Post your top 100 in here....5 years on.

[transmogrifier]

On March 9, 2009, at 2:09am Korean time, Issac created this thread (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?1904-Post-your-top-100-in-here).

He asked for Top 100 lists.

Some time later, I took those lists and made a consensus list.

The thread for that is around here somewhere. But I don't want to link to that. It's out of date. Your opinions of 5 years ago are worthless. You are a changed person.

It's time to do this again.

Post your Top 100 lists in here.

Rules:
1. Maximum of 100. You can post fewer if you like though. I appreciate that 100 is a big number.
2. Ranked is preferable. The consensus list will be done on list mentions, with average ranking the tie-breaker. If you choose not to rank, your list is obviously still counted. But I will judge you accordingly.
3. No "one film per director" self-imposed rules would be good. It ruins the purity of this vitally important procrastination task.

Feel free to CtrlC, CtrlV your list from the old thread if you have reached the stage where all newer movies are bullshit and nothing good had been released in the last 10 years.

I will leave this open for a while, to allow people wallow in the beauty of ranking subjective reactions to commercial art.

[Spinal]

Your opinions of 5 years ago are worthless.

This is very true.

[Ezee E]

Neat. I'm going to need some time on this.

Will be fun to compare it.

[baby doll]

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1916)
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)
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929)

City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Le Crime de M. Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 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)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
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)
Un condamné Ã* mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Robert Bresson, 1956)
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)

Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut, 1960)
L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Not Reconciled or: Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub, 1965)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-98) [video]
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard, 1990)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzyzstof Kieślowski, 1994)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1996)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1999)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes, 2007)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)
The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story (Michael Haneke, 2009)

[Gizmo]

Quick copy and paste of my rating tracker, which I tried to update a bit first, but not

1-10
Fight Club 1999
Mulholland Dr. 1999
Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Chicago 2002
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1980
Black Swan 2010
Let the Right One In 2008
Leon (The Professional) 1994
Closer 2004

11-20
Se7en 1995
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (Amelie) 2001
Ususal Suspects, The 1994
Casablanca 1942
Citizen Kane 1941
Sunset Blvd. 1950
Shining, The 1980
Amadeus 1984
Apocalypse Now 1979
Godfather, The 1972

21-30
Rear Window 1954
Magnolia 1999
Inglourious Basterds 2009
Across the Universe 2007
Memento 2000
12 Angry Men 1957
La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful) 1997
Goodfellas 1990
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) 1928

31-40
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Raging Bull 1980
Taxi Driver 1976
Fargo 1996
Before Sunrise 1995
Lost in Translation 2003
American Beauty 1999
Before Sunset 2004
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
Reservoir Dogs 1992

41-50
Ying Xiong (Hero) 2002
War Zone, The 1999
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Royal Tenenbaums, The 2001
Harold and Maude 1971
City Lights 1931
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 1977
Prestige, The 2006
El Labertino del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) 2006
Life of Brian, The 1979

51-60
Truman Show 1998
Delicatessen 1991
Dark Knight, The 2008
Forrest Gump 1994
Glory 1989
Barry Lyndon 1975
Shutter Island 2010
La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) 1995
Others, The 2001
Oldboy 2003

61-70
Chinatown 1974
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
Last Temptation of Christ, The 1988
Moonrise Kingdom 2012
Schindler's List 1993
Good Will Hunting 1997
Hataru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) 1988
Chaplin 1992
Silence of the Lambs 1991
Dog Day Afternoon 1975

71-80
In the Mood for Love 2000
Psycho 1960
American History X 1998
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
M 1931
12 Monkeys 1995
Patton 1970
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014
Amour 2012
Das Boot 1981

81-90
Incredibles, The 2004
Sherlock Jr. 1924
Dirty Dozen, The 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Artist, The 2011
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
Clerks 1994
Before Midnight 2013
Finding Neverland 2004

91-100
Saving Private Ryan 1998
V for Vendetta 2005
Wolf of Wall Street, The 2013
Little Miss Sunshine 2006
Departed, The 2006
Finding Nemo 2003
Halloween 1978
Graduate, The 1967
Beautiful Girls 1996
A Few Good Men 1992

[Spinal]

Reviewing my top 100, the first half looks pretty solid and the back half needs some revision. I'll spend some time on an up-to-the-date version. Thanks for doing this.

[Winston*]

The thread for that is around here somewhere. But I don't want to link to that. It's out of date. Your opinions of 5 years ago are worthless. You are a changed person.


I think my opinions of 1 year ago are worthless. Don't know how people do these all time lists.

[Dukefrukem]

Reviewing my top 100, the first half looks pretty solid and the back half needs some revision. I'll spend some time on an up-to-the-date version. Thanks for doing this.

