You can talk about cinema for a very long time, and even argue which movie is better and which is worse, and even more so. Although what is the argument? After all, films, like people, are completely different, and therefore not everyone likes them. For some, “Human Centipede” is the best film of all time, and for some, “Silence of the Lambs” is a complete “crap”. That is why the expression appeared that tastes are not argued. But, nevertheless, various magazines, newspapers, online publications and British scientists are very fond of compiling all kinds of ratings.
For example, in 2012, the British Institute for Cinematography presented a list of the fifty best films. This list is updated every ten years, and, according to it, the best film of all time, taking first place, is the dizzy thriller, released already in 1958 by Alfred Hitchcock. It is worth noting that not on the last places in this list are films of domestic production. So, in the
TOP-50 of the best films, according to the British, they include: 11th place - “Battleship Potemkin” directed by
Sergei Eisenstein; 19th place - “Mirror”; 26th - “Andrei Rublev”; 29th - The Stalker. The last three tapes were shot by director Andrei Tarkovsky.
By the way, Tarkovsky’s films (“Sacrifice” and “Andrei Rublev”) were included in the list of forty-five greatest films marked by the Vatican. But Quentin Tarantino has compiled his list of films dedicated to the Second World War. And the best film of all time, according to this list, is Elem Klimov’s tape “Go and See.” Tarantino gave him first place among fifty other film masterpieces.
And here is what Time magazine recommends for viewing. He did not designate only one
the best film of all time, he collected as many as one hundred films that deserve such a title, and urged everyone who is striving for self-education and self-improvement to find time to watch each of them. We will not mention the entire hundred, but still highlight a few:
1) “Bonnie and Clyde” 1967, directed by Arthur Penn;
2) 1982 Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott;
3) “Casablanca” 1942, directed by Michael Curtis;
4) "Citizen Kane" of 1941, directed by Orson Welles ;
5) The Godfather, 1972 and 1974 (2 parts), directed by Francis Ford Coppola;
6) The Lord of the Rings, 2001-2003, directed by Peter Jackson;
7) “Pulp Fiction” of 1994, directed by Quentin Tarantino;
8) "Schindler's List" in 1993, directed by Stephen Spielberg;
9) "Yohimbo" of 1961, directed by Akira Kurosawa;
10) “Talk to her” in 2002, directed by Pedro Almodovar.
This is only a tenth of the Time Magazine’s list, but each of these titles is the best.
The first film of all time. Different genres, different years of release, different directors and plots - all this is unlikely to make a choice in favor of only one film. Each of them is a masterpiece, recognized worldwide not only by critics, but also by the audience.
But if we are talking about film ratings, then in the end I would like to mention about the series. According to the results of surveys on a variety of Internet resources, the best series of all time are Friends, Detective Agency Moonlight, Doctor House, Sex and the City, Helen and the Boys, Twin Peaks "," Desperate Housewives "," Wild Angel "," Clan Soprano "," Lost "and the animated series" The Simpsons ".