I made a top 100 favorite film list back in March this year to mark my 50th post. Now nine months have passed, and the posts on Taste of Cinema have reached 200,it is the time to adjust this “ever-changing” epic list.
Ten changes have been made from the old list, that’s ten films dropped from the list and another ten which I just watched since March 2012 made it into the top 100, I will highlight these ten in bold.
I’m gonna change the way of presenting the list this time, the top 20 will have images with them and the rest will still be ordered in country. I’m gonna break down this list to ten segments, with 10 films in each,and write about them with capsule review next year.
Here goes the top 20:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
3. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1950)
4. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, 1974)
5. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
6. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
7. The Phamtom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
8. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1969)
9. Dragon Gate Inn (King Hu, 1966)
10. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
11. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
12. Pickpocket (Zhangke Jia, 1997)
13. The Conformist (Bernado Bertolucci, 1970)
14. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
15. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
16. Chungking Express (Karwai Wong, 1994)
17. Paris,Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
18. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)
19. Dogville (Las Von Tier, 2003)
20. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene ,1920)
The rest 80 (ordered in country):
China
Spring Fever(Lou)
Farewell,My Concubine(Chen)
Raise the Red Lantern(Zhang)
A Better Tomorrow(Woo)
Mad Detective( To)
Lust & Caution(Lee)
Three Times (Hou)
Goodbye,Dragon Inn(Tsai)
Japan
Ran(A. Kurosawa)
Floating Clouds(Naruse)
Harakiri(Kobayashi)
Empire of Passion(Oshima)
The Insect Woman(Imamura)
Silence(Shinoda)
House(Obayashi)
The Woman in the Dunes(Tashigahara)
Korea
Oasis(Lee)
Iran
Taste of Cherry(Kiarostami)
India
The Music Room(Ray)
France
Pierrot Le Fou(Gordard)
Day for Night(Truffaut)
The Earrings of Madame de…(Ophuls)
Orpheus(Cocteau)
Diabolique(Clouzot)
Army of Shadows(Melvile)
Pickpocket(Bresson)
My Night at Maud’s(Rohmer)
Last Year at Marienbad(Resnais)
My Uncle(Tati)
Amelie(Jeunet)
Bitter Moon(Polanski)
Rosetta(Darne Brothers)
Germany
Sunrise(Murnau)
M(Lang)
The Marriage of Marian Braun(Fasbinder)
Italy
Nights of Cabiria(Fellini)
Bicycle Thieves(De Sica)
Salo(Pasollini)
L’avventura(Antonioni)
Divorce Italian Style(Germi)
The Battle of Algiers(Pontecorvo)
Deep Red(Argento)
Cinema Paradiso(Tornatore)
Greece
Landscape in the Mist(Angelopoulos)
Yugoslovia
Black Cat,White Cat(Kusturica)
Soviet Union
The Mirror(Tarkovsky)
Spain
Laws of Desire(Armodovar)
The Holy Mountain(Jodorowsky)
Sweden
Sawdust and Tinsel(Bergman)
UK
The Red Shoes(P&P)
Naked(Leigh)
Brazil(Gillam)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail(Gillam,Jones)
Kind Hearts and Coronets(Harmer)
Don’t Look Now(Roeg)
US
Citizen Kane(Wells)
The Silence of the Lambs(Demme)
Apocalypse Now(Coppola)
Schindler’s List(Spielberg)
Taxi Driver(Scorsese)
Dressed to Kill(De Palma)
Casablanca(Curtis)
Double Indemnity(Wilder)
It’s a Wonderful Life(Capra)
City Lights(Chaplin)
Our Hospitality(Keaton)
To Be or Not To Be(Lubitsch)
Rio Bravo(Hawks)
All About Eve(Mankiewicz)
Fight Club(Fincher)
There’s Always Tomorrow(Sirk)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters(Schrader)
The Big Lebowski(Coen Brothers)
Sex,Lies and Videotape(Soderbergh)
The Player(Altman)
Zelig(Allen)
Night on Earth(Jamusch)
Before Sunset(Linklater)
12 Angry Men(Lumet)
Magnolia(Anderson)
The Dark Knight(Nolan)
Pulp Fiction(Tarantino)
It’s Your Turn
Anything in common? Let us know in the comments.