Thi Them

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In 2002, Sight & Sound magazine published the poll results of the greatest films of all-time, which were voted upon by film critics and directors from around the world.

The goal of this club is simply to watch as many of the films, with no pressure to finish a certain number of films by a deadline. This is an opportunity to see what knowledgeable people in the film community consider to be great films. Please do not be intimidated by this list; as long as you see one film on the list, then that will be satisfactory.

If you would like to join this club, then send me a private message, including the number of films you have already seen. There may be multiple appearances of a film on the list or it may be included as part of a series, so to keep things simple, count one row as one film seen.

Please update me with the films that you see. And, feel free to post your thoughts on the films; remember, there is no right or wrong opinion.

Sight and Sound Combined List

Rank	Title	Director	Year
1	Citizen Kane	Welles	1941
2	Vertigo	Hitchcock	1958
3	Rules of the Game	Renoir	1939
4	8 ½	Fellini	1963
5	2001: A Space Odyssey	Kubrick	1968
6	Tokyo Story	Ozu	1953
7	Godfather Part II, The	Coppola	1974
8	Seven Samurai	Kurosawa	1954
9	Rashomon	Kurosawa	1950
10	Battleship Potemkin	Eisenstein	1925
10	Singin' in the Rain	Donen/Kelly	1952
12	Sunrise	Murnau	1927
13	Searchers, The	Ford	1956
14	Lawrence of Arabia	Lean	1962
15	Godfather, The	Coppola	1972
16	Bicycle Thieves, The	De Sica	1948
16	Dolce Vita, La	Fellini	1960
16	Passion of Joan of Arc, The	Dreyer	1928
19	Avventura, L'	Antonioni	1960
19	Breathless (A Bout de souffle)	Godard	1960
19	Touch of Evil	Welles	1958
22	Dr. Strangelove	Kubrick	1964
22	Jules and Jim	Truffaut	1962
22	Raging Bull	Scorsese	1980
25	Atalante, L'	Vigo	1934
25	Psycho	Hitchcock	1960
25	Sunset Blvd.	Wilder	1950
28	Fanny and Alexander	Bergman	1982
28	General, The	Keaton/Bruckman	1927
28	Godfather & Godfather Part II, The	Coppola	1974
28	Mirror, The	Tarkovsky	1975
28	Some Like it Hot	Wilder	1959
33	Andrei Roublev	Tarkovsky	1969
33	City Lights	Chaplin	1931
33	Children of Paradise (Enfants du Paradis)	Carne	1945
33	Grand Illusion	Renoir	1937
37	Apartment, The	Wilder	1960
37	Apocalypse Now	Coppola	1979
37	Au hasard Balthazar	Bresson	1966
37	Pather Panchali	Ray, Satyajit	1955
37	Seventh Seal, The	Bergman	1955
37	Taxi Driver	Scorsese	1976
43	Casablanca	Curtiz	1942
43	Chinatown	Polanski	1974
43	Contempt (Le Mepris)	Godard	1963
43	Third Man, The	Reed	1949
43	Ugetsu Monogatari	Mizoguchi	1953
48	Ivan the Terrible	Eisenstein	1947
48	Metropolis	Lang	1927
50	400 Blows, The	Truffaut	1959
50	Intolerance	Griffith	1916
50	M	Lang	1931
50	Ordet	Dreyer	1955
50	Wild Strawberries	Bergman	1957
55	Amarcord	Fellini	1973
55	Barry Lyndon	Kubrick	1975
55	Conformist, The	Bertolucci	1970
55	Modern Times	Chaplin	1936
55	North By Northwest	Hitchcock	1959
55	On the Waterfront	Kazan	1954
55	Persona	Bergman	1966
55	Story of the Late Chrysanthemum, The	Mizoguchi	1939
55	Strada, La	Fellini	1954
64	Age d'Or, L'	Bunuel	1930
64	Battle of Algiers, The	Pontecorvo	1965
64	Blade Runner	Scott	1981
64	Gold Rush, The	Chaplin	1925
64	Greed	Von Stroheim	1925
64	Last Year at Marienbad	Resnais	1961
64	Magnificent Ambersons, The	Welles	1942
