Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

I realize rating movies on lists are arbitrary, but I believe even if the order of films or the films themselves are open to debate all the films on both lists are at least quality pictures--though my list has more radical pics and ones that are less safe than Sight and Sound.

Sight & Sound list

1. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
3. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
4. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
6. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
7. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
8. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
9. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
10. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
11. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
12. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
13. Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
14. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
15. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
16. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
17. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
18. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
19. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
20. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
21. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | M. POWELL & E. PRESSBURGER | 1943
22. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
23. Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
24. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
25. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
26. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
27. Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
28. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
29. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
30. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
31. Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
32. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
33. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
34. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
35. Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
36. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
37. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
38. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
39. A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
40. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
41. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
42. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
43. Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
44. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
45. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
46. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
47. Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
48. Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
49. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
50. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
51. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
52. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
53. Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
54. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
55. Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
56. North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
57. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
58. Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
59. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
60. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
61. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
62. The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
63. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
64. Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
65. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
66. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
67. A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
68. The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
69. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
70. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
71. A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
72. Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998
73. Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
74. La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
75. Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
76. Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
77. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
78. Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
79. Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
80. The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
81. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
82. Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
83. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
84. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
85. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
86. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
87. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
88. Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
89. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
90. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
91. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
92. The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
93. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
94. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
95. The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
96. Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973
97. La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
98. 8½ | Federico FELLINI | 1963
99. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
100. In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000

Personal List

1. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
3. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
4. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
6. Dead Man | Jim JARMUSCH | 1995
7. Bride of Frankenstein | James WHALE | 1935
8. Chimes at Midnight | Orson WELLES | 1965
9. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
10. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
11. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
12. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
13. Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1980
14. Double Indemnity | Billy WILDER | 1944
15. Eyes Without a Face | Georges FRANJU | 1960
16. The Dybbuk | Michal WASZYNSKI | 1937
17. The Last Bolshevik | Chris MARKER | 1993
18. Edvard Munch | Peter WATKINS | 1974
19. Moses and Aaron | HUILLET & STRAUB | 1975
20. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
21. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
22. Kiss Me Deadly | Robert ALDRICH | 1955
23. A Gentle Creature | Robert BRESSON | 1969
24. Nostalgia | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1983
25. Mother and Son | Aleksandr SOKUROV | 1997
26. Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley KUBRICK | 1999
27. Wichita | Jacques TOURNEUR | 1955
28. The Cloud-Capped Star | Ritwik GHATAK | 1960
29. Mouchette | Robert BRESSON | 1967
30. Vincent | Paul COX | 1987
31. Dekalog | Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI | 1989
32. An Autumn Afternoon | OZU Yasujirō | 1962
33. Dr. Strangelove | Stanley KUBRICK | 1964
34. The Sacrifice | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1986
35. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
36. Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
37. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
38. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
39. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
40. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
41. La Belle Noiseuse | Jacques RIVETTE | 1991
42. Diary of a Country Priest | Robert BRESSON | 1951
43. Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente MINNELLI | 1944
44. Woodstock | Michael WADLEIGH | 1970
45. Gone with the Wind | Victor FLEMING | 1939
46. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
47. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
48. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
49. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1943
50. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
51. Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
52. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
53. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
54. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
55. An Actor's Revenge | ICHIKAWA Kon | 1963
56. Before Sunrise | Richard LINKLATER | 1995
57. Viridiana | Luis BUÑUEL | 1961
58. Perfumed Nightmare | Kidlat TAHIMIK | 1977
59. Once upon a Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge CEYLAN | 2011
60. The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Paul COX | 2001
61. Day of Wrath | Carl Th. DREYER | 1943
62. Early Summer | OZU Yasujirō | 1951
63. The Old Dark House | James WHALE | 1932
64. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
65. Nosferatu | F.W. MURNAU | 1922
66. In a Year of Thirteen Moons | R.W. FASSBINDER | 1978
67. The Lady from Shanghai | Orson WELLES | 1947
68. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | HUILLET & STRAUB | 1968
69. Bringing Up Baby | Howard HAWKS | 1938
70. The Exterminating Angel | Luis BUÑUEL | 1962
71. Russian Ark | Aleksandr SOKUROV | 2002
72. Rosemary's Baby | Roman POLANSKI | 1968
73. Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
74. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
75. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
76. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
77. Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
78. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
79. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
80. Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
81. The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1999
82. The Killing | Stanley KUBRICK | 1956
83. The Maltese Falcon | John HUSTON | 1941
84. Stage Door | Gregory LA CAVA | 1937
85. Alexandra | Aleksandr SOKUROV | 2007
86. Wanda | Barbara LODEN | 1970
87. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
88. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
89. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
90. A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
91. A History of Violence | David CRONENBERG | 2005
92. The Birth of a Nation | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1915
93. Killer of Sheep | Charles BURNETT | 1977
94. Love Me Tonight | Rouben MAMOULIAN | 1932
95. The Lost One | Peter LORRE | 1951
96. Nazarin | Luis BUÑUEL | 1959
97. Werckmeister Harmonies | TARR Béla | 2000
98. Tibetan Book of the Dead | MCLEAN, HAYASHI , & MORI | 1994
99. Léon Morin, Prêtre | Jean-Pierre MELVILLE | 1961
100. Vive l'Amour | TSAI Ming-liang | 1994