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1	Jan 11, '16	Thank you for everything, Starman. RIP David Bowie.	134×	0	6.9k	7.4k	1
2	Dec 13, '19	Artists in Hong Kong are responding to the protests.	29.2×	0	1.6k	1.4k	7
3	Oct 24, '19	Is @BoJackHorseman the best cartoon ever made?	23.2×	0	1.9k	387	50
4	May 1, '20	Audiences might love it, but The Empire Strikes Back is actually the worst Star Wars film.	22.8×	0	140	18	28
5	Aug 3, '20	"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes #TextualHealing	21.9×	0	1.6k	680	91
6	Oct 19, '21	These are the 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century, as voted for by 206 critics from 43 countries. #TVOfTheCentury	19×	0	751	231	213
7	Nov 30, '22	Britney is "the most influential pop star of her generation"	18.2×	0	1.7k	433	45
8	Jan 13, '19	There's something essentially humanising about the process of colourisation that stops people in their tracks." @marinamaral2 @dgjones	17.6×	0	1.4k	578	39
9	Mar 4, '22	One hundred years on from its release, Nosferatu is still a masterclass in horror.	14×	0	1.2k	359	59
10	Dec 12, '18	"There's something essentially humanising about the process of colourisation that stops people in their tracks." @marinamaral2 @dgjones	12.4×	0	979	399	21
11	Feb 26, '20	"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes @hayfestival #TextualHealing	11.8×	0	757	394	40
12	Aug 19, '14	The first photograph ever to feature a human (lower left corner) was this taken in Paris in 1838. #WorldPhotoDay	11.6×	0	409	711	0
13	Aug 22, '16	The results are in! The 100 greatest films of the 21st Century are... #FilmsOfTheCentury	11.4×	0	557	312	2
14	May 30, '19	"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes @hayfestival #TextualHealing	9.3×	0	596	312	20
15	Nov 6, '17	"It’s like a white guy doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father," says @harikondabolu.	9.0×	0	696	190	1
16	Nov 18, '15	For #LoveTheatreDay, take a look at the world's most breathtaking venues:	7.3×	0	390	390	0
17	Nov 3, '15	.@BlackSabbath deserve our respect for inventing heavy metal:	6.6×	0	480	276	0
18	Jun 5, '19	"Fiction is an incredible outlet to the world because it allows you to spend sustained time with people and in places that you would never see otherwise," says @fbhutto #TextualHea	6.0×	0	500	194	7
19	Nov 26, '19	Read the full list of the 100 greatest films directed by women. Did your favourite make the list? #100FilmsByWomen	5.6×	0	220	123	48
20	Aug 19, '14	We're celebrating #photography firsts on #WorldPhotoDay, starting with this, the oldest known photo ever, from 1826.	4.2×	0	129	267	0
21	Oct 19, '21	The Wire has been voted the greatest TV series of the 21st Century. In a poll of 206 TV experts from 43 countries, nearly half of all voters put the show in their top 10 and almost	4.2×	0	248	108	17
22	Jul 30, '16	Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy's Anthropoid is one of August's most exciting film releases:	4.0×	0	405	119	0
23	Nov 20, '20	Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Folklore and RTJ4 all make the cut.	4.0×	0	410	60	15
24	Dec 8, '15	On the 35th anniversary of his death, we remember #JohnLennon's wisdom and wit:	4.0×	0	254	191	0
25	Jan 6, '16	How Sherlock Holmes changed the world: @Sherlock221B	3.9×	0	348	140	0
26	Aug 18, '21	The BBC’s online film festival, #LongShots, has returned for its second edition. There are 13 documentaries available to stream on @BBC_Reel now, and you can vote for your favourit	3.7×	0	263	94	60
27	Jan 13, '16	Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange is among our most anticipated films of 2016:	3.6×	0	249	170	0
