Masterpieces Of Cinema... According To Me

Submitted by Oedipus on Wed, 09/21/2005 - 03:08
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  1. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
  2. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
  3. Domino (Tony Scott, 2005)
  4. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
  5. Sin City (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino, 2005)
  6. The Beautiful Country (Hans Petter Moland, 2004)
  7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  8. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
  9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
  10. The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
  11. Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
  12. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  13. Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella, 2003)
  14. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
  15. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
  16. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
  17. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
  18. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
  19. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
  20. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, 2001)
  21. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
  22. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
  23. An Affair of Love (Frédéric Fonteyne, 1999)
  24. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
  25. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
  26. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
  27. Léon (Luc Besson, 1994)
  28. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  29. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  30. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
  31. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983)
  32. Pink Floyd The Wall (Allan Parker, 1982)
  33. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)
  34. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  35. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
  36. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
  37. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
  38. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  39. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
  40. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  41. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
  42. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  43. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972)
  44. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
  45. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
  46. Night Of The Living Dead (George Romero, 1968)
  47. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  48. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
  49. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
  50. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
  51. For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
  52. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  53. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
  54. Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
  55. Le Petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
  56. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
  57. The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki & Darryl F. Zanuck, 1962)
  58. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
  59. To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
  60. The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961)
  61. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961)
  62. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
  63. La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
  64. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  65. The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens, 1959)
  66. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
  67. Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959)
  68. Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
  69. The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
  70. The Wide Blue Road (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1957)
  71. The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  72. Sommarnattens leende: Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
  73. On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  74. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
  75. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  76. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
  77. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
  78. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
  79. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
  80. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)
  81. The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, 1943)
  82. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  83. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
  84. June Night (Per Lindberg, 1940)
  85. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940)
  86. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  87. Daybreak (Marcel Carné, 1939)
  88. The Wizard Of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  89. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
  90. La Grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
  91. Ecstasy (Gustav Machatý, 1933)
  92. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
  93. Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes, 1930)
  94. The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
  95. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
  96. The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt, 1925)
  97. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
  98. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson, 1920)
  99. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
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In Chronological Order. Most of these movies I haven't seen in a while so I added them from memory, so the list may change and I will be adding more to it as they occur to me.

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Masterpieces Of Cinema... According To Me
staup200501/12/2006

You've got a lot of GREAT movies on this list!! We seem to have pretty much the same taste in films. My top film would have to be "The Color Purple".

Scott