Jack Gattanella

Writer – Film-Forward

1. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
2. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
3. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
4. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
5. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
7. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
8. Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
9. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
10. 8½ | Federico FELLINI | 1963
11. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
12. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
13. Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
14. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
15. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
16. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
17. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
18. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
19. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
20. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
21. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
22. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
23. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
24. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979
25. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
26. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
27. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
28. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
29. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
30. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
31. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
32. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
33. The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
34. The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
35. The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
36. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
37. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
38. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924
39. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
40. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
41. Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
42. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
43. La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
44. Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
45. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
46. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
47. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
48. Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
49. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
50. Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953
51. La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973
52. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
53. Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
54. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
55. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
56. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
57. In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
58. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
59. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
60. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
61. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
62. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
63. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
64. North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
65. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
66. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939
67. Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975
68. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
69. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
70. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
71. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
72. Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
73. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
74. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
75. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
76. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
77. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
78. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
79. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
80. Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990
81. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
82. Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998

 Unranked

• Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
• A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991
• The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
• Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964
• Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
• Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
• Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1943
• A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
• A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000
• Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
• Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936
• Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955
• Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983
• Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994
• Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
• The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973
• Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973

The Alternative list - “Left-Out” Club

The interesting thing with a good lot of these films is that some of them just barely missed the mark of being in the top 100 of the Sight & Sound bunch.  While others, maybe, I'd need to check, aren't on there at all (you'll know em when you see them).

1. GoodFellas | Martin SCORSESE | 1990
2. A Clockwork Orange | Stanley KUBRICK | 1971
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš FORMAN | 1975
4. Manhattan | Woody ALLEN | 1979
5. Schindler's List | Steven SPIELBERG | 1993
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio LEONE | 1966
7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis BUÑUEL | 1972
8. Inglourious Basterds | Quentin TARANTINO | 2009
9. There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas ANDERSON | 2007
10. Umberto D. | Vittorio DE SICA | 1952
11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven SPIELBERG | 1977
12. No Country for Old Men | COEN Brothers | 2007
13. Pulp Fiction | Quentin TARANTINO | 1994
14. The Devils | Ken RUSSELL | 1971
15. Dawn of the Dead | George A. ROMERO | 1978
16. Harakari | KOBAYASHI Masaki | 1962
17. Jaws | Steven SPIELBERG | 1975
18. Weekend | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1967
19. Stroszek | Werner HERZOG | 1977
20. WALL•E | Andrew STANTON | 2008
21. Husbands and Wives | Woody ALLEN | 1992
22. The Red Shoes | Michael POWELL & Emeric PRESSBURGER | 1948
23. The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin KERSHNER | 1980
24. The Shining | Stanley KUBRICK | 1980
25. Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre MELVILLE | 1967
26. Eraserhead | David LYNCH | 1977
27. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry GILLIAM | 1998
28. Easy Rider | Dennis HOPPER | 1969
29. Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo DEL TORO | 2006
30. Dr. Strangelove | Stanley KUBRICK | 1964
31. Sullivan's Travels | Preston STURGES | 1941
32. Short Cuts | Robert ALTMAN | 1993
33. Ran | KUROSAWA Akira | 1985
34. You, the Living | Roy ANDERSSON | 2007
35. Paris, Texas | Wim WENDERS | 1984
36. Batman | Tim BURTON | 1989
37. Breaking the Waves | Lars VON TRIER | 1996
38. Napoleon | Abel GANCE | 1927
39. The Gold Rush | Charles CHAPLIN | 1925
40. Santa Sangre | Alejandro JODOROWSKY | 1989
41. Princess Mononoke | MIYAZAKI Hayao | 1997
42. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel GONDRY | 2004
43. The Last Detail | Hal ASHBY | 1973
44. Zodiac | David FINCHER | 2007
45. Point Blank | John BOORMAN | 1967
46. Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas ANDERSON | 1997
47. Alien | Ridley SCOTT | 1979
48. Faces | John CASSAVETES | 1968
49. Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody ALLEN | 1989
50. Do the Right Thing | Spike LEE | 1989
51. Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1973
52. Down by Law | Jim JARMUSCH | 1986
53. Where the Wild Things Are | Spike JONZE | 2009
54. His Girl Friday | Howard HAWKS | 1940
55. Casino | Martin SCORSESE | 1995
56. The Maltese Falcon | John HUSTON | 1941
57. Fitzcarraldo | Werner HERZOG | 1982
58. The Big Lebowski | COEN Brothers | 1998
59. Burden of Dreams | Les BLANK | 1982
60. Knife in the Water | Roman POLANSKI | 1962
61. Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven SPIELBERG | 1981
62. The Killing | Stanley KUBRICK | 1956
63. Grave of the Fireflies | TAKAHATA Isao | 1988
64. Alphaville | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
65. Jackie Brown | Quentin TARANTINO | 1997
66. Deconstructing Harry | Woody ALLEN | 1997
67. The Thin Red Line | Terrence MALICK | 1998
68. The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin SCORSESE | 1988
69. The Muppet Movie | James FRAWLEY | 1979
70. The Cameraman | Edward SEDGWICK | 1928
71. Yojimbo | KUROSAWA Akira | 1961
    A Fistful of Dollars | Sergio LEONE | 1964
72. Blood Simple. | COEN Brothers | 1984
73. The Bridge on the River Kwai | David LEAN | 1957
74. Strangers on a Train | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1951
75. Holy Motors | Leos CARAX | 2012
76. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe HOOPER | 1974
77. Blazing Saddles | Mel BROOKS | 1974
78. Broken Flowers | Jim JARMUSCH | 2005
79. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John FORD | 1962
80. Barton Fink | COEN Brothers | 1991
81. Los Olvidados | Luis BUÑUEL | 1950
82. Gangs of New York | Martin SCORSESE | 2002
83. Brazil | Terry GILLIAM | 1985
84. The Asphalt Jungle | John HUSTON | 1950
85. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar WRIGHT | 2010
86. A Woman Under the Influence | John CASSAVETES | 1974
87. Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1961
88. My Neighbour Totoro | MIYAZAKI Hayao | 1988
89. The Third Generation | Rainer Werner FASSBINDER | 1979
90. The Happiness of the Katakuris | MIIKE Takashi | 2001
91. Ikiru | KUROSAWA Akira | 1952
92. Coonskin | Ralph BAKSHI | 1975
93. Being John Malkovich | Spike JONZE | 1999
94. Ghost Busters | Ivan REITMAN | 1984
95. The King of Comedy | Martin SCORSESE | 1982
96. Vivre Sa Vie | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1962
97. The Big Sleep | Howard HAWKS | 1946
98. Melancholia | Lars VON TRIER | 2011
99. Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley KUBRICK | 1999
100. Star Wars | George LUCAS | 1977

More honorables: Batman BeginsMinority Report For a Few Dollars More, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Kid, Viridiana, About Schmidt, Match Point, Midnight in Paris, The Holy Mountain, Leaving Las Vegas, Night on Earth, The Conversation, Blowup, Cries and Whispers, Punch-Drunk Love, The Avengers.... the list goes on....