost" 8) "Behind the Candelabra" 9) "Like Father, Like Son" 10) "Mud" Ian Grey. Sometimes two films shared a ranking, some years he did more than 10 films. Dooley Wilson at the piano, looking up with pain when he sees Bergman enter the room. "Oslo, August 31"10. Roger Ebert's Most Hated by peter1-8 | created - 18 Dec 2010 | updated - 04 Jan 2012 | Public The following includes all the movies that appear on Roger Ebert's list of most hated films, plus several others that he wrote extremely scathing reviews of. And so the film will continue to grow... 42... 49... 56... 63... until Apted or his subjects are dead. Some went on to be established classics others forgotten. Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau) 08. Throughout that time he put out end of the year top ten lists. I think "Raging Bull" addresses some of the same obsessions, and is a deeper and more confident film. "Marat/Sade"14. I am sure than Eisenstein's " The Battleship Potemkin " is a great film, but it's not going on my list simply so I can impress people. It takes place in the living room of Jake LaMotta, the boxing champion played by De Niro. Roger Ebert reviewed films from 1967 until his death. "Ran"8. There is infinite poignancy in the love that the failed writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) feels for the woman (Alida Valli) who loves the "dead" Harry Lime (Orson Welles). "House of Games". After years of being available only in a shabby, beaten-up version usually known as "Drifting Weeds," this film has now been re-released in superb videotape and laserdisc editions. Ozu fashioned his style by himself, and never changed it, and to see his films is to be inside a completely alternative cinematic language. Drama(480)Romance(132)Comedy(117)Thriller(103)Crime(100)Biography(68)History(55)Adventure(52)Mystery(46)Action(38)War(37)Documentary(34)Music(32)Fantasy(27)Sci-Fi(21)Family(17)Sport(11)Western(11)Animation(9)Horror(7)Musical(6) Feature Film(552) TV Movie(6) TV Mini-Series(2) IMDb user rating (average)11.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.81.92.02.12.22.32.42.52.62.72.82.93.03.13.23.33.43.53.63.73.83.94.04.14.24.34.44.54.64.74.84.95.05.15.25.35.45.55.65.75.85.96.06.16.26.36.46.56.66.76.86.97.07.17.27.37.47.57. Ratings are out of 4 just like he intended. Sometimes two films shared a ranking, some years he did more than 10 films. He is fiddling with a TV set. I have very particular reasons for including this film, which is the least familiar title on my list but one which I defy anyone to watch without fascination. This begins to bother LaMotta. And then, in the extraordinary centerpiece of the film, there is the old woman Florence Rasmussen, sitting in the doorway of her home, delivering a spontaneous monolog that Faulkner would have killed to have written. Isn't there?" PROGRESS CONTINUES. https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2019 "Silent Movie"10. Click here to read his full Top Ten list for 2012. It appears that he had none. Some went on to be established classics others forgotten. And finally Marcello gives up and sells out and at dawn sees a pale young girl who wants to remind him of the novel he meant to write someday, but he is hung over and cannot hear her shouting across the waves, and so the message is lost. "Raging Bull"2. Because she loves Grant, she agrees to seduce Rains, a Nazi spy. But now I can say that it is truly a gift to have Steve James' film as a cinematic reminder of the marvel of Roger and his time here. 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