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.
Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Film Europa) Paperback
Michael H. profession:director (Buy or Rent, watch online)
Michael Haneke (Contemporary Film Directors) Paperback
The Michael Haneke Trilogy [DVD]
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games: A Textual Examination (BSY Short Film Guides Book 1) Kindle
Michael Haneke Collection – 10-DVD Box Set ( The Seventh Continent (The 7th Continent) / Benny’s Video / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance ( [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import – United Kingdom ]
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)
Béla Tarr is a Hungarian film director. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as “social cinema”, aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films changed. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic. Almanac of Fall (1984), his only colour film, follows the inhabitants of a run-down apartment as they struggle to live together while sharing their hostilities. The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become known for internationally. Satan’s Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former sometimes appears in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made, and the latter received wide acclaim from critics. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2012.
Tarr Bela: I Used to Be A Filmmaker (Buy or Rent, watch online)
Béla Tarr, the Time After (Univocal) Paperback
The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes (Directors’ Cuts) Paperback
Béla Tarr Collection – 5-DVD Box Set ( Kárhozat / Sátántangó / Panelkapcsolat ) ( Damnation / Satantango / The Prefab People ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import – France ]
Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr (Hardcover)
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.
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)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1926)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
Earrings of Madame De. (Max Ophuls, 1953)
Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
Behind The Green Door (The Mitchell brothers, 1972)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel, 1937)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
Antonio Das Mortes (Gauber Rocher, 1969)
Love (Károly Makk, 1971)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932)
Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
The Round Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1962)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1975)
Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1973)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)
Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1974)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1961)
Manila: In The Claws of Darkness (Lino Brocka, 1978)
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.
In July 2015 BBC Culture polled 62 film critics from around the world to determine the 100 greatest American movies ever made. There are some surprising results with Gone With the Wind which placed 6th on AFI’s 2007 list only 97th on the BBC poll. This maybe that AFI list comes from the choices of the US industry rather than foreign critics.
For the purposes of the poll, an American film is defined as any movie that received funding from a US source. The directors of these films did not have to be born in the United States nor did the films have to be shot in the US. Each critic who participated submitted a list of 10 films, with their pick for the greatest film receiving 10 points and their number 10 pick receiving one point. The points were added up to produce the final list.
The 100 greatest American films
100. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
99. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
98. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)
97. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
96. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
95. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
94. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
93. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
92. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
91. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
90. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
89. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
88. West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
86. The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994)
85. Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
84. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)
83. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
82. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
81. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
80. Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
79. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
78. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
77. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
76. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
75. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
74. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
73. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
72. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
71. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
70. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
69. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
68. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
67. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
66. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
65. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
64. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
63. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
62. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
61. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
60. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)
58. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
57. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
56. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
55. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
54. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
53. Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 1975)
52. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
51. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
50. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
49. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
48. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
47. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
46. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
45. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
44. Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)
43. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
42. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
41. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
40. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
39. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
38. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
37. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
36. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
35. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
34. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
33. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
32. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
31. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
30. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
29. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
28. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
27. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
26. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
25. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
24. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
23. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
22. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
21. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
20. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
19. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
18. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
17. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
16. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
15. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
14. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
13. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
12. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
11. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
10. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
7. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
6. Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927)
5. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
In 2016 Time Out New York polled over 50 experts in the field, including TONY contributors, directors, actors and stunt actors, to list their top action films. The results were then compiled into the 100 best action movies of all time. The list includes Oscar winning classics, sci-fi masterpieces, foreign films and martial-arts movies. Those polled includedDie Harddirector John McTiernan and stunt woman Zoë Bell (who worked on the two Kill Bill movies).
