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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TIFF’s Essential 100

In 2010, the Toronto International Film Festival released its “Essential 100” list of films, which merged one list of the 100 greatest films of all time as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with another list determined by TIFF stakeholders. The list reads like a definitive guide to the best of world cinema.

1 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
3 L’AVVENTURA (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
4 THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
5 PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
6 SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
7 PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray)
8 CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
9 MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
10 BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio De Sica)
11 ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
12 8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
13 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
14 RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa)
15 TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
17 UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi)
18 BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)
20 CINEMA PARADISO (Giuseppe Tornatore)
21 LA GRANDE ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
22 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean)
23 PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
24 GONE WITH THE WIND (Victor Fleming)
25 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
26 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
27 VOYAGE IN ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
28 AMÉLIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
29 CITY LIGHTS (Charlie Chaplin)
30 STAR WARS (George Lucas)
31 SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
32 RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
33 THE LEOPARD (Luchino Visconti)
34 LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
35 L’ARRIVÉE D’UN TRAIN À LA CIOTAT (Frères LumiereLouis Lumière and Auguste Lumière)
36 THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
37 LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
38 VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
39 NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
40 PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
41 THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
42 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle)
43 THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
44 CITY OF GOD (Fernando Meirelles)
45 TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
46 APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
47 SALÓ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
48 THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman)
49 LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (Georges Méliès)
50 METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)




51 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
52 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar Wai)
53 VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
54 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Roberto Benigni)
55 THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophüls)
56 PAN’S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro)
57 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… (Max Ophüls)
58 BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
59 THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Abbas Kiarostami)
60 LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (Marcel Carné)
61 BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks)
62 SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen)
63 JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray)
64 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick)
65 MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
66 M (Fritz Lang)
67 SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger)
68 PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
69 DUST IN THE WIND (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
70 SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
71 NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
72 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
73 WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
74 JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
75 CHRONIQUE D’UN ÉTÉ (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
76 THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
77 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
78 SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder)
79 JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
80 ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
81 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)
82 CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai)
83 LA NOIRE DE… (Ousmane Sembene)
84 RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)
85 THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
86 CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
87 ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
88 WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
89 VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
90 WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk)
91 THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
92 BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
93 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
94 BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
95 A NOS AMOURS (Maurice Pialat)
96 CLEO DE 5 A 7 (Agnès Varda)
97 ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodóvar)
98 EARTH (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
99 OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
100 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)




The 100 most beautiful films in the world

In 2008 Le Figaro polled 76 participants: critics, screenwriters and directors to come up with a list of the one hundred most beautiful films in the world. Citizen Kane predictably came top while Charles Laughton’s only film, The Night of the Hunter was second along with the highest ranked French Film from Jean Renoir, The Rule of the game. Charlie Chaplin is the only one to have five films listed. The most recent titles are Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar (2002) and Mulholland Drive (2001).

1st : Citizen Kane, Orson Welles.
2nd tie : The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton; The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir.
3rd : Sunrise, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
4th : L’Atalante, Jean Vigo.
5th : M, Fritz Lang.
6th : Singin’ the Rain, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly.
7th : Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock.
8th tie : The Children of Paradise, Marcel Carné; The Searchers, John Ford; Greed, Eric von Stroheim.
9th tie : Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks; To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch.
10th : Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu.
11th : Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard.
12th tie : Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi; City Lights, Charles Chaplin; The General Buster Keaton; Nosferatu, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau; The Music Room, Satyajit Ray.
13th tie : Freaks, Tod Browning; Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray; The Mother and the Whore, Jean Eustache.
14th tie : The Dictator, Charles Chaplin; The Leopard, Luchino Visconti; Hiroshima My Love, Alain Resnais; Pandora’s Box, GW Pabst; North By Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock; Pickpocket, Robert Bresson.
15th tie : Casque d’or, Jacques Becker; The Barefoot Contessa, Joseph Mankiewicz; Moonfleet, Fritz Lang; Madame de …, Max Ophuls; Le Plaisir, Max Ophuls; The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino.
16th tie : L’Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni; Battleship Potemkin, SM Eisenstein; Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock; Ivan the Terrible, SM Eisenstein; The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola; Touch of Evil, Orson Welles; The Wind, Victor Sjöström.
17th tie : 2001: The Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick; Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman.
18th tie : The Crowd, King Vidor; Eight and a half, Federico Fellini; La Jetee, Chris Marker; Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Luc Godard; The Story of a Cheat, Sacha Guitry.
19th tie : Amarcord, Federico Fellini; Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau; Some like it hot, Billy Wilder; Some Came Running, Vincente Minnelli; Gertrud, Carl Th. Dreyer; King Kong, Ernest Schoedsack and Merian J. Cooper; Laura, Otto Preminger; The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa.
20th tie : The 400 Blows, François Truffaut; La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini; The Dead, John Huston; Trouble in Paradise Ernst Lubitsch; It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra; Mr. Verdoux, Charles Chaplin; The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Th. Dreyer.
21st tie : Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard; Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola; Barry Lindon, Stanley Kubrick; The Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir; Intolerance,  DW Griffith; A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir; Playtime, Jacques Tati; Rome open city, Roberto Rossellini; Senso, Luchino Visconti; Modern Times, Charles Chaplin; Van Gogh, Maurice Pialat.
22nd tie : An Affair to Remember, Leo McCarey; Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky; The Scarlet Empress, Joseph von Sternberg; Sansho the Bailiff, Kenji Mizoguchi; Talk to Her, Pedro Almodovar; The Party, Blake Edwards; Tabu, FM Murna; The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli; A Star is Born, George Cukor; Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Jacques Tati.
23rd tie : America America, Elia Kazan; El, Luis Bunuel; Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich; Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone; Le jour se lève, Marcel Carné; Letter from an unknown Woman, Max Ophuls; Lola, Jacques Demy; Manhattan, Woody Allen; Mulholland Drive, David Lynch; My night at Maud’s, Eric Rohmer; Night and Fog, Alain Resnais; The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin; Scarface, Howard Hawks; Bicycle thieves, Vittorio de Sica; Napoleon, Abel Gance.



