how many of the top HUNDRED of They Shoot Pictures, Don't They top 1000 films have you seen?

oh, this page makes for a faster look:

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm

9. Was relieved when I got to the end and there wasn't one or two more, because I really wanted to be honest and vote "I don't like films."

I've seen the first two hundred; still haven't El Verdugo.

I'm lucky to own a second-generation tape copy of Letters From an Unknown Woman.

I don't know what Blade Runner's doing in the top 50.

97. I have never seen the two Buster Keaton ones and Eric Von Stroheim's "Greed".

i saw a nice outdoor screening of letter from an unknown woman at the world film fest a couple years ago. crazy that it's not more available...

I have only seen 34. I have not seen "Citizen Kane". Have tried to watch "The Searchers" at least twice but always turn it off/leave because I hate John Wayne SO MUCH and the film bores me to tears.

in 101-200, I also haven't seen The Mother and the Whore and... The Exorcist! Not really planning on changing that soon.

45 out of 100. Don't really consider myself a "film buff," I just like movies. Highest-ranked film I haven't seen is "Rules of the Game," #3.

i've seen 31 of the top 100. or 31.5 since i've seen enough of intolerance that i pretty much get it.

somewhere in the 80s for me i think... just did a quick scan

Why don't you want to watch The Mother and the Whore, Dr Morbius ?

And I've seen 20 of #101-200.

36

I have never seen 8 1/2

Snowballing, because I watched the first 15 minutes a couple of times and I'm not a huge masochist?

btw, You Can't Take It with You way too high at #992.

20, I theoretically like films but am rubbish at actually ever watching them.

77. 47 out of the top 50. the only one in the top 40 i haven't seen is 8 1/2, which for some reason has always sort of put me off (even though i like fellini). i should watch it tho. really there's nothing i haven't seen that i wouldn't like to, i just haven't gotten around to a lot of things. (biggest single hole for me is tarkovsky.)

oops i lied a little about the top 40, i haven't seen ordet either.

wish you could sort the list by year, it'd be interesting to see how the decades break down.

Same here. I just ordered Mirror.

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i've seen 67 of the top 100. kinda wondering why The Transporter isn't on that list though.

i think you mean transporter 3.

ah, right.

I think you mean Kung Fu Hustle.

81 of the top 100. highest placing film i havent seen is the murnau at #12 which is pretty representative of the rest of the stuff i havent watched in fact i dont think ive seen a single one of the pre-wwII american films in the top 100.

LOL:

226. Solaris
227. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

that's about right

(except I'd probably have both in the 500s or 600s)

one of my film history weak spots is, um, the entire silent era. i mean, i'm surprised that i've actually seen a bunch on that list. cuz i can't remember the last time i actually watched a silent film (probably joan of arc). i mean, the years when i would actually rent a silent film are long gone. (TLA video in philly circa 1989-90's)

I think you mean Kung Fu Hustle.

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 28, 2009 11:15 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think you mean shaolin soccer

I was so close to zero, but I have seen 50 minutes of a clockwork orange :(

wish you could sort the list by year, it'd be interesting to see how the decades break down.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, August 28, 2009 11:07 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you can! theres a "year" tab at the bottom

