Movie Master List

The plan: to watch the top 100 movies, as compiled by They Shoot Pictures Don’t They, and blog about each one.

The list:

1	Citizen Kane	Welles, Orson	1941	USA	119
2	Vertigo	Hitchcock, Alfred	1958	USA	128
3	2001: A Space Odyssey	Kubrick, Stanley	1968	UK	139
4	Rules of the Game, The	Renoir, Jean	1939	France	113
5	Tokyo Story	Ozu, Yasujiro	1953	Japan	134
6	8½	Fellini, Federico	1963	Italy	135
7	Godfather, The	Coppola, Francis Ford	1972	USA	175
8	Sunrise	Murnau, F.W.	1927	USA	110
9	Searchers, The	Ford, John	1956	USA	119
10	Seven Samurai	Kurosawa, Akira	1954	Japan	200
11	Apocalypse Now	Coppola, Francis Ford	1979	USA	150
12	Singin’ in the Rain	Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly	1952	USA	102
13	Bicycle Thieves	De Sica, Vittorio	1948	Italy	90
14	Battleship Potemkin	Eisenstein, Sergei	1925	USSR	71
15	Taxi Driver	Scorsese, Martin	1976	USA	113
16	Breathless	Godard, Jean-Luc	1960	France	89
17	Passion of Joan of Arc, The	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	1928	France	110
18	Atalante, L’	Vigo, Jean	1934	France	89
19	Persona	Bergman, Ingmar	1966	Sweden	83
20	Rashomon	Kurosawa, Akira	1950	Japan	88
21	Man with a Movie Camera, The	Vertov, Dziga	1929	USSR	80
22	Godfather Part II, The	Coppola, Francis Ford	1974	USA	200
23	400 Blows, The	Truffaut, François	1959	France	99
24	Raging Bull	Scorsese, Martin	1980	USA	128
25	Psycho	Hitchcock, Alfred	1960	USA	109
26	City Lights	Chaplin, Charles	1931	USA	86
27	Andrei Rublev	Tarkovsky, Andrei	1966	USSR	185
28	Some Like it Hot	Wilder, Billy	1959	USA	119
29	Dolce vita, La	Fellini, Federico	1960	Italy	175
30	Mirror, The	Tarkovsky, Andrei	1975	USSR	108
31	Touch of Evil	Welles, Orson	1958	USA	108
32	Au hasard Balthazar	Bresson, Robert	1966	France	95
33	Ordet	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	1955	Denmark	125
34	Sunset Blvd.	Wilder, Billy	1950	USA	110
35	Casablanca	Curtiz, Michael	1942	USA	102
36	Lawrence of Arabia	Lean, David	1962	UK	216
37	Avventura, L’	Antonioni, Michelangelo	1960	Italy	145
38	Blade Runner	Scott, Ridley	1982	USA	118
39	Contempt	Godard, Jean-Luc	1963	France	103
40	General, The	Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman	1926	USA	74
41	Rear Window	Hitchcock, Alfred	1954	USA	112
42	Grande illusion, La	Renoir, Jean	1937	France	117
43	Night of the Hunter, The	Laughton, Charles	1955	USA	93
44	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	2000	Hong Kong	97
45	Modern Times	Chaplin, Charles	1936	USA	89
46	Playtime	Tati, Jacques	1967	France	108
47	Ugetsu monogatari	Mizoguchi, Kenji	1953	Japan	96
48	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Kubrick, Stanley	1964	UK	93
49	Third Man, The	Reed, Carol	1949	UK	104
50	Chinatown	Polanski, Roman	1974	USA	131
51	Fanny and Alexander	Bergman, Ingmar	1982	Sweden	189
52	Stalker	Tarkovsky, Andrei	1979	USSR	160
53	Barry Lyndon	Kubrick, Stanley	1975	UK	183
54	Apartment, The	Wilder, Billy	1960	USA	125
55	Pather Panchali	Ray, Satyajit	1955	India	112
56	M	Lang, Fritz	1931	Germany	99
57	Rio Bravo	Hawks, Howard	1959	USA	141
58	Wild Strawberries	Bergman, Ingmar	1957	Sweden	90
59	Metropolis	Lang, Fritz	1927	Germany	153
60	Mulholland Dr.	Lynch, David	2001	France	147
61	North by Northwest	Hitchcock, Alfred	1959	USA	136
62	Enfants du paradis, Les	Carné, Marcel	1945	France	195
63	Pierrot le fou	Godard, Jean-Luc	1965	France	110
64	Viridiana	Buñuel, Luis	1961	Spain	90
65	Once Upon a Time in the West	Leone, Sergio	1968	Italy	165
66	Wild Bunch, The	Peckinpah, Sam	1969	USA	144
67	Strada, La	Fellini, Federico	1954	Italy	115
68	Battle of Algiers, The	Pontecorvo, Gillo	1966	Italy	123
69	Shoah	Lanzmann, Claude	1985	France	566
70	Amarcord	Fellini, Federico	1973	Italy	127
71	Gold Rush, The	Chaplin, Charles	1925	USA	82
72	Seventh Seal, The	Bergman, Ingmar	1957	Sweden	96
73	Voyage in Italy	Rossellini, Roberto	1953	Italy	97
74	Leopard, The	Visconti, Luchino	1963	Italy	205
75	Late Spring	Ozu, Yasujiro	1949	Japan	108
76	Pulp Fiction	Tarantino, Quentin	1994	USA	154
77	GoodFellas	Scorsese, Martin	1990	USA	146
78	Magnificent Ambersons, The	Welles, Orson	1942	USA	88
79	Clockwork Orange, A	Kubrick, Stanley	1971	UK	137
80	It’s a Wonderful Life	Capra, Frank	1946	USA	129
81	Pickpocket	Bresson, Robert	1959	France	75
82	Blue Velvet	Lynch, David	1986	USA	120
83	Conformist, The	Bertolucci, Bernardo	1970	Italy	107
84	Jules et Jim	Truffaut, François	1962	France	104
85	Nashville	Altman, Robert	1975	USA	159
86	Close-Up	Kiarostami, Abbas	1990	Iran	98
87	Gertrud	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	1964	Denmark	116
88	Man Escaped, A	Bresson, Robert	1956	France	102
89	Annie Hall	Allen, Woody	1977	USA	94
90	Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The	Ford, John	1962	USA	119
91	Jaws	Spielberg, Steven	1975	USA	124
92	Sansho the Bailiff	Mizoguchi, Kenji	1954	Japan	125
93	Greed	von Stroheim, Erich	1924	USA	140
94	Last Year at Marienbad	Resnais, Alain	1961	France	94
95	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	Akerman, Chantal	1975	Belgium	201
96	Shining, The	Kubrick, Stanley	1980	USA	142
97	Woman Under the Influence, A	Cassavetes, John	1974	USA	155
98	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	Herzog, Werner	1972	West Germany	94
99	Blowup	Antonioni, Michelangelo	1966	Italy	111
100	Sans soleil	Marker, Chris	1983	France	100