Some of these films I saw online and one of them on an old VHS tape.
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Some of these films I have seen on old vhs tapes and online. I can’t seem to find and watch The Long Weekend (O’ Despair) anywhere.
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For anybody familiar who comes on this site, last year around this time, I posted a blog entry entitled 5 Goals I Hope to Accomplish in 2023 (click here). In it, I listed what I hoped to accomplish for that year. So have I succeeded? Let us look at the result below:
So let’s see, I have fulfilled one 2023 goal and accomplished 50 percent of three others and missed only one. Not bad, but I still hope to do better this year, which is 2024 🙂
I just want to wish all of my dear readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2024 🙂 Now I would love to conclude this year with a youtube video link to a newly released Christmas song by Cher that I just can’t get enough of 🙂 Click here to listen 🙂
-Introduction-
Last year around this time on my blog, I posted a list of my top 10 favorite films of all-time in response to Sight & Sound magazine’s 10-year annual poll of the greatest films ever made according to the votes of participating critics and filmmakers. Readers can view my list again by clicking here. This year, I wanted to expand it to 100 for those who are interested. Also, my answer is yes to anybody wondering If the number of my favorite films of all-time possibly exceeds that of a zillion. As one can see below, I have decided to start with number 100 and going down from there (i.e. 99, 98 and so forth). Before I go any further, I will not tolerate any insults or negativity towards numbers 1, 8, 18, 24, 25 and 99 on here. So I am politely asking all of you to not bash them. Now, without further ado, here are my top 100 favorite films of all-time. Enjoy 🙂
-My Top 100 Favorite Films of All-Time (#100-01)-
100.) Hatari! (1962) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
99.) Mulholland Drive (2001) (Dir: David Lynch)
98.) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) (Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
97.) A Woman Under the Influence (1974) (Dir: John Cassavetes)
96.) Germany Year Zero (1948) (Dir: Roberto Rossellini)
95.) L’Argent (1983) (Dir: Robert Bresson)
94.) The General (1926) (Dir: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
93.) Some Came Running (1958) (Dir: Vincente Minnelli)
92.) Napoleon (1927) (Dir: Abel Gance)
91.) The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) (Dir: Max Ophuls)
90.) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (Dir: Orson Welles)
89.) Anatahan (1953) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
88.) I Was Born, But… (1932) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
87.) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) (Dir: Jacques Rivette)
86.) Platform (2000) (Dir: Jia Zhangke)
85.) Johnny Guitar (1954) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)
84.) Barry Lyndon (1975) (Dir: Stanley Kubrick)
83.) Happy Hour (2015) (Dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
82.) Lonesome (1928) (Dir: Paul Fejos)
81.) Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) (Dir: Leo McCarey)
80.) The Great Dictator (1940) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
79.) F for Fake (1973) (Dir: Orson Welles)
78.) Arsenal (1929) (Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko)
77.) The Crowd (1928) (Dir: King Vidor)
76.) Trouble in Paradise (1932) (Dir: Ernst Lubitsch)
75.) The Night of the Hunter (1955) (Dir: Charles Laughton)
74.) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) (Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
73.) Boyhood (2014) (Dir: Richard Linklater)
72.) Persona (1966) (Dir: Ingmar Bergman)
71.) The Decalogue (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
(Polish Television)
(Miniseries)
71a. A Short Film About Killing (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
71b. A Short Film About Love (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
70.) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
69.) Certified Copy (2010) (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
68.) The Scarlet Empress (1934) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
67.) Late Spring (1949) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
66.) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) (Dir: John M. Stahl)
65.) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) (Dir: Albert Lewin)
64.) La Region Centrale (1971) (Dir: Michael Snow)
63.) Dead Man (1995) (Dir: Jim Jarmusch)
62.) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) (Dir: Robert Bresson)
61.) Out 1 (1971) (Dir: Jacques Rivette)
60.) Modern Times (1936) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
59.) Day of Wrath (1943) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
58.) To Sleep with Anger (1990) (Dir: Charles Burnett)
57.) The Irishman (2019) (Dir: Martin Scorsese)
56.) Duck Amuck (1953) (Dir: Charles M. Jones)
(Animation)
(Short)
55.) Viridiana (1961) (Dir: Luis Bunuel)
54.) Wanda (1970) (Dir: Barbara Loden)
53.) Vagabond (1985) (Dir: Agnes Varda)
52.) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) (Dir: Dziga Vertov)
51.) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) (Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
50.) Nashville (1975) (Dir: Robert Altman)
49.) Brief Encounter (1945) (Dir: David Lean)
48.) Track of the Cat (1954) (Dir: William A. Wellman)
47.) Daughters of the Dust (1991) (Dir: Julie Dash)
46.) The Docks of New York (1928) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
45.) Ivan (1932) (Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko)
44.) Spring in a Small Town (1948) (Dir: Fei Mu)
43.) L’Eclisse (1962) (Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
42.) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) (Dir: Edward Yang)
41.) Holy Motors (2012) (Dir: Leos Carax)
40.) Scarface (1932) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
39.) When It Rains (1995) (Dir: Charles Burnett)
(Short)
38.) Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) (Dir: Raul Ruiz)
37.) The Naked Spur (1953) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
36.) The Red Shoes (1948) (Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
35.) Tokyo Story (1953) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
34.) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (Dir: Alain Resnais)
33.) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Dir: Chantal Akerman)
32.) Intolerance (1916) (Dir: D.W. Griffith)
31.) Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944/1958) (Dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
30.) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
29.) Foolish Wives (1922) (Dir: Erich von Stroheim)
28.) M (1931) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
27.) Ordet (1955) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
26.) Les Vampires (1915-16) (Dir: Louis Feuillade)
(Serial)
25.) Marnie (1964) (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
24.) Inland Empire (2006) (Dir: David Lynch)
23.) Goodbye to Language (2014) (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
22.) Love Streams (1984) (Dir: John Cassavetes)
21.) The World (2004) (Dir: Jia Zhangke)
20.) The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
19.) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (Dir: Steven Spielberg)
18.) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
17.) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (Dir: William Wyler)
16.) Love Me Tonight (1932) (Dir: Rouben Mamoulian)
15.) Gertrud (1964) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
14.) Sunrise (1927) (Dir: F.W. Murnau)
13.) The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) (Dir: Jacques Demy)
12.) Tih Minh (1918) (Dir: Louis Feuillade)
(Serial)
11.) Playtime (1967) (Dir: Jacques Tati)
10.) Satantango (1994) (Dir: Bela Tarr)
09.) Three Times (2005) (Dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien)
08.) Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) (Dir: David Lynch)
(Cable/Television)
07.) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (Dir: Orson Welles)
06.) Spione (1928) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
05.) Histoire(s) du Cinema (1988-1998) (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
04.) City Lights (1931) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
03.) Journey to Italy (1954) (Dir: Roberto Rossellini)
02.) Greed (1924) (Dir: Erich von Stroheim)
01.) Vertigo (1958) (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
Before I conclude this blog entry, I have one question to ask my dear readers below:
What are your top 100 favorite films of all-time? Please note that If this is too hard to answer, I will happily excuse you all from answering the question 🙂
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