Some statistics relating to the December 2008 version of TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Directors with the most films
18 films
John Ford
16 films
Fritz Lang
15 films
Luis Buñuel
14 films
Jean-Luc Godard (including "Tout va bien" co-directed by Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Alfred Hitchcock
13 films
Ingmar Bergman
12 films
Federico Fellini
11 films
Howard Hawks (arguably 12 if you include the Christian Nyby credited "The Thing from Another World")
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Jean Renoir
10 films
Charles Chaplin
Kenji Mizoguchi
9 films
Martin Scorsese
Luchino Visconti
8 films
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Robert Bresson
John Huston
Roberto Rossellini
Josef von Sternberg
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
7 films
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Sergei Eisenstein
Buster Keaton (includes 5 films co-directed by Reisner, Bruckman, Crisp, Sedgwick & Blystone)
Krszystof Kieslowski
Ernst Lubitsch
David Lynch
Max Ophüls
Yasujiro Ozu
Sam Peckinpah
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Powell's total is 9, if you include "Peeping Tom" and "The Thief of Bagdad")
Eric Rohmer
Steven Spielberg
Andrei Tarkovsky
François Truffaut
6 films
Michelangelo Antonioni
Frank Capra
Stanley Donen (including 2 co-directed by Gene Kelly)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Elia Kazan
Abbas Kiarostami
David Lean
Jean-Pierre Melville
F.W. Murnau
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Alain Resnais
Douglas Sirk
King Vidor
5 films
Joel & Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
George Cukor
Carl Dreyer
D.W. Griffith
Werner Herzog
Leo McCarey
Vincente Minnelli
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roman Polanski
Nicolas Roeg (including "Performance" co-directed by Donald Cammell)
Preston Sturges
Wong Kar-Wai
William Wyler
Some highly-regarded directors without any films in the 1,000
William Wellman
Alekdandr Sokurov
Manoel de Oliveira
Chuck Jones
Budd Boetticher
Jules Dassin
Frederick Wiseman
Abel Ferrara
Peter Watkins
Michael Haneke
Tex Avery
Frank Tashlin
Gus Van Sant
Steven Soderbergh
Aki Kaurismaki
Derek Jarman
Gregory La Cava
Philippe Garrel
Sacha Guitry
Andre de Toth
Allan Dwan
Kinji Fukasaku
Raul Ruiz
Bertrand Tavernier
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Youssef Chahine
Clarence Brown & many more
Decade breakdown
1900s = 1 film
1910s = 6 films
1920s = 56 films
1930s = 95 films
1940s = 114 films
1950s = 159 films
1960s = 181 films
1970s = 156 films
1980s = 123 films
1990s = 95 films
2000s = 14 films
Leading years
1955 = 21 films
1959 = 20 films
1961 = 22 films
1963 = 22 films
1966 = 20 films
1967 = 19 films
1972 = 21 films
1976 = 19 films
Average running time of the 1,000 films
116 minutes
Breakdown of print colour
Black & White = 469 films
Colour films = 512 films
Colour/BW films = 19 films
Leading countries
United States = 466 films
France = 155 films
United Kingdom = 73 films
Italy = 57 films
Germany = 45 films (including West Germany)
Japan = 41 films
Russia/USSR = 31 films
Sweden = 16 films
Spain = 12 films
India = 11 films
Breakdown by continent
North America = 486 films
Europe = 414 films
Asia = 80 films
South America = 9 films
Australasia = 6 films
Africa = 5 films

oh, cool. yeah i guess the decade bell curve is about what you'd expect.

I don't get how Gold Rush shows up so high in these lists. City Lights is so much better.

I've seen 17. I love films, but I don't love 'film'. That list strikes me as boring and canonical, most of those names are staples of Introduction to Film Studies modules I've helped facilitate for the last 7 years. Bores me to tears. Has film (in the minds of the people who made this list) really not improved in the last 50 years? Nothing in the top 10 under 37 years old. Is the film canon as boring as the music canon?

Clearly my cinema education is top-heavy: I've seen 65 of the top 200, but only 218 of the entire 1,000 film list.

Also LOL:

462. Three Colors: Blue
463. Three Colors: Red
736. Three Colors: White

Sorry, Julie Delpy! You're no Juliette Binoche or Irene Jacob, apparently.

13 films
Ingmar Bergman

Sweden = 16 films

some of the picks for this decade are pretty lol tho

one thing that might be pretty interesting is when/how a lot of ppl saw the majority of the top 100 - i watched the bulk of them on dvd btw like 16-21 - and i think most of the things i havent seen now i probably wont.

I've seen the first two hundred

Is that true Soto? If so, I'm impressed.

I've seen #1000! (guess why though)

White is definitely the worst of the three, though. IMO.

Haha, yeah, but is it the Matrix Revolutions of the Three Colors trilogy?

it's more like the godfather part III.

I've seen about 50 (voted for 40-49)

also I've got L'Avventura at home from netflix right now but haven't watched it yet

watch the first half-hour, skip the rest...

(i know i know, whiny existentialist beautiful italians, it was all very modern. i just wanted to slap them.)

37. :( So many films on this list that I've been meaning to get around to for years but haven't yet. But this moning I discovered that my local library has a great foreign cinema collection - Renoir boxset for £1 a week! - so there's still hope.

