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Summary: Top 100 "AMERICAN" films of all time
Review: Being a non-american myself, I noticed one thing missing from this top 100 - non-american films! Not even one! Not just foreign language films, but even non-american english speaking films (from England, Australia etc) This should be titled "Top 100 AMERICAN films of all time". I at least expected Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" seeing as many critics say this is the best film of all time - but no. Very disppointing, especially as I watched the Australian dvd release of this. I recommend buying the book "1001 films you must see before you die". An execellent book with many non-american films and a wide range of genres and good mix between blockbuster and art-house movies. Also has many more newer films than this top 100 dvd. One plus for this dvd (as someone else mentioned) are the trailers (for mostly older movies 1910's to 1950's) which was a great idea. I think the IMDB top 250 is way more credible than this top 100, and if I were a film critic I'd be embarassed by this list not including non-american films - america is not "the world", as we so often see or are led to believe with american television.
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Summary: Really disappointing
Review: I did not care for this DVD set at all. The list itself accounts for less than an hour of the running time. They spend less than 30 seconds on each film, and a good portion of that time is spent on the numbers between the screen. The commentator has no special insight and mostly recites well-known facts about each film.
As for the films themselves, the selection is good. The list mirrors AFI closely, except they completely ignore "Schindler's List" (AFI #9). In its place in the top 10 is "A Beautiful Mind", which I loved but am a little wary about putting it that high. They also bypass "The Third Man" and put in "The Matrix" around its position. I am very doubtful that this is by critics' consensus.
There are a good number of trailers, which stops this DVD from being a complete waste. In fact, that's about the only reason I could think of to buy. Just a few things to keep in mind if you're considering buying this.
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Summary: What Film Critics???????
Review: This double DVD set is fantastic! I teach a college course in film history, and I've just started showing this program to my students, AND THEY LOVE IT! There's great scenes from the movies and information that I actually teach the students, and stuff I didn't even know. I highly recommend this show if you love movies of all sorts. From 'Aliens' to 'Casablanca' - this show has it all. Now, how in the hell do you solve a problem like Maria?
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Summary: A TRULY GREAT SHOW
Review: This double DVD set is fantastic! I teach a college course in film history, and I've just started showing this program to my students, AND THEY LOVE IT! There's great scenes from the movies and information that I actually teach the students, and stuff I didn't even know. I highly recommend this show if you love movies of all sorts. From 'Aliens' to 'Casablanca' - this show has it all. Now, how in the hell do you solve a problem like Maria?
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Summary: What Film Critics???????
Review: This is a totally bogus DVD. They don't anywhere explain who are the critics that voted for the movies. Any idiot could pick most of these movies. It's basically the AFI list. It's stupid.
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