My whole list needs revisions. But here it is anyway.


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

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

21 The Raid: Redemption
22 Alien
23 Brazil
24 Dog Day Afternoon
25 The Departed
26 The Lion King
27 L'Avventura
28 Blade Runner
29 Oldboy
30 The Third Man

31 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
32 The Game
33 Primer
34 Rashomon
35 Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
36 Burbs
37 Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
38 A Clockwork Orange
39 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
40 Star Wars A New Hope

41 Upstream Color
42 The Conversation
43 The Matrix
44 The Man Who Knew Too Much
45 Abyss
46 Pan's Labyrinth
47 Videodrome
48 Stalker
49 Vertigo
50 Black Swan

51 Cabin in the Woods
52 Interstellar
53 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
54 Young Frankenstein
55 Fargo
56 E.T.
57 A Beautiful Mind
58 Solyaris
59 Melancholia
60 American Beauty

61 The 400 Blows
62 Finding Nemo
63 No Country for Old Men
64 Citizen Kane
65 Wall-E
66 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
67 Antichrist
68 Moon
69 The Prestige
70 Night of the Living Dead

71 To Kill a Mockingbird
72 Full Metal Jacket
73 Snatch
74 Stand By Me
75 Back to the Future
76 Gravity
77 Ratatouille
78 Guardians of the Galaxy
79 M
80 The Elephant Man

81 Seven
82 Die Hard
83 The Matrix Reloaded
84 The Fugitive
85 The Killer
86 West Side Story
87 Sabotage
88 Fight Club
89 American History X
90 Jaws

91 Unforgiven
92 Burn After Reading
93 Guardians of the Galaxy
94 The Count of Monte Cristo
95 Foreign Correspondent
96 Enter the Void
97 City of God
98 Enter the Dragon
99 Sunset Blvd
100 Casablanca

[Melville]

1. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
2. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
4. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1969)
5. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
6. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
7. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
8. The Son (Dardennes, 2002)
9. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
10. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
12. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
13. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
14. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
15. Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)
16. Punch-Drunk Love (PT Anderson, 2002)
17. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
18. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
19. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
20. Tale of Tales (Norshteyn, 1979)
21. Ivan the Terrible Part II (Eisenstein, 1946)
22. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
23. Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)
24. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
25. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
26. The Grey (Carnahan, 2011)
27. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
28. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
29. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
30. Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967)
31. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1954)
32. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978)
33. Two Lovers (Grey, 2009)
34. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini, 1964)
35. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
36. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
37. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
38. The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
39. There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson, 2007)
40. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
41. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
42. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
43. The New World (Malick, 2005)
44. Criss Cross (Siodmak, 1949)
45. Buffalo '66 (Gallo, 1998)
46. Margaret (Lonergan, 2011)
47. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
48. Serene Velocity (Gehr, 1970)
49. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
50. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
51. Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
52. Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
53. Hedgehog in the Fog (Norshteyn, 1975)
54. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
55. Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994)
56. Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
57. Blood of the Beasts (Franju, 1949)
58. L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)
59. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1964)
60. Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1926)
61. A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
62. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
63. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2013)
64. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
65. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
66. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
67. Fata Morgana (Herzog, 1971)
68. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007)
69. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
70. Millenium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2001)
71. Van Gogh (Pialat, 1991)
72. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Brakhage, 1971)
73. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back, 1987)
74. Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
75. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013 )
76. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
77. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
78. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
79. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)
80. Boys Don't Cry (Peirce, 1999)
81. The Good Girl (Arteta, 2002)
82. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Arnold, 1998)
83. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
84. Wake in Fright (Kotcheff, 1971)
85. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
86. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
87. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
88. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)
89. The Cow (Petrov, 1989)
90. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
91. Fargo (Coens, 1996)
92. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
93. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
94. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
95. Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
96. Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999)
97. The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)
98. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
99. A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski, 1988)
100. Fat City (Huston, 1972)

[Spinal]

78 Guardians of the Galaxy

93 Guardians of the Galaxy


It looks like you get to list one more movie. :)

[Spinal]

