That may be how many American art-house habituésthink of Pedro Almodóvar’s riotous comedy. Image Credit: ©Orion Pictures Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).Read Variety‘s original review of “12 Angry Men,” and stream “12 Angry Men” on Prime Video. The greatness of “12 Angry Men” is that it finds drama in discovering what America really is: a place where one man with an open mind can change the world. Sidney Lumet’s direction makes the back-and-forth dialogue so electrifying that it’s almost like music. How elemental - and riveting - is this: an entire courtroom drama set inside the jury room, where Henry Fonda, as the only member of the jury who suspects that a teenage defendant might not be guilty of murder, questions, cajoles and gradually convinces his fellow jurors to look more closely at the evidence. Read Variety‘s original review of “The Graduate.” Rent or purchase the film on Prime Video. One that showcases the new spirit of antisocial passion in a socially acceptable - and divinely infectious - way. Robinson, then stalks her daughter (Katharine Ross) to campus and breaks up her wedding by screaming like a banshee. His Ben has an affair with Anne Bancroft’s deliriously blasé Mrs. Dustin Hoffman, with the halting prickly-pear neurotic charisma that would make him a star, plays a clueless college graduate who drops out without quite rebelling, and it’s that combination of hostility and passivity that elevated Hoffman into a culture hero. That’s because there has never been another movie like it (and no, “Rushmore” doesn’t count). Mike Nichols’ indelible comedy of alienation is that rare thing, a movie that really does define a generation. Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection These film writers and critics contributed suggestions for movies: Manuel Betancourt, Clayton Davis, Peter Debruge, Matt Donnelly, William Earl, Patrick Frater, Steven Gaydos, Owen Gleiberman, Dennis Harvey, Courtney Howard, Angelique Jackson, Elsa Keslassy, Lisa Kennedy, Jessica Kiang, Richard Kuipers, Tomris Laffly, Brent Lang, Joe Leydon, Guy Lodge, Amy Nicholson, Michael Nordine, Naman Ramachandran, Manori Ravindran, Jenelle Riley, Pat Saperstein, Alissa Simon, Jazz Tangcay, Sylvia Tan, Zack Sharf, Adam B. We invite you to find out how many films from the list you’ve seen on this poll. But our hope is that in looking at the films we did choose, you’ll see a roster that reflects the impossibly wide-ranging, ever-shifting glory of what movies are. No doubt you’ll say: How could that movie have been left off the list? Or this one? Or that one? Trust us: We often asked that very same question ourselves. We invited prominent filmmakers and actors to contribute essays about the movies that are significant to them, and that passion comes across in all that they wrote. That’s the nature of the beast - the nature of the kind of protective passion that people feel about their favorite movies. The very spirit of cinema is that it has long been a landscape of spine-tingling eclecticism, and we wanted our list to reflect that - to honor the movies we love most, whatever categories they happen to fall into.ĭo we want you to argue with this list? Of course we do. We don’t just mean different genres we don’t just mean highbrow and lowbrow (and everything in between). (We invented box office reporting, in addition to the words “showbiz” and “horse opera.”) And in making this list, we wanted to reflect the beautiful, head-spinning variety of the moviegoing experience. Variety, which recently celebrated its 117th anniversary, is a publication as old as cinema. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). The movies are now more than 100 years old.
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