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A
Personal Journey through 100+ Years of Movies
This is a list
of 100 movies that I personally value the most, the films
that I currently find the most fascating to reflect on and
would most want to see again. Listed chronologically, they
form an alternative history of the movies as seen through
my eyes. I've made a note of which year I watched each film
as a way to reflect how each film figured into my personal
history.
Tite (Year of
Release) Director (Year First Screened by Me)
Le Voyage Travers
L'Impossible (1906) George Melies ( 2002 )
Les Vampires (1915)
Louis Feuillade ( 2001 )
Broken Blossoms
(1919) DW Griffith ( 1999 )
Nanook of the North
(1922) Robert Flaherty ( 2002 )
The Gold Rush (1925)
Charles Chaplin ( 1989 )
The General (1926)
Buster Keaton ( 1987 )
Sunrise (1927)
FW Murnau ( 1999 )
The Crowd (1927)
King Vidor ( 2001 )
Pandora's Box (1927)
G.W. Pabst ( 2001 )
The Man with a
Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov ( 1996 )
Earth (1930) Alexander
Dovzhenko ( 2002 )
M (1931) Fritz
Lang ( 1996 )
Freaks (1932) Todd
Browning ( 1991 )
The Bitter Tea
of General Yen (1933) Frank Capra ( 1999 )
Scarface (1932)
Howard Hawks ( 2001 )
Scarlet Empress
(1934) Josef von Sternberg ( 2001 )
Hallelujah, I'm
a Bum! (1933) Lewis Milestone ( 2001 )
I Was Born, ButÉ
(1932) Yasujiro Ozu ( 2002 )
Bride of Frankenstein
(1935) James Whale ( 1995 )
Grand Illusion
(1937) Jean Renoir ( 1989 )
Street Angel (1937)
Yuan Muzhi ( 2002 )
Porky In Wackyland
(1938) Robert Clampett ( 1983 )
The Wizard of Oz
(1939) Victor Fleming ( 1985 )
The Shop Around
the Corner (1940) Ernst Lubitsch ( 2002 )
The Maltese Falcon
(1941) John Huston ( 1987 )
The Magnificent
Ambersons (1942) Orson Welles ( 1990 )
Casablanca (1942)
Michael Curtiz ( 1987 )
Meshes of the Afternoon
(1943) Maya Deren ( 1996 )
Ivan the Terrible
(1945) Sergei Eisenstein ( 2002 )
My Darling Clementine
(1946) John Ford ( 1989 )
Red Shoes (1948)
Michael Powell ( 1987 )
La Terra Trema
(1948) Luchino Visconti ( 2001 )
Stromboli (1949)
Roberto Rossellini ( 2002 )
The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed ( 1987 )
This Life of Mine
(1950) Shi Hui ( 2002 )
An American in
Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli ( 1989 )
Awaara (1951)
Raj Kapoor ( 2002 )
Singin' in the
Rain (1952) Stanley Donen ( 1989 )
Ugetsu Monogatari
(1953) Kenji Mizoguchi ( 2001 )
The Seven Samurai
(1954) Akira Kurosawa ( 1988 )
Aprajito (1957)
Satyajit Ray ( 2000 )
Ordet (1955) Carl
Dreyer ( 2001 )
Mother India (1957)
Mehboob Khan
( 2002 )
Nazarin (1958)
Luis Bunuel ( 2001 )
Will Success Spoil
Rock Hunter? (1957) Frank Tashlin ( 2001 )
Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock ( 1987 )
Fires on the Plain
1959 Kon Ichikawa ( 2001 )
Imitation of Life
(1959) Douglas Sirk ( 2002 )
Jules and Jim (1960)
Francois Truffaut ( 1996 )
Underworld USA
(1960) Sam Fuller ( 2001 )
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962) David Lean ( 1989 )
8 1/2 (1963) Federico
Fellini ( 1990 )
A Hard Days' Night
(1964) Richard Lester ( 1989 )
Pierrot le Fou
(1965) Jean-luc Godard ( 2001 )
Stage Sisters (1965)
Xie Fei ( 2001 )
Au Hasard Balthazar
(1966) Robert Bresson ( 2002 )
Breakaway (1966)
Bruce Conner ( 2000 )
Hawks and Sparrows
(1966) Pier Paolo Pasolini ( 2002 )
Playtime (1967)
Jacques Tati ( 2002 )
The Red and the
White (1967) Miklos Jancso ( 2001 )
The Color of Pomegranates
(1969) Sergei Parajanov ( 2001 )
A Touch of Zen
(1969) King Hu ( 2001 )
Performance (1970)
Nicholas Roeg, Donald Cammell ( 1996 )
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(1971) Robert Altman ( 1997 )
Godfather, The
(1972) Francis Ford Coppola ( 1987 )
Chloe in the Afternoon
(1972) Eric Rohmer ( 2000 )
Solaris (1972)
Andrei Tarkovsky ( 2001 )
Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanski ( 1987 )
Celine and Julie
Go Boating (1974) Jacques Rivette ( 1995 )
The Travelling
Players (1974) Theo Angelopoulos ( 2002 )
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Stanley Kubrick ( 1990 )
Jeanne Dielman,
23 Quai du Commerce, 1860 Bruxelles (1975) Chantal Akerman
( 2002 )
Taxi Driver (1975)
Martin Scorsese
( 1988 )
Gates of Heaven
(1977) Errol Morris ( 1996 )
Saturday Night
Fever (1977) John Badham ( 1999 )
Rock n' Roll High
School (1979) Allan Arkush ( 1992 )
Chan is Missing
(1982) Wayne Wang ( 1996 )
Zu: Warriors from
Magic Mountain (1982) Tsui Hark ( 2001 )
The Ballad of
Narayama (1982) Shohei Imamura ( 2002 )
Trading Places
(1983) John Landis ( 1986 )
Yellow Earth (1984)
Chen Kaige ( 1999 )
Horse Thief (1985)
Tian Zhuangzhuang ( 2001 )
Brightness (Yeelen)
(1987) Souleymane Cisse ( 2002 )
Rain Man (1988)
Barry Levinson ( 1988 )
Do the Right Thing
(1989) Spike Lee ( 1989 )
City of Sadness
(1989) Hou Hsiao Hsien ( 1991 )
Close-Up (1990)
Abbas Kiarostami ( 2000 )
Days of Being Wild
(1991) Wong Kar Wai ( 1999 )
Breaking the Waves
(1995) Lars von Trier ( 1997 )
Underground (1995)
Emir Kusturica ( 2002 )
The Story of Qiu
Ju (1995) Zhang Yimou ( 1996 )
Fargo (1996) Joel
Coen ( 1996 )
Dead Man (1996)
Jim Jarmusch ( 2001 )
Destiny (1997)
Youssef Chahine ( 2002 )
As Good As It Gets
(1997) James L. Brooks ( 1998 )
The Thin Red Line
(1998) Terrence Malick ( 1999 )
Magnolia (1999)
Paul Thomas Anderson ( 1999 )
Platform (2000)
Jia Zhangke ( 2000 )
Yi Yi (2000) Edward
Yang ( 2000 )
What Time Is It
There? (2001) Tsai Ming-Liang ( 2001 )
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