120 FAVOURITES

In tiers, each in year order. Near misses: Les Vampires, The Kid, Nosferatu, Pandora’s Box, It Happened One Night, Top Hat, Bringing up Baby, My Darling Clementine, Monsieur Verdoux, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Spring in a Small Town, Hometown in Heart, Orphée, The River (Renoir), An Inn at Osaka, Tales of the Taira Clan, The Apartment, La Dolce Vita, Le Trou, Through a Glass Darkly, Exterminating Angel, Ivan’s Childhood, Contempt, Judex, Dr Strangelove, The Gospel according to St Matthew, I Am Cuba, Yearning, Au Hasard Balthazar, Black Girl, Scattered Clouds, Lucia, Pakeezah, Stone Wedding, Fear Eats the Soul, Chinatown, The...