Tim H

Tim, who has an academic background in literature, uses the id timmy_501 for most of his online shenanigans, especially over at the imdb message boards where he’s a longtime regular. He also occasionally writes movie reviews in his spare time, check them out here.


Reordering the 100

Some of my personal favorites 
1.     Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
2.     Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
3.     The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
4.     Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
5.     Once upon a Time in the West | S. LEONE | 1968
6.     2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
7.     La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
8.     Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
9.     Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
10.  Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
11.  M | Fritz LANG | 1931
12.  A Matter of Life and Death | P&P | 1946

Great films that I’m glad to see here 
13.  Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
14.  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | P&P | 1943
15.  The General | C. BRUCKMAN & B. KEATON | 1927
16.  Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
17.  Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
18.  The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
19.  The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
20.  City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
21.  Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
22.  Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
23.  L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
24.  La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
25.  The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
26.  Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
27.  Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
28.  | Federico FELLINI | 1963
29.  Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
30.  Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
31.  Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
32.  Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
33.  Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
34.  Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
35.  The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
36.  Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
37.  Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
38.  Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
39.  Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
40.  Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
41.  Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
42.  L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
43.  Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
44.  Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
45.  Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
46.  Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924

Solid picks 
47.  Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
48.  Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
49.  Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
50.  Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
51.  Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
52.  Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
53.  Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
54.  Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
55.  Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
56.  A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
57.  The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
58.  The Magnificent Ambersons | O. WELLES | 1942
59.  Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
60.  Sunrise | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
61.  Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
62.  Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
63.  The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
64.  The Godfather: Part II | F.F. COPPOLA | 1974
65.  North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
66.  Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
67.  Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
68.  Singin' in the Rain | S. DONEN & G. KELLY | 1952
69.  Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
70.  Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
71.  Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
72.  Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
73.  La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
74.  A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
75.  Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
76.  Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
77.  In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
78.  La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
79.  Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
80.  L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934

Films that didn’t work for me 
81.  The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
82.  Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
83.  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
84.  Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
85.  Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
86.  Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
87.  The Passion of Joan of Arc | C.T. DREYER | 1928
88.  Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
89.  The Colour of Pomegranates | PARAJANOV | 1968
90.  Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
91.  Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
92.  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966

Not Seen

Alternative 100

Science fiction


Animated


Noir

Neo-noir

Westerns

French Impressionist Cinema


Newer Films


A few others that deserve (more) recognition

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