1 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
2 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
3 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron
4 Lat sau san taam 1992 John Woo
5 Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
6 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse
7 Ging chaat goo si 1985 Chi-Hwa Chen, Jackie Chan
8 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
9 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
10 Aliens 1986 James Cameron
11 The Matrix 1999 Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
12 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
13 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff
14 Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung 1992 Hark Tsui
15 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass
16 Predator 1987 John McTiernan
17 Ong-bak 2003 Prachya Pinkaew
18 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron
19 Face/Off 1997 John Woo
20 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino
21 The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
22 Serbuan maut 2011 Gareth Evans
23 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates
24 Dip huet seung hung 1989 John Woo
25 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner
26 ‘A’ gai wak 1983 Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
27 Jui kuen II 1994 Chia-Liang Liu
28 Heat 1995 Michael Mann
29 Shao Lin san shi liu fang 1978 Chia-Liang Liu
30 C’era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone
31 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow
32 Ying hung boon sik 1986 John Woo
33 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 George P. Cosmatos
34 Oldeuboi 2003 Chan-wook Park
35 Fei lung mang jeung 1988 Corey Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
36 Wo hu cang long 2000 Ang Lee
37 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester
38 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
39 Wu Lang ba gua gun 1984 Chia-Liang Liu
40 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
41 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman
42 Léon 1994 Luc Besson
43 Dao 1995 Hark Tsui
44 True Lies 1994 James Cameron
45 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
46 SPL: Sha po lang 2005 Wilson Yip
47 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks
48 Yip Man 2008 Wilson Yip
49 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma
50 Kung fu 2004 Stephen Chow
51 L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat 1896 Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
52 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
53 Kuai can che 1984 Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
54 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
55 Rambo 2008 Sylvester Stallone
56 Dung fong tuk ying 1987 Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
57 Bai ga jai 1981 Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
58 300 2006 Zack Snyder
59 Dou fo sin 2007 Wilson Yip
60 Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
61 Ging chaat goo si juk jaap 1988 Jackie Chan
62 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich
63 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
64 Runaway Train 1985 Andrey Konchalovskiy
65 Zatôichi 2003 Takeshi Kitano
66 Qun long xi feng 1989 Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
67 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
68 Unleashed 2005 Louis Leterrier
69 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young
70 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian
71 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Steven Spielberg
72 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer
73 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young
74 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay
75 Ging chaat goo si III: Chiu kup ging chaat 1992 Stanley Tong
76 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
77 Ying xiong 2002 Yimou Zhang
78 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
79 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
80 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
81 Lung hing foo dai 1986 Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang
82 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin
83 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon
84 Fong sai yuk 1993 Corey Yuen
85 Machete 2010 Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
86 Cheung foh 1999 Johnnie To
87 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma
88 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges
89 Xia dao Gao Fei 1992 Ringo Lam
90 Breakdown 1997 Jonathan Mostow
91 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin
92 Xian si jue 1983 Siu-Tung Ching
93 Die xue jie tou 1990 John Woo
94 Jûsan-nin no shikaku 2010 Takashi Miike
95 Miami Vice 2006 Michael Mann
96 Swiri 1999 Je-kyu Kang
97 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis
98 Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma 1972 Kenji Misumi
99 War 2007 Philip G. Atwell
100 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Alfred Hitchcock was at the peak of his powers when he made Vertigo, a psychological thriller, based on the French novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, that follows a retired police detective, Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart), who has acrophobia, and is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behaviour. Focusing on the romantic obsession that Scottie develops for the enigmatic woman (Kim Novak), Vertigo received mixed reviews upon release, particularly in Hitchcock’s native England, with some fans disappointed at the director departing from his earlier lighter romantic thrillers and a number of critics dismissing it as nothing more than a slowly paced murder mystery. However, it’s re-evaluation began in the following decade, when writers at the influential French magazine Cahiers du cinéma began to view Hitchcock as a serious cinematic artist rather than just a slick crowd pleaser and soon film scholars were singling the movie out as a work of hypnotic visual beauty and a profound meditation on love, loss and identity. Over sixty years on, Vertigo continues to fascinate and is now heralded, by many, as Hitchock’s most important contribution to cinema.
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James Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson (pictured above). Stewart’s casting as the progressively disturbed and obsessive investigator was seen as particularly effective for the suspense given that he was previously known for warmhearted roles.
Kim Novak as Judy Barton (“Madeleine Elster”)
Barbara Bel Geddes as Marjorie “Midge” Wood
Tom Helmore as Gavin Elster
Henry Jones as the coroner
Raymond Bailey as Scottie’s doctor
Ellen Corby as the manager of the McKittrick Hotel
Konstantin Shayne as bookstore owner Pop Leibel
Lee Patrick as the car owner mistaken for Madeleine
Margaret Brayton as the Ransohoff’s saleslady
Paul Bryar as Capt. Hansen (accompanies Scottie to coroner’s inquest)
Dave McElhatton as the radio announcer (alternative ending)
Fred Graham as Scottie’s police partner (falls from rooftop)
Nina Shipman as the girl mistaken for Madeleine at the museum
Sara Taft as nun during closing scene
Alfred Hitchcock makes his customary cameo appearance walking in the street in a gray suit and carrying a trumpet case.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Produced by Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor Music by Bernard Herrmann Cinematography Robert Burks Edited by George Tomasini Running time 128 minutes Country United States Language English
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The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Affliction 1997 Paul Schrader
The African Queen 1951 John Huston
L’Age D’Or 1930 Luis Buñuel Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg
Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Aladdin 1992 Ron Clements, John Musker
Alexander Nevsky 1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
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Alice’s Restaurant 1969 Arthur Penn
Aliens 1986 James Cameron
All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone
All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
All The King’s Men 1949 Robert Rossen
All The President’s Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula
Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman
Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
America America 1963 Elia Kazan
Der amerikanische Freund 1977 Wim Wenders
American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli
The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller
American Movie 1999 Chris Smith
Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Anastasia 1956 Anatole Litvak
