Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Skuriels: Top Directors


Directors who received the most love from Skuriels voters.  Title in parentheses denotes the director’s highest-placing film.

1. Stanley Kubrick – 70 votes, 9 Films (2001: A Space Odyssey)
2. Alfred Hitchcock – 59 votes, 9 Films (Vertigo)
3 (tie). Orson Welles – 34 votes, 5 Films (Citizen Kane)
Francis Ford Coppola – 34 votes, 4 Films (Apocalypse Now / The Godfather)
5. Martin Scorsese – 31 votes, 8 Films (Taxi Driver)
6 (tie). David Lynch – 28 votes, 7 Films (Mulholland Dr.)
Billy Wilder – 28 votes, 6 Films (Double Indemnity)
8. Akira Kurosawa – 27 votes, 9 Films (The Seven Samurai)
9 (tie). Howard Hawks – 26 votes, 6 Films (His Girl Friday)
Terrence Malick – 26 votes, 5 Films (Badlands)
11 (tie). Jean-Luc Godard – 23 votes, 8 Films (Contempt)
Carl Theodor Dreyer – 23 votes, 4 Films (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
13 (tie). Woody Allen – 20 votes, 6 Films (Manhattan)
Robert Altman – 20 votes, 4 Films (Nashville)
15 (tie). Luis Bunuel – 18 votes, 8 Films (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Steven Spielberg – 18 votes, 7 Films (Jaws)
17 (tie). Buster Keaton – 17 votes, 5 Films (The General / Sherlock Jr.)
Francois Truffaut – 17 votes, 5 Films (The 400 Blows)
Wong Kar-wai – 17 votes, 4 Films (Chungking Express / In the Mood for Love)
Federico Fellini – 17 votes, 3 Films (8 ½)
Sergio Leone – 17 votes, 3 Films (Once Upon a Time in the West)
22 (tie). Robert Bresson – 16 votes, 6 Films (Au Hasard Balthasar)
Jacques Tati – 16 votes, 2 Films (Play Time)
24 (tie). John Ford – 15 votes, 5 Films (The Searchers)
Stanley Donen – 15 votes, 2 Films (Singin’ in the Rain)
26 (tie). Fritz Lang – 14 votes, 5 Films (Metropolis)
F.W. Murnau – 14 votes, 3 Films (Sunrise)
Jean Renoir – 14 votes, 3 Films (The Rules of the Game)
Michael Curtiz – 14 votes, 1 Film (Casablanca)
Gene Kelly – 14 votes, 1 Film (Singin’ in the Rain)
31 (tie). Ingmar Bergman – 13 votes, 7 Films (Persona / The Seventh Seal)
Preston Sturges – 13 votes, 5 Films (The Lady Eve)
33 (tie). Joel Coen – 12 votes, 7 Films (Barton Fink / The Big Lebowski)
Yasujiro Ozu – 12 votes, 6 Films (Tokyo Story)
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – 12 votes, 6 Films (The Red Shoes)
Quentin Tarantino – 12 votes, 3 Films (Pulp Fiction)
37 (tie). Charlie Chaplin – 11 votes, 5 Films (City Lights)
Eric Rohmer – 11 votes, 5 Films (Claire’s Knee / Love in the Afternoon / My Night at Maud’s)
Paul Thomas Anderson – 11 votes, 4 Films (There Will Be Blood)
Spike Lee – 11 votes, 3 Films (Do the Right Thing)
41 (tie). Andrei Tarkovsky – 10 votes, 4 Films (Stalker)
Brian De Palma – 10 votes, 3 Films (Carrie)
Werner Herzog – 10 votes, 3 Films (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
Jacques Demy – 10 votes, 2 Films (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
George A. Romero – 10 votes, 2 Films (Dawn of the Dead / Night of the Living Dead)

The Skuriels: Individual Ballots (The Rest of the Ws)


(ranked)
1. 8 ½
2. In The Mood For Love
3. La Notte
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. The Godfather
6. The Godfather 2
7. GoodFellas
8. Lost In Translation
9. The Conformist
10. There Will Be Blood
11. Inception
12. A Christmas Tale
13. L’Avventura
14. La Dolce Vita
15. Apocalypse Now
16. Star Wars
17. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
18. Melancholia
19. The Beat My Heart Skipped
20. Breathless