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. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
8. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
10. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
11. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
12. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
13. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
14. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)
15. Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)
16. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
17. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
18. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
19. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
20. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000)
21. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
22. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
23. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
24. Muriel’s Wedding (Hogan, 1994)
25. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
26. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
27. The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
28. Dogville (Trier, 2003)
29. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
30. Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, 2001)
31. Once (Carney, 2006)
32. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998)
33. The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960)
34. Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce, 1999)
35. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
36. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
37. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
38. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
39. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway, 1991)
40. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
41. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
42. Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
43. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
44. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
45. Grey Gardens (Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer, 1975)
46. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
47. City of God (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
48. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
49. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
50. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
51. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen, 1984)
52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
53. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
54. Antichrist (Trier, 2009)
55. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
56. High School (Wiseman, 1968)
57. Pina (Wenders, 2011)
58. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
59. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
60. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
61. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
62. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 1927)
63. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
64. Manderlay (Trier, 2005)
65. The Firemen’s Ball (Forman, 1967)
66. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
67. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999)
68. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
69. Marat/Sade (Brook, 1967)
70. M (Lang, 1931)
71. Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
72. Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
73. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
74. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
75. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
76. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
77. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
78. Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway, 1988)
79. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
80. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988)
81. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
82. Tabu (Murnau, 1931)
83. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
84. Palindromes (Solondz, 2004)
85. Enter the Void (Noé, 2009)
86. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
87. Bob Roberts (Robbins, 1992)
88. Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
89. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires, 1970)
90. Paprika (Kon, 2006)
91. The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
92. Hangmen Also Die (Lang, 1943)
93. Cabaret (Fosse, 1972)
94. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
95. Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)
96. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
97. Happy Feet (Miller/Coleman/Morris, 2006)
98. The Atomic Café (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty, 1982)
99. Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
100. Death in the Seine (Greenaway, 1988)

[Dukefrukem]

It looks like you get to list one more movie. :)

Nice catch.

Next in line would be The 39 Steps, but I already have so many Hitchcock movies in my top 100. I'm going to see if I can wiggle some movies around.

[Dukefrukem]

In Excel, I was able to pareto out my scores. Looks like 90 is a common score I give. The reason for so many 59 scores is because 60 is my cut off from something being re-watchable. Under 60 that is considered a nay. 60-69 are movies like The Fast and the Furious , Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Torque. 70-79 are guilty pleasures, The Mummy, The Adjustment Bureau, the Rock. 80-89 are solid good movies, Schindler's List, The Ghost Writer, The Social Network, 90-95 are top tier, Terminator, A Separation, The Birds and 96-99 are masterpieces, Vertigo, Once Upton a Time in the West, The Departed, The Game, and I've given out one 100, Inception.

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[Morris Schæffer]

My top 100 would be drastically different from what I've seen so far. Not better, just different, more commecial really. :) But I'll try to sort something out.

[Mysterious Dude]

Back in September, I decided to scrap my previous top 100 and start a new one, this time only including films I've seen in the last five years. My plan is to actually watch the movies on my old list, and, if I still think they're deserving, put them on the new list. It's been a slow process. There are still 48 movies on my old list that I haven't seen in over five years. For this thread, I added 36 of those movies, since I certainly want them to be acknowledged in the consensus.

1. The 400 Blows (1959)
2. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
3. Metropolis (1927)
4. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
5. Breathless (1960)
6. The Elephant Man (1980)
7. M (1931)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
10. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

11. Touch of Evil (1958)
12. Throne of Blood (1957)
13. Badlands (1973)
14. Germany Year Zero (1948)
15. The Graduate (1967)
16. Shoeshine (1946)
17. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
18. Napoleon (1927)
19. Taxi Driver (1976)
20. Broken Blossoms (1919)

21. Fantastic Planet (1973)
22. Sunrise (1927)
23. Testament (1983)
24. Los Olvidados (1950)
25. Come and See (1985)
26. The War Game (1965)
27. City of God (2002)
28. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
29. Z (1969)
30. Children of Men (2006)

31. Ikiru (1952)
32. Ingeborg Holm (1913)
33. The General (1926)
34. House (1977)
35. Ugetsu (1953)
36. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
37. The Kid (1921)
38. Double Suicide (1969)
39. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
40. Satyricon (1969)

41. Pather Panchali (1955)
42. Schindler's List (1993)
43. The Miracle Worker (1962)
44. The White Ribbon (2009)
45. My Home is Copacabana (1965)
46. Waking Life (2001)
47. 8½ (1963)
48. Fargo (1996)
49. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
50. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

51. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
52. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
53. The Naked City (1948)
54. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
55. Umberto D. (1952)
56. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
57. Bully (2001)
58. The Phantom Chariot (1921)
59. Funny Games (1997)
60. The Children of Paradise (1945)

61. Seven Samurai (1954)
62. Intolerance (1916)
63. Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
64. Tol'able David (1921)
65. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
66. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
67. The Demon (1978)
68. America America (1963)
69. Largo viaje (1967)
70. Ballad of Narayama (1983)

71. Ucho (1970)
72. The Kid Brother (1927)
73. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
74. Warning Shadows (1923)
75. Les Misérables (1934)
76. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
77. The Maggie (1954)
78. The Cremator (1969)
79. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
80. Poil de carotte (1932)

81. The Virgin Spring (1960)
82. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
83. The Color of Paradise (1999)
84. Lord of the Flies (1963)
85. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
86. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
87. J'accuse! (1919)
88. Mysterious Skin (2004)
89. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
90. The Quiet One (1948)

91. The Conversation (1974)
92. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
93. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
94. The Duellists (1977)
95. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
96. Don Giovanni (1979)
97. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
98. Vengeance is Mine (1979)
99. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
100. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

[baby doll]

1. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)If you think Amadeus is good, wait till you see Taking Off.

