480. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 104 mins.
Louise Brooks stars, in the second of her two films with Pabst, as the innocent, naive daughter of a pharmacist who becomes puzzled when on the day of her confirmation their housekeeper, Elisabeth, leaves suddenly. It turns out she is pregnant with the pharmacist’s baby and later that day appears to have committed suicide. Brooks is a beautiful and compelling presence that helps lift the film from lurid melodrama into the realm of haunting human drama.
479. 3 Women (1977) Dir. Robert Altman, 124 mins.
It depicts the increasingly bizarre, mysterious relationship between a woman (Shelley Duvall) and her roommate and co-worker (Sissy Spacek) in a dusty, underpopulated Californian desert town.
478. Mon Oncle (1958) Dir. Jacques Tati, 117 mins
The film centres on the socially awkward yet lovable character of Monsieur Hulot and his quixotic struggle with postwar France’s infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and consumerism.
477. Être et Avoir (2002) Dir. Nicolas Philibert, 104 mins.
It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Mr Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
476. The Gleaners & I (2000) Dir. Agnès Varda, 82 mins.
The film tracks a series gleaners as they hunt for food, knicknacks, thrown away items, and personal connection.
475. His Girl Friday (1940) Dir. Howard Hawks, 92 mins.
Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, who is about to forsake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy’s editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back.
474. Magnolia (1999) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 188 mins.
The film stars Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards and Melora Walters, and is a mosaic of interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
473. The Celebration (1998) Dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 105 mins.
The film tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their father’s 60th birthday. At the dinner, the eldest son publicly accuses his father of sexually abusing both him and his twin sister (who has recently killed herself).
472. Band of Outsiders (1964) Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 95 mins.
The film is about three people who commit a robbery.
471. Vampyr (1932) Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 73 mins.
Although now lauded for its disorientating visual effects and atmosphere, Vampyr was considered a low point in Dreyer’s career at the time of release. The film was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s collection of supernatural stories ‘In a Glass Darkly’ and follows Allan Gray, a student of the occult who enters the village of Courtempierre, which is under the curse of a vampire.
470. Ida (2013) Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, 82 mins.
Set in Poland in 1962, the film is about a young woman who was orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II. On the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun, she must first meet her aunt. The former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative tells her that her parents were Jewish and the two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their family. Watch
469. Journey to Italy (1954) Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 97 mins.
Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play Katherine and Alex Joyce, an English married couple whose trip to Italy unexpectedly undermines their marriage.
468. Mind Game (2004) Dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 103 mins.
After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedelic self-discovery experience with her and his friends.
467. Repentance (1984) Dir. Tengiz Abuladze, 153 mins.
A provincial woman (Zeynab Botsvadze) is put on trial for robbing the grave of an absurd Soviet dictator (Avtandil Makharadze).
466. Cria Cuervos (1976) Dir. Carlos Saura, 110 mins.
The film is an allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with loss. Watch
465. Suspiria (1977) Dir. Dario Argento, 98 mins.
Full of the stylistic delirious excess that made Argento a cult director, Suspiria follows a young American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany and, amidst a series of murders, finds herself battling a witches coven. As well as being recognised as influential in the horror genre, The Village Voice ranked Suspiria #100 on their list of the 100 greatest films made in the 20th century. It was also ranked #312 on Empire magazine’s 500 greatest films ever as well as number 45 on their list ‘The 100 Best Films of World Cinema’.
464. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Dir. Woody Allen, 104 mins.
Crimes and Misdemeanors is an alternately comical and dramatic examination of scruples as it follows two parallel storylines that manage to connect by the story’s end.
463. Shame (1968) Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 103 mins.
The film explores shame, moral decline, self-loathing and violence through a politically uninvolved couple, concert pianists Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, who are attempting to flee a civil war-ravaged European nation. They take refuge on a remote island but find no escape when large numbers of soldiers arrive. Bergman provides a chillingly real vision of a world in tatters where love and trust have fallen by the wayside.
462. Distant Thunder (1973) Dir. Satyajit Ray, 101 mins.
Gangacharan is a village Brahmin who teaches, organises religious events and tries to prevent epidemics. However, things get difficult with a raging war and an approaching famine.
461. The King of Comedy (1982) Dir. Martin Scorsese, 109 mins.
Practicing his patter in his basement with cardboard cut-outs of his favorite celebrities, mediocre aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) believes that one appearance on the evening talk show of the Johnny Carson-esque Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) will be his ticket to stardom. One of a string of box office disappointments for Scorsese in the early 80s which is now considered among his best work. Watch
