Last week, the American Film Institute celebrated ‘100 years… 100 films’ with a new list of their top 100 movies of all time. To coincide with this, they contacted us to ask us to write about our favourite film as part of a pulse of the online community. Just one? Screw that, we said. We can do better. So we sat down to compile our list of ‘1000 films… 1000 years.’ This proved difficult, both because 1,000 films is a lot and not much happened in cinema for 900 of those years. So realising that we don’t have the same resources as the AFI, we have created our list of ‘50 films… 50 years’. So here it is. How it works is that we split the 50 years evenly between five of us and have compiled a personal top 10 list in each of the given time periods. And it wasn’t easy. Tears were shed and hair was torn as we were forced to narrow down our extensive lists to the final 50. The results are… quite interesting. Stay tuned as we’ll be revealing a top 10 each day until we’ve made it all the way up to 2007.
1957-1966
Ian Carey
10. Spartacus (1960)
Supposedly Stanley Kubrick was bitch slapped so hard by the Studio in the making of Spartacus that he had little or no creative input into the project. All the same he managed to put together a compelling film that will stand as one of the greatest epic movies ever made. Spartacus is eye candy. And it did give us the infamous ‘spartacus ending’ (or maybe the story gave us that, who cares). I’m still holding out for the Harry Potter films to end Spartacus style. ‘I’m Harry Potter… No, I’m Harry Potter…’
