100 Favorite Films
I made a version of this list roughly two years ago, but I felt it was time to revisit the idea. Simply put: if I was stranded on a desert island, these are the 100 films I'd want with me. What movies are missing? What are you shocked to see included?
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
400 Blows, The (1959)
8 ½ (1963)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amarcord (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Back to the Future (1985)
Badlands (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
Black Stallion, The (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
Children of Paradise (1946)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Conformist, The (1970)
Conversation, The (1974)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1928)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fantasia (1940)
Godfather, The (1972)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Ikiru (1952)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
L’Atalante (1934)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Lord of the Rings, The (2001-2003)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
Man with a Movie Camera, The (1929)
Matrix, The (1999)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Network (1976)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)
North by Northwest (1959)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Playtime (1967)
Pleasantville (1998)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Producers, The (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashomon (1950)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Rules of the Game, The (1939)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
Seventh Seal, The (1957)
Shining, The (1980)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Stalker (1979)
Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Ugetsu (1953)
Underground (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
400 Blows, The (1959)
8 ½ (1963)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amarcord (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Back to the Future (1985)
Badlands (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
Black Stallion, The (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
Children of Paradise (1946)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Conformist, The (1970)
Conversation, The (1974)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1928)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fantasia (1940)
Godfather, The (1972)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Ikiru (1952)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
L’Atalante (1934)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Lord of the Rings, The (2001-2003)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
Man with a Movie Camera, The (1929)
Matrix, The (1999)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Network (1976)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)
North by Northwest (1959)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Playtime (1967)
Pleasantville (1998)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Producers, The (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashomon (1950)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Rules of the Game, The (1939)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
Seventh Seal, The (1957)
Shining, The (1980)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Stalker (1979)
Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Ugetsu (1953)
Underground (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
posted by John | 11:14 PM
4 Comments:
Very cool list. I actually re-did mine, figured out a way to accurately put them in order and, viola - check it:
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey (68, Kubrick)
02. Playtime (67, Tati)
03. Persona (Bergman, 66)
04. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 63)
05. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 60)
06. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 54)
07. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 66)
08. Nashville (Altman, 75)
09. Viridiana (Bunuel, 61)
10. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 01)
11. Citizen Kane (Welles, 41)
12. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 39)
13. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 88)
14. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 72)
15. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 62)
16. Week End (Godard, 67)
17. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 79)
18. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 58)
19. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 79)
20. Days of Heaven (Malick, 79)
21. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 80)
22. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 75)
23. The Godfather (Coppola, 72)
24. The Shining (Kubrick, 80)
25. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 71)
26. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 76)
27. City Lights (Chaplin, 31)
28. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 53)
29. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 07)
30. The Decalogue (Kieszlowski, 88)
31. Blade Runner (Scott, 82)
32. The Searchers (Ford, 56)
33. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 60)
34. Touch of Evil (Welles, 58)
35. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 92)
36. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 62)
37. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovski, 69)
38. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 59)
39. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 80)
40. Ran (Kurosawa, 85)
41. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 55)
42. Ordet (Dreyer, 55)
43. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 53)
44. Satantango (Tarr, 94)
45. M (Lang, 31)
46. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 98)
47. La Jetee (Marker, 62)
48. The Up Series (Apted, 64-05)
49. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 74)
50. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 98)
51. In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai, 00)
52. Red (Kieszlowski, 94)
53. F for Fake (Welles, 74)
54. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 84)
55. The Third Man (Reed, 49)
56. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 27)
57. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 80)
58. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 81)
59. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 90)
60. Manhattan (Allen, 79)
61. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 95)
62. Breathless (Godard, 60)
63. Casablanca (Curtiz, 42)
64. Performance (Cammel/Roeg, 70)
65. The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel, 74)
66. Natural Born Killers (Stone, 94)
67. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 52)
68. Inland Empire (Lynch, 06)
69. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 82)
70. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston, 48)
71. Le Samourai (Melville, 67)
72. Notorious (Hitchcock, 46)
73. In a Lonely Place (Ray, 50)
74. Yi Yi (Yang, 00)
75. Chinatown (Polanski, 74)
76. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 01)
77. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 71)
78. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 88)
79. Boogie Nights (Anderson, 97)
80. No Country For Old Men (Coen/Coen, 07)
81. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 47)
82. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 48)
83. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 89)
84. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 99)
85. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 70)
86. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 43)
87. Underground (Kusturica, 95)
88. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 86)
89. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 66)
90. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 70)
91. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 73)
92. Brazil (Gilliam, 85)
93. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 66)
94. JFK (Stone, 91)
95. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 73)
96. Rio Bravo (Hawkes, 59)
97. Adaptation (Jonze, 02)
98. Heat (Mann, 95)
99. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 01)
00. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 68)
In my opinion, here are some that you missed:
Day For Night (1973)
Contempt (1963)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Spellbound (1945)
High Noon (1952)
Those are a few that popped into my head. Also, while I can maybe let the LOTR trilogy slide since it is really one continuous story, I dunno 'bout putting the original Star Wars trilogy as one film. They were each a single self contained story so I feel like they are 3 separate movies. But that's just me
James: I'm impressed that you ranked your whole list. I don't believe I could ever force myself to do that. Playtime has strangely gotten better each time I think about it. I didn't know you loved Persona so much (Fanny and Alexander is my favorite Bergman film). I still don't "get" L'Avventura, Au Hasard Balthazar, and Viridiana. Oh well. It's good to hear from you... how have you been? What are you up to these days?
Conor: I haven't seen Day for Night, Spellbound, or High Noon. As for Contempt and 12 Angry Men, they're both very good movies that would be somewhere on my "Second 100 Favorite Films" list.
Doin' alright, actually. Busy, busy . . . for the most part. There was a method behind how I did this list. It wasn't done on a whim - it actually took me quite a long time to construct. Anyways, a friend and I have a website called www.neverfearstudios.com where we're basically posting our material, future projects, and a bunch of other features currently in the works. Check it out! If you go into the 'about us' section, you can click my name and shoot me an e-mail. I'd love to hear what you think of our current short.
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