Nick, of course this list is canonical - it's the canon! That's kind of the point.

whiny existentialist beautiful italians, it was all very modern. i just wanted to slap them.

it's not like they're Ethan Hawke!

"the people who made this list" essentially compiled it from OTHER lists, I think? A descrip of the methodology is on there somewhere. Of course, it's canonical, any wide survey is bound to be. XP

I don't know for sure but I may have unwittingly contributed to this list. Which may be why The Hart of London is at #511.

Sixty five for me, mostly I fail with italian cinema and the silent era.

tipsy if it helps anything I think 8 1/2 is pretty self aware.

I watched 68, which is about the average I get with most big canon lists. After enough Timeless Masterpieces I get restless and start exploring seedier and/or more obscure areas.

I've gotten more passive about film exploration as I get older. I let the repertory theatres guide a lot of what I see, which generally yields a good mix of classics and oddities.

100 for me. Highest unseen is #138 Histoire(s) du cinéma which I've only seen some of. The highest entry I've not seen at all is #149 Killer of Sheep which was just playing here in NYC recently and I missed it. But it's also on a new Blu-ray.

If I count Shoah in excerpted form -- and why not? -- I've seen the first hundred.

53, if I'm counting correctly

After enough Timeless Masterpieces I get restless and start exploring seedier and/or more obscure areas.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, June 23, 2025 9:15 AM (twenty-three minutes ago)

I've gotten more passive about film exploration as I get older. I let the repertory theatres guide a lot of what I see, which generally yields a good mix of classics and oddities.

― jmm, Monday, June 23, 2025 9:31 AM (seven minutes ago)

This is the point I've come to as well. It's largely due to lists like this and knowing that I've seen all the consensus great films that I now feel free to watch films out of personal curiosity or just on a
random whim. Sort of like the way it was in high school when I would just go to the cinema and see whatever new film looked potentially worth the time. The exception to this is that I still feel a compulsion to catch certain older films on a big screen. But I think even the list of films I feel I need to see that way is gradually dwindling.

I've only seen 49 of the top hundred. :(((
Highest unseen, "Tokyo Story"

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Saturday, August 29, 2009 2:00 PM (eight years ago)

89 now.

― WilliamC, Monday, January 29, 2018 10:17 AM (seven years ago)

Up to 94.

You've alerted me to the fact that six of the seven I haven't seen (everything except The Mirror) are on Criterion, which I pay for and rarely use. This is now my project for the next month.

― clemenza, Saturday, March 13, 2021

I've made great progress in 4+ years: I'm at 93 or 94 from the current list. I'm never sure if it's The Mirror or The Sacrifice I've seen--one for sure, but I don't think both--and the same with Gertrud and Ordet.

71 that I'm definitely sure of; there are a handful more that I'm pretty sure I saw like 20 or more years ago, but don't have solid enough memories of to count.

I have a solid chunk of blind spots that I need to work on. I only saw Casablanca for the first time last year!

I wish Eric H was still around to remind me how much he loves Gertrud.

99/100 because I never finished watching Shoah.

65. I have some odd omissions (for no particular reason there is a lot of Italian cinema I haven't seen; I've only ever seen one Bergman) and a lot of cases where I've seen multiple films by a director but never got around to one of the canonical ones (Tokyo Story, Barry Lyndon).

I watched half of Viridiana the other day and found it pretty boring, but I was also very tired; I didn't count it.

I’ve seen 80, including the most recent comedy in the list, Playtime

70 according to my checks here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tspdts+1000+greatest+films/

i've only seen 26 of the top 100 (january 2018 version)

;_; but i'm catching up - 8 of those were in the last year or so. and there's like a half-dozen more that will probably happen in the next six months. (...)

― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:39 PM bookmarkflaglink

making headway - I'm up to 48/100 on the 2025 list!

I’m up to 99, just missing ‘Shoah’

I'm now up to 98, since I saw The Apartment in 2021 and Once Upon a Time in America has slipped off the top 100. Still haven't seen Jaws or To Be or Not To Be.

