Post your top 100 in here

[Sven]

Newly organized list! New inclusions!! Do I need to, like, do years and stuff? Because eff that. The Frankenstein is Whale's.

Fata Morgana
Lessons of Darkness
Wild Blue Yonder
Sans Soleil
Children of Paradise
Nashville
Yellow Submarine
Popeye
Black Orpheus
2001: A Space Odyssey

The Man Who Would Be King
The Vanishing
Dumbo
Punch-Drunk Love
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Shock Corridor
Night and the City
Bamboozled
Harold & Maude
Takeshis

The Truman Show
The Beaver Trilogy
Buffalo '66
Robocop
American Pop
Eraserhead
Raising Cain
Fargo
Vernon, Florida
Mickey One

Apocalypse Now
Ravenous
Crank
Gimme Shelter
Barry Lyndon
Wages of Fear
Some Like It Hot
Playtime
Where the Heart Is
Cleo from 5 to 7

Dreams
Moonstruck
The Big Heat
Straw Dogs
Runaway Train
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Hobbit
Kikujiro
The Driver
Fiddler on the Roof

Gone with the Wind
Monsters Inc
Topsy Turvy
The Deer Hunter
The American Friend
Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction
Soldier of Orange
Lost Highway
Serial Mom

Walkabout
Bulworth
Porco Rosso
Oedipus Rex
The Great Dictator
The Darjeeling Limited
Mona Lisa
Beyond Thunderdome
Gallipoli
Explorers

Phenomena
Broadway Danny Rose
They Live
Heaven's Gate
Jamaica Inn
The Thin Red Line
A Perfect World
The Last Emperor
The Good Thief
Sanjuro

The Pledge
Dog Day Afternoon
Utu
The Brave Little Toaster
Woodstock
Felicia's Journey
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Sid and Nancy
The Lower Depths
Q&A

Excalibur
Batman Returns
Bridge on the River Kwai
Gremlins 2
The Great Muppet Caper
The Full Monty
A Thousand Clowns
Last Orders
Tron
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Winston*]

The Man Who Would Be King
Really? I saw this last year or maybe the year before and thought it was awful. Like so awful that it even manages to make Michael Caine awful within it. Sean Connery's perfectly capable of being awful without outside assistance.

[Sven]

Really? I saw this last year or maybe the year before and thought it was awful. Like so awful that it even manages to make Michael Caine awful within it. Sean Connery's perfectly capable of being awful without outside assistance.

Love the film to so many bits and pieces that I don't even think to question it.

But enough about that... how do you feel about my inclusion of the recently seen and jaw-droppingly incredible Utu? Have you seen it? You may not agree, and Boner certainly will disagree, I'm sure, but after seeing a handful of both Australian & New Zealand films in the context of my class (many more to come!), I've concluded thus far that NZ has the more impressive output. I like both national cinemas a great deal, though, but there's something very eerie and intriguing about the works I've seen of Maclean, Donaldson, Murphy et al. Bruno Lawrence helps--his performance in Smash Palace is one of the best I've ever seen, period.

[Beau]

Oh, wow, I'm jealous that you are reading it in Spanish. Nah, I'm just a typical white yank unable to speak any language other than english and pig latin.

That is actually one of the things that intrigues me, that each of the five parts are fairly independant, yet are linked by dark themes of murder. I love how it is looming in the background during Part I and I can't wait to see how it all ties in later in the book. And yeah, once the characters went to Santa Teresa, things started to get inexplicably dark and very weird. I'm looking forward to spending my reading time in this locale, especially in how it so drastically differs from the more organized and civilized France, Spain, Italy, England and Switzerland explored earlier in the novel.

I don't know if you remember these parts, but two of my favorite moments in the novel thusfar were the part in the gallery/cafe where they meet the ex-spy haunted by his dead grandmother. The other was Amalfitano's ridiculous monologue about the unreliablity of Mexican intellectuals, which goes on for 2 1/2 pages, and makes absolutely no sense.

I don't want to spoil anything, but it's a good thing you like Amalfitano and his rants. He certainly likes ranting. The whole second half of book two is, I don't know, a random foray into his various, ridiculously esoteric curiosities. And the end of book two! Oh, it ends with one of my favorite quotes, at once a statement about literature in general and a mission statement for itself. It's not the actual end of book two, but it's close to it. A page or two before the final paragraph. I wonder how the translation treats it...

[Winston*]

Love the film to so many bits and pieces that I don't even think to question it.

But enough about that... how do you feel about my inclusion of the recently seen and jaw-droppingly incredible Utu? Have you seen it? You may not agree, and Boner certainly will disagree, I'm sure, but after seeing a handful of both Australian & New Zealand films in the context of my class (many more to come!), I've concluded thus far that NZ has the more impressive output. I like both national cinemas a great deal, though, but there's something very eerie and intriguing about the works I've seen of Maclean, Donaldson, Murphy et al. Bruno Lawrence helps--his performance in Smash Palace is one of the best I've ever seen, period.
I haven't seen it. Actually I'm pretty woefully inexperienced in 80s NZ cinema on the whole really. Did you watch that Allison Maclean short where the woman pulls the foetus out of the kitchen sink?

[Russ]

And [Gone With the Wind] didn't make a single list out of 27.

Thank
God.

...


Gone With the Wind

:) Ah, welcome home, ya big lug.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Newly organized list! New inclusions!! Do I need to, like, do years and stuff? Because eff that. The Frankenstein is Whale's.

Fata Morgana/Lessons of Darkness/Wild Blue Yonder
Sans Soleil
Children of Paradise
Nashville
Yellow Submarine
Popeye
Black Orpheus
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Man Who Would Be King
The Vanishing

Dumbo
Punch-Drunk Love
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Shock Corridor
Night and the City
Bamboozled
Harold & Maude
Takeshis
The Truman Show
The Beaver Trilogy

Episodes 3 & 4 of The Twilight Zone: The Movie
Buffalo '66
Robocop
American Pop
Eraserhead
Raising Cain
Fargo
Vernon, Florida
Apocalypse Now
Ravenous

Crank
Gimme Shelter
Barry Lyndon
Wages of Fear
Some Like It Hot
Playtime
Where the Heart Is
Cleo from 5 to 7
Dreams
Moonstruck

The Big Heat
Straw Dogs
Runaway Train
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Hobbit
Kikujiro
The Driver
Fiddler on the Roof
Gone with the Wind
Monsters Inc

Topsy Turvy
The Deer Hunter
The American Friend
Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction
Soldier of Orange
Lost Highway
Serial Mom
Walkabout
Bulworth

Porco Rosso
Oedipus Rex
The Great Dictator
The Darjeeling Limited
Mona Lisa
Beyond Thunderdome
Gallipoli
Explorers
Phenomena
Broadway Danny Rose

They Live
Heaven's Gate
Jamaica Inn
The Thin Red Line
A Perfect World
The Last Emperor
The Good Thief
Sanjuro
The Pledge
Dog Day Afternoon

Utu
The Brave Little Toaster
Woodstock
Felicia's Journey
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Sid and Nancy
The Lower Depths
Q&A
Excalibur
Batman Returns

Bridge on the River Kwai
Gremlins 2
The Great Muppet Caper
The Full Monty
A Thousand Clowns
Last Orders
Tron
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Alfie
The Taste of Cherry

Just so you know, the last six films on your list won't be included because you have a three-way tie at #1 and a trilogy listed as one film. Not that you'll want to change anything (other than moving Holy Grail up a few spots, obviously, because it deserves to remain on your list), but I just thought I'd inform you of the "no ties or listing trilogies as one film" rule.

[Sven]

:) Ah, welcome home, ya big lug.

Thanks! I was *this* close, actually, to a Mickey One mention, but in my heart of hearts it would've felt like I was just doing it to ensure its inclusion. But if I'm honest with myself, there's really no reason it shouldn't be on a top 100. Unfortunately, there is a plethora of other deserving films as well. Woe is this.

[Sven]

Just so you know, the last six films on your list won't be included because you have a three-way tie at #1 and a trilogy listed as one film. Not that you'll want to change anything (other than moving Holy Grail up a few spots, obviously, because it deserves to remain on your list), but I just thought I'd inform you of the "no ties or listing trilogies as one film" rule.

For the record, and trans, I hope you're reading this, The Beaver Trilogy is actually just one film, which is a compilation of three short films. They do not exist on their own.

And D'oh! about the three-way tie. Check my list again. I'm going to maneuver things oh so slightly. (And what the heck! I'm going to replace the cheating Twilight Zone inclusion with Mickey One, because that movie kicks ass.)

[Sven]

Did you watch that Allison Maclean short where the woman pulls the foetus out of the kitchen sink?

Oh yes. Cuh-razy. Nice sound effects, and some of the images (the super close up of the skin, the breathing in the garbage bag, etc) are incredible.

[The Mike]

Is anyone keeping track of which person's list features the most former professional wrestlers in acting roles? Because I think I've got that one wrapped up....

<------- Thinks way too much when seeing previews for 12 Rounds. :lol:

[B-side]

Thanks! I was *this* close, actually, to a Mickey One mention, but in my heart of hearts it would've felt like I was just doing it to ensure its inclusion. But if I'm honest with myself, there's really no reason it shouldn't be on a top 100. Unfortunately, there is a plethora of other deserving films as well. Woe is this.

This reminds me. The burned copy of Mickey One Russ sent me doesn't work.:sad:

[transmogrifier]

For the record, and trans, I hope you're reading this, The Beaver Trilogy is actually just one film, which is a compilation of three short films. They do not exist on their own.

And D'oh! about the three-way tie. Check my list again. I'm going to maneuver things oh so slightly. (And what the heck! I'm going to replace the cheating Twilight Zone inclusion with Mickey One, because that movie kicks ass.)