A list taken from the 2013 edition of the book ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’ in alphabetical order. The reference book is a part of a series designed and produced by Quintessence Editions, a London-based company, and published in English-language versions by Cassell Illustrated (UK), ABC Books (the publishing division of Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and Barron’s (US) and features original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics. Buy 2013 edition – 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
12 Angry Men 1957
2001 1968
39 Steps, The 1935
42nd Street 1933
8 1/2 1963
A One and a Two Yi yi 2000
A Separation Jodaeiye Nader az Simin 2011
A Throw of Dice 1929
Actor’s Revenge, An Yukinojo Henge 1963
Actress, The Yuen Ling-Yuk 1992
Adam’s Rib 1949
Adventure, The Avventura, L’ 1960
Adventures of Priscillia, Queen of the Desert, The 1994
Adventures of Robin Hood, The 1938
Affair to Remember, An 1957
African Queen, The 1951
Age of Gold, The Age d’or, L’ 1930
Aguirre: The Wrath of God Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes 1972
Aileen Wournos: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003
Airplane! 1980
Akira 1988
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Angst Essen Seele Auf 1974
Alien 1979
Aliens 1986
All About Eve 1950
All About My Mother Todo Sobre Mi Madre 1999
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
All That Heaven Allows 1956
All That Jazz 1979
All the President’s Men 1976
Alphaville Alphaville, une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution 1965
Amadeus 1984
Amarcord 1973
American Beauty 1999
American Friend, The Amerikanische Freund, Der 1977
American Graffiti 1973
American In Paris, An 1951
American Werewolf in London 1981
Amores Perros Amores Perros 2000
Amour 2012
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
Andalusian Dog, An Un chien andalou 1928
Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublyov 1969
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
Annie Hall 1977
Apartment, The 1960
Apocalypse Now 1979
Archangel 1990
Argo 2012
Ariel 1988
Artists and Models 1955
Ascent, The Voskhozhdenie 1976
Ashes and Diamonds Popiól I Diament 1958
Asphalt Jungle, The 1950
Asthenic Syndrome, The Astenicheskij Sindrom 1989
Atalante, L’ 1934
Atlantic City 1980
Audition 1999
Autumn Afternoon, An Sanma No Aji 1962
Avatar 2009
Awful Truth, The 1937
Babe 1995
Babette’s Feast Babette’s Gaestebud 1987
Back to the Future 1985
Bad and the Beautiful, The 1952
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
Badlands 1973
Baker’s Wife, The Femme du Boulanger, La 1938
Ballad of Narayama, The Narayama Bushi-Ko 1983
Balthazar Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
Band Wagon, The 1953
Bank Dick, The 1940
Barefoot Contessa, The 1954
Barren Lives Vidas Secas 1963
Barry Lyndon 1975
Batman 1989
Battle of Algiers, The Battaglia di Algeri, La 1965
Battle of San Pietro, The 1945
Battleship Potemkin Bronenosets Potyomkin 1925
Beau Travail 1999
Beautiful Troublemaker, The Belle noiseuse, La 1991
Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête 1946
Before the Revolution Prima Della Rivoluzione 1964
Being John Malkovich 1999
Being There 1979
Belle de Jour 1967
Ben-Hur 1959
Best Years of Our Lives, The 1946
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
Bicycle Thief, The Ladri di biciclette 1948
Big 1988
Big Carnival, The 1951
Big Chill, The 1983
Big Heat, The 1953
Big Parade, The 1925
Big Red One, The 1980
Big Sleep, The 1946
Bigamist, The 1953
Bigger Than Life 1956
Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo, L’ 1970
Birds, The 1963
Birth of a Nation, The 1915
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The 1933
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die 1972
Black Cat, The 1934
Black God, White Devil Deus E O Diabo Na Terra Do Sol 1964
Black Narcissus 1946
Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro 1959
Black Sunday Maschera del Demonio, La 1960
Black Swan 2010
Blackmail 1929
Blade Runner 1982
Blair Witch Project, The 1999
Blazing Saddles 1974
Blonde Cobra 1963
Blowup 1966
Blue Angel, The Blaue Engel, Der 1930
Blue Kite, The Lan Feng Zheng 1993
Blue Velvet 1986
Boat, The Boot, Das 1981
Bob the Gambler Bob le flambeur 1955
Body Heat 1981
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Boogie Nights 1997
Boudu Saved from Drowning Boudu Sauvé des Eaux 1932
Bowling for Columbine 2002
Boyz N the Hood 1991
Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, The Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge 1995
Braveheart 1995
Brazil 1985
Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961
Breakfast Club, The 1985
Breaking Away 1979
Breaking the Waves 1996
Breathless A Bout de Souffle 1959
Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Bridesmaids 2011
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957
Brief Encounter 1946
Brighter Summer Day, A Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian 1991
Brightness Yeelen 1987
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Broadcast News 1987
Brokeback Mountain 2005
Broken Blossoms 1919
Buffalo 66 1998
Bull Durham 1988
Burmese Harp, The Biruma No Tategoto 1956
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
Butcher, The Boucher, Le 1969
Cabaret 1972
Cabin in the Woods 2011
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das 1919
Cairo Station Bab El Hadid 1958
Camille 1936
Captain Blood 1935
Captains Courageous 1937
Caravaggio 1986
Carmen Jones 1954
Carrie 1976
Casablanca 1942
Cat People 1942
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Ceddo 1977
Celebration, The Festen 1998
Celine and Julie Go Boating Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau 1974
Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The 1978
Chariots of Fire 1981
Children of a Lesser God 1986
Children of Paradise, The Enfants du Paradis, Les 1945
Chimes at Midnight Campanadas a Medianoche 1965
Chinatown 1974
Chinese Ghost Story, A Sinnui Yauman 1987
Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979
Christmas Story, A 1983
