Friday, August 28, 2009

Top 100 movies

Over at the Filmspotting message boards (and for the love of mike, if any of you reading this still haven't gone over there, do yourself the favour) the community is compiling its top 100 movies list for the second year in a row. Last year the event was a huge success (complete with chat room banter!) and this year promises to be even bigger. Any members who wished to submit a list of their 100 favourite/best films were invited to do so. Yours truly jumped at the opportunity, as did over 40 other people, and here is my list of my 100 favourite films. Don't mind the dividing lines, they merely seperated the point allocation for calculating Filmspotting master list:


1.From Russia With Love (1963, Terrence Young) You don’t like it? Fuck you too.
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2. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
3. Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)
4. Les Quatres Cents Coups/400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
5.North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchock)
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6. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Alain Renais)
7. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
8. Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg)
9. For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone)
10. The Barbarian Invasions/Les Invasions Barbares (2003, Denys Arcand)
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11. Diary of a Country Priest/Journal d’un Curé de Campagne (1951, Robert Bresson)
12. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
13. Le Bonheur (1965, Agnes Varda)
14. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
15. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Qai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
16. In The Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar Wai)
17. The Bourne Identity (2002, Doug Liman)
18. Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar Wai)
19. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
20. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, Peter Hunt)
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21. Three Colours: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
22. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman)
23. Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
24. Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995, Nhat Minh Dang)
25. Schlinder’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
26. Vampyr (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
27. The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
28. La Fille de L’Eau (1925, Jean Renoir)
29. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
30. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
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31. Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa
32. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
33. And then There Was Light (1989, Otar Iosselliani)
34. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
35. Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)
36. Winter Light (1962, Ingmar Bergman)
37. Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
38. La Double Vie de Véronique/The Double Life of Véronique (1991, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
39. Traffic (2000, Steven Soderbergh)
40.Sleeping Man (1996, Kohei Oguri)
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41. Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray)
42. Glengarry Glenn Ross (1992, James Foley)
43. Falling Leaves (1966, Otar Iosselliani)
44. Cries and Whispers (1972, Ingmar Bergman)
45. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
46. Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindô)
47. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar Wai)
48. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
49. Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
50. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
51. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard
52. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
53. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
54. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
55. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Martin Ritt)
56. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges)
57. Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
58. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
59. Tokyo Story (1953,Yasuri Ozu)
60. Tale of Tales (1979, Yuri Norshteyn)
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61. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
63. Ran (1986, Akira Kurosawa)
64. Layer Cake (2004, Mathew Vaughn)
65. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938, Michael Kurtiz)
66. The Big Lebowski (1998, Coen Brothers)
67. Three Colours: Blue (1994, Krzysztof Kielslowski)
68. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
69. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
70. F for Fake (1974, Orsen Wells)
71. He Got Game (1998, Spike Lee)
72. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
73. Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
74. Black Hawk Down (2001, Ridley Scott)
75. Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn Leroy)
76. The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)
77. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)
78. Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)
79. Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974, Chantal Akerman)
80. Che (2008, Steven Soderbergh)
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81. Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)
82. Pathar Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
83. Schizopolis (1996, Steven Soderbergh)
84. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
85. The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
86. Il Vitelloni (1951, Federico Fellini)
87. The Brothers Bloom (2009, Ryan Johnson)
88. Peppermint Candy (1999, Chang-dong Lee)
89. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
90. Sin City (2005, Robert Rodriguez)
91. Bad Blood (1986, Leos Carax)
92. Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)
93. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
94. The Boys from Fengkui (1983, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
95. Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)
96. Bambi (1942, David Hand)
97. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
98. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
99. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
100. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)

2 comments:

1minutefilmreview said...

Great list!

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