I'm
a little shocked by and feel I should apologize for the non-objectivity of my
list: there are a few directors whose work I know like the back of my hand
(Hitchcock, Bergman, etc.) and in those cases I have very considered
judgements, but in many other cases I find myself significantly the prisoner of
the order in which I encountered a director's films (i.e., with whatever I saw
first having made the deepest impression). I wonder whether anyone overcomes
these sorts of asymmetries in their views since nobody can be expert in
everything (or even about most things)?
My list of alternates is quite populist in two respects: first, many of my selections go deeper on many of the auteurs that made Sight and Sound's list (so, e.g., hello The Conversation and Double Indemnity), and second many of other selections are unabashed crowd-pleasers (e.g., It's A Wonderful Life, Dirty Harry, Jaws). I make only a few relatively wild selections, i.e., that I'm pretty confident won't be on many other people's lists (e.g., Threads, Cremaster 3). Because I've, as it were, put my 'wild' chips on relatively few items, you can infer that I'm very confident that these are true phenomena that do more or less blow anyone away who sees them.
My list of alternates is quite populist in two respects: first, many of my selections go deeper on many of the auteurs that made Sight and Sound's list (so, e.g., hello The Conversation and Double Indemnity), and second many of other selections are unabashed crowd-pleasers (e.g., It's A Wonderful Life, Dirty Harry, Jaws). I make only a few relatively wild selections, i.e., that I'm pretty confident won't be on many other people's lists (e.g., Threads, Cremaster 3). Because I've, as it were, put my 'wild' chips on relatively few items, you can infer that I'm very confident that these are true phenomena that do more or less blow anyone away who sees them.
Alternative
100
- Alice in the Cities | Wim WENDERS | 1974
- All About Eve | Joseph L. MANKIEWICZ | 1950
- All About My Mother | Pedro ALMODÓVAR | 1999
- All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis MILESTONE | 1930
- All That Heaven Allows | Douglas SIRK | 1950
- All That Jazz | Bob FOSSE | 1979
- Annie Hall | Woody ALLEN | 1977
- The Army in the Shadows | Jean-Pierre MELVILLE | 1969
- Back to the Future | Robert ZEMECKIS | 1985
- Badlands | Terrence MALICK | 1973
- Barton Fink | COEN Brothers | 1991
- Belle de Jour | Luis BUÑUEL | 1967
- La Belle et la Bête | Jean COCTEAU | 1946
- Les Biches | Claude CHABROL | 1968
- Bigger Than Life | Nicholas RAY | 1956
- Black Narcissus | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1947
- Les Bonnes Femmes | Claude CHABROL | 1960
- Brazil | Terry GILLIAM | 1985
- Cleo from 5-7 | Agnès VARDA | 1962
- Code Unknown | Michael HANEKE | 2000
- The Conformist | Bernardo BERTOLUCCI | 1970
- The Conversation | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
- Le Corbeau | Henri-Georges CLOUZOT | 1943
- Cremaster 3 | Matthew BARNEY | 2002
- The Crowd | King VIDOR | 1928
- Dames | Ray ENRIGHT & Busby BERKELEY | 1934
- Days of Heaven | Terrence MALICK | 1978
- Design for Living | Ernst LUBITSCH | 1933
- The Devils | Ken RUSSELL | 1971
- Dirty Harry | Don SIEGEL | 1971
- Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence DAVIES | 1988
- Do the Right Thing | Spike LEE | 1989
- Dr. Strangelove | Stanley KUBRICK | 1964
- Double Indemnity | Billy WILDER | 1944
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven SPIELBERG | 1982
- Europa | Lars VON TRIER | 1991
- Exotica | Atom EGOYAN | 1994
- A Face in the Crowd | Elia KAZAN | 1957
- Fargo | COEN Brothers | 1996
- Faust | F.W. MURNAU | 1926
- The Fly | David CRONENBERG | 1986
- Gallipoli | Peter WEIR | 1981
- GoodFellas | Martin SCORSESE | 1990
- The Graduate | Mike NICHOLS | 1967
- Great Expectations | David LEAN | 1946
- His Girl Friday | Howard HAWKS | 1940
- Holiday | George CUKOR | 1938
- The Innocents | Jack CLAYTON | 1961
- It's a Wonderful Life | Frank CAPRA | 1946
- Jaws | Steven SPIELBERG | 1975
- The King of Comedy | Martin SCORSESE | 1982
- Kiss Me Deadly | Robert ALDRICH | 1955
- The Lady Eve | Preston STURGES | 1941
- Laura | Otto PREMINGER | 1944
- Let the Right One In | Tomas ALFREDSON | 2008
- The
Loneliness of Long Distance Runner
Tony RICHARDSON | 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate | J. FRANKENHEIMER | 1962
- Manhattan | Woody ALLEN | 1979
- Memento | Christopher NOLAN | 2000
- Naked | Mike LEIGH | 1993
- Nights of Cabiria | Federico FELLINI | 1957
- No Country for Old Men | COEN Brothers | 2007
- Nosferatu | F.W. MURNAU | 1922
- Notorious | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1946
- Now, Voyager | Irving RAPPER | 1942
- O Lucky Man! | Lindsay ANDERSON | 1973
- On the Waterfront | Elia KAZAN | 1954
- Onibaba | SHINDŌ Kaneto | 1964
- The Palm Beach Story | Preston STURGES | 1942
- Paths of Glory | Stanley KUBRICK | 1957
- The Piano Teacher | Michael HANEKE | 2001
- Le Plaisir | Max OPHÜLS | 1952
- The Player | Robert ALTMAN | 1992
- Point Blank | John BOORMAN | 1967
- Pulp Fiction | Quentin TARANTINO | 1994
- Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas ANDERSON | 2002
- The Red Shoes | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1948
- Repulsion | Roman POLANSKI | 1965
- A Room with a View | James IVORY | 1985
- Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre MELVILLE | 1967
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel REISZ | 1960
- The Scarlet Empress | Josef VON STERNBERG | 1934
- Se7en | David FINCHER | 1995
- The Seventh Continent | Michael HANEKE | 1989
- Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1943
- Shall We Dance | Mark SANDRICH | 1937
- The Silence | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1963
- Star Wars | George LUCAS | 1977
- Stella Dallas | King VIDOR | 1937
- Sweet Smell of Success | A. MACKENDRICK | 1957
- Talk to Her | Pedro ALMODÓVAR | 2002
- Threads | Mick JACKSON | 1984
- Tristana | Luis BUÑUEL | 1970
- Umberto D. | Vittorio DE SICA | 1952
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques DEMY | 1964
- Unforgiven | Clint EASTWOOD | 1992
- Vagabond | Agnès VARDA | 1985
- Vivre Sa Vie | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1962
- The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges CLOUZOT | 1953
- The Wizard of Oz | Victor FLEMING | 1939
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