Plato Shrimp / Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All-Time List

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/01/2023 2:56 pm

At first, I was taken aback at the thought that gbgoodies has seen three more of these films than I have, considering how she seems to specialize in cartoons and rom-coms. Then it occurred to me that her 110 has to be out of the entire 250, and not just the recently released 150 new slots. When I saw some of the other numbers at "165" and "183", I started to wonder a bit what was going on. I don't know my total overall, but I'll wager I cracked 200.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 3/23/2023 10:23 pm

Went back to Kateland to post top lists for the years of our lord, 1971 and 1972. Even pushing to 20 in each, I had to cut Beware the Holy Whore, crumbs.

1971

Harold and Maude
A Clockwork Orange
Carnal Knowledge
The Devils
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Last Picture Show
And Now For Something Completely Different
A Safe Place
Fata Morgana
The Last Movie
Polanksi's Macbeth
The Ceremony
The Decameron
The Beguiled
Straw Dogs
Walkabout
Taking Off
Duel
Sometimes a Great Notion
A Lizard in Woman's Skin

1972

The Godfather
Last Tango in Paris
Solaris
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Cries and Whispers
The Heartbreak Kid
Deliverance
Play It As It Lays
Pulp
Images
Sleuth
Fat City
The Ruling Class
Cocksucker's Blues
The Devil
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
Bone
Pink Flamingos
Private Parts
The Iron Rose

**Posted by crumbsroom** 3/23/2023 10:40 pm

Hey, at least you had space for Pulp, Bone, Private Parts, Images and Fat City. Fat City has been getting more respect the last decade or so, but those other four are still criminally overlooked

Holy Whore is better than them all though.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 3/23/2023 10:45 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
Holy Whore is better than them all though.

No Bitter Tears either.

This era is simply impossible to rank.

**Posted by Rock** 3/23/2023 10:49 pm

Off the top of my head:

1971
Get Carter
The French Connection
Dirty Harry
Vampyros Lesbos
She Killed in Ecstasy
The Last Picture Show
Daughters of Darkness
A New Leaf
Bananas
Walkabout

1972
The Godfather
Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
The Heartbreak Kid
The New Land
Superfly
The Italian Connection
The Boxer from Shantung
Prime Cut
Love in the Afternoon
State of Siege

Last edited by Rock (3/23/2023 11:14 pm)

**Posted by Jinnistan** 3/23/2023 10:54 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
No Bitter Tears either.

I'm in luck. Iron Rose officially opened in April '73, so to the #20 spot goes Petra von Kant!

**Posted by Rock** 3/23/2023 11:01 pm

Attempted the tail end of the decade as well.

1979
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Legend of the Mountain
The Jerk
The In Laws
The Black Stallion
Breaking Away
Saint Jack
Her Name Was Lisa
Hardcore

1978
Dawn of the Dead
Halloween
The Deer Hunter
Crippled Avengers
Days of Heaven
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Skin Flicks
The Driver
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Blue Collar

**Posted by Jinnistan** 3/23/2023 11:31 pm

It would take me a committed week to rank the entire decade.

I hate to discriminate the more prestigious films from the genre ones, but with a couple of exceptions, I avoided the latter for those lists. I could add a whole lot of favorites to subsequent lists. I could probaby hit a top 100 for at least half of the years in the '70s.