(more or less ranked)
- INLAND EMPIRE (2006, David Lynch)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
- Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati)
- Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
- Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
- Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
- Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
- The Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
- Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
- Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
- Primate (1974, Frederick Wiseman)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Charles Reisner)
- Where is the Friend's Home? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)

(chronological)
General, The (Bruckman/Keaton, 1927)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1927)
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
Red Shoes, The (Powell/Pressburger, 1948)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

(ranked)
1. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
2. Nosferatu (Murnau) 
3. The Red Shoes
4. Taxi Driver
5. Kiki's Delivery Service
6. Red Beard
7. Sherlock Jr. 
8. The Last Temptation Of Christ
9. Duck Soup
10. Aguirre The Wrath Of God
11. The Godfather Part 2
12. Tree Of Life
13. The Wild Bunch
14. The Apartment
15. Dr. Strangelove
16. Seven Samurai
17. The Searchers
18. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
19. The Bride Of Frankenstein
20. Zodiac

(ranked)
1.    Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
2.    Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
3.    Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 19727)
4.    Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
5.    The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
6.    Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
7.    The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
8.    Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
9.    Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
10.    Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
11.    Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
12.    The Right Stuff (Phillip Kaufman, 1983)
13.    Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
14.    Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
15.    Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
16.    Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
17.    In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wei, 2000)
18.    Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
19.    The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
20.    There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

(alphabetical)
The Cameraman (1928), dir: Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Casablanca (1942), dir: Michael Curtiz
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), dir: Jacques Rivette
Chungking Express (1994), dir: Wong Kar-Wai
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), dir: Stanley Kubrick
8 1/2 (1963), dir: Federico Fellini
I Was Born, But… (1932), dir: Yasujiro Ozu
Koyaanisqatsi (1983), dir: Godfrey Reggio
Last Year at Marienbad (1961), dir: Alain Resnais
Life Is Sweet (1990), dir: Mike Leigh
Manhattan (1979), dir: Woody Allen
Mirror (1975), dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
My Neighbor Totoro (1988), dir: Hayao Miyazaki
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Seven Samurai (1954), dir: Akira Kurosawa
The Time To Live and the Time To Die (1985), dir: Hou Hsaio-hsien
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir: Stanley Kubrick
Weekend (1967), dir: Jean-Luc Godard
Y Tu Mamá También (2001), dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Yi Yi (2000), dir: Edward Yang

Other remarks: It was insanely difficult nailing down "what 20 movies best represent to me the greatest that cinema has to offer." 50 or even 100 seem insufficient. So apologies to Amadeus, Citizen Kane, Heavenly Creatures, Ran, Satantango, and The Third Man among many others that I really wanted to squeeze on.

(ranked)
01. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
02. The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)
03. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
04. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
05. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy, 1967)
06. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
07. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
08. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
09. Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991)
11. Madame De...(Ophuls, 1953)
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
13. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
14. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
15. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
16. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
17. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)
18. Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
19. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
20. The Docks of New York (Sternberg, 1928)

The Skuriels: Individual Ballot (Daniel Waters)


(ranked)
1. THE GODFATHER
2. BADLANDS
3. THE GODFATHER, PART II
4. BLUE VELVET
5. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
6. LOLITA
7. DR. STRANGELOVE
8. NASHVILLE
9. TAXI DRIVER
10. NETWORK
11. 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY
12. CASABLANCA
13. GOOD FELLAS
14. THE RULES OF THE GAME
15. JAWS
16. CARRIE
17. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
18. LA DOLCE VITA
19. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
20. REAR WINDOW