[transmogrifier]

Yeah, I'm looking at my list and seeing a whole bunch of films I haven't seen in an age, and thinking "Did I really love it that much?"

I may have to do a bit of surgery.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Bold for new additions. Most are new views, a couple are ones where I simply forgot. Good Lord, 100 spots isn't nearly enough for all the movies I love.

- - - - - - -
1-10
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
Fantasia (Samuel Armstrong et al, 1940)
Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)

11-20
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)
Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
The Wages of Fear (Henri Georges-Clouzot, 1953)
Seven (David Fincher, 1995)

21-30
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)

31-40
The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reineger, 1926)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)

41-50
The Before Series (Richard Linklater, 1995-2013)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1987)
Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho, 2003)

51-60
United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

61-70
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)
The Atomic Cafe (Loader, Rafferty, Rafferty, 1982)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

71-80
College (James W. Horne, 1927)
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)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Anchorman (Adam McKay, 2004)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

81-90
Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
Pink Floyd's The Wall (Alan Parker, 1982)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker & Zucker, 1980)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)

91-100
The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
La Belle et la Bette (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, 1991)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tykwer, 2012)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

[Sycophant]

'Sup, y'all. Changing mine up a fair bit. Moving things all over the place. It's overwhelmingly Japanese, for which I make no apologies (most of what I've watched in the last five years has been Japanese, and probably will be, forever).

My old list had a couple of series condense into one line item. Feels a bit cheap, but I'm doing that again.

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Mind Game
3. Hana-bi
4. God of Cookery
5. Harakiri
6. Citizen Kane
7. End of Evangelion
8. Sans Soleil
9. The Great Dictator
10. The Purple Rose of Cairo

11. Grave of the Fireflies
12. The Fly
13. After Life
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15. Tokyo Story
16. Hannah and Her Sisters
17. Sullivan's Travels
18. Do the Right Thing
19. Vertigo
20. A Serious Man

21. Millennium Actress
22. Rashomon
23. Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
24. Kikujiro no Natsu
25. Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
26. The Darjeeling Limited
27. Hot Fuzz
28. My Neighbor Totoro
29. Chungking Express
30. Lost in America

31. City Lights
32. Mobile Suit Gundam I-III (1980-1981)
33. The Host
34. Cure
35. Allegro non Troppo
36. Takeshis'
37. Bullet in the Head
38. My Father's Glory/My Mother's Castle
39. Symbol
40. Kids Return

41. Playtime
42. Shaolin Soccer
43. Crimes & Misdemeanors
44. Double Indemnity
45. The Big Lebowski
46. An Autumn Afternoon
47. The Awful Truth
48. A Better Tomorrow
49. The Truman Show
50. Macross: Do You Remember Love?

51. Election & Election 2
52. Robocop
53. Singin' in the Rain
54. The Taste of Tea
55. Jaws
56. Mr. Thank You
57. A Chinese Odyssey I & II
58. Once Upon a Time in the West
59. Twilight Samurai
60. Unfaithfully Yours

61. In the Mood for Love
62. Tora-san's Cherished Mother
63. Whisper of the Heart
64. Memories of Matsuko
65. The Squid & the Whale
66. Bottle Rocket
67. Be Sure to Share
68. Ugetsu
69. Still Walking
70. Pulp Fiction

71. Groundhog Day
72. Madadayo
73. Alien
74. The Station Agent
75. Paprika
76. My Night at Maud's
77. Oldboy
78. Dead or Alive 2: Birds
79. The Shop Around the Corner
80. Ran

81. Funky Forest: The First Contact
82. Rear Window
83. Beauty and the Beast 1946
84. Some Like It Hot
85. Only Yesterday
86. Adolesence of Utena
87. Doppelganger
88. Love Exposure
89. Deconstructing Harry
90. Samurai Rebellion

91. Sansho the Bailiff
92. Ran
93. The Empire Strikes Back
94. While You Were Sleeping
95. A Goofy Movie
96. Citizen Dog
97. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
98. All About Lily Chou Chou
99. Talladega Nights
100. Barking Dogs Never Bite

[Spinal]

The Atomic Cafe (Loader, Rafferty, Rafferty, 1982)


:pritch:

[Dead & Messed Up]

:pritch:

That was one where I'd seen it and loved it and for whatever reason forgotten about it during list making time.

