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 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  2. 4.
    Intolerance
    by D.W. Griffith

  3. 5.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford

  4. 7.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  5. 8.
    Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  6. 9.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  7. 10.

  8. 11.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

  9. 12.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  10. 13.
    To Have and Have Not
    by Howard Hawks

  11. 14.
    Lola Montes

  12. 15.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  13. 16.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  14. 17.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  15. 18.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  16. 19.
    Viridiana (The Criterion Collection)
    by Luis Buñuel

  17. 20.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  18. 21.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  19. 22.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  20. 23.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  21. 24.
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    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  22. 25.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  23. 26.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  24. 27.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  25. 31.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  26. 32.
    Lawrence of Arabia
    by David Lean

  27. 33.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  28. 34.

  29. 35.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  30. 36.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

  31. 37.
    The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  32. 38.
    Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Nicholas Ray

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

  34. 40.

  35. 42.
    Playtime (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  36. 43.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  37. 44.
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    The Go Between (Losey)

  38. 45.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné

  39. 46.
    Scarface
    by Howard Hawks

  40. 47.
    Short Cuts (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Altman

  41. 48.
    The Travelling Players/O Thiassos
    by Theo Angelopoulos

  42. 49.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  43. 50.
    A Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

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Untitled — 2 years ago

Did Wilmington really list three films at #69?


Untitled — 5 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




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