EW's 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL-TIME

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Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, a hardcover guide published in 1999 by Time-Life Inc. and written by senior editor Ty Burr, celebrated films that can't be forgotten, that "help us understand and define who we are."

Facts and Commentary About the List:

* The final list was whittled down from a preliminary collection of 500 nominated choices, excluding short films, documentaries, or any movies from the previous five years (from 1994 onward).

* The final 100 choices deliberately corrected the American Film Institute's most glaring omissions - Preston Sturges, Buster Keaton, and Ernst Lubitsch, and added some of the best foreign films - from Fellini, Truffaut, and Kurosawa.

* An additional 25 more films were listed below the major list, and were included in the book's appendix in alphabetical order. Supposedly, they were "just too beloved to ignore."

* The compilers claimed that the compilation ought to prompt you to build your own personal top 100, 200, 500... "This is a parlor game that prompts memory and appreciation, nudges us toward a shared set of creative benchmarks, and perhaps most important, can be passed on to the moviegoing neophyte with the words, 'Start here.'"

* According to the book's introduction, the most represented male star was James Stewart (with five films); Cary Grant, Robert De Niro and Alec Guinness had four films each, and Janet Leigh had three films.

* The most represented director was Alfred Hitchcock (with four films), and there were three films each from Michael Curtiz, David Lean, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Billy Wilder.