It's incredible in every sense of the word.

[EyesWideOpen]

This was really hard to do since I have a shitty memory. There were a bunch of movies I have A+ for but I can barely remember them so I left them off.

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2. House (1977)
3. Planet of the Apes (1968)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
8. Rear Window (1954)
9. Kill Bill (03-04)
10. Charade (1963)
11. The Matrix (1999)
12. Battle Royale (2000)
13. Moulin Rouge (2001)
14. Drive (2011)
15. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
16. Death Proof (2007)
17. The Exorcist (1973)
18. The Apartment (1960)
19. The Sixth Sense (1999)
20. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
21. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
22. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
23. Speed Racer (2008)
24. 12 Angry Men (1957)
25. Audition (2000)
26. Pulp Fiction (1994)
27. Oldboy (2003)
28. Brick (2006)
29. Rango (2011)
30. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
31. Wall-E (2008)
32. Do the Right Thing (1989)
33. Vanilla Sky (2001)
34. Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
35. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1970)
36. The Shining (1980)
37. Lost in Translation (2003)
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
39. The Neverending Story (1984)
40. Black Swan (2010)
41. Dogtooth (2009)
42. Paths of Glory (1957)
43. Annie Hall (1977)
44. The Village (2004)
45. Aladdin (1992)
46. The Game (1997)
47. Stoker (2013)
48. Sin City (2005)
49. Ichi the Killer (2001)
50. Freaks (1932)
51. Children of Men (2006)
52. The Lion King (1994)
53. Psycho (1960)
54. The Last Picture Show (1972)
55. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
56. 12 Monkeys (1995)
57. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
58. Let the Right One In (2008)
59. Rope (1948)
60. Mulholland Drive (2001)
61. Rushmore (1998)
62. Manhattan (1979)
63. Solaris (2002)
64. Ratatouille (2007)
65. The Little Mermaid (1989)
66. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
67. Fight Club (1999)
68. Shogun Assassin (1980)
69. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
70. Chungking Express (1994)
71. Amelie (2001)
72. Linda Linda Linda (2005)
73. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
74. Girl Walk // All Day (2011)
75. Strangers on a Train (1951)
76. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
77. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
78. Unbreakable (2000)
79. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
80. Memories of Murder (2003)
81. The Incredibles (2004)
82. The Truman Show (1998)
83. Troll 2 (1990)
84. Django Unchained (2012)
85. Almost Famous (2000)
86. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
87. The Omen (1976)
88. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
89. The Fountain (2006)
90. Jane Eyre (2011)
91. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
92. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
93. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
94. In the Mood for Love (2000)
95. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
96. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
97. Apocalypto (2006)
98. The New World (2005)
99. The Graduate (1967)
100. I Wish (2011)

[Russ]

a new one...

Nice!

[Peng]

Happen to be the last post in that old thread, and since then (4 months) there have been three new additions.


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. Two Days, One Night 2014
39. The Wages of Fear 1953
40. Sunset Boulevard 1950

41. Romeo and Juliet 1968
42. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
43. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
44. Boyhood 2014
45. Aliens 1986
46. Metropolis 1927
47. Night of the Living Dead 1968
48. His Girl Friday 1940
49. King Kong 2005
50. A Tale of Two Sisters 2003

51. My Girl 2003
52. Braveheart 1995
53. Inglourious Basterds 2009
54. Lost in Translation 2003
55. Alien 1979
56. Eyes Without a Face 1960
57. Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
58. Her 2013
59. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008
60. The Godfather: Part II 1974

61. La dolce vita 1960
62. Gravity 2013
63. Memento 2000
64. Speed 1994
65. A Separation 2011
66. Mulholland Drive 2001
67. The Red Shoes 1948
68. Jacob’s Ladder 1990
69. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
70. Sweet Smell of Success 1957

71. Ace in the Hole 1951
72. The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
73. Gladiator 2000
74. Diabolique 1955
75. High and Low 1963
76. Three Colors: Red 1994
77. Halloween 1978
78. Ikiru 1952
79. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
80. Rosemary’s Baby 1968

81. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
82. Princess Mononoke 1997
83. Jurassic Park 1993
84. M 1931
85. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977
86. Trouble in Paradise 1932
87. Roman Holiday 1953
88. Goodfellas 1990
89. United 93 2006
90. Magnolia 1999

91. Taxi Driver 1976
92. The Long Day Closes 1992
93. The Descent 2005
94. Vertigo 1958
95. Titanic 1997
96. WALL·E 2008
97. Army of Shadows 1969
98. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 1969
99. Wreck-It Ralph 2012
100. Pan’s Labyrinth 2006

[Ivan Drago]

I'm of the belief that movies aren't mutually exclusive, so my reasons for loving something like Contempt or It's Such A Beautiful Day are different from my reasons for loving brainless fun fare like The Avengers or Hard Boiled. However, that's come back to bite me now as I rank my list. How do you guys decide how to rank your favorites?