Sweet. I'm going to present the list as is for now, and then do an update of all the additional lists here (new entries, significant jumps etc) at the end.

[Dukefrukem]

I put this together in 20 min here at work. It's way overdue and probably out of order. I'll fine tune later but at least it's a start.

1. Rear Window
2. the Thing (John Carpenters)
3. the Matrix Reloaded
4. Evil Dead
5. the Lion King
6. the Matrix
7. Ghostbusters
8. Alien
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. the Departed
11. Hard Boiled
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Dawn of the Dead
14. Blade Runner
15. Akira
16. Oldboy
17. Back to the Future
18. Rope
19. A Bridge on the River Kwai
20. Abyss
21. Kung Fu Hustle
22. Star Wars: A New Hope
23. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
24. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
25. Terminator 2
26. Young Frankenstein
27. the Killer
28. Sabotage
29. Pulp Fiction
30. Godzilla
31. the Dark Knight
32. Seven Samurai
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark
34. Die Hard
35. Gran Turino
36. Raging Bull
37. Rushmore
38. Life Aquatic
39. It’s a Wonderful Life
40. Goldeneye
41. Vertigo
42. To Kill a Mocking Bird
43. The Day the Earth Stood Still
44. Night of the Living Dead (68)
45. Saving Pvt Ryan
46. Jaws
47. Dog Day Afternoon
48. Unforgiven
49. The Descent
50. Citizen Kane
51. Frighteners
52. Million Dollar Baby
53. Taxi Driver
54. Temple of Doom
55. Pan's Labyrinth
56. The Fugitive
57. Brazil
58. Pi
59. Ringu
60. Signs
61. Aliens
62. the Host
63. Ikiru
64. A Tale of Two Sisters
65. Drunken Master II
66. Chinatown
67. Silence of The Lambs
68. Audition
69. Spiderman 2
70. Heat
71. Ichi The Killer
72. Predator
73. Clear and Present Danger
74. Termors
75. Kill Bill vol. 1
76. Broken Flowers
77. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
78. the Usual Suspects
79. Spiderman
80. The Shining
81. Videodrome
82. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
83. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
84. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
85. Mystic River
86. Batman Begins
87. Ghost in the Shell
88. Seven
89. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
90. Army of Darkness
91. Fight Club
92. Slither
93. Hero
94. Dead Alive
95. the Mist
96. Breakdown
97. the Matrix Revolutions
98. Requiem for a Dream
99. Burbs
100. Big Trouble in Little China

[dreamdead]

All these female-centric lists bug me. C'mon, y'all, get some male-centered films on here.

[The Mike]

1. Rear Window


Rear Window indeed rules the school. High five! :pritch:

[BuffaloWilder]

In no particular order, and always a-changin', my top thirty or so.

Happy Feet
The Road Warrior
Babe: Pig In the City
Lorenzo's Oil
Children of Men
Peter Weir's Fearless
The Truman Show
Watership Down
The Plague Dogs
Felidae
El Topo
Brazil
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
The Fall
The Shining
Citizen Kane
Tokyo Drifter
The Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Shane
The Abyss
Harold and Maude
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
There Will Be Blood
Goldfinger
The Dark Knight
Ed Wood
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[lovejuice]

In no particular order, and always a-changin', my top thirty or so.
Happy Feet
The Road Warrior
Babe: Pig In the City

taken that the order is by preference and happy feet, road warrior, and babe 2 are three of your favorite movies of all time, you are already the coolest poster on match-cut.

[BuffaloWilder]

taken that the order is by preference and happy feet, road warrior, and babe 2 are three of your favorite movies of all time, you are already the coolest poster on match-cut.

...Already? That was quick.


What can I say?

[Ivan Drago]

...I really want to post a list after reading through this thread and realizing what I missed but before/if I do I want to ask - does anyone care about this anymore now that the consensus is tallied?

I wanted to post a Top 50 Favorites list with write-ups as soon as my commentary-writing abilities got better but...they're not getting any better.

[B-side]

...I really want to post a list after reading through this thread and realizing what I missed but before/if I do I want to ask - does anyone care about this anymore now that the consensus is tallied?

I wanted to post a Top 50 Favorites list with write-ups as soon as my commentary-writing abilities got better but...they're not getting any better.

I'm always up for a top 50.

[Ivan Drago]

I'm always up for a top 50.

Yo sorry for the late response but as I was finally putting a top 50 together I saw Irreversible and that screwed the list up. Ah well, I wanted to see more movies anyway. Separate thread, it is!

[MacGuffin]

Yo sorry for the late response but as I was finally putting a top 50 together I saw Irreversible and that screwed the list up. Ah well, I wanted to see more movies anyway. Separate thread, it is!

Looking forward to it.

[MadMan]

I can't recall if the top 100s were all compared or not in a thread, and I can't recall what that thread was called if it does exist. A little help? Cause I did finally create a Top 10 at least, and I'd like to see how it compares against other Match-Cut posters' Top 10s at least.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm still working on a top 100... I have a list... but it sucks and it's not correct. How do you guys do it?

[Ezee E]

I'm still working on a top 100... I have a list... but it sucks and it's not correct. How do you guys do it?
Adjust accordingly.

[Dukefrukem]

Adjust accordingly.

Right but where do you keep your top 100 lists? in an excel spreadsheet or something?

[Mysterious Dude]

I'm still working on a top 100... I have a list... but it sucks and it's not correct. How do you guys do it?
I've been finessing mine since 1998.

[Mysterious Dude]

I can't recall if the top 100s were all compared or not in a thread, and I can't recall what that thread was called if it does exist. A little help? Cause I did finally create a Top 10 at least, and I'd like to see how it compares against other Match-Cut posters' Top 10s at least.

Oh, by the way, I found the thread (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=1924).

Edit: And here's a quick link to the list (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=156220#post15 6220).

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'm always up for a top 50.

I'm up for you guys to do a top 50.

[D_Davis]

I'm up for you guys to do a top 50.

Just add 50 more movies to the end of your top 50, preferably in order from 51-100.

[MadMan]

Oh, by the way, I found the thread (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=1924).

Edit: And here's a quick link to the list (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=156220#post15 6220).Thanks man. And hey I've seen 56 out of the 100 films on the Match-Cut Top 100 list, and I have two more on the list in my possession. Cool, I guess.

[balmakboor]

Thanks man. And hey I've seen 56 out of the 100 films on the Match-Cut Top 100 list, and I have two more on the list in my possession. Cool, I guess.

I guess I can finally retire, or something. I've seen every damn movie on that list.

[MadMan]

I guess I can finally retire, or something. I've seen every damn movie on that list.Congrats! :lol:

[Grouchy]

http://girodepunto.files.wordpress.co m/2009/09/vertigo.jpg?w=461&h=307

1. Vertigo
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Chinatown
5. Raging Bull
6. Ran
7. 8 1/2
8. In the Mood for Love
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Citizen Kane

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4xmgMga6dAc/SsuVHwznYII/AAAAAAAABGc/SekE2uOM-Pk/s400/brazil.jpg

11. Brazil
12. Hana-Bi
13. Duck Soup
14. The Incredibles
15. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
16. Hard Boiled
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
18. The Dirty Dozen
19. The Tenant (1976)
20. Rio Bravo

http://www.cinencuentro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/the-third-man.jpg

21. The Third Man
22. Akira
23. Un Chien Andalou
24. Shadow of a Doubt
25. Oldboy
26. Goodfellas
27. The Thing
28. Dog Day Afternoon
29. Midnight Cowboy
30. Touch of Evil

http://www.otrastardes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Casablanca.jpg

31. Casablanca
32. Bride of Frankenstein
33. Spirited Away
34. Braindead
35. Pulp Fiction
36. A.I. Artifiial Intelligence
37. Taxi Driver
38. The Conversation
39. The Wild Bunch
40. Blade Runner

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20080716elpepucul_6/LCO340/Ies/Imagen_pelicula_2001_Odisea_Es pacio.jpg

41. 2001: A Space Odyssey
42. The Dreamers
43. Throne of Blood
44. Amarcord
45. Rear Window
46. In a Lonely Place
47. The Trial
48. Wings of Desire
49. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
50. Once Upon a Time in America

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51. A Clockwork Orange
52. Rashomon
53. All That Jazz
54. Eraserhead
55. Mad Max 2
56. Apocalypse Now
57. Barry Lyndon
58. Dead Ringers
59. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
60. Blue Velvet

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/yuna666/Mulholland_Drive_-_3.jpg

61. Mulholland Dr.
62. Heat
63. Hanna and Her Sisters
64. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
65. The Hustler
66. Seven Samurai
67. Notorious
68. There Will Be Blood
69. Barton Fink
70. Paris, Texas

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71. The Last Picture Show
72. Dr. Strangelove
73. Rebel Without a Cause
74. My Darling Clementine
75. Let the Right One In
76. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
77. Videodrome
78. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
79. Rosemary's Baby
80. The Searchers

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81. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
82. A Woman Under the Influence
83. The Shining
84. Die Hard
85. The Age of Innocence
86. Cemetery Man
87. Children of Men
88. Femme Fatale
89. Vera Cruz
90. The Night of the Hunter

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91. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
92. Chungking Express
93. Kung Fu Hustle
94. Nosferatu (1922)
95. Shaun of the Dead
96. La Comunidad
97. Juliet of the Spirits
98. Pickpocket
99. Belle de Jour
100. Carrie

[Dukefrukem]

I thought I would finally post my top 100. Two 2011, movies made the list. Will wait and see if the honeymoon hangover takes affect during 2012 and they get pushed off after more viewings.

