The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Several Funfare readers (one of them a self-described "avid Hollywood fan" Glenn Anthony James of Litex, Quezon City, who claims to have a priceless collection of old Hollywood movies) have been asking me to publish The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time – thus far, that is, because starting in this New Millennium, Hollywood has been producing exceptionally good movies.

Anyway, for the benefit of Mr. James and other readers (who should clip the list and paste it on the walls of their libraries), Funfare is reprinting The 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time as published in a special issue of the US magazine Entertainment Weekly.

Here they are (winnowed down from 500 nominated films):

1. The Godfather (directed by Francis Ford Coppola, l972)

2. Citizen Kane (by Orson Welles, l941)

3. Casablanca (by Michael Curtiz, 1942)

4. Chinatown (by Roman Polanski, 1974)

5. Raging Bull (by Martin Scorsese, 1980)

6. La Dolce Vita (by Federico Fellini, 1960)

7. The Godfather Part II (by Francis Ford Coppola, l974)

8. Gone With The Wind (by Victor Fleming, 1939)

9. Some Like It Hot (by Billy Wilder, 1959)

10. Singin’ in the Rain (by Arthur Freed, 1952)

11. Psycho (by Alfred Hitchcock, l960)

12. Seven Samurai (by Akira Kurosawa, l954)

l3. The Searchers (by John Ford, 1956)

14. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (by Stanley Kubrick, 1964)

l5. The Gold Rush (by Charlie Chaplin, 1925)

l6. Star Wars (by George Lucas, l977)

l7. On the Waterfront (by Elia Kazan, 1954)

18. Lawrence of Arabia (by David Lean, 1962)

19. Vertigo (by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

20. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (by Steven Spielberg, 1982)

21. All About Eve (by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

22. The Bicycle Thief (by Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

23. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

24. Bringing Up Baby (by Howard Hawks, 1938)

25. Intolerance (by D. W. Griffith, 1916)

26. 2001: A Space Odyssey (by Stanley Kubrick, l968)

27. The Grapes of Wrath (by John Ford, 1940)

28. Sunset Boulevard (by Billy Wilder, 1950)

29. Pulp Fiction (by Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

30. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (by Frank Capra, 1939)

31. The Maltese Falcon (by John Huston, 1941)

32. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

33. Jules and Jim (by Francois Truffaut, 1961)

34. Sherlock Jr. (by Buster Keaton, 1924)

35. The Philadelphia Story (by George Cukor, 1940)

36. 8 1/2 (by Federico Fellini, 1963)

37. Blue Velvet (by David Lynch, 1986)

38. Nashville (by Robert Altman, 1975)

39. Swing Time (1936)

40. Schindler’s List (by Steven Spielberg, 1993)

41. Taxi Driver (by Martin Scorsese, 1976)

42. Aliens (by James Cameron, 1986)

43. Duck Soup (by the Marx Brothers, 1933)

44. North by Northwest (by Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

45. The Seventh Seal (by Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

46. The Bridge on the River Kwai (by David Lean, 1957)

47. King Kong (1933)

48. Bonnie and Clyde (by Arthur Penn, l967)

49. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

50. Double Indemnity (by Billy Wilder, 1944)

51. Children of Paradise (1945)

52. Jaws (by Steven Spielberg, 1975)

53. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1946)

54. Touch of Evil (by Orson Wells, 1958)

55. The Graduate (by Mike Nichols, 1967)

56. It’s a Wonderful Life (by Frank Capra, 1946)

57. The Wild Bunch (by Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

58. The Rules of the Game (by Jean Renoir, 1939)

59. The Lady Eve (by Preston Sturges, 1941)

60. Annie Hall (by Woody Allen, 1977)

61. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

62. Henry V (by Laurence Olivier, 1944)

63. Breathless (by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

64. Mean Streets (by Martin Scorsese, 1973)

65. The Third Man (by Carol Reed, 1949)

66. Notorious (by Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

67. Airplane (1980)

68. The Bride of Frankenstein (by James Whale, 1935)

69. The Conformist (by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

70. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

71. To Be or Not to Be (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

72. M (by Fritz Lang, 1931)

73. Great Expectations (by David Lean, 1946)

74. Funny Face (by Stanley Donen, 1957)

75. Tootsie (by Sydney Pollack, 1982)

76. The Manchurian Candidate (by John Frankenheimer, 1962)

77. Potemkin (by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

78. White Heat (by Raoul Walsh, 1949)

79. It’s a Gift (by W. C. Fields, 1934)

80. Nosferatu (by F. W. Murnau, 1922)

81. Do the Right Thing (by Spike Lee, 1989)

82. Diabolique (by Henri-Georges Clouzot, l955)

83. The Best Years of Our Lives (by William Wyler, l946)

84. Blow-Up (by Michelangelo Antonioni, l966)

85. To Kill a Mockingbird (by Robert Mulligan, l962)

86. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, l955)

87. L’Age d’Or (by Luis Bunuel, l930)

88. The Producers (by Mel Brooks, l968)

89. Wings of Desire (by Wim Wenders, l988)

90. Pickup on South Street (by Sam Fuller, l953)

91. Mildred Pierce (by Michael Curtiz, 1945)

92. The Road Warrior (by George Miller, l981)

93. Sunrise (by F.W. Murnau, 1927)

94. The Shop Around the Corner (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

95. Tokyo Story (by Yasujiro Ozu, l953)

96. The Last of the Mohicans (by Michael Mann, 1992)

97. The Piano (by Jane Campion, 1993)

98. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

99. Swept Away (by Lina Wertmuller, 1975)

100. Celine & Julie Go Boating (by Jacques Rivette, 1974)

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