[ContinentalOp]

Damn, I don't think I can get anywhere near 100. Haven't really (re)watched a lot of movies in the last couple years. Really seem to be into comfort films as of late. I'm going to have to settle for 50.

1. Seven Samurai
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. Yojimbo
4. The Big Lebowski
5. City Lights
6. The Third Man
7. L.A. Confidential
8. Trees Lounge
9. Robocop
10. Silence of the Lambs
11. L'Atalante
12. The Maltese Falcon
13. Fireworks
14. Psycho
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. Miller's Crossing
17. Unforgiven
18. In the Mood for Love
19. Safety Last!
20. The Fugitive
21. Punch-Drunk Love
22. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
23. Silver Linings Playbook
24. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
25. Clerks
26. The Dark Knight Returns
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey
28. Zero Effect
29. The Terminator
30. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
31. The Fisher King
32. Rushmore
33. X-Men: Days of Future Past
34. Bubba Ho-Tep
35. Hot Fuzz
36. Dracula (Browning)
37. School of Rock
38. The Raid
39. Spartan
40. Only Lovers Left Alive
41. The Royal Tenenbaums
42. The Grandmaster
43. Black Dynamite
44. The Grand Budapest Hotel
45. The Kid with the Bike
46. Kingpin
47. Pulp Fiction
48. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
49. Jackie Brown
50. Iron Man

[Sycophant]

I'm of the belief that movies aren't mutually exclusive, so my reasons for loving something like Contempt or It's Such A Beautiful Day are different from my reasons for loving brainless fun fare like The Avengers or Hard Boiled. However, that's come back to bite me now as I rank my list. How do you guys decide how to rank your favorites?

This time around, I threw together a spreadsheet of every movie I could think of that I thought I might refer to as "one of of my favorites." Then I put a mark next to them separating them into 4 tiers, based on my feeling of how strongly I wanted them to be near the top, or on the list at all. Then I sorted them by those tiers and rearranged them within those tiers based on how I thought they should be ranked within those tiers (so I was working with a bank of 15-30 films for each tier), and that I did just kind of by gut. And then I just cut my least favorite movies from the fourth-tier out once I got to 100. Made the task take a lot less time than it otherwise might've.

[Ezee E]

12 Angry Men
25th Hour
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Amadeus
A Man Escaped
Amelie
American Psycho
Angels in America
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Back to the Future
Barton Fink
Bicycle Thief
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Boogie Nights
Casino
Charlie Brown Christmas
Children of Men
A Christmas Story
Citizen Kane
City of God
Closer
Deer Hunter
The Departed
The Descent
Dial M For Murder
Dog Day Afternoon
Do the Right Thing
Dumb and Dumber
Dumbo
The Exorcist
Eyes Wide Shut
The Fall
Fargo
Field of Dreams
Forrest Gump
Ghostbusters
Godfather Part I
Godfather Part II
Gone Girl
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Heat
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inglourious Basterds
Irreversible
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jackie Brown
Jurassic Park
Kill Bill
The Killing
L.A. Confidential
Leon: The Professional
The Lion King
Mary Poppins
The Matrix
Memento
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Mulholland Drive
No Country for Old Men
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Playtime
The Pianist
Princess Bride
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Dream
Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
Rope
Run Lola Run
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Scream
The Searchers
Seven
Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars: Episode IV
Star Wars: Episode V
Taxi Driver
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
There Will be Blood
The Thing
Toy Story
The Virgin Spring
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wizard of Oz
[REC]

[quido8_5]

So, this was fun. Didn't participate initially, but it's actually been around five years since I updated mine and was surprised to see some major changes. I've always limited my list to fiction and one film per director in order to keep it more interesting and varied.

