My Top 100 Films

Submitted by TenthAvenueFreezeOut on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 14:06
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  1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)
  2. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
  3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
  4. Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze)
  5. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000, Edward Yang)
  6. La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
  7. Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
  9. The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
  10. In Cold Blood (1967, Richard Brooks)
  11. The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson)
  12. Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen)
  13. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
  14. Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders)
  15. Another Year (2010, Mike Leigh)
  16. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
  17. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008, Kurt Kuenne)
  18. Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)
  19. The Player (1992, Robert Altman)
  20. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Stanley Kramer)
  21. Sleuth (1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  22. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
  23. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
  24. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
  25. Nói albínói (2003, Dagur Kári)
  26. Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
  27. Barton Fink (1991, Joel Coen)
  28. Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
  29. Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
  30. Sátántángo (1994, Béla Tarr)
  31. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
  32. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
  33. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
  34. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
  35. Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
  36. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
  37. Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
  38. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
  39. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
  40. La Antena (2007, Esteban Sapir)
  41. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
  42. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, Julian Schnabel)
  43. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
  44. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
  45. The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
  46. American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
  47. The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010, Thom Zimny)
  48. Cinema Paradiso: Director’s Cut (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore)
  49. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
  50. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
  51. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorcese)
  52. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  53. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
  54. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Wes Anderson)
  55. Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  56. Umberto D. (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
  57. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  58. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  59. Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)
  60. The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen)
  61. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
  62. Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  63. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
  64. Blow-Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  65. Lenny (1974, Bob Fosse)
  66. You, the Living (2007, Roy Andersson)
  67. Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
  68. Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel)
  69. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  70. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  71. Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
  72. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  73. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
  74. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
  75. Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
  76. Annie Hall (1977, Steven Spielberg)
  77. Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert & David Maysles)
  78. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
  79. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
  80. Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)
  81. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
  82. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
  83. Cashback (2006, Sean Ellis)
  84. Buffalo ’66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)
  85. Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn)
  86. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  87. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
  88. Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)
  89. Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
  90. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  91. Limelight (1952, Charlie Chaplin)
  92. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
  93. Cemetery Junction (2010, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant)
  94. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
  95. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Béla Tarr)
  96. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  97. The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
  98. Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilová)
  99. Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)
  100. A Short Film About Killing (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  101. Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle)
  102. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008, Mike Leigh)
  103. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-Wai)
  104. The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin)
  105. Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
  106. A Serious Man (2009, Ethan & Joel Coen)
  107. Milk (2008, Gus Van Sant)
  108. Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  109. 127 Hours (2010, Danny Boyle)
  110. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
  111. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969, Sydney Pollack)
  112. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Spike Jonze)
  113. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
  114. Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders)
  115. American Movie (1999, Chris Smith)
  116. The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey)
  117. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
  118. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  119. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
  120. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
  121. The Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
  122. Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
  123. Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone)
  124. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
  125. Mary and Max (2009, Adam Elliot)
  126. Babel (2006, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  127. Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
  128. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
  129. Dark Days (2000, Marc Singer)
  130. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999, Trey Parker)
  131. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
  132. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
  133. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)
  134. L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  135. Submarine (2011, Richard Aoyade)
  136. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
  137. Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)
  138. The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  139. The War Zone (1999, Tim Roth)
  140. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb)
  141. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
  142. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle)
  143. Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)
  144. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
  145. In The Heat Of The Night (1967, Norman Jewison)
  146. For All Mankind (1989, Al Reinert)
  147. 8/10 (chronologically)
  148. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
  149. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: London Calling - Live in Hyde Park (Chris Hilson)
  150. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
  151. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  152. Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
  153. Moon (Duncan Jones)
  154. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
  155. Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)
  156. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
  157. Slumdog Millinaire (Danny Boyle)
  158. Ben X (Nic Balthazar)
  159. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Alex Gibney)
  160. JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
  161. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
  162. Burn After Reading (Ethan & Joel Coen)
  163. Superbad (Greg Mottola)
  164. Control (Anton Corbijn)
  165. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
  166. This is England (Shane Meadows)
  167. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
  168. No Country for Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen)
  169. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
  170. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
  171. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
  172. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
  173. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
  174. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
  175. An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
