They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
- 1. Citizen Kane (1941) – Welles (USA)
- 2. Rules of the Game (1939) – Renoir (Fr.)
- 3. Vertigo (1958) – Hitchcock (USA)
- 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Kubrick (UK)
- 5. 8 ½ (1963) – Fellini (It.)
- 6. Tokyo Story (1951) – Ozu (Jap.)
- 7. The Seven Samurai (1956) – Kurosawa (Jap.)
- 8. The Searchers (1956) – Ford (USA)
- 9. Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Eisenstein (Russ.)
- 10. L’Atalante (1934) – Vigo (Fr.)
- 11. Sunrise (1927) – Murnau (USA)
- 12. Singin’ in the Rain (1957) – Donen / Kelly (USA)
- 13. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – Dreyer (Fr.)
- 14. Touch of Evil (1958) – Welles (USA)
- 15. Raging Bull (1980) – Scorsese (USA)
- 16. Rashomon (1950) – Kurosawa (Jap.)
- 17. The Bicycle Thief (1948) – De Sica (It.)
- 18. The General (1926) – Keaton (USA)
- 19. La Dolce Vita (1960) – Fellini (It.)
- 20. The Godfather Part II (1974) – Coppola (USA)
- 21. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Lean (UK)
- 22. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) – Carné (Fr.)
- 23. City Lights (1931) – Chaplin (USA)
- 24. The Third Man (1949) – Reed (UK)
- 25. Jules and Jim (1961) – Truffaut (Fr.)
- 26. The Godfather (1972) – Coppola (USA)
- 27. L’avventura (1960) – Antonioni (It. / Fr.)
- 28. The Night of the Hunter (1955) – Laughton (USA)
- 29. Some Like It Hot (1959) – Wilder (USA)
- 30. Wild Strawberries (1957) – Bergman (Swed.)
- 31. La Grande Illusion (1937) – Renoir (Fr.)
- 32. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) – Mizoguchi (Jap.)
- 33. Andrei Rublev (1966) – Tarkovsky (Russ.)
- 34. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Welles (USA)
- 35. Breatless (1960) – Godard (Fr.)
- 36. Psycho (1960) – Hitchcock (USA)
- 37. Apocalypse Now (1979) – Coppola (USA)
- 38. Modern Times (1936) – Chaplin (USA)
- 39. Pather Panchali (1955) – Ray (Ind.)
- 40. Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Wilder (USA)
- 41. Casablanca (1942) – Curtiz (USA)
- 42. Ordet (1955) – Dreyer (Den.)
- 43. The Conformist (1969) – Bertolucci (It. / Fr. / Germ.)
- 44. Taxi Driver (1976) – Scorsese (USA)
- 45. Contempt (1963) – Godard (Fr. / It.)
- 46. The Mirror (1976) – Tarkovsky (Russ.)
- 47. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) – Bresson (Fr.)
- 48. North by Northwest (1959) – Hitchcock (USA)
- 49. Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Kubrick (UK)
- 50. M (1931) – Lang (Germ.)
- 51. The Seventh Seal (1957) – Bergman (Swed.)
- 52. The Gold Rush (1925) – Chaplin (USA)
- 53. Rear Window (1954) – Hitchcock (USA)
- 54. Pierrot le Fou (1965) – Godard (Fr. / It.)
- 55. La Strada (1954) – Fellini (It.)
- 56. Persona (1966) – Bergman (Swed.)
- 57. Fanny and Alexander (1983) – Bergman (Swed.)
- 58. Greed (1925) – Stroheim (USA)
- 59. Intolerance (1916) – Griffith (USA)
- 60. Chinatown (1974) – Polanski (USA)
- 61. L’Age D’or (1930) – Bunuel (Fr.)
- 62. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) – Ophuls (Fr. / It.)
- 63. Blade Runner (1982) – Scott (USA)
- 64. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) – Ophuls
- 65. The 400 Blows (1959) – Truffaut (Fr.)
- 66. My Darling Clementine (1946) – Ford (USA)
- 67. Nashville (1975) – Altman (USA)
- 68. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) – Mizoguchi (Jap.)
- 69. Amarcord (1974) – Fellini (It.)
- 70. Viaggio in Italia (1953) – Rossellini (It.)
- 71. Rio Bravo (1959) – Hawks (USA)
- 72. The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Fleming (USA)
- 73. Pickpocket (1959) – Bresson (Fr.)
- 74. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Capra (USA)
- 75. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) – Leone (It. / USA)
- 76. Nosferatu (1922) – Murnau (Germ.)
- 77. The Wild Bunch (1969) – Peckinpah (USA)
- 78. Metropolis (1926) – Lang (Germ.)
- 79. Ikiru (1952) – Kurosawa (Jap.)
- 80. The Man With a Movie Camera (1929) – Vertov (Russ.)
- 81. Gone With the Wind (1939) – Fleming (USA)
- 82. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) – Powell / Pressburger (UK)
- 83. Stagecoach (1939) – Ford (USA)
- 84. Stalker (1979) – Tarkovsky (Russ.)
