From the Archive: Critics from 1978 Pick the Best from 50 Years of Movies
From the Archive: Critics from 1978 Pick the Best from 50 Years of Movies
Post editors and film critics from 1978 chose the best movies, actors and actresses of all time. Has the list changed since then?
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Post editors from 1978, pooling 50 years of favorites, joined distinguished film critics Rex Reed and John Simon and the American Film Institute in daring to choose the best movies, actors and actresses of all time: You may not agree with the choices but they call up happy hours spent in the dark.
The American Film Institute picks the 50 best movies. The top 10 are:
The African Queen (1952) Casablanca (1942) Citizen Kane (1941) Gone With the Wind (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Star Wars (1977) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The next 40 are:
All About Eve (1950) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) All the President’s Men (1976) Ben Hur (1959) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969) Cabaret (1972) Chinatown (1974) City Lights (1931) Strangelove (1964) Fantasia (1940) The General (1927) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) The Graduate (1967) High Noon (1952) Intolerance (1916) It Happened One Night (1934) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1976) King Kong (1933) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Modern Times (1936) Nashville (1975) On the Waterfront (1954) Psycho (1960) Rocky (1976) Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1938) The Sound of Music (1965) The Sting (1973) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Sunset Boulevard (1950) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) West Side Story (1961) Wuthering Heights (1939)
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