Chronicle of a Summer Chronique d’un été 1961
Chungking Express Chong Qing Sen Lin 1994
Cinema Paradiso Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988
Citizen Kane 1941
City Lights 1931
City of God Cidade de Deus 2002
City of Sadness, A Beiqing Chengshi 1989
Cleo from 5 to 7 Cléo de 5 à 7 1962
Clerks 1994
Clockwork Orange, A 1971
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Close-up Nema-Ye Nazdik 1990
Closely Watched Trains Ostre Sledované Vlaky 1967
Cloud-Capped Star, The Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960
Clueless 1995
Color of Pomegranates, The Sayat Nova 1969
Color Purple, The 1985
Come and See Idi I Smotri 1985
Come Drink With Me Da Zui Xia 1966
Conformist, The Conformista, Il 1969
Consequences of Love 2004
Contempt Le Mépris 1963
Conversation, The 1974
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, The 1989
Cool Hand Luke 1967
Cool World, The 1963
Cow, The Gaav 1968
Cranes are Flying, The Letjat Zhuravli 1957
Cria! Cría Cuervos 1975
Cries and Whispers Viskingar och Rop 1972
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Wo Hu Cang Long 2000
Crowd, The 1928
Crumb 1994
Crying Game, The 1992
Cyclo Xich Lo 1995
Daisies Sedmikrasky 1966
Dances with Wolves 1990
Dangerous Liaisons 1988
David Holzman’s Diary 1968
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Day for Night Nuit Américaine, La 1973
Day in the Country, A Partie de Campagne, Une 1935
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 1951
Daybreak Jour se lève, Le 1939
Days of Heaven 1978
Dead Man 1995
Dead Ringers 1988
Dead, The 1987
Dear Diary Caro Diario 1994
Decalogue, The Dekalog, Jeden 1988
Decline of the American Empire Déclin de l’Empire Américain, Le 1986
Deep End 1970
Deer Hunter, The 1978
Defiant Ones, The 1958
Delicatessen 1991
Deliverance 1972
Departed, the 2006
Dersu Uzala 1974
Deseret 1995
Destry Rides Again 1939
Detour 1945
Devils, The 1971
Diaboliques, Les 1954
Diary of a Country Priest Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951
Die Hard 1988
Diner 1982
Dirty Harry 1971
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie, Le 1972
District 9 2009
Diva 1981
Django Unchained 2012
Do the Right Thing 1989
Docks of New York, The 1928
Dodsworth 1936
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Dog Star Man 1962
Dog’s Life, A Mondo cane 1962
Dolce Vita, La 1960
Don’t Look Now 1973
Double Indemnity 1944
Double Life of Veronique, The Double Vie de Véronique, La 1991
Down By Law 1986
Downfall Untergang, Der 2004
Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1922
Dr. Strangelove 1964
Dr. Zhivago 1965
Dracula 1931
Dracula 1958
Drive 2011
Drugstore Cowboy 1989
Duck Soup 1933
Dumbo 1941
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
Ear, The Ucho 1970
Earth Zemlya 1930
Earth Entranced Terra Em Transe 1967
Easy Rider 1969
Eclipse, The Eclisse, L’ 1962
Edward Scissorhands 1990
El Norte 1983
El Topo 1970
Elephant 2003
Elephant Man, The 1980
Empire Strikes Back, The 1980
English Patient, The 1996
Enter the Dragon 1973
Eraserhead 1977
Europa ’51 1952
Europa Europa Hitlerjunge Salomon 1990
Evil Dead, The 1982
Exorcist, The 1973
Exterminating Angel, The 1962
Eyes Without a Face Yeux Sans Visage, Les 1959
F for Fake 1973
Faces 1968
Fanny and Alexander 1982
Fantasia 1940
Fantastic Planet Planète Sauvage, La 1973
Farewell My Concubine Ba Wang Bie Ji 1993
Farewell My Lovely Murder, My Sweet 1944
Fargo 1996
Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965
Fat City 1972
Fatal Attraction 1987
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
Field of Dreams 1989
Fight Club 1999
Firemen’s Ball, The Horí, Má Panenko 1967
Fires Were Started 1943
Fish Called Wanda, A 1988
Fitzcarraldo 1982
Five Easy Pieces 1970
Flaming Creatures 1963
Floating Weeds Ukigusa 1959
Fly, The 1986
Foolish Wives 1922
Footlight Parade 1933
Forbidden Games Jeux interdits 1952
Forbidden Planet 1956
Force of Evil 1948
Forrest Gump 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994
Fourth Man, The Vierde Man, De 1983
Fox and His Friends Faustrecht Der Freiheit 1975
Frankenstein 1931
Freaks 1932
Freedom for Us À Nous la liberté 1931
French Connection, The 1971
Frenzy 1972
From Here to Eternity 1953
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Funny Games 1997
Gabbeh 1996
Gallipoli 1981
Gangs of New York 2002
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il 1970
Gaslight 1944
General, The 1927
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
Gertrud 1964
Get Carter 1971
Ghandi 1982
Ghost Busters 1984
Giant 1956
Gigi 1958
Gilda 1946
Gimme Shelter 1970
Gladiator 2000
Gleaners and I, The Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, Les 2000
Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Glory 1989
Godfather, Part II, The 1974
Godfather, The 1972
Godson, The Samouraï, Le 1967
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933
Gold Rush, The 1925
Golden Coach, The Carrosse d’or, Le 1953
Golden River Subarnarekha 1965
Goldfinger 1964
Gomorrah Gomorra 2008
Gone with the Wind 1939
Good Bye Lenin! 2003
Good Morning Vietnam 1987
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, Il 1966
Goodbye Children Au revoir les enfants 1987
Goodfellas 1990
Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Vangelo Secondo Matteo, Il 1964
Graduate, The 1967
Grand Illusion Grande Illusion, La 1937
Grapes of Wrath, The 1940
Grave of the Fireflies Hotaru No Haka 1988
Grease 1978
Great Escape, The 1963
Great Expectations 1946
Great Train Robbery, The 1903
Greed 1924
Groundhog Day 1993
Gun Crazy 1949
Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957
Gunga Din 1939
Guys and Dolls 1955
Halloween 1978
Hana-bi 1997
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
Hanyeo Housemaid, The 1960
Happiness 1998
Hard Day’s Night, A 1964
Harder They Come, The 1973
Harold and Maude 1971
Haunting, The 1963
Head On Gegen die wand 2004
Heartbreak Kid, The 1972
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1991
Heat 1995
Heaven and Earth Magic 1962
Heavenly Creatures 1994
Heiress, The 1949
Henry V 1944
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1990
High Noon 1952
High Plains Drifter 1972
High School 1969
