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if AFI included foreign movies (world best list including american and foreign), what movies do you think should be on the list?



Rashomon (1950)
Seven Samurai (1954)
City of God (2002)

Brent L

...it would be called the IFI?

And The Third Man would be back on the list!

Mondo Kane

The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly

Boba Fett

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (I'm assuming it's never made it on the list because it was an Italian production)
The Killer (a huge longshot, but I think despite it's ultraviolence, is a very moving story)
Oldboy
The 39 Steps
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Premise

Once Upon a Time in the West
Amelie
Pan's Labyrinth
Das Boot
Downfall
The Pianist
Leon
M
Los Olvidados
Rififi
Z
Sleuth
Seventh Seal
Nosferatu
Kwaidan

Fincher Fan

...there'd be very few American movies on the list.

Drexl

Metropolis would make it.

MoviePage

The Bus

It would look like the Sigh & Sound Poll, which is basically the international version of the now every-10-year AFI list.

The next one is due in five years.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/

Unfortunately, it's only a Top 10. Since they only ask about 300 people, a 100 Best list would probably be too crazy.

kaze0

Cinema Paradiso

Spiral Staircase

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top100films.htm

islandclaws

The Seventh Seal.

This list needs some Bergman.

PopcornTreeCt

The 400 Blows
Nights of Cabirira
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Passion of Joan of Arc
La Dolce Vita
The Bicycle Thieves
Seven Samurai
Ikiru
Tokyo Story

That's just a few.

Merkin Muffley

Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bicycle Thieves
The Seven Samurai
M
The Seventh Seal
Rashomon
Grand Illusion
Rififi
The Rules of the Game
Tokyo Story
8 1/2 (I don't really care for...but would probably make it)
Jules et Jim (I don't like at all...but would probably make it)

Yavin

Gojira (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Akira (1988)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005))

Ronnie Dobbs

Was "The Pianist" a foreign film? I would add "City of God" and "Life is Beautiul".

dhmac

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

dhmac

That's probably the best Top 100 list I've ever seen.

nateman

I know the movie was only made this year but I really thought that Venus was an extremely good movie and should make some sort of list. Peter O'Toole is simply excellent again & again in everything he is in. If he just sat their & did nothing it would still be an amazing performance.
It was great to see Richard Griffith from Pie In the Sky & I'd like to see Jodie Whittaker in more stuff because she's a pretty bloody good actor.

I also think that Leon: The Professional & Nosferatu should most def. make the list as well.

Johnny Zhivago

Not mentioned yet... The Battle of Algiers.

B5Erik

Of the ones I've seen:

Seven Samurai
Twilight Samurai
Ikiru
Ran
When the Last Sword is Drawn
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Yakuza Papers Series)
Gojira


Just off the top of my head, those are titles that I think would deserve to be on the list...

bunkaroo

I am a bit perplexed by the position "very few" American films would be on the list if it were international.

Of course movies like Titanic would disappear from the list (and probably should anyway), and of course there are scores of non-American films that should make the list (Seven Samurai, Bicycle Thieves, etc.), but I would guess that over 50% of the films would still be American.

I don't think you can knock any of the Kubrick films off. Scorsese and Spielberg have multiple entries, and some of those would have to stay. Star Wars would obviously still be there, as would almost all of what currently occupies the top 10.

Sometimes I feel there's a backlash against all American films because of the large amount of shit Hollywood turns out these days. But I would still bet the amount of great American films since the dawn of cinema outnumber the amount comparable non-American films.

Seeker

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Originally Posted by starecase
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top100films.htm

That's probably the best Top 100 list I've ever seen.

Ditto!

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inri222

The Passion of Joan of Arc
Au Hasard Balthazar
Yojimbo
A Man Escaped
Greed
Ugetsu
My Life to Live
Throne of Blood
The Seventh Seal
Tokyo Story
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The 400 Blows
Umberto D.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Viridiana
Contempt
The Conformist
Pickpocket
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Los Olvidados
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Nostalghia
October
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Battleship Potemkin
L' Eclisse
Pierrot le Fou
Andrei Rublev
Ashes and Diamonds
Jules and Jim
Belle De Jour
Rocco & His Brothers
Le Samourai
Salo
Wild Strawberries
The Mirror
Ivan The Terrible Parts I & II
Rashomon
Nosferatu
Black Rain
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Suspiria Bicycle Thieves
Rififi
Le Trou
8 1/2
L' Aventura
The Face of Another
The Seventh Continent
Autumn Sonata
Hana-Bi
Sansho the Bailiff
The Battle of Algiers
Harakiri
Vengeance Is Mine
Amarcord
Pixote
Persona
Blow Up
Repulsion
The Tin Drum
Suspiria
Stalker
Ali : Fear Eats The Soul
Seven Samurai
La Dolce Vita
Solaris
Knife In The Water
The Wages of Fear
Ikiru
La Strada
Cries & Whispers
Diabolique
Playtime
Band of Outsiders

IMRICKJAMES

if AFI included foreign movies...

it wouldnt be the American Film Institute

and there wouldnt be American films on the list