28	Dec 18, '18	"We cannot live without a book." Antonia La Cava has transformed his three-wheeler into a mobile library for the children of rural Italy. Watch the full film on #BBCReel	3.4×	0	232	118	4
29	Dec 14, '19	“In India, everybody knows how to play cricket and how to make movies,” @iamsrk tells @tombrook	3.4×	0	355	86	4
30	Nov 13, '18	“There are no big answers; there are only small answers in the now, such as the joys of food and friendship.”	3.1×	0	261	107	6
31	Mar 21, '19	The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. #WorldPoetryDay	3.1×	0	238	117	0
32	Nov 26, '19	The Piano has been named the greatest film directed by a woman, in our poll of 368 film experts from 84 countries. #100FilmsByWomen	3.1×	0	142	84	23
33	Oct 19, '21	The Wire has been voted the greatest TV series of the 21st Century. In a poll of 206 TV experts from 43 countries, nearly half of all voters put the show in their top 10 and almost	3.0×	0	171	69	6
34	Mar 1, '16	This film is made entirely from oil paintings – and it's beautiful: @LovingVincent	3.0×	0	159	159	0
35	Dec 7, '19	“Song and dance is an inherent part of storytelling for Bollywood… [but] it is not our only storytelling,” says @iamsrk	3.0×	0	273	102	2
36	Oct 30, '18	We felt it was time to direct the spotlight away from Hollywood and celebrate the best cinema from around the world, here are the 100 greatest foreign-language films, in full. #Wor	2.9×	0	171	74	25
37	Jan 10, '23	Based on the PlayStation mega-hit, about a man and a teenage girl travelling through the US during a zombie apocalypse, this HBO show is a remarkable achievement, writes @StephenPK	2.9×	33k	340	55	9
38	Apr 29, '15	These are your 10 favourite dance scenes Happy #InternationalDanceDay	2.8×	0	159	144	0
39	Mar 24, '22	Pachinko is “delivered with such artistry and imagination… that it is unsurpassed among recent series”. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	2.8×	0	210	96	9
40	Dec 14, '16	More than a Moomin... The serious artist behind a children's classic:	2.7×	0	192	116	1
41	Jun 21, '22	The mysterious origins and powerful material presence of Stonehenge have captivated people not just for centuries, but millennia. #SummerSolstice2022	2.7×	0	213	78	9
42	Nov 22, '19	Announcing #100FilmsByWomen, BBC Culture’s 2019 film poll. Over the next few days we’ll be counting down the 100 greatest films directed by women, as chosen by critics around the w	2.7×	0	190	67	25
43	Mar 23, '16	#BatmanvsSuperman is much better than most people are saying. Read our ★★★★☆ review here:	2.6×	0	148	136	0
44	May 23, '21	Twenty years on from its release, @MissyElliott’s Get Ur Freak On still sounds “utterly electrifying”.	2.5×	0	285	56	1
45	Dec 7, '18	Georg P Salzmann collected 12,000 books, which the Nazis had set out to destroy in their book burnings of 1933. Watch the full film on #BBCReel	2.5×	0	183	89	11
46	Mar 9, '21	Harry Styles’s playful androgyny tells us a lot about gender in 2021.	2.5×	0	244	44	18
47	Aug 22, '17	Today's the day! Find out who won the top spot in our list of the 100 greatest comedy films:	2.5×	0	112	53	0
48	Aug 3, '16	Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy's Anthropoid is one of August's most exciting film releases:	2.4×	0	241	73	0
49	Jan 9, '17	The work of the 14th-Century Persian poet, Hafiz, is not just very beautiful – it is useful too:	2.3×	0	153	104	0
50	Aug 31, '22	The role suits Adam Driver so beautifully that awards nominations should be heading his way.	2.3×	0	233	43	10
51	Oct 30, '18	Some film-spiration for you this evening - which of the 100 greatest foreign-language films is next on your list? #WorldFilm100	2.3×	0	136	60	18