High Sierra 1941
High Society 1956
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer 1955
Hills Have Eyes, The 1977
Hired Hand, The 1971
Hiroshima mon amour 1959
His Girl Friday 1940
Hold Me While I’m Naked 1966
Hole, The Trou, Le 1959
Hoop Dreams 1994
Horse Thief, The Dao Ma Zei 1986
Hotel Terminus:The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus:Klaus Barbie et Son Temps 1988
Hour of the Wolf Vargtimmen 1968
House is Black, The Khaneh Siah Ast 1963
How Green Was My Valley 1941
Hud 1963
Hurt Locker 2008
Hustler, The 1961
Häxan 1923
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
I Know Where I’m Going! 1945
Ice Storm, The 1997
If… 1968
In a Lonely Place 1950
In the Heat of the Night 1967
In the Mood for Love Dut Yeung Nin Wa 2000
In the Realm of the Senses Ai No Corrida 1976
In the Year of the Pig 1969
Inception 2010
Incredible Shrinking Man, The 1957
Independence Day 1996
India Song 1975
Inglourious Basterds 2009
Intolerance 1916
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
It Happened One Night 1934
It’s a Gift 1934
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
Ivan the Terrible, I Ivan Groznyj I 1944
Jaws 1975
Jazz Singer, The 1927
Jeanne Dielman… 1975
Jerk, The 1979
Jezebel 1938
JFK 1991
Johnny Guitar 1954
Jules and Jim Jules et Jim 1962
Juliet of the Spirits Giulietta deglie Spiriti 1965
Jungle Book, The 1967
Jurassic Park 1993
Keeper of Promises O Pagador De Promessas 1962
Kes 1969
Kid Brother, The 1927
Killer of Sheep 1977
Killer, The Die Xue Shuang Xiong 1989
Killers, The 1946
Killing Fields, The 1984
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The 1976
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
King Kong 1933
King of Comedy, The 1983
King of New York 1990
Kingdom, The Riget 1994
Kippur 2000
Kiss Me Deadly 1955
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
Klute 1971
Koyaanisqatsi 1983
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
L.A. Confidential 1997
Ladies Man, The 1961
Lady Eve, The 1941
Lady from Shanghai, The 1948
Ladykillers, The 1955
Land Without Bread Hurdes, Las 1933
Last Chants for a Slow Dance 1977
Last Laugh, The Letzte Mann, Der 1924
Last Metro, The Dernier Metro, Le 1980
Last Picture Show, The 1971
Last Seduction, The 1994
Last Tango in Paris Ultimo Tango a Parigi 1972
Last Wave, The 1977
Last Year at Marienbad Année dernière à Marienbad, L’ 1961
Laura 1944
Lavender Hill Mob, The 1951
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Le Havre (Finland) 2011
Leopard, The Gattopardo, Il 1963
Les Miserables 2012
Let the Right One In 2008
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943
Life of Emile Zola, The 1937
Life of Pi 2012
Limité 1931
Lincoln 2012
Lion King, The 1994
Little Big Man 1970
Little Caeser 1930
Little Miss Sunshine 2006
Lives of Others, The Das Leben der Anderen 2006
Local Hero 1983
Lola 1961
Lolita 1962
Lone Star 1996
Long Goodbye, The 1973
Lord of the Rings, The 2001
Lost Weekend, The 1945
Louisiana Story 1948
Loulou 1980
Love Me Tonight 1932
Lucía 1969
M 1931
M*A*S*H* 1970
M. Hulot’s Holiday Vacances de M. Hulot, Les 1953
Mad Masters, The Maîtres fous, Les 1955
Mad Max 1979
Madame de… 1953
Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942
Magnolia 1999
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
Maltese Falcon, The 1941
Man Bites Dog C’est arrivé près de chez vouz 1992
Man Escaped, A Condamné à Mort s’échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où Il Veut, Un 1956
Man in Grey, The 1943
Man of Iron Czlowiek z Zelaza 1981
Man of Marble Czlowiek Z Marmuru 1977
Man of the West 1958
Man Who Fell to Earth, The 1976
Man who had his hair cut short, The De Man Die Zijin Haar Kort Liet Knippen 1965
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The 1962
Man with a Movie Camera, The Chelovek s kinoapparatom 1929
Manchurian Candidate, The 1962
Manhattan 1979
Manhunter 1986
Manila in the Claws of Brightness Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag 1975
Marketa Lazarová 1967
Marnie 1964
Marriage of Maria Braun, The Ehe Der Maria Braun, Die 1979
Marty 1955
Mary Poppins 1964
Masculine-Feminine Masculin-Féminin 1966
Masque of the Red Death, The 1964
Matrix, The 1999
Matter of Life and Death, A 1946
McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971
Mean Streets 1973
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
Memento 2000
Memories of Underdevelopment Memorias del Subdesarrollo 1968
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
Metropolis 1927
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Midnight Song Ye Ban Ge Sheng 1937
Mildred Pierce 1945
Mirror, The Zerkalo 1974
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Modern Times 1936
Money Argent, L’ 1983
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
Monty Python’s Life of Brian 1979
Moolaad&eacu; 1995
Moonstruck 1987
Mortal Storm, The 1940
Mother and the Whore, The Maman et la Putain, La 1973
Mother India Bharat Mata 1957
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
Mrs Minniver 1942
Muppet Movie, The 1979
Muriel’s Wedding 1994
Murmur of the Heart Souffle Au Coeur, Le 1971
Music Room, The Jalsaghar 1958
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
My Brilliant Career 1979
My Darling Clementine 1946
My Fair Lady 1964
My Left Foot 1989
My Life to Live Vivre Sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux 1962
My Man Godfrey 1936
My Night with Maud Ma Nuit Chez Maud 1969
My Own Private Idaho 1991
My Uncle Mon oncle 1958
Méditerranée 1963
Naked Gun, The 1988
Naked Spur, The 1953
Nanook of the North 1922
Napoléon 1927
Nashville 1975
Natural Born Killers 1994
Natural, The 1984
Neco z Alenky Alice 1988
Network 1976
Night and Fog Nuit et Brouillard 1955
Night at the Opera, A 1935
Night of the Hunter, The 1955
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Night of the Shooting Stars, The Notte di San Lorenzo, La 1982
Night, The Notte, La 1961
Nightmare on Elm Street, A 1984
Nights of Cabiria, The Notti of Cabiria, Le 1957
Ninotchka 1939
No Country for Old Men 2007
No Fear, No Die S’en Fout La Mort 1990
No Man’s Land 2001
North By Northwest 1959
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht 1979
