The 300 Best Films of All Time
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 6:48PM
Nicholas Monsour in Film and Video

 

 

An incomplete list based on my current theories, biases, ignorances and memory lapses.

 

ARGENTINA

  1. La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) 2008
  2. La niña santa (The Holy Girl) — 2004
  3. La ciénaga (The Swamp) — 2001

BRAZIL

  1. A Festa da Menina Morta (The Dead Girl’s Feast) — 2008

CANADA

  1. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) — 2001
  1. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands — 2003
  2. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary — 2002
  3. The Heart of the World — 2000
  4. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs — 1997
  1. Fire — 1996
  2. Water – 2005

CHINA

  1. Sanxia haoren (Still Life) — 2006
  2. Shijie (The World) — 2004
  3. Zhantai (Platform) — 2000

CZECH REPUBLIC

  1. Otesánek (Little Otik) — 2000
  2. Spiklenci slasti (Conspirators of Pleasure) — 1996
  3. Faust — 1994
  4. Neco z Alenky (Alice) — 1988

DENMARK

  1. Manderlay — 2005
  2. Dogville — 2003
  3. Dancer in the Dark — 2000
  4. Medea — 1988

FRANCE

  1. Demain on déménage (Tomorrow We Move) — 2004
  2. La captive (The Captive) — 2000
  3. Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Anna’s Meetings) — 1978
  4. News from Home — 1977
  5. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — 1975
  6. Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, She, He) — 1974
  1. L’argent — 1983
  2. Mouchette — 1967
  3. Au hasard Balthazar — 1966
  4. Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) — 1962
  5. Pickpocket — 1959
  6. Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth) — 1956
  7. Journal d’un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) — 1951
  1. Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Lovers on the Bridge) — 1991
  2. Mauvais sang (Bad Blood) — 1986
  3. Boy Meets Girl — 1984

  1. Trouble Every Day — 2001
  2. Beau travail — 1999

  1. Un chant d’amour — 1950
  1. Notre musique — 2004
  2. Éloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love) — 2001
  3. De l’origine du XXIe siècle — 2000
  4. Histoire(s) du cinema — 1997
  5. For Ever Mozart — 1996
  6. Hélas pour moi — 1993
  7. Nouvelle vague — 1990
  8. King Lear — 1987
  9. Armide — 1987
  10. Soft and Hard — 1986
  11. Détective — 1985
  12. Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary) — 1985
  13. Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen) — 1983
  14. Passion — 1982
  15. Ici et ailleurs — 1976
  16. Tout va bien — 1972
  17. Le gai savoir — 1969
  18. Week End — 1967
  19. La chinoise — 1967
  20. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) — 1967
  21. Made in U.S.A. — 1966
  22. Masculin féminin — 1966
  23. Pierrot le fou — 1965
  24. Alphaville — 1965
  25. Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) — 1964
  26. Le mépris (Contempt) — 1963
  27. Les carabiniers — 1963
  28. Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) ­ — 1962
  29. Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) — 1961
  30. À bout de souffle (Breathless) — 1960
  1. Sans Soleil — 1983
  2. La Jetée — 1962
  3. Les Statues meurent aussi (with Alain Resnais) — 1953
  1. L’année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) — 1961
  2. Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
  3. Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) — 1955
  4. Les Statues meurent aussi (with Alain Resnais) — 1953
  1. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners & I) — 2000
  2. Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond)
  3. Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) — 1962

GERMANY

  1. Die Klage der Kaiserin (The Complaint of an Empress) — 1990

  1. Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) — 1943
  2. Vampyr — 1932
  3. La passion de Jeanne d’Arc — 1928

  1. Berlin Alexanderplatz — 1980

  1. Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) — 1987

  1. Fitzcarraldo — 1982
  2. Woyzeck — 1979
  3. Stroszek — 1977
  4. Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass) — 1976
  5. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) — 1974
  6. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aquirre: The Wrath of God) — 1972
  1. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse — 1933
  2. M — 1931
  3. Metropolis — 1927

GREECE

  1. To vlemma tou Odyssea (Ulysses’ Gaze) — 1995

INDIA

  1. Kagaaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) — 1959

  1. Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) — 1959
  2. Jalsaghar (The Music Room) — 1958
  3. Parash Pathar (The Philosopher’s Stone) — 1958
  4. Aparajito (The Unvanquished) — 1956
  5. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) — 1955