- 85. Last Year in Marienbad (1961) – Resnais (Fr. / It.)
- 86. Viridiana (1961) – Bunuel (Sp.)
- 87. Barry Lyndon (1975) – Kubrick (UK)
- 88. All About Eve (1950) – Mankiewicz (USA)
- 89. Out of the Past (1947) – Tourneur (USA)
- 90. Blue Velvet (1986) – Lynch (USA)
- 91. Vivre Sa Vie (1963) – Godard (Fr.)
- 92. The Exterminating Angel (1962) – Bunuel (Mex.)
- 93. Pandora’s Box (1928) – Pabst (Germ.)
- 94. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) – Keaton (USA)
- 95. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Leone (USA)
- 96. Mean Streets (1973) – Scorsese (USA)
- 97. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – Ford (USA)
- 98. Gertrud (1964) – Dreyer (Den.)
- 99. Napoleon (1927) – Gance (Fr.)
- 100. Paisan (1946) – Rossellini (It.)
This is my latest movie list obsession. It can be found at www.geocities.com/theyshootpictures. Click on top 100 movies.
I really like this list because it covers both American and foreign films and includes some older, obscure titles. It's supposed to be based on many critics' evaluations, I'm not sure how they did it exactly. In any case, I only know about 2 other 100 greatest movies lists that are worth anything - the AFI's list and the one found at www.filmsite.org. The AFI's list is too flawed, and while Filmsite's is better, it is not ranked in order, and it only covers English-language films.
Someday, I WILL see all of these movies. As of now, I've only seen 24 of these, all American titles except two Kubricks, "Rashomon", and "Les Enfants du Paradis" (aka "Children of Paradise").
Here are the movies broken down by country, decade, and director, respectively:
USA – 43
France – 19
Italy – 14
Japan – 6
UK – 6
Germany – 5
Russia – 5
Sweden – 4
Denmark – 2
India – 1
Mexico – 1
Spain – 1
1910’s – 1
1920’s – 12
1930’s – 10
1940’s – 12
1950’s – 26
1960’s – 23
1970’s – 11
1980’s – 5
Ingmar Bergman – 4
Federico Fellini – 4
John Ford – 4
Jean-Luc Godard – 4
Alfred Hitchcock – 4
Luis Bunuel – 3
Charlie Chaplin – 3
Francis Ford Coppola – 3
Carl Theodor Dreyer – 3
Stanley Kubrick – 3
Akira Kurosawa – 3
Martin Scorsese – 3
Andrei Tarkovsky – 3
Orson Welles – 3
Robert Bresson – 2
Victor Fleming – 2
Buster Keaton – 2
Fritz Lang – 2
Sergio Leone – 2
Kenji Mizoguchi – 2
F. W. Murnau – 2
Max Ophuls – 2
Jean Renoir – 2
Roberto Rossellini – 2
François Truffaut – 2
Billy Wilder – 2
Robert Altman – 1
Michelangelo Antonioni – 1
Bernardo Bertolucci – 1
Frank Capra – 1
Marcel Carné – 1
Michael Curtiz – 1
Vittorio De Sica – 1
Stanley Donen – 1
Sergei Eisenstein – 1
Abel Gance – 1
D. W. Griffith – 1
Howard Hawks – 1
Charles Laughton – 1
David Lean – 1
David Lynch – 1
Gene Kelly – 1
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 1
Yasujiro Ozu – 1
Georg Wilhelm Pabst – 1
Sam Peckinpah – 1
Roman Polanski – 1
Michael Powell – 1
Emeric Pressburger – 1
Satyajit Ray – 1
Carol Reed – 1
Alain Resnais – 1
Ridley Scott – 1
Erich von Stroheim – 1
Jacques Tourneur – 1
Dzigo Vertov – 1
Jean Vigo – 1
Nice link AJ. Of course may I suggest you take your movie viewing future on a more haphazard trail. Lists like this are fun and informative but I firmly believe some of the greatest enjoyment of the best movies is to find greatness on your own as opposed to being told these are the greatest movies because a bunch of critcs tell you they are.
I truly love old movies but to say that the last great movie was made 16 years ago is just silly. (Not to mention Blue Velvet, while a very good movie has no place on the list IMHO)
I would tell you to try all kinds of films and find your own greatest but I dont think I have to tell you that. Just try to enjoy what they can bring to your life. You will enjoy them more.
Rant over.
Oh, don't get me wrong. By no means do I accept this list as a definitive list of the 100 greatest movies of all-time, and I'm not saying that I would totally agree with it if I did see all the movies on it. I just think that this list will introduce me to plenty of older films and foreign films; I may find greatness in only a handful, but even if I don't like some of the films, at least I can say that I saw them, and it will be an interesting experience. Oh, and I agree with you that a few movies from the last 15 years should be on this list (I haven't seen "Blue Velvet" though).