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger
The Angry Silence 1960 Guy Green
Anna and the King of Siam 1946 John Cromwell
Anna Christie 1930 Clarence Brown
Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
The Apostle 1997 Robert Duvall
L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
Popiól i diament 1958 Andrzej Wajda
The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston
L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
Atlantic City, USA 1980 Louis Malle
Au revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle
L’avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey
Babettes gæstebud 1987 Gabriel Axel
Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan
Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges
Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
La femme du boulanger 1938 Marcel Pagnol
Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks
The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah
Bambi 1942 Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid, James Algar, David Hand, Norman Wright, Bill Roberts
The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock
The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline
Barfly 1987 Barbet Schroeder
Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
Barton Fink 1991 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
La battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
Le beau mariage 1982 Éric Rohmer
Beautiful People 1999 Jasmin Dizdar
La belle et la bête 1946 Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Domicile conjugal 1970 François Truffaut
Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton
Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel
Before the Rain 1994 Milcho Manchevski
Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze
Being There 1979 Hal Ashby
Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest
Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan
The Big Clock 1948 John Farrow
I soliti ignoti 1958 Mario Monicelli
The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang
Big Night 1996 Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller
The Big Sky 1952 Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger
Biloxi Blues 1988 Mike Nichols
The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock
Birdy 1984 Alan Parker
Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Orfeu Negro 1959 Marcel Camus
Black Robe 1991 Bruce Beresford
Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks
Bloody Sunday 2002 Paul Greengrass
Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader
Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1969 Paul Mazursky
Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson
Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone
Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor
Le boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol
Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby
Boys Don’t Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce
Boyz n the Hood 1991 John Singleton
Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
Pane, amore e fantasia 1953 Luigi Comencini
‘Breaker’ Morant 1980 Bruce Beresford
The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes
Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates
Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
La mariée était en noir 1968 François Truffaut
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
A Brief History of Time 1991 Errol Morris
Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks
Brother’s Keeper 1992 Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Steve Rash
Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton
Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates
Bus Stop 1956 Joshua Logan
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
The Butcher Boy 1997 Neil Jordan
Bye Bye Brasil 1980 Carlos Diegues
Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls
Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk
California Suite 1978 Herbert Ross
Calle 54 2000 Fernando Trueba
Camelot 1967 Joshua Logan
Camille 1936 George Cukor
Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming
Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger
Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks
Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols
Cavalcade 1933 Frank Lloyd
Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg
La cérémonie 1995 Claude Chabrol
Chan Is Missing 1982 Wayne Wang
Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson
Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel
Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall
Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord, Nick Park
La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
L’amour l’après-midi 1972 Éric Rohmer
Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström
The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström
The Citadel 1938 King Vidor
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
Le genou de Claire 1970 Éric Rohmer
L’horloger de Saint-Paul 1974 Bertrand Tavernier
A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
Nema-ye Nazdik 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling
Coal Miner’s Daughter 1980 Michael Apted
The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese
Come Back, Little Sheba 1952 Daniel Mann
Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby
Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
The Conquest of Everest 1953 George Lowe
Le mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg
The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 Rowland V. Lee
The Country Girl 1954 George Seaton
Les cousins 1959 Claude Chabrol
Letyat zhuravli 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
Viskningar och rop 1972 Ingmar Bergman
Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk
Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff
Cry, the Beloved Country 1951 Zoltan Korda
The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan
Damn Yankees 1958 George Abbott, Stanley Donen
La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) 1969 Luchino Visconti
Dance with a Stranger 1985 Mike Newell
Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears
Daniel 1983 Sidney Lumet
Danton 1983 Andrzej Wajda
Oci ciornie 1987 Nikita Mikhalkov
Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding
Darling 1965 John Schlesinger
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger 1935 George Cukor
David Holzman’s Diary 1967 Jim McBride
Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
La nuit américaine 1973 François Truffaut
The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards
The Dead 1987 John Huston
Dead Calm 1989 Phillip Noyce
Dead End 1937 William Wyler
Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins
Dead of Night 1945 Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti
Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
Morte a Venezia 1971 Luchino Visconti
Death of a Salesman 1951 Laslo Benedek
Dekalog 1989
Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski
The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino
The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer
Deliverance 1972 John Boorman
Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 Susan Seidelman
Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall
Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
Le journal d’une femme de chambre 1964 Luis Buñuel
Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951 Robert Bresson
Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
Diner 1982 Barry Levinson
Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor
The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich
Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
Disraeli 1929 Alfred E. Green
Ashani Sanket 1973 Satyajit Ray
Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix
Divorzio all’italiana 1961 Pietro Germi
Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean
Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler
La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell
Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch
Dracula 1931 Tod Browning
La vie rêvée des anges 1998 Erick Zonca
Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma
The Dresser 1983 Peter Yates
Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford
Drowning by Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway
Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant
Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey
The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott
Dumbo 1941 Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Wilfred Jackson, John Elliotte, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan
Easy Living 1937 Mitchell Leisen
Yin shi nan nu 1994 Ang Lee
