Greatest Movies Ever: The Ultimate Ranked List of the 101 Best Films of All Time!

by Jim Piazza and Gail Kinn

Book Overview

The 101 best movies ever made--from around the world and across a century--unfold here in order, along with critical commentary, behind-the-scenes information, and hundreds of lush photographs. Movie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579127827
• ISBN13: 9781579127824
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Classic movie is missing

To put together a list this long, with this much detail, and omit Ben-Hur is sheer ignorance.

The Authors List of Great Movies

What makes following movies a great hobby is that everyone has their own opinion as to what constitutes the best of all time. While I do not agree with some of the authors' opinions,I have to respect their detail in providing these opinions.

REAL all time best movies...

This book is great! As a movie lover, I have seen almost all of the movies in this book, and loved every one of them. So seeing the movies themselves isn't what this book was about for me, but I did find it very satisfying reading all the best scenes, quotes and memorable parts from each movie remonded in this book. It has great pictures of every film, all the details about the director and actors and plenty more... I would recommmend having this book around to view every once in a while!

Impressively put-together, if you ignore the glaring errors

I am something of a collector of "Best movie ever" type books, so believe me when I say that in many regards this is one of the best. The amount of information presented for each entry is very impressive, the color photographs well-chosen, and the writing of a high caliber. The book passed the ultimate test: it made me want to watch the movies listed that I hadn't seen so I could read the articles about them. However, the amount of factual material that is incorrect is somewhat staggering. A previous reviewer already mentioned a point about Natalie Wood; let me simply list the ones I saw off the top of my head. -The authors say that The Graduate was Mike Nichols' directorial debut, when in fact he directed the (hardly obscure) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf the year before -The authors talk about how the characters in The African Queen are worried about alligators. Alligators live in America and China, Crocodiles live in Africa. -The authors say that Jean Renoir made Rules of the Game "having grown disturbed by France's complacency over the German occupation." Obviously untrue if you consider the fact that the movie was released in 1939 and the occupation didn't begin until 1940 -In the entry for Chinatown the authors state that Rosemary's Baby was released in 1963, a full five years away from its actual 1968 release date. Additionally, they attribute the famous "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown" quote to Lt. Escobar when in fact Walsh says it. -The authors state that The Last Picture show was released in 1968, when in fact it was released in 1971 -For some reason the authors write that Elia Kazan "made a comeback, after years of inactivity" with Reversal of Fortune when he did absolutely no such thing--Barbet Schroeder directed that film. I watch a ton of movies, but I'm not getting paid to write about them--Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza are. Most of these errors are incredibly easy to avoid (just by plugging them into IMDB you can get your release year). I mean, anyone who knows the slightest detail about WWII would realize that a movie released in 1939 couldnt possibly be made to describe the French occupation by Germany. These authors' job is to write about movies; they should not be making half a dozen errors that I easily notice in the SECOND EDITION of their work. Other that that, though, as I mentioned before, it's a worthy read.

Where's Lord of the RIngs?

Overall, I loved this book. The details given for each title selected are amazing with cast, interesting facts, other critical choices, important scenes, etc. I probably would have given it 5-stars, but couldn't understand how any book with such an impressive title that purports to be "The Ultimate Ranked List of the 101 Best Films of All Time!" could have excluded the Lord of the Rings trilogy! Even so, I loved the book and gave it high marks for including Groundhog Day.

this book is FANTASTIC.

I loved this book. I got an early copy and it's really a gem. Don't miss it!!