1) 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
2) Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
3) Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
4) Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
5) Persona (Bergman, 1966)
6) City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
7) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8) Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
9) Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)
10) A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu, 1959)

11) Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1968)
12) Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
13) Munch (Watkins, 1974)
14) The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
15) Children of Paradise (Carne, 1945)
16) Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
17) Russian Ark (Sokurov, 2001)
18) Playtime (Tati, 1967)
19) Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
20) The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999)

21) The Man with a Movie Camera (Zertov, 1929)
22) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
23) Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
24) Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929)
25) Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
26) The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
27) Amadeus (Forman, 1982)
28) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
29) Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)

30) Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
31) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Ceylan, 2011)
32) Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
33) The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
34) Yi Yi (Yang, 2001)
35) Grave of Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
36) The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
37) Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
38) Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
39) The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)

40) M (Lang, 1931)
41) Naked (Leigh, 1993)
42) Beauty and the Beast (Wise & Trousdale, 1991)
43) Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2010)
44) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974)
45) The Night of the Hunter (Sanders, Mitchum & Laughton, 1955)
46) Finding Nemo (Lassiter, 2004)
47) Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)
48) Oslo, August 31st (Trier, 2011)
49) Battle of the Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)

50) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam, 1976)
51) Fucking Amal (Show Me Love) (Moodysson, 1998)
52) The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999)
53) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
54) The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
55) A Prairie Home Companion (Altman, 2006)
56) Nymphomaniac Vol. I (Trier, 2014)
57) Charade (Donen, 1963)
58) Star Wars: A New Hope (Lucas, 1979)
59) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1962)

60) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
61) The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962)
62) Die Hard (McTierman, 1988)
63) The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
64) The Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004)
65) Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
66) Best in Show (Guest, 2000)
67) Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
68) Written on the Wind (Sirk, 1956)
69) Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)

70) Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch, 1943)
71) A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1972)
72) Memento (Nolan, 2000)
73) His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
74) Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
75) Alien (Scott, 1979)
76) Stand by Me (Reiner, 1986)
77) Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood, 2006)
78) Half Nelson (Fleck, 2006)
79) Y tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron, 2001)

80) Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
81) Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
82) Fallen Angels (Kar Wai, 1995)
83) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2011)
84) Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
85) Miss Julie (Sjoberg, 1951)
86) Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
87) Halloween (Carpenter, 1979)
88) My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer, 1969)
89) Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker & Zucker, 1980)

90) Inherit the Wind (Kramer, 1960)
91) Network (Lumet, 1976)
92) The Emperor’s New Groove (Dindal, 2000)
93) Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
94) Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
95) Poetry (Chang-dong, 2011)
96) The Lion King (Minkoff & Allers, 1994)
97) Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)
98) Cabin Fever (Roth, 2002)
99) Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
100) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney, 2002)

[Russ]

1. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back, 1987)
2. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorcese, 1976)
4. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
7. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
8. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
9. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
10. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)

11. Gallipoli (Weir, 1981)
12. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
13. Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs, 2004)
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
15. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
16. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
17. Limite (Peixoto, 1931)
18. Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1982)
19. It’s a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
20. The Stunt Man (Rush, 1980)

21. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
22. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
23. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
24. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
25. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
26. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
27. The Kid Brother (Howe, Wilde, 1927)
28. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
29. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
30. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)

31. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
32. Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002)
33. Cache (Haneke, 2005)
34. Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994)
35. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
36. Freaks (Browning, 1932)
37. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
38. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
39. Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
40. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)

41. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
42. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
43. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
44. Deep End (Skolimowski, 1970)
45. Alien (Scott, 1979)
46. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000)
47. Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
48. The Scenic Route (Rappaport, 1978)
49. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
50. L’Age D’Or (Buñuel, 1930)

51. Fantasia (various, 1940)
52. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
53. The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
54. Crime Wave (Paizs, 1985)
55. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
56. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
57. King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack, 1933)
58. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
59. Female Trouble (Waters, 1974)
60. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)

61. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
62. Morocco (von Sternberg, 1930)
63. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
64. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
65. La Belle Equipe (Duvivier, 1936)
66. The General (Bruckman, Keaton, 1927)
67. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
68. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
69. Little Big Man (Penn, 1970)
70. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)

71. The Executioner (Berlanga, 1963)
72. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, Cynn, 2012)
73. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
74. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
75. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
76. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
77. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
78. Burden of Dreams (Blank, 1982)
79. My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007)
80. The Naked Island (Shindo, 1960)

81. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
82. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
83. Confessions (Nakashima, 2010)
84. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
85. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
86. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
87. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
88. Poil de Carotte (Duvivier, 1932)
89. Bambi (Hand, 1942)

90. Flaming Creatures (Smith, 1963)
91. Inherit the Wind (Kramer, 1960)
92. Stars (Wolf, 1959)
93. F For Fake (Welles, 1973)
94. The Wanderers (Kaufman, 1979)
95. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
96. Rubin & Ed (Harris, 1991)
97. She and He (Hani, 1963)
98. Bibliotheque Pascal (Hajdu, 2010)
99. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Palfi, 2012)
100. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood Jr, 1959)

[dreamdead]

Thanks for doing this, trans. I'm hoping to have mine up in the next day or so... trying to go through my last few years of viewing lists and ascertain what, if anything, from those should be making the cut now.

[transmogrifier]

Cool. It'll still be up for a while. I still have two weeks in the semester left, and then another week of grading, and then sweet, sweet stats.

[Melville]

1. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back, 1987)
Wake in Fright didn't make the cut?

[Russ]

Wake in Fright didn't make the cut?

Ha, no, I still haven't seen it. I tend to avoid films that have even a hint of graphic animal violence. I just love me some Donald Pleasance (and it's a cool av).

[Melville]

Ha, no, I still haven't seen it. I tend to avoid films that have even a hint of graphic animal violence. I just love me some Donald Pleasance (and it's a cool av).
Ah. Too bad. It's probably the best Kafkaesque, existentially absurd movie I've seen. Agreed about the av, though.

[Fezzik]

You weren't kidding about 5 year old opinions being worthless. Sure, some (in fact most) of the movies that were on this list 5 years ago are still somewhere in my top 100, but the order is vastly different. On top of that, some that were HIGH on the list before are outright missing this time (rewatches made me wonder what I saw in them in the first place).


City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
Wall-E (Stanton, 2008)
The Iron Giant (Bird, 1997)
Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly/Donen, 1952)
Ratatouille (Bird, 2008)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2012)
Memento (Nolan, 2000)
Glory (Zwick, 1989)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)
The Pink Panther (Edwards, 1963)
In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)
No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)
My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
Hamlet (Branagh, 1996)
The Prince of Egypt (Chapman, Wells, Hickner, 1998)
Life of Pi (Lee, 2012)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
Inception (Nolan, 2010)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Henry V (Branagh, 1989)
King Kong (Cooper, 1933)
The Truman Show (Weir, 1998)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, 1993)
Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
Once (Carney, 2006)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
Serenity (Whedon, 2005)
Say Anything (Crowe, 1989)
Beauty and the Beast (Hahn, 1991)
The Muppet Movie (Frawley, 1979)
The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
The Untouchables (DePalma, 1987)
Chicago (Marshall, 2002)
Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989)
Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
Good Will Hunting (Van Sant, 1997)
Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
Trading Places (Landis, 1983)
When Harry Met Sally (Reiner, 1989)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
Babe (Noonan, 1995)
Dances With Wolves (Costner, 1990)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)
Fantasia (Disney, 1940)
Big (Marshall, 1988)
A Few Good Men (Reiner, 1992)
Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
The Lion King (Minkoff, 1994)
Caddyshack (Ramis, 1980)
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
Tangled (Greno/Howard, 2010)
The Avengers (Whedon, 2012)
Dead Again (Branagh, 1991)
The Green Mile (Darabont, 1999)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971)
The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987)
Watership Down (Rosen, 1978)
The Dark Crystal (Henson/Oz, 1982)
Romancing the Stone (Zemeckis, 1984)

[dreamdead]

Manhattan's took one of the biggest falls for me. Otherwise, corrected the 2001 rating and moved some new films around. Malick unsurprisngly dominates.

1. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
4. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
7. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
8. Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955)
9. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
10. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)

11. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
12. Window Water Moving Baby (Stan Brakhage, 1959)
13. The Son (the Dardenne Brothers, 2002)
14. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
15. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
16. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
17. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
18. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
19. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
20. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)

21. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
22. Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
23. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
24. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
25. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
26. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
27. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
28. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
29. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
30. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

31. The Green Ray/Summer (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
32. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
33. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
34. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)
35. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
36. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
37. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
38. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
39. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
40. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

41. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
42. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
43. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
44. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
45. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
46. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
47. Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
48. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
49. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
50. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)

51. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
52. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
53. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
54. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
55. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
56. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
57. All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
58. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
59. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
60. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)

61. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
62. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
63. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
64. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
65. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2011)
66. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
67. The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
68. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
69. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
70. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

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

81. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
82. A Serious Man (Coen Brothers, 2009)
83. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
84. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
85. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
86. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
87. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
88. The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
89. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
90. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)

91. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
92. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
93. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
94. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
95. Exiled (Johnny To, 2006)
96. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
97. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006)
98. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
99. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
100. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

[Dukefrukem]

I'm of the belief that movies aren't mutually exclusive, so my reasons for loving something like Contempt or It's Such A Beautiful Day are different from my reasons for loving brainless fun fare like The Avengers or Hard Boiled. However, that's come back to bite me now as I rank my list. How do you guys decide how to rank your favorites?

I agree with this.

[Melville]

50. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Nice.