


studio or funded in some way from an American source qualifies as an “American film”. The criteria was simple: any film made by a U.S. Here’s how the poll (below) was collected, according to BBC: All different kinds of critics are represented here, from daily newspaper reviewers, magazine critics, bloggers and broadcasters to authors of book-length academic criticism and the final Top 100 was calculated via a simple point system (10 points for each #1 pick, 1 point for each #10 pick). Some of the more idiosyncratic choices include “Heaven’s Gate,” Cimino’s love-or-hate-it western epic, Hitchcock’s second film with Tippi Hedren “Marnie” and Cassavetes’ late-career swan song “Love Streams,” which is just as good if not better than “A Woman Under the Influence” (also on this list).

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