I'm a little bummed my top 20 is so Americany and 70's-ey....for my own peace of mind, I must at least show you the rest of my more intriguing and sprawling top 300...
21. BACK TO THE FUTURE
22. CHINATOWN
23. THE DEVILS
24. CITIZEN KANE
25. ANNIE HALL
26. DOG DAY AFTERNOON
27. PERFORMANCE
28. TWO FOR THE ROAD
29. ROSEMARY’S BABY
30. MANHATTAN
31. MY ANTHOLOGY FILM CHEAT (Scorcese’s segment from New York Stories, with Fellini’s segments from Boccaccio 70 and Spirits of the Dead)
32. DIE HARD
33. THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
34. REPO MAN
35. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
36. THE LAST OF SHEILA
37. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
38. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
39. FIVE EASY PIECES
40. SUNSET BOULEVARD
41. THE CONFORMIST
42. SHAMPOO
43. WINGS OF DESIRE
44. THE WILD BUNCH
45. THE MATRIX
46. NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
47. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
48. APOCALYPSE NOW
49. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
50. THE WIZARD OF OZ
51. AN INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION
52. BEING THERE
53. WEST SIDE STORY
54. DO THE RIGHT THING
55. THE CONVERSATION
56. THE HOSPITAL
57. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
58. BAD BOY BUBBY
59. AND NOW MY LOVE
60. LOVE EXPOSURE
61. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
62. NAKED
63. PERSONA
64. VOYAGE EN DOUCE
65. UN COUER EN HIVER
66. NOSTALGHIA
67. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
68. WALKABOUT
69. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
70. STALKER
71. KOYAANISQATSI
72. LA NOTTE
73. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
74. THE BIG COUNTRY
75. DAWN OF THE DEAD
76. THE WOMEN
77. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET
78. FACES
79. THE RED SHOES
80. THE DECALOG
81. DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
82. SEVEN SAMURAI
83. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
84. CITY OF GOD
85. LAST TANGO IN PARIS
86. GROUNDHOG DAY
87. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
88. THE GRADUATE
89. STRANGER THAN PARADISE
90. BATTLE ROYALE
91. MAUVAIS SANG
92. HIS GIRL FRIDAY
93. RISKY BUSINESS
94. THREE WOMEN
95. CAREFUL
96. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
97. THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
98. BRANDED TO KILL
99. ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
100. STAR WARS
101. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
102. 8 ½
103. LANDSCAPES IN THE MIST
104. MANHUNTER
105. BLUE COLLAR
106. THE SEVENTH SEAL
107. BLADE RUNNER
108. THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
109. NATURAL BORN KILLERS
110. FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
111. WRITTEN ON THE WIND
112. ACE IN THE HOLE
113. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
114. THE EXORCIST
115. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
116. DUCK SOUP
117. FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL
118. RUSHMORE
119. NOTORIOUS
120. McCABE AND MRS. MILLER
121. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BORGEOUSIE
122. UNFORGIVEN
123. RIO BRAVO
124. GONE WITH THE WIND
125. SALO
126. OUT OF THE PAST
127. THE TAKING OF THE PELHAM ONE, TWO, THREE
128. THE CANDIDATE
129. DAZED AND CONFUSED
130. JFK
131. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
132. JEANNE DIELMAN
133. SAFE
134. ROBOCOP
135. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
136. A CANTERBURY TALE
137. SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY
138. DOGVILLE
139. LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF
140. THE KILLER
141. THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI
142. TRUST
143. BREATHLESS
144. PETULIA
145. KUCH KUCH HATA HAI
146. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE
147. NAKED KILLER
148. DINER
149. ERASERHEAD
150. ALL ABOUT EVE
151. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
152. HAIR
153. TOOTSIE
154. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
155. LITTLE MURDERS
156. IN A LONELY PLACE
157. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
158. DON’T LOOK NOW
159. THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS
160. GOLDFINGER
161. RAISING ARIZONA
162. BLOW-UP
163. BLACK NARCISSUS
164. BLOW-OUT
165. THIEF
166. THE LONG GOODBYE
167. THE MAN IN THE MOVIE CAMERA
168. THE ROAD WARRIOR
169. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
170. OLD BOY
171. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY
172. BLUE
173. SOLARIS
174. PRETTY POISON
175. CODE UNKNOWN
176. MATADOR
177. SATANTANGO
178. THE DIRTY DOZEN
179. SUNRISE
180. JULES AND JIM
181. POSSESSION
182. HIGH AND LOW
183. HEAVENLY CREATURES
184. THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA
185. COMING APART
186. BULLET IN THE HEAD
187. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
188. BARRY LYNDON
189. DAYS OF HEAVEN
190. HALLOWEEN
191. BIGGER THAN LIFE
192. THE NEW WORLD
193. BROADCAST NEWS
194. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
195. IMITATION OF LIFE
196. LOVE ME TONIGHT
197. THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
198. LOVE AND DEATH
199. PLANET OF THE APES
200. CADDYSHACK
201. IRON GIANT
202. THE THIRD MAN
203. ALL THAT JAZZ
204. BELLE DU JOUR
205. THE PUMPKIN EATER
206. LA RUPTURE
207. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
208. MEAN STREETS
209. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
210. THE SWIMMER
211. ALIEN
212. L’AVENTURRA
213. ALIENS
214. SHERLOCK JR.
215. STRAW DOGS
216. SHOOT THE MOON
217. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
218. TWO LANE BLACKTOP
219. SEVEN BEAUTIES
220. REAL LIFE
221. TAKING OFF
222. SMILE
223. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S
224. WHAT’S UP DOC
225. THE KING OF COMEDY
226. THE PARALLAX VIEW
227. THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
228. PEPPERMINT SODA
229. SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEASTS
230. CHARADE
231. THE TERMINATOR
232. THE TENANT
233. BONJOUR TRISTESSE
234. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
235. DAY OF WRATH
236. BURN
237. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
238. DARLING
239. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
240. THE PARENT TRAP
241. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
242. SPIRITED AWAY
243. RESERVOIR DOGS
244. THE FOUNTAINHEAD
245. THE WARRIORS
246. HEAT
247. BOB AND TED AND CAROL AND ALICE
248. IRON MONKEY
249. TRAINSPOTTING
250. DOUBLE INDEMNITY
251. DIRTY HARRY
252. WEEKEND
253. 28 DAYS LATER
254. BONNIE AND CLYDE
255. DELIVERANCE
256. MAGNUM FORCE
257. THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE THE TRAIN
258. THE BIG LEBOWSKI
259. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS
260. THE FLY
261. SUSPIRIA
262. DEAD RINGERS
263. HEATHERS
264. L’EAU FROIDE
265. EVIL DEAD 2
266. Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
267. TAMALA A PUNK CAT IN OUTER SPACE
268. RUMBLEFISH
269. GHOSTBUSTERS
270. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
271. THE SHINING
272. ED WOOD
273. THE LIVES OF OTHERS
274. RAISE THE RED LANTERN
275. MONTY PYTHON’S MEANING OF LIFE
276. BLACK SWAN
277. THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT
278. LORD LOVE A DUCK
279. THE PHANTOM OF PARADISE
280. THE TENTH VICTIM
281. THIS IS SPINAL TAP
282. FIGHT CLUB
283. BLAZING SADDLES
284. ELECTION
285. SEVEN MEN FROM NOW
286. ENTER THE DRAGON
287. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND
288. AKIRA
289. THREE DAYS OF CONDOR
290. MULLHOLLAND DRIVE
291. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
292. DOBERMAN
293. BLAST OF SILENCE
294. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
295. JEANNE AND THE PERFECT GUY
296. SUMMERTIME
297. TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE
298. LA BELLE NOISEUSE
299. REPRISE
300. THE BREAKFAST CLUB

