Saturday, December 24, 2022

Top 100 movies of all time--what I've seen

Recently, Sight and Sound, a film magazine, published their top 100 films of all time list. This is a list they publish every decade, incorporating new films and reconsidering the best of the best. Additionally, Variety, another film and entertainment magazine, published their top 100 as well. 

From a quick glance, I can tell you that I've seen 40/100 of Sight and Sound's list and 60 of Variety's list. The Variety list strikes me as less pretentious and more "in touch" with the tastes of the...well, maybe not "average" moviegoer, but moviegoers who like both artsy-fartsy films and just plain old fun films.

So, for fun, I'm going to copy and paste each list below and bold the ones I've seen. At the bottom, I'll list out my top 25 picks from the two lists combined.

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Sight and Sound's list:

(the movies I've seen will be bolded)

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

2. Vertigo 

3. Citizen Kane

4. Tokyo Story 

5. In the Mood for Love 

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey 

7. Beau Travail 

8. Mulholland Dr. 

9. Man with a Movie Camera 

10. Singin' in the Rain

11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 

12.  The Godfather 

13. The Rules of the Game 

14. Cleo from 5 to 7 

15. The Searchers

16. Meshes of the Afternoon 

17. Close-Up 

18. Persona 

19. Apocalypse Now 

20. Seven Samurai 

21. The Passion of Joan of Arc 

22. Late Spring 

23. Playtime 

24. Do The Right Thing 

25. Au hasard Balthazar

26. The Night of the Hunter 

27. Shoah 

28. Daisies 

29. Taxi Driver

30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

31. 8 1/2 

32. Mirror 

33. Psycho 

34. L'Atalante 

35. Pather Panchali 

36. City Lights 

37.

38. Breathless 

39. Some Like it Hot 

40. Rear Window 

41. Bicycle Thieves 

42. Rashomon 

43. Stalker 

44. Killer of Sheep 

45. Barry Lyndon 

46. The Battle of Algiers 

47. North by Northwest 

48. Ordet 

49. Wanda 

50. The 400 Blows 

51. The Piano 

52. Fear Eats the Soul 

53. News from Home 

54. Le Mepris 

55. Blade Runner 

56. Battleship Potemkin 

57. Sherlock Jr. 

58. Sans Soleil 

59. La Dolce Vita 

60. Moonlight

61. Daughters of the Dust

62. Goodfellas 

63. The Third Man 

64. Casablanca 

65. Touki Bouki 

66. Andrei Rublev

67. The Red Shoes

68. The Gleaners and I 

69. Metropolis 

70. L'Avventura 

71. Journey to Italy 

72. My Neighbor Totoro 

73. Spirited Away 

74. Imitation of Life 

75. Sansho the Bailiff 

76. Sunset Blvd. 

77. Satantango 

78. A Brighter Summer Day 

79. Modern Times 

80. A Matter of Life and Death 

81. Celine and Julie Go Boating 

82. Blue Velvet

83. The Spirit of the Beehive 

84. Pierrot le fou 

85. Histoire(s) du Cinema 

86. The Shining 

87. Chunking Express 

88. Parasite 

89. Yi Yi 

90. Ugetsu Monogatari 

91. The Leopard 

92. Madam de... 

93. A Man Escaped 

94. Once Upon a Time in the West 

95. Tropical Malady 

96. Black Girl 

97. The General 

98 Get Out 

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Variety's List

(the movies I've seen will be bolded)

1. Psycho

2. The Wizard of Oz 

3. The Godfather 

4. Citizen Kane

5. Pulp Fiction 

6. Seven Samurai

7.  2001: A Space Odyssey

8. It's a Wonderful Life

9. All About Eve

10. Saving Private Ryan 

11. Singin' in the Rain

12. Goodfellas

13. The Rules of the Game

14. Do The Right Thing

15. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

16. Casablanca

17. Nashville -- Should probably see this one.

18. Persona

19. The Godfather Part II 

20. Blue Velvet

21. Gone With the Wind 

22. Chinatown 

23. The Apartment 

24. Tokyo Story

25. Bringing Up Baby 

26. The 400 Blows

27. Bonnie and Clyde 

28. City Lights 

29. Double Indemnity 

30. The Empire Strikes Back 

31. Network

32. Vertigo

33. 8 1/2

34. Stagecoach 

35. The Silence of the Lambs 

36. On the Waterfront 

37. Annie Hall 

38. Lawrence of Arabia 

39. Some Like It Hot

40. Fargo 

41. The Wild Bunch 

42. Moonlight

43. Shoah

44. L'Avventura

45. Titanic

46. Notorious

47. Mean Streets 

48. The Piano

49. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

50. Breathless

51. Apocalypse Now

52. The General

53. In the Mood for Love

54. The Road Warrior

55. Pather Panchali

56. Rosemary's Baby

57. Brokeback Mountain 

58. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial 

59. Vagabond 

60. Moulin Rouge! 

61. The Passion of Joan of Arc

62. Dazed and Confused 

63. Bambi 

64. Carrie 

65. A Man Escaped

66. Paris is Burning 

67. Bicycle Thieves 

68. King Kong 

69. Beau Travail 

70. 12 Years a Slave 

71. My Best Friend's Wedding 

72. Breaking the Waves 

73. Intolerance 

74. My Neighbor Totoro

75. Boogie Nights 

76. The Tree of Life 

77. Goldfinger 

78. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

79. Waiting for Guffman

80. Pixote 

81. The Dark Knight 

82. Parasite

83. Kramer vs. Kramer 

84. Pan's Labyrinth 

85. Natural Born Killers 

86. Close-Up

87. The Sound of Music 

88. Malcolm X 

89. Belle de Jour

90. The Shining 

91. Scenes from a Marriage

92. Pink Flamingos 

93. Le Samourai 

94. Bridesmaids 

95. Toy Story 

96. A Hard Day's Night 

97. Alien 

98. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 

99. Twelve Angry Men 

100. The Graduate 

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My personal top 25 picked out from these lists:

Boogie Nights
Fargo
The Shining 
Pulp Fiction
The Silence of the Lambs
Get Out
Rosemary's Baby
Breaking the Waves 
The Piano
Blue Velvet
Bridesmaids
Parasite
Titanic
Brokeback Mountain
12 Years a Slave
The Graduate
It's a Wonderful Life
Taxi Driver
Some Like it Hot
Rear Window
Casablanca
Breathless
Annie Hall
Moulin Rouge!
Dazed and Confused

What I can tell from my list above is that I gravitate towards 1) More recent (1980-today) films, 2) Films made in the United States, 3) Films from a white perspective, and 4) Horror/thriller films.

This shows me that I need to continue expanding my movie horizon, especially in regards to international cinema. Even being a more open-minded and curious filmgoer, I do still tend to pick English-language films.

If you've made it this far and there are movies on these lists I haven't seen that you highly recommend, please let me know!  

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