64	Man with a Movie Camera, The	Vertov	1929
64	Napoleon	Gance	1927
64	Nashville	Altman	1975
64	Once Upon a Time in the West	Leone	1968
64	Pickpocket	Bresson	1959
64	Pulp Fiction	Tarentino	1994
64	Rear Window	Hitchcock	1954
64	Rio Bravo	Hawks	1959
64	Sweet Smell of Success	Mackendrick	1957
64	Wild Bunch, The	Peckinpah	1969
82	City of Sadness, A	Hou	1989
82	Clockwork Orange, A	Kubrick	1971
82	Dekalog	Kieslowski	1990
82	Goodfellas	Scorsese	1990
82	Ikiru	Kurosawa	1952
82	Leopard, The	Visconti	1963
82	Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The	Ford	1962
82	Night of the Hunter	Laughton	1955
82	Ran	Kurosawa	1985
82	Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu)	Mizoguchi	1954
82	Traveling Players	Angelopoulos	1975
82	Viridiana	Bunuel	1961
82	Voyage to Italy	Rossellini	1953
95	Argent, L'	Bresson	1983
95	Black Narcissus	Powell/Pressburger	1947
95	Blue Velvet	Lynch	1986
95	Breaking the Waves	Von Trier	1996
95	Chimes at Midnight	Welles	1965
95	Don't Look Now	Roeg	1973
95	Double Indemnity	Wilder	1944
95	Earrings of Madame De, The	Ophuls, Max	1953
95	El	Bunuel	1952
95	Gone with the Wind	Fleming	1939
95	Gospel Accoring to St. Matthew, The	Pasolini	1964
95	Grapes of Wrath, The	Ford	1940
95	His Girl Friday	Hawks	1940
95	It's a Wonderful Life	Capra	1946
95	Lady Eve, The	Sturges	1941
95	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Ophuls, Max	1948
95	Matter of Life and Death	Powell/Pressburger	1946
95	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Altman	1971
95	My Darling Clementine	Ford	1946
95	Nosferatu	Murnau	1922
95	Notorious	Hitchcock	1946
95	Once Upon a Time in America	Leone	1984
95	Pierrot le fou	Godard	1965
95	Sherlock Jr.	Keaton	1924
95	Shoah	Lanzmann	1985
95	Stagecoach	Ford	1939
95	Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Huston	1948
95	Two or Three Things I know about her	Godard	1967
95	Vivre sa Vie	Godard	1962
124	Alexander Nevsky	Eisenstein	1938
124	All About Eve	Mankiewicz	1950
124	All About my Mother	Almodovar	1998
124	Beauty and the Beast (Belle et la betek, la)	Cocteau	1946
124	Brief Encounter	Lean	1945
124	Canterbury Tale, A	Powell/Pressburger	1944
124	Close Up	Kiarostami	1990
124	Cries and Whispers	Bergman	1972
124	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Allen	1989
124	Duck Soup	McCarey	1933
124	Earth	Dovzhenko	1930
124	Eclipse, The (Eclisse, L')	Antonioni	1962
124	Floating Clouds	Naruse	1955
124	Gertrud	Dreyer	1964
124	Jeanne Dielman	Akerman	1976
124	King Kong	Cooper/Shoedsack	1933
124	Late Spring	Ozu	1949
124	Los Olvidados	Bunuel	1950
124	Loves of a Blonde	Forman	1965
124	Man Escaped, A	Bresson	1956
124	Marnie	Hitchcock	1964
124	Music Room, The	Ray, Satyajit	1958
124	Red River	Hawks	1948
124	Rome, Open City	Rossellini	1945
124	Satyricon	Fellini	1969
124	Solaris	Tarkovsky	1972
124	Throne of Blood	Kurosawa	1957
124	Time to Live and the Time to Die, The	Hou	1985
124	To Kill a Mockingbird	Mulligan	1962
124	Tristana	Bunuel	1970
124	Umberto D	De Sica	1952
124	Un Chien Andalou	Bunuel	1929
124	Yi Yi	Yang	2000
157	Aguirre, Wrath of God	Herzog	1973
157	In the Realm of the Senses	Oshima	1976
157	Ashes and Diamonds	Wajda	1958
157	Badlands	Mallick	1973
157	Belle de jour	Bunuel	1967
157	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Fassbinder	1980
157	Best Years of our Lives, The	Wyler	1946