The Skuriels: Individual Ballots (S-V)


(chronological)
The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1927)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937)
History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage, 1937)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1950)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut,1961)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
La Rupture (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)

Jenny Sekwa:
(ranked)
-  The Godfather - Coppola – 1972 *
-  The Godfather Part II - Coppola  - 1974 *
-  The 400 Blows - Truffaut - 1959
-  2001: Space Odyssey - Kubrick - 1969
-  Rashomon - Akira - 1950
-  The Wizard of Oz -  1939
-  Taxi Driver - Scorsese - 1976
-  Vertigo - Hitchcock - 1958
-  Pulp Fiction - Tarantino - 1994
-  Raiders of the Lost Ark - Spielberg - 1981
-  Cinema Paradiso - Tornatore - 1988
-  12 Angry Men -  Lumet - 1957
-  Memento - Nolan - 2000
-  McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Altman - 1971
-  Chinatown - Polanski - 1974
-  A Woman Under the Influence - Cassavetes - 1974
-  The Sting -  Hill - 1973
-  Dog Day Afternoon - Lumet - 1975
-  Citizen Kane - Welles - 1958
-  Annie Hall - Allen - 1977

"I have no clue how the critics participating in the Sight and Sound polls can pare their Greatest lists down to 10"  exclaimed everyone!

(chronological)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzenko, 1930)
Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, 1948) 
The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg, 1932)
Still (Ernie Gehr, 1969) 
The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, 1974) 
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)

(ranked)
1. Night of the Hunter, The - Laughton, Charles - 1955
2. Ordet – Dreyer, Carl Th. - 1955
3. Rules of the Game, The – Renoir, Jean - 1939
4. Touch of Evil – Welles, Orson - 1958
5. Man Escaped, A – Bresson, Robert - 1956
6. Night of the Demon – Tourneur, Jacques - 1957
7. Red Shoes, The – Powell, Michael; Pressburger, Emeric - 1948
8. Stagecoach – Ford, John - 1939
9. Shadow of a Doubt – Hitchcock, Alfred - 1943
10. Fanny and Alexander – Bergman, Ingmar - 1982
11. King of Comedy, The – Scorsese, Martin - 1983
12. Crimes and Misdemeanors – Allen, Woody - 1989
13. Duck Soup – McCarey, Leo - 1933
14. Nosferatu – Murnau, F.W. - 1922
15. Once Upon a Time in the West – Leone, Sergio - 1968
16. Rome, Open City – Rossellini, Roberto - 1945
17. Empire Strikes Back, The – Kirshner, Irvin - 1980
18. Blue Velvet – Lynch, David - 1986
19. Days of Heaven – Malick, Terrance - 1978
20. Kiss Me Deadly – Aldrich, Robert – 1955

Adam Villani:
("stream of consciousness order")
- Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
- Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
- The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
- Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, 2000)
- Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)
- Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)
- Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
- The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura, 1983)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
- North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
- Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)
- West Side Story (Wise/Robbins, 1961)
- Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987)
- Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
- The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008)
- Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)

Froilan Vispo:
(ranked)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. Contempt (Jean Luc Godard, 1963)
3. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
4. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
5. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
6. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
7. Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
8. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
9. A Brighter, Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
10. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
11. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson, 1962) 
12. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)  
13. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
14. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 
15. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
16. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1963)
17. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) 
18. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)  
19. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
20. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)

(alphabetical)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Deliverance (Boorman, 1972)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Bunuel, 1972)
Don't Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973)
The Godfather, Part II (Coppola, 1974)
In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Repo Man (Cox, 1984)
The Road Warrior (Miller, 1981)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
Slacker (Linklater, 1991)
Sleeper (Allen, 1973)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

The Skuriels: Individual Ballots (N-R)


(ranked)
1. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
4. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
5. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
6. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
7. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
8. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
9. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
10. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
11. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Taratino, 1994)
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
13. Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977) 
14. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
15. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
16. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
17. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
18. West Side Story (Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise, 1961)
19. Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
20. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2011

(chronological)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) 
Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

And a word of praise for a couple of shorts that would have been in contention were the list not limited to features: Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959); La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962); Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987).

