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

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. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
2. Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection  
3. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
4. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
5. The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
by John Ford
  
6. The Godfather DVD Collection  
7. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
  
8.
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 Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
9. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
10. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
11. La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Federico Fellini
  
12. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
  
13. To Have and Have Not (Keepcase)
by Howard Hawks
  
14. Lola Montes
by Max Ophüls
  
15. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
  
16. L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
17. Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
  
18. The Magnificent Ambersons  
19. Viridiana - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
  
20. M - Criterion Collection (Special Edition)  
21. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
22. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
23. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
  
24.
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 Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  
25. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
26. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
27. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
28. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
29. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) [Region 2 Import]
by Satyajit Ray
  
30. The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
31. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
32. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)  
33. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
34. The Leopard - Criterion Collection  
35. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
36. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Frank Capra
  
37. The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)  
38. Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
39. Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
by Robert Bresson
  
40. Duck Soup [Chico Marx and Zeppo Marx]
by Leo McCarey
  
41. Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
by Roberto Rossellini
  
42. Playtime - Criterion Collection  
43. Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
  
44.
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 The Go Between (Losey)  
45. Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carné
  
46. Scarface
by Howard Hawks
  
47. Short Cuts - Criterion Collection
by Robert Altman
  
48.
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 The Travelling Players/O Thiassos
by Theo Angelopoulos
  
49. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
by Steven Spielberg
  
50.
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 A Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
by John Cassavetes
  
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