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Roger Ebert's top film picks of all-time

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert attends the IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on March 22, 2003. (Lionel Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT)
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert attends the IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on March 22, 2003. (Lionel Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT)
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    • Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert attends the IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on March 22, 2003. (Lionel Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT) Gallery: Film critic Roger Ebert dies at age 70
    Posted: Friday, April 5, 2013, 8:00 AM

    Roger Ebert, who passed away Thursday, swore he would never compile a best of movie list and would only produce an annual year's best list.  But he did vote in Sight & Sound magazine's poll to determine the greatest films of all time.

    Here were his picks  for best film of all time that were submitted to the magazine in 2012, as laid out in his blog:

    Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog) 1972

    A ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado in the 16th century.

    Apocalypse Now (Coppola) 1979

    Captain Willard is sent to assassinate a ruthless and insane colonel in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

    Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941

    The life and death of a publishing tycoon whose last words were a mysterious utterance: Rosebud.

    La Dolce Vita (Fellini) 1960

    A week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist in Rome.

    The General (Keaton) 1926

    When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

    Raging Bull (Scorsese) 1980

    A brutal look at a self-destructive boxer and how his violent temper brings him victory in the ring, but destruction outside.

    2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 1968

    Mysterious obelisk helps humanity, and H.A.L. 9000 makes its scary debut.

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    Tokyo Story (Ozu) 1953

    An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.

    The Tree of Life (Malick) 2011

    The story of a family in Waco Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting philosophies.

    Vertigo (Hitchcock) 1958

    A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

     

     

    Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)
    Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
    Citizen Kane (Welles)
    La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
    The General (Keaton)
    Raging Bull (Scorsese)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
    Tokyo Story (Ozu)
    The Tree of Life (Malick)
    Vertigo (Hitchcock)

    Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)

    Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

    Citizen Kane (Welles)

    La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

    The General (Keaton)

    Raging Bull (Scorsese)

    2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

    Tokyo Story (Ozu)

    The Tree of Life (Malick)

    Vertigo (Hitchcock)

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    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:13 AM, 04/05/2013
      "The Animal," starring Rob Schneider was also one of Ebert's favorites.
      — kjuggs77
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:25 AM, 04/05/2013
      Ebert was not a nice man. Bye bye Roger.
      — kelprod2-freemarket
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:35 AM, 04/05/2013
      I can't believe "Good Burger" is not on that list. RIP Mr. Ebert
      — Yonkersphilly
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:59 AM, 04/05/2013
      No Tyler Perry movies? Racist!
      — GZimmermanDidNothingWrong
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:09 PM, 04/05/2013
      LOL! that made me laugh aloud
      — Tammy Weerds
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:12 AM, 04/05/2013
      "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" should be on the list for sure.
      — pic man
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:35 AM, 04/05/2013
      Many of these films are great, but how Tree of Life made the list I'll never know.
      — potus
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:36 AM, 04/05/2013
      who wrote the simplistic descriptions of these great, complex films, a 10 year old?
      — J Mac
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:00 AM, 04/05/2013
      No Talladega Nights????!!!!
      — #1 With A Bullet
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:19 AM, 04/05/2013
      Ebert was interesting only when teamed with Siskel because you could see how two critics with different perspectives would evaluate the same movie. One the Internet came along, movie critics became irrelevant. But I still remember how excited Siskel was that he bought Travolta's white disco suit from Saturday Night Fever. That one act showed the passion and love he had for movies underneath the dispassionate reviews.
      — wfs0868
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:03 PM, 04/05/2013
      Once the internet came along the herd was divided.Social and anti-social movie goer. Those that left the herd produced young adults and children who's so called taste in what a good movie really is have no real appreciation for the people who bought the old classics and the new classics to the movies. They don't know who the real stars of Hollywood are and were.They have no appreciation for the beauty of films like Mr.Ebert and Mr.Siskel did. I watch their show every week. I listened and I learned. I saw movies I thought I would never set foot in but because of those two I did. I took and interest in that world and passed it on to the next generation Mr. Ebert will be missed and the battle of thumbs up and thumbs down can now continue.
      — vrb1955
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:40 PM, 04/05/2013
      Crimes amd Misdemeanors by Woody Alan is the best film ever made.
      — Bobby257
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:16 PM, 04/05/2013
      Beneath the Valley of the Dolls
      — kissamiazz
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:09 PM, 04/05/2013
      I saw that at a Valley of The Dolls retro party and it was called "Beyond The Valley of The Dolls". I didn't like it.
      — Tammy Weerds
    • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:26 PM, 04/05/2013
      Godfather 1 and 2 better than all of them.
      — big geoff


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