As of today I've now watched all of The Moving Art’s 100 Greatest Films of All Time. My annotation says whether I agree with the selection, and if not, why not.
#1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#2. Citizen Kane (1941, Welles) – Great movie. On my list.
#3. The Godfather (1972, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#4. Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky) – Great movie. Not on my list, but may be soon.
#5. The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir) – Good movie. Overrated in my opinion, but I like Renoir.
#6. Casablanca (1942, Curtiz) – Great movie. On my list.
#7. Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#8. La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini) – Great movie. On my list.
#9. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#10. The Godfather Pt. II (1974, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#11. The Third Man (1949, Reed) – Great movie. On my list.
#12. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming) – Great movie. On my list.
#13. Dr. Strangelove (1964, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#14. Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese) – Great movie. On my list.
#15. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Herzog) – Good movie. Again, I feel it’s overrated.
#16. 8½ (1963, Fellini) – Great movie. On my list.
#17. Singin’ In The Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly) –Okay movie. “An American in Paris” is way better.
#18. Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese) – Great performance. Good movie.
#19. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean) – Great movie. On my list.
#20. Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky) – Great movie. On my list.
#21. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton) – “Rank sentimentality”.
#22. On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan) – Good movie. Should probably rewatch.
#23. Intolerance (1916, Griffith) – Intolerably long and awful.
#24. L’Atalante (1934, Vigo) – Very, very good movie… But not great.
#25. Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#26. Birth of a Nation (1915, Griffith) – Important movie, but like the next entry, doesn’t hold up outside a film class.
#27. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein) – Important movie.
#28. Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese) – Great movie. On my list.
#29. Chinatown (1974, Polanski) – Great movie. On my list.
#30. Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa) – Good movie. Not my favorite Kurosawa by a longshot, though.
#31. The Searchers (1956, Ford) – I don’t think I can credit Monument Valley as a performer.
#32. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone) – Great movie. On my list.
#33. Yojimbo (1961, Kurosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#34. Nights of Cabiria (1957, Fellini) – Great performance. Good movie.
#35. The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Fritsch, Wise) – “Rank sentimentality”.
#36. Annie Hall (1977, Allen) – Good movie. Should probably rewatch.
#37. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu) – I may be the only person on earth who doesn’t like this. I’ll rewatch.
#38. M (1931, Lang) – Great movie. On my list.
#39. Brief Encounter (1945, Lean) – Good movie.
#40. Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock) – Good movie.
#41. Barry Lyndon (1975, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#42. Ikiru (1952, Kirosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#43. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick) – Good movie. But he’s done better.
#44. Metropolis (1927, Lang) – Great movie. Not on my list, but may be soon.
#45. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) – Good movie. Not Chaplin’s best, though.
#46. Bashu, The Little Stranger (1986, Beizai) – A very good movie. Possibly great.
#47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan) – Good movie.
#48. Badlands (1973, Malick) – Good movie.
#49. The Asphalt Jungle (1950, Huston) – Okay movie. Not quite sure why it’s on here.
#50. Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) – Great movie. On my list.
#51. Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller) – Good movie.
#52. The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut) – Great movie. On my list.
#53. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer) – Great movie. On my list.
#54. King Kong (1933, Shoedsack, Cooper) – Great movie. On my list.
#55. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau) – Great movie. On my list.
#56. L’Avventura (1960, Antonioni) – Good movie. Just not an Antonioni fan.
#57. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Kirshner) – Great movie. But Star Wars: A New Hope is better.
#58. The Apartment (1960, Wilder) – Good movie.
#59. The General (1927, Keaton, Bruckman) – Okay movie. Keaton has better.
#60. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Godard) – Glad to see Godard so low on the list, but I still don’t like his movies.
#61. The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman) – Great movie. Not Bergman’s best, though.
#62. Talk to Her (2002, Almodóvar) – Great movie. On my list.
#63. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman) – Okay movie. Not quite sure why it’s on here.
#64. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, Ford) – Okay movie.
#65. Do the Right Thing (1989, Lee) – Good movie.
#66. Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino) – Great movie. On my list.
#67. Ugetsu (1953, Mizoguchi) – Great movie. On my list.
#68. Manhattan (1979, Allen) – Good last scene in an otherwise okay movie.
#69. Star Wars (1977, Lucas) – Great movie. On my list.
#70. F for Fake (1973, Welles) – Great movie. On my list.
#71. Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch) – Overrated movie.
#72. The Leopard (1963, Visconti) – Very, very good movie. But not great.
#73. Modern Times (1936, Chaplin) – Great movie. On my list.