(alphabetical)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
A Canterbury Tale (1944, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ordet (1955, Carl Dreyer)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Claire's Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terence Malick)
Family Viewing (1987, Atom Egoyan)
Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton)
Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)

(ranked)
1. PULP FICTION (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
2. THE THIRD MAN (1949, Carol Reed)
3. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
4. THE 400 BLOWS (1959, François Truffaut)
5. STOLEN KISSES (1968, François Truffaut)
6. GOODFELLAS (1990, Martin Scorsese)
7. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1972, Eric Rohmer)
8. PARIS, TEXAS (1984, Wim Wenders)
9. DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978, George Romero)
10. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964, Jacques Demy)
11. MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971, Robert Altman)
12. THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
13. THE GODFATHER (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
14. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
15. KINGS AND QUEEN (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
16. CLAIRE’S KNEE (1970, Eric Rohmer)
17. THE LONG GOODBYE (1973, Robert Altman)
18. BADLANDS (1973, Terrence Malick)
19. VERTIGO (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
20. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

(chronological)
- THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
- BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks, 1938)
- THE BANK DICK (Edward Cline, 1940)
- THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
- THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941)
- THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Preston Sturges, 1944)
- BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
- DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, 1951)
- SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960)
- L'AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, 1964)
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- KES (Ken Loach, 1969)
- F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1973)
- APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Coppola, 1979)
- THE DEAD (John Huston, 1987)
- IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
- TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

(unranked)
-The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
-2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
-After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)
-Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
-Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
-Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
-Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
-Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
-Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
-Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
-Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
-Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
-The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
-Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)
-This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
-There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
-Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
-The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
-The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
-Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Mark Pittillo:
(chronological)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick 1968)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

(chronological)
- The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
- The Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
- The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
- Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
- Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
- Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks)
- Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
- Satantango (1994, Bela Tarr)
- Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
- In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai)
- Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)

(ranked)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Kagemusha (1980, Akira Kurosawa)
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Requiem For a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)
Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
Funny Games (1998, Michael Haneke)
Gerry (2003, Gus Van Sant)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Peter Reiher:
(alphabetical)
My principle in choosing a mere 20 films from all those I think are great is that I only put a film on the list if, when the title came to mind, I thought "gee, I'd like to see that right now."  I don't think a film can achieve this pinnacle of success unless you feel you have to see it again and again.  I didn't chose for influence, or importance, or what I know to be critical consensus.  To make my list, it's got to be irresistible.  So here are 20 films I can't resist.

The Bicycle Thief
Casablanca
City Lights
The Godfather Part II
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
His Girl Friday
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Leopard
The Maltese Falcon
Ninotchka
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Playtime
Rear Window
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Wild Bunch

(ranked)
- "Singin' in the Rain" (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
- "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- "Some Like It Hot" (Billy Wilder, 1959)
- "Dr. Strangelove" (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
- "The General" (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
- "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- "Night of the Hunter" (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
- "Pulp Fiction" (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
- "The Wizard of Oz" (Victor Fleming et. al., 1939)
- "Wings of Desire" (Wim Wenders, 1987)
- "This is Spinal Tap" (Rob Reiner, 1984)
- "Metropolis" (Fritz Lang, 1927)
- "Hoop Dreams" (Steve James, 1994)
- "Eraserhead" (David Lynch, 1977)
- "Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles, 1941)
- "Airplane!" (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, 1980)

(ranked)
LOLA MONTES
CITIZEN KANE
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
REAR WINDOW
RIO BRAVO
BLOW OUT
THE GODFATHER
NASHVILLE
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
TWO ENGLISH GIRLS
SEVEN CHANCES
BADLANDS
A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
IKIRU
HALLOWEEN
TOKYO STORY
BARRY LYNDON
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

(alphabetical)
BARRY LYNDON (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
THE BIG HEAT (dir. Fritz Lang, 1953)
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
CITY LIGHTS (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1931)
CONTEMPT (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
GOODFELLAS (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940)
LA DOLCE VITA (dir. Federico Fellini, 1960)
MOUCHETTE (dir. Robert Bresson, 1967)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (dir. David Lynch, 2001)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (dir. Sergio Leone, 1969)
SAFE (dir. Todd Haynes, 1995)
SECRET HONOR (dir. Robert Altman, 1984)
SUSPIRIA (dir. Dario Argento, 1977)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974)
TOPSY-TURVY (dir. Mike Leigh, 1999)
TOUCH OF EVIL (dir. Orson Welles, 1958)
25TH HOUR (dir. Spike Lee, 2002)
VERTIGO (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
ZODIAC (dir. David Fincher, 2007)