157	Black Dog, White Devil	Rocha	1964
157	Bonnie and Clyde	Penn	1967
157	Brazil	Gilliam	1985
157	Bridge on the River Kwai, The	Lean	1957
157	Broken Blossoms	Griffith	1919
157	Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The	Wiene	1920
157	Celine and Julie go Boating	Rivette	1974
157	Charulata	Ray, Satyajit	1964
157	Chungking Express	Wong	1994
157	Conversation, The	Coppola	1974
157	Crime of Monsieur Lange	Renoir	1936
157	Day for Night	Truffaut	1973
157	Days of Heaven	Mallick	1978
157	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	Bunuel	1972
157	Do the Right Thing	Lee	1989
157	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Spielberg	1982
157	Exorcist	Friedkin	1973
157	Exterminating Angel, The	Bunuel	1974
157	Fear Eats the Soul	Fassbinder	1962
157	Great Dictator, The	Chaplin	1940
157	In a Year of Thirteen Moons	Fassbinder	1978
157	In the Mood for Love	Wong	2000
157	India Song	Duras	1975
157	Jaws	Spielberg	1975
157	Jetee, La	Marker	1962
157	Kaagaz ke phool	Dutt	1959
157	Kind Hearts and Coronets	Hamer	1949
157	Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The	Powell/Pressburger	1943
157	Life of Oharu	Mizoguchi	1952
157	M. Hulot's Holiday	Tati	1954
157	Meet Me in St. Louis	Minnelli	1944
157	Monsieur Verdoux	Chaplin	1947
157	Mother and the Whore	Eustache	1973
157	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest	Forman	1975
157	Out of the Past	Tourneur	1947
157	Paisa	Rossellini	1946
157	Palm Beach Story, The	Sturges	1942
157	Paths of Glory	Kubrick	1957
157	Piano, The	Campion	1993
157	PlayTime	Tati	1967
157	Providence	Resnais	1977
157	Pyaasa	Dutt	1957
157	Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The	Rossellini	1966
157	Rocco and His Brothers	Visconti	1960
157	Salo	Pasolini	1975
157	Spartacus	Kubrick	1960
157	Spirited Away	Miyazaki	2001
157	Stalker	Tarkovsky	1979
157	Star is Born, A	Cukor	1954
157	Star Wars	Lucas	1977
157	Sullivan's Travels	Sturges	1941
157	Taste of Cherry	Kiarostami	1997
157	That Obscure ****** of Desire	Bunuel	1977
157	Three Colours Trilogy	Kieslowski	1994
157	Through the Olive Trees	Kiarostami	1994
157	To Have and Have not	Hawks	1944
157	Trouble in Paradise	Lubitsch	1932
157	Unforgiven	Eastwood	1992
157	Wages of Fear	Clouzot	1953
157	Wind Will Carry Us	Kiarostami	1999
157	World of Apu	Ray, Satyajit	1959
157	Written on the Wind	Sirk	1956
226	1900	Berolucci	1976
226	Accattone	Pasolini	1961
226	African Queen, The	Huston	1951
226	Age of Innocence	Scorsese	1993
226	All that Heaven Allows	Sirk	1956
226	And Life Goes On	Kiarostami	1991
226	Angel	Lubitsch	1937
226	Annie Hall	Allen	1997
226	Apu Trilogy, The	Ray, Satyajit	1959
226	Atanarjuat	Kunuk	2001
226	Autumn Afternoon, An	Ozu	1964
226	Baby Doll	Kazan	1956
226	Bigger Than Life	Ray, Nicholas	1956
226	Birth of a Nation, The	Griffith	1915
226	Bob le flambeur	Melville	1955
226	Bride of Frankenstein	Whale	1935
226	Bringing up Baby	Hawks	1938
226	Burnt by the Sun	Mikhalkov	1994
226	Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les	Bresson	1945
226	Day of Wrath	Dreyer	1943
226	Death in Venice	Visconti	1971
226	Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les	Demy/Varda	1967
226	Devils, The	Russell	1971
226	Don't Look Back	Pennebaker	1967
226	Double Life of Veronique, The	Kieslowski	1993
226	Naked Childhood	Pialat	1970
