16 March 2019

My 100 Favorite Films of All Time



1.  His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks
2.  Manhattan (1979) Allen
3. Goodfellas (1990)  Scorsese
4. Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky
5. The Godfather (1972) Coppola
6. Winter Light (1963) Bergman
7. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle
8. The Seventh Seal (1957) Bergman
9.  The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich
10. Duck Soup (1933) McCarey
11.  Match Point (2005) Allen
12. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese
13. Chinatown (1974) Polanski
14. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 
15. La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini 
16. Heaven’s Gate (1980) Cimino
17.  Europa (1991) von Trier
18. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick
19. Fanny And Alexander (1982) Bergman
20. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder
Rome: Open City

21. The Searchers (1956) Ford
22. Cabaret (1972) Fosse
23. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
24. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese
25.  The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford
26. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Huston
27. Foreign Correspondent (1940) Hitchcock
28. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Sturges
29. Tess (1979) Polanski
30. The 39 Steps (1935) Hitchcock
31.  Rome, Open City (1945) Rossellini
32. The Godfather: Part II (1974) Coppola
33. The Emigrants/The New Land (1971/72) Troell
34. Umberto D (1952) DeSica
35.  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino
36. The Ice Storm (1997) Lee
37. In the Mood For Love (2000) Wong
38. Sunrise (1927) Murnau
39. It’s a Wonderful Life 1946) Capra
40. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Coens
41. Amarcord (1973) Fellini 
42. Apocalypse Now (1979) Coppola
43. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Tarantino 
44. The Third Man (1949) Reed
45. Annie Hall (1977) Allen
46. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Herzog
47. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
48. Through A Glass Darkly (1961) Bergman
49. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Kubrick
50. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet 
51. Dead Man (1995) Jarmusch
52. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni
53. Holiday (1938) Cukor
54. If…. (1968) Anderson
55. Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini
56. City Lights (1931) Chaplin 
57. The Big Lebowski (1998) Coens
58. Rushmore (1998) Anderson
59. The Big Sleep (1946) Hawks
60. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens
61. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Milestone
62. Ariel (1998) Kaurismaki
63. L’Eclisse (1962) Antonioni
64. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Cassavetes
65. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Rossellini
66. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Petri
67. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant
68. Shame (1968) Bergman
69. Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick
My Man Godfrey

70. My Man Godfrey (1936) La Cava
71. The Burmese Harp (1956) Ichikawa
72. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan
73. Red River (1948) Hawks
74. Stagecoach (1939) Ford
75. La Haine (1995) Kassovitz
76. The Talk of the Town (1942) Stevens
77. The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
78. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
79. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Aronofsky
80. Local Hero (1983) Forsyth
81. Radio Days (1987) Allen
82. Pulp Fiction (1994) Tarantino
83. Persona (1966) Bergman
84. Mean Girls (2004) Waters,
85. Come and See (1985) Klimov
86. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Godard
87. The Great Escape (1963) J. Sturges
88. La Strada (1954) Fellini
89. The Age of Innocence (1993) Scorsese 
90. The Lady Eve (1941) Sturges
91. Beau Travail (1999) Denis
92. Notorious (1946) Hitchcock
93. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick
94. The Last Detail (1971) Ashby
95.  Psycho (1960) Hitchcock
96. Y Tu Mama También (2001) Cuaron
97. Le Havre (2011) Kaurismäki
98. Das Boot (1981) Peterson
99. Bicycle Thieves (1949) De Sica
100. Fallen Leaves (2023) Kaurismäki

