MovieMail Releases Top 50 Films of All Time - an Influential
and Controversial Selection of Films
MovieMail, the online store for art-house and classic films has
listed its Top 50 Films of All Time. This influential ranking of
foreign, classic and independent films includes many controversial
choices.
LONDON (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 6, 2008 --
MovieMail (www.MovieMail-Online.co.uk),
the web-based DVD store, has published its Top 50 Films of All Time. A
specialist in art-house films, MovieMail’s
Top 50 includes independent, classic and foreign films, with a final
list at www.moviemail-online.co.uk/top50
that is full of surprises.
Over the past 12 years, MovieMail has become the leading online
store for quality films through its great love and knowledge of them.
Its Top 50 is therefore highly influential. This is
its choice of great films that achieved their goals (whether lofty or
not) or did something new that changed cinema forever.
MovieMail's Head of E-commerce, Dan Hunter, said: "With literally
thousands of films to choose from, reaching a consensus wasn’t
easy and not everyone will agree with our selection. But
what really matters is that more people get to see these truly wonderful
films.”
In first position is The Three Colours Trilogy - not
an obvious choice - by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Released in 1993-1994, these films received critical acclaim and won or
were nominated for many major awards.
Second is Breathless, which saw Jean-Luc Godard
burst onto the scene in 1959. Singin’
in the Rain (1952) is third, with Gene Kelly’s
legendary song and dance numbers.
The other Top Ten films are - 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Stanley Kubrick), A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson), The
Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman),The Third Man, Carol
Reed), The Leopard, Luchino Visconti), Miller’s
Crossing (Joel and Ethan Coen) and Les
Vacances de M. Hulot (Jacques Tati).
Three iconic directors appear twice in the Top 50: David Lean for Lawrence
of Arabia and Brief Encounter, Alfred Hitchcock
for Psycho and Vertigo and Billy Wilder for Some
Like it Hot and Sunset Boulevard.
There is also a competition to compile a Customer Top 50 ( http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/top50.pl?part=vote
). Customers can vote for any three films (whether in the
Top 50 or not) and one entrant, drawn at random, will receive a set of
the MovieMail Top Ten films.
Issued by digital marketing agency Strange (www.strangecorp.com).
See the original story at: http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/top_50/50_films/prweb1579804.htm
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