AFIS 100 YEARS100 MOVIES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION American Film Institute

Former CNN president and chairman Tom Johnson also came forward to express regret for allowing several of his on-air anchors, including Larry King, to appear in the film, believing it blurred the line between news and entertainment. To understand where sci-fi films came from, you need to head back to the dawn of the cinema age. Obaltan was voted the best Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo. It was also voted the best Korean film of all time (tied with The Housemaid and The March of Fools in a 2014 poll of 62 film scholars, critics, film professionals, researchers, and programmers organized by the Korean Film Archive. Manila in the Claws of Light was voted the best Filipino film of all time in a 2013 poll of 81 critics, filmmakers, archivists, and academics organized by Pinoy Rebyu. It was also voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek.

No list of great films is complete without Alfred Hitchcock, and this 1959 thriller finds the famous director at the top of his game. The movie stars Cary Grant as a New York ad executive, who gets caught up in the world of international espionage after being mistaken for a notorious spy. What follows is an epic struggle for survival, which culminates with a deadly showdown on Mount Rushmore. Regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, "North by Northwest" garnered three Academy Award nominations. In this 1950 drama, an obsessive actress climbs her way to the top of a theater company by ruthlessly manipulating her supposed idol . Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, "All About Eve" cynically—albeit accurately—portrays show business as a cruel and unforgiving industry, especially to actresses of a certain age.

Die Hard was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York. Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine Sight & Sound asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Sixty-three critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, and 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012. When the crew encounters a young girl in their latest salvage haul, it kicks off a wild adventure that pits them against powerful forces intent on steering mankind’s future.

As he reaches toward it, he is perhaps reborn, perhaps evolved, perhaps transcended, into a new "child of the universe," a fetus floating above the Earth. The Godfather was ranked number 1 when Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009. It was also voted the greatest film in a Hollywood Reporter poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014. Tessa Thompson, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, and Armie Hammer so-star in the film, which delivers plenty of unexpected surprises along with its potent message.

Gone with the Wind was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults taken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014. Tokyo Story topped the directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes, also dethroning Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane stood at number 1 for five consecutive polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002.

This is a list of films considered the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public. Fascinating and emotional, the film makes it tough not to be pulled along on the characters’ epic journey. top movies Dillard, a brilliant young street magician in Los Angeles finds himself in over his head when he gets entangled with a violent drug supplier and must use every trick he knows to save himself and his sister.

Andy eventually offers his banking know-how to a guard named Byron Hadley, who wishes to avoid taxes on an inheritance. Hadley steps in when the Sisters nearly murder Andy, providing protection by moving Bogs to another prison. Andy is soon punished with solitary confinement for playing an opera recording over the public announcement system. Norton begins a money-making scheme that centers around underpaid prison labor and bribes, and enlists Andy to launder the money. In 1965, Andy and Red befriend a new inmate named Tommy, whose former cellmate at a different prison professed guilt for the murder of Andy Dufresne’s wife and her lover.

The Elementary School was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a 2007 public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie". Cosy Dens was voted the best Czech film with 622 votes in a readers' poll by Reflex magazine in 2011. Titash Ekti Nadir Naam topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute in 2002. The Castle was selected by the public as Australia's favourite film in a 2008 online poll conducted by the Australian Film Institute, in collaboration with Australia Post. The Adelaide film festival ran a public vote, that again voted it as the greatest Australian film ever in 2018.