Dean Treadway

Dean’s ballot was received too late to be included in the final totalling, but is shown here for comparison’s sake. It can also be found at his blog – Filmicability – with additional commentary and screen shots.

So here is my ranking of Sight and Sound's top 100: 
  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968
  2. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982
  3. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958
  4. The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972
  5. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959
  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928
  7. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931
  8. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941
  9. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954
  10. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962
  11. The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974
  12. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967
  13. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929
  14. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942
  15. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959
  16. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975
  17. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001
  18. Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976
  19. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960
  20. | Federico FELLINI | 1963
  21. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966
  22. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954
  23. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955
  24. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  25. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986
  26. The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969
  27. A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946
  28. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956
  29. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950
  30. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979
  31. Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968
  32. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927
  33. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966
  34. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925
  35. Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924
  36. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953
  37. Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965
  38. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957
  39. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952
  40. The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968
  41. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974
  42. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972
  43. Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980
  44. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975
  45. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927
  46. North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959
  47. Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975
  48. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959
  49. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937
  50. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953
  51. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958
  52. Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982
  53. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927
  54. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936
  55. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956
  56. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950
  57. M | Fritz LANG | 1931
  58. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962
  59. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963
  60. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934
  61. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966
  62. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949
  63. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948
  64. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966
  65. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960
  66. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963
  67. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955
  68. In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000
  69. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945
  70. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949
  71. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929
  72. Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959
  73. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962
  74. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960
  75. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999
  76. La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960
  77. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942
  78. Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985
  79. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954
  80. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959
  81. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939

Now I must be honest: these are the 19 films out of the 100 that I have only seen partially or not at all (mostly because they are difficult to find, or because I'm lazy, or both).  Of course, it would be disingenuous of me to rank these, so I have them in the order they appear on the original list.  So, I guess I have some great movies ahead of me...what a relief! 

