76 77 78
Pierrot le fou
JEAN-LUC GODARD (81)

1965 | 110m | Col | France-Italy | Road Movie, Romantic Drama
"This film, with its ravishing colors and beautiful 'Scope camera work by Raoul Coutard, still looks every bit as iconoclastic and fresh as it did when it belatedly opened in the U.S." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Selected by Julian Graffy, Samuel Fuller, Tom Gunning, Dennis Lim, Ty Burr.
Amazon Time Out Roger Ebert
Ikiru
AKIRA KUROSAWA (73)

1952 | 143m | BW | Japan | Drama, Psychological Drama
"An intensely moving film...elegiac and sometimes quirkishly funny in the manner of Kurosawa's elective model, John Ford. Takashi Shimura is superb in the central role, and not the least of Kurosawa's achievements is his triumphant avoidance of happy ending uplift." - Tony Rayns, Time Out
Selected by Gilles Jacob, Alan Rudolph, Gerald Peary, Carlos Garcia Brusco, Michael Caton-Jones.
Amazon Strictly Film School Senses of Cinema
Sansho the Bailiff
KENJI MIZOGUCHI (89)

1954 | 125m | BW | Japan | Drama, Period Film
"Mizoguchi gives this pathetic tale a quality somewhere between the fatalism of a medieval romance and the catharsis of classical tragedy...The images, the subtle music...combine to create a world which irresistibly captures and enfolds the spectator" - David Robinson, The Times, 1976
Selected by Philip Kemp, David Bordwell, Thomas Elsaesser, Bernardo Bertolucci, Quim Casas.
Amazon Cinepad Strictly Film School

79 80 81
Viridiana
LUIS BUÑUEL (77)

1961 | 90m | BW | Spain | Religious Comedy, Satire
"A superb film... Bunuel goes far beyond attacking professional religion and the practices of celibacy and self-mortification. He assaults the very basis of a creed which he sees as upholding a callous and decaying society." - Dilys Powell
Selected by Dennis Hopper, Alexander Payne, Ann Hui, Jan Nemec, Guillermo Del Toro.
Amazon Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films Slant Magazine
Once Upon a Time in the West
SERGIO LEONE (87)

1968 | 165m | Col | Italy-USA | Epic Western, Spaghetti Western
"This masterly Western is a superb study in revenge...Henry Fonda is marvellously cast against type as the villain. Leone's unmistakably baroque signature is writ large across the wide screen." - NFT Bulletin, 1994
Selected by Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Dante, John Dahl, Neil Hunter, Bart Weiss.
Amazon Slant Magazine Pop Matters
Voyage in Italy
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI (75)

1953 | 97m | BW | Italy | Marriage Drama, Psychological Drama
"Roberto Rossellini's finest fiction film, and unmistakably one of the great achievements of the art...A crucial work, truthful and mysterious." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Selected by Tag Gallagher, Stig Bjorkman, Laura Mulvey, Ian Christie, Georgia Brown.
Amazon Time Out The Film Journal

82 83 84
Sherlock Jr.
BUSTER KEATON (69)

1924 | 45m | BW | USA | Comedy, Fantasy
"Keaton's third feature under his own steam is an incredible technical accomplishment, but also an almost Pirandellian exploration of the nature of cinematic reality. It leaves Chaplin standing." - Tom Milne, Time Out
Selected by Carrie Rickey, Terry Jones, Jean-Louis Leutrat, James Mangold, Georgia Brown.
Amazon Chicago Reader Time Out
All About Eve
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (74)

1950 | 138m | BW | USA | Satire, Showbiz Drama
"An example of the perfect screenplay...Few movies have such witty dialogue and such bright characters doing such terrible things to each other. And with that Bette Davis performance, the film has the very helpful quality of abrasiveness." - William Goldman, NFT Bulletin, 1984
Selected by Lewis Gilbert, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Wayne Wang, Camille Paglia.
Amazon Roger Ebert’s Great Movies San Francisco Chronicle
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
WERNER HERZOG (78)

1972 | 94m | Col | Germany | Historical Film, Adventure Drama
"Ingeniously combines Herzog's gift for deep irony, his strong social awareness, and his worthy ambition to fashion a whole new visual perspective on the world around us via mystical, evocative, yet oddly direct imagery. It is a brilliant cinematic achievement." - David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
Selected by Ty Burr, Roger Ebert, Nigel Andrews, Peter Keough, Michael Atkinson.
Amazon Senses of Cinema Strictly Film School

85 86 87
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
JOHN FORD (100)

