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	Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best Movies Time Magazine's movie critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, offered their picks for the All-Time 100 Best Movies in mid-2005. Their unranked list comprised the 100 most influential movies of the past 82 years (since 1923, Time's first year of publicaton). The films spanned comedy, horror, drama, romance, action and more.
	Los Angeles Daily News Readers' Poll Greatest American Films When the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California announced its list of 400 films to be voted upon for their selection of the 100 greatest American films of all time, the Los Angeles Daily News conducted its own poll in late 1997. They asked their readership to choose their own top feature films of the century from the same list of 400 nominated candidates.
	Guinness Book of Film's Top 100 Films (By Genre Category) An essential hard-cover movie guide published in 1999, The Guinness Book of Film, subtitled The Ultimate Guide to the Best Films Ever, reviewed the top 1000 movies of the 20th Century. The ultimate selection of films was based upon a few criteria: sound films that were easily available in video format (with a few exceptions), and "the movies that have given the most pleasure to the most people." The Top 100 Films are a listing of the guide's "essential recommendations categorized into a Top 5 for each genre."
	Empire Magazine 50 Best Films In their November 2001 magazine, Empire Magazine published the results of their 'The Ultimate Movie Poll', including 50 Best Films, 50 Best Actors, 50 Best Actresses, 50 Best Directors, and much more. With each winning entry in the article, the magazine included a brief description of the film and the must-see moment.
	Mr. Showbiz's Critic's and Reader's Picks: The 100 Best Movies of All Time Mr. Showbiz's Critics' Picks and Readers' Picks were compiled on the Mr. Showbiz Web site (no longer accessible) by responses of visitors who were asked to vote for their Ten Best Movies of All Time. Their criteria were simple: the films chosen were limited to English language films made since the birth of the talkies.
	Movieline Magazine's 100 Greatest Foreign Films Movieline Magazine also selected the 100 Greatest Foreign Films in their July 1996 issue - 100 of the all-time greatest non English-language films.
	Arts & Faith's Top 100 Spiritually-Significant Films Arts & Faith, an online discussion group comprised of film critics and other movie buffs, announced its list of the Top 100 spiritually significant films ever made in mid-2004 (a list that was substantially updated/changed in late 2005).
	Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years In its 1999 end of the year Millenium issue, Rolling Stone Magazine (and film critic Peter Travers) offered picks for the best (or essential) movies of the last 100 years that were made by mavericks who "busted rules to follow their obsessions...in the defiant spirit of rock & roll."
	Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films The decidedly pro-British film magazine in 2005 offered their picks for the bravest, most innovative, and most creative films - the "ultimate indie lineup" of 50 of the best non-studio works ever made.
	The A List The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films In 2002, the A List compiled by editor Jay Carr, provided 100 insightful and provocative essays on what the National Society of Film Critics concluded were 100 "essential" films for viewing. According to the book's blurb, "the Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society." See if you agree with the choices.
	Village Voice's 100 Best Films of the 20th Century At the conclusion of the 20th century, the reknowned Village Voice newspaper held its "First Annual Film Critics' Poll." They asked 50 or more distinguished film critics, including Molly Haskell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris and others, to vote in their film poll. One of the film poll categories asked the participants to rank their top ten best films of the century, and the results are compiled here.
	Vanity Fair's 50 Greatest Films of All-Time Vanity Fair Magazine (September, 2005 issue) offered their picks for the "50 Greatest Films" of all-time (unranked and alphabetical), in a special tear-out section, "with the scoop on how and why" -- although the "how and why" was simply composed of the film title, production company/studio, date, director, writer(s), the starring cast, Oscar win(s) - if any, and a factual section about some aspect of the film's making.
	Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Film Soundtracks Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Film Soundtracks range from A Hard Day's Night to Blue Velvet, with 98 other choices in-between. See if you think differently or not. See also a listing of 101 Film Score Milestones.
	Time Out's Centenary and Readers' Top Hundred Films The Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. The 1995 edition included Time Out's Centenary Top One Hundred to mark the Centenary of Cinema. Time Out's Readers' Top One Hundred was compiled in 1998 from readers who submitted their all-time Top Ten film lists.
	Maxim Magazine's 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made Maxim Magazine selected "The 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made" in their March 1998 issue. The appeal of guy films is that "they're packed with sophomoric humor, cartoon violence, mean-spirited putdowns and gratuitous nudity...and that's just during the opening credits." Contrast to their female counterpart - 'chick' flicks.
	New York Times' Essential Library: 100 Recommended Children's Movies The New York Times Essential Library: A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD, selected 100 Children's Movies in their publication authored by Peter Nichols. It profiled one hundred top cinematic works available on DVD or video that are recommended for children (ages 8-12). See also the British Film Institute's Top 10 (and Top 50) Children's Films of All-Time, listed in mid-2005.
	Internet Movie Database's Top 100 Films The Internet Movie Database asked its registered users to rank and rate films for their top 250 films survey. Here are the top 100 films from the results of their weighted, unscientific poll, regularly updated.
	Vintage Video A Hot 100 From Out of the Past Two San Francisco Chronicle film reviewers and critics (Mick LaSalle and Edward Guthmann) compiled a list of recommended vintage videos (in alphabetical order) in an October 1997 issue of the paper. As they admitted, it's a more personal and idiosyncratic list: "It's not a list of the best 100 films ever made, or the most important. It doesn't represent a condensed history of the feature film, with all periods and movements represented." They figured that any film history book could tell you to see Griffith's Intolerance (1916) or Keaton's The General (1927), and chances are you've already seen Casablanca (1942), The Godfather (1972) and Raging Bull (1980).
	The Film 100 The 100 Most Influential People in the History of the Movies The authors of the Film 100 site (no longer accessible) gathered and ranked a list of film's most important visionaries, collecting only the names of those whose work and techniques have been felt by millions of moviegoers. Following each entry are some selected or recommended films which help to illustrate each person's influence and innovations.
	Greatest Silent Films The greatest examples of silent films from the early 20th century are listed here.
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