Notorious 1946
Now, Voyager 1942
Nutty Professor, The 1963
October Oktyabr 1927
Odd Man Out 1947
Of Gods and Men 2010
Official Story, The 1988
Oklahoma 1955
Oldboy 2003
Olympia Part 1: Festival of the Nations & Part 2: Festival of Beauty Olympia 1: Teil – Fest Der Volker & Olympia 2: Teil – Fest Der Schönheit 1938
On the Town 1949
On the Waterfront 1954
Once Upon a Time in America 1983
Once Upon a Time in China Wong Fei-Hung 1991
Once Upon a Time in the West C’era Una Volta il West 1968
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
Onibaba 1964
Only Angels Have Wings 1939
Open City Roma, Città Aperta 1945
Open Your Eyes Abre Los Ojos 1997
Ordet 1955
Ordinary People 1980
Orphans of the Storm 1921
Orpheus Orphée 1950
Osama 2003
Ossessione 1943
Our Hospitality 1923
Out of Africa 1985
Out of the Past 1947
Outlaw Josey Wales, The 1976
Ox-Bow Incident, The 1943
Paisan Paisà 1946
Paleface, The 1948
Palm Beach Story, The 1942
Pan’s Labyrinth Laberinto del Fauno, El 2006
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951
Pandora’s Box Büchse der Pandora, Die 1929
Papillon 1973
Paranormal Activity 2007
Paris, Texas 1984
Passage to India, A 1984
Passenger Pasazerka 1963
Passion of Joan of Arc, The Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La 1928
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973
Pather Panchali 1955
Paths of Glory 1957
Patton 1970
Peeping Tom 1960
Peking Opera Blues Do Ma Daan 1986
Performance 1970
Persona 1966
Peter Ibbertson 1935
Phantom Carriage, The Körkarlen 1921
Phantom of the Opera, The 1925
Phenix City Story, The 1955
Philadelphia 1993
Philadelphia Story, The 1940
Piano, The 1993
Pickpocket 1959
Pickup on South Street 1953
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
Pier, The Jetée, La 1961
Pierrot Goes Wild Pierrot le Fou 1965
Pink Flamingos 1972
Pinocchio 1940
Place in the Sun, A 1951
Planet of the Apes 1968
Platoon 1986
Player, The 1992
Playtime 1967
Point Blank 1967
Poltergeist 1982
Postman Always Rings Twice, The 1946
Pretty Woman 1990
Princess Bride, The 1987
Prizzi’s Honor 1985
Producers, The 1968
Project A, Part II ‘A’ Gai Waak Juk Jaap 1987
Psycho 1960
Public Enemy, The 1931
Pulp Fiction 1994
Puppetmaster, The Hsimeng Jensheng 1993
Purple Rose of Cairo, The 1985
Pépé le Moko 1937
Quatre Cent Coups, Les 400 Blows, The 1959
Queen Christina 1933
Question of Silence, A Stilte Rond Christine M., De 1982
Quiet Earth, The 1985
Quiet Man, The 1952
Raging Bull 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Rain Man 1988
Raise the Red Lantern Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua 1991
Raising Arizona 1987
Ran 1985
Rapture, The 1991
Rashomon 1950
Real Life 1979
Rear Window 1954
Rebecca 1940
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
Reckless Moment, The 1949
Red and the White, The Csillagosok, Katonák 1967
Red Desert, The Deserto Rosso, Il 1964
Red Psalm Még Kér A Nép 1971
Red River 1948
Red Shoes, The 1948
Red Sorghum Hong Gao Liang 1987
Reds 1981
Report 1967
Repulsion 1965
Requiem for a Dream 2000
Resevoir Dogs 1992
Return of the Jedi 1983
Ride Lonesome 1959
Right Stuff, The 1983
Ring 1998
Rio Bravo 1959
Rio Grande 1950
RoboCop 1988
Rocco and his Brothers Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960
Rocky 1976
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The 1975
Roger & Me 1989
Roman Holiday 1953
Romper Stomper 1992
Room with a View, A 1986
Rope 1948
Rosemary’s Baby 1968
Rules of the Game, The Règle du Jeu, La 1939
Run Lola Run Lola Rennt 1998
Rushmore 1998
Russian Ark 1989
Safe 1995
Salo, or The 120 days of Sodom Salò o le centoventi giornate di sodoma 1975
Salt of the Earth 1954
Salvador 1986
Sanshô Dayû Sansho the Baliff 1954
Saragossa Manuscript Rekopis Znaleziony w Saragossie 1965
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960
Saturday Night Fever 1977
Satyricon 1969
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Scarface 1983
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation 1932
Schindler’s List 1993
Scorpio Rising 1964
Scream 1996
Se7en 1995
Searchers, The 1956
Seconds 1966
Secret Beyond the Door 1948
Secrets & Lies 1996
Senna 2010
Senso The Wanton Countess 1954
Sergeant York 1941
Serpico 1973
Servant, The 1963
Seven Samurai, The 1954
Seventh Seal, The Sjunde Inseglet, Det 1957
Seventh Victim, The 1943
Sex, lies, and videotape 1989
Shadow of a Doubt 1943
Shadows 1959
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Tini Zabutykh Predkiv 1964
Shaft 1971
Shame Skammen 1968
Shame 2011
Shane 1953
Shanghai Express 1932
Shaolin Master Killer Shao Lin San Shih Liu Fang 1978
Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
She Done Him Wrong 1933
She’s Gotta Have It 1986
Sherlock Jr. 1924
Sherman’s March 1986
Shine 1996
Shining, The 1980
Shoah 1985
Shock Corridor 1963
Shoot the Piano Player Tirez sur le pianiste 1960
Shop on Main Street, The Obchod Na Korze 1965
Short Cuts 1993
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
Silver Lode 1954
Sin of Lola Montes, The Lola Montès 1955
Singin’ in the Rain 1952
Sixth Sense, The 1999
Skyfall 2012
Slacker 1991
Sleeper 1973
Sleeping Dogs 1977
Sleuth 1972
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
Smiles of a Summer Night Sommarnattens Leede 1955
Smiling Madame Beudet, The Souriante Madame Beudet, La 1922
Smoke 1995
Snake Pit, The 1948
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
Solaris Solyaris 1972
Soldier of Orange Soldaat Van Oranje 1977
Some Came Running 1958
Some Like it Hot 1959
Sons of the Desert 1933
Sorrow and the Pity, The Chagrin et la Pitié, Le 1971
Sound of Music, The 1965
Spartacus 1960
Spider’s Stratagem, The Strategia del Ragno, La 1970
Spirit of the Beehive, The Espíritu del la Colmena, El 1973
Spirited Away Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi 2001
Splendor in the Grass 1961
Spring in a Small Town Xiao cheng zhi chun 1948
Stagecoach 1939
Stalker 1979
Stand By Me 1986
Star is Born, A 1954
Star Wars 1977
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
Stella Dallas 1937
Sting, The 1973
Storm over Asia Potomok Chingis-Khana 1928
Story of a Cheat, The Roman d’un tricheur, Le 1936
