{"id":3871,"date":"2008-11-23T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2012-08-20T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:14:48","slug":"cahiers-du-cinemas-100-greatest-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/23\/cahiers-du-cinemas-100-greatest-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Cahiers du cin\u00e9ma’s 100 Greatest Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n French film magazine\u00a0Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/a><\/strong> have compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is published this month in an illustrated book and was put together by 76 French film directors, critics and industry executives.<\/p>\n Here are the 100 films:<\/p>\n The reaction from some outlets in this country is surprise that there are no British films on the list.<\/p>\n The Telegraph say<\/a>:<\/p>\n The list in the publication Les Cahiers du Cinema features films from the USA, Germany, Russia, Italy and Sweden but there is no place for some of the biggest British directors including David Lean, Ken Loach and Peter Greenaway.<\/p>\n British-born Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin are both mentioned but only for the movies that they made in Hollywood.<\/p>\n The nearest the British cinema industry comes to a mention is the 17th (equal) place given to 2001: A Space Odyssey, made in 1968, by the American director, Stanley Kubrick, partly with British money and with British technicians.<\/p>\n The 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia came seventh in a recent list of the best 100 movies drawn up by the American Film Institute in Hollywood but is perhaps the highest profile omission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jean-Michel Frodon, the editor of Les Cahiers du Cinema, has pointed out that the lack of British-made films was “striking” but not part of any Gallic conspiracy:<\/p>\n “It does not reflect an anti-British bias. It is simply the result of the individual choices of 76 people in the French industry. Each was asked to name their 100 best films and this was the result.<\/p>\n Yes, it is surprising, maybe, that there is no Lawrence of Arabia, or no film by Ken Loach or Stephen Frears (The Queen).<\/p>\n But there are many other national film industries which are also missing. There are no Brazilian films, for instance.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some British films that should have made the list would surely include:<\/p>\n That said, if you were to ask me what are the truly great British films of the last 20 years, then I would struggle to come up with one.<\/p>\n In May 1957 a former editor of Cahiers (and later director) Francois Truffaut<\/a> once remarked<\/a>:<\/p>\n “The British cinema is made of dullness and reflects a submissive lifestyle, where enthusiasm, warmth, and zest are nipped in the bud. A film is a born loser just because it is English.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Maybe nothing has changed in 50 years.<\/p>\n > The Telegraph on the list<\/a> French film magazine Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma have compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,2],"tags":[672,2797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n> Official site for Cahiers\u00a0du Cinema
\n<\/a>> Geoffrey MacNab of The Guardian in 2001 on Cahiers du Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"