(ranked)
- 1. a woman under the influence (1974), john cassavetes
- 2. army of shadows (1969), jean-pierre melville
- 3. citizen kane (1941), orson welles
- 4. the testament of dr. mabuse (1933), fritz lang
- 5. the mirror (1975), andrei tarkovsky
- 6. aguirre, the wrath of god (1972), werner herzog
- 7. the third man (1949), carol reed
- 8. animal crackers (1930), victor heerman
- 9. rules of the game (1939), jean renoir
- 10. there will be blood (2007), paul thomas anderson
- 11. the general (1926), clyde bruckman/buster keaton
- 12. contempt (1963), jean-luc godard
- 13. bride of frankenstein (1935), james whale
- 14. mccabe & mrs. miller (1971), robert altman
- 15. stardust memories (1980), woody allen
- 16. naked (1993), mike leigh
- 17. taxi driver (1976), martin scorsese
- 18. in cold blood (1967), richard brooks
- 19. it's a gift (1943), norman z. mcleod
- 20. beauty and the beast (1946), jean Cocteau

The Skuriels: Individual Ballots (L-M)


(alphabetical)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
Floating Weeds (YasujiroOzu)
Gertrud (Carl Dreyer)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Tenebre (Dario Argento)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)

(chronological)
- SPIES (Fritz Lang, 1928)
- L'ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, 1934)
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, 1942)
- STARS IN MY CROWN (Jacques Tourneur, 1950)
- THE RIVER (Jean Renoir, 1951)
- REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
- ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
- LUPE (Andy Warhol, 1965)
- 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
- THE HART OF LONDON (Jack Chambers, 1970)
- TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman, 1971)
- THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, 1973)
- PARADE (Jacques Tati, 1974)
- JEANNE DIELMAN 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- MILESTONES (Robert Kramer, 1975)
- L'ARGENT (Robert Bresson, 1982)
- L'ENFANT SECRET (Philippe Garrel, 1982)
- LOVE STREAMS (John Cassavetes, 1984)
- STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke, 2006)

Other remarks (optional):
It's utterly painful to exclude some of my favorite filmmakers, such as John Ford, Louis Feuillade, Carl Dreyer, Ken Jacobs, Ernst Lubitsch, Jacques Rivette, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, Howard Hawks, Chris Marker, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Leo McCarey, Straub/Huillet, Eric Rohmer, Manoel de Oliveira, Leos Carax, Dziga Vertov, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Maurice Pialat, Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch, Charlie Chaplin, and on and on and on.

Since short films were excluded, I'm listing 20 here that could've easily made my list (in no order): THE WOLD SHADOW (Brakhage), WINDOW (Ken Jacobs), UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Jean Genet), LES MAITRES FOU (Jean Rouch), CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton), FIST FIGHT (Robert Breer), THE LAST DROP OF WATER (D.W. Griffith), CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi), APPARENT MOTION (Paul Sharits), ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie), TABLE (Ernie Gehr), ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell), POUR LE MISTRAL (Joris Ivens), UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Peter Kubelka), KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger), L'ARRIVEE D'UN TRAIN EN GARE DE LA CIOTAT (Lumieres), REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (George Landow/Owen Land), ORCHARD (Julie Murray), and RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (Maya Deren).

(ranked)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
A Tale of Winter (Éric Rohmer, 1992)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

(alphabetical)
Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-Wai)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
Fata Morgana (1971, Werner Herzog)
The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
The Last Laugh (1924, F. W. Murnau)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955, Ingmar Bergman)
La Terra Trema (1948, Luchino Visconti)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

(ranked)
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 54) 
- Wavelength (Snow, 67)
- Hard Boiled (Woo, 92)
- Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, 39)
- A Star is Born (Cukor, 54) 
- The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 80)
- Blow Out (De Palma, 81)
- Solaris (Tarkovsky, 72)
- Chungking Express (Wong, 94)
- The Thin Red Line (Malick, 98)
- Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 75)
- Senso (Visconti, 54)
- Videodrome (Cronenberg, 83)
- Sans Soleil (Marker, 83)
- Kwaidan (Kobayashi, 64)
- Come Drink With Me (King Hu, 66)
- Masculin Feminin (Godard, 66)
- Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 48)
- For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 65)
- L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 62)