Fontane Effi Briest 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles
The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch
Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks
Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg
Enemies: A Love Story 1989 Paul Mazursky
Les enfants du paradis 1945 Marcel Carné
The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella
The Entertainer 1960 Tony Richardson
Coup de foudre 1983 Diane Kurys
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
Europa Europa 1990 Agnieszka Holland
Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 Jean-Luc Godard
The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
El ángel exterminador 1962 Luis Buñuel
A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan
Ansikte mot ansikte 1976 Ingmar Bergman
Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
Kazoku gêmu 1983 Yoshimitsu Morita
Fanny och Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
Fantasia 1940 Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Hamilton Luske, Paul Satterfield, James Algar, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
Ba wang bie ji 1993 Kaige Chen
Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes
Fargo 1996 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 Errol Morris
Atanarjuat 2001 Zacharias Kunuk
Fat City 1972 John Huston
Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne
Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli
Fellini – Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini
La Femme Infidèle 1969 Claude Chabrol
Nikita 1990 Luc Besson
The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam
I pugni in tasca 1965 Marco Bellocchio
Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog
Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson
The Flamingo Kid 1984 Garry Marshall
The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann
Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood
Jeux interdits 1952 René Clément
A Foreign Affair 1948 Billy Wilder
The Fortune Cookie 1966 Billy Wilder
Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
Frankenstein 1931 James Whale
The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock
Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler
From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann
The Fugitive 1947 John Ford, Emilio Fernández
Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo
Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen
Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler
Fury 1936 Fritz Lang
Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir
Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough
Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini 1970 Vittorio De Sica
Gas, Food Lodging 1992 Allison Anders
Gaslight 1944 George Cukor
Jigokumon 1953 Teinosuke Kinugasa
Gion bayashi 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
The General 1998 John Boorman
Il generale Della Rovere 1959 Roberto Rossellini
Genevieve 1953 Henry Cornelius
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks
Georgy Girl 1966 Silvio Narizzano
Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
Préparez vos mouchoirs 1978 Bertrand Blier
Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff
Giant 1956 George Stevens
Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli
Gimme Shelter 1970 David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
The Girl Can’t Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin
La ragazza con la valigia 1961 Valerio Zurlini
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 Agnès Varda
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter 1972 Wim Wenders
The Go-Between 1971 Joseph Losey
The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey
Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton
Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
The Good Earth 1937 Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý, Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman
The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding
La grande illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford
The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
The Great Man 1956 José Ferrer
The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges
The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille
Green for Danger 1946 Sidney Gilliat
Gregory’s Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth
The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears
Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King
Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens
Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges
Hair 1979 Milos Forman
Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier
Hamlet 2000 Michael Almereyda
Handle with Care 1977 Jonathan Demme
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen
Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz
A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple
Harry and Tonto 1974 Paul Mazursky
A Hatful of Rain 1957 Fred Zinnemann
The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Elaine May
Heartland 1979 Richard Pearce
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1991 George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr
Heat and Dust 1983 James Ivory
Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann
Heavy Traffic 1973 Ralph Bakshi
Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik 1984
The Heiress 1949 William Wyler
Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France 1944 Laurence Olivier
Henry Fool 1997 Hal Hartley
Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall
Tengoku to jigoku 1963 Akira Kurosawa
The High and the Mighty 1954 William A. Wellman
High Art 1998 Lisa Cholodenko
High Hopes 1988 Mike Leigh
High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh
The Hill 1965 Sidney Lumet
Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
The Homecoming 1973 Peter Hall
Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James
Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman
Hôtel Terminus 1988 Marcel Ophüls
The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry
Household Saints 1993 Nancy Savoca
House of Games 1987 David Mamet
How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco
Howards End 1992 James Ivory
Hud 1963 Martin Ritt
Huey Long 1985 Ken Burns
Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen
The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen
‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
I Remember Mama 1948 George Stevens
I Want to Live! 1958 Robert Wise
If…. 1968 Lindsay Anderson
Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
I’m All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting
Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks
In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field
In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison
The Informer 1935 John Ford
Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer
The Insider 1999 Michael Mann
Internal Affairs 1990 Mike Figgis
The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie
It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
It’s a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra
Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe
Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland
Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri
Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe
Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray
Le juge et l’assassin 1976 Bertrand Tavernier
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer
Ju Dou 1990 Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut
Giulietta degli spiriti 1965 Federico Fellini
Junior Bonner 1972 Sam Peckinpah
Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa
The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak
The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
The King and I 1956 Walter Lang
King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
King Lear 1971 Peter Brook
The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese
The King of Marvin Gardens 1972 Bob Rafelson
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Hector Babenco
Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula
Nóz w wodzie 1962 Roman Polanski
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton
L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle
The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
Ladybird Ladybird 1994 Ken Loach
Lamerica 1994 Gianni Amelio
The Last American Hero 1973 Lamont Johnson
The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci
Le dernier métro 1980 François Truffaut
The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich
The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl
Ultimo tango a Parigi 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese
The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese
