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Dennis Grunes' 100 Greatest Films

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.

(found at: http://grunes.wordpress.com/category/100-greatest-films/)

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1. Early Summer - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
  
2.
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 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
3.
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 Carl Th. Dreyer's ORDET - Criterion Collection  
4.
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 Zemlya (Earth)
by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  
5. L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
6. Man With the Movie Camera
by Dziga Vertov
  
7.
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 Regen (1929)
by Joris Ivens
  
8. The Trial  
9.
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 D'Est [From the East] (1993)
by Chantal Akerman
  
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by John Ford
  
12. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
  
13. In Praise Of Love
by Jean-Luc Godard
  
14. Que Viva Mexico
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
15. Vampyr
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
16. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
17. L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
18.
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 The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) (1927)
by Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller
  
19. Pickpocket - Criterion Collection  
20. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)  
21.
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 The Constant Factor
by Krzysztof Zanussi
  
22. Viridiana - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
  
23. Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection
by Kon Ichikawa
  
24. Arsenal (Silent) (Sub B&W)
by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  
25. Vidas Secas
by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
  
26. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
27.
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 Mother (Mat) (1926)
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
28.
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 October (1927)
by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
29. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
by Walter Ruttmann
  
30. Storm over Asia
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
31. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
32. Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or  
33.
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 Kameradschaft (1931)
by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  
34. The Threepenny Opera - Criterion Collection
by G.W. Pabst
  
35.
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 Borinage (1933)
by Joris Ivens
  
36.
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 Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
by Jean Renoir
  
37. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
38. Alexander Nevsky
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
39. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
40. The Long Voyage Home
by John Ford
  
41. The Magnificent Ambersons  
42. Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
43. Henry V - Criterion Collection
by Laurence Olivier
  
44. The Battle of San Pietro  
45. Germany Year Zero
by Roberto Rossellini
  
46. Federico Fellini presents Roberto Rossilini's The Flowers of St. Francis (Original theatrical release) [Import, All-Region] (Dvd)
by Roberto Rossellini
  
47.
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 Guernica (1950)
by Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens
  
48. Ikiru - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
49. Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
  
50. Voyage To Italy (Viaggio in Italia) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
by Roberto Rossellini
  
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Created by TGTE on Feb 18, 2008.