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The Zangiku monogatari 1939
Strada, La 1954
Stranger than Paradise 1984
Strangers on a Train 1951
Straw Dogs 1971
Streetcar Named Desire, A 1951
Strictly Ballroom 1992
Strike Stachka 1924
Stroszek 1977
Sullivan’s Travels 1941
Summer with Monika 1953
Suna No Onna Woman in the Dunes, The 1964
Sunless Sans Soleil 1983
Sunrise 1927
Sunset Blvd. 1950
Superfly 1972
Suspiria 1977
Sweet Hereafter, The 1997
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song 1971
Swing Time 1936
Sátántangó 1994
Tabu 1931
Tale of the Wind, A Histoire de Vent, Une 1988
Tale of Winter, A Conte d’hiver 1992
Tales of Ugetsu Ugetsu Monogatari 1953
Talk To Her Hable Con Ella 2002
Tampopo 1986
Targets 1968
Taste of Cherry Ta’m e Guilass 1997
Taxi Driver 1976
Ten Commandments, The 1956
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Terminator, The 1984
Terms of Endearment 1983
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
The Artist 2011
The Dark Knight 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly La Scaphandre et le Papillon 2007
The Draftsman’s Contract 1976
The Eagle 1925
The Exiles 1961
The Goddess 1934
The Great White Silencet 1924
The Kid with a Bike Le gamin au vélo 2011
The King’s Speech 2010
The Lady Vanishes 1938
The Man with the Golden Arm 1955
The Social Network 2010
The Tree of Life 2011
The White Ribbon Das Weisse Band 2009
Thelma and Louise 1991
There Will Be Blood 2007
Thief of Bagdad, The 1924
Thin Blue Line, The 1988
Thin Man, The 1934
Thin Red Line, The 1998
Thing, The 1982
Things To Come 1936
Third Man, The 1949
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993
This is Spinal Tap 1984
Three Colors: Blue Trois Couleurs: Bleu 1993
Three Colors: Red Trois Couleurs: Rouge 1994
Three Kings 1999
Three Lives and Only One Death Trois Vies & Une Seule Mort 1996
Throne of Blood Kumonosu Jo 1957
Through a Glass Darkly Såsom I En Spegel 1961
Through the Olive Trees Zire Darakhatan Zeyton 1994
Time to Live and the Time to Die, The Tong Nien Wang Shi 1985
Tin Drum, The Blechtrommel, Die 1979
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2011
Titanic 1997
To Be or Not to Be 1942
To Have and Have Not 1944
To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
To Live Ikiru 1952
Tokyo Olympiad Tokyo Orimpikku 1965
Tokyo Story 1953
Tongues Untied 1991
Too Early, Too Late 1982
Tootsie 1982
Top Gun 1986
Top Hat 1936
Total Recall 1991
Touch of Evil 1958
Touch of Zen, A Hsia Nu 1969
Towering Inferno, The 1974
Toy Story trilogy 2010
Trainspotting 1996
Travelling Players O Thiassos 1975
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 1948
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The Albero degli Zoccoli, L’ 1978
Trip to the Moon, A Le Voyage dans la Lune 1902
Tristana 1970
Triumph of the Will Triumph des Willens 1934
Trouble in Paradise 1932
Trust 1990
Tsotsi 2005
Turkish Delight Turks Fruit 1973
Two or Three Things I Know About Her 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D’Elle 1967
Two-Lane Blacktop 1971
Umberto D 1952
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les 1964
Unbelievable Truth, The 1989
Underground 1995
Unforgiven 1992
Unknown, The 1927
Untouchables, The 1987
Unvanquished, The Aparajito 1957
Up in Smoke 1978
Usual Suspects, The 1995
Vagabond Sans Toit Ni Loi 1985
Vampire, The Vampyr 1932
Vampires, Les 1915
Vanishing, The Spoorloos 1988
Vertigo 1958
Videodrome 1983
Vij 1967
Vinyl 1965
Viridiana 1961
Voyage in Italy Viaggio in Italia 1953
W.R.:Mysteries of the Organism W.R.—Misterje Organizma 1971
Wages of Fear Salaire De La Peur, La 1953
Wake in Fright 1971
Walkabout 1971
Wall Street 1987
Wall, The Deewar 1975
Wanda 1971
War Game, The 1965
Wavelength 1967
Wedding Banquet, The Hsi Yen 1993
Week End 1967
West Side Story 1961
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
Wheel, The Roue, La 1924
When Harry Met Sally 1989
Whiskey Galore! 1949
White Balloon, The Badkonake Sefid 1995
White Heat 1949
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966
Wicker Man, The 1973
Wild Bunch, The 1969
Wild Reeds Roseaux Sauvages, Les 1994
Wild Strawberries Smultronstället 1957
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971
Winchester ’73 1950
Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin 1987
Within Our Gates 1920
Withnail and I 1987
Wizard of Oz, The 1939
Wolf Man, The 1941
Woman Under the Influence, A 1974
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios 1988
Woodstock 1970
World of Apu, The Apur Sansar 1959
Written on the Wind 1956
Wrong Man, The 1956
Wuthering Heights 1939
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
Yol 1982
Young and the Damned, The Olvidados, Los 1950
Young Frankenstein 1974
Young Girls of Rochefort, The Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les 1967
Z 1969
Zabriskie Point 1970
Zero for Conduct Zéro de conduite 1933
Zero Kelvin Kjærlighetens Kjøtere 1995
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880. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 103 mins.
The film tells the story of a young witch, Kiki, who moves to a new town and uses her flying ability to earn a living delivering for a bakery. A charming, warm coming of age tale that’s beautifully animated.
879. Synecdoche, New York (2008) Dir. Charlie Kaufman, 124 mins.
The plot follows an ailing theatre director (Philip Seymour Hoffman), working on an increasingly elaborate stage production, whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. Writer/director Kaufman’s film was lauded for it’s ambition and it does have some brilliant parts but many will it find it uneven and baffling.
878. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 151 mins.
Another entry in the legendary collaboration between Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, the film follows a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father’s suicide. Influenced by the Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940’s and Shakespeare, The Bad Sleep Well is a competent thriller and while it doesn’t quite match Kurosawa’s best work, it’s visually striking and Mifune is compelling as the office worker looking for revenge.
