Is there a place to see every film that made the top 100, or whatever, from all the past lists since ’52?
@Dope Fiend Willy
Lol, guess I need an editor sometimes. It’s the most deep, has the most in-depth, bottomless introspection, and exhibits the most profound profundity. :)
But yes, I’d say it is probably the most profound film ever made. That doesn’t necessarily mean I think it’s the very best (currently I rank it #4 all time, though I’ve had it #1 before – ho hum, I know), because I value all sorts of other qualities along with “profundity”. Other “most profound” candidates off the top of my head include Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, Mirror and Stalker, Angelopoulos’ Landscape in the Mist, Traveling Players, Ulysses Gaze and Eternity for a Day, Bergman’s Persona, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marker’s Sans Soleil, perhaps Lynch’s Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive, Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?, Antonioni’s Blow Up, Tarr’s Satantango, Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, and so on…
I’m actually mid revising a review on Kane. Should be done in a day or two. I’m not too familiar with Mubi yet, but my review is pretty long, so I’ll post it on the C Kane page, or whatever seems best. I’ll try to let you know when it’s done and you can check it out.
definitely, and don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of the film, and a huge fan of Welles, so I would love to read your thoughts on the movie.
I would not put much trust in Sight & Sound. It can have as many critics and directors involved as it wishes, but it certainly is not a universal measure means for which films are best. Just as many otehrs here, I totally disagree with some of its picks, particularly Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Sure, no problem. :) Maybe it will help open the door to further insight and appreciation, or maybe it won’t. Experience of art is largely (if not fully) subjective anyway.
Afterhours, cannoy disagree with you, art is art for that it is indeed subjective.
I’m thrilled about Vertigo topping the list. It’s the first genre film to do so. And it’s much better than CK.
One thing I think people should remember is that out of 846 ballots, Vertigo only got 191 votes. That’s somewhere around 20%, which is pretty high in a way, but it also means almost 80% of critics declined to vote for it.
That’s not to diminish the importance of it getting the top spot, but it’s to emphasize the actual breadth and depth that all the individual ballots no doubt exhibit. The top 10 may be trapped in time and geographical space, and the top 50 may be only somewhat better, but once we’re able to look through the complete results in a few weeks, I guarantee we will find dozens if not hundreds of fascinating, surprising, out-of-the-way and personal picks that we would never have expected and are delighted to see.
I think quite a few critics went out of their way to shake things up this year, but since there were so many of them, and everyone likes to include a couple consensus picks, the consensus picks still ended up on top. That’s why they’re consensus picks, after all. But the real shake-up happened on a more individual level, and it won’t be revealed until we look below the surface.
Director’s List:
1- Tokyo Story – 48 votes 2- 2001 – 42 votes 3- Citizen Kane – 41 votes 4- 8 1/2 – 40 votes 5- Taxi Driver – 34 votes 6- Apocalypse Now – 33 votes 7- The Godfather – 31 votes Vertigo – 31 votes9- Mirror – 30 votes
10- Bicycle Thieves – 29 votes
Tokyo Story (especially) and 2001 better than Citizen Kane and 8 1/2? Just disappointment.
I’d rank those 4:
But all four are close enough in quality in my opinion that I don’t see it as any big deal that anyone else would order them differently.
