Are These The 7 Greatest Films Of All Time?

Over at The Guardian and Observer headquarters, a panel of hard-hitting film buffs think they’ve come up with the 7 greatest movies the world has ever seen. Top of the list is Roman Polanski’s fantastic CHINATOWN, with film critic, Peter Bradshaw, commenting that it was “a powerful piece of mythmaking, [and] a brilliant evocation of Los Angeles as a spiritual desert.”

Here’s the full list with the remaining six. What do you think? Are they right? And more importantly, where exactly is THE GODFATHER in all of this?

1. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974)

2. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

3. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

4. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, 1976)

5. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

6. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945)

7. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

Source: The Guardian