1. Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
2. Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
3. The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
4. The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino
5. Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
6. The Departed (2006) – Martin Scorsese
7. The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
8. Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
9. Mean Streets (1973) – Martin Scorsese
10. Mystic River (2003) – Clint Eastwood
I just saw The Best Years of Our Lives recently, great film. William Wyler is very under-valued.
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Scenes from a Marriage — The Theatrical Version (Ingmar Bergman)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Juventude em Marcha (Pedro Costa)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
Nice list, Mauries!
8 days left!
robert rossen – THE HUSTLER
carl th. dreyer – THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
wim wenders – KINGS OF THE ROAD
masaki kobayashi – KWAIDAN
henry koster – HARVEY
stuart rosenberg – COOL HAND LUKE
ermanno olmi – IL POSTO
wim wenders – PARIS, TEXAS
tod browning – THE UNKNOWN
rainer werner fassbinder – THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
paris, texas
to be or not to be
the last command
shadows in paradise
le samourai
l’atalante
the cameraman
bigger than life
an inn at osaka
the enigma of kaspar hauser
1) All About LIly Chou-Chou
2) Summer’s Tail
3) Chungking Express
4) Fallen Angels
5) 2046
6) Kontroll
7) A Tale of Two Sisters
8) Last Life in the Universe
9) Suzhou River
10) 8 1/2
holy crap, chromeheart, i totally like your list!!
i’d like to change my list:
rainer werner fassbinder – EFFI BRIEST
robert rossen – THE HUSTLER
carl th. dreyer – THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
wim wenders – KINGS OF THE ROAD
masaki kobayashi – KWAIDAN
henry koster – HARVEY
stuart rosenberg – COOL HAND LUKE
ermanno olmi – IL POSTO
wim wenders – PARIS, TEXAS
tod browning – THE UNKNOWN
thanks curtis! love yours too… though i really need to watch effi briest
Picking only ten is difficult, so this is my very hesitant list:
The Sting (George Roy Hill)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Limiting myself to one film per director(for fairness)a mixture of greatest and/or personal favs.Not ranked(for my own sake).
-Taxi Driver
-The Godfather Part 2
-Halloween(John Carpenter)
-Se7en
-The Virgin Suicides
-The Magnificent Amberson’s…..(i will always hope that some day the original cut shows up)
-Pulp Fiction
-Le Samourai
-Pale Flower
-Days of Heaven
goddamn,10 lists can be such a bitch….
KINGS OF THE ROAD – Wim Wenders
WEEKEND – Jean-Luc Godard
SANS SOLEIL – Chris Marker
L’ARGENT – Robert Bresson
THE MIRROR – Andrei Tarkovsky
DOWN BY LAW – Jim Jarmusch
CHUNGKING EXPRESS – Wong Kar-wai
L’AVVENTURA – Michelangelo Antonioni
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE – Ingmar Bergman
THE GODFATHER: PART II – Francis Ford Coppola
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Manhattan (Allen)
2001 A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Floating Clouds (Naruse)
The Music Room (Ray)
An Inn at Osaka (Gosho)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)
The Cameraman (Sedgwick, Keaton)
So, this is my first participation in a movie poll of any sort. Here is my list:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – F.W. Murnau
L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
Banshun – Yasujirô Ozu
The Third Man – Carol Reed
Los Olvidados – Luis Buñuel
The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Godfather, Part II – Francis Ford Coppola
Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) – Lukas Moodysson
PLUS
The Lady Eve – Preston Sturges
Roman Holiday – William Wyler
Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock
Sorry for adding three additional movies but i can’t help it. Earlier i only chose first ten but then i observed that i had completely ignored my fav. actress(Audrey Hepburn), actor(James Stewart) and even my fav. director(A.Hitchcock) and yes Barbara Stanwyck(love her work) too. So i have to add these three or i won’t like the list i myself have made.
Peace!
I say we all do a top 100 and make the results our own comprehensive 1000 list that way our choices would be more honest and we wouldn’t feel like we’re making “Sophie’s choice”
cool list 2002 ;)
night of the hunter is one of my fav as well,if only it was a top 20 list.although my list aint definitive as it changes and shifts a lot i just said what the hell ya kno
shit i forgot about KIDS :(
i’ve made a top 100 list and it necessitated plenty of sophie’s choices
1- 8 1/2 – Fellini
2- La Strada – Fellini
3- Last Year at Marienbad – Resnais
4- La Dolce Vita – Fellini
5- Andrei Rublev – Tarkovskiy
6- Red Desert – Antonioni
7- The Trial – Welles
8- Ivan the Terrible – Eisenstein
9- Potemkin – Eisenstein
10-That Obscure Object of Desire – Bunuel
Ok…..here goes.
Robocop
High Plains Drifter
The Graduate
The Double Life of Veronique
Blue Velvet
The Night Of The Hunter
Videodrome
Ran
To Live & Die In L.A
Paris,Texas
@Curtis Francis
I know the feeling. Putting together my top 100 for the first time in almost a decade and there are about 160 films I have written down so needless to say a lot of chopping still has to be done. Still I feel like its an overall better representation than a top 10. I also feel it would be more honest, because I know several people here might exclude a particular favorite film because they figure it’s popular enough it’ll be on enough lists and are using this topic to maybe highlight a lesser known favorite, whereas with 100 there’s theoretically room for both.
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Last year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
I Am Cuba (Micheil Kalatozishvili, 1964)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Andrej Rublev (Andrej Tarkovskij, 1966)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
Sunless (Chris Marker, 1983)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Our century (Peleshian, 1983, AKA Mer dare)
My ain folk (Douglas, 1973)
O’er the land (Stratman, 2009)
By the law (Kuleshov, 1926, AKA Po zakonu)
A fine day (Arslan, 2001, AKA Der shöne tag)
Angst (Kargl, 1983)
Film ist. (Deutsch, 2000)
Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985)
Faithful heart (Epstein, 1923, AKA Coeur fidele)
Act of violence (Zinnemann, 1948)
@ TMKTIO:
I liked your list too and yeah 20 list would have been better and Taxi Driver would have been on it for sure. And reading your list again reminded me that i need to rewatch The Virgin Suicides, i might have underappreciated that movie since i watched it when i was pretty young.
La Passion de Jeanne D’arc (1928, Carl Th. Dreyer)
La Maman et la Putain (1973, Jean Eustache)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
My Ain Folk (1973, Bill Douglas)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
The Whole Shootin’ Match (1978, Eagle Pennell)
Intentions of Murder (1964, Shohei Imamura)
The Mouth Agape (1973, Maurice Pialat)
Casque d’or (1952, Jacques Becker)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
1. Alice (1988, Jan Svankmajer)
2. La Belle et La Bête (1946, Jean Cocteau)
3. Carnival of Souls (1962, Herk Harvey)
4. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
6. Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
7. The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
9. Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
10. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979, US)
2. Cache (Haneke, 2005, France)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954, Japan)
4. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975, UK)
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962, US)
6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986, US)
7. Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos, 1998, Greece)
8. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong)
9. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985, UK)
10. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984, Germany)
Chrisjamin Bentopher
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchock
Chungking Express (1994) – Wong Kar-Wai
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – William Wyler
Wings of Desire (1987) – Wim Wenders
In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
La jetée (1962) – Chris Marker
Chinatown (1972) – Roman Polanski
The Mirror (1975) – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – Carl Th. Dreyer