I admit that every film on the Sight and Sound List belongs
or almost belongs there. The list includes some of my favourite films and some
that I regard highly for a number of reasons. I simply cannot figure out where to place the movies in
italics but I did list from number 68 down some films that I regard less highly
than some other movies. Some of these are great pictures. I have never
understood the popularity of Apocalypse Now. I do not like Some Like It Hot. Lawrence
of Arabia is ponderous. I know why viewers like Gertrud and Ordet but I did not
like either of them. Singin in the Rain is a splendid movie but it is more the
parts than the whole that I love. The Godfather films are powerful classics and
deserve immense respect; they just are not in my top 100. Sunset Blvd. is like
that.
- L'Eclisse
| Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
- La Jetée
| Chris MARKER | 1962
- Sansho
Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
- Persona
| Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
- Vertigo
| Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
- 2001:
A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
- The
Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
- Au
Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
- L'Avventura
| Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
- The
Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
- The
Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
- Partie
de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
- La
Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
- Sátántangó
| TARR Béla | 1994
- Pather
Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
- L'Atalante
| Jean VIGO | 1934
- 8½ | Federico
FELLINI | 1963
- Battleship
Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
- Un
Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
- Histoire(s)
du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998
- Le Mépris
| Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
- Sunrise:
A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
- Man
with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
- Breathless
| Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
- Tokyo
Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
- Pierrot
le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
- The
Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
- Sans
Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
- The
400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
- The
Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
- City
Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
- M | Fritz LANG
| 1931
- The
Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- Wild
Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- The
Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
- Jeanne
Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
- La
Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
- Touki-Bouki
| Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973
- Late
Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
- In
the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
- The
Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
- Aguirre,
Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
- Blade
Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
- La
Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
- Fanny
& Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
- The
Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
- The
Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
- The
General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
- Ugetsu
Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
- Chinatown
| Roman POLANSKI | 1974
- Rashomon
| KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
- Citizen
Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
- Modern
Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
- A
Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
- Andrei
Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
- A One
and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
- Rear
Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
- Psycho | Alfred
HITCHCOCK | 1960
- North
by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
- Sherlock
Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
- The
Searchers | John FORD | 1956
- The
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | M. POWELL & E. PRESSBURGER | 1943
- Metropolis
| Fritz LANG | 1927
- Beau
Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
- Shoah | Claude
LANZMANN | 1985
- Journey
to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
- Les
Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
Barry Lyndon
| Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
Bicycle
Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
Blue Velvet
| David LYNCH | 1986
Casablanca
| Michael CURTIZ | 1942
Close-Up | Abbas
KIAROSTAMI | 1990
Greed | Erich
VON STROHEIM | 1924
Imitation
of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
Intolerance
| D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
A Man
Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
A
Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
Mirror | Andrei
TARKOVSKY | 1975
Mulholland
Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
Nashville |
Robert ALTMAN | 1975
Once
upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
Pickpocket
| Robert BRESSON | 1959
Play Time |
Jacques TATI | 1967
Raging Bull
| Martin SCORSESE | 1980
Rio Bravo |
Howard HAWKS | 1959
Seven
Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
Stalker | Andrei
TARKOVSKY | 1979
- Sunset
Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
- Singin'
in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
- Ordet | Carl
Th. DREYER | 1955
- Gertrud
| Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
- The
Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
- The
Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
- Apocalypse
Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
- Lawrence
of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
- Some
Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
While not every film on this alternative list might stand up
to the films on the Sight and Sound List, except for my first three, each film
listed here is at least as good as or better than Rio Bravo, which is a fine
film, by the way. I could make a second list of 100 "best" films, I
think.