52	Jul 25, '16	The mystery of Van Gogh's madness: @vangoghmuseum	2.3×	0	173	96	0
53	May 5, '21	Released 34 years ago, Sign O’ the Times has repeatedly appeared on best-ever album lists. Could it be the greatest of all time?	2.2×	0	190	43	4
54	Jul 4, '19	“When we have dark days, small pleasures can be like stepping stones across the void, to remind you that there is something good, and there is something happy in the world,” says @	2.2×	0	159	76	3
55	Jul 14, '22	Princess Mononoke was conceived by director Hayao Miyazaki following his growing despair at the world. @StephenPKelly speaks to @neilhimself about the life, legacy and tumultuous j	2.2×	0	202	49	16
56	Oct 12, '21	Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival and more, is this century’s greatest science fiction director.	2.1×	0	216	41	7
57	Aug 4, '22	"I feel like Sandman is my legacy," @neilhimself tells @StephenPKelly.	2.0×	0	250	28	3
58	Mar 29, '20	“When we have dark days, small pleasures can be like stepping stones across the void, to remind you that there is something good, and there is something happy in the world,” says @	2.0×	0	139	66	2
59	Jun 8, '21	Drill, a controversial offshoot of rap, has attracted widespread attention since its inception. But the sound heard across the globe today is markedly different from that of the ea	2.0×	0	174	66	1
60	Oct 30, '18	209 critics, 43 countries and seven films directed by men called Jean. This is the 100 greatest foreign-language films in numbers. #WorldFilm100	2.0×	0	120	76	3
61	May 23, '22	“Stranger Things 4 masterfully balances the trauma of teenage years with the literal horrors of the parallel dimension the Upside Down,” writes @amycharles. #StrangerThings4	1.9×	0	216	34	5
62	Aug 18, '23	Fifty years ago, Enter the Dragon, one of the most influential martial arts movies ever made, was released.	1.9×	22k	235	56	7
63	Dec 17, '16	Mozart has sold more CDs than Beyoncé in 2016... not bad for an artist who hasn't toured in over 200 years!	1.9×	0	92	96	1
64	Jul 30, '16	"Until the end, Van Gogh painted in spite of his illness, not because of it." @vangoghmuseum	1.9×	0	142	77	0
65	Jan 10, '17	The teenage writings of Jane Austen reveal a very different side of her:	1.8×	0	100	87	1
66	May 6, '16	#BenedictCumberbatch taking on #Shakespeare is one of May's TV highlights:	1.8×	0	133	82	0
67	Nov 19, '19	The legendary Parisian bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, first opened its doors 100 years ago.	1.8×	0	141	62	6
68	Aug 15, '22	In Search of Lost Time by Proust is often wrongly assumed to be impenetrably complex. 100 years on from its publication, we argue that it’s a universally appealing, rewarding read.	1.7×	0	126	45	18
69	Dec 20, '16	Mozart has sold more CDs than Beyoncé in 2016: via @atlasobscura	1.7×	0	87	72	0
70	Oct 15, '19	Abdus Salam’s Nobel Prize-winning work was instrumental for the discovery of the Higgs boson, but his story has largely been forgotten by the country in which he was born.	1.7×	0	115	78	0
71	Jul 26, '16	"Until the end, Van Gogh painted in spite of his illness, not because of it." @vangoghmuseum	1.7×	0	118	73	0
72	Dec 13, '18	The tiny Bibliomotocarro delivers books to remote Italian villages.	1.6×	0	120	60	4
73	Jan 28, '20	“I always think that whatever movie you’re doing, there’s a potential that it’s the last movie you’re ever going to get, and so I don’t want to end my career on a ‘transitional’ mo	1.6×	0	132	55	2
74	Mar 25, '16	#BatmanvsSuperman is much better than most people are saying. Read our ★★★★☆ review here:	1.5×	0	106	68	0
