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“You don’t know which DVD to buy next? I feel your apprehension. Fear not, because I have gathered three of my favourite movie lists in one place. If you don’t find inspiration from these, then I don’t know what. First up, the influential American Film Institute, and their latest top 100 list. As American as apple pie, but let’s face it: they make some great movies over there…” - Andy

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)

2. CASABLANCA (1942)

3. THE GODFATHER (1972)

4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

7. THE GRADUATE (1967)

8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

9. SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)

10. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)

11. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)

12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)

13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)

14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

15. STAR WARS (1977)

16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)

18. PSYCHO (1960)

19. CHINATOWN (1974)

20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975)

21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

24. RAGING BULL (1980)

25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)

27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)

31. ANNIE HALL (1977)

32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)

33. HIGH NOON (1952)

34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)

40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

42. REAR WINDOW (1954)

43. KING KONG (1933)

44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)

45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)

46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)

48. JAWS (1975)

49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)

50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)

51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

53. AMADEUS (1984)

54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)

55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

56. M*A*S*H (1970)

57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)

58. FANTASIA (1940)

59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

61. VERTIGO (1958)

62. TOOTSIE (1982)

63. STAGECOACH (1939)

64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

66. NETWORK (1976)

67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)

69. SHANE (1953)

70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)

71. FORREST GUMP (1994)

72. BEN-HUR (1959)

73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)

74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)

76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)

77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)

78. ROCKY (1976)

79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)

80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)

81. MODERN TIMES (1936)

82. GIANT (1956)

83. PLATOON (1986)

84. FARGO (1996)

85. DUCK SOUP (1933)

86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)

87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

88. EASY RIDER (1969)

89. PATTON (1970)

90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)

92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

93. THE APARTMENT (1960)

94. GOODFELLAS (1990)

95. PULP FICTION (1994)

96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)

97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)

99. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)

100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

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“But perhaps you want to broaden your horizons? Next in line comes a list by TIME Magazine; compiled by TIME movie critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, it’s another great one hundred. In alphabetical order, mind - nice, if you tend to get upset over your favorite movie being ranked low” - Andy

• Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972)

• The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)

• The Awful Truth (1937)

• Baby Face (1933)

• Bande À Part (1964)

• Barry Lyndon (1975)

• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

• Blade Runner (1982)

• Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

• Brazil (1985)

• Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

• Camille (1936)

• Casablanca (1942)

• Charade (1963)

• Children Of Paradise (1945)

• Chinatown (1974)

• Chungking Express (1994)

• Citizen Kane (1941)

• City Lights (1931)

• City Of God (2002)

• Closely Watched Trains (1966)

• The Crime Of Monsieur Lange (1936)

• The Crowd (1928)

• Day for Night (1973)

• The Decalogue (1989)

• Detour (1945)

• The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)

• Dodsworth (1936)

• Double Indemnity (1944)

• Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb (1964)

• Drunken Master II (1994)

• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

• 8 1/2 (1963)

• The 400 Blows (1959)

• Farewell My Concubine (1993)

• Finding Nemo (2003)

• The Fly (1986)

• The Godfather, Parts I & II (1972, 1974)

• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

• Goodfellas (1990)

• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

• His Girl Friday (1940)

• Ikiru (1952)

• In A Lonely Place (1950)

• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

• It’s A Gift (1934)

• It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

• Kandahar (2001)

• Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)

• King Kong (1933)

• The Lady Eve (1941)

• The Last Command (1928)

• Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

• Léolo (1992)

• The Lord Of The Rings (2001-03)

• The Man With A Camera (1929)

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

• Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)

• Metropolis (1927)

• Miller’s Crossing (1990)

• Mon Oncle D’Amérique (1980)

• Mouchette (1967)

• Nayakan (1987)

• Ninotchka (1939)

• Notorious (1946)

• Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)

• On The Waterfront (1954)

• Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

• Out Of The Past (1947)

• Persona (1966)

• Pinocchio (1940)

• Psycho (1960)

• Pulp Fiction (1994)

• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

• Pyaasa (1957)

• Raging Bull (1980)

• Schindler’s List (1993)

• The Searchers (1956)

• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

• The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

• Singin’ In The Rain (1952)

• The Singing Detective (1986)

• Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955)

• Some Like It Hot (1959)

• Star Wars (1977)

• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

• Sunrise (1927)

• Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

• Swing Time (1936)

• Talk To Her (2002)

• Taxi Driver (1976)

• Tokyo Story (1953)

• A Touch Of Zen (1971)

• Ugetsu (1953)

• Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)

• Umberto D (1952)

• Unforgiven (1992)

• White Heat (1949)

• Wings of Desire (1987)

• Yojimbo (1961)

[website: www.time.com]

“The Germans also have an opinion, often quite excellent. What follows is Süddeutsche Zeitung’s top ein hundert, translated by yours truly. I was in Munich in May 2006, and happened to stumble across ads glued to the subway walls promoting this list. Long story short and from the U-Bahn walls to here, read.” - Andy

