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

Bryan Whitefield:

(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

Blake Williams:

(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)

Patrick Williamson:

(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)

Bryce Wilson:

(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

Andrew Wright:

(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)

George Wu:

(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.

Ryan Wu:

(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)