TSPDT: They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1,000 Greatest Films (2018 Revision)

The theyshootpictures.com lists of the 1,000 Greatest Films of all-time are primarily compiled from individual critics’ and filmmakers’ personal lists/ballots of their favourite/best films. View the films ranked 1001-2000.

1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
2 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
4 La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
5 Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
6 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
7 1963 Federico Fellini
8 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau
9 The Searchers 1956 John Ford
10 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
11 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
12 Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
13 Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
14 Bronenosets Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
15 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
16 La passion de Jeanne d’Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
17 À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
18 L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
19 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
20 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
21 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
22 Chelovek s kino-apparatom 1929 Dziga Vertov
23 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
24 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
25 Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
26 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
27 Andrey Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
28 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
29 Zerkalo 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky
30 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
31 La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
32 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
33 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
34 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
35 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
36 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder
37 L’avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
38 The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
39 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
40 Le mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
41 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
42 La grande illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
43 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
44 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
45 Faa yeung nin wa 2000 Kar-Wai Wong
46 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
47 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
48 Dr. Strangelove… 1964 Stanley Kubrick
49 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
50 Ugetsu monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi




51 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
52 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
53 M 1931 Fritz Lang
54 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks
55 Fanny och Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
56 Smultronstället 1957 Ingmar Bergman
57 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
58 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
59 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
60 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
61 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
62 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
63 Les enfants du paradis 1945 Marcel Carné
64 C’era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone
65 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
66 La battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
67 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin
68 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
69 La strada 1954 Federico Fellini
70 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Robert Wise,Orson Welles
71 Det sjunde inseglet 1957 Ingmar Bergman
72 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
73 Banshun 1949 Yasujirô Ozu
74 Viaggio in Italia 1954 Roberto Rossellini
75 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
76 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
77 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
78 Il gattopardo 1963 Luchino Visconti
79 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra
80 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
81 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson
82 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
83 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer
84 Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
85 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut
86 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
87 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
88 Nema-ye Nazdik 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
89 Un condamné à mort… 1956 Robert Bresson
90 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford
91 L’année dernière à Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais
92 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim
93 Sanshô dayû 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
94 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
95 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
96 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du… 1975 Chantal Akerman
97 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
98 Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
99 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker
100 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr




101 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
102 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone
103 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, King Vidor, Victor Fleming
104 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes
105 Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 D.W. Griffith
106 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
107 La maman et la putain 1973 Jean Eustache
108 L’eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni
109 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker
110 Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
111 El espíritu de la colmena 1973 Víctor Erice
112 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
113 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
114 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
115 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
116 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
117 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
118 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
119 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
120 Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls
121 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
122 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls
123 L’âge d’or 1930 Luis Buñuel
124 Don’t Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg
125 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
126 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux 1962 Jean-Luc Godard
127 Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian 1991 Edward Yang
128 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott
129 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
130 Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir
131 Yi yi 2000 Edward Yang
132 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel
133 Roma città aperta 1945 Roberto Rossellini
134 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922 F.W. Murnau
135 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
136 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel
137 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
138 Angst essen Seele auf 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
139 El ángel exterminador 1962 Luis Buñuel
140 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
141 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
142 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
143 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford
144 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
145 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
146 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
147 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
148 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
149 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989
150 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan




151 Il vangelo secondo Matteo 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini
152 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis
153 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
154 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey
155 Viskningar och rop 1972 Ingmar Bergman
156 Idi i smotri 1985 Elem Klimov
157 Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) 1965 Orson Welles
158 Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
159 L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
160 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino
161 Professione: reporter 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni
162 King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
163 The River 1951 Jean Renoir
164 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
165 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
166 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford
167 Napoléon vu par Abel Gance 1927 Abel Gance
168 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson
169 Dekalog 1989
170 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
171 Zemlya 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
172 Les parapluies de Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy
173 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
174 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
175 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
176 Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Luchino Visconti
177 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
178 Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris 1974 Jacques Rivette
179 O thiasos 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos
180 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
181 Der letzte Mann 1924 F.W. Murnau
182 Xiao cheng zhi chun 1948 Mu Fei
183 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
184 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
185 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock
186 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
187 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
188 Kes 1969 Ken Loach
189 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
190 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa
191 Nuit et brouillard 1956 Alain Resnais
192 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper
193 Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
194 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
195 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
196 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
197 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford
198 Morte a Venezia 1971 Luchino Visconti
199 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
200 Le notti di Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini




201 Caché 2005 Michael Haneke
202 Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini
203 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 2001 Kirk Wise, Hayao Miyazaki
204 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
205 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty
206 Chung Hing sam lam 1994 Kar-Wai Wong
207 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
208 Beiqíng chéngshì 1989 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
209 Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
210 Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein
211 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
212 Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini
213 Der Himmel über Berlin 1987 Wim Wenders
214 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
215 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
216 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
217 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
218 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
219 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene
220 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow
221 Popiól i diament 1958 Andrzej Wajda
222 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer
223 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
224 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
225 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
226 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
227 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor
228 Solyaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky
229 Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951 Robert Bresson
230 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
231 Sayat Nova 1969 Sergei Parajanov
232 Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol 1964 Glauber Rocha
233 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood
234 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
235 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
236 El verdugo 1963 Luis García Berlanga
237 Germania anno zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini
238 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry
239 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
240 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick
241 Saikaku ichidai onna 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi
242 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray
243 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1931 F.W. Murnau
244 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
245 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
246 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson
247 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
248 Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège 1933 Jean Vigo
249 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders
250 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch




251 Sud pralad 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
252 Trois couleurs: Rouge 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
253 Ukigumo 1955 Mikio Naruse
254 Ivan Groznyy 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein
255 La notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni
256 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero
257 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen
258 Trois couleurs: Bleu 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski
259 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies
260 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
261 Zangiku monogatari 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi
262 Tonari no Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki
263 Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 1919 D.W. Griffith
264 Ma nuit chez Maud 1969 Éric Rohmer
265 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
266 Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
267 F for Fake 1973 Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach, Orson Welles
268 Kumonosu-jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa
269 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray
270 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning
271 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
272 Die Büchse der Pandora 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
273 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes
274 Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
275 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore
276 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin
277 La belle et la bête 1946 René Clément, Jean Cocteau
278 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch
279 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
280 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith
281 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
282 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner
283 Sanma no aji 1962 Yasujirô Ozu
284 Im Lauf der Zeit 1976 Wim Wenders
285 Jalsaghar 1958 Satyajit Ray
286 The Matrix 1999 Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
287 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica
288 Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
289 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes
290 Offret 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky
291 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty
292 Todo sobre mi madre 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
293 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor
294 Vredens dag 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
295 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
296 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter
297 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell
298 Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 1953 Jacques Tati
299 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby
300 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin




301 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
302 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
303 Il deserto rosso 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni
304 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
305 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner
306 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich
307 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett
308 Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau
309 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 William Cottrell, David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Perce Pearce
310 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha
311 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
312 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino
313 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
314 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
315 Tóngnián wangshì 1985 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
316 Xi meng ren sheng 1993 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
317 Khane-ye doust kodjast? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami
318 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
319 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman
320 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale
321 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
322 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet
323 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls
324 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
325 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick
326 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
327 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey
328 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes
329 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
330 Cidade de Deus 2002 Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
331 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich
332 Ai no korîda 1976 Nagisa Ôshima
333 Le crime de Monsieur Lange 1936 Jean Renoir
334 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock
335 El 1953 Luis Buñuel
336 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk
337 Le rayon vert 1986 Éric Rohmer
338 Russkiy kovcheg 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov
339 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch
340 Oktyabr 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
341 Xia nü 1971 King Hu
342 Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo 1932 Yasujirô Ozu
343 Chun gwong cha sit 1997 Kar-Wai Wong
344 Werckmeister harmóniák 2000 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
345 Heat 1995 Michael Mann
346 Les yeux sans visage 1960 Georges Franju
347 Soy Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov
348 Zire darakhatan zeyton 1994 Abbas Kiarostami
349 Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 Agnès Varda
350 Stromboli, terra di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini




351 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese
352 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges
353 Ultimo tango a Parigi 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
354 Topio stin omichli 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos
355 In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
356 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
357 Tirez sur le pianiste 1960 François Truffaut
358 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
359 Suna no onna 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara
360 Tiexi qu 2002 Bing Wang
361 Le voyage dans la lune 1902 Georges Méliès
362 El sol del membrillo 1992 Víctor Erice
363 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini
364 Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden
365 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky
366 Le locataire 1976 Roman Polanski
367 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
368 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch
369 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
370 Ivanovo detstvo 1962 Eduard Abalov, Andrei Tarkovsky
371 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel
372 Aliens 1986 James Cameron
373 Ah fei zing zyun 1990 Kar-Wai Wong
374 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker
375 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
376 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey
377 La double vie de Véronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski
378 Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg
379 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
380 If…. 1968 Lindsay Anderson
381 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier
382 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi
383 Tengoku to jigoku 1963 Akira Kurosawa
384 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee
385 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog
386 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty
387 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont
388 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen
389 L’armée des ombres 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville
390 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton
391 Les demoiselles de Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy
392 Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci
393 Yôjinbô 1961 Akira Kurosawa
394 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento
395 Heaven’s Gate 1980 Michael Cimino
396 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher
397 Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960 Ritwik Ghatak
398 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma
399 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton
400 Sedmikrásky 1966 Vera Chytilová




401 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
402 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes
403 Da hong deng long gao gao gua 1991 Yimou Zhang
404 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones
405 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor
406 Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
407 Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey
408 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey
409 Scener ur ett äktenskap 1973
410 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir
411 La nuit américaine 1973 François Truffaut
412 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray
413 The Dead 1987 John Huston
414 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
415 Nun va Goldoon 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf
416 Bakushû 1951 Yasujirô Ozu
417 Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte 2009 Michael Haneke
418 Vargtimmen 1968 Ingmar Bergman
419 Vidas Secas 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos
420 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
421 Mon oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
422 Ta’m e guilass 1997 Abbas Kiarostami
423 Khaneh siah ast 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad
424 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson
425 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman
426 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman
427 Las Hurdes 1933 Luis Buñuel
428 À nos amours 1983 Maurice Pialat
429 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes
430 Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
431 Loong Boonmee raleuk chat 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
432 Le plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls
433 L’albero degli zoccoli 1978 Ermanno Olmi
434 La hora de los hornos 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas
435 Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 Agnès Varda
436 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch
437 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
438 Masculin féminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard
439 Ostre sledované vlaky 1966 Jirí Menzel
440 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt
441 Huang tu di 1984 Kaige Chen
442 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson
443 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson
444 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks
445 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa
446 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio
447 A torinói ló 2011 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
448 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa
449 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles
450 Wo hu cang long 2000 Ang Lee




