Turner Classics & Eberts Most Influential Films of All Time  Vote

By Roger Ebert

To celebrate its 25th anniversary Turner Classic Movies has selected the 15 most influential films of all time. It’s a good list. As much as I think all such lists are debatable rankings of apples and oranges, that didn’t prevent me from selecting my own ten best films of the century at the turn of the millenium. The TCM list was assembled “under the guidance of many experts,” the network explains somewhat vaguely, including its host, Robert Osborne, who knows his movies. Here is the list of 15 and their reasoning, accompanied by a link to my own list of ten. I’ve put an asterisk before four titles on both lists.  (read more)