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Narrowing Down /Film's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Part 1)

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On the May 9, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by editors Jacob Hall, Brad Oman, and BJ Colangelo to narrow down /Film’s Top 100 Movies of All Time.

Locked in, pre-podcast:

  1. Ghostbusters
  2. Brazil
  3. Tangerine
  4. Tombstone
  5. 12 Angry Men (5)
  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (5)
  7. Alien (9)
  8. All the President's Men (5)
  9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (5)
  10. Blowout (5)
  11. Casablanca (6)
  12. Children of Men (8)
  13. Citizen Kane (8)
  14. Die Hard (7)
  15. Do the Right Thing (9)
  16. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (5)
  17. Get Out (9)
  18. Goodfellas (8)
  19. Halloween (7)
  20. In the Mood For Love (6)
  21. Inception (5)
  22. It's a Wonderful Life (5)
  23. Jaws (9)
  24. Jurassic Park (8)
  25. Little Women (5)
  26. Mad Max: Fury Road (10)
  27. Night of the Living Dead (6)
  28. Pan's Labyrinth (7)
  29. Parasite (9)
  30. Psycho (6)
  31. Raiders of the Lost Ark (8)
  32. Rear Window (6)
  33. Rocky (5)
  34. Scream (5)
  35. Silence of the Lambs (5)
  36. Singin in the Rain (8)
  37. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (6)
  38. The Empire Strikes Back (6)
  39. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (6)
  40. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (6)
  41. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (5)
  42. The Dark Knight (6)
  43. The Godfather (9)
  44. The Iron Giant (6)
  45. The Lion King (5)
  46. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (7)
  47. The Matrix (6)
  48. The Princess Bride (5)
  49. The Shining (5)
  50. The Sixth Sense (5)
  51. The Social Network (5)
  52. The Thing (8)
  53. The Wizard of Oz (5)
  54. There Will Be Blood (5)
  55. Titanic (5)
  56. Toy Story (5)
  57. Vertigo (5)
  58. When Harry Met Sally (5)


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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Tuesday, May 9th,

0:03.0

2023 on today's episode of the show.

0:05.2

We are going to narrow down Slash Films top 100 movies of all time.

0:09.4

My name is Ben Pearson, I'm an editor at slash film.

0:11.3

com and I'm joined on today's episode by

0:13.2

slash film editors Jacob Hall. Hello, hello. Brad Omen. Hey that's me and

0:17.8

B. J. Colangelo. Hi, hi, hi ya. All right Jacob, the ball is in your court. Tell us what the heck is going on here.

0:24.4

All right, so for the past two weeks slash months, I've been quietly plugged me away at a big

0:29.3

slash one project, listed the 100 greatest film films of all time, or at least 100 greatest slash film movies of all time our favorite movies and

0:38.1

The reason this has been taking a long time. We want to do it right. We didn't want to do like a lazy list but but also I want to make an honest list. I wanted to have a list that was really

0:46.7

reflective of our crew, of our editorial, of our writers, but also one that didn't feel like it was trying

0:51.9

too hard or lying. I feel like a lot of these

0:53.7

lists pick their options based on you know what will make them look cool or what

0:58.5

will like is the right academic choice as opposed to what movies do you actually want to watch over and over again.

1:04.4

So we ended up polling.

1:07.0

Sasha core editors, a certain selection of writers.

1:11.2

This people have been on the site for a long time for the most part and ask them,

1:14.4

hey, what are your hundred favorite movies?

1:15.9

They took the hundred favorite movies.

1:16.8

We end up having 1,200 or so titles.

1:20.0

And I poured through those and I pulled out all the ones that have the most support and we ended up with

1:24.8

236 movies, 236 titles across maybe 12, you know, slash film writers and editors. And of those 136, there were, let's see,

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