451 Le chagrin et la pitié 1969 Marcel Ophüls
452 Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu 2005 Cristi Puiu
453 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
454 Zhantai 2000 Zhangke Jia
455 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron
456 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
457 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter
458 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli
459 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti
460 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström
461 Muriel ou le temps d’un retour 1963 Alain Resnais
462 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
463 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper
464 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil
465 Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
466 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant
467 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson
468 Shane 1953 George Stevens
469 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg
470 Bad ma ra khahad bord 1999 Abbas Kiarostami
471 Fantasia 1940 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske
472 Grey Gardens 1975 David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
473 Aleksandr Nevskiy 1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
474 Oldeuboi 2003 Chan-wook Park
475 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
476 Letyat zhuravli 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
477 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock
478 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes
479 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman
480 Gimme Shelter 1970 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
481 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack
482 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse
483 La région centrale 1971 Michael Snow
484 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich
485 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh
486 Les vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade
487 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin
488 Francesco, giullare di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini
489 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
490 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini
491 India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras
492 Nattvardsgästerna 1963 Ingmar Bergman
493 Das Leben der Anderen 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
494 All the President’s Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula
495 Pinocchio 1940 Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
496 Chronique d’un été (Paris 1960) 1961 Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
497 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
498 Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle 1974 Werner Herzog
499 Triumph des Willens 1935 Leni Riefenstahl
500 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier




501 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch
502 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy
503 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
504 Le fantôme de la liberté 1974 Luis Buñuel
505 Wagon Master 1950 John Ford
506 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese
507 Tini zabutykh predkiv 1965 Sergei Parajanov
508 Hai shang hua 1998 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
509 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James
510 Miracolo a Milano 1951 Vittorio De Sica
511 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
512 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale
513 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang
514 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis
515 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah
516 Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
517 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
518 Skazka skazok 1979 Yuriy Norshteyn
519 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen
520 Tystnaden 1963 Ingmar Bergman
521 La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV 1966 Roberto Rossellini
522 Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001 Steven Spielberg
523 Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
524 La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) 1969 Luchino Visconti
525 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim
526 No Quarto da Vanda 2000 Pedro Costa
527 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell
528 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan
529 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray
530 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean
531 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray
532 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
533 Jodaeiye Nader az Simin 2011 Asghar Farhadi
534 La terra trema 1948 Luchino Visconti
535 Plácido 1961 Luis García Berlanga
536 Ba wang bie ji 1993 Kaige Chen
537 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch
538 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch
539 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby
540 Providence 1977 Alain Resnais
541 Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 Milos Forman
542 Juventude Em Marcha 2006 Pedro Costa
543 Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
544 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger
545 Cet obscur objet du désir 1977 Luis Buñuel
546 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir
547 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
548 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur
549 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch
550 El laberinto del fauno 2006 Guillermo del Toro




551 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
552 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah
553 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
554 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan
555 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
556 Le diable probablement 1977 Robert Bresson
557 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog
558 Boudu sauvé des eaux 1932 Jean Renoir
559 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman
560 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston
561 I vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini
562 Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage 1926 F.W. Murnau
563 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray
564 Sånger från andra våningen 2000 Roy Andersson
565 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
566 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger
567 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
568 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh
569 Limite 1931 Mario Peixoto
570 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
571 Hana-bi 1997 Takeshi Kitano
572 Salesman 1969 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
573 A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
574 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson
575 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen
576 Alice in den Städten 1974 Wim Wenders
577 Hatari! 1962 Howard Hawks
578 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel
579 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson
580 Fellini – Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini
581 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer
582 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian
583 Zendegi va digar hich 1992 Abbas Kiarostami
584 Rosetta 1999 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
586 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
587 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur
588 Der blaue Engel 1930 Josef von Sternberg
589 Le cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville
590 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
591 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1922 Fritz Lang
592 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma
593 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
594 Stellet Licht 2007 Carlos Reygadas
595 Arrebato 1979 Iván Zulueta
596 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
597 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
598 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick
599 Sud sanaeha 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
600 Bande à part 1964 Jean-Luc Godard




601 Cabra Marcado Para Morrer 1984 Eduardo Coutinho
602 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi
603 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier
604 Les amants du Pont-Neuf 1991 Leos Carax
605 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
606 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
607 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton
608 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth
609 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks
610 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen
611 Bu san 2003 Ming-liang Tsai
612 La belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette
613 The African Queen 1951 John Huston
614 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim
615 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray
616 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
617 U samogo sinego morya 1936 Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov
618 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky
619 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg
620 La haine 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz
621 Se7en 1995 David Fincher
622 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese
623 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman
624 Stachka 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
625 Die Ehe der Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
626 Scarface 1932 Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks
627 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón
628 Fat City 1972 John Huston
629 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher
630 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards
631 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961 Blake Edwards
632 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
633 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater
634 Lancelot du Lac 1974 Robert Bresson
635 O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro 1969 Glauber Rocha
636 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
637 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron
638 Nouvelle vague 1990 Jean-Luc Godard
639 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke
640 Szegénylegények 1966 Miklós Jancsó
641 Mat i syn 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov
642 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford
643 Der Tiger von Eschnapur 1959 Fritz Lang
644 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston
645 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé
646 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh
647 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater
648 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton
649 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene
650 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter




