Sunday, April 14, 2019

Top "100" (4/14/19) Ranked

As an addition to the current wave of top 100 lists sweeping Film Twitter, this is my version, comprised of the 94 color-coded red films I have as of today and 6 "carefully" chosen orange/borderline red films. The selection is largely set for the red films (for now), but the order is forever in flux, as is the entirety of this list: aside from the adherence to my current decade and yearly top-tens, the ordering was totally from the heart and mind.

  1. Mulholland Dr.
  2. Yi Yi
  3. Sans soleil
  4. The Magnificent Ambersons
  5. In the Mood for Love
  6. A Touch of Zen
  7. The Night of the Hunter
  8. The Young Girls of Rochefort
  9. Vertigo
  10. Céline and Julie Go Boating
  11. Meet Me in St. Louis
  12. Seven Samurai
  13. Only Angels Have Wings
  14. Out 1: Noli me tangere
  15. La jetée
  16. A Brighter Summer Day
  17. Last Year at Marienbad
  18. Citizen Kane
  19. Dragon Inn
  20. Chungking Express
  21. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  22. Platform
  23. Duck Amuck
  24. M
  25. Heat
  26. Eraserhead
  27. Late Spring
  28. Muriel, or the Time of Return
  29. Sunrise
  30. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
  31. Les Vampires
  32. The Rules of the Game
  33. The Mother and the Whore
  34. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  35. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  36. Tokyo Story
  37. Close-Up
  38. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  39. Rear Window
  40. Pierrot le fou
  41. Gertrud
  42. Trust
  43. Napoléon
  44. Inland Empire
  45. Out 1: Spectre
  46. Jeanne Dielman
  47. Miami Vice
  48. A Star Is Born
  49. Rio Bravo
  50. Sansho the Bailiff
  51. A New Leaf
  52. Ashes of Time
  53. Wavelength
  54. The Hole
  55. The Terrorizers
  56. Twin Peaks: The Return
  57. Paris, Texas
  58. (nostalgia)
  59. 2046
  60. Notorious
  61. Blade Runner
  62. Persona
  63. Taipei Story
  64. Silence
  65. Cure
  66. Stop Making Sense
  67. Yourself and Yours
  68. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
  69. Nashville
  70. Carol
  71. Lost in Translation
  72. India Song
  73. Before Sunset
  74. Blue Velvet
  75. Night and Fog
  76. My Neighbor Totoro
  77. Zorns Lemma
  78. Manhunter
  79. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  80. The Battle of Algiers
  81. Weekend
  82. The Tree of Life
  83. The Day He Arrives
  84. Fort Apache
  85. The Birds
  86. That Day, on the Beach
  87. Long Day's Journey Into Night
  88. Blackhat
  89. Outer Space
  90. Meek's Cutoff
  91. Moses und Aron
  92. The 400 Blows
  93. The Devils
  94. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
  95. Journey to Italy
  96. Breathless
  97. My Night at Maud's
  98. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
  99. Tropical Malady
  100. Do the Right Thing