Simon's faves

[Clark Nova]

1. The Third Man (Carol Reed) (1949)
2. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) (1954)
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) (1966)
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) (1985)
5. Chinatown (Roman Polanski) (1974)
6. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) (1958)
7. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) (1952) READ MY REVIEW
8. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) (1979)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) (1968)
10. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) (1972)
11. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) (1982)
12. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) (1976)
13. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) (1962)
14. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) (1964)
15. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder) (1950)
16. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) (1982)
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) (1968)
18. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) (1978)
19. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) (1969)
20. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville) (1967)
21. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch) (2001)
22. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) (1987)
23. Badlands (Terrence Malick) (1973)
24. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone) (1984)
25. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park) (2003)
26. The French Connection (William Friedkin) (1971)
27. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas) (1977)
28. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa) (1961)
29. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) (1960)
30. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) (1980)
31. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) (1974)
32. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) (1981)
33. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) (1950)
34. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) (1955)
35. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) (1958)
36. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) (1941)
37. The Graduate (Mike Nichols) (1967)
38. Fargo (Joel Coen) (1996)
39. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa) (1963)
40. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) (1989) READ MY REVIEW
41. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) (1957)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) (1967)
43. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) (1977)
44. Brazil (Terry Gilliam) (1985)
45. Manhattan (Woody Allen) (1979)
46. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick) (1971)
47. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman) (1973)
48. After Hours (Martin Scorsese) (1985)
49. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) (1944)
50. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) (1972)
51. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) (1990)
52. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) (1997)
53. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) (1991)
54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) (1980)
55. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) (2003)
56. Blue Velvet (David Lynch) (1986)
57. Alien (Ridley Scott) (1979)
58. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) (1942)
59. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) (1954)
60. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) (1989)
61. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) (1963)
62. The New World (Terrence Malick) (2005)
63. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) (1975)
64. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) (1992)
65. Amadeus (Milos Forman) (1984)
66. The Thing (John Carpenter) (1982)
67. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) (1941)
68. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) (1957)
69. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) (1959)
70. Metropolis (Fritz Lang) (1927) READ MY REVIEW
71. Being There (Hal Ashby) (1979)
72. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean) (1957)
73. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) (1982)
74. MASH (Robert Altman) (1970)
75. City Lights (Charles Chaplin) (1931)
76. The Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara) (1964)
77. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) (2006)
78. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah) (1974)
79. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa) (1975)
80. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) (1957)
81. Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) (1972) READ MY REVIEW
82. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) (1983)
83. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) (1975)
84. The Apartment (Billy Wilder) (1960)
85. Munich (Steven Spielberg) (2005)
86. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi) (1953)
87. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola) (1974)
88. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder) (1951)
89. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) (1994)
90. Network (Sidney Lumet) (1976)
91. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman) (1961)
92. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) (1963)
93. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese) (1983)
94. Hoop Dreams (Steve James) (1994)
95. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) (1993)
96. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock) (1935)
97. The Departed (Martin Scorsese) (2006)
98. Cidade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles) (2002)
99. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) (1999)
100. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg) (1989)
101. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) (2001)
102. Ed Wood (Tim Burton) (1994)
103. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro) (2006)
104. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) (1943)
105. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger) (1969)
106. Match Point (Woody Allen) (2005)
107. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet) (1975)
108. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) (1987)
109. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero) (1978) READ MY REVIEW
110. Fight Club (David Fincher) (1999)
111. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) (1992)
112. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) (1997)
113. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa) (1958)
114. Aliens (James Cameron) (1986)
115. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) (1946)
116. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) (2002)
117. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) (1998)
118. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) (1959)
119. Zodiac (David Fincher) (2007)
120. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) (1959)
121. Heat (Michael Mann) (1995)
122. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica) (1948) READ MY REVIEW
123. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank) (1982)
124. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) (1953)
125. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville) (1969)
126. Caché (Michael Haneke) (2005)
127. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) (1956)
128. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen) (1994)
129. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis) (1993)
130. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) (1984)
131. The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway) (1989)
132. Stroszek (Werner Herzog) (1977)
133. Escape from New York (John Carpenter) (1981)
134. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) (1971)
135. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) (1985)
136. The Player (Robert Altman) (1992)
137. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) (2003)
138. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan) (1954)
139. Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux) (1992)
140. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) (1999)
141. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) (1991) READ MY REVIEW
142. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) (2005)
143. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers) (1999)
144. Superman (Richard Donner) (1978)
145. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese) (1973)
146. The Elephant Man (David Lynch) (1980)
147. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen) (1997)
148. The Fly (David Cronenberg) (1986)
149. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola) (1991)
150. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock) (1972)
151. Memento (Christopher Nolan) (2000)
152. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa) (1962)
153. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) (1986)
154. Se7en (David Fincher) (1995)
155. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) (1985)
156. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard) (1960)
157. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) (1980)
158. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) (2002)
159. Sleeper (Woody Allen) (1973)
160. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) (1946)
161. American Beauty (Sam Mendes) (1999)
162. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) (1974)
163. The Searchers (John Ford) (1956)
164. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman) (1957)
165. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper) (1974)
166. Yi yi (Edward Yang) (2000)
167. La Jetee (Chris Marker) (1962)
168. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer) (1995)
169. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand) (1983)
170. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa) (1960)
171. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) (1995)
172. Casino (Martin Scorsese) (1995)
173. Leon (Luc Besson) (1994)
174. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) (1991)
175. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) (2004)
176. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) (1996)
177. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) (1993)
178. THX 1138 (George Lucas) (1971)
179. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges) (1960)
180. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle) (2002)
181. Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) (2006)
182. King Kong (Peter Jackson) (2005)
183. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch) (1992)
184. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) (1972)
185. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park) (2002)
186. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock) (1948) READ MY REVIEW
187. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks) (1974)
188. F for Fake (Orson Welles) (1974)
189. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) (1994)
190. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino) (1997)
191. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg) (1984)
192. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) (2005)
193. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez / Frank Miller) (2005)
194. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) (2003)
195. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) (2006)
196. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) (1995)
197. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra) (1944)
198. M (Fritz Lang) (1931)
199. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese) (1991)
200. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) (2003)
201. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) (1945)
202. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) (2004)
203. Platoon (Oliver Stone) (1986)
204. Sunshine (Danny Boyle) (2007)
205. The Proposition (John Hillcoat) (2005)
206. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam) (1998)
207. Akira (Katsushiro Otomo) (1988)
208. Suspiria (Dario Argento) (1977)
209. Rocky (John G. Avildsen) (1976)
210. The Incredibles (Brad Bird) (2004)
211. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone) (1964)
212. 300 (Zack Snyder) (2007)
213. Brick (Rian Johnson) (2005)
214. Short Cuts (Robert Altman) (1993)
215. Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park) (2005)
216. True Romance (Tony Scott) (1993)
217. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) (2006)