To Be or Not to Be is one of my gaps...When I looked at the current list, they put movies side-by-side as you scroll down (with a photo and a write-up). Loved the pairing of Nashville and Jaws. Both great, both the same year; one one side, kind of the apex of New Hollywood in the '70s, on the other, the film that leads to other films that will make sure you couldn't make a film like Nashville anymore (or at least get it into big commercial theatres).

"on one side"

What's with all these ding-dongs who haven't seen To Be Or Not To Be?

― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:27 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I count Shoah in excerpted form -- and why not?

The whole point is the relentlessness, if you pause it for even a second you are morally required to start from the beginning

What's with all these ding-dongs who haven't seen To Be Or Not To Be?

I did see the sequel, Hitler A Film From Germany

"To be or not to be" is the movie that "Heil myself" comes from. Holds up. There's a copy on youtube.

yeah To Be Or Not To Be is really funny

I don't know why I haven't seen it. Not a conscious decision. Don't recall it ever playing a rep theatre I patronized, though I've had chances on TV.

I saw the Mel Brooks-starring remake before the original, not advised

Cléo and Hitler seem to be glaring at each other in their list images.

Ha! Oddly enough To Be or Not to Be and Shoah are my remaining blindspots according to that ICM list. Though I sometimes wonder whether single viewings in childhood (etc) really count for much.

I too struggle to explain the Lubitsch neglect lol. I know I *did* at least cue up some torrented files of Shoah circa 2011, but seemingly put it aside for a 'later' that is yet to arrive.

I've seen all of the top 100, including every single second of Shoah. Highest unseen movie for me is still The Travelling Players (230).

Seen 70, though many (if not most) of the titles I’m missing are sitting in my Criterion Channel watchlist. If I’m being honest, I don’t know if I’ll ever get to Shoah.

is anyone talking about the nyt top 100 of the 21st century list anywhere? i've seen 74/80 of those.

That NYT list so far seems very biased towards American films. A lot of the films are great but some are dreadful, and there is a whole other world out there

You can't really get too mad at Nathan Lane and Paula Poundstone for picking Bridesmaids instead of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

xp True. I assume it would be more international if it were voted on by critics instead of industry folks, even if the percentage of Americans in the voting pool were the same.

Yeah, but they already have Sight & Sound for that

I think, to the best of my recollection, that I’ve seen 76/100 on a big screen. Would like to see all 100 on a big screen of course, but I’m kind of pleased I’ve seen as many as that. I realize this depends on being in the right place at the right time, but I’ve tried to maximize my opportunities and I’m glad I have. We don’t know how long cinema as we know it will last

I've seen 86 of the 100 NYT films. A few of the rest that I want to see, but some that I don't have any interest in. It's an OK list for what it is. Leans toward the obvious and American.

Snap! Have also seen 86/100 on the NYT list. Worst film of the ones I've seen: Her.

63/100 for me. Happy to state that none of my top 10 were in the 100 - I bumped the Letterboxd thread if you want to see it

xp lol “Her” is one of the ones I haven’t seen and don’t want to.

Seen 94/100. Love how they just don't know what to do with Akerman, which should ofc be no 1..

Dr Strange love, La Strada, Enfant Du Paradis, Amacord, Wonderful Life and Liberty Valence are the ones I haven't seen. Might watch Paradis but don't know if I can ever be arsed with the rest.

94/100 of the NYT list. Maybe I'll poll the top 50.

I think I've seen around 70 of the top 100 of that They Shoot Pictures list. Of course I like most of you are nonetheless pretty familiar with dozens more, so I guess I'd consider them on a hypothetical to-watch list. I haven't had a chance to peruse that whole list, I wonder how many I'm totally unfamiliar with, like not even the plot or premise or anything? Probably a few

88/100

saw 76/100 on the nytimes list

Maybe I'll poll the top 50

NYT Best Films of the 21st Century

Love how they just don't know what to do with Akerman, which should ofc be no 1.

TSPDT aggregates many polls, no? Akerman topped Sight & Sound, which I'm sure they give more weight to than anything else, but that wouldn't translate to #1 in and of itself.

Yes, also don't know what "they just don't know what to do" means for a list agregator.

Dielman broke the aggregator.

You can sing that to the tune of "Video Killed the Radio Star," I think.