my 100 favorite films

A few years ago, I tried to make a list of my 100 favorite films. It's an absurd task, and the results are absurd - because this sort of thing is inherently impossible - but I do love every film on this list. So it works to that extent.

​01. 2001, A Space Odyssey
02. The Maltese Falcon
03. Vertigo
04. Rio Bravo
05. Blade Runner
06. Le Samourai
07. A Night at the Opera
08. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
09. Jaws
10. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
11. City Lights
12. Grande Illusion
13. The 39 Steps (1935)
14. Brief Encounter
15. The Exterminating Angel
16. Chinatown
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. The Searchers (1956)
19. The Ruling Class
20. The Parallax View
21. The Shop Around the Corner
22. Night of the Iguana
23. The Spook Who Sat by the Door
24. Blow Out
25. To Have and Have Not
26. The Big Sleep
27. The Rules of the Game
28. The Thing (1982)
29. Ran
30. Anatomy of a Murder
31. JFK
32. His Girl Friday
33. Blowup
34. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
35. Double Indemnity
36. The Third Man
37. Habla Con Ella
38. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
39. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
40. Atlantic City
41. Modern Times
42. The Stunt Man
43. Masculin-Feminin
44. Citizen Kane
45. Throne of Blood
46. Broadcast News
47. Glengarry Glen Ross
48. Night Moves
49. Being There
50. There Will be Blood
51. Sorcerer
52. Breathless (1959)
53. Network
54. The Public Enemy (1931)
55. The Conversation
56. Do the Right Thing
57. The Man Who Fell to Earth
58. Singin’ in the Rain
59. Groundhog Day
60. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
61. Red River
62. Au Revoir Les Enfants
63. Strozek
64. Wild Strawberries
65. Brazil
66. Cross of Iron
67. Point Blank
68. Last Year at Marienbad
69. Through a Glass, Darkly
70. Alien
71. The Ninth Configuration
72. Medium Cool
73. The Big Red One
74. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
75. Before Sunrise
76. Hard Boiled
77. Rushmore
78. Miller’s Crossing
79. They All Laughed
80. Jackie Brown
81. Le Cercle Rouge
82. Seven Days in May
83. Fort Apache
84. Blue Collar
85. L’Avventura
86. Topsy Turvy
87. Solaris (1972)
88. The China Syndrome
89. Youth of the Beast
90. Ed Wood
91. The Prisoner of Zenda (1931)
92. Laura
93. Withnail & I
94. Miracle Mile
95. Inglorious Basterds
96. Year of the Dragon
97. High Fidelity
98. The Princess Bride
99. Birdman
100. Nothing but a Man