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The Greatest Films of All Time (according to The Guardian)

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According to The Guardian, the below are "The Greatest Films of All Time". Of course. In three genres: romance, crime and comedy. You can click the tabs at the bottom left corner of the spreadsheet to switch genres.

Any thoughts on the innards?

Speaking for myself, I hadn't even heard about Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" or "Before Sunset" before seeing this list, and I still haven't seen "Harold & Maude" by Hal Ashby, a film that I've been hassled by almost everyone to see for ages. And no, haven't seen anything by Wong Kar Wai.

I have, however, not been a complete philistine lurking in a cave. I've been lurking in two caves.

Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" is forever one of my horror-faves, and I love his "Chinatown" as written by the notable Robert Towne. "The Exorcist" and "The Shining" are also grand titles for the horror list I'll say, and I think the latter ranks as my fave scary film.

I'm glad to see both "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Lost in Translation" by Michel Gondry and Sofia Coppola, respectively, as two modern romance-classics. Among the oldies, sure I'll go with "Roman Holiday", but why not "To Have and Have Not"? I mean, "The Big Sleep" is listed in the crime-category, but. But!

I can't see how "Rushmore" can be rated so high in the comedy-category when "Groundhog Day" is oh-so-below. "Team America: World Police" is a great pick and "Dazed and Confused", I love it!

Speaking of which, here's a run-down of a list of my Facebook friends' fave Stanley Kubrick films, ranking from the absolute fave at the top and it thereafter trickles down:

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Anyhow, The Guardian's list is in my opinion a bit dated, containing the usual critic's faves; here it is: