14 January 2011

THE 115 BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME

For the posts expounding on these choices:
Introduction
#1-5 #6-15 #16-25 #26-35 #36-45 #46-55
#56-65 #66-75 #76-85 #86-95 #96-105 #106-115
Notable omissions


1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
5. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
6. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
7. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
8. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
9. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
10. The General (Keaton, 1926)
11. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
12. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
13. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
14. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
15. Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955)
16. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
17. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
18. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
19. Singin' in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1952)
20. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
21. Three Colors Trilogy (Kieślowski, 1993-'94)
22. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
23. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
25. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
26. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
27. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
28. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
30. Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930)
31. 8½ (Fellini, 1963)
32. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
33. Duck Amuck (Jones, 1953)
34. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
35. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964)
36. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
37. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
38. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)
39. Le million (Clair, 1931)
40. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
41. M (Lang, 1931)
42. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
43. The Trial (Welles, 1962)
44. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
45. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
46. The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)
47. The Double Life of Véronique (Kieślowski, 1991)
48. Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
49. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
50. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
51. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
52. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924)
53. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
54. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
55. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
56. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
57. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962)
58. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
59. L'avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
60. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls, 1953)
61. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
62. Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
63. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
64. Sans soleil (Marker, 1983)
65. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
66. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957)
67. Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
68. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979)
69. M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953, France)
70. A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946)
71. Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman (Starewicz, 1912)
72. The Apu Trilogy (Ray, 1955-'59)
73. What's Opera, Doc? (Jones, 1957)
74. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
75. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
76. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
77. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
78. Park Row (Fuller, 1952
79. Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
80. La strada (Fellini, 1954)
81. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, 1949)
82. Steamboat Willie (Iwerks, 1928)
83. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
84. The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)
85. Short Cuts (Altman, 1993)
86. Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
87. Badlands (Malick, 1973)
88. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
89. Le samouraï (Melville, 1967)
90. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Morris, 1997)
91. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
92. Winter Light (Bergman, 1963)
93. Laura (Preminger, 1944)
94. Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973)
95. Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
96. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
97. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974, USA)
98. F for Fake (Welles, 1973)
99. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
100. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
101. All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999)
102. Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais, 1959)
103. Fantasia (Disney Animation Studios, 1940)
104. Yi yi (Yang, 2000)
105. Angels with Dirty Faces (Curtiz, 1938)
106. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
107. Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
108. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
109. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)
110. The Damned (Visconti, 1969)
111. La jetée (Marker, 1962)
112. Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
113. Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996)
114. The Godfather/The Godfather, Part II (Coppola, 1972/1974)
115. Gerald McBoing-Boing (Cannon, 1951)
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3 comments:

  1. Shubhajit12/30/10, 12:32 AM

    Gold Rush ranks so low in your list. For me it would rank somewhere in the single digit though :)

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  2. Daniel Silberberg2/4/11, 3:09 AM

    Sorry Tim, appears you've made a bit of a typo. For some reason, you wrote The Passion of Joan of Arc, when clearly what you meant to write was Robocop. It's alright, we all make the odd error here and there. With your prolific writings, I can hardly blame you for such minor oversights. But I surely hope you will correct this one.

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  3. jaysilentbob374/3/16, 9:21 PM

    I am almost through this entire list, after spending a year going through them in no particular order. I probably have 20, 25 films to go. Suffice to say Tim, you are singlehandedly responsible for changing my entire cinematic horizon. Thank you.

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