Ángel González

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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.
  1. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
  2. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
  3. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
  4. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
  5. Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
  6. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
  7. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
  8. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
  9. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
  10. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
  11. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
  12. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
  13. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
  14. North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
  15. In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
  16. Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
  17. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
  18. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
  19. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
  20. The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
  21. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
  22. Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
  23. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
  24. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
  25. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
  26. Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
  27. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
  28. The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
  29. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
  30. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
  31. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
  32. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
  33. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
  34. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
  35. Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
  36. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
  37. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
  38. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
  39. Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
  40. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
  41. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
  42. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
  43. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
  44. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
  45. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
  46. Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
  47. The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
  48. Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
  49. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
  50. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
  51. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
  52. The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
  53. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1943
  54. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
  55. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
  56. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
  57. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
  58. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
  59. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
  60. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
  61. A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
  62. A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
  63. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
  64. Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
  65. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
  66. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
  67. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
  68. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
  69. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
  70. Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
  71. La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
  72. A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
  73. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
  74. La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
  75. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
  76. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
  77. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
  78. Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
  79. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
  80. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
  81. Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
  82. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  83. Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
  84. The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
  85. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  86. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
  87. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
  88. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
  89. | Federico FELLINI | 1963
  90. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
  91. Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
  92. Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
  93. Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973
  94. Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
  95. Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
  96. Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
  97. Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
  98. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
  99. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
Unranked (I have not seen all the chapters):
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.

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