Thomas Graal’s Best Film (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller) The Butcher Boy (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)Ĭleopatra (US…J.Gordon Edwards) FRAGMENTS/LOST* The Queen of Spades (Russia…Yakov Protazanov) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (US…John Emerson) The End of the World (Denmark…August Blom) The Battle of the Somme (UK …Geoffrey Malins)īlind Justice (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)Ĭivilization (US…Thomas H.Ince, Raymond B.West, Reginald Barker) Tillie’s Punctured Romance (US…Mack Sennett) The Perils of Pauline (US…Louis Gasnier, Donald Mackenzie) PARTIALLY LOST The Mysterious X (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen) Lost in the Dark (Italy…Nino Martaglio) LOST * Traffic in Souls (US…George Loane Tucker)Ĭaius Julius Caesar (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)Ĭhild of the Big City (Russia…Evgenii Bauer) Suspense (US…Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (US…D.W.Griffith) The Cameraman’s Revenge (Russia…Wladyslaw Starewicz)Ī Cure for Pokeritis(US…Laurence Trimble) Les Misérables (France…Albert Capellani) * L’Inferno (Italy… Francesco Bertolini, Alberto Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro) The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (France…André Calmettes, Charles le Borgy) Le Tunnel sous le Manche (France…Georges Méliès) Voyage à Travers Impossible (France…Georges Méliès) The Life of an American Fireman (US…Edwin S.Porter) The Great Train Robbery (US…Edwin S.Porter) Le Voyage dans la Lune (France…Georges Méliès) Sortie des Usines Lumière (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)Ģ0,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong’s Elswick Works (UK…Sagar Mitchell, James Kenyon) L’Arroseur Arossé (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière) L’Arrivée d’un train en Gare de la Ciotat (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière) Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (UK…Louis Aime Augustin le Prince) The Horse in Motion (US…Eadweard Muybridge) Those followed by an x (x) are foreign films I have copies of, but without English subtitles. Titles followed by an asterisk (*) are those I don’t possess copies of, though some I have seen. At the end is a sort of directorial scorecard, showing all directors with multiple entries. Each year I hope to update it, but if the fates ordain otherwise as that’s still in the balance, then Sam will have to, at least with additions if not exclusions. A week or two from now I shall remove the top 3,000 page and replace it with a copy of this list, which I feel is the most important I have ever posted at Wonders. There are also films I have not yet seen including a selection of 20 films still to come to Blighty and a selection of lost films (one can dream…). While there are also films that I may not be a fan of but which have many critical fans out there and/or which are just too important in film history to ignore. For one thing, as in the book, TV is included, too. How about 5,000? To one who has seen as many films as yours truly has, even 5,000 is insufficient, there are still films left circling the perimeter that I mourn, but this isn’t strictly just a best 5,000 films. But throughout the internet we have best lists of everything, so why not go the extra hog? 3,000? Child’s play. The book which I have laboured over long and hard for over 10 years now should be ready for Kindle publication by the end of the year, so it’s only partially connected to that. So I let it stay, getting increasingly out of date as masses of rarities I’d never expected to see or, in some cases, even heard of, suddenly came into my clammy mitts. And I could think of nothing to replace it. Almost immediately after it went up as a page on the top bar, I wanted to take it down, but I have always been of the belief that one cannot remove without an act of replacement. Having set levels – ratings, whatever you want to call them – is fine, but ordering those that fall between one rung on the ladder and the one above or below seems increasingly like an insane act of a world champion ADD hair-splitter. Despite the success of countdowns on this site, I’m not really one for ordering film or any art for that matter. A few years ago, in response to requests from various people I caved in an did a top 3,000 films list.
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