MATT BURGESS' TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME

By: Matt Burgess

Current personal film canon, ONE FILM PER DIRECTOR to keep me more disciplined.

FOREVER IN LOVE WITH:
- “high art” + “low art” aesthetics
- fetishism-as-art
- erotic fairytales & falling down a rabbit hole
- films set in worlds full of complete assholes
- beautiful sleaze, decadence & decay
- bad girls
- sad boys
- spontaneous, fluid sexuality & a never ending undercurrent of death
- anger
- repulsion
- slime

Honorable mentions missing from MUBI…
A Woman Possessed AKA La Papesse (Mario Mercier, 1975)
Exhibition 2 (Jean-Francois Davy, 1978)

• 01
  Showgirls
  Paul Verhoeven
• 02
  Possession
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 03
  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  Jaromil Jireš
• 04
  The Wicker Man
  Robin Hardy
• 05
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 06
  Female Trouble
  John Waters
• 07
  Crash
  David Cronenberg
• 08
  Querelle
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 09
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 10
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 11
  Tetsuo, the Iron Man
  Shin'ya Tsukamoto
• 12
  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  Russ Meyer
• 13
  The Devils
  Ken Russell
• 14
  Wake in Fright
  Ted Kotcheff
• 15
  Daughters of Darkness
  Harry Kümel
• 16
  The Holy Mountain
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 17
  In a Glass Cage
  Agustí Villaronga
• 18
  From Beyond
  Stuart Gordon
• 19
  Sweet Movie
  Dušan Makavejev
• 20
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 21
  Suspiria
  Dario Argento
• 22
  3 Women
  Robert Altman
• 23
  Trash
  Paul Morrissey
• 24
  The Inner Scar
  Philippe Garrel
• 25
  Successive Slidings of Pleasure
  Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 26
  Danger: Diabolik
  Mario Bava
• 27
  Score
  Radley Metzger
• 28
  Mommie Dearest
  Frank Perry
• 29
  Succubus
  Jesús Franco
• 30
  Belladonna of Sadness
  Eiichi Yamamoto
• 31
  Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
  Todd Haynes
• 32
  Bad Boy Bubby
  Rolf de Heer
• 33
  Gummo
  Harmony Korine
• 34
  Lucifer Rising
  Kenneth Anger
• 35
  School of the Holy Beast
  Noribumi Suzuki
• 36
  Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
  Lam Ngai Kai
• 37
  Go, Go Second Time Virgin
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 38
  Savage Streets
  Danny Steinmann
• 39
  Vice Squad
  Gary Sherman
• 40
  Lady in a Cage
  Walter Grauman
• 41
  Chained Heat
  Paul Nicolas
• 42
  Short Eyes
  Robert M. Young
• 43
  Cruising
  William Friedkin
• 44
  Ms. 45
  Abel Ferrara
• 45
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 46
  Cat People
  Jacques Tourneur
• 47
  The Seventh Victim
  Mark Robson
• 48
  Imitation of Life
  Douglas Sirk
• 49
  The Lonely Lady
  Peter Sasdy
• 50
  Who Can Kill a Child?
  Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
• 51
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 52
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 53
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 54
  Pink Narcissus
  James Bidgood
• 55
  Fantastic Planet
  René Laloux
• 56
  Barbarella
  Roger Vadim
• 57
  Walkabout
  Nicolas Roeg
• 58
  Living
  Frans Zwartjes
• 59
  Alucarda
  Juan López Moctezuma
• 60
  Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay
  Bruno Gantillon
• 61
  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
  Walerian Borowczyk
• 62
  Lips of Blood
  Jean Rollin
• 63
  Footprints on the Moon
  Luigi Bazzoni
• 64
  Symptoms
  José Ramón Larraz
• 65
  The Haunting of Julia
  Richard Loncraine
• 66
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 67
  Through the Looking Glass
  Jonas Middleton
• 68
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  Jim Sharman
• 69
  I Drink Your Blood
  David E. Durston
• 70
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Tobe Hooper
• 71
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 72
  The Bad Seed
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 73
  Freeway
  Matthew Bright
• 74
  Kitten with a Whip
  Douglas Heyes
• 75
  Cobra Woman
  Robert Siodmak
• 76
  The Little Mermaid
  Karel Kachyna
• 77
  Morgiana
  Juraj Herz
• 78
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 79
  Salomè
  Carmelo Bene
• 80
  Je t'aime moi non plus
  Serge Gainsbourg
• 81
  Mysterious Skin
  Gregg Araki
• 82
  L'homme blessé
  Patrice Chéreau
• 83
  Christiane F.
  Uli Edel
• 84
  Bully
  Larry Clark
• 85
  The Last House on Dead End Street
  Roger Watkins
• 86
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 87
  Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
  Sharad Patel
• 88
  Hellraiser
  Clive Barker
• 89
  Caligula
  Tinto Brass
• 90
  Mandingo
  Richard Fleischer
• 91
  Coffy
  Jack Hill
• 92
  Class of 1984
  Mark L. Lester
• 93
  Assault on Precinct 13
  John Carpenter
• 94
  Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  Richard Brooks
• 95
  Liquid Sky
  Slava Tsukerman
• 96
  City of the Living Dead
  Lucio Fulci
• 97
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 98
  The Stepford Wives
  Bryan Forbes
• 99
  Malatesta's Carnival of Blood
  Christopher Speeth
• 100
  Black Devil Doll From Hell
  Chester Novell Turner
• 101
  Death Wish 3
  Michael Winner
• 102
  Don't Deliver Us from Evil
  Joël Séria
• 103
  Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  John D. Hancock
• 104
  All the Colors of the Dark
  Sergio Martino
• 105
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 106
  Wild Orchid
  Zalman King
• 107
  Barfly
  Barbet Schroeder
• 108
  A Family Finds Entertainment
  Ryan Trecartin
• 109
  Perfect Blue
  Satoshi Kon
• 110
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 111
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 112
  Audition
  Takashi Miike
• 113
  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  Shûji Terayama
• 114
  Who Killed Teddy Bear?
  Joseph Cates
• 115
  Something Wild
  Jack Garfein
• 116
  Tombs of the Blind Dead
  Amando de Ossorio
• 117
  The Shanghai Gesture
  Josef von Sternberg
• 118
  The Legend of Hell House
  John Hough
• 119
  Alice, Sweet Alice
  Alfred Sole
• 120
  Strip Nude for Your Killer
  Andrea Bianchi
• 121
  Assault! Jack the Ripper
  Yasuharu Hasebe