Monday, June 4, 2012

The Top 100 Films of All-Time

Playtime
1. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967, France)
2. Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, 1972, India)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966, France)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939, Japan)
5. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959, United States)
6. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948, United States)
7. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)
8. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, United States)
9. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955, Denmark)
10. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994, Iran)

Floating Clouds
11. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937, United States)
12. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, Soviet Union)
13. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986, France)
14. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955, Japan)
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956, United States)
16. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932, United States)
17. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989, Taiwan)
18. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994, Hungary)
19. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, Soviet Union)
20. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967, France)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
21. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan)
22. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951, Japan)
23. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927, United States)
24. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962, Italy)
25. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France)
26. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1976, Belgium)
27. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, Thailand)
28. The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1926, United States)
29. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950, Italy)
30. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936, Soviet Union)

Distant Voices, Still Lives
31. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988, United Kingdom)
32. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France)
33. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain)
34. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953, United States)
35. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964, India)
36. Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira, 1978, Portugal)
37. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946, United Kingdom)
38. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, France)
39. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934, United States)
40. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948, China)

Ivan the Terrible
41. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, United States)
42. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985, France)
43. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-1946, Soviet Union)
44. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998, United States)
45. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975, Greece)
46. Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan)
47. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942, United States)
48. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002, Russia)
49. Lonesome (Paul Fejos, 1928, United States)
50. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood, 1993, United States)

Yeelen
51. Limelight (Charles Chaplin, 1952, United States)
52. Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957, India)
53. Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister, 1942, United Kingdom)
54. Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström, 1913, Sweden)
55. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001, United States)
56. El (Luis Buñuel, 1952, Mexico)
57. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, United States)
58. Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987, Mali)
59. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915, United States)
60. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, Japan)

Kings of the Road
61. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976, West Germany)
62. Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963, France)
63. Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969, Japan)
64. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915-16, France)
65. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944, United States)
66. Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz, 1983, France)
67. La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971, Canada)
68. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922, United States)
69. Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952, United States)
70. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963, Italy)

Written on the Wind
71. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1991, Hong Kong)
72. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980, West Germany)
73. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949, United Kingdom)
74. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008, Argentina)
75. A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954, United States)
76. Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1992, Hong Kong)
77. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983, France)
78. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956, United States)
79. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956, United States)
80. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989, Poland)

Platform
81. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968, Italy)
82. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957, Japan)
83. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Soviet Union)
84. Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000, China)
85. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey)
86. Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951, India)
87. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971, United States)
88. Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985, United States)
89. Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, 1936, France)
90. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927, United States)

Il Posto
91. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967, Hungary)
92. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961, Italy)
93. Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947, France)
94. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943, United States)
95. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982, Sweden)
96. Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh, 1932, United States)
97. Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka Sadao, 1935, Japan)
98. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1965, United States)
99. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988, Canada)
100. Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936, Japan)