Michael Wilmington's The 100 Best Films A Century's Worth Of The Greatest Movies Ever Made, Anywhere In The Universe

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This list appeared in and is copyrighted by the Chicago Tribune on March 19, 1995.

"The following are, in my opinion, the 100 best-and most culturally significant-fiction films ever made. The list is personal, but it also tries to be historically broad and representative. It is an attempt at the sort of all-time canon common in literature or music. These are the films that changed the face of the art, influenced other filmmakers and stayed in the hearts of the public."

NOTE: This list appears here as 101 films because Wilmington originally listed both Heimat and Heimat 2 together as no. 71.

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  2. 3.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  3. 4.
    Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  4. 5.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford

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  5. 6.
    The Godfather DVD Collection

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    Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  8. 9.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  9. 10.
    City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

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  10. 11.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  11. 12.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  12. 13.
    To Have and Have Not (Keepcase)
    by Howard Hawks

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  13. 14.
    Lola Montes
    by Max Ophüls

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  14. 15.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Donen, Stanley

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  15. 16.
    L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  16. 17.
    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  17. 18.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

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  18. 19.
    Viridiana - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  19. 21.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  21. 23.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  23. 25.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  24. 26.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  25. 27.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  26. 28.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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  27. 31.
    Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  29. 33.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  31. 35.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  32. 36.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

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  33. 39.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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  34. 40.
    Duck Soup [Chico Marx and Zeppo Marx]
    by Leo McCarey

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  35. 41.
    Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  36. 42.
    Playtime - Criterion Collection

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  37. 43.
    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  38. 44.
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    The Go Between (Losey)

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  39. 45.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  40. 46.
    Scarface
    by Howard Hawks

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  41. 47.
    Short Cuts - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Altman

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  42. 48.
    The Travelling Players/O Thiassos
    by Theo Angelopoulos

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  43. 49.
    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  44. 50.
    A Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

Well, i’ve seen a lot worse lists but Africa and S.America (not unusually) don’t get much to be thankful for