#1 Contempt
#2 The Godfather Epic
#3 The Thin Red Line
#4 The Philadelphia Story
#5 La Jetée
#6 Out of the Past
#7 The Rules of the Game
#8 2046
#9 Raging Bull
#10 L’Avventura
#11 Vertigo
#12 Breathless
#13 Persona
#14 Leaving Las Vegas
#15 The Night of the Hunter
#16 His Girl Friday
#17 Battle of Algiers
#18 Funny Games (Original)
#19 Casablanca
#20 Chinatown
#21 Five Easy Pieces
#22 The Passion of Joan of Arc
#23 The Conversation
#24 Talk to Her
#25 La Notte
FOREIGN
8½
The Bicycle Thieves
Bob le Flambeur
Cache
Chungking Express
Cries and Whispers
Dancer in the Dark
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Elevator to the Gallows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
In the Mood for Love
Irreversible
L’Eclisse
Le Samourai
Oldboy
The Piano Teacher
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pierrot le Fou
Rashomon
A Special Day
Time Out
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Wages of Fear
Y Tu Mamá También
DOMESTIC
The Age of Innocence
All that Heaven Allows
All the Real Girls
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now Redux
Badlands
Bonnie and Clyde
Brick
Bringing Up Baby
Casino
Clueless
Citizen Kane
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Far from Heaven
Fargo
Glengarry Glen Ross
Hannah and Her Sisters
Heat
High Noon
Hoop Dreams
The Ice Storm
In the Bedroom
The King
L.A. Confidential
Lost in Translation
Malcolm X
Mulholland Dr.
Nashville
No Country for Old Men
North by Northwest
Notorious
Out of Sight
The Passenger
Rear Window
Red River
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Stagecoach
Sunset Blvd.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
To Have and Have Not
Traffic
Usual Suspects
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wild Bunch
You Can Count of Me
&
Miami Vice (fuck the haters!)
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Not quites:
All About Eve, All the Pretty Horses (my personally imagined 4 hour cut), The Anniversary Party, As Good as It Gets, Best of Youth, Best in Show, Best Years of Our Lives, Big Night, The Big Sleep, Boogie Nights, Breaking Away, Brief Encounter, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Conformist, Crossfire, The Country Girl, Day for Night, Devil in a Blue Dress, Eat Drink Man Woman, Election, The English Patient, The Fountain, From Here to Eternity, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, George Washington, The Getaway, Gladiator, Ghost World, Goldfinger, Gone with the Wind, The Great Escape, Grey Gardens, Grizzly Man, Groundhog Day, House of Games, The Hustler, Indiscreet, Klute, The Kid Stays in the Picture, The King of New York, Knocked Up, Lamerica, Le Cercle Rouge, Léon: the Professional, The Limey, M, Ma Mère, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Manhattan, My Best Friend’s Wedding, My Life to Live, The New World, Once, Ossessione, Patton, Pickpocket, Point Blank, Primer, The Proposition, Rebecca, Requiem for a Dream, Rififi, A River Runs through It, Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, Rocco and His Brothers, Roman Holiday, Rosemary’s Baby, Run Lola Run, Sexy Beast, Shakespeare in Love, Shane, She’s the One, Shoot the Piano Player, Some Like It Hot, Spellbound, The Squid and the Whale, Straw Dogs, Suddenly, Last Summer, Suspicion, Swingers, Three Women, To Be and To Have, To Catch a Thief, Trainspotting, Truman Show, Umberto D, The Virgin Suicides, Wonder Boys.
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Don’t cut it: Tarantino. P.T. Anderson. Most of Buñuel. Truffaut (though Shoot the Piano Player and Day for Night sniffed the top 100). Clint Eastwood. Stanley Kubrick. John Cassavetes. The films of James Dean (How long does the guy have to be dead before we can admit his movies blow? Why oh why can’t he just be canonically replaced by Montgomery Clift?).
Haven’t seen enough: Tarkovsky (I’m 0-2 on staying awake for the duration of his films). Eisenstein. Bergman (despite two films on the list). Japanese directors not named Kurosawa (I'm 0-1 on staying awake through Ozu). All the silent film masters.
Admitted blind eye: Musicals. Children’s films (Disney, Star Wars/Star Trek, Tim Burton). Amateur films (Steven Spielberg, Michael Moore).
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