The Guardian published the list in 2010. It’s an interesting take on what they consider to be arthouse. There’s no 2001 (Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is in instead), despite many critics believing the sci-fi masterpiece is one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, but it’s hard to argue that nearly all the 25 films are not strong examples of arthouse cinema at its finest. There are, of course, many great films that could have made this list and I will question the high placing of The Graduate, which is inventively shot (even making the folk rock songs of Simon & Garfunkel seem edgy and cool) but some of the arty camerawork now seems dated and just celluloid filler. Is Andrei Rublev the greatest arthouse film of all-time? Well it’s as good a choice as any! sjb.
2) Mulholland Drive
3) L’Atalante
4) Toyko Story
5) Citizen Kane
6) A Clockwork Orange
7) Days of Heaven
8) Fanny and Alexander
9) The White Ribbon
10) Gospel According to St. Matthew
12) Pather Panchali
13) The Conformist
14) Death in Venice
15) The Godfather
16) The Graduate
20) Shadows
21) Distant Voices, Still Lives
22) The Passion of Joan of Arc
23) La dolce vita
24) Breaking the Waves
25) The Spirit of the Beehive
