Tuesday, June 17, 2008

100 Greatest Films of All Time!!!!

This is my list of films that I believe are the greatest of all time. My criteria is very unscientific. The best films are the ones that have either moved me, inspired others, changed film history or are just plain great... and in no particular order did they weigh in... and the greatest thing? You don't have to agree with me!

01. Citizen Kane

Orson Welles (1941)

02. The 400 Blows

François Truffaut (1959)

03. Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa (1954)

04. Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee (1989)

05. Blade Runner

Ridley Scott (1982)

06. La Jetee

Chris Marker (1962)

07. Annie Hall

Woody Allen (1978)

08. The Ice Storm

Ang Lee (1997)

09. M

Fritz Land (1931)

10. Brazil

Terry Gilliam (1985)

11. 8 ½

Federico Fellini (1963)

12. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

John Cassavetes (1976)

13. The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo (1965)

14. Casablanca

Michael Curtiz (1942)

15. Fargo

The Coen Brothers (1996)

16. Eraserhead

David Lynch (1977)

17. An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey (1957)

18. On The Waterfront

Elia Kazan (1954)

19. Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock (1941)

20. This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner (1984)

21. The Killing

Stanley
Kubrick (1956)
22. Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly (2001)

23. Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

24.
Richard III
Laurence Olivier (1955)

25. Videodrome

David Cronenberg (1983)

26. The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

27. My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant (1991)

28. The Thin Man

W.S. Van Dyke (1934)

29. City of God

Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund (2002)

30. Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder (1951)

31. Badlands

Terrence Malick (1974)

32. Meet Me In St. Louis

Vincente Minnelli (1944)

33. The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)

34. The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim W (1940)

35. Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean (1962)

36. Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone (1968)

37. The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller (1951)

38. Me Left Foot

Jim Sheridan (1989)

39. Life of Brian

Terry Jones (1979)

40. Leon

Luc Besson (1994)

41. if…

Lindsay Anderson (1968)

42. The Third Man

Carol Reed (1949)

43. MASH

Robert Altman (1970)

44. Chinatown

Roman Polanski (1974)

45. Phantasm

Don Coscarelli (1979)

46. Star Wars

George Lucas (1977)

47. Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir (1975)

48. All That Jazz

Bob Fosse (1979)

49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Milos
Foreman (1975)
50. Robocop

Paul Verhoeven (1987)

51. Ed Wood

Tim Burton (1994)

52. It’s a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra (1946)

53. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley
Kubrick (1968)
54. Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman (1957)

55. The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming (1939)

56. Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Werner Herzog (1972)

57. Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau (1922)

58. King Kong

Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)

59. Duck Soup

Leo McCarey (1933)

60. Ran

Akiru Kurosawa (1985)

61. The Maltese Falcon

John Huston (1941)

62. North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

63. The Exorcist

William Friedkin (1973)

64. Network

Sidney Lumet (1976)

65. Halloween

John Carpenter (1978)

66. Henry V

Laurence Olivier (1944)

67. Suspiria

Dario Argento (1977)

68. Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis (1985)

69. The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont (1994)

70. The Right Stuff

Philip Kaufman (1983)

71. Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater (1993)

72. The General

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (1926)

73. Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock (1960)

74. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

John Ford (1962)

75.
City
Lights

Charles Chaplin (1931
)
76. Nashville

Robert Altman (1975)

77. Metropolis

Fritz Lang (1926)

78. The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola (1972)

79. Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino (1994)

80. The Usual Suspects

Bryan Singer (1995)

81. American Beauty

Sam Mendes (1999)

82. Jaws

Steven Spielberg (1975)

83. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Dreyer (1928)

84. Some Like it Hot

Billy Wilder (1959)

85. Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese (1976)

86. Greed

Erich von Stroheim (1924)

87. Punch-Drunk Love

Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)

88. Russian Ark

Aleksandr Sokurov (2002)

89. The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson (2001)

90. The Tin Drum

Volker Schlöndorff (1979)

91. Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton
Trumbo (1971)
92. Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard (1963)

93. Ivan the Terrible: Part One

Sergei Eisenstein (1944)

94. Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick (1957)

95. Gospel According to St. Matthew

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964)

96. Ivan the Terrible: Part Two

Sergei Eisenstein (1946)

97. The Evil Dead

Sam Raimi (1981)

98. GhostBusters

Ivan Reitman (1984)

99. Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero (1968)

100. The Red Balloon

Albert Lamorisse (1956)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Two things:
1) I've only seen eleven of these movies

2) cracks me up that Spinal Tap is #20, when it should CLEARLY be #11.

Can I still be your friend?

The Cary's said...

Sounds like you have 89 cool movies to watch!

1minutefilmreview said...

Wow, nice selection of films!