Comic Book Horror Animated Comedy


1 Inception
2 Rear Window
3 2001: A Space Oddesy
4 The Shawshank Redemption
5 The Killing
6 Seven Samurai
7 Once Upon a Time in the West
8 Pulp Fiction
9 12 Angry Men
10 A Bridge On the River Kwai

11 John Carpenter's The Thing
12 Star Wars Return of the Jedi
13 Mulholland Dr
14 The Dark Knight
15 It's a Wonderful Life
16 One Flew Over the CuckCoo's Nest
17 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18 Akira
19 Rope
20 Good Will Hunting

21 Up
22 Brazil
23 Dog Day Afternoon
24 The Departed
25 The Lion King
26 Stand By Me
27 Alien
28 Blade Runner
29 Oldboy
30 A Beautiful Mind

31 Unforgiven
32 Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
33 Casablanca
34 Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
35 A Clockwork Orange
36 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
37 Star Wars A New Hope
38 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
39 Ghost in the Shell
40 The Man Who Knew Too Much

41 Abyss
42 Pan's Labyrinth
43 Videodrome
44 Stalker
45 Million Dollar Baby
46 The Princess Bride
47 No Country for Old Men
48 E.T.
49 The Matrix
50 Solyaris

51 Black Swan
52 American Beauty
53 City of God
54 Finding Nemo
55 Fargo
56 Citizen Kane
57 Wall-E
58 Young Frankenstein
59 Moon

60 The Prestige
61 Night of the Living Dead
62 To Kill a Mockingbird
63 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
64 The Godfather
65 Full Metal Jacket
66 Back to the Future
67 Snatch
68 Ratatouille
69 M
70 The Elephant Man

71 Seven
72 Die Hard
73 The Matrix Reloaded
74 The Fugitive
75 The Killer
76 West Side Story
77 Gran Torino
78 Fight Club
79 American History X
80 The Descent

81 Saving Pvt Ryan
82 The Count of Monte Cristo
83 Sabotage
84 Spider-man 2
85 The Kid
86 Enter the Void
87 Terminator
88 Sunset Blvd
89 Rashomon
90 Melancholia

91 The Birds
92 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
93 Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
94 Mission Impossible
95 The Nightmare Before Christmas
96 Diabolique
97 Jaws
98 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
99 Vertigo
100 A Separation

[Mysterious Dude]

I was just thinking about this thread. I found an old list of mine (http://web.archive.org/web/20070406211110/http://www.everyonesacritic.net/top100.asp?userid=3210) from 2006. God bless the Wayback Machine! It's really interesting seeing which films have fallen off the list and which films have remained.

[Dukefrukem]

I was just thinking about this thread. I found an old list of mine (http://web.archive.org/web/20070406211110/http://www.everyonesacritic.net/top100.asp?userid=3210) from 2006. God bless the Wayback Machine! It's really interesting seeing which films have fallen off the list and which films have remained.

I like to think of it as similar to an "acquired taste". You just don't know how good something is until you have tried more of the samplings.

[MadMan]

I actually went over my rankings and listed all of the movies that I have given a 100 to. At some point I will probably try and completely organize that list into a Top 100, and post it in this thread.

[baby doll]

Limiting myself to directors who are dead...

1910s:
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith, 1916)

1920s:
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)
The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929)

1930s:
À propos de Nice (Boris Kaufman / Jean Vigo, 1930)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau, 1931)
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)

1940s:
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-46)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
Germany, Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

1950s:
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
Un condamné Ã* mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)

1960s:
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut, 1960)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969)

1970s:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

1990s:
Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzyzstof Kieslowski, 1994)

2000s:
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)

[soitgoes...]

So in the three years since I've done this I've seen probably upwards of a thousand new films, add in rewatches and changing perceptions and whatnot, and well I felt like it was time to create a new Top 100. Here it is:


Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
The Graduate (Nichols 67)
The Grand Illusion (Renoir 37)
Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Winter Light (Bergman 63)
Boogie Nights (Anderson 97)
Stalker (Tarkovsky 79)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg 81)
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch 01)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa 56)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean 62)
Begone Dull Care (McLaren, Lambart 49)
Late Spring (Ozu 49)
The Red and the White (Jancsó 67)
LBJ (�lvarez 68)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky 83)
The White Ribbon (Haneke 09)
Harakiri (Kobayashi 62)
M (Lang 31)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage 59)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer 28)
Yearning (Naruse 64)
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang 94)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang 91)
Gosford Park (Altman 01)
Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski 93)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson 02)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman 43)
Notorious (Hitchcock 46)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
Red Beard (Kurosawa 65)
Scorpio Rising (Anger 64)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang 91)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson 01)
The Heart of the World (Maddin 00)
One Froggy Evening (Jones 55)
The Godfather (Coppola 72)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau 27)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick 57)
High Plains Drifter (Eastwood 73)
Annie Hall (Allen 77)
Stop Making Sense (Demme 84)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Back 87)
Los Olvidados (Buñuel 50)
Dancer in the Dark (Trier 00)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse 35)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir 39)
Ikiru (Kurosawa 52)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Brakhage 71)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese 76)
Where Is the Friend's Home (Kiarostami 87)
Citizen Kane (Welles 41)
La roue (Gance 23)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa 63)
The Dead (Huston 87)
The Old Man and the Sea (Petrov 99)
Memories of Matsuko (Nakashima 06)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa 54)
Sherlock Jr. (Keaton 24)
Rear Window (Hitchcock 54)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Tokyo Story (Ozu 530
The Life of Jesus (Dumont 97)
Mauvais sang (Carax 86)
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (Frampton 71)
Salt for Svanetia (Kalatozov 30)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos 88)
A Touch of Zen (Hu 69)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger 70)
Tale of Tales (Norshteyn 80)
Elephant (Van Sant 03)
Oldboy (Park 03)
The Hand (Trnka 65)
Nayak (Ray 66)
What's Opera, Doc? (Jones 57)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick 75)
Empire of the Sun (Spielberg 87)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata 88)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford 40)
The Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov 29)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Tears of the Black Tiger (Sasantieng 00)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Memories of the Underdevelopment (Alea 68)
Oasis (Lee 02)
To Have and to Have Not (Hawks 44)
Big Business (McCarey, Horne 29)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Madame de... (Ophüls 53)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico 62)
Who Sings Over There (Sijan 80)
Band of Outsiders (Godard 64)
The Thin Man (Reed 49)
12 Angry Men (Lumet 57)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini 50)
Black Orpheus (Camus 58)
The Browning Version (Asquith 51)

[B-side]

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[Ezee E]

I logged into Karagarga today, saw that they have a top ten list, and then saw this thread bumped...

Redid my top ten without looking previously... I will redo the whole 100 sometime today:



1. Goodfellas
2. The Shining
3. Children of Men
4. Taxi Driver
5. Amelie
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. Do the Right Thing
8. Pulp Fiction
9. The Exorcist
10. All that Jazz

[dreamdead]

I don't want to redo the whole list, but here are things that would now make my top 100:

Metropolitan
I Am Love
Koyaanisqatsi
Tale of Cinema
Secret Sunshine
Certified Copy
The Tree of Life

[Boner M]

Kinda cynical about mubi.com, but the I like the screencaps they choose for films' main pages. For that reason here's my favorites list (http://mubi.com/users/20478/films) (a bit over 100 and in the order of most recently added, but whatevs).

[Raiders]

Metropolitan

A film with an 8/10 makes your top 100? I don't have any interest in ratings debates, but man... aren't you studying to become a professor or currently teach classes? I don't want you teaching my course.

"Phenomenal work! ... B-"

In any case, I have a slightly revamped one of these I completed recently. I'll look it over and post it because lists are the greatest thing.

[D_Davis]

Mind Game (Yuasa 04)

:pritch::pritch:

[dreamdead]

A film with an 8/10 makes your top 100? I don't have any interest in ratings debates, but man... aren't you studying to become a professor or currently teach classes? I don't want you teaching my course.

"Phenomenal work! ... B-"


:lol:

True enough. I hadn't wanted to assign too high of a grade to Metropolitan after watching it on Tuesday, lest it start yielding diminishing returns in my mind. I've amended the grade to better represent my current impression, after doing some more reading on Stillman. I'd rather low-rate a film and bump it up than overrate a film to begin with. Thanks for catching that.

[D_Davis]

The newest movie to have a chance at my list is Drive.

[Mysterious Dude]

The newest movie on my list is The White Ribbon. I have a rule not to include any movies from the current year or the previous year, so I'm less influenced by what's popular at the moment... or something. 2010 movies are eligible, but there's nothing from that year that I like enough.

[Dukefrukem]

I have three 2012 movies on my top 100 list. :| Need to fix that.

[ContinentalOp]

Top 100 Movies
1. Miller’s Crossing
2. Seven Samurai
3. Ariel
4. Singin’ in the Rain
5. Yojimbo
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. My Man Godfrey
8. The Empire Strikes Back
9. Field of Dreams
10. Trees Lounge
11. Being There
12. A Man Escaped
13. The Iron Giant
14. The Third Man
15. The Apartment
16. The Circus
17. High and Low
18. On the Waterfront
19. The Man Without a Past
20. L.A. Confidential
21. Paths of Glory
22. Strangers on a Train
23. To Kill a Mockingbird
24. 12 Angry Men
25. Apocalypse Now
26. Predator
27. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
28. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
29. Fireworks
30. The Fugitive
31. Leningrad Cowboys Go America
32. Midnight Run
33. Modern Times
34. North by Northwest
35. Punch-Drunk Love
36. Something Wild
37. You Can Count on Me
38. Aguirre: the Wrath of God
39. Army of Shadows
40. The Big Lebowski
41. Chinatown
42. Dersu Uzala
43. F For Fake
44. Fallen Angels
45. Carlos
46. It’s a Wonderful Life
47. Kikujiro
48. King Kong
49. All Quiet on the Western Front
50. Samurai Rebellion
51. Night and the City
52. Batman Begins
53. The Shawshank Redemption
54. Talk to Her
55. City Lights
56. The Day the Earth Stood Still
57. Dracula (1931)
58. Night on Earth
59. Ratatouille
60. Sonatine
61. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
62. My Life to Live
63. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
64. Step Brothers
65. Chungking Express
66. Clerks
67. Ikiru
68. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
69. Goodfellas
70. Hard Boiled
71. The Raid: Redemption
72. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
73. District 9
74. Inception
75. Sin City
76. The Limey
77. The Naked Gun
78. Los Olvidados
79. Pinocchio
80. Playtime
81. Happy Together
82. Hoop Dreams
83. Jules and Jim
84. Brokeback Mountain
85. Attack the Block
86. The Insider
87. Drive
88. Gun Crazy
89. Leon
90. Anchorman
91. Sanjuro
92. Kingpin
93. Pulp Fiction
94. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
95. Rio Bravo
96. The Artist
97. Ed Wood
98. Major League
99. Croupier
100. Dog Day Afternoon

[Spinal]

10. Trees Lounge


Explain.