226	Eternity and a Day	Angelopoulos	1998
226	Europa	Von Trier	1991
226	F for Fake	Welles	1976
226	Phantom of Liberty	Bunuel	1974
226	Farewell My Concubine	Chen	1993
226	Fargo	Coens	1996
226	Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!	Meyer	1985
226	Woman Next Door, The	Truffaut	1981
226	Fires Were Started	Jennings	1943
226	Germany Year Zero	Rossellini	1947
226	Godfather Trilogy, The	Coppola	1992
226	Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The	Leone	1967
226	Great Expectations	Lean	1947
226	Hate	Kassovitz	1995
226	Hidden Fortress, The	Kurosawa	1958
226	High and Low	Kurosawa	1963
226	Hiroshima mon Amour	Resnais	1959
226	Hotel Terminous: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times	Ophuls, Marcel	1988
226	I vitelloni	Fellini	1953
226	Red Desert, The	Antonioni	1964
226	Lacombe Lucien	Malle	1974
226	Lady Vanishes, The	Hitchcock	1938
226	Lancelot of the Lake	Bresson	1974
226	Last Laugh, The	Murnau	1924
226	Last Picture Show, The	Bogdanovich	1971
226	Limelight	Chaplin	1952
226	Lola	Demy	1961
226	Love Me Tonight	Mamoulian	1932
226	Ludwig	Visconti	1972
226	Make Way for Tomorrow	McCarey	1937
226	Maltese Falcon, The	Huston	1941
226	Masculin Feminin	Godard	1986
226	Mean Streets	Scorsese	1973
226	Meghe dhaka tara	Ghatik	1960
226	Miracle in Milan	De Sica	1951
226	Moment of Innocence, A	Makhmalbaf	1996
226	My Neighbor Totoro	Miyazaki	1988
226	Nanook of the North	Flaherty	1922
226	Navigator, The	Keaton	1924
226	Network	Lumet	1976
226	Nights of Cabiria	Fellini	1957
226	October	Eisenstein	1927
226	Odd Man Out	Reed	1947
226	Oedipus Rex	Pasolini	1967
226	Orlando	Potter	1992
226	Orphee	Cocteau	1949
226	Pakeezah	Amrohi	1975
226	Pandora's Box	Pabst	1929
226	Day in the Country, A	Renoir	1936
226	Passenger, The	Antonioni	1975
226	Performance	Roeg	1970
226	Puppetmaster	Hou	1993
226	Red Shoes, The	Powell/Pressburger	1948
226	Region Centrale, La	Snow	1971
226	Remains of the Day, The	Ivory	1993
226	Riff-Raff	Loach	1990
226	Rosemary's Baby	Polanski	1968
226	Round-Up, The	Jancso	1965
226	Rue Cases-Negres, La	Palcy	1983
226	Sacrifice, The	Tarkovsky	1986
226	Salvatore Giuliano	Rosi	1961
226	Scarlett Empress, The	Von Sternberg	1934
226	Schindler's List	Spielberg	1993
226	Shadows	Cassavetes	1959
226	Shane	Stevens	1953
226	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	Ford	1949
226	Shining, The	Kubrick	1980
226	Short Cuts	Altman	1993
226	Silences du palais, Les	Tlati	1994
226	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	Keaton/Reisner	1928
226	Still Life	Saless	1974
226	Strangers on a Train	Hitchcock	1951
226	Stray Dog	Kurosawa	1949
226	Strike	Eisenstein	1925
226	Thief of Bagdad, The	Berger/Powell	1940
226	Thing from Another World, The	Hawks/Nyby	1951
226	Three Colours Blue	Kieslowski	1991
226	Time of Gypsies	Kusterica	1988
226	Tingler, The	Castle	1959
226	Shoot the Piano Player	Truffaut	1960
226	To Be or Not ot Be	Lubitsch	1942
226	To Sleep with Anger	Burnett	1990
226	Topsy-Turvy	Leigh	1999
226	Touch of Zen, A	Hu	1969
226	Underground	Kusterica	1995
226	Vampires, Les	Feuillade	1915
226	Vampyr	Dreyer	1932
226	Vidas Secas	Dos Santos	1963
226	Weekend	Godard	1967
226	Where is My Friend's House?	Kiarostami	1987
226	White Heat	Walsh	1949
226	Wind, The	Sjostrom	1928
226	Woman under the Influence, A	Cassavetes	1974
226	Xala	Sembene	1975