IRAN

  1. Khaneh siah ast (The House is Black) — 1963
  1. Shirin (2008)
  2. Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us) — 1999
  3. Ta’m e guilass (A Taste of Cherry) — 1997
  4. Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-Up) — 1990

ITALY

  1. Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert) — 1964
  2. L’eclisse (The Eclipse) — 1962
  3. L’avventura (The Adventure) — 1960
  1. La luna (Luna) —1979
  2. Il conformista (The Conformist) — 1970
  3. Agonia — 1969

  1. E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) — 1983
  2. Amarcord — 1973
  3. Roma — 1972
  4. Satyricon — 1969
  5. 8 ½ — 1963
  1. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom) — 1975
  2. Il fiore delle mille e una notte (The Arabian Nights) — 1974
  3. Il Decameron — 1971
  4. Medea — 1969
  5. Teorema — 1968
  6. Edipo re (Oedipus Rex) ­— 1967
  7. Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and Sparrows) — 1966
  8. Mamma Roma — 1962

JAPAN

  1. Naisu no mori: The First Contact (Funky Forest: The First Contact) — 2005
  2. Cha no aji (The Taste of Tea) — 2004

  1. Dreams — 1990
  2. Ran — 1985
  3. Kagemusha — 1980
  4. Dodesukaden — 1970
  5. Akahige (Red Beard) — 1965
  6. Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) — 1963
  7. Tsubaki Sanjûrô — 1962
  8. Yojimbo — 1961
  9. Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (The Hidden Fortress) — 1958
  10. Kumonosu-jou (Throne of Blood) — 1957
  11. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) — 1954
  12. Rashômon — 1950
  1. Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) — 1997
  2. Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) — 1984
  1. Sanma no aji (An Autumn Afternoon) — 1962
  2. Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The Last of Summer) — 1961
  3. Akibiyori (Late Autumn) — 1960
  4. Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) — 1959
  5. Soshun — 1956
  6. Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story) — 1953
  7. Ochazuke no aji (Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice) — 1952
  8. Bakushû (Early Summer ) — 1951
  9. Banshun (Late Spring) — 1949
  10. Nagaya shinshiroku — 1947
  1. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) — 1964

MACEDONIA

  1. Kako ubiv svetec (How I Killed a Saint) — 2004
  2. Jas sum od Titov Veles (I am From Titov Velez) — 2007

POLAND

  1. Sanatorium pod klepsydra (The Hour-Glass Sanatorium) — 1973
  2. Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) — 1965

  1. Pokój saren (The Roe’s Room) — 1997
  1. Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) — 2000
  2. Sátántangó (Satan’s Tango) — 1994

PORTUGAL

  1. Tarrafal — 2007
  2. Memories — 2007
  3. Juventude Em Marcha — 2006
  4. Ne change rien — 2005
  5. Où gît votre sourire enfoui? — 2001
  6. No Quarto da Vanda — 2000
  7. Ossos — 1997
  8. Casa de Lava — 1994
  9. O Sangue — 1989

  1. O Passado e o Presente (Past and Present) — 1972
  2. A Caça — 1964
  3. Acto de Primavera (Rite of Spring) — 1963

RUSSIA

  1. Zemlya (Earth) — 1930
  2. Arsenal — 1928

  1. ¡Que viva Mexico! — 1932
  2. La destrucción de Oaxaca — 1931
  3. Romance sentimentale — 1930
  4. Bronenosets Potyomkin — 1925
  1. Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba) — 1964
  1. Mat (Mother) —1926

  1. Offret (The Sacrifice) — 1986
  2. Nostalghia — 1983
  3. Stalker — 1979
  4. Zerkalo (The Mirror) — 1975
  5. Andrey Rublyov — 1966

  1. Chelovek s kino-apparatom (The Man With the Movie Camera) — 1929

SERBIA

  1. Underground — 1995

SWEDEN

  1. Du levande — 2007
  2. Sånger från andra våningen (Songs From the Second Floor) — 2000
  3. Giliap — 1975
  4. En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story) — 1970
  1. Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers) — 1972
  2. Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) — 1968
  3. Persona — 1966
  4. Tystnaden (The Silence) — 1963