[ContinentalOp]

Explain.
I'm a drunk, just like the Steve Buscemi character. No, I just really love the characters, its slice of life focus and its subtle portrait of the effect of alcoholism. I'm simultaneously charmed and somewhat disturbed by it every time I watch it, which is usually during a nasty hangover. Yup, I'm a drunk.

[Raiders]

Wouldn't make a top 100 list for me, but Trees Lounge is indeed a great film.

[Lurch]

As a way of introducing myself I thought I would post my top 100 movies. My list is pretty mainstream compared to some I've seen here, but it is definitely reflective of my tastes. The order of the films is actually pretty arbitrary, with my absolute favorites appearing in the top 25.


Raiders Of The Lost Ark
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Dr. Strangelove
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Pulp Fiction
The Empire Strikes Back
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Mulholland Dr.
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Jaws
This Is Spinal Tap
The Godfather
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dirty Harry
Halloween (1978)
Goodfellas
Star Wars
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Citizen Kane
Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
Psycho (1960)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
A Hard Day’s Night
The Thing (1982)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
M*A*S*H
King Kong (1933)
Rear Window
American Graffiti
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Young Frankenstein
Alien
The Dark Knight
Mysterious Island (1961)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
A Clockwork Orange
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
The Blues Brothers
From Russia With Love
The Great Escape
The Exorcist
Notorious (1946)
Airplane
Finding Nemo
Batman Begins
Duck Soup
The Evil Dead
Caddyshack
Forbidden Planet
North By Northwest
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
Big Trouble In Little China
Platoon
Frankenstein (1931)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Arsenic And Old Lace
Network
JFK
The Big Lebowski
Vertigo
7th Voyage Of Sinbad
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Patton
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Reservoir Dogs
Singin’ In The Rain
Being There
It’s A Wonderful Life
Toy Story
Blazing Saddles
Die Hard
Ed Wood
The Wild Bunch
Jason And The Argonauts
The Bride of Frankenstein
Bonnie And Clyde
Rio Bravo
Bringing Up Baby
Superman: The Movie
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
The Road Warrior
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Yellow Submarine
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Monkey Business (1931)
The Thing From Another World
The Poseidon Adventure
Return Of The Pink Panther
High Plains Drifter
Star Trek: First Contact
Escape From New York
Westworld
The Kids Are Alright (1979)
Diamonds Are Forever
Phantasm

[Gizmo]

As a way of introducing myself I thought I would post my top 100 movies. My list is pretty mainstream compared to some I've seen here, but it is definitely reflective of my tastes. The order of the films is actually pretty arbitrary, with my absolute favorites appearing in the top 25.


Welcome!
It looks like your list and mine have a lot in common.

[Irish]

I like that list, Lurch. Particularly the inclusion of Kwai in your top 10.

I noticed you've got From Russia with Love and Diamonds Are Forever in there, but no other Bond films. Out of curiosity, why those over the others?

[Lurch]

I like that list, Lurch. Particularly the inclusion of Kwai in your top 10.

I noticed you've got From Russia with Love and Diamonds Are Forever in there, but no other Bond films. Out of curiosity, why those over the others?

As a fan of the Bond films I could have easily included three or four others, but chose to be sparing to allow room for other films.
I chose From Russia With Love because I really think it is the best of those films. Just a great spy film. Diamonds Are Forever was the first Bond movie I ever saw and it had a huge impact on me. There may actually be better films in the series, but that one holds a special place for me.

[Ezee E]

Welcome to the site Lurch. Star Trek 3 at #39 huh?

[B-side]

Updated & Randomized Because the Order is Irrelevant

Where is the Friend's Home (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
Ivan the Terrible Pt. I (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
The Wayward Cloud (Ming-liang Tsai, 2005)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
The Departure (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1967)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)
A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat, 1976)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Kairat (Darezhan Omirbayev, 1992)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Seagulls Die in the Harbor (Rik Kuypers/Ivo Michiels/Roland Verhavert, 1955)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1946)
Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
The Red Spectre (Segundo de Chomón/Ferdinand Zecca, 1907)
The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928)
Fanny and Alexander: TV Cut (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (Matt McCormick, 2000)
Mary (Abel Ferrara, 2005)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1927)
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaya, 1983)
The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theodors Angelopoulos, 1991)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
Current (István Gaál, 1964)
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984)
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky, 2002)
Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
The Beekeeper (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1986)
Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong, 1997)
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978)
The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1961)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid, 1943)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell, 1937)
The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1967)
Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Street of Crocodiles (Stephen & Timothy Quay, 1986)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
Las soledades (Raoul Ruiz, 1992)
Statues Also Die (Chris Marker/Alain Resnais, 1953)
Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Fando and Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1968)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
The Chasers (Erik Løchen, 1959)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
Big Green Valley (Merab Kokochashvili, 1967)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
The Godfather pt. I & II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/1974)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1970)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)
Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Invitation to the Dance (Gene Kelly, 1956)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 2000)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
City of Pirates (Raoul Ruiz, 1983)
Train of Shadows (José Luis GuerÃ*n, 1997)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

[Lurch]

Welcome to the site Lurch. Star Trek 3 at #39 huh?
I thought that might raise a few eyebrows.:)
As I said though, the numbering really doesn't mean much as these are all movies I really like.
I know Star Trek III is considered by most to be one of the "bad" Trek films, but for my money it hit all the right notes and captured the spirit of the original series better than any of the other films.

[elixir]

Damn, Brights (oh B, I mean), I expected more obscurities...you're losing some cred, yo! :P

It's fun going through your guys' lists, I'll post one soon

[B-side]

Damn, Brights (oh B, I mean), I expected more obscurities...you're losing some cred, yo! :P

It's fun going through your guys' lists, I'll post one soon

I haven't seen over half of that list in years.

[Spinal]

What I did with my Friday night ... first revision in a few years ...

1. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
2. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
3. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
4. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
7. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
8. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
9. Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950)
10. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)

11. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
12. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
13. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
14. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
15. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
16. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
17. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
18. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
19. Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)
20. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)

21. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
22. The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960)
23. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
24. Muriel’s Wedding (Hogan, 1994)
25. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
26. The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
27. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
28. Dogville (Trier, 2003)
29. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
30. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)

31. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
32. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
33. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
34. Y tu mama tambien (Cuaron, 2001)
35. Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce, 1999)
36. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
37. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
38. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
39. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway, 1991)
40. Once (Carney, 2006)

41. Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
42. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
43. M (Lang, 1931)
44. Grey Gardens (Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer, 1975)
45. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
46. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 1927)
47. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
48. The Up Documentaries (Apted/Almond, 1964--??)
49. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998)
50. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)

51. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
53. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
54. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
55. City of God (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
56. Manderlay (Trier, 2005)
57. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
58. The Atomic Cafe (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty, 1982)
59. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
60. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen, 1984)

61. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
62. Death in the Seine (Greenaway, 1988)
63. High School (Wiseman, 1968)
64. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
65. Marat/Sade (Brook, 1967)
66. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
67. Together (Moodysson, 2000)
68. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
69. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
70. Henry V (Branagh, 1989)

71. The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)
72. The Firemen’s Ball (Forman, 1967)
73. Pina (Wenders, 2011)
74. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
75. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
76. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988)
77. Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001).
78. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires, 1970)
79. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson, 1998)
80. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997)

81. Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway, 1988)
82. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
83. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
84. Bob Roberts (Robbins, 1992)
85. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
86. The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
87. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
88. Hangmen Also Die (Lang, 1943)
89. Palindromes (Solondz, 2004)
90. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)

91. A Serious Man (Coens, 2009)
92. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
93. Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
94. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, 2005)
95. Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
96. The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)
97. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
98. The Isle (Kim, 2000)
99. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
100. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)

[Irish]

There are so many great movies on that list, Spinal. Then there are others which completely offset their inclusions, to the point where I'm asking myself, "Gah, did he put that on there just to mess with people?" :P

Also, now I'm really wondering why and how I got it into my head that you were ever a hardcore Sorkin & Fincher fan.

[Yxklyx]

There are so many great movies on that list, Spinal. Then there are others which completely offset their inclusions, to the point where I'm asking myself, "Gah, did he put that on there just to mess with people?" :P

Nah, I don't see that. It's a perfectly good list. There are a handful there that I personally don't care for at all but they are regarded highly by many others.

[Mysterious Dude]

Spinal's list is very Spinal-y. I approve. The only surprise to me: four Von Trier films, but no Antichrist?

[Melville]

I'm kind of surprised Perfect Blue Made it on there instead of Paprika.


Updated & Randomized Because the Order is Irrelevant
Nice list. I've only seen half of the movies on it, but I thought two thirds of those were great. I should see Driller Killer.

[Spinal]

I'm kind of surprised Perfect Blue Made it on there instead of Paprika.