877. Shadows (1959) Dir. John Cassavetes, 87 mins.
Based on improvisations which originated in his actor’s workshop, Cassavetes’s low budget ($40,000), independently produced film is notable for its intense realism and sensitive handling of racial issues. It depicts two weeks in the lives of three African-American siblings on the margins of society, two brothers who are struggling jazz musicians and their sister who dates several men.
876. Wake in Fright (1971) Dir. Ted Kotcheff, 114 mins.
Wake in Fright offers a cutting critique of Australian masculinity through a story of a young schoolteacher from Sydney who descends into personal moral degradation while trapped in a menacing outback town. Seen as a pivotal entry in the Australian New Wave, the film is brilliantly directed by Kotcheff.
875. Eyes Without a Face (1960) Dir. Georges Franju, 88 mins.
Franju’s influential chiller, an adaptation of Jean Redon’s novel, follows a brilliant but crazed surgeon who resorts to horrifying measures to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face. Was met with disgust by some critics when first released but is now lauded for its visual poetry.
874. Letters From a Dead Man (1986) Dir. Konstantin Lopushansky, 87 mins.
The film takes place in a Soviet village which is devastated by a nuclear meltdown. A professor (Rolan Bykov), a Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, is trying to survive in the basement of the former museum of history with a small group of children and adults. The professor begins composing letters to his son, Eric, who had disappeared shortly after the disaster. Clearly influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky (Lopushansky worked on Stalker) Letters From a Dead Man is an eloquent, powerful and strangely beautiful film.
873. Edward Scissorhands (1990) Dir. Tim Burton, 105 mins.
Burton’s modern fairy tale stars Johnny Depp (in their first collaboration) as an artificial young man named Edward who is built, but unfinished, by an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price). When his maker dies, Edward is left with scissor blades instead of hands. He is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Delightfully charming cinema that is also a visual treat.
872. Brooklyn (2015) Dir. John Crowley, 111 mins.
Set in the early 1950s, the film tells the story of a young Irish woman’s immigration to Brooklyn, where she falls in love, but her past catches up with her, leaving a choice between the two countries. An old fashioned, sensitive period drama bolstered by an excellent lead performance by Saoirse Ronan. Brooklyn was ranked 48th on BBC’s 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.
871. Glory (1989) Dir. Edward Zwick, 122 mins.
The film is set during the American Civil War and follows one of the first military units of the Union Army (the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry) to consist entirely of African-American men except for its officers. Told from the point of view of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, its white commanding officer, Glory is a visceral, emotive war film and a fitting long overdue tribute to its black heroes.
870. Roman Holiday (1953) Dir. William Wyler, 118 mins.
A romantic comedy that stars Audrey Hepburn as a sheltered royal princess, of an unspecified country, who falls for an American news reporter (Gregory Peck) in Rome. A funny and lovely fairy tale immaculately directed by William Wyler.
869. Suspiria (1977) Dir. Dario Argento, 98 mins.
Full of the stylistic delirious excess that made Argento a cult director, Suspiria follows a young American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany and, amidst a series of murders, finds herself battling a witches coven. As well as being recognised as influential in the horror genre, The Village Voice ranked Suspiria #100 on their list of the 100 greatest films made in the 20th century. It was also ranked #312 on Empire magazine’s 500 greatest films ever as well as number 45 on their list ‘The 100 Best Films of World Cinema’.
868. United 93 (2006) Dir. Paul Greengrass, 111 mins.
The film chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks of 2001. Treating the subject matter with real respect and apparently made with the cooperation of all of the passengers’ families, Greengrass’s film is obviously not an enjoyable watch but is well crafted, powerful and sobering.
867. The End of Summer (1961) Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 103 mins.
Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjiro Nakamura) is the head of a small sake brewery company that is in difficulties. As the family patriarch he also has to deal with daughter problems, one, a widow, needs help in finding a new mate and the other needs help making the right choice in a future spouse. Whilst some have dismissed The End of Summer as boring, others admire the beautiful cinematography and witty script.
866. On the Silver Globe (1989) Dir. Andrzej Zulawski, 166 mins.
Falling somewhere between Tarkovsky and Jodorowsky, Zulawski’s weird and visually extravagant sci-fi deals with a group of space researchers who leave the Earth to find freedom but their spaceship crash lands on an Earth like planet. Only one crew member survives into old age and becomes both hated and revered as a sort of demi-God by the new society he and his fellow travellers had created. The film had a hugely troubled production history and was shut down by Poland’s vice-minister of cultural affairs when only 80% complete. Fortunately the film studio and members of the cast and crew preserved the existing reels and the film was eventually released after the end of communist rule. It consists of the preserved footage plus a commentary to fill in the narrative gaps.
865. After Hours (1985) Dir. Martin Scorsese, 97 mins.
After a string of box office disappointments in the early 1980s and Paramounts’s abandonment of The Last Temptation of Christ production, Scorsese decided to focus on a small scale project. After Hours follows Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne), as he experiences a series of misadventures while making his way home from New York City’s SoHo district during the night. A high energy dark comedy that’s also a visual treat.
864. Love and Death (1975) Dir. Woody Allen, 85 mins.
Filled with Allen’s much loved neurotic humour, Love and Death is a satire on Russian literature following Boris (Woody Allen) and his distant cousin, Sonja (Diane Keaton), who are living in Russia during the Napoleonic Era. After Boris accidentally becomes a war hero and Sonja is left a widow, they get married and engage in mock-serious philosophical debates. Silly, very funny and even poignant at times.
863. This Sporting Life (1963) Dir. Lindsay Anderson, 85 mins.
Adapted by former professional rugby league footballer David Storey from his own novel, Anderson’s raw and brutal ‘kitchen sink’ drama follows a rugby league player, Frank Machin (Richard Harris), in Wakefield, a mining area of Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life.
862. The Straight Story (1999) Dir. David Lynch, 112 mins.
The film is based on the true story of Alvin Straight’s 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower to visit his estranged brother Lyle, who has suffered a stroke, and hopefully make amends before he dies. The slow pace may well bore younger viewers but The Straight Story is a lyrically profound work that features a perfect performance by Richard Farnsworth.
