1. Fight Club (1999)
2. The End of Evangelion (1997)
3. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
5. Magnolia (1999)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
7. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
8. Videodrome (1983)
9. The Shining (1980)
10. Without You I’m Nothing (1990)
11. Lost in Translation (2003)
12. Heathers (1988)
13. Network (1976)
14. Minority Report (2002)
15. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
16. Election (1999)
17. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
18. Coraline (2009)
19. American Beauty (1999)
20. Into the Wild (2007)
My top Ten
- The Leopard (Visconti)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
- Shadows (Cassavetes)
- M (Lang)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
- Citizen Kane (Welles)
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
- Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
- Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
- A Man Escaped (Bresson)
and ten more…
- Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
- Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
- Breathless (Godard)
- Mon Oncle (Tati)
- Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophuls)
- Rear Window (Hitchcock)
- The Party (Edwards)
- Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Really great list Westley, Evangelion… Sooo good.
“great the see THE HUSTLER on your list, maximilian!”
I just saw it a couple days ago and totally fell in love with it… I can see how it’s your #1!
@Kenji: I love your top 101 and have been slowly working my way through it for a little while. I have Abraham Valley lined up to watch in the next couple of weeks.
@R.: Love seeing Aguirre in top spot.
Also my top 20:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Sansho the Bailiff
3. Stalker
4. Fargo
5. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
6. Andrei Rublev
7. Dead Ringers
8. Mulholland Drive
9. The New World
10. A Man Escaped
11. Rear Window
12. Cries and Whispers
13. Dogville
14. The Shining
15. Satantango
16. Notorious (Hitchcock)
17. L’Atalante
18. The Godfather
19. Barry Lyndon
20. The Passenger
As ever, making such a list is a fool’s errand. With that in mind…
Days of Heaven (Malick)
The Up! Documentaries (Apted)
The Red Shoes (Powell)
Floating Weeds (Ozu)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
Alphaville (Godard)
Still Life (Jia)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
The General (Keaton)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
1. The Naked Island (Shindo)
2. Les Miserables (Bernard)
3. Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman)
4. In The Mood For Love (Wong)
5. The Tree of Life (Malick)
6. The Face of Another (Teshigahara)
7. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
8. The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
10. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
11. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
12. High & Low (Kurosawa)
13. The Sting of Death (Oguri)
14. Silence (Shinoda)
15. Chungking Express (Wong)
16. The Innocents (Clayton)
17. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
18. Memories of Murder (Bong)
19. Lost in Translation (Coppola)
20. Notorious (Hitchcock)
… (more)
(time to get a new mouse)
Sweet List Patapon, the running time on The Human Condition is DAUNTING but one day I will attempt that beast!
1. 2001 A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2. Persona (Bergman)
3. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
4. Aguirre the Wrath of God (Herzog)
5. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
6. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
7. Ordet (Dreyer)
8. Through a Glass Darkly )Bergman)
9. Amarcord (Fellini)
10. Possesion (Andrzej Zulawski)
11. Le Samourai (Jean Pierre Melville)
12. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
13. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
14. The Spirit of the Beehive ( Victor Erice)
15. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
16. Ugetsu ( Kenji Mizoguchi)
17. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
18. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
19. Dust in the Wind ( Hou Hsiao Hsien)
20. Contempt ( Godard)
close runner ups Lacombe Lucien and Good Morning.
Chronological order, one per director
Dogville 2003 Lars Von Trier
Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch
The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) 1991 Jacques Rivette
Dekalog (The Decalogue) 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
O Melissokomos (The Beekeeper) 1986 Theo Angelopoulos
Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night At Maud’s) 1969 Eric Rohmer
Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima My Love) 1959 Alain Resnais
Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson
Ladri Di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves) 1948 Vittorio De Sica
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc (The Passion Of Joan Of Arc) 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau
Juventude em Marcha (Costa)
Satantango (Tarr)
In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford)
Offret (Tarkovsky)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
L’Avventura (Antonioni)
La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (Dreyer)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Francisca (Oliveira)
Vai e Vém (César Monteiro)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Je Vous Salue Marie (Godard)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
El Sol del Membrillo (Erice)
Journal d’un Curé de Campagne (Bresson)
The Godfather (Coppola)
Memories of Murder (Joon-Ho)
No-Limb Joe
Lol, my list is put to shame…