Laura 1944 Otto Preminger
The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall
Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis
Il gattopardo 1963 Luchino Visconti
The Letter 1940 William Wyler
A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Les liaisons dangereuses 1959 Roger Vadim
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Life Is Sweet 1990 Mike Leigh
The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle
Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz
Como agua para chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau
Lili 1953 Charles Walters
Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn
Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy
The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler
Little Fugitive 1953 Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin
The Kidnappers 1953 Philip Leacock
Malenkaya Vera 1988 Vasili Pichul
Little Women 1933 George Cukor
Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Henry Hathaway
Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo
Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth
Lola 1981 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls
Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick
Lone Star 1996 John Sayles
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
Long Day’s Journey Into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet
The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman
The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie
The Long Voyage Home 1940 John Ford
The Longest Day 1962 Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald
Look Back in Anger 1959 Tony Richardson
Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra
Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks
The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder
Szerelem 1971 Károly Makk
Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey
Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen
Eine Liebe in Deutschland 1983 Andrzej Wajda
Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder
Lovely & Amazing 2001 Nicole Holofcener
L’amour en fuite 1979 François Truffaut
Lover Come Back 1961 Delbert Mann
Les amants 1958 Louis Malle
Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 Milos Forman
Loving 1970 Irvin Kershner
Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
M 1931 Fritz Lang
Mad Max 1979 George Miller
The Madness of King George 1994 Nicholas Hytner
Trollflöjten 1975 Ingmar Bergman
The Major and the Minor 1942 Billy Wilder
Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey
Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee
The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann
Man Hunt 1941 Fritz Lang
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley
L’homme qui aimait les femmes 1977 François Truffaut
The Man Who Wasn’t There 2001 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
Manon des sources 1986 Claude Berri
Matrimonio all’italiana 1964 Vittorio De Sica
Married to the Mob 1988 Jonathan Demme
The Marrying Kind 1952 George Cukor
Marty 1955 Delbert Mann
Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson
MASH 1970 Robert Altman
Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö 1990 Aki Kaurismäki
Mayerling 1936 Anatole Litvak
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
Melvin and Howard 1980 Jonathan Demme
Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
The Memory of Justice 1976 Marcel Ophüls
The Men 1950 Fred Zinnemann
Tenue de soirée 1986 Bertrand Blier
Metropolitan 1990 Whit Stillman
Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen
Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
Minnie and Moskowitz 1971 John Cassavetes
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 Preston Sturges
Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton
The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn
Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski
The Misfits 1961 John Huston
Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge 1990 James Ivory
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 1953 Jacques Tati
Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra
Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler
Mon oncle d’Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais
Mona Lisa 1986 Neil Jordan
Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin
Monsters, Inc. 2001 David Silverman, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich
Moonlighting 1982 Jerzy Skolimowski
Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison
The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966 Karel Reisz
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage
Mother 1996 Albert Brooks
Moulin Rouge 1952 John Huston
The Mouthpiece 1932 James Flood, Elliott Nugent
Much Ado About Nothing 1993 Kenneth Branagh
Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
Le souffle au coeur 1971 Louis Malle
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd
My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears
My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
My Dinner with Andre 1981 Louis Malle
My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown 1989 Jim Sheridan
Mitt liv som hund 1985 Lasse Hallström
My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava
Ma nuit chez Maud 1969 Éric Rohmer
My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
Az én XX. századom 1989 Ildikó Enyedi
Mon oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker
Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
Animal House 1978 John Landis
National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown
Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
Pote tin Kyriaki 1960 Jules Dassin
Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero
A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven
Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci
Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch
Nobody’s Fool 1994 Robert Benton
Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt
North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
Nothing But the Best 1964 Clive Donner
Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper
La nuit de Varennes 1982 Ettore Scola
The Nun’s Story 1959 Fred Zinnemann
Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed
Of Mice and Men 1939 Lewis Milestone
Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann
Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean
Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel
On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer
On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan
One False Move 1992 Carl Franklin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
One Foot in Heaven 1941 Irving Rapper
One Hour with You 1932 Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
One Night of Love 1934 Victor Schertzinger
One Potato, Two Potato 1964 Larry Peerce
One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder
Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
Roma città aperta 1945 Roberto Rossellini
Operation Crossbow 1965 Michael Anderson
The Opposite of Sex 1998 Don Roos
Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford
Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1951 Orson Welles
Our Town 1940 Sam Wood
Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood
The Overlanders 1946 Harry Watt
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman
Paint Your Wagon 1969 Joshua Logan
Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini
The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges
The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula
A Passage to India 1984 David Lean
En passion 1969 Ingmar Bergman
Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner
The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet
Payday 1973 Daryl Duke
Pelle erobreren 1987 Bille August
The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
Screen Two: Persuasion 1995 Roger Michell
Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Jean Renoir
Petulia 1968 Richard Lester
The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor
The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller
The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway
Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon
The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards
Pinocchio 1940 Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco 1981 Hector Babenco
A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton
Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone
Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood
The Player 1992 Robert Altman
Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper
Ponette 1996 Jacques Doillon
Il postino 1994 Massimo Troisi, Michael Radford
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett
Pretty Baby 1978 Louis Malle
Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard
The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood
Prince of the City 1981 Sidney Lumet
The Prisoner 1955 Peter Glenville
The Private Life of Henry VIII. 1933 Alexander Korda
Prizzi’s Honor 1985 John Huston
The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman
Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen
Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Quadrophenia 1979 Franc Roddam
The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford
Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson
Da hong deng long gao gao gua 1991 Yimou Zhang
Raising Arizona 1987 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa
The Rapture 1991 Michael Tolkin
Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon
Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray
Trois couleurs: Rouge 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston
Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory
Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox
Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino
Le retour de Martin Guerre 1982 Daniel Vigne
Reuben, Reuben 1983 Robert Ellis Miller
Reversal of Fortune 1990 Barbet Schroeder
Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier
Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah
Du rififi chez les hommes 1955 Jules Dassin
The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman
Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman
River’s Edge 1986 Tim Hunter
Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Luchino Visconti
Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore
Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler
Romeo and Juliet 1936 George Cukor
Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli
Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton
A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory
The Rose Tattoo 1955 Daniel Mann
Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
‘Round Midnight 1986 Bertrand Tavernier
Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey
La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak
Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson
Ruthless People 1986 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Sahara 1943 Zoltan Korda
Salaam Bombay! 1988 Mira Nair
Salesman 1969 David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Tsubaki Sanjûrô 1962 Akira Kurosawa
Sanshô dayû 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham
Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe
Sayonara 1957 Joshua Logan
Scener ur ett äktenskap 1973
Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
The Scoundrel 1935 Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann
The Searchers 1956 John Ford
Secret Honor 1984 Robert Altman
Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh
Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee
Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks
Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet
The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise
Pasqualino Settebellezze 1975 Lina Wertmüller
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen
Seven Days to Noon 1950 John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond
The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder
Det sjunde inseglet 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh
Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer
Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock
Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks
Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden
Shane 1953 George Stevens
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford
Sherman’s March 1985 Ross McElwee
She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee
The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller
Sciuscià 1946 Vittorio De Sica
Tirez sur le pianiste 1960 François Truffaut
The Shooting Party 1985 Alan Bridges
The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel
The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch
Obchod na korze 1965 Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár
A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards
Shrek 2001 Vicky Jenson, Andrew Adamson
Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox
Tystnaden 1963 Ingmar Bergman
The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
Le monde du silence 1956 Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Silk Stockings 1957 Rouben Mamoulian
Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols
Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Sitting Pretty 1948 Walter Lang
Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen
A Slight Case of Murder 1938 Lloyd Bacon
Smash Palace 1981 Roger Donaldson
Smile 1975 Michael Ritchie
Sommarnattens leende 1955 Ingmar Bergman
The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 William Cottrell, David Hand, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey
Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
Le chagrin et la pitié 1969 Marcel Ophüls
The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan
Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock
The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 2001 Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan
Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava
Stagecoach 1939 John Ford
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder
A Star Is Born 1937 Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer
Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
Starman 1984 John Carpenter
The Stars Look Down 1940 Carol Reed
State Fair 1933 Henry King
Stevie 1978 Robert Enders
Baisers volés 1968 François Truffaut
Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme
Stormy Monday 1988 Mike Figgis
L’histoire d’Adèle H. 1975 François Truffaut
Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman
Qiu Ju da guan si 1992 Yimou Zhang
Une affaire de femmes 1988 Claude Chabrol
Storytelling 2001 Todd Solondz
La strada 1954 Federico Fellini
The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch
Straight Time 1978 Dustin Hoffman, Ulu Grosbard
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch
Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan
Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog
Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Sugarland Express 1974 Steven Spielberg
Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
Le rayon vert 1986 Éric Rohmer
Summertime 1955 David Lean
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger
Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray 1962 Serge Bourguignon
Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder
Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock
The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 1971 Melvin Van Peebles
Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto 1974 Lina Wertmüller
Swing Time 1936 George Stevens
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent
Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami
Ta’m e guilass 1997 Abbas Kiarostami
A Taste of Honey 1961 Tony Richardson
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
Marusa no onna 1987 Jûzô Itami
Marusa no onna 2 1988 Jûzô Itami
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 1969 Abraham Polonsky
10 1979 Blake Edwards
The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille
Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford
The Tender Trap 1955 Charles Walters
Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks
La terra trema 1948 Luchino Visconti
Tess 1979 Roman Polanski
Cet obscur objet du désir 1977 Luis Buñuel
That’s Life! 1986 Blake Edwards
Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott
These Three 1936 William Wyler
They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969 Sydney Pollack
They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford, Robert Montgomery
They Won’t Forget 1937 Mervyn LeRoy
The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Alexander Korda, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan, Zoltan Korda, Michael Powell, William Cameron Menzies
The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke
The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
Die dritte Generation 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 François Girard
This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner
Que la bête meure 1969 Claude Chabrol
This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson
Three Comrades 1938 Frank Borzage
Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack
Kumonosu-jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa
Whisky Galore! 1949 Alexander Mackendrick
Die Blechtrommel 1979 Volker Schlöndorff
To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock
To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
Huo zhe 1994 Yimou Zhang
Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson
Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack
Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich
Topaz 1969 Alfred Hitchcock
Topkapi 1964 Jules Dassin
Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven
Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh
The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan
L’albero degli zoccoli 1978 Ermanno Olmi
The Trip to Bountiful 1985 Peter Masterson
Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel
Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock
True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway
True Love 1989 Nancy Savoca
Trust 1990 Hal Hartley
Tunes of Glory 1960 Ronald Neame
12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
Twelve O’Clock High 1949 Henry King
Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks
Les deux Anglaises et le continent 1971 François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
La ciociara 1960 Vittorio De Sica
Ugetsu monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
Ulzana’s Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich
Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman
Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood
The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer
Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 Louis Malle
The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet
Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
Violette Nozière 1978 Claude Chabrol
Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan
The Voice of the Turtle 1947 Irving Rapper
Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater
Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
A Walk in the Sun 1945 Lewis Milestone
The War Game 1965 Peter Watkins
The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito
The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill
Watch on the Rhine 1943 Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
The Waterdance 1992 Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg
The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack
Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Todd Solondz
La fille du puisatier 1940 Marcel Pagnol
West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
The Whales of August 1987 Lindsay Anderson
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström
What’s Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich
When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner
White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols
The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
L’enfant sauvage 1970 François Truffaut
Les roseaux sauvages 1994 André Téchiné
Smultronstället 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Wilson 1944 Henry King
Der Himmel über Berlin 1987 Wim Wenders
Wise Blood 1979 John Huston
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, Norman Taurog, King Vidor, Victor Fleming
Suna no onna 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens
The Women 1939 George Cukor
Women in Love 1969 Ken Russell
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de “nervios” 1988 Pedro Almodóvar
Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh
Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols
Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
The World of Henry Orient 1964 George Roy Hill
Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk
Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz
The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir
The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown
Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning
Yi yi 2000 Edward Yang
Yôjinbô 1961 Akira Kurosawa
You Can Count on Me 2000 Kenneth Lonergan
You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang
Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford
Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón
Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège 1933 Jean Vigo
In response to the American Film Institute announcing its list of 400 films to be voted upon for their selection of the 100 years…100 American movies, the Los Angeles Daily News conducted its own poll in late 1997 asking their readers to choose their own top feature films of the century from the same list of 400 candidates. The results were published in the December 3, 1997 issue of the paper.
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The African Queen (1951)
8. The Sound of Music (1965)
9. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
12. Schindler’s List (1993)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
14. It Happened One Night (1934)
15. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
16. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
17. Patton (1970)
18. Dances with Wolves (1990)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
21. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
22. All About Eve (1950)
23. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
24. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
25. Stagecoach (1939)
26. Fantasia (1940)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. Ben-Hur (1959)
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
30. Psycho (1960)
31. (tie) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
31. (tie) Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
31. (tie) Oklahoma! (1955)
31. (tie) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
35. (tie) Forrest Gump (1994)
35. (tie) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. (tie) My Fair Lady (1964)
38. (tie) E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
38. (tie) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
38. (tie) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
38. (tie) Some Like It Hot (1959)
38. (tie) To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
38. (tie) West Side Story (1961)
44. (tie) An American In Paris (1951)
44. (tie) Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. (tie) From Here to Eternity (1953)
44. (tie) Laura (1944)
44. (tie) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
44. (tie) On The Waterfront (1954)
44. (tie) The Quiet Man (1952)
51. (tie) Frankenstein (1931)
51. (tie) The Graduate (1967)
51. (tie) North By Northwest (1959)
51. (tie) Rocky (1976)
51. (tie) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
51. (tie) The Ten Commandments (1956)
57. (tie) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
57. (tie) Braveheart (1995)
57. (tie) Double Indemnity (1944)
57. (tie) Lost Horizon (1937)
57. (tie) Mary Poppins (1964)
57. (tie) M*A*S*H (1970)
57. (tie) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
64. (tie) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
64. (tie) Giant (1956)
64. (tie) The Jazz Singer (1927)
64. (tie) Midnight Cowboy (1969)
64. (tie) Mrs. Miniver (1942)
64. (tie) Raging Bull (1980)
64. (tie) Rebecca (1940)
64. (tie) Wings (1927)
72. (tie) American Graffiti (1973)
72. (tie) Annie Hall (1977)
72. (tie) The Color Purple (1985)
72. (tie) The French Connection (1971)
72. (tie) The Gold Rush (1925)
72. (tie) The Longest Day (1962)
72. (tie) Rain Man (1988)
72. (tie) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
72. (tie) The Sting (1973)
72. (tie) Tootsie (1982)
72. (tie) 12 Angry Men (1957)
72. (tie) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
84. (tie) Apocalypse Now (1979)
84. (tie) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
84. (tie) Chinatown (1974)
84. (tie) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
84. (tie) Funny Girl (1968)
84. (tie) Gunga Din (1939)
84. (tie) Shane (1953)
84. (tie) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
84. (tie) The Third Man (1949)
93. (tie) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
93. (tie) Blade Runner (1982)
93. (tie) Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
93. (tie) The Caine Mutiny (1954)
93. (tie) Chariots of Fire (1981)
93. (tie) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
93. (tie) East of Eden (1955)
93. (tie) Field of Dreams (1989)
93. (tie) 42nd Street (1933)
93. (tie) The Godfather, Part II (1974)
93. (tie) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
93. (tie) The Lion King (1994)
93. (tie) The Lost Weekend (1945)
93. (tie) Marty (1955)
93. (tie) Mister Roberts (1955)
93. (tie) On Golden Pond (1981)
93. (tie) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
93. (tie) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
93. (tie) Rear Window (1954)
93. (tie) Stalag 17 (1953)
93. (tie) Taxi Driver (1976)
93. (tie) Vertigo (1958)
93. (tie) The Way We Were (1973)
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.” (Bresson)
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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.