651 Krótki film o zabijaniu 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
652 Wandafuru raifu 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda
653 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra
654 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone
655 Nostalgia de la luz 2010 Patricio Guzmán
656 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson
657 Un chant d’amour 1950 Jean Genet
658 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen
659 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón
660 Les dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson
661 Bambi 1942 Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid
662 Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine
663 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman
664 L’enfant sauvage 1970 François Truffaut
665 Passion 1982 Jean-Luc Godard
666 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges
667 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
668 Mitt liv som hund 1985 Lasse Hallström
669 El sur 1983 Víctor Erice
670 Le fils 2002 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
671 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg
672 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins
673 Europa ’51 1952 Roberto Rossellini
674 Uzak 2002 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
675 Roma 1972 Federico Fellini
676 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy
677 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski
678 Le genou de Claire 1970 Éric Rohmer
679 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
680 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
681 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick
682 Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
683 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
684 W.R. – Misterije organizma 1971 Dusan Makavejev
685 Superman 1978 Richard Donner
686 Yuki yukite, shingun 1987 Kazuo Hara
687 Miller’s Crossing 1990 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
688 La femme d’à côté 1981 François Truffaut
689 Sans toit ni loi 1985 Agnès Varda
690 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller
691 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith
692 Seppuku 1962 Masaki Kobayashi
693 Le carrosse d’or 1952 Jean Renoir
694 Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple
695 Ai qing wan sui 1994 Ming-liang Tsai
696 Vremena goda 1975 Artavazd Peleshian
697 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
698 Sanxia haoren 2006 Zhangke Jia
699 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli
700 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott




701 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis
702 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel
703 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile 2007 Cristian Mungiu
704 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986 John Hughes
705 Dip huet seung hung 1989 John Woo
706 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer
707 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang
708 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan
709 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann
710 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion
711 Casque d’or 1952 Jacques Becker
712 Die Blechtrommel 1979 Volker Schlöndorff
713 Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
714 Moy drug Ivan Lapshin 1985 Aleksey German
715 Titanic 1997 James Cameron
716 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Alexander Korda, Tim Whelan, Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
717 Sommarnattens leende 1955 Ingmar Bergman
718 Le ballon rouge 1956 Albert Lamorisse
719 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
720 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
721 La pianiste 2001 Michael Haneke
722 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
723 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
724 Idioterne 1998 Lars von Trier
725 Les maîtres fous 1955 Jean Rouch
726 Jungfrukällan 1960 Ingmar Bergman
727 Kaagaz Ke Phool 1959 Guru Dutt
728 Sang sattawat 2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
729 Le procès 1962 Orson Welles
730 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder
731 Dodesukaden 1970 Akira Kurosawa
732 Hong gao liang 1988 Yimou Zhang
733 Voskhozhdenie 1977 Larisa Shepitko
734 Ghost Busters 1984 Ivan Reitman
735 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols
736 A Idade da Terra 1980 Glauber Rocha
737 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone
738 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin
739 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven
740 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma
741 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch
742 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner
743 It’s a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod
744 La montaña sagrada 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky
745 Du rififi chez les hommes 1955 Jules Dassin
746 A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923 Charles Chaplin
747 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci
748 Vale Abraão 1993 Manoel de Oliveira
749 Blood Simple. 1984 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
750 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 Preston Sturges




751 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl
752 Dom za vesanje 1988 Emir Kusturica
753 Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland 1977 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
754 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman
755 La mujer sin cabeza 2008 Lucrecia Martel
756 Jeux interdits 1952 René Clément
757 Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari 1979 Shôhei Imamura
758 Van Gogh 1991 Maurice Pialat
759 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby
760 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg
761 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti
762 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies
763 Le quai des brumes 1938 Marcel Carné
764 La Ciénaga 2001 Lucrecia Martel
765 Moonfleet 1955 Fritz Lang
766 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
767 Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages 2000 Michael Haneke
768 La noire de… 1966 Ousmane Sembene
769 Avatar 2009 James Cameron
770 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen
771 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis
772 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
773 Le sang des bêtes 1949 Georges Franju
774 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg
775 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff
776 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner
777 Il grido 1957 Michelangelo Antonioni
778 Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 Jean-Luc Godard
779 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick
780 The Lusty Men 1952 Robert Parrish, Nicholas Ray
781 Salinui chueok 2003 Joon-ho Bong
782 Dog Star Man 1964 Stan Brakhage
783 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks
784 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly
785 The Misfits 1961 John Huston
786 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford
787 Numéro deux 1975 Jean-Luc Godard
788 7 Women 1966 John Ford
789 Le million 1931 René Clair
790 7th Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage
791 Blue 1993 Derek Jarman
792 I soliti ignoti 1958 Mario Monicelli
793 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes
794 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes
795 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford, Robert Montgomery
796 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick
797 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway
798 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese
799 Dumbo 1941 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney
800 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli




801 C’eravamo tanto amati 1974 Ettore Scola
802 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang
803 Ludwig 1973 Luchino Visconti
804 Gwoemul 2006 Joon-ho Bong
805 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham
806 Mononoke-hime 1997 Hayao Miyazaki
807 He liu 1997 Ming-liang Tsai
808 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
809 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller
810 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger
811 Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski
812 Au revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle
813 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg
814 La nuit du carrefour 1932 Jean Renoir
815 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood
816 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters
817 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
818 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de “nervios” 1988 Pedro Almodóvar
819 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock
820 Le jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné
821 Koroshi no rakuin 1967 Seijun Suzuki
822 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo
823 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon
824 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings
825 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese
826 Utomlennye solntsem 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov
827 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson
828 Akasen chitai 1956 Kenji Mizoguchi
829 Kohayagawa-ke no aki 1961 Yasujirô Ozu
830 Vozvrashchenie 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev
831 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh
832 Night of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur
833 L’enfance nue 1968 Maurice Pialat
834 The Ladies Man 1961 Jerry Lewis
835 Sicilia! 1999 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
836 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford
837 Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
838 L’intrus 2004 Claire Denis
839 The Hart of London 1970 Jack Chambers
840 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg
841 Central do Brasil 1998 Walter Salles
842 Les deux Anglaises et le continent 1971 François Truffaut
843 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox
844 The Sun Shines Bright 1953 John Ford
845 Il fiore delle mille e una notte 1974 Pier Paolo Pasolini
846 Hôtel Terminus 1988 Marcel Ophüls
847 Qing mei zhu ma 1985 Edward Yang
848 La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir
849 Orfeu Negro 1959 Marcel Camus
850 Léon 1994 Luc Besson




