16.4.09

Andrew's Amazing List Part 3

The Last 100!

  1.  

The Last Picture Show

1971

Peter Bogdanovich

USA

30

  1.  

Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Raise the Red Lantern)

1991

Yimou Zhang

China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

26

  1.  

Little Miss Sunshine

2006

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

USA

26

  1.  

Glory

1989

Edward Zwick

USA

25

  1.  

Giant

1956

George Stevens

USA

24

  1.  

A Place in the Sun

1951

George Stevens

USA

24

  1.  

Top Hat

1935

Mark Sandrich

USA

23

  1.  

Roman Holiday

1953

William Wyler

USA

21

  1.  

El

1953

Luis Buñuel

Mexico

20

  1.  

Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew)

1964

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy/France

20

  1.  

Magnolia

1999

Paul Thomas Anderson

USA

20

  1.  

Black Narcissus

1947

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

UK

20

  1.  

Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live)

1962

Jean-Luc Godard

France

20

  1.  

Mystic River

2003

Clint Eastwood

USA

20

  1.  

Don’t Look Now

1973

Nicolas Roeg

Italy/UK

20

  1.  

Funny Face

1957

Stanley Donen

USA

20

  1.  

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

UK

20

  1.  

Sophie’s Choice

1982

Alan J. Pakula

USA

20

  1.  

L’argent

1983

Robert Bresson

France/ Switzerland

20

  1.  

My Darling Clementine

1946

John Ford

USA

20

  1.  

42nd Street

1933

Lloyd Bacon

USA

20

  1.  

Manhattan

1979

Woody Allen

USA

19

  1.  

Diner

1982

Barry Levinson

USA

19

  1.  

Stachka (Strike)

1925

Sergei M. Einstein

Soviet Union

18

  1.  

Edward Scissorhands

1990

Tim Burton

USA

18

  1.  

Jalsaghar (The Music Room)

1958

Satyajit Ray

India

17

  1.  

Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky)

1938

Sergei M. Einstein & Dmitri Vasilyev

Soviet Union

16

  1.  

Nema-ye Nazdik (Close Up)

1990

Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

15

  1.  

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

Frank Capra

USA

15

  1.  

Lásky jedné plavovlásky (A Blonde in Love)

1965

Milos Forman

Czecho slovakia

15

  1.  

Kumonosu jô (Throne of Blood)

1957

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

15

  1.  

Blue Velvet

1986

David Lynch

USA

15

  1.  

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1975

Chantal Akerman

Belgium/ France

15

  1.  

A Canterbury Tale

1944

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

UK

15

  1.  

Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers)

1972

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

15

  1.  

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

Woody Allen

USA

15

  1.  

Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City)

1945

Roberto Rossellini

Italy

15

  1.  

Solyaris (Solaris)

1972

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet Union

15

  1.  

Great Expectations

1946

David Lean

UK

15

  1.  

Tong nien wang shi (The Time to Live and the Time to Die)

1985

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Taiwan

15

  1.  

Tristana

1970

Luis Buñuel

France/Italy/ Spain

15

  1.  

Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)

1955

Mikio Naruse

Japan

15

  1.  

Banshun (Late Spring)

1949

Yasujiro Ozu

Japan

15

  1.  

Gertrud

1964

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Denmark

15

  1.  

L'eclisse (Eclipse)

1962

Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy/France

15

  1.  

Beauty and the Beast

1991

Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

USA

15

  1.  

Los olvidados (The Forgotten Ones)

1950

Luis Buñuel

Mexico

15

  1.  

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped)

1956

Robert Bresson

France

15

  1.  

Marnie

1964

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

15

  1.  

Good Will Hunting

1997

Gus Van Sant

USA

13

  1.  

Atlantic City

1980

Louis Malle

Canada/France

12

  1.  

Ai no corrida (In the Realm of the Senses)

1976

Nagisa Oshima

Japan, France

12

  1.  

Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

1964

Satyajit Ray

India

12

  1.  

