Jordan R

  1. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
  2. Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
  3. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
  4. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
  5. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
  6. Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998
  7. The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
  8. Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
  9. A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
  10. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
  11. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
  12. Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
  13. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
  14. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
  15. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
  16. Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
  17. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
  18. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
  19. Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
  20. The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
  21. A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
  22. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
  23. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
  24. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
  25. Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
  26. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
  27. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
  28. Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
  29. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
  30. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
  31. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
  32. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
  33. A Matter of Life and Death | P&P | 1946
  34. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
  35. La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
  36. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
  37. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
  38. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
  39. Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
  40. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
  41. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
  42. Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
  43. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
  44. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
  45. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
  46. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
  47. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
  48. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
  49. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  50. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
  51. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
  52. Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
  53. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
  54. Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
  55. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
  56. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | P&P | 1943
  57. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
  58. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
  59. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
  60. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
  61. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
  62. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  63. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
  64. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
  65. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
  66. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
  67. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
  68. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
  69. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
  70. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
  71. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
  72. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
  73. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
  74. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
  75. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
  76. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
  77. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
  78. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
  79. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
  80. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949

Unranked

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.



Next, horror - just because it's my favorite genre and underrepresented on the Sight & Sound list.



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.


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.

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