And I also love these films (not presented in any particular order): Viridiana (1961) BunuelThe Match Factory Girl (1990)  Kaurismäki Down By Law (1986) Jarmusch, La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) Dreyer, Andrei Rublev (1966) TarkovskyHamlet (1948) OlivierLe Silence de la mer (1949) MelvilleNetwork (1976) Lumet Odd Man Out (1947) ReedNashville (1975) Altman, Blade Runner (1982) ScottRashomon (1950) KurosawaBattleship Potemkin (1925) EisensteinDo the Right Thing (1989) LeeLa vie de Boheme (1992) KaurismäkiModern Times (1936) ChaplinPlatoon (1986) Stone,, La Grande Illusion (1937) Renoir)Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) AllenL’Avventura (1960) Antonioni, Reds (1981) Beatty, Silence (1963) BergmanThe Virgin Spring (1960) Bergman, The Magician (1958) Bergman, Zodiac (2007) Finchner, 8 1/2, (1963) Fellini, Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Tarkosvky, The Wild Bunch (1969) Peckinpah, The Exorcist (1973) Friedkin, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) BunuelGroundhog Day (1993) Ramis, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Whale, Ride The High Country (1962) Peckinpah  Bonnie and Clyde  (1967) Penn, Bitter Rice (1949) DeSantin, Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Hitchcock, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Gondry, The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Huston, Army of Shadows (1969) Melville, I Knew Her Well (1965) Pietrangeli, Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Wellman, Heroes For Sale (1933) WellmanMoonrise Kingdom, (2012) Anderson,The Royal Tenebaums (2001) W. AndersonBroadway Danny Rose (1984) Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Allen, Zelig (1983) Allen, The Purple Rose of Cairo, (1985) Allen, Stardust Memories (1980) Allen, The Great Dictator (1940) Chaplin, A Woman of Paris (1923) Chaplin, The Deer Hunter (1978) Cimino,  Band of Outsiders (1964) Godard, Downfall (2004) Hirschbiegel, The Lodger (1927) Hitchcock,  A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Kazan, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray, Spartacus (1960) Kubrick, MacBeth (1971) Polanski, Three Days of the Condor (1975) Pollack, The Aviator (2004) Scorsese, The King of Comedy (1982) Scorsese, Animal House (1978) Landis, Blonde Venus (1932) von Sternberg, Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Truffaut, Jules et Jim (1962) TruffautHud (1963) Ritt, Bullit (1968) Yates, Horse Feathers (1932) McLeod, Cries & Whispers (1972) Bergman, Gods and Monsters (1998) Condon, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Altman, Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Hill, Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Pabst, All the President’s Men (1976) Pakula, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Yates, Stromboli (1950) Rossellini, The Parallax View (1974) PakulaA Serious Man (2009) Coens, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Coens, Hable Con Ella (2002) Almodóvar, Jaws (1975) Speilberg, Bull Durham (1988) Sheldon, The Crowd (1928) Vidor, The Big Parade (1925) VidorSome Like it Hot (1959) Wilder, Double Indemnity (1944) Wilder, Personal Shopper (2016) Assayas, First Reformed (2017) Schrader, Letter Never Sent, (1960) Kalatozov, The Conversation (1974) CoppolaSchindler's List (1993) Spielberg, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Fassbinder, The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) Fassbinder, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) Ceylan, Port of Shadows (1938) Carne,  The Man Without a Past (2002) Kaurismäki, Jackie Brown (1997) Tarantino, Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) Sturges, Boyz N the Hood (1991) Singleton, Closely Watched Trains (1966) Menzel, M, (1931) Lang, Paths of Glory (1957) Kubrick,  Greed (1924) von Stroheim, The Maltese Falcon, (1941) Huston, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Hawks, Light in the Dusk (2006) Kaurismäki, Shadows in Paradise (1986) Kaurismäki, Meet John Doe (1941) Capra, The Exterminating Angel (1962) Bunuel, Melancholia (2011) Von Trier, Shampoo (1975) Ashby, Being There (1979) Ashby, La Notte (1961) Antonioni, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (1977) Spielberg, Mirror (1975) Tarkovsky, My Darling Clementine (1946) Ford, The Conformist (1970) Bertolucci, A Separation (2011) Farhadi, Ida (2013) Pawlikoski, Wings of Desire (1987) WendersChimes at Midnight (1965) Welles, Philadelphia Story (1940) Cukor, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Ramsay Of Gods and Men (2010) Beavuois, Wanda (1970) Loden, Richard III (1955) OlivierBridge on the River Kwai (1957) Lean, A Hard Day's Night (1964) Lester, Medium Cool (1969) Wexler, The Verdict (1982) Lumet, Gosford Park (2001) Altman, Viaggio in Italia (1954) Rossellini, The Virgin Suicides (1999) S. Coppola , Cold Water (1994) AssayasFight Club (1998) Finchner, Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018) BiThe Strawberry Statement (1970) Haggman,  Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Hall, Waves (2019) Shults, Red Dust (1932) Fleming, Safety Last (1923) Newmeyer, The Freshman (1925) Newmeyer, To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Lubitsch, The Awful Truth (1937) McCarey, The Last Laugh (1924) Murnau, Napoleon (1927) Gance, The Landlord (1970) AshbyThe Long Goodbye (1973) Altman, The Ascent (1977) Sheptiko, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Bunuel, The Marathon Man (1976) Schelesinger, Sherlock Jr. (1924) Keaton, Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 )Niblo, The Iron Horse (1924 ) Ford, Wings (1927) WellmanThe Last Command (1928) von SternbergMean Streets (1973) ScorseseChristmas in Connecticut (1945) Godfrey, California Split (1974) Altman, The Organizer (1963) Monicelli,  The Cranes are Flying (1957) Kalatozov, Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) LeRoy, Night on Earth (1991) Jarmusch, Trading Places (1983) Landis, The Thin Man (1934) Van Dyke, The Roaring Twenties (1939) Walsh, The Getaway (1972) Peckinpah, Ikiru (1952) Kurosawa, The Set-Up (1949) WiseHalf Nelson (2006) Fleck, Westward the Women (1951) Wellman, Trouble in Paradise (1932) Lubitsch, Cluny Brown (1946) Lubitsch, Follow the Fleet (1936) Sandrich , Witness for the Prosecution (1957) WilderThe Night of the Hunter (1955) Laughton A Special Day (1977) Scola, Sex Lies and Videotapes (1989) Soderbergh, The Great Man Votes (1939) Kanin, Wonder Boys (2000) Hanson, Run Lola Run (1998) Tykwer, The Producers (1967) Brooks, The Earrings of Madame... (1953) OphülsBirdman (2014) Inarittu, Midnight (1939) Leisen, Days of Heaven (1978) Malick, Cleo from Five to Seven (1962) Varda. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) McCarey, Cold War (2018) Pawlikowski, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Price, Godland (2022) Pálmason, Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) Jutra,  Platinum Blonde (1931) Capra, Morvern Callar (2002) RamseyRatcatcher (1999) Ramsey, Oppenheimer (2023) Nolan

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