Woody Allen
“Bicycle Thieves” (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
“The Seventh Seal” (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
“Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles
“Amarcord” (1973, dir. Federico Fellini
“8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
“The 400 Blows” (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
“Rashomon” (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
“La Grande Illusion” (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
“The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie” (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
“Paths Of Glory” (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Richard Ayoade
“Persona” (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
“Le Mépris” (1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Ordet” (1955, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
“Barry Lyndon” (1975, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“Crimes And Misdemeanors” (1989, dir. Woody Allen)
“The Apartment” (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
“Make Way For Tomorrow” (1937, dir. Leo McCarey)
“Badlands” (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)
Bong Joon-Ho
“A City Of Sadness” (1989, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
“Cure” (1997, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“The Housemaid” (1960, dir. Kim Ki-young)
“Fargo” (1996, dir. The Coen Brothers)
“Psycho” (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Touch Of Evil” (1958, dir. Orson Welles)
“Vengeance Is Mine” (1973, dir. Shohei Imamura)
“The Wages Of Fear” (1953, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
“Zodiac” (2007, dir. David Fincher)
Francis Ford Coppola
“Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
“The Best Years Of Our Lives” (1946, dir William Wyler)
“I Vitteloni” (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
"The Bad Sleep Well (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
“Yojimbo” (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
"Singin’ In The Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
“The King Of Comedy” (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“The Apartment” (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
“Sunrise” (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
“Accatone” (1961, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
“The Big Heat” (1953, dir. Fritz Lang)
“Dodes’ka-den” (1970, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
“Germany Year Zero” (1948, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
“Loulou” (1980, dir. Maurice Pialat)
“Modern Times” (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“The Searchers” (1956, dir. John Ford)
“Shoah” (1985, dir. Claude Lanzmann)
“Street Of Shame” (1956, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Sunrise” (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)
Guillermo Del Toro
“Frankenstein” (1931, dir. James Whale)
“Freaks” (1932, dir. Todd Browning)
“Shadow Of A Doubt” (1943, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Greed” (1925, dir. Erich Von Stroheim)
“Modern Times” (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“La Belle Et La Bete” (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)
“Goodfellas” (1990, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Los Olvidados” (1950, dir. Luis Bunuel)
“Nosferatu” (1922, dir. F.W. Murnau)
“8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
Sean Durkin
“The Shining” (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“Rosemary’s Baby” (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)
“Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
“3 Women” (1977, dir. Robert Altman)
“The Birds” (1963, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“The Goonies” (1985, dir. Richard Donner)
“The Piano Teacher” (2001, dir. Michael Haneke)
“Persona” (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
“The Panic In Needle Park” (1971, dir. Jerry Schatzberg)
“The Conformist” (1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Asghar Farhadi
“Rashomon” (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
“La Strada” (1954, dir. Federico Fellini)
“The Godfather” (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
“The Apartment” (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
“Three Colors Red” (1994, dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
“Take The Money And Run” (1969, dir. Woody Allen)
“Scenes From A Marriage” (1973, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
"Taxi Driver (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Modern Times” (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
Michel Hazavanicius
“City Girl” (1930, dir. F.W. Murnau)
“City Lights” (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“To Be Or Not To Be” (1942, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
“Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
“The Apartment” (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
“The Shining” (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“North By Northwest” (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“The Third Man” (1949, dir. Carol Reed)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs” (1937, dir. Walt Disney)
Miranda July
“Blind” (1987, dir. Frederick Wiseman)
“Smooth Talk” (1985, dir. Joyce Chopra)
“Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“After Life” (1998, dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
“Somewhere In Time” (1980, dir. Jeannot Szwarc)
“Cheese” (2007, dir. Mika Rottenberg)
“Punch Drunk Love” (2002, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
“The Red Balloon” (1956, dir. Albert Lamorisse)
“A Room With A View” (1985, dir. James Ivory)
“Fish Tank” (2009, dir. Andrea Arnold)
Mike Leigh
“American Madness” (1932, dir. Frank Capra)
“Andrei Rublev” (1966, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
“I Am Cuba” (1964, dir. Mikhai Kalatozov)
“The Emigrants” (1971, dir. Jan Troell)
“How A Mosquito Operates” (1912, dir. Winsor McCay)
“Jules Et Jim” (1962, dir. Francois Truffaut)
“Radio Days” (1987, dir. Woody Allen)
"Songs From The Second Floor (2000, dir. Roy Andersson)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Michael Mann
“Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“Battleship Potemkin” (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
“Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
“Avatar” (2009, dir. James Cameron)
“Dr. Strangelove” (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“Biutiful” (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
“My Darling Clementine” (1946, dir. John Ford)
“The Passion Of Joan Of Arc” (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“The Wild Bunch” (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Steve McQueen
“The Battle Of Algiers” (1966, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