Arbitrary. One could be substituted for the other.

[elixir]

Only 50 for now. One per director.

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50. Manoel on the Island of Marvels (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)
49. High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)
48. The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970)
47. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
46. Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman, 1933)
45. Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
44. Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda, 1992)
43. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
42. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz, 2006)
41. O Sangue (Pedro Costa, 1989)


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40. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
39. In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
38. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
37. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
36. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
35. Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes, 2008)
34. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
33. Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (Stan Brakhage, 1967)
32. Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
31. Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)


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30. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
29. Un homme qui dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
28. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
27. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
26. L'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat, 1968)
25. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
24. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
23. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)
22. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 1999)
21. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)


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20. Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
19. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
18. The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998)
17. Cœur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)
16. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
15. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)
14. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
13. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
12. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
11. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)


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10. La vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002)
9. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994)
8. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977)
7. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
6. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
5. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
4. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

[Raiders]

1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

I started this a little while ago and never did finish it. Was enraptured while watching, but life took over. I need to start over again.

Coincidentally, I watched Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania many months ago and never posted anything as I didn't even know what to say really. It has stuck with me though, and frankly it might be the greatest and most moving documentary I have seen.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)
Fantasia (Samuel Armstrong et al, 1940)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
Seven (David Fincher, 1995)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)
Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

The Wages of Fear (Henri Georges-Clouzot, 1953)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)
The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1934)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reineger, 1926)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)

Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi et al, 1959)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho, 2003)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)

Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
College (James W. Horne, 1927)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam & Jones, 1975)

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931 & 1935)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
Anchorman (Adam McKay, 2004)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Pink Floyd's The Wall (Alan Parker, 1982)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, 1991)
Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker & Zucker, 1980)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
La Belle et la Bette (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Dogma (Kevin Smith, 1999)
Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, 2005)

[B-side]

I considered doing one per director since I think it gets kinda boring seeing multiple films from the same director on a list.

[Spinal]

I considered doing one per director since I think it gets kinda boring seeing multiple films from the same director on a list.

I could never do this. If I could only choose one film from Trier, Lynch, Greenaway, etc., then it would cease to be my Top 100.

[Spinal]

College (James W. Horne, 1927)


Interesting to see this as your top Keaton. Don't think I've ever heard anyone rave about it before.

[Spinal]

Also, now I'm really wondering why and how I got it into my head that you were ever a hardcore Sorkin & Fincher fan.

I dislike Sorkin probably about as much as anyone on this site. Fincher is fine most of the time.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Interesting to see this as your top Keaton. Don't think I've ever heard anyone rave about it before.

I was really, really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. In terms of construction, in terms of setup and payoff, with Keaton applying every single thing he learns doing the movie in his rescue of his ladyfriend at the end. It's slight, and it's not as ambitious as The General, but I thought that film had more dead time in between the wow-moments, while College was consistently entertaining.

It's mostly negligible, since both are fantastic, and The General would lead my next batch of favorites.

[Boner M]

2. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
I'd never even heard of this one til now... and it stars Chantal Akerman, Jacques Doillon, Lou Castel and Anne Wiazemsky!? Might watch L'Enfant Secret on YT today.

Like Raiders, I've seen bits of the Mekas and I'm sure I wouldn't dispute it's #1 spot when I find time to properly absorb the whole thing. Maybe on my deathbed.

[elixir]

I'd never even heard of this one til now... and it stars Chantal Akerman, Jacques Doillon, Lou Castel and Anne Wiazemsky!? Might watch L'Enfant Secret on YT today.
And don't forget Mireille Perrier and Garrel himself. :)

Oh yeah, that one rocks, too, it was my favorite at one point...let me know what you think when you see it!

[Boner M]

All four Garrels I've seen have been great - in order of greatness: Le Revelateur, Regular Lovers, I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar, Emergency Kisses.

Sidenote: he's a dead ringer for my dad (alas, I'm not a dead ringer for Louis Garrel).

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm like most in that once you get past the top twenty the order is almost irrelevant.


A Clockwork Orange
Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
House (1977)
Eyes Wide Shut
Kill Bill
Oldboy
Charade
Rear Window
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Do the Right Thing
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Ichi the Killer
Moulin Rouge
Manhattan
The Village
Mulholland Drive
The Apartment
My Neighbor Totoro
Amelie
Rushmore
Freaks
Battle Royale
Hana-Bi
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Audition
Death Proof
Wall-E
Rosemary’s Baby
In the Mood For Love
The Exorcist
Donnie Darko
Speed Racer
Punch-Drunk Love
Paths of Glory
Lost in Translation
The Matrix
The Shining
Fight Club
Annie Hall
Pulp Fiction
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Psycho (1960)
Solaris (2002)
Brick
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Last Temptation of Christ
Let the Right One In
Cure
Drive
The Lion King
Inglorious Basterds
Blue Velvet
Kung Fu Hustle
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
King Kong (1933)
Sin City
The Neverending Story
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dogtooth
Children of Men
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Truman Show
Linda Linda Linda
The Sixth Sense
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ratatouille
The Little Mermaid
12 Angry Men
Rango
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Strange Circus
Vanilla Sky
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Bad Education
Brokeback Mountain
No Country for Old Men
Gangs of New York
The Game
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Eyes Without a Face
3-Iron
12 Monkeys
Infernal Affairs
Up
Aladdin
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Good Night, and Good Luck
Chungking Express
Garden State
The New World
Make Way for Tomorrow
Juno
Black Swan
Gozu
Perfect Blue
The Grave of the Fireflies
Le Samourai
Suicide Club
Double Indemnity

[Raiders]

I've been tinkering with this for no real reason. It's had about ten versions and all equally valid...


1. CONVERSATION, THE (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
2. MAN ESCAPED, A (Robert Bresson, 1956)
3. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
4. SAFE (Todd Haynes, 1995)
5. IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
6. MY LIFE TO LIVE (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
7. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
8. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
9. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978)
10. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983)
11. KIDNAPPING, THE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934)
12. SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
13. ASCENT, THE (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
14. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Béla Tarr, 2000)
15. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, 1966)
16. SHOCK CORRIDOR (Sam Fuller, 1963)
17. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
18. UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
19. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, 1972)
20. PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
21. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971)
22. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren, 1943)
23. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1974)
24. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
25. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
26. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, 1953)
27. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, 1939)
28. CAZA, LA (Carlos Suara, 1966)
29. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, 2008)
30. BIG PARADE, THE (King Vidor, 1925)
31. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, 1937)
32. THRONE OF BLOOD (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
33. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
34. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
35. MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE (Frederic Back, 1987)
36. SWEET HEREAFTER, THE (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
37. BONJOUR TRISTESSE (Otto Preminger, 1958)
38. DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (Terence Davies, 1988)
39. MENILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
40. WRONG MAN, THE (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
41. SERVANT, THE (Joseph Losey, 1963)
42. NONE SHALL ESCAPE (André de Toth, 1944)
43. PARK ROW (Sam Fuller, 1953)
44. WALL∙E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
45. FLOATING CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
46. PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (William Dieterle, 1948)
47. SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger, 1964)
48. DEAD MAN (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
49. MARTHA (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
50. DEAD RINGERS (David Cronenberg, 1988)
51. STAGE DOOR (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
52. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
53. PATSY, THE (Jerry Lewis, 1964)
54. MASCOT, THE (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1934)
55. NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (Federico Fellini, 1957)
56. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
57. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
58. PLAY HOUSE, THE (Buster Keaton, 1921)
59. ATALANTE, L’ (Jean Vigo, 1934)
60. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
61. WHITE DOG (Sam Fuller, 1982)
62. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, 1967)
63. PANDORA’S BOX (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
64. CRIME WAVE (John Paisz, 1985)
65. JETÉE, LA (Chris Marker, 1962)
66. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, THE (Victor Erice, 1973)
67. ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE (Wes Anderson, 2001)
68. TREE OF LIFE, THE (Terrence Malick, 2011)
69. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, 1986)
70. BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
71. INTRUDER, THE (Roger Corman, 1962)
72. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
73. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter, 1976)
74. WAR GAME, THE (Peter Watkins, 1965)
75. MABOROSI (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995)
76. DAY OF THE OUTLAW (André de Toth, 1959)
77. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941)
78. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Francois Truffaut, 1960)
79. ONLY YESTERDAY (Isao Takahata, 1991)
80. HOUSEKEEPING (Bill Forsyth, 1987)
81. ESTHER KAHN (Arnaud Desplechin, 2000)
82. TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
83. SPEAKING PARTS (Atom Egoyan, 1989)
84. FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE (Jean Epstein, 1928)
85. LIMEY, THE (Steven Soderbergh, 1999)
86. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
87. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
88. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
89. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger, 1959)
90. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-Wai, 1990)
91. PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
92. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, 1981)
93. SHERMAN’S MARCH (Ross McElwee, 1986)
94. TRIAL, THE (Orson Welles, 1962)
95. HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE (Terence Davies, 2000)
96. O LUCKY MAN! (Lindsey Anderson, 1973)
97. GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (John Ford, 1940)
98. DEAD MAN’S SHOES (Shane Meadows, 2004)
99. SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
100. EXILED (Johnnie To, 2006)

[dreamdead]

This wasn't a bad way to spend an evening. My list, updated:

1. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
4. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
5. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
7. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
8. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
9. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
10. Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955)

11. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
12. Window Water Moving Baby (Stan Brakhage, 1959)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
14, 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
15. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
16. The Son (the Dardenne Brothers, 2002)
17. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
18. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
19. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
20. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)

21-30
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

31-40
The Green Ray/Summer (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey 1937)

41-50
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

51-60
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

61-70
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

71-80
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
Shame (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, 2003)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Pandora’s Box (W.B. Pabst, 1929)

81-90
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Disciples of the 36th Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1978)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)

