"It's a 'Beautiful' Life?" What the whating what? Explain yourself.

Would love to see the next 30

The essence of lists like this isn’t the rank of the films or how incensed that we are that our favorite “blah, blah, blah” didn’t make the list, but it is to remind us of the wonderful film making we’ve seen, and nudge us to consider other greats we may have missed. Nice work.

As good a balanced list as I've seen anywhere. Only have one I have yet to watch. (In the Mood For Love). Paths of Glory and La Dolce Vita would be a couple I'd like to add.

I perused through the comments to check out the alleged omissions. We are truly blessed with a ton of great movies to watch. It doesn't make any sense to make a top 30 list. It would make more sense to make an open ended "diamond" standard list curated by let's say 100 international movie afficionados where everybody can suggest a set number of films every year and they are voted in or not in by the experts. Nevertheless, this particular list of top 30 is excellent as I agree with almost all the films I already know (just not with "Wonderful Life") and I immediately will work through the ones I don't know.

Thank you! I feel lucky that I’ve seen 25 of these on your list. But I feel even luckier that there are five films that I have not seen, that I get to treat myself to! 👍🏽

Shit french potato pealer not only ahead of blade runner and Lawrence but in top 30 , and serious do the shite thing ???

Swindlers fist ?????? Is that in fiction section

Coppola features thrice! We could call him the greatest!

If The Dark Knight isn't in this list I am gonna lose it. #25 Ok cool I dig it

Close enough

I have major problem with Belfast.

Blade Runner is one of my top 5 best ever. I cannot watch the directors cut it is terrible without the voice over. Took me a long time to find a DVD theatrical version with the voice over.

Life Aquatic

It's a Beautiful Life?!?!?

Thelmer and Louise

I would have included the movie that really put Jack Nicholson at the top of his game. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. My all-time fave...

Fellini, Joanne d’de arc ….

LMAO You either like a movie or you don't. Film analysis is just a reddit term.

Impressionism was before the 20th century and not religious. Paintings in Pompeii were not all religious. So Baudrillard created a false narrative to make his point.

I’m surprised I have seen all but 5 of these. The older movies I saw as a kid on TBS in the 80s.

How did weekend at Bernie's not make the list.

It's in times like this, that I like to remind myself that free will is an illusion and nothing matters.

Hot take, It's a Wonderful Life is a terrible movie.

This seems like a fine list and I've seen 2/3 of these movies but there are 8 movies from the 70's and only 2 from the last 30 years. It seems a little biased, not by the author of the video but perhaps by critics in general. I mean there are 2 movies from 1974 and another 2 from 1975 alone.

Ok, I am not telling you what movies had to be in that list instead of X or Y, because it is not even your list but just a collection of best lists as you mentioned not just once.😊 From these 30 movies (I probably would had done a top-50 list) I only haven’t seen 5 of them and only of one of them I never heard of (Jeanne Dielman). I always wanted to watch Persona and Schindler's List as well as Tokyo Story. Only to Do The Right Thing I fail to connect. Maybe someday …

Not a single Fast/Furious?!?!? 😟

Laurence of Arabia needed a strong female lead? Thank God these movies were made before people lost their minds.

It'd be interesting if directors only got one spot, so that'd free up 7 additional places for a wider array of films. Maybe get Satoshi Kon, Sergio Leone, The Coens, Kathryn Bigelow, etc. And of course, Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

Oppenheimer and Interstellar are objectively better movies than Then Dark Knight. But I'll admit: Heath Ledger's performance was a masterclass.

Night Of The Living Dead should be on the list as it was a game changer in all genres of film, not just Horror because this film, along with In Cold Blood, caused the MPAA ratings system, freeing the hands of the filmmakers. Rocky was another game changer, bringing back the underdog story as well as the uplifting ending. In an art form that was pretty nihilistic.

Hi, what’s the laid back jazz tune (or rather the version) that's playing in the opening of your Casablanca segment? Shazam couldn’t tell me.

Carlito's Way, Usual Suspects. Gattaca, and Seven as honorable mentions.

Isn't Jaden Smith wearing a dress...performative feminity?