1. Luchino Visconti — The Leopard

2. Michael Mann — Heat

3. Howard Hawks — Rio Bravo

4. Ingmar Bergman — Smultronstället

5. David Lynch — Lost Highway

6. Blake Edwards — The Party

7. Werner Herzog — Fitzcarraldo

8. Sidney Pollack — Three Days Of The Condor

9. Ang Lee — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

10. Mike Nichols — Catch 22

11. Pedro Almodovar — All About My Mother

12. Clint Eastwood — Unforgiven

13. Orson Welles — Touch Of Evil

14. Terry Gilliam — Brazil

15. Joseph L. Mankiewicz — All About Eve

16. François Truffaut — Fahrenheit 451

17. Robert Rossen — The Hustler

18. Thomas Vinterberg — Festen

19. Josef von Sternberg — Morocco

20. Steven Soderbergh — Out Of Sight

21. James Cameron — Terminator 2

22. Richard Brooks — Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

23. Milos Forman — One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

24. Wim Wenders — Paris, Texas

25. Alfred Hitchcock — North By Northwest

26. Peter Bogdanovich — What’s Up, Doc?

27. Martin Scorsese — Raging Bull

28. John Huston — Key Largo

29. Jim Jarmusch — Night On Earth

30. George Cukor — The Philadelphia Story

31. Arthur Penn — Bonnie And Clyde

32. Otto Preminger — River Of No Return

33. Hal Ashby — Harold And Maude

34. Federico Fellini — Dolce Vita

35. Quentin Tarantino — Jackie Brown

36. René Clément — Plein Soleil (Purple Noon)

37. Stanley Kubrick — Clockwork Orange

38. Bernardo Bertolucci — Last Tango In Paris

39. Paul Thomas Anderson — Magnolia

40. Jean-Luc Godard — Le Mépris (Contempt)

41. Nicolas Roeg — Don’t Look Now

42. Steven Spielberg — Duel

43. Peter Weir — Picnic At Hanging Rock

44. Terrence Malick — Badlands

45. Norman Jewison — Thomas Crown

46. Billy Wilder — Kiss Me, Stupid

47. Michelangelo Antonioni — Blow Up

48. Ernst Lubitsch — Ninotchka

49. Roman Polanski — The Fearless Vampire Killers

50. Stanley Donen — Singin’ In The Rain

51. Sofia Coppola — Lost In Translation

52. Sam Peckinpah — The Wild Bunch

53. John Carpenter — Escape From New York

54. Jaques Tati — Playtime

55. Lars von Trier — Breaking The Waves

56. Francois Ford Coppola — Rumble Fish

57. Samuel Fuller — Forty Guns

58. Rainer Werner Fassbinder — Die Sehnsucht Der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss)

59. David Lean — Doctor Zhivago

60. Claude Sautet — Les Choses De La Vie (The Things Of Life)

61. Robert Altman — McCabe & Mrs. Miller

62. Roberto Rossellini — Roma, Città Aperta (Open City)

63. Paul Schrader — American Gigolo

64. Joel Coen — Fargo

65. Frank Beyer — Spur Der Steine (Traces Of Stones)

66. John Schlesinger — Marathon Man

67. Takeshi Kitano — Hana-Bi (Fireworks)

68. Sergio Leone — The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

69. Charles Laughton — The Night Of The Hunter

70. Sidney Lumet — Prince Of The City

71. Raoul Walsh — Pursued

72. Alain Resnais — Hiroshima Mon Amour

73. Frank Capra — Arsenic And Old Lace

74. Robert Bresson — Pickpocket

75. Yimou Zhang — To Live

76. Michael Cimino — Deer Hunter

77. Luis Buñuel — Belle De Jour

78. Frank Tashlin — The Girl Can’t Help It

79. Jean-Pierre Melville — L’Aîné Des Ferchaux (Magnet Of Doom)

80. Paul Harather — Indien (India)

81. John Ford — Rio Grande

82. John Frankenheimer — The Manchurian Candidate

83. Tim Burton — Batman

84. Oliver Stone — Wall Street

85. John Boorman — Point Blank

86. Curtis Hanson — LA Confidential

87. Carol Reed — The Third Man

88. Ridley Scott — Alien

89. Robert Aldrich — What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

90. Henri-Georges Clouzot — Le Salaire De La Peur (The Wages Of Fear)

91. Louis Malle — Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud (Elevator To The Gallows/Frantic)

92. George Roy Hill — Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

93. Akira Kurosawa — Rashômon

94. Jean Renoir — La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)

95. Woody Allen — Manhattan

96. Mark Sandrich — Top Hat

97. Douglas Sirk — Written On The Wind

98. Fritz Lang — M

99. Wong Kar Wai — In The Mood For Love

100. Charles Chaplin — The Great Dictator

[website: www.sueddeutsche.de]