- Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
- Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
- Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
- Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
- L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
- Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998
- The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
- Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
- A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
- Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
- Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
- Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
- Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
- Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
- Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
- Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
- Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
- Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
- Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
- The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
- A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
- Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
- L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
- Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
- Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
- Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
- The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
- Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
- Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
- Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
- Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
- A Matter of Life and Death | P&P | 1946
- Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
- La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
- Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
- Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
- Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
- Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
- City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
- A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
- Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
- Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
- Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
- The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
- M | Fritz LANG | 1931
- La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
- Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
- Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
- Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
- Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
- Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
- Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
- The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | P&P | 1943
- The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
- L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
- Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
- Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
- The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
- The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
- Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
- The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
- Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
- Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
- La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
- La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
- Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
- Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
- Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
- Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
- Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
- Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
- Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
- Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
- The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
- Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
- Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
- The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
Unranked
- Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
- Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
- Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
- Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
- La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
- 8½ | Federico FELLINI | 1963
- The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
- The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
- The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
- In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
- North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
- Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
- Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
- Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
- Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
- Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
- Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
- Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973
- 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
- The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
Now, my own 100. To start with, the "also-rans" - I haven't looked at
the rest of the Sight & Sound top 250, and these might well show up there
(I'd be surprised if they didn't), but I think of these ones as equally
deserving of placement in the top 100.
- All About Eve | Joseph L. MANKIEWICZ | 1950
- Chimes at Midnight | Orson WELLES | 1965
- Cries and Whispers | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1972
- Destiny | Fritz LANG | 1921
- Ivan's Childhood | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1962
- Last Year in Marienbad | Alain RESNAIS | 1961
- Lola Montès | Max OPHÜLS | 1955
- Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo MCCAREY | 1937
- The Manchurian Candidate | J. FRANKENHEIMER | 1962
- Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour | Alain RESNAIS | 1963
- My Night with Maud | Eric ROHMER | 1969
- La Notte | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1961
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | P.P. PASOLINI | 1975
- Shame | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1968
- Sullivan's Travels | Preston STURGES | 1941
- That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis BUÑUEL | 1977
Next, horror - just because it's my favorite genre and underrepresented on the
Sight & Sound list.
- The Exorcist | William FRIEDKIN | 1973
- The Haunting | Robert WISE | 1963
- The Innocents | Jack CLAYTON | 1961
- Martyrs | Pascal LAUGIER | 2008
- Night of the Living Dead | George A. ROMERO | 1968
- Rosemary's Baby | Roman POLANSKI | 1968
- The Shining | Stanley KUBRICK | 1980
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe HOOPER | 1974
- The Thing | John CARPENTER | 1982
Next, the modern classics - some of my favorites from recent years, and ones
that I have no doubt will eventually be regarded as masterpieces if they
haven't already gotten that reputation.
- The Death of Mister Lazarescu | Cristi PUIU | 2005
- Eloge de l'Amour | Jean-Luc GODARD | 2001
- Gummo | Harmony KORINE | 1997
- In Vanda's Room | Pedro COSTA | 2000
- INLAND EMPIRE | David LYNCH | 2006
- Into Great Silence | Philip GRÖNING | 2005
- Irma Vep | Olivier ASSAYAS | 1996
- Jackie Brown | Quentin TARANTINO | 1997
- Margaret | Kenneth LONERGAN | 2011
- Melancholia | Lars VON TRIER | 2011
- Mother and Son | Aleksandr SOKUROV | 1997
- Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio GUZMÁN | 2010
- The Piano Teacher | Michael HANEKE | 2001
- Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan DEMME | 2008
- Regular Lovers | Philippe GARREL | 2005
- Still Life | JIA Zhangke | 2006
- Syndromes and a Century | A. WEERASETHAKUL | 2006
- Vendredi Soir | Claire DENIS | 2002
- Werckmeister Harmonies | TARR Béla | 2000
- Where Has Your Hidden Smile Gone? | P. COSTA | 2001
- Woman on the Beach | HONG Sang-soo | 2006
- You, the Living | Roy ANDERSSON | 2007
Last, a catch-all of films that I think of as weird, vital, representative of cinematic purity, whatever. For the most part these are a bit more idiosyncratic than anything on the original top 100, but as expansions of what cinema can do, dead-end offshoots into something impossible to follow, or just as a lot of fun, they all deserve honor.
- All the Vermeers in New York | Jon JOST | 1990
- Antichrist | Lars VON TRIER | 2009
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Jonas MEKAS | 2000
- Berlin Alexanderplatz | R.W. FASSBINDER | 1980
- The Boys in the Band | William FRIEDKIN | 1970
- Chelsea Girls | Andy WARHOL & Paul Morrissey | 1966
- Chumlum | Ron RICE | 1964
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Peter GREENAWAY | 1989
- Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence DAVIES | 1988
- Duelle | Jacques RIVETTE | 1976
- Eden and After | Alain ROBBE-GRILLET | 1970
- Eraserhead | David LYNCH | 1977
- Le Feu Follet | Louis MALLE | 1963
- Few of Us | Sharunas BARTAS | 1996
- Funeral Parade of Roses | MATSUMOTO Toshio | 1969
- Funny Girl | William WYLER | 1968
- The Gospel According to St Matthew | PASOLINI | 1964
- Helas pour Moi | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1993
- Hitler: A Film from Germany | H-J SYBERBERG | 1977
- In a Year of Thirteen Moons | R.W. FASSBINDER | 1978
- India Song | Marguerite DURAS | 1975
- L'Invitation au Voyage | Germaine DULAC | 1927
- Landscape Suicide | James BENNING | 1987
- Lolita | Stanley KUBRICK | 1962
- Love Streams | John CASSAVETES | 1984
- Lucifer Rising | Kenneth ANGER | 1972
- Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente MINNELLI | 1944
- Meshes of the Afternoon | M. DEREN & A. HAMMID | 1943
- The Mouth Agape | Maurice PIALAT | 1974
- Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney LUMET | 1974
- Naked Lunch | David CRONENBERG | 1991
- Nostalgia | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1983
- Not Reconciled | J.M. STRAUB & D. HUILLET | 1965
- Le Notti Bianche | Luchino VISCONTI | 1957
- One Hour with You | Ernst LUBITSCH | 1932
- Opening Night | John CASSAVETES | 1977
- Out 1 | Jacques RIVETTE | 1971
- Paris Nous Appartient | Jacques RIVETTE | 1961
- A Place in the Sun | George STEVENS | 1951
- Red Psalm | JANCSÓ Miklós | 1972
- The Reflecting Skin | Philip RIDLEY | 1990
- El Sur | Víctor ERICE | 1983
- The Swimmer | Frank PERRY | 1968
- The Third Part of the Night | Andrzej ŻUŁAWSKI | 1971
- Three Colours: Red | Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI | 1994
- 3 Women | Robert ALTMAN | 1977
- Ticket of No Return | Ulrike OTTINGER | 1979
- Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks | WANG Bing | 2003
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | J-L GODARD | 1967
- Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte HELLMAN | 1971
- Videodrome | David CRONENBERG | 1983
- Wanda | Barbara LODEN | 1970
- Zorns Lemma | Hollis FRAMPTON | 1970
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