Lists of the best films ever always tell you a lot more about the people compiling them, and about the state of critical thinking at a given moment, than they tell you about the movies in question.- By Andrew O’Hehir
SHOOT: Click on the link below the fold for the full list. Must have been compiled by a bunch of old timers and geriatrics. Where's ALIEN? Where's Dark Knight? Where's a Spielberg Film [Saving private Ryan/Schindler's List].
SHOOT: Click on the link below the fold for the full list. Must have been compiled by a bunch of old timers and geriatrics. Where's ALIEN? Where's Dark Knight? Where's a Spielberg Film [Saving private Ryan/Schindler's List].
Arguing about whether Tarantino's neo-psychedelic gangster gabfest is better than, say, "City Lights" or "The Bicycle Thief" (both below it on the list) is a bit like asking whether cocaine is better than asparagus. But as an immense cultural influence, a symbol of its era and an enormous popular and critical success, "Pulp Fiction" may have earned its slot. At least the people who voted for "Pulp Fiction" have actually seen it, enjoyed it and can halfway remember it; I'm less certain that is true of F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent "Sunrise" (No. 18) or the Marx Brothers' 1933 "Duck Soup" (No. 33).
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