851 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee
852 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman
853 Cul-de-sac 1966 Roman Polanski
854 Diaries Notes and Sketches 1969 Jonas Mekas
855 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood
856 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter
857 Hadaka no shima 1960 Kaneto Shindô
858 Malu tianshi 1937 Muzhi Yuan
859 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman
860 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
861 News from Home 1977 Chantal Akerman
862 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer
863 Huo zhe 1994 Yimou Zhang
864 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
865 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1951 Orson Welles
866 Giulietta degli spiriti 1965 Federico Fellini
867 Mes petites amoureuses 1974 Jean Eustache
868 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor
869 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan
870 Nóz w wodzie 1962 Roman Polanski
871 Le trou 1960 Jacques Becker
872 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood
873 The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth 1944 Laurence Olivier
874 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold
875 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong
876 Hotaru no haka 1988 Isao Takahata
877 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler
878 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed
879 Genroku Chûshingura 1941 Kenji Mizoguchi
880 Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö 1990 Aki Kaurismäki
881 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen
882 Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht 1965 Jean-Marie Straub
883 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas
884 La bête humaine 1938 Jean Renoir
885 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton
886 Liàn liàn fengchén 1986 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
887 On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
888 Ensayo de un crimen 1955 Luis Buñuel
889 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson
890 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow
891 Il posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi
892 Simón del desierto 1965 Luis Buñuel
893 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen
894 MASH 1970 Robert Altman
895 L’enfant secret 1979 Philippe Garrel
896 Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher
897 Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom 2003 Ki-duk Kim
898 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
899 Mon oncle d’Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais
900 Uccellacci e uccellini 1966 Pier Paolo Pasolini




901 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah
902 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
903 Louisiana Story 1948 Robert J. Flaherty
904 Gregory’s Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth
905 Angel 1937 Ernst Lubitsch
906 Une histoire de vent 1988 Joris Ivens
907 Animal House 1978 John Landis
908 Elephant 1989 Alan Clarke
909 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola
910 Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt 1927 Walter Ruttmann
911 Narayama bushikô 1983 Shôhei Imamura
912 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks
913 Anatahan 1953 Josef von Sternberg
914 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater
915 Holiday 1938 George Cukor
916 Yume 1990 Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
917 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls
918 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini 1976 Federico Fellini
919 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest
920 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks
921 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky
922 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan
923 Horí, má panenko 1967 Milos Forman
924 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy
925 Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni
926 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz
927 Moi, un noir 1958 Jean Rouch
928 Trop tôt/Trop tard 1982 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
929 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet
930 Le bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda
931 Yol 1982 Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
932 Le fond de l’air est rouge 1977 Chris Marker
933 Duel in the Sun 1946 Otto Brower, Sidney Franklin, King Vidor, David O. Selznick
934 Pépé le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier
935 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille
936 A Diary for Timothy 1945 Humphrey Jennings
937 Outer Space 1999 Peter Tscherkassky
938 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
939 Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
940 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg
941 India: Matri Bhumi 1959 Roberto Rossellini
942 The Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk
943 Mamma Roma 1962 Pier Paolo Pasolini
944 Ukikusa 1959 Yasujirô Ozu
945 Une femme est une femme 1961 Jean-Luc Godard
946 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
947 Subarnarekha 1965 Ritwik Ghatak
948 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann
949 Häxan 1922 Benjamin Christensen
950 Dah 2002 Abbas Kiarostami




951 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene
952 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch
953 La collectionneuse 1967 Éric Rohmer
954 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
955 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg
956 L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat 1896 Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
957 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer
958 Bab el hadid 1958 Youssef Chahine
959 Kaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi
960 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma
961 Yôkihi 1955 Kenji Mizoguchi
962 Gycklarnas afton 1953 Ingmar Bergman
963 True Heart Susie 1919 D.W. Griffith
964 Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie 1965 Wojciech Has
965 Xiao Wu 1997 Zhangke Jia
966 Witness 1985 Peter Weir
967 Voyna i mir 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk
968 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze
969 À nous la liberté 1931 René Clair
970 Qiu Ju da guan si 1992 Yimou Zhang
971 Dalla nube alla resistenza 1979 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
972 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino
973 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles
974 Okraina 1933 Boris Barnet
975 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Jacques Becker
976 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman
977 Design for Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch
978 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill
979 O Bandido da Luz Vermelha 1968 Rogério Sganzerla
980 Scarecrow 1973 Jerry Schatzberg
981 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey
982 Hellzapoppin’ 1941 H.C. Potter
983 Mothlight 1963 Stan Brakhage
984 Das indische Grabmal 1959 Fritz Lang
985 Akahige 1965 Akira Kurosawa
986 The Fountainhead 1949 King Vidor
987 Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg
988 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller
989 Johnny Got His Gun 1971 Dalton Trumbo
990 L’amour fou 1969 Jacques Rivette
991 Unsere Afrikareise 1966 Peter Kubelka
992 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick
993 They Live 1988 John Carpenter
994 Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik 1984
995 Éloge de l’amour 2001 Jean-Luc Godard
996 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir
997 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen
998 L’humanité 1999 Bruno Dumont
999 Oasiseu 2002 Chang-dong Lee
1000 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin




The Pendragon Society’s 1000 Greatest Films (2018) 800-781

Introduction

800. Rain Man (1988) Dir. Barry Levinson, 133 mins.

Levinson’s road movie tells the story of an abrasive, self-centred young wheeler-dealer, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise). When informed of his estranged father’s death he is shocked to find that all he’s inherited of the multi-million dollar estate is his dad’s prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster.  The rest of the $3 million-dollar estate has been bequeathed to an identified party who it turns out is another son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Impressive direction and strong lead performances help make Rain Man an effective tale of two isolated people who find understanding and eventually brotherly love.