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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).
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)
(Orson Welles, 1958)
(Satyajit Ray, 1958)
(Howard Hawks, 1959)
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
(Jean Vigo, 1926)
(Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
(Max Ophuls, 1953)
(Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
(Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
(Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
(Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
(Nicholas Ray, 1953)
(Luis Buñuel, 1961)
(Charles Laughton, 1955)
(Tod Browning, 1932)
(Claude Chabrol, 1968)
(Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
(David Lean, 1945)
(Dusan Makavejev, 1971)
(Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
(Santiago Alvarez, 1968)
(John Ford, 1939)
(Jean Cocteau,1946)
(Sam Fuller, 1963)
(Victor Sjöström, 1928)
(GW Pabst, 1929)
(Charles Chaplin, 1947)
(Kamal Amrohi, 1971)
(Robert Bresson, 1959)
(William A Seiter, 1934)
(Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
(Eric Rohmer, 1967)
(Victor Erice, 1973)
(Robert Hamer, 1949)
(Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
(Jiri Menzel, 1966)
(Billy Wilder, 1944)
(Walt Disney, 1940)
(Werner Herzog, 1974)
(Marcel Carné,1945)
(Buster Keaton, 1926)
(DW Griffith, 1915)
(Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
(Robert Altman, 1971)
(Bob Rafelson, 1972)
(Les Blank, 1982)
(Woody Allen, 1984)
(Sam Wood, 1935)
(Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968)
(David Lynch, 1986)
(Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
(Carol Reed, 1949)
(Anthony Mann, 1958)
(Zhang Yimou, 1991)
(Carl Dreyer, 1943)
(Robert Flaherty, 1921)
(Powell and Pressburger, 1943)
(George Cukor, 1940)
(François Truffaut, 1962)
(Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)
(Mitchell Leisen, 1937)
(Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
(Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
(Ken Loach, 1970)
(The Mitchell brothers, 1972)
(John Cassavetes, 1976)
(Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
(Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
(Marcel Varnel, 1937)
(Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
(John Huston, 1972)
(Gauber Rocher, 1969)
(Károly Makk, 1971)
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
(Jean Renoir, 1932)
(Paul Morrissey, 1970)
(Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
(Miklós Jancsó, 1962)
(Wim Wenders, 1975)
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
(Preston Sturges, 1941)
(Luchino Visconti, 1963)
(Fritz Lang, 1956)
(Michael Reeves, 1968)
(Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
(Ousmane Sembene, 1974)
(Francesco Rosi, 1961)
(Frank Capra, 1932)
In July 2015 BBC Culture polled 62 film critics from around the world to determine the 100 greatest American movies ever made. There are some surprising results with Gone With the Wind which placed 6th on 
In 2016 Time Out New York polled over 50 experts in the field, including TONY contributors, directors, actors and stunt actors, to list their top action films. The results were
Alfred Hitchcock was at the peak of his powers when he made Vertigo, a psychological thriller, based on the French novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, that follows a retired police detective, Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart), who has acrophobia, and is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behaviour. Focusing on the romantic obsession that Scottie develops for the enigmatic woman (Kim Novak), Vertigo received mixed reviews upon release, particularly in Hitchcock’s native England, with some fans disappointed at the director departing from his earlier lighter romantic thrillers and a number of critics dismissing it as nothing more than a slowly paced murder mystery. However, it’s re-evaluation began in the following decade, when writers at the influential French magazine Cahiers du cinéma began to view Hitchcock as a serious cinematic artist rather than just a slick crowd pleaser and soon film scholars were singling the movie out as a work of hypnotic visual beauty and a profound meditation on love, loss and identity. Over sixty years on, Vertigo continues to fascinate and is now heralded, by many, as Hitchock’s most important contribution to cinema.
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In 2004 The New York Times published a book that listed the 1000 films that they consider the finest ever made. The book features a collection of original reviews by the critics of the paper, and the list encompasses movies of every conceivable genre, including musicals, dramas, comedies, foreign films and animated features. The films are listed in alphabetical order. Buy – The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made: An Indispensable Collection of Original Reviews of Box-Office Hits and Misses (Film Critics of the New York Times)
1931 René Clair
2002 Alexander Payne
1981 Sydney Pollack
1949 George Cukor
. 2002 Spike Jonze
1991 Atom Egoyan
1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
1997 Paul Schrader
1951 John Huston
1930 Luis Buñuel
2001 Steven Spielberg
1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
1992 Ron Clements, John Musker
1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
1974 Martin Scorsese
1969 Arthur Penn
1986 James Cameron
1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1999 Pedro Almodóvar
1930 Lewis Milestone
1955 Douglas Sirk
1949 Robert Rossen
1976 Alan J. Pakula
1984 Milos Forman
1973 Federico Fellini
In response to the American Film Institute announcing its list of 400 films to be voted upon for their selection of the