#74. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#75. Yi Yi (2000, Yang) – Okay movie.
#76. Grand Illusion (1937, Renoir) – Great movie. On my list.
#77. Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur) – Good movie.
#78. Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch) – Blegch.
#79. Wild Strawberries (1957, Bergman) – Good movie. Again, there’s better Bergman out there.
#80. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Kaufman) – Great movie. On my list.
#81. Psycho (1960, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#82. Nayakan (1987, Ratnam) – Good movie.
#83. Wings of Desire (1987, Wenders) – Great movie. On my list.
#84. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) – Okay movie. Better Bogart performances out there.
#85. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry) – Good movie.
#86. Ulysses’ Gaze (1995, Angelopoulos) – Great movie. On my list.
#87. Notorious (1946, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#88. Nashville (1975, Altman) – Good movie.
#89. Days of Heaven (1978, Mallick) – Okay movie.
#90. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) – Good movie.
#91. The Bicycle Thief (1948, de Sica) – Very, very good movie. But not great.
#92. A Touch of Zen (1971, Hu) – Great movie. On my list.
#93. Fargo (1996, Coen, Coen) – Overrated movie.
#94. Breathless (1960, Godard) – Again, since Godard was destined to be on such a list, glad to see him so low.
#95. Children of Paradise (1945, Carné) – Great movie. On my list.
#96. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Kiarostami) – Okay movie.
#97. Rio Bravo (1959, Hawks) – Okay movie.
#98. Jaws (1975, Spielberg) – Quite possibly the most overrated film of all time.
#99. There Will Be Blood (2007, P.T. Anderson) – Good performance. Overrated movie.
#100. Japón (2002, Carlos Reygadas) – Good movie.
So, out of 100, I am a fan of 45 – not the best odds. If, however, you also include “good” movies it’s actually a very solid list. There’s only a handful on here I wouldn’t actively recommend someone to watch, (even Jaws I’d recommend for being a cultural touchstone). Those fifteen movies I simply can’t recommend are:
Rio Bravo, The Wind Will Carry Us, Breathless, Days of Heaven, The Big Sleep, Mulholland Dr., Yi Yi, Blue Velvet, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The General, The Asphalt Jungle, The Curse of the Cat People, Intolerance, and The Night of the Hunter.
The rest on here are all worth a watch, though.
#1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#2. Citizen Kane (1941, Welles) – Great movie. On my list.
#3. The Godfather (1972, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#4. Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky) – Great movie. Not on my list, but may be soon.
#5. The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir) – Good movie. Overrated in my opinion, but I like Renoir.
#6. Casablanca (1942, Curtiz) – Great movie. On my list.
#7. Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#8. La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini) – Great movie. On my list.
#9. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#10. The Godfather Pt. II (1974, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#11. The Third Man (1949, Reed) – Great movie. On my list.
#12. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming) – Great movie. On my list.
#13. Dr. Strangelove (1964, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#14. Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese) – Great movie. On my list.
#15. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Herzog) – Good movie. Again, I feel it’s overrated.
#16. 8½ (1963, Fellini) – Great movie. On my list.
#17. Singin’ In The Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly) –Okay movie. “An American in Paris” is way better.
#18. Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese) – Great performance. Good movie.
#19. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean) – Great movie. On my list.
#20. Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky) – Great movie. On my list.
#21. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton) – “Rank sentimentality”.
#22. On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan) – Good movie. Should probably rewatch.
#23. Intolerance (1916, Griffith) – Intolerably long and awful.
#24. L’Atalante (1934, Vigo) – Very, very good movie… But not great.
#25. Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola) – Great movie. On my list.
#26. Birth of a Nation (1915, Griffith) – Important movie, but like the next entry, doesn’t hold up outside a film class.
#27. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein) – Important movie.
#28. Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese) – Great movie. On my list.
#29. Chinatown (1974, Polanski) – Great movie. On my list.
#30. Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa) – Good movie. Not my favorite Kurosawa by a longshot, though.
#31. The Searchers (1956, Ford) – I don’t think I can credit Monument Valley as a performer.
#32. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone) – Great movie. On my list.
#33. Yojimbo (1961, Kurosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#34. Nights of Cabiria (1957, Fellini) – Great performance. Good movie.
#35. The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Fritsch, Wise) – “Rank sentimentality”.
#36. Annie Hall (1977, Allen) – Good movie. Should probably rewatch.
#37. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu) – I may be the only person on earth who doesn’t like this. I’ll rewatch.
#38. M (1931, Lang) – Great movie. On my list.
#39. Brief Encounter (1945, Lean) – Good movie.