  176. A Bittersweet Life (Ji-woon Kim)
  177. The Squid and The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  178. Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
  179. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
  180. Tickets (Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach & Ermanno Olmi)
  181. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
  182. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
  183. Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
  184. Hard Candy (David Slade)
  185. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
  186. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
  187. Garden State (Zach Braff)
  188. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  189. Head-On (Fatih Akin)
  190. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  191. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
  192. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  193. The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
  194. Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
  195. Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley (Nyla Bialek Adams & Laurie Trombley)
  196. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
  197. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
  198. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
  199. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
  200. In America (Jim Sheridan)
  201. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
  202. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
  203. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
  204. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
  205. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Pierce)
  206. Peppermint Candy (Chang-dong Lee)
  207. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
  208. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
  209. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
  210. Black Cat White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
  211. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
  212. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
  213. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
  214. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
  215. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
  216. Lone Star (John Sayles)
  217. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
  218. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
  219. Clerks. (Kevin Smith)
  220. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
  221. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  222. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  223. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  224. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
  225. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
  226. Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan)
  227. Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
  228. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  229. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
  230. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
  231. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
  232. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
  233. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  234. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
  235. JFK (Oliver Stone)
  236. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
  237. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
  238. Crimes and Misdeamors (Woody Allen)
  239. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
  240. The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
  241. A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  242. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
  243. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
  244. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
  245. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
  246. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
  247. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
  248. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
  249. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
  250. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
  251. Blood Simple. (Joel Coen)
  252. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  253. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
  254. Fast Times at Ridgmont High (Amy Heckerling)
  255. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
  256. Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)
  257. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  258. Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night (Werner Herzog)
  259. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
  260. Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
  261. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
  262. The Kiss of Death (Mike Leigh)
  263. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
  264. Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)
  265. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
  266. Nuts in May (Mike Leigh)
  267. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  268. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
  269. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
  270. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
  271. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
  272. Love and Death (Woody Allen)
  273. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  274. The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
  275. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog)
  276. Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
  277. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  278. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
  279. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
  280. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
  281. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  282. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
  283. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
  284. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  285. Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)
  286. The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  287. Z (Costa-Gavras)
  288. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
  289. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  290. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
  291. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
  292. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  293. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
  294. Play Time (Jacques Tati)
  295. The Face of Another (Tanin no kao, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  296. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
  297. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  298. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
  299. Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein)
  300. Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  301. My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
  302. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
  303. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
  304. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
  305. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
  306. Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
  307. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
  308. The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi)
  309. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  310. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
  311. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
  312. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  313. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
  314. Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  315. Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
  316. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
  317. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  318. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
  319. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
  320. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
  321. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
  322. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
  323. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
  324. I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
  325. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
  326. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  327. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
  328. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
  329. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
  330. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  331. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
  332. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
  333. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
  334. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
  335. Angels With Dity Faces (Michael Curtiz)
  336. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
  337. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  338. M (Fritz Lang)
  339. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
  340. The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)
  341. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
  342. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
  343. Nosferatu, Symphony of Terror (F. W. Murnau)
Rob8904/03/2010

serious problem!!!!, It may be my mistake but I believe you may have overlooked Casablanca?!

TenthAvenueFreezeOut04/03/2010

Nope. I'm not a fan at all. I'll give it a rewatch but I didn't see anything special in it at all.

Rob8904/03/2010

please do just purely for the quoteability if no other reason! Btw congrats on a truly great Top 100 Bruce list!

TenthAvenueFreezeOut04/03/2010

Eh, the script is okay I guess. I just found it plodding and repetitive. Maybe there's a tenderness I'm disconnected from which I'll eventually find.

Thank you!