Recently the Time magazine picked up the top 100 movies of all time. I have replicated the whole list below in alphabetical order. The one marked with stars are the ones that i have seen. Although many of the good movies are missing from the list like Forrest Gump, Mulholland Drive, etc . Three indians movies also made it into the list are Apu's trilogy, Pyasa and Nayakan.
1 Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
2 The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
3 The Awful Truth (1937)
4 Baby Face (1933)
5 Bande à part (1964)
6 Barry Lyndon (1975)
7 Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
8 Blade Runner (1982) ##
9 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
10 Brazil (1985)
11 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
12 Camille (1936)
13 Casablanca (1942)
14 Charade (1963)
15 Children of Paradise (1945)
16 Chinatown (1974)
17 Chungking Express (1994)
18 Citizen Kane (1941)
19 City Lights (1931)
20 City of God (2002)
21 Closely Watched Trains (1966)
22 The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
23 The Crowd (1928)
24 Day for Night (1973)
25 The Decalogue (1989)
26 Detour (1945)
27 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
28 Dodsworth (1936)
29 Double Indemnity (1944)
30 Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ##
31 Drunken Master II (1994)
32 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ##
33 8 1/2 (1963)
34 The 400 Blows (1959)
35 Farewell My Concubine (1993)
36 Finding Nemo (2003) ##
37 The Fly (1986)
38 The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974) ##
39 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) ##
40 Goodfellas (1990) ##
41 A Hard Day's Night (1964)
42 His Girl Friday (1940)
43 Ikiru (1952)
44 In A Lonely Place (1950)
45 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
46 It's A Gift (1934)
47 It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
48 Kandahar (2001)
49 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
50 King Kong (1933)
51 The Lady Eve (1941)
52 The Last Command (1928)
53 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
54 Léolo (1992)
55 The Lord of the Rings (2001-03) ##
56 The Man With a Camera (1929)
57 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) ##
58 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
59 Metropolis (1927)
60 Miller's Crossing (1990)
61 Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
62 Mouchette (1967)
63 Nayakan (1987)
64 Ninotchka (1939)
65 Notorious (1946)
66 Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
67 On the Waterfront (1954)
68 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
69 Out of the Past (1947)
70 Persona (1966)
71 Pinocchio (1940)
72 Psycho (1960) ##
73 Pulp Fiction (1994) ##
74 The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
75 Pyaasa (1957)
76 Raging Bull (1980)
77 Schindler's List (1993) ##
78 The Searchers (1956)
79 Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
80 The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
81 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
82 The Singing Detective (1986)
83 Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
84 Some Like It Hot (1959)
85 Star Wars (1977) ##
86 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
87 Sunrise (1927)
88 Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
89 Swing Time (1936)
90 Talk to Her (2002)
91 Taxi Driver (1976) ##
92 Tokyo Story (1953)
93 A Touch of Zen (1971)
94 Ugetsu (1953)
95 Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
96 Umberto D (1952)
97 Unforgiven (1992)
98 White Heat (1949)
99 Wings of Desire (1987)
100 Yojimbo (1961)
2 comments:
I like your photos!
Time Mag left out "Rashoman"(aka "In the Woods"),Dir: Akira Kurosawa, Japan (1950), see:
http://
theoscarsite.com/pictures1951/rashoman.htm
If you have not seen it, it is really great.
I think that #37, 41, 45 and 50 are ludicrous selections. #29 and 30 are right on. I have not seen many of the rest in their entirety.
Ash
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