Regretfully, I haven't seen many films within the last year that merit a position on this list -- even the few films I've added were viewed about a year ago. Due to 2010 being such a weak year for film, it left me uninspired to seek out as many old classics as I typically would. Hopefully 2011 proves to be more engaging.
The following list represents what I feel to be the 100 greatest movies. Following a film's title, in parenthesis, is each director's last name and the year of the film's release.
1. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
2. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
4. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
5. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
6. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
7. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
8. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
9. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
10. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
11. Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
13. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953)
14. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
15. Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
16. The Godfather, Part II (Coppola, 1974)
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
18. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
19. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
20. The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987)
21. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
22. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
24. Rocky (Avildsen, 1976)
25. Rashômon (Kurosawa, 1950)
26. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
27. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
29. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
30. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
31. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
32. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
33. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
34. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
35. First Blood (Kotcheff, 1982)
36. JFK (Stone, 1991)
37. Patton (Schaffner, 1970)
38. The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998)
39. 21 Grams (Inarritu, 2003)
40. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
41. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
42. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
43. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
44. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
45. Heat (Mann, 1995)
46. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
47. Closer (Nichols, 2004)
48. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
49. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
50. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
51. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
52. Bringing up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
53. The Good Shepherd (DeNiro, 2006)
54. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (Lucas, 1980)
55. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
56. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
57. Away From Her (Polley, 2006)
58. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
59. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
60. Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
61. All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
62. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
63. Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)
64. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
65. Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
66. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
67. Face/Off (Woo, 1997)
68. Jarhead (Mendes, 2005)
69. “I, Claudius” (Wise, 1976)
70. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
71. The Reader (Daldry, 2008)
72. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
73. Network (Lumet, 1976)
74. Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005)
75. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
76. Wuthering Heights (Wyler, 1939)
77. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968)
78. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
79. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
80. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
81. Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
82. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
83. The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
84. Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
85. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
86. Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995)
87. “The Decalogue” (Kieslowski, 1989)
88. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominick, 2007)
89. Tokyo Story (Osu, 1953)
90. The Matrix (Wachowski Brothers, 1999)
91. Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)
92. White Heat (Walsh, 1949)
93. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer, 1963)
94. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Nichols, 1966)
95. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
96. Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938)
97. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
98. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
99. Scarface (De Palma, 1983)
100. Apocalypto (Gibson, 2006)
ADDED:
#64 Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
#85 Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
#91 Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)
#95 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
REMOVED:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998)
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
The Odd Couple (Saks, 1968)
REMOVED EARLIER:
American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
American History X (Kaye, 1998)
The Boat (Peterson, 1981)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
Casino (Scorsese, 1995)
The Departed (Scorsese, 2006)
Hotel Rwanda (George, 2004)
It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
Kill Bill (Tarantino, 2003/2004)
A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935)
The Passion of the Christ (Gibson, 2004)
Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
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4 comments:
how could you move American Beauty out of that list. Your list is fantastic and it only makes sense to keep American Beauty there
Thanks for the comment. I think American Beauty is a great film; however, its impact has faded with me over time for whatever reason. I still regard it highly even though it is no longer on the list.
I feel glad most of the movies in your list are the same as mine if I'd care to make one.
Wonderful list, trully. I should watch the movies that are in your list but I didn't see since our tastes are so alike. :)
And I'm brazilian, my blog is in portuguese. You wouldn't understand, I think. ;)
you have Heat above the Big Lebowski. epic fail...negged
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