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Michael Haneke (Sight & Sound) Top 10

Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Funny Games (1997), Caché (2005), The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012). His work often examines social issues, and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. Besides working as a filmmaker, Haneke also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2002.

  • “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Bresson)
  • “Salo Or 120 Days of Sodom” (Pasolini)
  • “The Gold Rush” (Chaplin)
  • “Mirror” (Tarkovsky)
  • “A Woman Under the Influence” (Cassavetes)
  • “The Exterminating Angel” (Buñuel)
  • “Germany Year Zero” (Rossellini)
  • “Lancelot du Lac” (Bresson)
  • “L’Eclisse” (Antonioni)
  • “Psycho” (Hitchcock)

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Michael Haneke’s Funny Games: A Textual Examination (BSY Short Film Guides Book 1) Kindle
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Best films to win Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

The July/August 2009 issue of Film Comment polled several critics on the best films to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Taxi Driver placed first, ahead of films such as Il Gattopardo, Viridiana, Blowup, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, La Dolce Vita, and Pulp Fiction. Votes were cast by Melissa Anderson, Geoff Andrew, Richard Brody, Michael Chaiken, Chris Chang, Chris Darke, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Alexander Horwath, Kent Jones, Laura Kern, Nathan Lee, Elisabeth Lequeret, Adrian Martin, Olaf Möller, James Quandt, Jonathan Romney, Gavin Smith, Chuck Stephens, and Amy Taubin.

1. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese, 1976
2. The Leopard Luchino Visconti, 1963
3. Viridiana Luis Buñuel, 1961
4. The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
5. The Third Man Carol Reed, 1949
6. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy, 1964
7. Rosetta Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 1999
8. Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967
9. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
10. The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
11. La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini, 1960
12. Othello Orson Welles, 1952
13. Under the Sun of Satan Maurice Pialat, 1987
14. Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami, 1997
15. If… Lindsay Anderson 1969
16. The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi, 1978
17. The Cranes are Flying Mikhail Kalatozov, 1958
18. Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa, 1980
19. Padre Padrone Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 1977
20. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristian Mungiu, 2007
21. The Ballad of Narayama Shohei Imamura, 1983
22. Brief Encounter David Lean, 1946
23. The Working Class Goes to Heaven Elio Petri, 1972
24. The Go-Between Joseph Losey, 1971
25. The Eel Shohei Imamura, 1997
26. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino, 1994
27. The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff, 1979
28. Wild at Heart David Lynch, 1990
29. Underground Emir Kusturica, 1995
30. L’Enfant Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005

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Derek Malcolm’s Top 100 Films of the Century

Invited by the Guardian newspaper to compile his best films of the 20th century at the turn of the millennium, distinguished film writer and critic Derek Malcolm chose and wrote essays on the one hundred films, by one hundred different directors, he personally felt best represented 20th century world cinema. This work was then published in book form – ‘A Century of Films: Derek Malcolm’s Personal Best’ – in November 2000. A decade later Malcolm said he would add A Separation, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Festen and Silent Souls at the expense of Swing High Swing Low, Trash, Behind the Green Door and The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Whilst Malcolm listed the films in a numerical order he has always stated that they are in no particular order. Buy – A Century of Films: Derek Malcom’s Personal Best (Paperback)

  1. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
  2. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
  3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
  4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
  5. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1926)
  6. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
  7. Earrings of Madame De. (Max Ophuls, 1953)
  8. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
  9. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
  10. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
  11. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
  12. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1953)
  13. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
  14. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  15. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  16. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
  17. The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) (Claude Chabrol, 1968)
  18. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
  19. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  20. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971)
  21. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  22. LBJ (Santiago Alvarez, 1968)
  23. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
  24. The Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau,1946)
  25. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller, 1963)
  26. The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928)
  27. Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst, 1929)
  28. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
  29. Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, 1971)
  30. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
  31. Sons of the Desert (William A Seiter, 1934)
  32. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
  33. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967)
  34. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
  35. Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
  36. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
  37. Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966)
  38. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
  39. Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
  40. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
  41. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  42. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné,1945)
  43. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
  44. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
  45. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  46. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  47. Cuba Si! (Chris Marker, 1961)
  48. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
  49. The King Of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972)
  50. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)



  51. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
  52. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)
  53. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
  54. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968)
  55. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  56. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
  57. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  58. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
  59. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  60. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
  61. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
  62. Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer, 1943)
  63. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1921)
  64. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger, 1943)
  65. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
  66. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
  67. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
  68. Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)
  69. Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen, 1937)
  70. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
  71. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
  72. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
  73. Kes (Ken Loach, 1970)
  74. Behind The Green Door (The Mitchell brothers, 1972)
  75. Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
  76. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
  77. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
  78. Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel, 1937)
  79. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
  80. Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
  81. Antonio Das Mortes (Gauber Rocher, 1969)
  82. Love (Károly Makk, 1971)
  83. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
  84. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932)
  85. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
  86. Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
  87. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
  88. The Round Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1962)
  89. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1975)
  90. Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
  91. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  92. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
  93. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1973)
  94. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)
  95. Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)
  96. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
  97. Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1974)
  98. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1961)
  99. Manila: In The Claws of Darkness (Lino Brocka, 1978)
  100. The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1932)



Malcolm was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford. He worked for several decades as a film critic for The Guardian, having previously been an amateur jockey and the paper’s first horse racing correspondent. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. In the mid-1980s he was host of The Film Club on BBC2, which was dedicated to art house films, and was director of the London Film Festival for several years. After The Guardian, he became chief film critic for the Evening Standard, before being replaced in 2009 by novelist Andrew O’Hagan. He still contributes film reviews for the newspaper and is president of the British Federation of Film Societies and the International Film Critics’ Circle.