List of members
Name Total
Adam_S 155
Bob Turnbull 143
Brook K 268
Dome Vongvises
Evan Case 240
george kaplan
glen_esq 336
Henry Carmona 51
Holadem 83
Jim_K 303
Joe Karlosi
LarryDavenport
Lew Crippen 232
Mario Gauci
Martin Teller 230
rich_d 116
Seth Paxton 237
Shawn Frank
Thi Them
Thomas J. 126
thomas_jesp 49

Jay E

A great list and I'm glad to see that Star Wars didn't make the top 100 (rightfully so). Unlike other lists (including HTF's own), this list falls more into line with what I see as "great" films.

There are about 30 films that I haven't seen on that list. Regrettably, many of these are not available on DVD. I don't rent VHS tapes so it would be hard for me to view these films anytime soon so I won't be able to join. But I think it's a really good idea Thai and I wish you all the best with the club!

Doug D

ATANARJUAT is on R1 DVD. (Seville, Canada) It's coming out as THE FAST RUNNER in the US soon through Columbia, I think.

The possibility that I might get LOST IN SPACE as a result of joining is a powerful disincentive, but I'm still thinking about it.

Lew Crippen

I agree, a great list. In order not to cheat and count films I’d seen 30 years ago, I set an arbitrary limit of the last 12 months for my starting point. As of a few day’s ago that was 59. A very long way to go, but this should be fun.

¡Time is not my master!

DonaldB

Thi, thanks so much for running this club, I look forward to reading the discussions that follow. (The layout looks nice, too!)

These are available in R1:
Le Mépris (Contempt)
Close-up
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Atanarjuat
Day of Wrath
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

These are available in other regions:
Rules of the Game
Jules and Jim
L'Atalante
Fanny and Alexander
The Mirror
The 400 Blows
Wild Strawberries
City of Sadness (no English subs)
Dekalog
The Leopard
Voyage to Italy
El
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Pierrot le fou
Shoah
Cries and Whispers
Los Olvidados
The Music Room
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
La Nuit américaine
Paths of Glory
Rocco and His Brothers
Spirited Away
Stalker
Atanarjuat
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Eternity and a Day
Europa
The Hidden Fortress
Meghe dhaka tara (The Cloud-Capped Star)
My Neighbor Totoro
The Sacrifice
Short Cuts
Stray Dog

I'm sure I've missed a few.

Evan Case

I've seen 199 of the list above (this is by counting each block as "one"--thus doubling up on things like the Godfather or Three Colors films, but counting long films like Shoah only once).

I've already completed my self-imposed challenge of seeing 100 of the first 128 films listed under the 2002 link in my signature, but you can certainly mark me down again here.

I'll also post here when I have the chance. Coincidentally, I just took out from the Library two films on the S&S 2002 list that I've yet to see: The Red Shoes (Criterion) and Day of Wrath. Looking forward to them.

Evan

"               " - Buster Keaton
S&S (1992 & 2002), The 1930s : Finished! S&S Club : 300 seen (Most Recent: Berlin Alexanderplatz)
AFI Challenge Stars: 47 left, Songs: 12 left, Passions: 10 left, Cheers: 6 left, Quotes: 5 left, Heroes/Villains: 1 left, Laughs: 1 left, Thrills, Movies: Finished! (Most recent: Porgy and Bess - [Stars - Sidney Poitier; Passions])

Thi Them

Thank you, Doug and Donald, for providing me with the corrections.

I've changed the method of counting the number of films seen to make it easier. It shouldn't matter if we are counting some films more than once, as long as everyone uses the same method.

~T

Seth Paxton

While this was before this thread started, I would like to say that HTF in general and lists like the S&S one got me to check out many of those films in the last year or so.

Some of my more recent viewings include - 8 1/2, Battleship Potemkin, Sunrise, Passion of Joan of Arc, Rashoman, The General, Grand Illusion, 400 Blows (just last night), Ikuru, and Sullivan's Travels.

Netflix is really helping with this and my queue is loaded with many of these films. I'll have to count up just how many I've seen. At this point I would guess about 75 or so.



BTW, I'm very pleased to see von Trier's Europa (or Zentropa as it is also known) on the list. I just wish it would come out on DVD. I was lucky enough to see a print in a film class a few years ago. It's a very cool film.

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