51st Greatest American Film
Mon, 12 Jan 2004, 04:04 pmWalter Plinge13 posts in thread
51st Greatest American Film
Mon, 12 Jan 2004, 04:04 pmConversation regarding 'The Philadelphia Story' carried on from Billboard Bulletins:
Okay Joe, much more suitable forum for what can possibly be a lengthy discussion...
So, what would you list as your Greatest Films, American or otherwise...
I must admit that I certainly have different expectations of American films than I do of others, and will often dismiss a film not from America as being 'Too American'.
I must admit my list of Greatest films would probably include 'Seven Samurai' (or maybe even 'Yojimbo' or 'Rashomon')
So: question to people give us your top three (to make it easier) on the followinglists:
Greatest Films
Best Films
Most Favourite Films
(And yes, if you think about it, they should all be three different lists...)
Okay Joe, much more suitable forum for what can possibly be a lengthy discussion...
So, what would you list as your Greatest Films, American or otherwise...
I must admit that I certainly have different expectations of American films than I do of others, and will often dismiss a film not from America as being 'Too American'.
I must admit my list of Greatest films would probably include 'Seven Samurai' (or maybe even 'Yojimbo' or 'Rashomon')
So: question to people give us your top three (to make it easier) on the followinglists:
Greatest Films
Best Films
Most Favourite Films
(And yes, if you think about it, they should all be three different lists...)
Re: Greatest American Hero
Tue, 13 Jan 2004, 12:34 pmWalter Plinge
crgwllms wrote:
>
> Paul Treasure wrote:
> >
> > Greatest Films
> > Best Films
> > Most Favourite Films
> >
> > (And yes, if you think about it, they should all be three
> > different lists...)
>
>
>
> I'm still thinking about how hard it is to define 'Greatest'
> or 'Best'.....but what's stumping me is how are you
> distinguishing the two?
>
>
> (And is 'Most Favourite' a tautology?)
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
Well, here's how I'm defining it:
Greatest implies a certain life outside the actual film, either it has developed a certain social context (i.e. Star Wars) or has influenced other filmmakers, or something like that... Need not therefore actually be GOOD
Best implies the pinnacle of the art of filmmaking regardless of its outside social or artistic context.
Favourite is more your guilty pleasure sort of thing...
>
> Paul Treasure wrote:
> >
> > Greatest Films
> > Best Films
> > Most Favourite Films
> >
> > (And yes, if you think about it, they should all be three
> > different lists...)
>
>
>
> I'm still thinking about how hard it is to define 'Greatest'
> or 'Best'.....but what's stumping me is how are you
> distinguishing the two?
>
>
> (And is 'Most Favourite' a tautology?)
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
Well, here's how I'm defining it:
Greatest implies a certain life outside the actual film, either it has developed a certain social context (i.e. Star Wars) or has influenced other filmmakers, or something like that... Need not therefore actually be GOOD
Best implies the pinnacle of the art of filmmaking regardless of its outside social or artistic context.
Favourite is more your guilty pleasure sort of thing...
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