My review of Superman Returns, which didn't make the list.

[criterionmaster]

I really like your list, there are a lot of classics on here. But it is all the classics, and nothing really interesting that stands out. But it is a perfect list of classics, ie should use it when looking for older films to watch.

[Nomansvally]

Alot of fine one here! It seems that you treasure Kurosawa, he's your fav filmmaker, right?

You got a one of my very favorite films on your list and I appreciate that:

#42 Network

Great to see you love Woody Allen and Alfred Hitchock too, salute!

[criterionmaster]

police386 said:

yeah, i realize that my list is basically what any film critic or film historian would tell you are the greatest films ever made...you should've seen my list at this point about 2 years ago...was filled with crap like the matrix sequels, ocean's eleven, donnie darko, boondock saints...i realized that i needed a crash course in great films, so i just bombarded myself with the known classics and all-time greats, and the list looks the way it does as a result. sure, there's few, say, cult classics or more obscure stuff, but i definitely wanna work on that.

and you've got a great list too, btw...nice mix of the classics and the more obscure stuff.

That is great, and there are tons of films I need to see myself. See I started with the classics, then moved to obscure films too soon, now there are a lot of films I still haven't seen. And I am glad you like my list. Also very glad you are into such great film as you are, and that you got past those other films.

[captainofbeef]

Top 3:
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. Seven Samurai
3. Once Upon A Time in the West

Bottom 3: (so hard, you have no films I don't like here, so I like all of these films, just no enough)
1. The Searchers
2. Minority Report
3. Sleeper

[agentknight]

Best

1. Blue Velvet (So many unforgettable images)
2. Mulholland Dr. (One of the films that got me into cinema)
3. Solyaris (Tarkovsky really is a god)

Worst

1. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (OH GOD! SO HORRIBLE!)
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Style over substance fap)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sleep time)

[blackmoses]

Your list is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best:
1. Ikiru
2. Fear and Loathing
3. Jurassic Park

Worst:
1. Aliens
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Two Towers

[criterionmaster]

Christ, I just noticed you added pictures and links to all your movies. Very awesome. Glad finally someone else has seen Hearts of Darkness, that film is a masterpiece.

[criterionmaster]

police386 said:

criterionmaster said:

Christ, I just noticed you added pictures and links to all your movies. Very awesome. Glad finally someone else has seen Hearts of Darkness, that film is a masterpiece.

yeah, i did it on ymdb part deux and transferred it over here too. took me about a day to get in all the links and pics the size i wanted 'em, with photobucket and what not, but it was worth it. and yes, hearts of darkness is my favorite doc...so much better than the typically crappy making-of doc where the actor waxes messianic about the director in front of the camera...it literally showed the hell that was the shoot of Apocalypse Now.

I love all the parts with Brando towards the end, some of those were just madness. And you could just see Coppola going slowly insane as the movie went along. May be the best making of documentary I have ever seen as well.

[criterionmaster]

police386 said:

my god, those brando outtakes are bizarre and hilarious. like how he swallows a bug or just starts walking towards the door inexplicably, still saying his lines, finally telling francis that he can't shoot anymore that day... they show just how difficult he was to work with.

And how he showed up and was really fat. I couldn't believe Coppola was making the film and didn't even know how it would end. Man, why isn't that fucking film out on DVD! I heard it will never come out for some reason.

[captainofbeef]

Number 1?? Wow, I love that movie too, glad you enjoyed it so much on second viewing...

[Clark Nova]

with the additions of Le Samourai (#20) and The Big Heat (#113), I've officially amassed a

TOP 200.

Which means I'm one step closer to world domination.

....or this:

www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/207257

[captainofbeef]

^Le Samourai is the coolest movie ever, excluding TGBU of course.

[Clark Nova]

captainofbeef said:

^Le Samourai is the coolest movie ever, excluding TGBU of course.

coolest AND most chilling image ever.

[wkw]

check out Le Cercle Rouge, Delon is great in that too.