(in no particular order)
- Nashville / Robert Altman
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller / Robert Altman
- Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson
- A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson
- Viridiana / Luis Buñuel
- The Young One / Luis Buñuel
- Days of Heaven / Terrence Malick
- The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
- Late Spring / Yasujiro Ozu
- Flowing / Mikio Naruse
- A Time to Live, a Time to Die / Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me / David Lynch
- Imitation of Life / Douglas Sirk
- Daisy Kenyon / Otto Preminger
- Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett
- 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick
-  / Federico Fellini
- Broken Blossoms / D.W. Griffith
- The Steel Helmet / Samuel Fuller
- Days of Being Wild / Wong Kar-wai

(alphabetical)
The Apartment [Billy Wilder]
Blow-Up [Michelangelo Antonioni]
The Bride With White Hair [Ronny Yu]
Bringing Up Baby [Howard Hawks]
Casablanca [Michael Curtiz]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off [John Hughes]
Gilda [Charles Vidor]
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Sergio Leone]
His Girl Friday [Howard Hawks]
In A Lonely Place [Nicholas Ray]
In The Mood For Love [Wong Kar-Wai]
Last Year At Marienbad [Alain Resnais]
Lawrence Of Arabia [David Lean]
Once Upon A Time In The West [Sergio Leone]
Shoot The Piano Player [Francois Truffaut]
Sunset Boulevard [Billy Wilder]
2001: A Space Odyssey [Stanley Kubrick]
Two-Lane Blacktop [Monte Hellman]
Videodrome [David Cronenberg]
Yellow Submarine [George Dunning]

(chronological)
Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Poor Little Rich Girl (Andy Warhol, 1965)
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
Deadman (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Other remarks (optional): Apologies to Chantal Akerman, Olivier Assayas, Albert Brooks, Tod Browning, Leos Carax, Abel Ferrara, John Ford, Sam Fuller, Philippe Garrel, Dennis Hopper, George Kuchar, Elaine May, Victor Sjostrom, Michael Snow, Preston Sturges, Quentin Tarantino, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar Wai, Orson Welles, and Wim Wenders.

(ranked)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
3. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
4. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
5. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
6. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
7. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
11. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
12. Fantasia (Disney etc., 1940)
13. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)
14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
15. Belle de Jour (Buñuel, 1967)
16. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
17. Carrie (DePalma, 1976)
18. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
19. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
20. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

(alphabetical)
2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
Annie Hall
Breathless
Casablanca
Children of Paradise
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Man With a Movie Camera
Metropolis
Mulholland Dr.
Raging Bull
Scenes From a Marriage
Seven Samurai
Some Like It Hot
The Best of Youth
The Double Life of Veronique
The Godfather, Part 2
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo

(ranked)
1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, Britain 1971)
2. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France, 2002)
3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1954)
4. 8½ (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963)
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, USA, 1942)
6. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA, 1943)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, USA, 1950)
8. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, Britain, 1964)
9. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1972)
10. Brief Encounter (David Lean, Britain, 1945)
11. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
12. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1980)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, Britain, 1968)
14. Memento (Christopher Nolan, USA, 2001)
15. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953)
16. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland, 1994)
17. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl-Theodor Dreyer, France, 1928)
18. Greed (Erich Von Stroheim, USA, 1924)
19. Amadeus (Milos Forman, Britain, 1984)
20. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, Britain, 1949)

Marya Murphy:
(chronological)
The Wind - Victor Sjöström, 1928
The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming, 1939
The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor, 1940
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz, 1942
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa, 1954
Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray, 1955
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols, 1966
Scenes From a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman, 1973
Jaws - Steven Spielberg, 1975
Kings of the Road - Wim Wenders, 1976
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner, 1987
The Mirror - Jafar Panahi, 1997
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee, 2000
Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier, 2000
Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-ho, 2003
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry, 2004
The New World - Terrence Malick, 2005
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone - Tsai Ming-liang, 2006