The Godfather is the don of Empire's top 500 film poll
Citizen Kane fails to make the top 10 while The Fountain and Superman Returns make surprise appearances further down the list
Ben Child
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 24 2008 11:30 BST
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A big hit ... Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Well at least it wasn't Citizen Kane again. The Godfather has topped a list of the top 500 films of all time compiled by Empire magazine following a poll of readers and film industry luminaries.
The Godfather
Release: 1971
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 18
Runtime: 175 mins
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
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Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 tale of an American mafia clan beat off competition from two movies featuring Harrison Ford: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which presumably experienced a bump following the release of the latest sequel this summer, and The Empire Strikes Back. The Shawshank Redemption and Jaws were at four and five.
The rest of the top 10 was filled by Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Pulp Fiction and Fight Club, the success of the latter suggesting that David Fincher's 1999 film continues to grow in stature as the years go by.
Empire polled more than 150 directors, including Quentin Tarantino and Mike Leigh, as well as 50 film critics and more than 10,000 members of the public. This summer's biggest hit, The Dark Knight, unsurprisingly made the top 20 - the only film from the 21st century to do so - and there were places in the top 60 for all three Lord of the Rings films.
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