Rosenbaum Alternate Top 100

By: Greg S.

I can’t believe no one has done this, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s alternative to AFI’s top 100 American movies.

For Rosenbaum’s own thoughts on the list and canon’s in general, visit the page on the Chicago Reader website.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/list-o-mania/Content?oid=896619

• 01
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 02
  An Affair to Remember
  Leo McCarey
• 03
  Anatomy of a Murder
  Otto Preminger
• 04
  Avanti!
  Billy Wilder
• 05
  The Barefoot Contessa
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 06
  The Big Sky
  Howard Hawks
• 07
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 08
  The Black Cat
  Edgar G. Ulmer
• 09
  Bride of Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 10
  Broken Blossoms
  D.W. Griffith
• 11
  Cat People
  Jacques Tourneur
• 12
  Christmas in July
  Preston Sturges
• 13
  Confessions of an Opium Eater
  Albert Zugsmith
• 14
  The Crowd
  King Vidor
• 15
  Dead Man
  Jim Jarmusch
• 16
  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee
• 17
  The Docks of New York
  Josef von Sternberg
• 18
  Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
  Thom Andersen
• 19
  11 x 14
  James Benning
• 20
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 21
  Foolish Wives
  Erich von Stroheim
• 22
  Force of Evil
  Abraham Polonsky
• 23
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 24
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 25
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Howard Hawks
• 26
  Gilda
  Charles Vidor
• 27
  The Great Garrick
  James Whale
• 28
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 29
  Hallelujah I'm a Bum
  Lewis Milestone
• 30
  The Heartbreak Kid
  Elaine May
• 31
  Housekeeping
  Bill Forsyth
• 32
  The Hustler
  Robert Rossen
• 33
  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  D.W. Griffith
• 34
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 35
  Judge Priest
  John Ford
• 36
  Killer of Sheep
  Charles Burnett
• 37
  The Killing
  Stanley Kubrick
• 38
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  John Cassavetes
• 39
  Kiss Me Deadly
  Robert Aldrich
• 40
  The Ladies Man
  Jerry Lewis
• 41
  The Lady from Shanghai
  Orson Welles
• 42
  Last Chants for a Slow Dance
  Jon Jost
• 43
  Laughter
  Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
• 44
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 45
  Lonesome
  Pál Fejös
• 46
  Love Me Tonight
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 47
  Love Streams
  John Cassavetes
• 48
  The Magnificent Ambersons
  Orson Welles
• 49
  Make Way for Tomorrow
  Leo McCarey
• 50
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 51
  Man's Castle
  Frank Borzage
• 52
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 53
  Meet Me in St. Louis
  Vincente Minnelli
• 54
  Mikey and Nicky
  Elaine May
• 55
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Charlie Chaplin
• 56
  My Son John
  Leo McCarey
• 57
  The Naked Spur
  Anthony Mann
• 58
  Nanook of the North
  Robert J. Flaherty
• 59
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 60
  The Nutty Professor
  Jerry Lewis
• 61
  The Palm Beach Story
  Preston Sturges
• 62
  Panic in the Streets
  Elia Kazan
• 63
  Park Row
  Samuel Fuller
• 64
  The Phenix City Story
  Phil Karlson
• 65
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 66
  Real Life
  Albert Brooks
• 67
  Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
  Jonas Mekas
• 68
  Rio Bravo
  Howard Hawks
• 69
  Scarface
  Howard Hawks
• 70
  The Scarlet Empress
  Josef von Sternberg
• 71
  Scarlet Street
  Fritz Lang
• 72
  Scenes from Under Childhood Section
  Stan Brakhage
• 73
  The Scenic Route
  Mark Rappaport
• 74
  The Seventh Victim
  Mark Robson
• 75
  Shadows
  John Cassavetes
• 76
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 77
  The Shooting
  Monte Hellman
• 78
  The Shop Around the Corner
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 79
  The Sound of Fury
  Cy Endfield
• 80
  Stars in My Crown
  Jacques Tourneur
• 81
  The Steel Helmet
  Samuel Fuller
• 82
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Jim Jarmusch
• 83
  The Strawberry Blonde
  Raoul Walsh
• 84
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 85
  Sylvia Scarlett
  George Cukor
• 86
  The Tarnished Angels
  Douglas Sirk
• 87
  That's Entertainment! III
  Bud Friedgen
• 88
  This Land Is Mine
  Jean Renoir
• 89
  Thunderbolt
  Josef von Sternberg
• 90
  To Sleep with Anger
  Charles Burnett
• 91
  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
  Ken Jacobs
• 92
  Track of the Cat
  William A. Wellman
• 93
  Trouble in Paradise
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 94
  Vinyl
  Andy Warhol
• 95
  Wanda
  Barbara Loden
• 96
  While the City Sleeps
  Fritz Lang
• 97
  Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
  Frank Tashlin
• 98
  Woodstock
  Michael Wadleigh
• 99
  The Wrong Man
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 100
  Zabriskie Point
  Michelangelo Antonioni