Dennis Grunes' 100 Greatest Films

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Below is a list of what, on a given day, I consider to be the 100 greatest films of all time through the year 2006. Each film is given an entry of about 300 words. The first twenty-five films are given in rough order of preference. The remaining titles are given in chronological order, except that, where there is more than one entry for a given year, the entries for that year are given in order of preference.

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  1. 1.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  2. 2.
    Battleship Potemkin (1925)
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  3. 4.
    Zemlya (Earth)
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

  4. 5.
    L'Eclisse (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  5. 6.
    Man with the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

  6. 7.
    ?
    Regen (1929)
    by Joris Ivens

  7. 8.
    The Trial
    by Orson Welles

  8. 9.
    ?
    D'Est [From the East] (1993)
    by Chantal Akerman

  9. 10.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  10. 11.
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    by John Ford

  11. 12.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  12. 13.
    In Praise Of Love

  13. 14.
    Que Viva Mexico
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

  14. 15.
    Vampyr
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  15. 16.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  16. 17.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  17. 18.
    The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) (1927)
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller

  18. 19.

  19. 21.
    ?
    The Constant Factor
    by Krzysztof Zanussi

  20. 22.
    Viridiana (The Criterion Collection)
    by Luis Buñuel

  21. 23.
    Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  22. 24.
    Arsenal
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

  23. 25.
    Vidas Secas
    by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

  24. 26.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  25. 27.
    Mother (Mat) (1926)
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin

  26. 28.
    October (1927)
    by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein

  27. 29.
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
    by Walther Ruttmann

  28. 30.
    Storm over Asia
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin

  29. 31.

  30. 32.
    Lage Dor
    by Luis Buñuel

  31. 33.
    Kameradschaft (1931)
    by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

  32. 34.
    The Threepenny Opera (The Criterion Collection)
    by G.W. Pabst

  33. 35.
    ?
    Borinage (1933)
    by Joris Ivens

  34. 36.
    ?
    Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
    by Jean Renoir

  35. 37.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  36. 38.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  37. 39.
    The Rules of the Game (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  38. 40.
    The Long Voyage Home
    by John Ford

  39. 41.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  40. 42.
    Day of Wrath

  41. 43.
    Henry V (The Criterion Collection)
    by Laurence Olivier

  42. 45.
    Germany Year Zero
    by Roberto Rossellini

  43. 47.
    ?
    Guernica (1950)
    by Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens

  44. 48.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  45. 49.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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Untitled — 4 years ago

An extremely interesting and thoughtful list- many established masterpieces but also lots of unexpected selections, and hopefully exciting new discoveries




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