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Strange list, that one: too many of the truly best, missing...

...and I mean really great films, on many counts, like "Wild Strawberries" (no Bergman in that list, while "The Seventh Seal", "Persona", ...); "The Dead" ("Prizzi´s Honor is fun, a good film..., but "The Dead" is a true monument); Murnau´s "Nosferatu" is better than Herzog´s; "One, Two, Three", or "Some like it Hot" are among the best humorous films, and "Sunset Boulevard", another masterpiece by Wilder, is at the top of films about the cinema; no Buñuel ("Viridiana", "Tristana"...); no Ford ("Stagecoach", "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Quiet Man", "The Searchers", "The Man who killed Liberty Valance"...); no Hitchcock ("Psycho", "Vertigo"...); No Chaplin ("The Great Dictator", "Modern Times", "The Gold Rush"...); no Griffith ("The Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance"...); no Browning ("Freaks" is pure poetry and tenderness, in an unusual disguise...); no Visconti ("Il Gatopardo", "Grupo di Famiglia in un Interno", "La Caduta degli Dei", "Rocco and his Brothers", "Death in Venice"...); no Fellini ("La Dolce Vita", "La Strada", "Roma", "Amarcord"...); no de Sica ("The Bycicle Thief", "Umberto D", "La Ciocciara"...); no Taviani ("Padre Padrone"); no Pasolini ("Accattone", "Mamma Roma", "The Gospel according to St Matthew", "Teorema"...); no Vigo ("L'Atalante"...); no Dreyer ("The Word", "Dies Irae", "The Passion of Joan of Arc"...); no Eisenstein ("Battleship Potemkin", "Ivan the Terrible", "Alexander Nevski", "October"...); no...

The list would be too long. But most of these films are much better than most in that list you´ve posted, and many of them have had such a huge influence on the evolution of filmic language that they should never be forgotten.

Who made that list, and on what merits?

Regards

BF

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