91-100
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)
Exiled (Johnny To, 2006)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
I Live in Fear: Record of a Living Being (Akira Kurosawa, 1955)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

[wigwam]

1. A Late Quartet
2. Breaking the Waves
3. Light Sleeper
4. Nouvelle Vague
5. Szamanka
6. The Bravados
7. Banshun
8. Anti-Clock
9. The Sun Shines Bright
10. The Big Country
11. Sprout Wings and Fly
12. Kamen
13. Ride the Pink Horse
14. Mo Better Blues
15. Shen bu you ji
16. Tristana
17. Murder in Fashion
18. CrissCross
19. Freddy Got Fingered
20. Nightmare Alley
21. Histoire(s) du cinéma
22. Modern Romance
23. En terrains connus
24. I am a Sex Addict
25. Behindert
26. Requiem
27. Devi
28. Le diable probablement
29. Belfast, Maine
30. Un conte de Noël
31. Rushmore
32. Lola
33. Vai~E~Vem
34. The Purchase Price
35. Sea Wife
36. Trust
37. Week End
38. Numéro deux
39. Teorema
40. The Holy Mountain
41. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
42. Miami Blues
43. Nattvardsgästerna
44. A New Leaf
45. Schatten der Engel
46. L'Important c'est d'aimer
47. Punchdrunk Love
48. Renaldo & Clara
49. Yolanda & the Thief
50. Les Enfants du paradis
51. Barcelona
52. Dear Brigitte
53. Woyzeck
54. Nayak
55. Ley del deseo
56. Zardoz
57. The Big Knife
58. Horse Feathers
59. Sherman's March
60. Stardust Memories
61. Blood on the Moon
62. The Man From Laramie
63. Life During Wartime
64. Bluebeard's 8th Wife
65. Bad ma ra khahad bord
66. One Eyed Jacks
67. Ukigumo
68. Harmony and Me
69. Je vous salue, Sarajevo
70. Barry Lyndon
71. Lettre Ã* Freddy Buache
72. Doctor Zhivago
73. Habla con ella
74. Confederation Park
75. All That Jazz
76. Linda Linda Linda
77. Chinesisches Roulette
78. Design for Living
79. The Gunfighter
80. Le pont du Nord
81. Christmas in July
82. 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
83. Funeral in Berlin
84. Palindromes
85. La vie est un roman
86. The Lonely Guy
87. Oyû-sama
88. Make Way for Tomorrow
89. That Uncertain Feeling
90. Naked
91. Colossus: The Forbin Project
92. Gycklarnas afton
93. Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
94. The Squid and The Whale
95. The Girl Next Door
96. White of the Eye
97. Top Secret!
98. King of the Gypsies
99. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
100. The State of Things

[Spinal]

5. Szamanka
7. Banshun
15. Shen bu you ji
23. En terrains connus
28. Le diable probablement
30. Un conte de Noël
33. Vai~E~Vem
41. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
43. Nattvardsgästerna
45. Schatten der Engel
46. L'Important c'est d'aimer
55. Ley del deseo
65. Bad ma ra khahad bord
67. Ukigumo
69. Je vous salue, Sarajevo
71. Lettre Ã* Freddy Buache
73. Habla con ella
77. Chinesisches Roulette
80. Le pont du Nord
85. La vie est un roman
87. Oyû-sama
92. Gycklarnas afton
93. Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant

So that's how it's going to be, is it?



84. Palindromes

One of my favorites as well. It doesn't get anywhere near the appreciation it deserves.



97. Top Secret!

I watched this not too long ago and it holds up surprisingly well. It's easily on par with Airplane! at the very least.

[Derek]

Post-60s Godard, lesser Bresson, Trust, Petra von Kant, Design for Living, Devi!! We're going to get along just fine.

I'd also like to point out that Chinese Roulette is on the list just to remind KF of its existence.

I personally hate Palindromes, but I sorta get Solondz love even if nothing since Storytelling has worked for me.

[Mysterious Dude]

I'm probably not the second biggest maverick (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?1924-Match-Cut-s-Movies-to-See-Before-You-Die-%28or-Get-a-Girlfriend%29&highlight=maverick) anymore.

[balmakboor]

I was just thinking that I haven't made a top 100 list for ages, not since the days when I visited Match-Cut regularly. Then I did a search on Google to see if I could dredge up my last top 100 and, roundabout, here I am. It did take a while to figure out what my last username and password were, but success.

Balmakboor?? Baldwin, Makavejev, Boorman I believe. Boy have I ever changed. Good to see some familiar names still posting here though.

[Izzy Black]

1. A Late Quartet


wat

[Sycophant]

I was just thinking that I haven't made a top 100 list for ages, not since the days when I visited Match-Cut regularly. Then I did a search on Google to see if I could dredge up my last top 100 and, roundabout, here I am. It did take a while to figure out what my last username and password were, but success.

Balmakboor?? Baldwin, Makavejev, Boorman I believe. Boy have I ever changed. Good to see some familiar names still posting here though.

Not gonna lie. It makes me happy to see you post here.

[balmakboor]

Not gonna lie. It makes me happy to see you post here.

I was glad to see so many good old names still here--most definitely including yours.

[Dukefrukem]

This 5 year old list is hilarious. I can't believe how far I've evolved by posting/reading here. Maybe MC isn't so bad after-all.


I put this together in 20 min here at work. It's way overdue and probably out of order. I'll fine tune later but at least it's a start.

1. Rear Window
2. the Thing (John Carpenters)
3. the Matrix Reloaded
4. Evil Dead
5. the Lion King
6. the Matrix
7. Ghostbusters
8. Alien
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. the Departed
11. Hard Boiled
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Dawn of the Dead
14. Blade Runner
15. Akira
16. Oldboy
17. Back to the Future
18. Rope
19. A Bridge on the River Kwai
20. Abyss
21. Kung Fu Hustle
22. Star Wars: A New Hope
23. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
24. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
25. Terminator 2
26. Young Frankenstein
27. the Killer
28. Sabotage
29. Pulp Fiction
30. Godzilla
31. the Dark Knight
32. Seven Samurai
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark
34. Die Hard
35. Gran Turino
36. Raging Bull
37. Rushmore
38. Life Aquatic
39. It’s a Wonderful Life
40. Goldeneye
41. Vertigo
42. To Kill a Mocking Bird
43. The Day the Earth Stood Still
44. Night of the Living Dead (68)
45. Saving Pvt Ryan
46. Jaws
47. Dog Day Afternoon
48. Unforgiven
49. The Descent
50. Citizen Kane
51. Frighteners
52. Million Dollar Baby
53. Taxi Driver
54. Temple of Doom
55. Pan's Labyrinth
56. The Fugitive
57. Brazil
58. Pi
59. Ringu
60. Signs
61. Aliens
62. the Host
63. Ikiru
64. A Tale of Two Sisters
65. Drunken Master II
66. Chinatown
67. Silence of The Lambs
68. Audition
69. Spiderman 2
70. Heat
71. Ichi The Killer
72. Predator
73. Clear and Present Danger
74. Termors
75. Kill Bill vol. 1
76. Broken Flowers
77. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
78. the Usual Suspects
79. Spiderman
80. The Shining
81. Videodrome
82. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
83. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
84. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
85. Mystic River
86. Batman Begins
87. Ghost in the Shell
88. Seven
89. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
90. Army of Darkness
91. Fight Club
92. Slither
93. Hero
94. Dead Alive
95. the Mist
96. Breakdown
97. the Matrix Revolutions
98. Requiem for a Dream
99. Burbs
100. Big Trouble in Little China

[Spinal]

Maybe MC isn't so bad after-all.

You're one of the most active posters here. Match Cut is you.

[Dukefrukem]

You're one of the most active posters here. Match Cut is you.

Is it though? Is it reeeeeally?

[Mysterious Dude]

My list has hardly changed at all since I posted it. I've added 17 titles, only two of which are in the top 50. And it's been so long since I've seen most of those movies. Maybe I should start a new list from scratch, featuring only movies I've actually seen in the last five years. That would give me an excuse to actually watch some of those movies that are, in theory, my favorite movies.

[Irish]

Is it though? Is it reeeeeally?

Yes. It is. :D

This place would slow to a dead crawl if you stopped posting.

[Mysterious Dude]

I decided to make a new list with only movies I've seen in the last five years. It's an interesting mix of rewatches and new favorites. Some titles that I removed from the list long ago (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?1924-Match-Cut-s-Movies-to-See-Before-You-Die-%28or-Get-a-Girlfriend%29&p=144477#post144477) - like The Godfather and Duck Soup - have returned out of necessity.

