Empire published a list of all its five-star reviews in its 100th issue (October 1997), a total of ninety-one films. More recently, the magazine published a 500 Greatest Movies poll.
28 January 2011
The Empire Five-Star 500
Empire published a list of all its five-star reviews in its 100th issue (October 1997), a total of ninety-one films. More recently, the magazine published a 500 Greatest Movies poll.
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I came across your blog while researching into my quest to watch The Empire Five-Star 500 (your blog ranks highly on Google on the keywords "Empire" and "500"!)
Having just finished the painstaking task of writing out the list, I thought it might be of interest if you need a reference point.
http://empire500.blogspot.com/p/complete-500-001-020.html
Regards,
wizzardSS
Hi wizardSS,
Thanks for your comment. I like your idea to see all of the films, and I also like the DVD montage on your blog.
Empire has published two different 500 lists:
The Five-Star 500 is a collection of films that Empire has previously awarded five stars in its reviews, published this Christmas.
The Greatest Movies list was voted by readers and critics, published in 2008.
Your blog lists the films in the 2010 version, but your banner and 'about' page refer to the 2008 version.
Mat.
Mat,
I was aware of the different lists about 2 days after I first designed my blog. This obviously led to discrepancies in my lists. I've actually just had a new banner idea back in from my brother on Friday so that should be going up at some point today.
Hopefully that should remove any final references to the 2008 version...
Thanks for the comment on A.I.!
Ed,
I like the new banner!
The five-star 500 was selected only by Empire staff, from the magazine's previous five-star reviews.
It was the earlier 500 list that was voted by readers/critics. (That list therefore includes some non-five-star films.)
I'm a bit obsessed with greatest-film lists :-) I've tried to put all from the past five years on the blog (with the tag "film lists"), and collect all the ones published previously.
Mat.
Wow, that's a lot of lists.
Nothing wrong with an obsession of something that you're interested in!
Out of interest, do you know roughly how many films there are if you combine the two 500 lists together (once all duplicates have been removed)? Just wondering how many more films would have to be watched in order to have seen both lists...
Good question. We'd need to compare your typed version of the recent list
http://empire500.blogspot.com/p/complete-500-001-020.html
with my typed version of the old list
http://blog.matthewhunt.com/2008/09/empire-500-greatest-movies-of-all-time.html
But Empire has also published a top-201 list (in 2006), a top-50 list (in 2001), and three top-100 lists (in 1996, 1999, and 2004!). And the Australian edition of Empire had two top-100 lists (in 2007 and 2002).
:-)
Mat.
Having put both lists together, I reckon that only about 245 movies are duplicated across both lists which is far less than I thought. That means that there are 755 movies in total assuming I've removed all duplicates!
As for the other lists, well that'll have to wait for another time ;-)
GreatBlog! I'm a vivid reader of Empire and love their lists. Now i'm looking to find an excel version of this top 500 5 star review list. Anyone?
Yep, I have one at home which I has the names, years, lengths (minutes) etc on.
I can forward this over when I return from work. I'll add it onto my website so you can download it from there and then forward you on the link. Either that or email, whichever is easier.
Ed
That would be Great!!!! I'm looking forward to getting it!
http://www.wizzard-shiny-shoes.co.uk/Empire%20500-2.xls
It should be downloadable from there for you!
You may notice that I've got a bit lazy towards the end of the list as this is my personal list for checking through the films, and as I'm only at film 25 so far I haven't bothered formatting after so many!
Alternatively, see the list at http://empire500.blogspot.com
PS @matthewhunt, Annie Hall is a deserved film for your top 15!
wizzardSS that link points to an empty file?
Hi Matt,
I don't mean to plug my own blog on yours, but because I had all sorts of issues yesterday the link to the Complete 500 has changed. I receive quite a lot of traffic from your blog, so it is probably wise for me to point people in the right direction.
The new link is: http://empire500.blogspot.com/p/complete-500.html
PS, keep up the good work!
That's fine - as long as you call me Mat not Matt. :-)
Sorry Mat! :)
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