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Instead of a CinSpec-related post this week, I've updated my personal top 100 films of all time list. I hadn't updated it since April, so my latest selections are viewable on the 100 Favorite Films page.
Note: My *OLD* list is below for archival purposes.
100. Black Narcissus (dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
99. Once (dir. John Carney)
98. Pierrot le Fou (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
97. 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
96. Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti)
95. Sunset Blvd. (dir. Billy Wilder)
94. The Passion of Anna (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
93. The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey)
92. The Shop Around the Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
91. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (dir. Steven Spielberg)
90. Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
89. American Graffiti (dir. George Lucas)
88. Chungking Express (dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
87. Day for Night (dir. François Truffaut)
86. Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
85. Pickup on South Street (dir. Samuel Fuller)
84. Code Unknown (dir. Michael Haneke)
83. Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg)
82. Festen (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
81. Blow-Up (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
80. Summer Hours (dir. Olivier Assayas)
79. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (dir. John Cassavetes)
78. The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
77. Amélie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
76. The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir)
75. Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Frank Capra)
74. Modern Times (dir. Charles Chaplin)
73. The Cranes are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
71. Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
70. A Short Film About Love (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
69. Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
68. The General (dir. Buster Keaton)
67. Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
66. Masculin Féminin (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
65. Caché (dir. Michael Haneke)
64. A Short Film About Killing (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
63. A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
62. A Fish Called Wanda (dir. Charles Crichton)
61. Cries and Whispers (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
60. Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
59. 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini)
58. Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
57. The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
56. Jackie Brown (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
55. Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
54. L.A. Confidential (dir. Curtis Hanson)
52. Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
51. Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles)
50. The Red Shoes (dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
49. Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
48. Rosetta (dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
47. Hannah and Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen)
46. Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone)
49. Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
47. Hannah and Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen)
46. Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone)
45. The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
44. Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean)
43. The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston)
42. The Double Life of Veronique (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
41. Schindler's List (dir. Steven Spielberg)
40. Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
39. Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
38. M (dir. Fritz Lang)
37. Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder)
36. All the President's Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
35. Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone)
34. 42nd Street (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
33. Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
32. The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
31. His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks)
29. Holy Motors (dir. Leos Carax)
28. Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
27. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
26. The Thin Red Line (dir. Terrence Malick)
25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (dir. David Lean)
24. Singin' in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
23. Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang)
22. Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater)
21. Three Colors: White (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
20. Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (dir. Ridley Scott)
19. Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
18. In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh)
16. Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
14. The Decalogue (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
12. City Lights (dir. Charles Chaplin)
11. The Philadelphia Story (dir. George Cukor)
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
7. Three Colors: Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
5. Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz)
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
3. Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
1. Three Colors: Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Apartment has fallen so far...well, not that far, but almost out of the top ten!!!
ReplyDeleteI find it funny how my #1 has been my #1 for about ten years now...and I don't see it ever changing.
The placement of The Apartment varies from day to day. On some days it'd be #5 or 6. :)
DeleteLOL, I've never had a #1 for that long, but Blue still looks good right now.
Impressive. Some great titles but haven't seen about a quarter of these. I'll be watching The Seventh Seal sometime this week and just watched Wild Strawberries, I liked it very much. Once I finally get through all the CiniSpecs I may try to compile my own list but it seems an onerous, if fun, task!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Hope you like The Seventh Seal, which is what turned me on to classic foreign cinema. I'd love to see your list if you put one together.
DeleteJoel, you need a blog!
DeleteYes, Joel, you need one!
DeleteIt's impressive how often you keep changing your top 100. It's been several years since I last tried this and that attempt was five or six years after my only other attempt. One of these days, I'll get around to doing it again, just to see how much it has changed, if at all.
ReplyDeleteAs for your list, like most of your site, it's a constant reminder that I've got a lot to catch up on. I've only seen about 40 of these titles. The Three Colours trilogy might be the most glaring of what I've missed because everyone just raves about them. I'm almost afraid to watch them now because I don't know if it's possible to live up to my expectations. Great work, Josh.
Thanks so much, Wendell.
DeleteHa, I love lists, but my rankings change a lot, even only slightly.
Glad I can plug several films you haven't watched. I always think my list is full of stuff most movie lovers have seen. The Three Colors trilogy could honestly tie for my favorite film of all time. (I hate ties like that, though.) Whenever I give them another look, I always watch all three in order, and they're fascinating. Hopefully, they won't be overhyped for you. They're small films, just very good ones. Granted, I managed to discover them before I knew of all the praise they'd received, so that might've endeared me to them even more.