- Night
and Fog | Alain RESNAIS | 1955
- La
Belle et la Bête | Jean COCTEAU | 1946
- Berlin
Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1980
- Senso | Luchino
VISCONTI | 1954
- Kagemusha
| KUROSAWA Akira | 1980
- Alexander
Nevsky | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1938
- The
Senator Was Indiscreet | George S. KAUFMAN | 1947
- Play
It as It Lays | Frank PERRY | 1972
- Two
or Three Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1967
- Three
Colours: Red | Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI | 1994
- Enemies:
A Love Story | Paul MAZURSKY | 1989
- Cries
and Whispers | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1972
- Finally,
Sunday! | François TRUFFAUT | 1983
- Les
Amants | Louis MALLE | 1958
- Frenzy | Alfred
HITCHCOCK | 1972
- True
Confessions | Ulu GROSBARD | 1981
- What
About Bob? | Frank OZ | 1991
- The
Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip KAUFMAN | 1988
- Russian
Ark | Aleksandr SOKUROV | 2002
- Bad
Timing | Nicolas ROEG | 1980
- Lola
Montès | Max OPHÜLS | 1955
- Silent
Souls | Aleksei FEDORCHENKO | 2010
- Kramer
vs. Kramer | Robert BENTON | 1979
- You
Can’t Take It with You | Frank CAPRA | 1938
- Invasion
of the Body Snatchers | Philip KAUFMAN | 1978
- Babbitt
| William KEIGHLEY | 1934
- Craig’s
Wife | Dorothy ARZNER | 1936
- Fear
Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1974
- Danton | Andrzej
WAJDA | 1983
- Despair
| Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1978
- The
Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI | 1991
- Lola | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1981
- À
Nous la Liberté | René CLAIR | 1931
- Veronika
Voss | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1982
- The
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner HERZOG | 1974
- Au
Revoir les Enfants | Louis MALLE | 1987
- Marnie | Alfred
HITCHCOCK | 1964
- The Piano
| Jane CAMPION | 1993
- Buster’s
Bedroom | Rebecca HORN | 1991
- Man
of Flowers | Paul COX | 1983
- Atlantic
City | Louis MALLE | 1980
- Patriot
Games | Phillip NOYCE | 1992
- A
Man’s Gotta Do | Chris KENNEDY | 2004
- The
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Fred SCHEPISI | 1978
- After
Hours | Martin SCORSESE | 1985
- A Cry
in the Dark | Fred SCHEPISI | 1988
- The
Memory of Justice | Marcel OPHÜLS | 1976
- Dead Calm
| Phillip NOYCE | 1989
- Stroszek
| Werner HERZOG | 1977
- Le
Souffle au Coeur | Louis MALLE | 1971
- Damage | Louis
MALLE | 1992
- The
Others | Alejandro AMENÁBAR | 2001
- Swimming
Pool | François OZON | 2003
- The
Interpreter | Sydney POLLACK | 2005
- Womb | Benedek
FLIEGAUF | 2010
- Dangerous
Liaisons | Stephen FREARS | 1988
- Smiles
of a Summer Night | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1955
- Story
of a Love Affair | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1950
- The
Fabulous Baker Boys | Steve KLOVES | 1989
- The
Age of Innocence | Martin SCORSESE | 1993
- The
Ides of March | George CLOONEY | 2011
- Jennifer
Eight | Bruce ROBINSON | 1992
- Cool
Hand Luke | Stuart ROSENBERG | 1967
- Smile | Michael
RITCHIE | 1975
- Alice | Jan
ŠVANKMAJER | 1988
- The
Last Detail | Hal ASHBY | 1973
- Hannah
and Her Sisters | Woody ALLEN | 1986
- Bringing
Up Baby | Howard HAWKS | 1938
- When
Harry Met Sally... | Rob REINER | 1989
- Stand by
Me | Rob REINER | 1986
- The
War of the Roses | Danny DEVITO | 1989
- The
Passenger | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1975
- The
Pawnbroker | Sidney LUMET | 1964
- Long
Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney LUMET | 1962
- Prince
of the City | Sidney LUMET | 1981
- Ordinary
People | Robert REDFORD | 1980
- An
Unmarried Woman | Paul MAZURSKY | 1978
- The
Appointment | Sidney LUMET | 1969
- The
Exterminating Angel | Luis BUÑUEL | 1962
- Belle
de Jour | Luis BUÑUEL | 1967
- The
Grapes of Wrath | John FORD | 1940
- Hobson's
Choice | David LEAN | 1954
- Trapeze
| Carol REED | 1956
- The
Silence | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1963
- Through
a Glass Darkly | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1961
- Winter
Light | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1962
- Le
Voyage en Douce | Michel DEVILLE | 1980
- La
Guerre Est Finie | Alain RESNAIS | 1966
- Hemingway
& Gellhorn | Philip KAUFMAN | 2012
- Not on
the Lips | Alain RESNAIS | 2003
- Burnt
by the Sun | Nikita MIKHALKOV | 1994
- An
Autumn Tale | Eric ROHMER | 1998
- The
Aviator's Wife | Eric ROHMER | 1980
- Hiroshima,
Mon Amour | Alain RESNAIS | 1959
- The
Bridges of Madison County | Clint EASTWOOD | 1995
- Barfly | Barbet
SCHROEDER | 1987
- Just Before Nightfall | Claude CHABROL | 1971
- Henry & June | Philip KAUFMAN | 1990
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Stephen DALDRY | 2011
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