SPAIN

  1. Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) — 1977
  2. Le fantôme de la liberté (The Phantom of Liberty) — 1974
  3. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) — 1972
  4. Tristana — 1970
  5. La voie lactée (The Milky Way) — 1969
  6. Belle de jour (1967)
  7. Le journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) — 1964
  8. El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) — 1962
  9. Nazarín — 1959
  10. L’âge d’or — 1930
  1. Goya en Burdeos (Goya in Bordeaux) — 1999

TAIWAN

  1. Hei yan quan (I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone) — 2006
  2. Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud) — 2005
  3. Ni na bian ji dian (What Time is it There?) — 2001
  4. Bu san (Goodbye Dragon Inn?) — 2003
  5. Dong (The Hole) — 1998
  6. He liu (The River) — 1997

THAILAND

  1. Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) — 2006
  2. Sud pralad (Tropical Malady) — 2004
  3. Sud sanaeha (Blissfully Yours) — 2002
  4. Dokfa nai meuman (Mysterious Object At Noon) — 2000

TURKEY

  1. Süt (Milk) — 2008
  2. Yumurta (Egg) — 2007

UNITED KINGDOM

  1. O Lucky Man! — 1973
  2. If…. — 1968

  1. The Mahabharata — 1989
  2. Marat/Sade — 1967
  3. The Lord of the Flies — 1963

  1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover — 1989
  2. The Baby of Macon — 1993
  3. Prospero’s Books — 1991
  4. A Zed and Two Naughts — 1985
  5. The Falls — 1980
  6. A Walk Through H — 1978

  1. Blue — 1993
  2. Wittgenstein — 1993
  3. The Last of England — 1988
  4. Caravaggio — 1986
  5. The Angelic Conversation — 1985
  6. Jubilee — 1978
  7. Sebastiane — 1976

  1. Secrets & Lies — 1996
  2. Naked — 1993
  3. Life Is Sweet — 1991
  1. The Meaning of Life — 1983
  2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail — 1975
  1. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes — 2005
  2. Institute Benjamenta — 1995
  3. Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies — 1988
  4. The Street of Crocodiles — 1986

UNITED STATES

  1. Hannah and Her Sisters — 1986
  2. Manhattan — 1979
  3. Annie Hall — 1977
  4. Sleeper— 1973
  1. Los Angeles Plays Itself — 2003

  1. Drawing Restraint 9 — 2005
  2. Cremaster 3 — 2002
  3. Cremaster 2 — 1999
  4. Cremaster 5 — 1997
  5. Cremaster 1 — 1996
  6. Cremaster 4 — 1995

  1. Killer of Sheep — 1977
  2. The Horse — 1973

  1. Meshes of the Afternoon — 1943

  1. Strong Medicine — 1981

  1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — 1988
  2. Brazil — 1985
  1. Safe — 1995

  1. Julien Donkey-Boy — 1999

  1. The Shining — 1980
  2. A Clockwork Orange — 1971
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey — 1968
  4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — 1964
  5. Paths of Glory — 1957

  1. Crooklyn — 1994
  2. Do the Right Thing — 1989

  1. Inland Empire — 2006
  2. Lost Highway — 1997
  3. Wild at Heart — 1990
  4. Blue Velvet — 1986
  5. Dune — 1984
  6. Eraserhead — 1977
  7. The Alphabet — 1968
  1. The Exiles — 1961
  1. Duck Soup — 1933
  2. Animal Crackers — 1930
  1. Men With Guns — 1997

  1. Film — 1965

  1. In Order to Not Be Here — 2002

  1. Domestic Violence — 2001
  2. Belfast, Maine — 1999
  3. Public Housing — 1997
  4. Zoo — 1993
  5. Blind — 1987
  6. Deaf — 1986
  7. Multi-Handicapped — 1986
  8. Racetrack — 1985
  9. Seraphita’s Diary — 1980
  10. Meat — 1976
  11. Welfare — 1975
  12. Primate — 1974
  13. Juvenile Court — 1973
  14. High School — 1968
  15. Titicut Follies — 1967

 

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