75	Jun 17, '21	1971 was a year of phenomenal creative riches in cinema. Now, 50 years on, are movies as good as they once were?	1.5×	0	141	27	12
76	Aug 13, '22	We sat down with @tenorkaufmann to discuss his life, music, and the future of opera. Watch more:	1.5×	0	152	28	10
77	Nov 18, '17	"I love what I do with all my heart" – @XDolan #artofdirecting	1.5×	0	138	37	0
78	Jan 16, '19	Andromeda was repeatedly depicted as white in Renaissance art, despite being originally depicted as a black princess from Ethiopia. @sophiasgaler.	1.5×	0	83	63	6
79	May 23, '23	We have a winner! In a major new BBC Culture poll, launching today, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has been voted the greatest children's book of all time by 177 exper	⚡ 1.5×	106k	80	36	6
80	Oct 18, '17	“It was meant to be a seven-minute short film that transformed into a feature film.” @LovingVincent 🎨	1.4×	0	106	52	0
81	Aug 27, '22	We sat down with @tenorkaufmann to discuss his life, music, and the future of opera. Watch more:	1.4×	0	140	33	8
82	Mar 11, '16	How The X-Files left its mark on television: @keithuhlich	1.3×	0	108	55	0
83	Jan 25, '21	It’s a Sin tells the story of the outbreak of Aids in 1980s Britain.	1.3×	0	145	23	2
84	Oct 26, '22	Enheduanna, a Mesopotamian poet, princess, and priestess, was the first author to be named in all recorded history.	1.3×	0	99	40	10
85	Jan 18, '17	The serious artist behind a children's classic:	1.2×	0	91	51	0
86	Mar 1, '18	Happy #WorldBookDay! No one loves books more than us, so here's a thread to celebrate the joy of reading. ⬇📚	1.2×	0	91	46	1
87	Jul 28, '21	The rise and rise of Dwayne Johnson, John Cena and Dave Bautista shows that the wrestling ring can be the perfect place to nurture superstars.	1.2×	0	100	27	8
88	Oct 3, '21	Every iteration of Bond allows the franchise to reinvent itself – where will it go next?	1.1×	0	101	18	3
89	Oct 12, '21	Denis Villeneuve has risen to become one of the 21st Century's biggest, most challenging science-fiction filmmakers, in the space of just a decade.	1.1×	0	117	25	3
90	Jun 22, '20	Grace Jones: iconic, unique, and visionary.	1.1×	0	108	27	0
91	Jan 7, '20	The model for some of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Lizzie Siddal was an extraordinary and tragic star of the 19th Century.	1.1×	0	84	35	6
92	Apr 14, '22	When Star Trek travelled back to 1950s New York, and tackled racism head on, it was a key moment in the franchise, and paved the way for greater representation within it.	1.1×	0	112	22	2
93	Aug 22, '19	“I haven’t seen anything like this attempted in India before,” @humasqureshi tells @_storywallah	1.0×	0	145	6	1
94	Jun 24, '19	This weekend’s @GlastoFest set gives @JanetJackson a welcome opportunity to remind us that she’s one of her generation’s most thrilling and visionary performers.	1.0×	0	85	35	1
95	Aug 15, '23	2023 has become the “summer of Suits”.	1.0×	11k	263	62	4
96	Dec 25, '19	Painted while he was writing A Christmas Carol, it was missing for more than 150 years.	1.0×	0	101	25	1
97	Sep 15, '20	Ammonite is “poetic and suggestive”.	0.9×	0	87	20	4
98	Mar 1, '20	"There's something essentially humanising about the process of colourisation that stops people in their tracks." @marinamaral2 @dgjones	0.8×	0	76	27	2
99	Dec 14, '21	Including pop bangers, punk rock anthems and a polyglot TikTok hit.	0.8×	0	97	7	5
100	Feb 4, '20	Starring @BajpayeeManoj and @priyamani6, The Family Man “embodies a basic tenet of life for some middle-class Indians… while remaining compulsively watchable”.	0.8×	0	108	7	0

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