All-Time Favorites

One hundred of my all-time favorite movies, in no particular order.

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Early Spring (Yasujirō Ozu, 1956)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2018)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Thin Red Line (Terence Malick, 1998)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Goodbye, First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
Legend of the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
The Child Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
Police (Maurice Pialat, 1985)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, 2015)
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt, 2019)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1992)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl, 1945)
Altiplano (Malena Szlam, 2018)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1967)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight (Richard Linkater, 1995/2000/2013)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2007)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)
A Nos Amour (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1929)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2018)
The New World (Terence Malick, 2005)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1949)
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1984)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvery, 1962)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
All Is Forgiven (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2007)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Goard, 1962)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)

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All-Time Favorites