1962 | 119m | BW | USA | Western, Revisionist Western
"Ford's most important film of the Sixties...he seems to be making his final statement on the western...It is perhaps the most mournful, tragic film Ford has made." - Peter Bogdanovich, 1968
Selected by Denys Arcand, Ginette Vincendeau, Gerald Peary, Laura Mulvey, Wim Wenders.
Amazon Images Journal Reverse Shot
My Darling Clementine
JOHN FORD (92)

1946 | 97m | BW | USA | Western, Traditional Western
"A sustained and complex work of the imagination...It's qualities derive from Mr. Ford's affection for the portrait he is drawing - the portrait of the Old West. It is a mixed portrait, half-truth, half folklore, but fact or fancy, it is the West as Americans still feel it in their bones." - Richard Griffith, New Movies
Selected by Bruce Beresford, Peter Cowie, Michael Mann, Mike Newell, Gilberto Perez.
Amazon Roger Ebert's Great Movies Images Journal
Last Year at Marienbad
ALAIN RESNAIS (91)

1961 | 94m | BW | France-Italy | Avant-garde/Experimental, Psychological Drama
"Resnais creates a vaguely unsettling mood by means of stylish composition, long, smooth tracking shots along the hotel's deserted corridors, and strangely detached performances. Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle." - Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Selected by Jan Nemec, Jean-Louis Leutrat, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter Greenaway, Atom Egoyan.
Amazon Senses of Cinema Strictly Film School

88 New 89 90
Bringing Up Baby
HOWARD HAWKS (106)

1938 | 102m | BWl | USA | Screwball Comedy, Romantic Comedy
"One of the finest screwball comedies ever, with Grant - a dry, nervous, conventional palaeontologist - meeting up with madcap socialite Hepburn and undergoing the destruction of his career, marriage, sanity and sexual identity...Fast, furious and very, very funny." - Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Selected by Doug Liman, Ty Burr, Barry Norman, Jonathan Kaplan, Javier Coma.
Amazon Film Reference Chicago Reader
L'Âge d'or
LUIS BUÑUEL (72)

1930 | 63m | BW | France | Avant-garde/Experimental, Surrealist Film
"Should be studied by any serious student of cinema. The film is a surreal inquiry into the traditions and standards of modern culture that have kept true passion and instinct from being expressed freely." - Baseline
Selected by Dusan Makavajev, Peter Wollen, Aki Kaurismäki, Yvonne Rainer, David Robinson.
Amazon The Village Voice Slant Magazine
Barry Lyndon
STANLEY KUBRICK (79)

1975 | 183m | Col | UK | Drama, Period Film
"What he did for the future in 2001...Stanley Kubrick in [this film] has done for the past. He has projected us into an era of amazing strangeness...A piece of cinema to marvel at." - Alexander Walker, Evening Standard
Selected by Nick James, Michel Ciment, Eva Af Geijerstam, Richard Combs, Mark Peranson.
Amazon Chicago Reader Time Out

91 New 92 93
Double Indemnity
BILLY WILDER (108)

1944 | 106m | BW | USA | Film Noir, Crime Thriller
"However dark the plotting, the dialogue (by Wilder and Raymond Chandler) remains bright as a penny and hard as nails. One of the few screen adaptations that actually improves on its source (a James M. Cain novel), this is the Ur-film noir—broody, nasty, funny and utterly compelling." - Richard Schickel, Time
Selected by Yvonne Rainer, Ginette Vincendeau, Kevin MacDonald, John Dahl, Andrew Bergman.
Amazon Derek Malcolm's Century of Films Images Journal
See Also: 250 Quintessential Noir Films
Amarcord
FEDERICO FELLINI (97)

1973 | 127m | Col | Italy | Comedy Drama, Ensemble Film
"Amarcord is as full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some as mysterious as the unexpected sight of a peacock flying through a light snowfall. It's a film of exhilarating beauty." - Vincent Canby, New York Times
Selected by Michael Winterbottom, Roger Michell, Milos Forman, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jean A. Gili.
Amazon Roger Ebert's Great Movies Time Out
A Clockwork Orange
STANLEY KUBRICK (93)

1971 | 137m | Col | USA | Psychological Sci-Fi, Satire
"Kubrick has pushed the unsettling powers of the cinema beyond the limits probed by Buñuel. For savagery of image dredged from the depths of the subconsious, Kubrick is the prince of darkness and the apostle of light." - David Annan, Movie Fantastic, 1975
Selected by Harold Becker, Michael Moore, Taylor Hackford, Joel Schumacher, Takeshi Kitano.
Amazon metacritic Roger Ebert