799. Tale of Tales (1979) Dir. Yuriy Norshteyn, 29 mins.

Named as the greatest animation of all time by a large international jury in 1984, Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky’s Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. The film follows a little wolf of Russian folklore who reflects the animator’s burden of keeping the past alive. A masterpiece of cinematic poetry, the graceful and expressive sequences recall Pushkin, the World Wars and childhood loss of innocence.

798. Eastern Promises (2007) Dir. David Cronenberg, 100 mins.

An exploration of violence and identity, Cronenberg’s gripping gangster thriller tells the story of a Russian-British midwife, Anna (Naomi Watts), who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old Russian prostitute who dies in childbirth. After Anna learns that the teen was lured into prostitution by the Russian Mafia in London, the Russian gangsters threaten the baby’s life to keep Anna from telling the police about their sex trafficking ring. Soon she herself is under threat from the temperamental mobster (Vincent Cassel) and his driver (the excellent Viggo Mortensen). Particularly notable for the atmospheric cinematography and the visceral fight scene in a Turkish baths.

797. Tootsie (1982) Dir. Sydney Pollack, 119 mins.

Pollack’s comedy drama tells the story of a talented but volatile actor (Dustin Hoffman) whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman in order to land a job. With a pertinent look at the role of women in the industry, and society in general, and an amusing parody of US soaps, the film is much more than just Hoffman’s clever performance.

796. The Palm Beach Story (1942) Dir. Preston Sturges, 88 mins.

Writer/director Sturges’s satirical comedy follows a couple, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert). After five years of marriage, Tom hasn’t raised a dime with his lacking inventions and Gerry decides, rather absurdly, that the only way to help her poverty stricken husband is to divorce him, marry a wealthy man, and use the second husband’s money to finance Tom’s schemes. With Colbert’s witty deliveries and some inspired direction from Sturges, The Palm Beach Story is a hugely entertaining romantic comedy.

795. Yol (1982) Dir. Serif Goren, Yilmaz Guney, 114 mins.

With political views against the ruling Turkish military, filmmaker Yilmaz Guney was in prison when he wrote the script for Yol. Directed for him by longtime assistant Serif Goren (with explicit instructions from Guney), the film follows five prisoners given a week’s home leave during the aftermath of the military’s 1980 coup d’état. Probably the most internationally acclaimed and influential Turkish director, Guney was able to edit the film himself having begun exile in Switzerland. A powerful expose of oppression, it won the top prize at the Cannes film festival.

794. Days of Being Wild (1990) Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 94 mins.

Although a box office flop domestically, Wong Kar-Wai’s second feature maintained his reputation as one of the best up and coming art house directors on the international scene. Set in 1960, the stylish drama centres on the young, boyishly handsome rebel, Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Deciding to trace the Filipino who gave birth to him, he leaves behind, with heartless disregard, two woman (Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau) who have fallen for him. With an intricately structured narrative and striking cinematography by Christopher Doyle, Days of Being Wild is probably Wong’s most underrated film.

793. The Fire Within (1963) Dir. Louis Malle, 108 mins.

Widely regarded as one of Malle’s best, the film follows an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy (Maurice Ronet), who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer Jacques Rigaut, who killed himself in 1929). Having betrayed his wife with a recent liaison with Lydia (Lena Skerla) he visits his bourgeois friends in Paris searching for a reason to live. Stylishly made and enhanced by the outstanding and sympathetic Ronet, The Fire Within is an affecting study of self-realisation.

792. Limelight (1952) Dir. Charles Chaplin, 141 mins.

Something of personal indulgence from Chaplin, the film is set in the theatrical London of his childhood and deals with the difficulties of making comedy and the fickle nature of the audience. Chaplin plays a washed-up drunken comedian who saves a suicidal dancer (Claire Bloom) from killing herself and nurses her to success. The film appears to be both a reflection on Chaplin’s damaged reputation (thanks to an FBI smear campaign) and a retreat into the past. Its nostalgia is never more evident than when Buster Keaton appears in a brilliant cameo. (He’d been largely forgotten by the public at that time).

791. Star Trek (2009) Dir. J.J. Abrams, 127 mins.

Managing to revitalize the Star Trek franchise, J J Abrams’s visually strong reboot follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) aboard the USS Enterprise as they combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The story takes place in an alternate reality because of time travel by both Nero and the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Using big budget digital effects and the clever narrative, Abrams entertains enough to ensnare a new audience but also finds the right amount of nostalgia, particularly the presence of Nimoy, to please existing fans.



790. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 97 mins.

With international revolutionary fervour at its height, Alea made this subtle and complex political drama that looks at the alienation of a bourgeois intellectual within the revolution. It follows the indecisive Sergio (Sergio Correri) who even though he refuses to flee Cuba in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, is seemingly happy to see his wife, parents and friends leave for Miami. He is sceptical of the ability of the Revolution to make a real change to Cuban life, observing that it is only the latest passion for an ever-changing society. Teeming with originality, Memories of Underdevelopment intelligently portrays the end of an old Cuba and the struggle to bring in a new one.

789. Ju Dou (1990) Dir. Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang, 95 mins.

Notable as the first Chinese production nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards (although it was made with Japanese funding), this visually splendid tragedy focuses on a beautiful young woman (dynamically played by Gong Li) who has been sold as a wife to Jinshan (Li Wei), an old cloth dyer sometime in the 1920s. With assured direction and a superb use of colour it’s not hard to see why Zhang’s tale of illicit passion is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

788. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) Dir. Yuriy Norshteyn, 11 mins.

Norshteyn’s classic animation short follows a little hedgehog (voiced by Maria Vinogradova), who, while on the way to visit his friend the bear cub, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect. A visually dazzling and poetic interpretation of a Russian folk tale.

787. The Fountain (2006) Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 96 mins.

Deemed a pretentious failure by many, Aronofsky’s startlingly original film stars Hugh Jackman as a man on a 1000 year odyssey to try and save his beloved (Rachel Weisz). The film follows the couple through three storylines where they play different sets of characters, a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveller who hallucinates his lost love. Putting to one side Aronofsky’s often perplexing philosophical musings, the film should at least been seen for its feast of stunning visuals and the strong performances.

786. Detour (1945) Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 67 mins.

A B picture that has become a film noir classic, Detour was made in just 6 days and follows Al Roberts (Tom Neal) a piano player in a sleazy New York nightclub who is trying to hitch a ride to Hollywood to find his girlfriend who earlier headed there in search of stardom. Al gets a lift with a talkative, drug-addicted businessman who mysteriously dies during the trip. Frightened that he will be blamed for the death, Al hides the body in a ditch and assumes the businessman’s identity. Needing company, he picks up Vera (Ann Savage), a fellow hitchhiker who knows of Al’s deception. Most notable for its strong use of genre traits, Detour is stuck somewhere between atmospheric thriller and heightened melodrama.

785. Elizabeth (1998) Dir. Shekhar Kapur, 124 mins.

Kapur’s visually exciting political thriller sees a young Elizabeth Tudor (Cate Blanchett) elevated to the throne of a divided England on the death of her half-sister Mary I, who had imprisoned her. Elizabeth’s reign over the bankrupt realm is perceived as weak and under threat of invasion by France or Spain. For the future stability and security of the crown she is urged by adviser William Cecil (Richard Attenborough) to marry a foreign prince, but she prefers the company of the charming Lord Dudley (Joseph Fiennes). It’s a vivid recreation of Elizabethan England, intelligently written and with a star making turn from Australian Blanchett. Geoffrey Rush is the best of an interesting supporting cast as spymaster Francis Walsingham.

784. Shine (1996) Dir. Scott Hicks, 105 mins.

A visually inventive and occasionally harrowing Australian biographical film based on the life of gifted pianist David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush), who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. Rush, only then known as a stage star, gives an extraordinary Oscar winning performance while Hicks steers clear of melodrama and delivers an ultimately uplifting film.

783. Breaker Morant (1980) Dir. Bruce Beresford, 107 mins.

While maybe lacking in sublety, Bruce Beresford’s film touches a nationalist nerve by portraying Australian positivity against the pompous arrogance, conniving and incompetence of the British, who needing scapegoats for war crimes committed during the Second Anglo-Boer War, court martial three Australian Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton. Set in 1902 and based on one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history, the film offers historical insight from a time when Australia’s nationhood was being formed and still resonates with contemporary audiences thanks to its powerful sense of injustice.

782. Out 1, noli me tangere (1971) Dir. Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman, 773 mins.

Being mainly improvised (there was no script) and running for a taxing 773 minutes, the long version of Rivette’s experimental Out 1 was always going to be too daunting for mainstream consumption. It’s a uniquely ambitious cinema verite mix of fiction and documentary that looks at two underground theatre troupes both workshopping Aeschylus using different methods. Then there’s the nonsensical parts of the film that look at street people. Most will find it frustrating and exhausting while others may feel a deeply satisfying sense of achievement by reaching the end.

781. Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Dir. Jean-Marc Vallee, 117 mins.

Vallee’s fact-based and refreshingly unsentimental film tells the story of fast living Texas redneck Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), who is diagnosed with AIDS in the mid 1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched and the disease was misunderstood and highly stigmatised. As part of the experimental treatment movement, he smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas for treating his symptoms, and distributed them to fellow people with AIDS by establishing the “Dallas Buyers Club” while facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Vallee approaches the subject with intelligence and subtlety but it’s the brilliant central performance of McConaughy that provides the plausibility for Woodroof’s transformation from obnoxious bigot to noble crusader for the rights of his fellow sufferers.



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Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 Critic’s Results

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.

All the films which received more than four votes from critics.

Title Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 46 1
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 41 2
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 30 3
Godfather / Godfather: Part II (Coppola) 23 4
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 22 5
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 21 6
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 19 7
Sunrise (Murnau) 19 7
 (Fellini) 18 9
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 17 10
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 15 11
The Searchers (Ford) 15 11
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 14 13
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 12 14
Breathless (Godard) 11 15
L’Atalante (Vigo) 11 15
The General (Keaton) 11 15
Touch of Evil (Welles) 11 15
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) 10 19
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) 10 19
L’avventura (Antonioni) 10 19
Le Mépris (Godard) 9 22
Pather Panchali (Ray) 9 22
La dolce vita (Fellini) 8 24
M (Lang) 8 24
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) 8 24
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) 7 27
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné) 7 27
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) 7 27
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) 7 27
Metropolis (Lang) 7 27
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 27
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) 7 27
Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 7 27
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 6 35
The 400 Blows (Truffaut) 6 35
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 6 35
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 6 35
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) 6 35
Modern Times (Chaplin) 6 35
Psycho (Hitchcock) 6 35
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 35
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 35
The Third Man (Reed) 6 35
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 5 45
Blade Runner (Scott) 5 45
City Lights (Chaplin) 5 45
Greed (von Stroheim) 5 45
Intolerance (Griffith) 5 45
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 5 45
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls) 5 45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford) 5 45
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 5 45
Ordet (Dreyer) 5 45
Pierrot le fou (Godard) 5 45
Rio Bravo (Hawks) 5 45
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi) 5 45
Shoah (Lanzmann) 5 45
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) 5 45
Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Godard) 5 45

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