“Zero de Conduite” (1933, dir. Jean Vigo)
“La Regle du Jeu” (1939, dir. Jean Renoir)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
“Couch” (1964, dir. Andy Warhol)
“Le Mépris” (1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
“Beau Travail” (1998, dir. Claire Denis)
“Once Upon A Time In America” (1984, dir. Sergio Leone)
“The Wages Of Fear” (1953, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
“Do The Right Thing” (1989, dir. Spike Lee)
Jeff Nichols
“Cool Hand Luke” (1967, dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
“Badlands” (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)
“Hud” (1963, dir. Martin Ritt)
“The Hustler” (1961, dir. Robert Rossen)
“Lawrence Of Arabia” (1962, dir. David Lean)
“Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid” (1969, dir. George Roy Hill)
“Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
“North By Northwest” (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Stagecoach” (1939, dir. John Ford)
“Fletch” (1985, dir. Michael Ritchie)
David O. Russell
“It’s A Wonderful Life” (1946, dir. Frank Capra)
“Chinatown” (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)
“Goodfellas” (1990, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Pulp Fiction” (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Young Frankenstein” (1974, dir. Mel Brooks)
“The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie” (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
“The Godfather” (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“Blue Velvet” (1986, dir. David Lynch)
“Groundhog Day” (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)
Martin Scorsese
“8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
“Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
“The Leopard” (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
“Palsa” (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
“The Red Shoes” (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
“The River” (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
“Salvatore Giuliano” (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
“The Searchers” (1956, dir. John Ford)
“Ugetsu Monogatari” (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Quentin Tarantino
“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
“Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“The Bad News Bears” (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
“Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
“Dazed And Confused” (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
“The Great Escape” (1963, dir. John Sturges)
“His Girl Friday” (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
“Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
"Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
“Rolling Thunder” (1977, dir. John Flynn)
“Sorcerer” (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
“Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)
Bela Tarr
“Man With A Movie Camera” (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov)
“The Passion Of Joan Of Arc” (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
“Alexander Nevsky” (1938, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
“M” (1931, dir. Fritz Lang)
“Au hasard Balthazar” (1966, dir. Robert Bresson)
“Vivre sa vie” (1962, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
“Frenzy” (1972, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
“The Round-Up” (1965, dir. Miklós Jancsó)
“Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Edgar Wright
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“An American Werewolf In London” (1981, dir. John Landis)
“Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
“Dames” (1934, dir. Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley)
“Don’t Look Now” (1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg)
“Duck Soup” (1933, dir. Leo McCarey)
“Psycho” (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Raising Arizona” (1987, dir. The Coen Brothers)
“Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“The Wild Bunch” (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Goodbye Dragon Inn” (2003, dir. Ming-liang Tsai)
“A Brighter Summer Day” (1991, dir. Edward Yang)
“Rain” (1929, dir. Joris Ivens)
“Empire” (1964, dir. Andy Warhol)
“Valentin de la Sierras” (1971, dir. Bruce Baillie)
“The Conversation” (1974, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“Full Metal Jacket” (1987, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“The Eighties” (1983, dir. Chantal Akerman)
“The General” (1926, dir. Buster Keaton)
“Sátántangó”(1994, dir. Bela Tarr)
Wow, where did you find those individual lists? I thought those weren’t released for another two weeks. Sometimes though it seems like certain choices are made in an effort to appear learned about film, since they know these selections will be exposed to the public. For example, is Potemkin really one of Michael Mann’s favorite films of all time?
Found them floating around on another message board. I could totally see that as Guillermo Del Toro’s list. It’s probably the closest to 1:1 when it comes from favorite films to the types of movies they make.
Scorsese’s and Allen’s lists are pretty convincing, as well, judging by what they usually have to say about cinema in interviews. But only one Bergman from Allen, really? But two Fellini films? Steve McQueen picking Beau Travail and Contempt surprises me though.
Surprised by some of the elections by Bela Tarr.
Michael Mann list is so crazy i like it. Tarantino crazy and honest as always.
Bong Joon-Ho puts Zodiac on his list. Even he knows it’s better than Memories of Murder.
Michael Mann also put Avatar on his list. I can no longer trust him.
Just wondering – Can you vote for one of your own films? If so, I wonder if anyone’s had the audacity to do it.
I think Buñuel did it in 1952 xDD
And Fellini voted his own film Intervista in 1992 sight and sound : )
Ha! Brilliant!
Nathan M: Bong Joon-Ho puts Zodiac on his list. Even he knows it’s better than Memories of Murder.
I doubt he’d be vain enough to list one of his own films, but if he did think that, Bong would be way wrong!
Why would the Dardennes only get one list between the two of them?
I want to know who voted for Mulholland Dr. when is the complete list coming out?
If these are fabricated, the films listed are good guesses, although 3 WOMEN, THE PIANO TEACHER, and PERSONA are virtually too on-the-nose for Sean Durkin given his MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. And would someone who’s only made one feature film really be invited to vote?
Scorsese lists 12 movies
Tarantino lists 13
Hhhmmmm.
dp
Who’d have thought that Moss from “The IT Crowd” would have such good taste in cinema?
Does anyone have the current issue yet? If so, can you post the complete 100 films, please?
dope fiend willy
I’d love to read Afterhours take on the profundity of Kane.
It is deep and profound, but is it the most deep and most profound?