Now for my list of the 100 films that I think should be canonized.  Now this...for this, I took the top choices from each of my MASTER LISTS, and reduced them down to 100 titles.   This was much more difficult...and painful...than I expected it to be.
  1. It's a Wonderful Life | Frank CAPRA | 1946
  2. Annie Hall | Woody ALLEN | 1977
  3. Paths of Glory | Stanley KUBRICK | 1957
  4. All That Jazz | Bob FOSSE | 1979
  5. Ikiru | KUROSAWA Akira | 1952
  6. Dr. Strangelove | Stanley KUBRICK | 1964
  7. Stagecoach | John FORD | 1939
  8. Breaking the Waves | Lars VON TRIER | 1996
  9. Eraserhead | David LYNCH | 1977
  10. Salesman | Albert & David MAYSLES & Charlotte ZWERIN | 1968
  11. Sullivan's Travels | Preston STURGES | 1941
  12. GoodFellas | Martin SCORSESE | 1990
  13. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John HUSTON | 1948
  14. Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968
  15. Nights of Cabiria | Federico FELLINI | 1957
  16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš FORMAN | 1975
  17. A Little Romance | George Roy HILL | 1979
  18. Seven Beauties | Lina WERTMÜLLER | 1975
  19. Duck Soup | Leo MCCAREY | 1933
  20. Stop Making Sense | Jonathan DEMME | 1984
  21. The New World | Terrence MALICK | 2005
  22. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio LEONE | 1966
  23. Alexander Nevsky | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1938
  24. Jean de Florette | Claude BERRI | 1986
  25. The Exterminating Angel | Luis BUÑUEL | 1962
  26. Great Expectations | David LEAN | 1946
  27. Sherman's March | Ross MCELWEE | 1986
  28. West Side Story | Robert WISE & Jerome ROBBINS | 1961
  29. Gone with the Wind | Victor FLEMING | 1939
  30. Bambi | David HAND | 1942
  31. Umberto D. | Vittorio DE SICA | 1952
  32. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank CAPRA | 1939
  33. Manhattan | Woody ALLEN | 1979
  34. What's Opera, Doc? | Chuck JONES | 1957
  35. Pulp Fiction | Quentin TARANTINO | 1994
  36. The Naked Spur | Anthony MANN | 1953
  37. Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1943
  38. Das Boot | Wolfgang PETERSEN | 1981
  39. Network | Sidney LUMET | 1976
  40. Blow-Up | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1966
  41. Unforgiven | Clint EASTWOOD | 1992
  42. Vampyr | Carl Th. DREYER | 1932
  43. The Last Picture Show | Peter BOGDANOVICH | 1971
  44. Titticut Follies | Frederick WISEMAN | 1967
  45. Reds | Warren BEATTY | 1981
  46. A Woman Under the Influence | John CASSAVETES | 1974
  47. The Exorcist | William FRIEDKIN | 1973
  48. Ride the High Country | Sam PECKINPAH | 1962
  49. Life Is Sweet | Mike LEIGH | 1990
  50. Do the Right Thing | Spike LEE | 1989
  51. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike NICHOLS | 1966
  52. Brazil | Terry GILLIAM | 1985
  53. Kiss Me Deadly | Robert ALDRICH | 1955
  54. Ran | KUROSAWA Akira | 1985
  55. The Set-Up | Robert WISE | 1949
  56. Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley KUBRICK | 1999
  57. Frankenstein | James WHALE | 1931
  58. Mothlight | Stan BRAKHAGE | 1963
  59. Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin SILVER | 1981
  60. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Andrew DOMINIK | 2007
  61. Repulsion | Roman POLANSKI | 1965
  62. O Lucky Man! | Lindsay ANDERSON | 1973
  63. A Hard Day's Night | Richard LESTER | 1964
  64. Once upon a Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge CEYLAN | 2011
  65. 12 Angry Men | Sidney LUMET | 1957
  66. Winchester '73 | Anthony MANN | 1950
  67. The Innocents | Jack CLAYTON | 1961
  68. Three Colours: Blue | Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI | 1993
  69. Best Boy | Ira WOHL | 1979
  70. Culloden | Peter WATKINS | 1964
  71. The Tale of the Fox | Wladyslaw and Irene STAREWICZ | 1930
  72. Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916
  73. Local Hero | Bill FORSYTH | 1983
  74. Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven SPIELBERG | 1977
  75. Breaking Away | Peter YATES | 1979
  76. Time Indefinite | Ross MCELWEE | 1993
  77. Alien | Ridley SCOTT | 1979
  78. Pennies from Heaven | Herbert ROSS | 1981
  79. Toy Story | John LASSETER | 1995
  80. Night of the Living Dead | George A. ROMERO | 1968
  81. The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip KAUFMAN | 1988
  82. The Big Lebowski | COEN Brothers | 1998
  83. Badlands | Terrence MALICK | 1973
  84. Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven SPIELBERG | 1981
  85. I Am Cuba | Mikhail KALATOZOV | 1964
  86. Frank Film | Frank & Caroline MORRIS | 1973
  87. The Gods of Times Square | Richard SANDLER | 1999
  88. Topsy Turvy | Mike LEIGH | 1999
  89. The Music Man | Morton DACOSTA | 1962
  90. Crumb | Terry ZWIGOFF | 1994
  91. Days of Heaven | Terrence MALICK | 1978
  92. Gertie the Dinosaur | Windsor MCKAY | 1914
  93. The Thin Blue Line | Errol MORRIS | 1988
  94. Point of Order | Emile DE ANTONIO | 1964
  95. My Darling Clementine | John FORD | 1946
  96. Midnight Cowboy | John SCHLESINGER | 1969
  97. 'Round Midnight | Bertrand TAVERNIER | 1986
  98. Gimme Shelter | Albert MAYSLES & David MAYSLES & Charlotte ZWERIN | 1970
  99. The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin KERSHNER | 1980
  100. Modern Romance | Albert BROOKS | 1981

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