Day: April 16, 2019

A Top 100 Films of All-Time

Ryan Swen Lists

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  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
  3. Sunless (1983, Chris Marker)
  4. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  5. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  6. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  7. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Out 1 (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  11. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
  12. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
  13. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  14. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  15. (nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
  16. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  18. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
  19. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
  20. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  21. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
  22. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
  23. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
  24. La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
  25. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  26. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
  27. Dragon Inn (1966, King Hu)
  28. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  29. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  30. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
  31. Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
  32. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
  33. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  34. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
  35. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
  36. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  37. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  38. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
  39. All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
  40. Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  41. L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
  42. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  43. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  44. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
  45. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  46. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  47. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
  48. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
  49. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  50. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  51. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  52. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F. W. Murnau)
  53. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  54. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  55. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
  56. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  57. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  58. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
  59. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  60. Rose Hobart (1936, Joseph Cornell)
  61. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  62. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
  63. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  64. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
  65. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  66. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  67. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
  68. Spies (1928, Fritz Lang)
  69. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  70. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  71. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  72. Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
  73. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
  74. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
  75. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  76. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
  77. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
  78. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
  79. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
  80. Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  81. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
  82. Yearning (1964, Naruse Mikio)
  83. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
  84. La Région centrale (1971, Michael Snow)
  85. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  86. Moses and Aaron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  87. High and Low (1963, Kurosawa Akira)
  88. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
  89. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  90. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Anno Hideaki)
  91. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)
  92. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
  93. INLAND EMPIRE (2006, David Lynch)
  94. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  95. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  96. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  97. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
  98. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  99. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  100. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)