The Producers

1968

Mel Brooks

USA

12

  1.  

Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds)

1958

Andrzej Wajda

Poland

12

  1.  

Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil)

1964

Glauber Rocha

Brazil

12

  1.  

Badlands

1973

Terrence Malick

USA

12

  1.  

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1919

D.W. Griffith

USA

12

  1.  

Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)

1959

Guru Dutt

India

12

  1.  

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

Michael Curtiz

USA

12

  1.  

Ta'm e guilass (A Taste of Cherry)

1997

Abbas Kiarostami

Iran/France

12

  1.  

Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us)

1999

Abbas Kiarostami

Iran/France

12

  1.  

The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Henry Selick

USA

12

  1.  

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998

Guy Ritchie

UK

11

  1.  

The Jazz Singer

1927

Alan Crosland

USA

11

  1.  

Mou gaan dou (Internal Affairs)

2002

Andrew Lau & Alan Mak

Hong Kong

11

  1.  

Laura

1944

Otto Preminger

USA

11

  1.  

Monsoon Wedding

2001

Mira Nair

India

11

  1.  

Himala (Miracle)

1982

Ishmael Bernal

Philippines

10

  1.  

Saturday Night Fever

1977

John Badham

USA

10

  1.  

In Bruges

2008

Martin McDonagh

UK

9

  1.  

Imitation of Life

1959

Douglas Sirk

USA

9

  1.  

Xala

1975

Ousmane Sembène

Senegal

8

  1.  

Khane-ye doust kodjast? (Where is My Friend’s House?)

1987

Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

8

  1.  

Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)

1924

F.W. Murnau

Germany

8

  1.  

Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud Capped Star)

1990

Ritwik Ghatak

India

8

  1.  

Harold and Maude

1971

Hal Ashby

USA

8

  1.  

Nun va Goldoon (A Moment of Innocence)

1996

Moshen Makhmalbaf

Iran/France

8

  1.  

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

1967

Stanley Kramer

USA

7

  1.  

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

2001

Ashutosh Gowariker

India

6

  1.  

Gallipoli

1981

Peter Weir

Australia

5

  1.  

Gabbeh

1996

Moshen Makhmalbaf

Iran

5

  1.  

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

1961

Blake Edwards

USA

5

  1.  

Cross of Iron

1977

Sam Peckinpah

West Germany/UK

5

  1.  

Bambi

1942

David D. Hand

USA

5

  1.  

The Bank Dick

1940

Edward F. Cline

USA

4

  1.  

Big Fish

2003

Tim Burton

USA

4

  1.  

Planet of the Apes

1968

Franklin J. Schaffner

USA

4

  1.  

Mat (Mother)

1926

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Soviet Union

3

  1.  

This Is Spinal Tap

1984

Rob Reiner

USA

3

  1.  

Bashu, gharibeye koochak  (Bashu, the Little Stranger)

1989

Bahram Beizai

Iran

3

  1.  

Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle)

2004

Hayao Miyazaki

Japan

2

  1.  

Thelma & Louise

1991

Ridley Scott

USA/France

2

  1.  

Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood For Love)

2000

Wong Kar-wai

Hong Kong/ France

2

  1.  

Zemlya (Earth)

1930

Alexander Dovzhenko

Soviet Union

2

  1.  

Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)

1988

Hayao Miyazki

Japan

2

  1.  

Akira

1988

Katsuhiro Ōtomo

Japan

2

  1.  

Night of the Living Dead

1968

George A. Romero

USA

2

  1.  

Nicija zemlja (No Man’s Land)

2001

Danis Tanovic

Bosnia and Herzegovina/ Slovenia/ Italy/France/ UK/Belgium

1

  1.  

Airplane!

1980

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker

USA

1

 


There isn't much I can say except I am so proud to be Andrew's friend, and also baffled by his patience and determination to make these insane lists. Feedback, comments and passing the list on would be much appreciated! 

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