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. 51.

  2. 52.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

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  3. 53.
    The Fanny Trilogy (Marius/Fanny/Cesar)
    by Marcel Pagnol

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  4. 54.
    War and Peace

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  5. 56.
    Napoléon (France - 1927)
    by Abel Gance

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  6. 57.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  7. 58.
    Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration)
    by Erich von Stroheim

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  8. 60.
    The Story of Adele H

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  9. 61.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  10. 63.
    Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
    by Hamilton Luske

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  11. 64.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  12. 65.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  13. 66.
    The Band Wagon (Two-Disc Special Edition) with Slipcover
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  14. 67.
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    Adam's Rib
    by George Cukor

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  15. 68.
    Pierrot Le Fou

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  16. 70.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick

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  17. 71.
    Heimat - Chronicle of Germany
    by Edgar Reitz

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  18. 72.
    Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation
    by Edgar Reitz

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  19. 73.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  20. 75.

  21. 76.
    The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  22. 77.
    Chinatown

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  23. 78.
    Ninotchka
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  24. 79.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  25. 80.
    1900 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  26. 81.
    Earth
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

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  27. 82.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)
    by Zoltan Korda

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  28. 83.
    A Hard Day's Night
    by Richard Lester

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  29. 84.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Huston

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  30. 85.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

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  31. 86.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
    by Alain Resnais

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  32. 87.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  33. 88.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  34. 90.
    The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
    by Preston Sturges

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  35. 91.
    Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955)
    by Mikio Naruse

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  36. 92.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone

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  37. 93.

  38. 94.
    An Angel at My Table - Criterion Collection
    by Jane Campion

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  39. 95.
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    The Road Warrior Trilogy

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  40. 96.
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    by Sidney Lumet

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  41. 97.
    West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set)
    by Jerome Robbins

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  42. 98.
    Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

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