50 Favorite Films
[Updated 2/1/2006]
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Recently I have found it increasingly difficult to come to terms with any historical canon, find the means by which to arrive at any, or rank movies individually rather than by group. Due to this problem, I have decreased my list to 50 movies. I have added a column signifying what movies I own on DVD, currently 43 out of 50.
Title |
Director |
Year |
Picture |
DVD |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick |
1968 |
|
1 |
Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
1941 |
|
1 |
Raging Bull |
Martin Scorsese |
1980 |
|
1 |
Vertigo |
Alfred Hitchcock |
1958 |
|
1 |
The 400 Blows |
Francois Truffaut |
1959 |
|
1 |
Rashomon |
Akira Kurosawa |
1950 |
|
1 |
Battleship Potemkin |
Sergei Eisenstein |
1925 |
|
|
Tokyo Story |
Yasujiro Ozu |
1953 |
|
1 |
Man with a Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov |
1929 |
|
|
The Rules of the Game |
Jean Renoir |
1939 |
|
1 |
La Dolce Vita |
Federico Fellini |
1960 |
|
1 |
Seven Samurai |
Akira Kurosawa |
1954 |
|
1 |
City Lights |
Charlie Chaplin |
1931 |
|
1 |
Pepe le Moko |
Julien Duvivier |
1937 |
|
1 |
L'Atalante |
Jean Vigo |
1934 |
|
1 |
The Third Man |
Carol Reed |
1949 |
|
1 |
Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder |
1950 |
|
1 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick |
1971 |
|
1 |
Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes |
Werner Herzog |
1972 |
|
1 |
Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau |
1947 |
|
1 |
Blow Up |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
1966 |
|
|
Ikiru |
Akira Kurosawa |
1952 |
|
1 |
Le Samourai |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
1967 |
|
1 |
Dr. Strangelove |
Stanley Kubrick |
1964 |
|
1 |
Metropolis |
Fritz Lang |
1927 |
|
1 |
8 1/2 |
Federico Fellini |
1963 |
|
1 |
Double Indemnity |
Billy Wilder |
1944 |
|
|
Modern Times |
Charlie Chaplin |
1936 |
|
1 |
Breathless |
Jean-Luc Godard |
1960 |
|
|
M |
Fritz Lang |
1931 |
|
1 |
Psycho |
Alfred Hitchcock |
1960 |
|
1 |
The Godfather, Parts I & II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
1972-74 |
|
1 |
Singin' in the Rain |
Stanley Donen |
1952 |
|
1 |
The Birth of a Nation |
D.W. Griffith |
1915 |
|
1 |
The Bicycle Thief |
Vittorio De Sica |
1949 |
|
|
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
1954 |
|
1 |
Paths of Glory |
Stanley Kubrick |
1957 |
|
1 |
Harakiri |
Masaki Kobayashi |
1962 |
|
1 |
Some Like it Hot |
Billy Wilder |
1959 |
|
1 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
Frank Capra |
1946 |
|
1 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Ford |
1940 |
|
1 |
Do the Right Thing |
Spike Lee |
1989 |
|
1 |
Yojimbo |
Akira Kurosawa |
1961 |
|
1 |
Mon Oncle |
Jacques Tati |
1958 |
|
1 |
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
1977 |
|
1 |
Ugetsu Monogatari |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
1953 |
|
|
Orpheus |
Jean Cocteau |
1949 |
|
1 |
Apocalypse Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
1979 |
|
1 |
The Lady Vanishes |
Alfred Hitchcock |
1939 |
|
1 |
Bonnie & Clyde |
Arthur Penn |
1967 |
|
1 |
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