Originally posted by: zombie84
Most of those film lists are American ones/ Hollywood ones, ie AFI, so you don't have "foreign" films, which would result in an incredible different listing.
Yes, the AFI's list is clearly their top twenty American films. The BFI & Sight & Sound polled critics and directors from many different countries, not just the UK or USA. What is interesting is that, as they noted in the accompanying articles, despite this approach the results are dominated by US films. It is also interesting how close Vertigo came to beating Citizen Kane among the critics.Most of those film lists are American ones/ Hollywood ones, ie AFI, so you don't have "foreign" films, which would result in an incredible different listing.
Star Wars was picked by Scott Rosenberg (critic, USA/Thailand), Roger Corman (director, USA) and Anurag Mehta (director, India).
Milos Forman (director, USA) picked American Graffiti.
Go here for a full, searchable report of all the people polled and what they picked.
I recommend looking up George Romero's top ten and comments - brilliant!