I have seen all of these films. Some of them multiple times. I own copies of at least half of them, probably more. But such lists, whilst being excellent for introducing students and new film enthusiasts to a broad spectrum of classic cinema, cannot account for personal tastes. I think this is important, because we are allowed to say some films are overrated or perennially misunderstood, without being tossed out of the, “club,” so to speak. Personal taste must be allowed and respected in film appreciation. It is in the differences in our tastes that the most interesting discussions occur. And it is in this dialectic cauldron that new and exciting things can be stimulated, producing original ideas that develop the art form.

Singing in the Rain is SUCH a sleeper! I stayed away from it for so long just because I thought it was going to be a boring "fall asleep watching it on your couch on Sunday" kind of move, but it was actually REALLY good. Make sure you put this on your short list of movies to see soon!!

American centered

That’s a hard list or even order to argue with. We have a repertory theater here, the only one in Mississippi. We’ve shown all the films on this list except for two or three. Those I’ll propose for consideration this week. I guess my only argument is it’s heavy on the late 20th Century American directors, Scorcese, Spielberg, Coppola, and light on the mid century European filmmakers. But you have Ozu, Kurosawa, and Bergman too.

I know this will make no one's list, but I always loved the Westerns from the early 70s. Little Big Man. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Jeremiah Johnson. I don't know where they would be ranked in terms of technique, but when it comes to storytelling, they turn the John Ford, John Wayne Westerns on their head by not romanticizing the Wild West, but rather, humanizing people who were never humanized before. Characters once portrayed as caricatures are more fleshed out. No one is completely noble or completely evil. I just felt those films reflect a change in cinematic storytelling, where they myths the movies created over decades were shattered, where voices were given to those who never had them before, and where the heroes are deeply flawed.

Appreciation, taste and enjoyment is so subjective, that a list such as this is rather academic

Seeing the clips from these movies reminded me of how awful movies are today. Nothing in the last five years compares to even the average movies of the past.

These are all super pedestrian, if you're in your teens or 20's sure- Otherwise most, if not all, people are going to run into these at one time or another

In reviewing VERTIGO, you say "...in casting James Stewart to play a completely different role to what he'd been known for in the likes of "It's a BEAUTIFUL Life...etc."---- a "BEAUTIFUL" life???!!!!! --- and if these are you "greatest", WHY would you show COLORIZED clips from great BLACK AND WHITE films???

Media Insider. The method you came up with to perform this Herculean labor was inspired. There was only one film on the list I hadn't seen #22 In the mood for Love, Wong Kai Wai. I didn't expect my own favorite film of all time to appear on ANY list because it's a strange concoction of my personal interests. German Language and Culture, Classical music, Surrealism and Film. It's Hans Jurgen Syberberg's Hitler, ein Film Aus Deutschland. I'd be surprised if it made that master list of yours at all. I was asked in the early 2000s by a fellow film buff to make a top 100 list. I made a general list of my favs which came to around 2000 films. Then whittled it down to a working list of 600. and finally the arbitrary and painful task of honing that down to 100. But the final list could have looked different for so many reasons. I basically did one film from each of my fav directors. This was great fun for me. Thanks for doing the calculations and your elucidating commentary. Is there somewhere one might see the complet list? I'm subscribed and looking forward to more of your content. All the best Jacques Mexico Retired

I have all of these but six: "Chinatown," "Lawrence of Arabia," "In the Mood for Love," "Persona," "Schindler's List," and "Seven Samurai." I'll have to update my collection. Using colorized footage from "It's a Wonderful Life" is sacrilige!

The website "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" is my go-to for movie rankings cause it combines an insane number of lists into one master list. No movie buff or cinephile should deprive themselves of this great resource!

Goodfellas # 3 ? Absolutely Absurd.

I appreciate you’ve taken the time to aggregate various lists. We all love a list! Lol! Your comments and delivery shows great awareness, I love it and thank you. How about you poll all these cynical ones giving their best neg vibes? Sod them. Your work is great. Thanks again.

How about M where they use sound of whistling to create fear and dread.

"West Side Story" (1961)