“Psycho” named best film of all time by Variety

The American magazine Variety published its first list of the 100 best films of all time on Wednesday (21/12).

The veteran trade magazine, which recently turned 117, is a pioneer in cinematic coverage, having been the first publication to gross cinema, as well as inventing new words, such as “showbiz”, which are now part of the entertainment vocabulary. But despite its long tradition in the genre, it had never made a list of the best films of all time.

The list was compiled from the individual picks of 30 critics, writers and editors for the publication and its website. And the result put the film “Psycho” (1960) in first place.

Hitchcock’s feature film is followed by the classic “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) in 2nd place, and “The Godfather” (1972), in 3rd place. An old champion of these lists, “Citizen Kane” (1941) appeared in 4th place, accompanied by a much more modern film, “Pulp Fiction” (1994).

The collection of the title marks a stark contrast to the recent listing in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine, which features some of the world’s leading film critics and scholars. Most notably, “Jeanne Dielman” (1975), by Belgian Chantal Akerman, ranked first in Sight & Sound, was 78th on the Variety list.

As an American magazine, Variety has also selected a large majority of Hollywood productions, both classic (such as “Singing in the Rain” and “Casablanca”) and contemporary (such as “Batman – The Dark Knight” and “Toy Story”).

In addition to topping the list with ‘Psycho’, Alfred Hitchcock also scored two other Variety favorites: ‘A Body That Falls’ (1958) and ‘Interlude’ (1946) – but not ‘ Rear Window” (1954)! He wasn’t the only one. The same mention deserve Billy Wilder and Francis Ford Coppola. Wilder’s classic filmography included the noir “Pact of Blood” (1944) and the comedies “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and “If My Apartment Could Talk” (1960). This selection also drew attention to one obvious absence – “Twilight of the Gods” (1950). Coppola participated with his films from the 1970s: ‘The Godfather’ (1972), ‘The Godfather II’ (1974) and ‘Apocalypse Now’ (1979).

Among the international films, only one Brazilian production was cited: “Pixote, the Law of the Weakest” (1980), by Hector Babenco, in 80th place. But the usual suspects are: Kurosawa (“Os 7 Samurais”), Fellini (“8½”), Truffaut (“Os Misunderstood”), Buñuel (“A Bela da Tarde”), Dreyer (“O Martírio de Joana D’ Arc”), Godard (“Breakfast”), Murnau (“The Dawn”), Renoir (“The Rules of the Game”), De Sica (“The Bicycle Thief”), Antonioni (“The Adventure”), Bresson (“Un Death Condemned Man Escaped”), Polanski (“Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown”) and Almodóvar (“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”), alongside old-school masters (Ford, Capra, Curtis, Chaplin , Peckinpah) and the new Hollywood (Scorsese, Tarantino, Spielberg, Lynch, Coen).

Check out the full list below.

1. “Psycho” (1960)

2. “The Wizard of Oz” (1939)

3. “The Godfather” (1972)

4. “Citizen Kane” (1941)

5. “Pulp Fiction – Times of Violence” (1994)

6. “The Seven Samurai” (1954)

7. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)

8. “Happiness cannot be bought” (1946)

9. “A Malvada” (1950)

10. “Saving Private Ryan” (1998)

11. “Singing in the Rain” (1952)

12. “Goodfellas” (1990)

13. “The Rules of the Game” (1939)

14. “Do the Right Thing” (1989)

15. “Aurora” (1927)

16. “Casablanca” (1942)

17. “Nashville” (1975)

18. “Person” (1966)

19. “The Godfather 2” (1974)

20. “Blue Velvet” (1986)

21. “…Gone with the Wind” (1939)

22. “Chinatown” (1974)

23. “If My Apartment Could Talk” (1960)

24. “Once Upon a Time in Tokyo” (1953)

25. “Levada da breca” (1938)

26. “The Misunderstood” (1959)

27. “Bonnie and Clyde – A Bullet Haul” (1967)

28. “City Lights” (1931)

29. “Blood Pact” (1944)

30. “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” (1980)

31. “Network” (1976)

32. “A Falling Body” (1958)

33. “8½” (1963)

34. “In the Time of the Stagecoach” (1939)

35. “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)

36. “Syndicate of Thieves” (1954)

37. “Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride” (1977)

38. “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)

39. “Some Like It Hot” (1959)

40. Fargo (1996)

41. “My Hate Will Be Your Inheritance” (1969)

42. “Moonlight: In the Moonlight” (2016)

43. “Shoah” (1985)

44. “The Adventure” (1960)

45. “Titanic” (1997)

46. ​​”Intermezzo” (1946)

47. “Dangerous Paths” (1973)

48. “The Piano” (1993)

49. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

50. “Burst” (1960)

51. “Apocalypse Now” (1979)

52. “The General” (1926)

53. “Amor à Fleur da Pele” (2000)

54. “Mad Max 2: The Hunt Continues” (1981)

55. “Pather Panchali” (1955)

56. “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)

57. “Brokeback Mountain” (2005)

58. “ET The Extraterrestrial” (1982)

59. “The Strangers” (1985)

60. “Moulin Rouge – Love in Red” (2001)

61. “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928)

62. “Young, crazy and rebellious” (1993)

63. “Bambi” (1942)

64. “Carrie the Outsider” (1976)

65. “A man ran away” (1956)

66. “Paris is burning” (1990)

67. “Bike Thieves” (1948)

68. “King Kong” (1933)

69. “Good Job” (1999)

70. “12 Years a Slave” (2013)

71. “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997)

72. “The Breaking Waves” (1996)

73. “Intolerance” (1916)

74. “My friend Totoro” (1988)

75. “Boogie Nights – Pleasure Without Limits” (1997)

76. “The Tree of Life” (2011)

77. “007 vs. Goldfinger” (1964)

78. “Jeanne Dielman” (1975)

79. “Waiting for Mr. Guffman” (1996)

80. “Pixote, the law of the weakest” (1980)

81. “Batman: The Dark Knight” (2008)

82. “Parasite” (2019)

83. “Kramer Versus Kramer” (1979)

84. “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006)

85. “Natural Born Killers” (1994)

86. “Up Close” (1990)

87. “The Sound of Music” (1965)

88. “Malcolm X” (1992)

89. “Afternoon Beauty” (1967)

90. “The Shining” (1980)

91. “Scenes from a Wedding” (1974)

92. “Pink Flamingos” (1972)

93. “The Samurai” (1967)

94. “Mission Bridesmaid” (2011)

95. “Toy Story” (1995)

96. “Os Reis do Iê, Iê, Iê” (1964)

97. “Alien” (1979)

98. “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988)

99. “12 Men and a Sentence” (1957)

100. “Man’s First Night” (1967)

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