1. The 400 Blows (1959)
2. Metropolis (1927)
3. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
4. Breathless (1960)
5. The Elephant Man (1980)
6. Touch of Evil (1958)
7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
8. Badlands (1973)
9. Germany Year Zero (1948)
10. Shoeshine (1946)

11. Taxi Driver (1976)
12. Broken Blossoms (1919)
13. Sunrise (1927)
14. Los Olvidados (1950)
15. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
16. Z (1969)
17. Ingeborg Holm (1913)
18. The General (1926)
19. House (1977)
20. Ugetsu (1953)

21. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
22. Double Suicide (1969)
23. Pather Panchali (1955)
24. The White Ribbon (2009)
25. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
26. 8½ (1963)
27. My Home is Copacabana (1965)
28. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
29. Umberto D. (1952)
30. The Naked City (1948)

31. Tol'able David (1921)
32. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
33. The Phantom Chariot (1921)
34. Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
35. The Children of Paradise (1945)
36. The Demon (1978)
37. America America (1963)
38. The Kid Brother (1927)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40. Largo viaje (1967)

41. The Maggie (1954)
42. Les Miserables (1934)
43. The Cremator (1969)
44. Poil de carotte (1932)
45. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
46. The Conversation (1974)
47. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
48. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
49. The Godfather (1972)
50. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

51. Titicut Follies (1967)
52. The Sacrifice (1986)
53. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
54. Bright Star (2009)
55. The Red and the White (1967)
56. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
57. Double Indemnity (1944)
58. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
59. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
60. The Cow (1969)

61. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
62. Clean, Shaven (1993)
63. Chinatown (1974)
64. Life of Oharu (1952)
65. Der Golem (1920)
66. Danton (1983)
67. Don Giovanni (1979)
68. City Lights (1931)
69. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
70. The Princess Bride (1987)

71. Regeneration (1915)
72. West Side Story (1961)
73. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
74. Cirano di Bergerac (1925)
75. Alien (1979)
76. Blast of Silence (1961)
77. I am Cuba (1964)
78. Muddy River (1981)
79. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
80. Gervaise (1956)

81. White Heat (1949)
82. Duck Soup (1933)
83. Freeze, Die, Come to Life! (1989)
84. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
85. Sleeper (1973)
86. Iphigenia (1977)
87. L'enfant de Paris (1913)
88. Enter the Void (2009)
89. Pi (1998)
90. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

91. Tomboy (2011)
92. The Fall (2006)
93. Quest for Fire (1981)
94. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
95. Gattaca (1997)
96. Chop Shop (2007)
97. The Artist (2011)
98. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
99. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
100. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

[Dukefrukem]

Here's my new(er) list as of December (I update it once a year with the films that I've seen in the previous year). Inception still the only 100/100 score out of 1200 movies on my list.

1 Inception 2010
2 Rear Window 1954
3 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
4 The Shawshank Redemption 1994
5 The Killing 1956
6 Seven Samurai 1954
7 2001: A Space Oddesy 1968
8 Pulp Fiction 1994
9 12 Angry Men 1957
10 The Bridge On the River Kwai 1957

11 John Carpenter's The Thing 1982
12 Star Wars Return of the Jedi 1983
13 The Dark Knight 2008
14 It's a Wonderful Life 1946
15 One Flew Over the CuckCoo's Nest 1975
16 Akira 1988
17 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
18 Up 2009
19 Rope 1948
20 Good Will Hunting 1997

21 The Raid: Redemption 2012
22 Alien 1979
23 Brazil 1987
24 Dog Day Afternoon 1975
25 The Departed 2007
26 The Lion King 1994
27 L'Avventura 1960
28 Blade Runner 1982
29 Oldboy 2003
30 The Third Man 1949

31 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
32 The Game 1997
33 Primer 2004
34 Rashomon 1950
35 Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back 1980
36 Burbs 1989
37 Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
38 A Clockwork Orange 1971
39 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991

40 Star Wars A New Hope 1977
41 Upstream Color 2013
42 The Conversation 1974
43 The Matrix 1999
44 Ghost in the Shell 1995
45 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
46 Abyss 1989
47 Pan's Labyrinth 2006
48 Videodrome 1983
49 Stalker 1979

50 Vertigo 1958
51 Black Swan 2010
52 Cabin in the Woods 2012
53 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
54 Young Frankenstein 1974
55 Fargo 1996
56 E.T. 1982
57 A Beautiful Mind 2001
58 Solyaris 1972
59 Million Dollar Baby 2004

60 American Beauty 1999
61 The 400 Blows 1959
62 Finding Nemo 2003
63 No Country for Old Men 2007
64 Citizen Kane 1941
65 Wall-E 2008
66 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004
67 Antichrist 2009
68 Moon 2009
69 The Prestige 2006

70 Night of the Living Dead 1969
71 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
72 Full Metal Jacket 1987
73 Snatch 2001
74 Stand By Me 1986
75 Back to the Future 1985
76 Gravity 2013
77 Ratatouille 2007
78 M 1931
79 The Elephant Man 1980

80 Seven 1995
81 Die Hard 1988
82 The Matrix Reloaded 2003
83 The Fugitive 1993
84 The Killer 1989
85 West Side Story 1961
86 Sabotage 1937
87 Fight Club 1999
88 American History X 1998
89 Jaws 1975

90 Unforgiven 1992
91 Burn After Reading 2008
92 The Count of Monte Cristo 2002
93 The 39 Steps 1935
94 Enter the Void 2009
95 City of God 2003
96 Enter the Dragon 1973
97 Sunset Blvd 1950
98 Casablanca 1942
99 Gran Torino 2008
100 Melancholia 2011

[Peng]

1. Be with You 2004
2. Cinema Paradiso 1988
3. Schindler’s List 1993
4. Rear Window 1954
5. Rashomon 1950
6. Toy Story 3 2010
7. Casablanca 1942
8. Before Sunset 2004
9. The Godfather 1972
10. The Breakfast Club 1985

11. City Lights 1931
12. The Dark Knight 2008
13. My Neighbor Totoro 1988
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
15. The Departed 2006
16. Paths of Glory 1957
17. All About Eve 1950
18. Cloud Atlas 2012
19. Brief Encounter 1945
20. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

21. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
22. Citizen Kane 1941
23. Singin’ in the Rain 1952
24. The 400 Blows 1959
25. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980
26. 12 Angry Men 1957
27. Before Midnight 2013
28. 13 Assassins 2010
29. Contact 1997
30. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

31. Warrior 2011
32. Before Sunrise 1995
33. My Fair Lady 1964
34. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
35. Jaws 1975
36. The Tree of Life 2011
37. The Emperor’s New Groove 2000
38. The Wages of Fear 1953
39. Sunset Boulevard 1950
40. Romeo and Juliet 1968

41. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
42. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
43. Aliens 1986
44. Metropolis 1927
45. Night of the Living Dead 1968
46. His Girl Friday 1940
47. King Kong 2005
48. A Tale of Two Sisters 2003
49. My Girl 2003
50. Braveheart 1995

51. Inglourious Basterds 2009
52. Lost in Translation 2003
53. Alien 1979
54. Eyes Without a Face 1960
55. Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
56. Her 2013
57. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008
58. The Godfather: Part II 1974
59. La dolce vita 1960
60. Gravity 2013

61. Memento 2000
62. Speed 1994
63. A Separation 2011
64. Mulholland Drive 2001
65. The Red Shoes 1948
66. Jacob’s Ladder 1990
67. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
68. Sweet Smell of Success 1957
69. Ace in the Hole 1951
70. The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

71. Gladiator 2000
72. Diabolique 1955
73. High and Low 1963
74. Three Colors: Red 1994
75. Halloween 1978
76. Ikiru 1952
77. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
78. Rosemary’s Baby 1968
79. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
80. Princess Mononoke 1997

81. Jurassic Park 1993
82. M 1931
83. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977
84. Trouble in Paradise 1932
85. Roman Holiday 1953
86. Goodfellas 1990
87. United 93 2006
88. Magnolia 1999
89. Taxi Driver 1976
90. The Long Day Closes 1992

91. The Descent 2005
92. Vertigo 1958
93. Titanic 1997
94. WALL·E 2008
95. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 1969
96. Wreck-It Ralph 2012
97. Pan’s Labyrinth 2006
98. Memories of Murder 2003
99. The Apartment 1960
100. Nashville 1975

[Skitch]

1. Akira
2. Seven Samurai
3. Star Wars
4. Aliens
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Fight Club
7. Goodfellas
8. Blade Runner
9. Apocalypse Now
10. Chasing Amy
11. Jaws
12. The Shining
13. Eyes Wide Shut
14. The Ninth Configuration
15. The Godfather
16. The Matrix
17. Conan the Barbarian
18. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
20. Back to the Future
21. Schindler's List
22. Full Metal Jacket
23. Die Hard
24. Mad Max
25. The Abyss
26. Kill Bill
27. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
28. Drive
29. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
30. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
31. Ghost in the Shell
32. The Dark Knight Returns
33. Princess Mononoke
34. Batman: The Nolan Trilogy
35. Versus
36. Battle Royale
37. The Thing
38. Predator
39. The Big Lebowski
40. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
41. Brick
42. Primer
43. The Ninth Gate
44. Se7en
45. The Hunt for Red October
46. Tron: Legacy
47. Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children
48. The Black Hole
49. Dances With Wolves
50. Spirited Away
51. Bad Lieutenant
52. Lost Highway
53. Pi: Faith in Chaos
54. Pistol Opera
55. Momento
56. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
57. Network
58. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
59. King Kong (Jackson)
60. 28 Days Later
61. Clerks
62. The Departed
63. Heat
64. Sunshine
65. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
66. The Aviator
67. Robocop
68. The Sting
69. Stand By Me
70. Oldboy
71. Inception
72. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
73. The Shawshank Redemption
74. Highlander
75. Runaway Train
76. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
77. Requiem for a Dream
78. The Fall
79. The Lord of the Rings
80. True Romance
81. The Incredibles
82. The Prestige
83. The Crow
84. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
85. A Scanner Darkly
86. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
87. In the Mouth of Madness
88. Galaxy Quest
89. The Blair Witch Project
90. Speed Racer
91. The Evil Dead (1981)
92. Sneakers
93. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
94. Indiana Jones
95. Goldeneye
96. From Dusk Till Dawn
97. The Box
98. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
99. The Last Temptation of Christ
100. Funny Games (1997)

Plus fifty honorable mentions:

1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Casablanca
3. THX 1138
4. Hard Boiled
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Azumi
7. Pulse (Kairo)
8. A Tale of Two Sisters
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Baraka
11. Silent Night, Deadly Night
12. The Warriors
13. City of God
14. Ninja Scroll
15. Dark City
16. Guardians of the Galaxy
17. Glengarry Glen Ross
18. Lawrence of Arabia
19. Pan's Labyrinth
20. Braveheart
21. Hellraiser
22. The Avengers
23. Romancing the Stone
24. The Usual Suspects
25. Cabin in the Woods
26. Captain America
27. Watchmen
28. Gattaca
29. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
30. Match Point
31. First of Legend
32. Ringu
33. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
34. Fantastic Mr. Fox
35. Leon: The Professional
36. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
37. Avatar
38. Ronin
39. Speed
40. Equilibrium
41. The Doors
42. Jurassic Park
43. Swingers
44. Romeo is Bleeding
45. Legend of the 1900
46. Sleepaway Camp
47. Wicker Man
48. Cecil B. Demented
49. Top Secret!
50. Slipknot: Disasterpieces

[Morris Schæffer]

The Black Hole!!!! :cool:

[Skitch]

The Black Hole!!!! :cool:

Anytime its mentioned, I can hear the music.

