My Top 100 As of 5/11/2011
By: Gordon Inman
As of the titular date, these are my favorite 100 films in order. Hope you like them!
1. The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
2. Sunrise – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
3. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
4. Cries and Whispers – Ingmar Bergman
5. Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch
6. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick
8. Celine and Julie Go Boating – Jacques Rivette
9. Chinatown – Roman Polanski
10. Bigger than Life – Nicholas Ray
11. The Big Sleep – Howard Hawks
12. Au Hasard Balthazar – Robert Bresson
13. Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky
14. Chimes at Midnight – Orson Welles
15. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie –Luis Bunuel
16. The Circus – Charlie Chaplin
17. L’avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni
18. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese
19. Ran – Akira Kurosawa
20. Days of Heaven – Terrence Malick
21. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – John Ford
22. Blow Out – Brian Depalma
23. Close-Up – Abbas Kiarostami
24. Persona – Ingmar Bergman
25. Army of Shadows – Jean-Pierre Melville
26. In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray
27. Detour – Edgar G. Ulmer
28. Last Year at Marienbad – Alain Resnais
29. The Big Heat – Fritz Lang
30. Sullivan’s Travels – Preston Sturges
31. Singin’ in the Rain – Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
32. Out of the Past – Jacques Tourneur
33. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) – Jean Renoir
34. L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
35. Belle De Jour – Luis Bunuel
36. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodor Dreyer
37. Viridiana – Luis Bunuel
38. Rio Bravo – Howard Hawks
39. Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini
40. Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu
41. Pierrot le Fou – Jean-Luc Godard
42. Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray
43. The General – Buster Keaton
44. Blue Velvet – David Lynch
45. Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi
46. High and Low – Akira Kurosawa
47. Pickpocket – Robert Bresson
48. Cat People – Jacques Tourneur
49. Shoot the Piano Player – François Truffaut
50. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock
51. Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier
52. Caché – Michael Haneke
53. Short Cuts – Robert Altman
54. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola
55. Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick
56. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek – Preston Sturges
57. La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
58. Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
59. Nashville – Robert Altman
60. 8 1/2 – Federico Fellini
61. Fargo – Joel Coen
62. The Last Laugh – F.W. Murnau
63. Badlands – Terrence Malick
64. Repulsion – Roman Polanski
65. Sansho the Bailiff – Kenji Mizoguchi
66. The Red Shoes – Michael Powell
67. À bout de souffle – Jean-Luc Godard
68. Brazil – Terry Gilliam
69. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola
70. Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick
71. El – Luis Buñuel
72. Kiss Me Deadly – Robert Aldrich
73. Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa
74. Lancelot du Lac – Robert Bresson
75. A Hard Day’s Night – Richard Lester
76. The Bandwagon – Vincente Minnelli
77. Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) – Alain Resnais
78. Yi Yi – Edward Yang
79. Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
80. North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock
81. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Tobe Hooper
82. Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar
83. The Unknown – Tod Browning
84. Bringing Up Baby – Howard Hawks
85. Monsieur Verdoux – Charlie Chaplin
86. Battleship Potemkin – Sergei M. Eisenstein
87. Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder
88. L’argent – Robert Bresson
89. Contempt (Le Mépris) – Jean-Luc Godard
90. The Dead – John Huston
91. Hi, Mom! – Brian Depalma
92. Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese
93. To Have and Have Not – Howard Hawks
94. Red River – Howard Hawks
95. Jules and Jim – Francois Truffaut
96. Umberto D – Vittorio de Sica
97. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
98. The Thin Red Line –Terrence Malick
99. Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky
100. The Lady from Shanghai — Orson Welles
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01Charles Laughton
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02F.W. Murnau
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03Orson Welles
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04Ingmar Bergman
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05David Lynch
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06Alfred Hitchcock
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07Stanley Kubrick
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08Jacques Rivette
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09Roman Polanski
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10Nicholas Ray
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11Howard Hawks
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12Robert Bresson
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13Andrei Tarkovsky
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14Orson Welles
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15Luis Buñuel
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16Charlie Chaplin
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17Michelangelo Antonioni
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18Martin Scorsese
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19Akira Kurosawa
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20Terrence Malick
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21John Ford
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22Brian De Palma
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23Abbas Kiarostami
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24Ingmar Bergman
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25Jean-Pierre Melville
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26Nicholas Ray
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27Edgar G. Ulmer
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28Alain Resnais
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29Fritz Lang
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30Preston Sturges
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31Stanley Donen
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32Jacques Tourneur
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33Jean Renoir
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34Jean Vigo
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35Luis Buñuel
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36Carl Theodor Dreyer
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37Luis Buñuel
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38Howard Hawks
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39Federico Fellini
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40Yasujirô Ozu
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41Jean-Luc Godard
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42Nicholas Ray
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43Buster Keaton
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44David Lynch
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45Sam Raimi
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46Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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47Robert Bresson
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48Jacques Tourneur
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49François Truffaut
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50Alfred Hitchcock
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51Lars von Trier
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52Michael Haneke
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53Robert Altman
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54Francis Ford Coppola
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55Stanley Kubrick
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56Preston Sturges
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57Federico Fellini
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58Ingmar Bergman
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59Robert Altman
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60Federico Fellini
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61Joel Coen
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62F.W. Murnau
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63Terrence Malick
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64Roman Polanski
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65Kenji Mizoguchi
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66Michael Powell
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67Jean-Luc Godard
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68Terry Gilliam
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69Francis Ford Coppola
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70Stanley Kubrick
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71Luis Buñuel
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72Robert Aldrich
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73Akira Kurosawa
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74Robert Bresson
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75Richard Lester
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76Vincente Minnelli
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77Alain Resnais
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78Edward Yang
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79David Lean
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80Alfred Hitchcock
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81Tobe Hooper
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82Pedro Almodóvar
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83Tod Browning
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84Howard Hawks
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85Charlie Chaplin
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86Sergei Eisenstein
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87Billy Wilder
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88Robert Bresson
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89Jean-Luc Godard
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90John Huston
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91Brian De Palma
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92Martin Scorsese
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93Howard Hawks
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94Howard Hawks
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95François Truffaut
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96Vittorio De Sica
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97Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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98Terrence Malick
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99Andrei Tarkovsky
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100Orson Welles