94 New 95 96
To Be or Not to Be
ERNST LUBITSCH (150)

1942 | 99m | BW | USA | Satire, Showbiz Comedy
"It's certainly one of the finest comedies ever to come out of Paramount, the allegations of dubious taste missing the point of Lubitsch's satire - not so much the general nastiness of the Nazis as their unforgiveable bad manners." - Rod McShane, Time Out
Selected by Charles Tesson, Edgar Reitz, Slavoj Zizek, Vincent Amiel, Mika Kaurismaki.
Amazon Slant Magazine Chicago Reader
The Man with a Movie Camera
DZIGA VERTOV (82)

1929 | 80m | BW | USSR | Avant-garde/Experimental, Documentary
"Vertov's exhilarating and often hilarious exploration of the relations between cinema, actuality and history opened up all the issues Godard, the avant-gardes, and political film-makers have been wrestling with ever since. A truly radical and liberating work." - Peter Watts, Time Out
Selected by Amy Taubin, Laura Mulvey, Robert Sklar, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Jonas Mekas.
Amazon The Onion A.V. Club Images Journal
His Girl Friday
HOWARD HAWKS (90)

1940 | 92m | BW | USA | Screwball Comedy, Media Satire
"Hawks's great insight--taking the Hecht-MacArthur Front Page and making the Hildy Johnson character a woman--has been justly celebrated; it deepens the comedy in remarkable ways. Cary Grant's performance is truly virtuoso--stunning technique applied to the most challenging material." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Selected by David Bordwell, Pauline Kael, Geoff Andrew, Quentin Tarantino, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
Amazon Time Out Combustible Celluloid

97 New 98 99
Gertrud
CARL DREYER (101)

1964 | 116m | BW | Denmark | Psychological Drama, Marriage Drama
"Dreyer's last film was adapted from a 1919 play by Hjalmar Söderberg, but it remains one of the most purely cinematic discourses of the 1960s...the fact that it's only half-articulated makes it all the more shattering." - Tony Rayns, Time Out
Selected by Gilbert Adair, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bill Rothman, Phillip Lopate, Tag Gallagher.
Amazon Film Reference Slant Magazine
On the Waterfront
ELIA KAZAN (80)

1954 | 108m | BW | USA | Message Movie, Urban Drama
"Superb performances, a memorably colourful script by Budd Schulberg, and a sure control of atmosphere make this account of Brando's struggles against gangster Cobb's hold over the New York longshoreman's union powerful stuff." - Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Selected by Spike Lee, Chris Hegedus, Roger Corman, Paul Morrissey, Lukas Moodysson.
Amazon The Village Voice metacritic
Nosferatu
F.W. MURNAU (84)

1922 | 84m | BW | Germany | Horror, Gothic Film
"The first important film of the vampire genre has more spectral atmosphere, more ingenuity, and more imaginative ghoulish ghastliness than any of its successors." - Pauline Kael
Selected by Andrey Plakhov, Philip Kemp, Theo Angelopoulos, Gilberto Perez, Robert Sklar.
Amazon Senses of Cinema CultureDose

100 New Goodbye, for now...

The 5 films that have fallen out of the Top 100, this time around, are BLUE VELVET (now 102), DEKALOG (111), KING KONG (106), DUCK SOUP (105) and STAGECOACH (101). They've been replaced by BRINGING UP BABY (at 88), DOUBLE INDEMNITY (91), TO BE OR NOT TO BE (94), GERTRUD (97) and BROKEN BLOSSOMS (100).

Notes on 51-75• The risers include PERROT LE FOU (up 5 spots), SANSHO THE BAILIFF (up 11), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (up 7), THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (up 15), MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (up 6) and AMARCORD (up 5).
• The tumblers were VOYAGE IN ITALY (down 6), SHERLOCK JR. (down 13), ALL ABOUT EVE (down 9), AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOOD (down 6), L'ÂGE D'OR (down 17), BARRY LYNDON (down 11), THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (down 13), HIS GIRL FRIDAY (down 6), ON THE WATERFRONT (down 18; the biggest slider within this year's Top 100) and NOSFERATU (down 15).

Broken Blossoms
D.W. GRIFFITH (126)

1919 | 95m | BW | USA | Melodrama, Romantic Drama
"Griffith in 1919 was the unchallenged king of serious American movies (only C.B. DeMille rivaled him in fame), and "Broken Blossoms" was seen as brave and controversial. What remains today is the artistry of the production, the ethereal quality of Lillian Gish, the broad appeal of the melodrama, and the atmosphere of the elaborate sets." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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