Cent et un: le meilleur

By: Zachary W

Busting it down to 101 was painful enough, but there you have it.

Chronologically. ‘My Childhood’ stands in for the entire Bill Douglas Trilogy, while ‘28 Up’ stands in for the continuing Up series.

• 01
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 02
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 03
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 04
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 05
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 06
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 07
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 08
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 09
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 10
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 11
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 12
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 13
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 14
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 15
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 16
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 17
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 18
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 19
  Night and Fog
  Alain Resnais
• 20
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 21
  A Man Escaped
  Robert Bresson
• 22
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 23
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 24
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 25
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 26
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 27
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 28
  Ride Lonesome
  Budd Boetticher
• 29
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 30
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 31
  La jetée
  Chris Marker
• 32
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 33
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 34
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 35
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 36
  Alphaville
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 37
  A Charlie Brown Christmas
  Bill Melendez
• 38
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 39
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 40
  Yellow Submarine
  George Dunning
• 41
  Gimme Shelter
  David Maysles
• 42
  The Honeymoon Killers
  Leonard Kastle
• 43
  My Childhood
  Bill Douglas
• 44
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 45
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 46
  Amarcord
  Federico Fellini
• 47
  The Godfather: Part II
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 48
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  Werner Herzog
• 49
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 50
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 51
  Stroszek
  Werner Herzog
• 52
  Killer of Sheep
  Charles Burnett
• 53
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 54
  Gates of Heaven
  Errol Morris
• 55
  The Marriage of Maria Braun
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 56
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 57
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 58
  Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
  Werner Herzog
• 59
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 60
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 61
  Turumba
  Kidlat Tahimik
• 62
  Fitzcarraldo
  Werner Herzog
• 63
  The Thing
  John Carpenter
• 64
  Videodrome
  David Cronenberg
• 65
  Nostalghia
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 66
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 67
  28 Up
  Michael Apted
• 68
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Jim Jarmusch
• 69
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 70
  Big Trouble in Little China
  John Carpenter
• 71
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 72
  A Short Film About Killing
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 73
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 74
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 75
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 76
  Dazed and Confused
  Richard Linklater
• 77
  Hoop Dreams
  Steve James
• 78
  Dead Man
  Jim Jarmusch
• 79
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 80
  Princess Mononoke
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 81
  Starship Troopers
  Paul Verhoeven
• 82
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 83
  Beau travail
  Claire Denis
• 84
  Platform
  Jia Zhangke
• 85
  A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  Steven Spielberg
• 86
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 87
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 88
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 89
  When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  Spike Lee
• 90
  A Scanner Darkly
  Richard Linklater
• 91
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 92
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 93
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 94
  Munyurangabo
  Lee Isaac Chung
• 95
  Generation Kill
  Susanna White
• 96
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 97
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 98
  Adventureland
  Greg Mottola
• 99
  Let Me In
  Matt Reeves
• 100
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Werner Herzog
• 101
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese