Thursday, October 17, 2013

The best 100 films according to myself

The dutch website What I Watch asked for the yearly list of favorite films ever. Since I love to make lists I took the time to adjust my list from the previous year resulting in a few newcomers and shifts. Great, this means there have been enough quality movies for me in the last year. I wonder how next years list will be changed, lets hope for some more pearls. A snapshot.

01 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
02 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968]
03 Zerkalo [The Mirror] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
04 Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
05 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
06 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
07 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
08 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
09 L’année dernière a Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] (Alain Resnais, 1961)
10 Yi Yi [A One and a Two] (Edward Yang, 2000)



11 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
12 Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
13 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
14 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
15 Il deserto rosso [Red Desert] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
16 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
17 Le notti di Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
18 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958]
19 Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
20 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

21 Le trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
22 Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
23 Efter brylluppet [After the Wedding] (Susanne Bier, 2006)
24 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
25 Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
26 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
27 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
28 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
29 Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
30 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)



31 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
32 Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
33 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
34 Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
35 Idi I Smotri [Come and See] (Elem Klimov, 1985)
36 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
37 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
38 Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
39 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958]
40 Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968]

41 Il buono, il brutto,  il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (Sergio Leone, 1966)
42 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
43 Schichinin no samurai [Seven Samurai] (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
44 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
45 Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
46 M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
47 Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)
48 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
49 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
50 To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)



51 Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
52 Umberto D. (Vittorio de Sica, 1952)
53 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
54 Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
55 L’armée des ombres [Army of Shadows] (Jean Pierre Melville, 1969)
56 The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998]
57 Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, 1971)
58 Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952)
59 Suna no Onna [Woman in the Dunes] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
60 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

61 Scener ur ett äktenskap [Scenes from a Marriage] (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
62 Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
63 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
64 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
65 Jodaeiyi Nader az Simin [A Separation] (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
66 American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 2000)
67 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
68 The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008]
69 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
70 Chelovek s kino-apparatom [The Man with the Movie Camera] (Dziga Vertov, 1929)



71 Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)
72 Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
73 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998]
74 Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008]
75 The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948]
76 Le mépris (Jean Luc Godard, 1963)
77 Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948]
78 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
79 Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
80 Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky, 2000)

81 The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
82 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
83 Viskningar och rop [Cries and Whispers] (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
84 Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
85 White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
86 Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
87 C’era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] (Sergio Leone, 1968]
88 Kong bu fen zi [The Terrorizers] (Edward Yang, 1986)
89 L’ Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
90 Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)



91 Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
92 Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
93 Written in the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
94 Sanshô dayû [Sansho the Bailiff] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
95 Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
96 The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
97 American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
98 Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)
99 Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
100 Jungfrukällan [The Virgin Spring] (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)

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