Top 100 Films

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Just over a month ago, I said I needed to do something about some of my ignorance of classic films. I've chosen to follow the Time Out top hundred from about 1995 (see here) as it is international, avoids the last decade which I know and isn't too populist (nor too arty).

Mostly it's been a positive experience - L'Atalante didn't seem that special and Intolerance is very very long (but I'm still avoiding Fanny and Alexander). Not a bad start given that I really should have been marking.

Watched this month:

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)


2. Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)


3. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)


4. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)


5. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

I'd like to finish this this year, and 53 sounds like two films a week and a month's grace.

1. L’Avventura (The Adventure) (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
   
2. The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) (Ingmar Bergman, 1956)
   
3. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1971)
   
4. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
   
5. Performance (Donald Cammell, Nicholas Roeg, 1970)
   
6. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) (Marcel Carné, 1944)
   
7. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
   
8. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
   
9. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
   
10. Earth (Zemlya) (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930)
    
11. Ordet (The Word) (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1954)
    
12. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
    
13. The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) (Víctor Erice, 1973)
    
14. 8-1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
    
15. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
    
16. La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1959)
    
17. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
    
18. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
    
19. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
    
20. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
    
21. Red (Three Colors: Red) (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
    
22. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
    
23. Ran (Chaos) (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
    
24. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
    
25. The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
    
26. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
    
27. Sans soleil (Sunless) (Chris Marker, 1983)
    
28. Le Samourai (The Samurai) (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
    
29. Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho dayu) (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
    
30. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
    
31. Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari) (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
    
32. Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
    
33. The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) (Sergei Paradzhanov, Sergei Yutkevich, 1969.
    
34. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
    
35. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
    
36. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
    
37. Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
    
38. A Day in the Country (Une Partie de campagne) (Jean Renoir, 1936)
    
39. Grand Illusion (La Grande illusion) (Jean Renoir, 1937)
    
40. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
    
41. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
    
42. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
    
43. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
    
44. West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961)