861. Skyfall (2012) Dir. Sam Mendes, 120 mins.
Full of terrific action sequences and memorable performances, Skyfall centres on Bond (Daniel Craig) investigating an attack on MI6, which turns out to be part of a plot by former MI6 agent Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge for her betraying him. Thanks to smart direction from Mendes and more brilliant cinematography from Roger Deakins the film has been lauded as one of the best Bond movies to date.
The Village Voice newspaper asked over 50 distinguished film critics to select their ten best films of the 20th Century and the results were published in the January 4, 2000 edition of the paper. No surprises that Citizen Kaneleads the list although 2001 and The Godfather were left out of the top 10.
1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
3. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
5. The Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
6. Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
7. L’Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
10. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
12. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
14. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
16. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
18. Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
19. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
21. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
22. M (1931, Fritz Lang) Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
24. Earrings of Madame De. (1953, Max Ophuls)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
27. Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
30. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
31. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
32. The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
33. The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman) Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
35. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
36. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
37. The Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio DeSica)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
Vivre sa Vie (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
43. Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
46. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928, Buster Keaton)
49. Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
52. Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966, George Kuchar)
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
54. The Apu Trilogy (1955-59, Satyajit Ray) Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
57. The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
58. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
60. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
62. An Actor’s Revenge (1963, Kon Ichikawa)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
La Jetee (1961, Chris Marker)
Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
October (1927, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Young And The Damned (1950, Luis Bunuel)
Paisan (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
Performance (1970, Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell)
Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann) Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
Umberto D (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
Les Vampires (1915-16, Louis Feuillade)
77. All About Eve (1950, Joseph H. Lewis)
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
82. Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
A Trip to the Moon (1902, Georges Melies)
Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
86. Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, Russ Meyer)
The Golden Coach (1952, Jean Renoir)
Salo (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
90. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
Masculine-Feminine (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
94. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
Landscape in the Mist (1988, Theo Angelopoulos)
Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
101 Grand Illusion
102 China Gate
Persona
Top Hat
105 The Wild Bunch
106 Blue Velvet
Breaking the Waves
Mauvais sang
The Mother and the Whore
Nashville
Poor Little Rich Girl
112 Andrei Rublev
The Art of Vision
An Autumn Afternoon
The Big Sleep
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Bonnie and Clyde
Bringing Up Baby
The Cameraman
Casablanca
Chelsea Girls
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise
Chimes at Midnight
A Clockwork Orange
The Crowd
D’est
Day of Wrath
Decalogue
The Deer Hunter
Diary of a Country Priest
Dr. Strangelove
La Dolce Vita
The Dybbuk
Early Autumn
8 1/2
Family Feud [with Richard Dawson]
Fear Eats the Soul
Fists in the Pocket
Gertrud
The Girl and Her Trust
Gunnar Hede’s Saga
Histoires du Cinema
How Green Was My Valley
I Was Born But…
The Idiot
Iliad
Imitation of Life
The Iron Crown
L’Argent
L’avventura
The Last Laugh
Late Spring
Le Tunnel sous le Manche
The Leopard
Lessons of Darkness
The Life of Oharu
Man on the Flying Trapeze
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Monsieur Verdoux
Mouchette
Napoleon
The New Babylon
A Night at the Opera
Nights of Cabiria
Once Upon A Time in America
Othello
Out of the Past
Parade
The Passenger
Peeping Tom
Porky in Wackyland
Potomok Chingis-Khan
The Puppetmaster
Ran
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday
Rose Hobart
Safe
Safety Last
Satantango
Scenario For A Film Called “Passion”
Scenes From Under Childhood
Seven Chances (1925)
Shadows
The Shop Around the Corner
Solaris
Song Cycle
A Star is Born
Star Spangled to Death
Street Angel
Strike
Terra em transe
Text of Light
The 39 Steps
Tih Minh
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Triumph of the Will
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Vampyr
Videodrome
Voyage in Italy
Way Down East
Wings of Desire
Within Our Gates
Xala
Young Mr. Lincoln
Zapruder film
Zorn’s Lemma
212 The Ascent
Fallen Angels
Ikiru
The Philadelphia Story
The Pornographers
Red Desert
Red River
Trash
220 Akira
Breathless
High and Low
His Girl Friday
Last Year at Marienbad
Letter From An Unknown Woman
A Matter of Life and Death
The Navigator
Scorpio Rising
229 Dog Star Man
El Paso Wrecking Company
Primary
Wild Strawberries
233 Aliens
The Terminator
235 Johnny Guitar
Picnic
Raging Bull
Vivre sa Vie
The Wrong Man
240 The Evil Dead 2
House of Games
It’s A Gift
Natural Born Killers
The Ten Commandments
Trog
246 Battleground
JFK
Kuhle Wampe
Last Tango in Paris
The Portrait of a Lady
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(1966, Robert Bresson)
(1955, Satyajit Ray)
(1915, D.W. Griffith)
(1939, Victor Fleming)
(1946, Frank Capra)
(1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
(1916, D.W. Griffith)
(1975, Chantal Akerman)
(1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
(1974, Roman Polanski)
(1931, Fritz Lang)
(1953, Max Ophuls)
(1942, Orson Welles)
(1956, Robert Bresson)
(1919, D.W. Griffith)
(1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
(1949, Carol Reed)
(1927, Buster Keaton)
(1956, Ingmar Bergman)
(1955, Charles Laughton)
(1931, Charles Chaplin)
(1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
(1927, Fritz Lang)
(1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
(1933, Leo McCarey)
(1950, Billy Wilder)
(1975, Stanley Kubrick)
(1928, Buster Keaton)
(1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
(1925, Charles Chaplin)
(1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
(1966, Roberto Rossellini)
(1955-59, Satyajit Ray)
(1974, John Cassavetes)
(1941, Preston Sturges)
(1942, Preston Sturges)
(1962, John Ford)
(1959, Robert Bresson)
(1963, Kon Ichikawa)
(1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
(1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
(1965, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
(1961, Chris Marker)
(1936, Charles Chaplin)
(1927, Sergei Eisenstein)
(1950, Luis Bunuel)
(1946, Roberto Rossellini)
(1970, Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell)
(1985, Claude Lanzmann)
(1966, Jean-Luc Godard)