[Morris Schæffer]

Anytime its mentioned, I can hear the music.

Boh Barry was so good, even when the movie sucked (Moonraker, The Specialist, Hanover Street)

[transmogrifier]

My Top 10 for now:

1. The Wild Bunch
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Do the Right Thing
4. La Haine
5. Short Cuts
6. The Last of the Mohicans
7. Husbands and Wives
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Boogie Nights
10. Dazed and Confused

[Ivan Drago]

Only a top 10 for now:

10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
9. Akira
8. Donnie Darko
7. El Topo
6. Memento
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Mulholland Drive
3. Satantango
2. The Tree of Life
1. Magnolia

[Dukefrukem]

I love my top 10.

1. Inception
2. Rear Window
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. The Lion King
5. The Killing
6. Seven Samurai
7. Pulp Fiction
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. 12 Angry Men
10. The Bridge on the River Kwai

But I don't like sharing with Skitch. So I'm moving 2001 and Seven Samurai out and replacing them with better things.

[baby doll]

By year:

1902: Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès)
1908: The Thieving Hand (J. Stuart Blackton)
1909: A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith)

1912: The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith)
1914: Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
1915: Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
1916: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith)
1917: Easy Street (Charles Chaplin)
1918: A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin)
1919: Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch)

1920: Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
1921: The High Sign (Edward Cline/Buster Keaton)
1922: Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
1923: Our Hospitality (John Blystone/Buster Keaton)
1924: Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1926: A Page of Madness (Kinugasa Teinosuke)
1927: Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
1928: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1929: Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)

1930: Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
1931: M (Fritz Lang)
1932: Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (Howard Hawks)
1933: Japanese Girls by the Harbour (Shimizu Hiroshi)
1934: The Song of Ceylon (Basil Wright)
1935: Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse Mikio)
1936: Naniwa Elegy (Mizoguchi Kenji)
1937: Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
1938: You and Me (Fritz Lang)
1939: La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger)
1944: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
1945: Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Monsieur Verdoux: A Comedy of Murders (Charles Chaplin)
1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)
1949: Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)

1950: Orphée (Jean Cocteau)
1951: Early Summer (Ozu Yasujiro)
1952: Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi Kenji)
1953: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1956: Un condamné Ã* mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Robert Bresson)
1957: The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
1958: Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
1959: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

1960: Late Autumn (Ozu Yasujiro)
1961: L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1963: Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
1964: Yearning (Naruse Mikio)
1965: Nicht versöhnt, oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht (Jean-Marie Straub)
1966: Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
1967: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
1968: Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa)
1969: Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1970: Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
1972: Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó)
1973: F for Fake (Orson Welles)
1974: Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1975: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1976: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
1977: Cet obscur objet du désir (Luis Buñuel)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1979: Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1980: Gloria (John Cassavetes)
1981: Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
1982: Too Early/Too Late (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub)
1983: Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
1984: Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
1985: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
1986: The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1987: Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
1988: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
1989: City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1990: Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
1991: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
1992: Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
1993: Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
1994: Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzyzstof Kieślowski)
1995: Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
1996: La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
1997: The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
1998: The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
1999: Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

2000: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2002: Femme fatale (Brian De Palma)
2003: Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2004: La niña santa (Lucrecia Martel)
2005: Les Amants réguliers (Philippe Garrel)
2006: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2007: I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes)
2008: La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel)
2009: Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)

2010: Copie conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
2011: Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2012: Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
2013: Our Sunhi (Hong Sangsoo)
2014: Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
2015: Son of Saul (László Nemes)
2016: The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)
2017: Western (Valeska Griesbach)
2018: Le Livre d'image (Jean-Luc Godard)
2019: Synonymes (Nadav Lapid)

[Skitch]

I love my top 10.

1. Inception
2. Rear Window
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. The Lion King
5. The Killing
6. Seven Samurai
7. Pulp Fiction
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. 12 Angry Men
10. The Bridge on the River Kwai

But I don't like sharing with Skitch. So I'm moving 2001 and Seven Samurai out and replacing them with better things.

9 greats. Ger rid of Lion King.

[Skitch]

My Top 10 for now:

1. The Wild Bunch
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Do the Right Thing
4. La Haine
5. Short Cuts
6. The Last of the Mohicans
7. Husbands and Wives
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Boogie Nights
10. Dazed and Confused

Wouldn't argue any.

[Skitch]

Only a top 10 for now:

10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
9. Akira
8. Donnie Darko
7. El Topo
6. Memento
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Mulholland Drive
3. Satantango
2. The Tree of Life
1. Magnolia

Akira makes top ten, no arguments from me.

[baby doll]

Since Skitch started it...


1. Inception
2. Rear Window
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. The Lion King
5. The Killing
6. Seven Samurai
7. Pulp Fiction
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. 12 Angry Men
10. The Bridge on the River KwaiRear Window, Seven Samurai, the two Kubrick films, and Pulp Fiction are all spicy, but I'm less keen on Inception (a film that mainly consists of scenes of people explaining the plot to each other very, very solemnly and/or shooting at each other while the portentous score and noirish visual scheme keep reminding the spectator how serious and deep this all is); Once Upon a Time in the West (Ebert was right); 12 Angry Men (an entertaining liberal sermon but a sermon nonetheless; I prefer Dog Day Afternoon and Find Me Guilty); and The Bridge on the River Kwai (the whole William Holden story line feels like padding; I prefer Brief Encounter). I haven't seen The Lion King since I was a child, but it bored me at the time (I've always been more of a Warner Bros. boy, especially Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, and What's Opera, Doc?).


1. The Wild Bunch
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Do the Right Thing
4. La Haine
5. Short Cuts
6. The Last of the Mohicans
7. Husbands and Wives
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Boogie Nights
10. Dazed and ConfusedThe Wild Bunch, Do the Right Thing, La Haine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Boogie Nights are spicy. Short Cuts is also pretty terrific although I find it less stylistically exciting than Altman's best 70s films (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, California Split). Apocalypse Now has some great sequences, though the narrative, which is always on the precipice of degenerating completely into an endless series of show-stoppers, comes apart completely in the Brando scenes since as conceived Coppola's Kurtz is an abstraction rather than a character, and the repeated superimpositions of a Buddhist statue feel like a desperate Hail Mary attempt to squeeze significance and meaning into a story that can't support them. Husbands and Wives is minor Allen; it's skillfully acted but the characters as written are predictable and boring, unlike for instance Hannah and Her Sisters, Vicky Christina Barcelona and even Whatever Works (the last two are also minor but more likeable), which qualify or in some cases completely reverse the spectator's initial impressions of the characters. I haven't seen The Last of the Mohicans but the book is a lot of fun.


10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
9. Akira
8. Donnie Darko
7. El Topo
6. Memento
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Mulholland Drive
3. Satantango
2. The Tree of Life
1. MagnoliaA.I., Mulholland Dr., Sátántangó, and Magnolia are spicy. El Topo and The Tree of Life are a series of disconnected show-stoppers going nowhere (more or less literally, in the case of Malick's film). Akira is convoluted and violent and has no characters; Donnie Darko is convoluted and the characters are boring teen movie clichés. Memento is clever enough, probably my favourite Nolan, but also somewhat disposable; the characters are boring neo-noir clichés (though the talented cast obfuscates this somewhat) and there's little pleasure in revisiting the movie once you know the surprises. I've only seen the first twenty minutes or so of The Holy Grail; the disc skipped and I've never been very interested to finish it, although I liked The Life of Brian and parts of The Meaning of Life.

[Skitch]

Akira has no characters? That's just crazy talk.

[transmogrifier]

1990: Edward Scissorhands
1991: Dogfight
1992: The Last of the Mohicans
1993: Short Cuts
1994: Heavenly Creatures
1995: La Haine
1996: Everyone Says I Love You
1997: Boogie Nights
1998: Christmas in August
1999: Fight Club

2000: Battle Royale
2001: Mulholland Dr.
2002: Roger Dodger
2003: Oldboy
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Cache
2006: United 93
2007: Zodiac
2008: Wall-E
2009: The Informant!

2010: Confessions
2011: Margaret
2012: The We and the I
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Gone Girl
2015: Mistress America
2016: The World of Us
2017: Logan*
2018: Burning*
2019: Ad Astra*

* I really, really, really need to see more movies from these years (none of these would place in the top 50 of 2000-2009)

[Yxklyx]

Only a top 10 for now:

10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
9. Akira
8. Donnie Darko
7. El Topo
6. Memento
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Mulholland Drive
3. Satantango
2. The Tree of Life
1. Magnolia

I'll need to work one out but I think Donnie Darko, Mulholland Dr. and Magnolia would be in the top 10.

[StuSmallz]

Going with an arbitrary 1 film minimium for every decade going back to the 40's, I suppose a Top 10 list of some of my personal favorites would look something like...

The Third Man
Vertigo
In Cold Blood (https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/in-cold-blood/)
The Last Picture Show
Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god/)
Once Upon A Time In America
Schindler's List (https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/schindlers-list/)
Pan's Labyrinth
No Country For Old Men (https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/no-country-for-old-men/)
Arrival (https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/arrival-2016/)