The Canon Reworked

1. Citizen Kane | Orson WELLES | 1941


2. Vertigo | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1958


3. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley KUBRICK | 1968


4. Tokyo Story | OZU Yasujirō | 1953


5. Rear Window | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1954


6. Seven Samurai | KUROSAWA Akira | 1954


7. M | Fritz LANG | 1931


8. The Night of the Hunter | Charles LAUGHTON | 1955

9. La Règle du Jeu | Jean RENOIR | 1939

10. Chinatown | Roman POLANSKI | 1974

11. Psycho | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1960

12. L'Avventura | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1960

13. Persona | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1966

14. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1979

15. Touch of Evil | Orson WELLES | 1958

16. The General | Clyde BRUCKMAN & Buster KEATON | 1927

17. La Grande Illusion | Jean RENOIR | 1937

18. The Godfather | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1972

19. The Third Man | Carol REED | 1949

20. Sherlock Jr. | Buster KEATON | 1924

21. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. MURNAU | 1927

22. The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford COPPOLA | 1974

23. The Searchers | John FORD | 1956

24. 8½ | Federico FELLINI | 1963

25. North by Northwest | Alfred HITCHCOCK | 1959

26. Casablanca | Michael CURTIZ | 1942

27. Taxi Driver | Martin SCORSESE | 1976

28. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. DREYER | 1928

29. Sunset Blvd. | Billy WILDER | 1950

30. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio DE SICA | 1948

31. Rashomon | KUROSAWA Akira | 1950

32. Singin' in the Rain | Stanley DONEN & Gene KELLY | 1952

33. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei EISENSTEIN | 1925

34. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957

35. City Lights | Charles CHAPLIN | 1931

36. Late Spring | OZU Yasujirō | 1949

37. The 400 Blows | François TRUFFAUT | 1959

38. L'Atalante | Jean VIGO | 1934

39. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1957

40. Modern Times | Charles CHAPLIN | 1936

41. Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner HERZOG | 1972

42. Lawrence of Arabia | David LEAN | 1962

43. Breathless | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1960

44. Raging Bull | Martin SCORSESE | 1980

45. Blade Runner | Ridley SCOTT | 1982

46. Metropolis | Fritz LANG | 1927

47. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga VERTOV | 1929

48. Andrei Rublev | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1966

49. A Man Escaped | Robert BRESSON | 1956

50. Un Chien Andalou | Luis BUÑUEL | 1929

51. La Dolce Vita | Federico FELLINI | 1960

52. Ugetsu Monogatari | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1953

53. Once upon a Time in the West | Sergio LEONE | 1968

54. La Jetée | Chris MARKER | 1962

55. Mulholland Dr. | David LYNCH | 2001

56. Play Time | Jacques TATI | 1967

57. L'Eclisse | Michelangelo ANTONIONI | 1962

58. Pather Panchali | Satyajit RAY | 1955

59. Barry Lyndon | Stanley KUBRICK | 1975

60. Rio Bravo | Howard HAWKS | 1959

61. Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar BERGMAN | 1982

62. Stalker | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1979

63. The Wild Bunch | Sam PECKINPAH | 1969

64. Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1965

65. Sansho Dayu | MIZOGUCHI Kenji | 1954

66. Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert BRESSON | 1966

67. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1963

68. Ordet | Carl Th. DREYER | 1955

69. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson WELLES | 1942

70. Pickpocket | Robert BRESSON | 1959

71. Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel CARNÉ | 1945

72. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo PONTECORVO | 1966

73. Greed | Erich VON STROHEIM | 1924

74. Blue Velvet | David LYNCH | 1986

75. Nashville | Robert ALTMAN | 1975

76. The Leopard | Luchino VISCONTI | 1963

77. The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor ERICE | 1973

78. Some Like It Hot | Billy WILDER | 1959

79. In the Mood for Love | WONG Kar-wai | 2000

80. Close-Up | Abbas KIAROSTAMI | 1990

81. Gertrud | Carl Th. DREYER | 1964

82. Mirror | Andrei TARKOVSKY | 1975

83. Madame de… | Max OPHÜLS | 1953

84. A One and a Two | Edward YANG | 2000

85. Partie de Campagne | Jean RENOIR | 1936

86. Journey to Italy | Roberto ROSSELLINI | 1954

87. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1943

88. Sátántangó | TARR Béla | 1994

89. A Matter of Life and Death | POWELL & PRESSBURGER | 1946

90. Imitation of Life | Douglas SIRK | 1959

91. La Maman et la Putain | Jean EUSTACHE | 1973

92. Jeanne Dielman | Chantal AKERMAN | 1975

93. Intolerance | D.W. GRIFFITH | 1916

94. Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc GODARD | 1998

95. Sans Soleil | Chris MARKER | 1983

96. Beau Travail | Claire DENIS | 1999

97. The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei PARAJANOV | 1968

98. A Brighter Summer Day | Edward YANG | 1991

99. Shoah | Claude LANZMANN | 1985

100. Touki-Bouki | Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY | 1973

2 comments:

  1. Unknown25 January 2013 at 18:15

    Once again, a chance has been missed and missed badly. There are literally sixty films on this list that are not as good as William Freidkin's unappreciated masterpiece, Sorcerer. At least sixty and possibly closer to seventy. The Magnificent Ambersons...are you kidding? By his own admission the studio ruined that picture beyond repair. Are you giving credit for the movie it should have been? Rio Bravo? Really? You know I was thinking that if you simply took out all the foreign films and silent films that you might, might get it right someday. But I don't think you would. Mulholland Drive is better than Ben Hur? Really? And you throw in documentaries like the Battle of Algiers and Shoah, not even on anyone's top five list of greatest documentaries. Vertigo at number two was almost the only thing you did right. And Barry Lyndon and 2001: a Space Odyssey are better than The Paths of Glory? Really? It's not apples and oranges...it's not. You missed badly here and I truly don't believe it would have been better if your choices were restricted. Do yourself a favor and watch Sorcerer again or for the first time. Then tell me picks forty through one-hundred are as good.

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  2. Iain Stott26 January 2013 at 10:48

    Jack, none of the titles you mentioned were eligible for this, as the introduction sets out. They were, however, eligible for The Alternative 100. Links to both the introduction and Alternative 100 can be found on the right-hand side.

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