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Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time. The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema. From Brazil to Japan to France and Senegal, from Neo-Realism to Dogme to J-horror, we've compiled a list of the very best films not in the English language (note: features, not documentaries).

The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema

So rustle up some sushi, strike up a gauloise and make sure you've locked your bicycle as we count down the top 100 world cinema movies... 100. Night Watch Year: 2004Country: RussiaDirector: Timur Bekmambetov It's Buffy meets The Matrix meets Blade! Hollywood remake? Stream Night Watch now with Amazon Video 99. Year: 1993Country: ChinaDirector: Yuen Woo-ping It's the Robin Hood story transferred to the Ch'ing Dynasty, helmed by Yuen Woo-ping, the martial arts director that would go onto create such western fighting spectaculars such as Kill Bill and The Matrix Trilogy.

Hollywood remake? Buy Iron Monkey now on Amazon 98. Year: 1985Country: JapanDirector: Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa was almost blind when he directed his biggest movie, in 1989, and yet it's possibly his most beautiful. Hollywood remake? The 50 greatest war films of all time. The 50 best documentaries of all time. 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics. 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die. 100 Movies To See Before You Die: The All-Time Greats.

AFI's 10 Top 10. AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres.

AFI's 10 Top 10

Presented by the American Film Institute (AFI), the lists were unveiled on a television special broadcast by CBS on June 17, 2008. In the special, various actors and directors, among them Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Roman Polanski, and Jane Fonda, discussed their admiration for and personal contributions to the films cited. The entire list of 500 nominated films is available on the American Film Institute website.

Animation[edit] AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors. Fantasy[edit] AFI defines "fantasy" as a genre in which live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

The original list was first unveiled in 1998. Announced on January 18, 2007, this 10th installment of the American Film Institute's (AFI) Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted down the 100 greatest American movies of all time in a three-hour television event. Aired June 20, 2007 on CBS, it was hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The program considered classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1997 to 2005.[1] AFI will conduct different versions of this poll every ten years as more films are released to be considered the greatest.

AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time. People magazine featured a story that corresponded with the special in its March 28, 2011 issue, which came out on March 18.

Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time

The categories for the special were Best Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Best Action Film, Greatest Film Character, Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Greatest Screen Kiss, Best Comedy, Best Animated Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Greatest Line, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film. To vote for their favorite films, movie fans went online at abcnews.com and people.com to select the winners from a list of nominees created by a group of film industry experts.

Online voting was open from late November 2010 to January 2011. List of highest-grossing Bollywood films. 1 crore mark.

List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

Subsequently, more films breached the 10 million mark until Shree 420 breached the 2 crore mark for the first time. Beginning with the 1960s and particularly 1970s, Bollywood films achieved major commercial success more regularly, and the revenue earned multiplied manifold throughout this period (a trend that continued into the 1990s); Sholay (1975) earned triple the amount that the previous record-holder Mughal-e-Azam (1960) earned, while Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic. #2.

5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic

The Wire -- The Real-Life Omar Survived a Jump from the Sixth Floor, Not the Fourth The Scene: In Season 5 of The Wire, a gritty police drama about crime in Baltimore, resident badass Omar Little finds himself outgunned in a shootout and decides to escape by jumping out the window. Well, that doesn't sound very badass to us ... oh, hold on, did we mention that the window is on the fourth floor of an apartment building? In the immortal words of Marlo Stanfield, "That's some Spider-Man shit there. " Somehow, Omar survives the fall and goes on to kill a bunch of people in revenge. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998. Presentation broadcast[edit] Criteria[edit] Films were judged according to the following criteria. Film 4: 50 films to see before you die list. 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die. 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die is a five-episode television series presented by Morgan Spurlock on the Current TV television network featuring what editors regard as the fifty of the most influential and/or important documentary films from the past 25 years.

50 Documentaries to See Before You Die

Episodes[edit] "Life After Donkey Kong"[edit] "The Boy Who Loves Jesus Grows Up"[edit] "When Morgan Spurlock Met Mr. Brainwash"[edit] "When Morgan Spurlock Went to a Drag Ball"[edit] "Top 10 Docs To See Before You Die"[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] IDA Editorial Staff (1 August 2011). "50 Documentaries to See Before You Die". External links[edit]