Curator
of the Doubling the Canon project
Apart
from Vertigo and Tokyo Story (both absolute masterpieces) topping S&S
polls, I didn’t like the results. There’s a disturbing tendency to vote films
solely according to their formal merits (admittedly the easiest way) but there
are many other aspects which, combined, make a movie great.
- Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
- Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
- Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
- The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
- Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
- Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
- Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
- Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
- M | Fritz LANG | 1931
- Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
- La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
- The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
- Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
- North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
- In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
- Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
- Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
- 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
- The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
- The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
- Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
- Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
- La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
- Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
- A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
- Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
- Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
- The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
- Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
- La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
- Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
- City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
- L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
- Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
- Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
- The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
- Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
- Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
- Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
- Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
- The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
- Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
- Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
- Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
- Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
- Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
- The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
- Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
- Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
- Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
- The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1943
- Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
- Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
- The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
- Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
- The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
- Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
- Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
- A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
- A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
- Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
- Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
- Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
- L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
- Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
- Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
- Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
- Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
- La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
- A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
- Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
- La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
- Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
- The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
- L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
- Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
- Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
- The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
- Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
- The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
- The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
- Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
- Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
- Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
- 8½ | Federico FELLINI | 1963
- Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
- Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
- Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
- Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973
- Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
- Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
- Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
- Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
- Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
- Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
Histoire(s)
du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998
Alternative
100
The
25 most voted directors (Hitchcock, Godard, Welles, Ozu, Renoir, Dreyer, Ford,
Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Bresson, Coppola, Bergman, Murnau, Fellini, Kurosawa,
Buñuel, Antonioni, Chaplin, Scorsese, Lynch, Lang, Eisenstein, Mizoguchi,
Powell, Rossellini) were deliberately excluded.
- The Phantom Carriage | Victor SJÖSTRÖM | 1921
- Miss Lulu Bett | William C. DE MILLE | 1921
- Napoleon | Abel GANCE | 1927
- Lonesome | FEJÔS Pál | 1928
- Erotikon | Gustav MACHATÝ | 1929
- Congress Dances | Erik CHARELL | 1931
- Other Men's Women | William A. WELLMAN | 1931
- What Scoundrels Men Are! | Mario CAMERINI | 1932
- Man of Aran | Robert FLAHERTY | 1934
- Maskerade | Willi FORST | 1934
- Rapt | Dimitri KIRSANOFF | 1934
- La Belle Équipe | Julien DUVIVIER | 1936
- Three Comrades | Frank BORZAGE | 1938
- Ninotchka | Ernst LUBITSCH | 1939
- The Four Feathers | Zoltan KORDA | 1939
- Men on the Mountain | SZÖTS István | 1942
- Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks | Edgar NEVILLE | 1944
- Under the Bridges | Helmut KÄUTNER | 1945
- It's a Wonderful Life | Frank CAPRA | 1946
- The Big Sleep | Howard HAWKS | 1946
- The Killers | Robert SIODMAK | 1946
- Out of the Past | Jacques TOURNEUR | 1947
- Unconquered | Cecil B. DEMILLE | 1947
- Letter from an Unknown Woman | Max OPHÜLS | 1948
- Portrait of Jennie | William DIETERLE | 1948
- The African Queen | John HUSTON | 1951
- The World in His Arms | Raoul WALSH | 1952
- From Here to Eternity | Fred ZINNEMANN | 1953
- Empty Eyes | Antonio PIETRANGELI | 1953
- Shane | George STEVENS | 1953
- Sound of the Mountain | NARUSE Mikio | 1954
- Tennessee's Partner | Allan DWAN | 1955
- The Ogre of Athens | Nikos KOUNDOUROS | 1956
- Written on the Wind | Douglas SIRK | 1956
- Nine Lives | Arne SKOUEN | 1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai | David LEAN | 1957
- Anatomy of a Murder | Otto PREMINGER | 1959
- Ballad of a Soldier | Grigori CHUKHRAI | 1959
- Ben-Hur | William WYLER | 1959
- Night Train | Jerzy KAWALEROWICZ | 1959
- The Apartment | Billy WILDER | 1960
- Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake EDWARDS | 1961
- Divorce – Italian Style | Pietro GERMI | 1961
- Hercules Conquers Atlantis | Vittorio COTTAFAVI | 1961
- The Train Robbers | Roberto FARIAS | 1962
- To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert MULLIGAN | 1962
- El Verdugo | Luis GARCÍA BERLANGA | 1963
- Judex | Georges FRANJU | 1963
- Mahanagar | Satyajit RAY | 1963
- Strange Journey | Fernando FERNÁN GÓMEZ | 1964
- The Peach Thief | Vulo RADEV | 1964
- Time to Love | Metin ERKSAN | 1965
- Black Wind | Servando GONZÁLEZ | 1965
- Red Angel | MASUMURA Yasuzo | 1966
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio LEONE | 1966
- Death of a Bureaucrat | Tomás GUTIÉRREZ ALEA | 1966
- The Dirty Dozen | Robert ALDRICH | 1967
- I Was Nineteen | Konrad WOLF | 1968
- Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. SCHAFFNER | 1968
- The Land | Youssef CHAHINE | 1969
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy HILL | 1969
- Z | Constantin COSTA-GAVRAS | 1969
- Once upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird | Otar IOSSELIANI | 1970
- The Green Wall | Armando ROBLES GODOY | 1970
- Dirty Harry | Don SIEGEL | 1971
- The Dupes | Tewfik SALEH | 1973
- Day for Night | François TRUFFAUT | 1973
- Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter WEIR | 1975
- Xala | Ousmane SEMBÈNE | 1975
- Assault on Precinct 13 | John CARPENTER | 1976
- Insiang | Lino BROCKA | 1976
- Soldier of Orange | Paul VERHOEVEN | 1977
- Alien | Ridley SCOTT | 1979
- Manhattan | Woody ALLEN | 1979
- Who's Singin' over There? | Slobodan ŠIJAN | 1980
- The Legend of Tianyun Mountain | XIE Jin | 1980
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven SPIELBERG | 1982
- Gold, Silver, Death | Peque GALLAGA | 1982
- When the Tenth Month Comes | ĐẶNG Nhật Minh | 1984
- Pale Rider | Clint EASTWOOD | 1985
- The Untouchables | Brian DE PALMA | 1987
- Die Hard | John MCTIERNAN | 1988
- Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe TORNATORE | 1988
- The Killer | John WOO | 1989
- Edward Scissorhands | Tim BURTON | 1990
- A Place in the World | Adolfo ARISTARAIN | 1992
- The Wedding Banquet | Ang LEE | 1993
- Exotica | Atom EGOYAN | 1994
- Pulp Fiction | Quentin TARANTINO | 1994
- Through the Olive Trees | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1994
- Drifting Clouds | Aki KAURISMÄKI | 1996
- L.A. Confidential | Curtis HANSON | 1997
- An Autumn Tale | Eric ROHMER | 1998
- Rosetta | DARDENNE Brothers | 1999
- Late Marriage | Dover KOSHASHVILI | 2001
- Bloody Sunday | Paul GREENGRASS | 2002
- A Talking Picture | Manoel DE OLIVEIRA | 2003
- After the Wedding | Susanne BIER | 2006
- The Host | BONG Joon-ho | 2006
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 2007
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