For our poll to determine the 100 greatest American films, we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses from 177 – from every continent except Antarctica. Some are newspaper or magazine reviewers, others write primarily for websites; academics and cinema curators are well-represented too. For the purposes of this poll we have decided that a list of the greatest films of the 21st Century should include the year 2000, even though we recognise that there was no ‘Year Zero’ and that 2001 is mathematically the start of the century. Not only did we all celebrate the turn of the millennium on 31 December 1999, but the year 2000 was a landmark in global cinema, and, in particular, saw the emergence of new classics from Asia like nothing we had ever seen before.
Only the BBC (and maybe PBS) would publish an article w/o a slide-show or multiple pages the reader would be forced to click through to find the ending. That’s the beauty of a publicly funded media company’s commitment to quality content, not page views.
I would have liked to see this same list from public votes. Yes, IMDB exists but like most communities, a group-think quickly takes over and IMDB’s top 100 has a few that really shouldn’t be there. I also though Boyhood, The Tree of Life and Pan’s Labyrinth were dumb movies that no one should even see once.