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Article: THE CINEMA CENTURY These 100 films have stood the test of time.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 30, 1999
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Inevitably, 1999 is the year of the list. And what could be more natural for a film critic than to assemble a list of the best films ever made? After all, cinema and the 20th century are virtually coeval, born more or less simultaneously. In fact, the history of film is also the history of the 20th century, a record of its major events and chief concerns.
But making such a list is a humbling, frustrating and nerve-racking ordeal. It's not so much what you put into it as what you're forced to leave out that bedevils the listmaker.
How do you define "best" in the first place? If it only means best from an aesthetic point of view, your list runs the risk of ...