#40. Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock) – Good movie.
#41. Barry Lyndon (1975, Kubrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#42. Ikiru (1952, Kirosawa) – Great movie. On my list.
#43. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick) – Good movie. But he’s done better.
#44. Metropolis (1927, Lang) – Great movie. Not on my list, but may be soon.
#45. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) – Good movie. Not Chaplin’s best, though.
#46. Bashu, The Little Stranger (1986, Beizai) – A very good movie. Possibly great.
#47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan) – Good movie.
#48. Badlands (1973, Malick) – Good movie.
#49. The Asphalt Jungle (1950, Huston) – Okay movie. Not quite sure why it’s on here.
#50. Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) – Great movie. On my list.
#51. Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller) – Good movie.
#52. The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut) – Great movie. On my list.
#53. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer) – Great movie. On my list.
#54. King Kong (1933, Shoedsack, Cooper) – Great movie. On my list.
#55. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau) – Great movie. On my list.
#56. L’Avventura (1960, Antonioni) – Good movie. Just not an Antonioni fan.
#57. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Kirshner) – Great movie. But Star Wars: A New Hope is better.
#58. The Apartment (1960, Wilder) – Good movie.
#59. The General (1927, Keaton, Bruckman) – Okay movie. Keaton has better.
#60. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Godard) – Glad to see Godard so low on the list, but I still don’t like his movies.
#61. The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman) – Great movie. Not Bergman’s best, though.
#62. Talk to Her (2002, Almodóvar) – Great movie. On my list.
#63. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman) – Okay movie. Not quite sure why it’s on here.
#64. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, Ford) – Okay movie.
#65. Do the Right Thing (1989, Lee) – Good movie.
#66. Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino) – Great movie. On my list.
#67. Ugetsu (1953, Mizoguchi) – Great movie. On my list.
#68. Manhattan (1979, Allen) – Good last scene in an otherwise okay movie.
#69. Star Wars (1977, Lucas) – Great movie. On my list.
#70. F for Fake (1973, Welles) – Great movie. On my list.
#71. Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch) – Overrated movie.
#72. The Leopard (1963, Visconti) – Very, very good movie. But not great.
#73. Modern Times (1936, Chaplin) – Great movie. On my list.
#74. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick) – Great movie. On my list.
#75. Yi Yi (2000, Yang) – Okay movie.
#76. Grand Illusion (1937, Renoir) – Great movie. On my list.
#77. Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur) – Good movie.
#78. Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch) – Blegch.
#79. Wild Strawberries (1957, Bergman) – Good movie. Again, there’s better Bergman out there.
#80. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Kaufman) – Great movie. On my list.
#81. Psycho (1960, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#82. Nayakan (1987, Ratnam) – Good movie.
#83. Wings of Desire (1987, Wenders) – Great movie. On my list.
#84. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) – Okay movie. Better Bogart performances out there.
#85. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry) – Good movie.
#86. Ulysses’ Gaze (1995, Angelopoulos) – Great movie. On my list.
#87. Notorious (1946, Hitchcock) – Great movie. On my list.
#88. Nashville (1975, Altman) – Good movie.
#89. Days of Heaven (1978, Mallick) – Okay movie.
#90. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) – Good movie.
#91. The Bicycle Thief (1948, de Sica) – Very, very good movie. But not great.
#92. A Touch of Zen (1971, Hu) – Great movie. On my list.
#93. Fargo (1996, Coen, Coen) – Overrated movie.
#94. Breathless (1960, Godard) – Again, since Godard was destined to be on such a list, glad to see him so low.
#95. Children of Paradise (1945, Carné) – Great movie. On my list.
#96. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Kiarostami) – Okay movie.
#97. Rio Bravo (1959, Hawks) – Okay movie.
#98. Jaws (1975, Spielberg) – Quite possibly the most overrated film of all time.
#99. There Will Be Blood (2007, P.T. Anderson) – Good performance. Overrated movie.
#100. Japón (2002, Carlos Reygadas) – Good movie.
So, out of 100, I am a fan of 45 – not the best odds. If, however, you also include “good” movies it’s actually a very solid list. There’s only a handful on here I wouldn’t actively recommend someone to watch, (even Jaws I’d recommend for being a cultural touchstone). Those fifteen movies I simply can’t recommend are:
Rio Bravo, The Wind Will Carry Us, Breathless, Days of Heaven, The Big Sleep, Mulholland Dr., Yi Yi, Blue Velvet, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The General, The Asphalt Jungle, The Curse of the Cat People, Intolerance, and The Night of the Hunter.
The rest on here are all worth a watch, though.
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