The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films" (actually 107)

Submitted by dashforcover on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 09:57
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  1. 42nd Street (1933; Lloyd Bacon)
  2. The 400 Blows [Les quatre cents coups] (1959; Francois Truffaut)
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)

  5. All About Eve (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  6. Annie Hall (1977; Woody Allen)
  7. Aparajito (1958; Satyajit Ray)
  8. Ashes and Diamonds [Popiól i diament] (1958; Andrzej Wajda)
  9. L'Atalante (1934; Jean Vigo)

  11. The Bank Dick (1940; Edward F. Cline)
  12. Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potyomkin] (1925; Sergei M. Eisenstein)
  13. The Birth of a Nation (1915; DW Griffith)
  14. Blowup (1966; Michelangelo Antonioni)
  15. Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
  16. Breathless [À bout de souffle] (1960; Jean-Luc Godard)
  17. Bride of Frankenstein (1935; James Whale)
  18. Bringing Up Baby (1938; Howard Hawks)

  20. Casablanca (1942; Michael Curtiz)
  21. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978; Fred Schepisi)
  22. Children of Paradise [Les enfants du paradis] (1945; Marcel Carné)
  23. Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
  24. Citizen Kane (1941; Orson Welles)
  25. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977; Steven Speilberg)
  26. Close-Up [Nema-ye Nazdik] (1990; Abbas Kiarostami)
  27. Closely Watched Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky] (1966; Jirí Menzel)

  29. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940; Dorothy Arzner)
  30. The Decalogue [Dekalog] (1989; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  31. Diary of a Country Priest [Journal dun curé de campagne] (1950; Robert Bresson)
  32. Diner (1982; Barry Levinson)
  33. Do the Right Thing (1989; Spike Lee)
  34. La Dolce Vita (1960; Federico Fellini)
  35. Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
  36. Duck Soup (1933; Leo McCarey)

  38. Easy Rider (1969; Dennis Hopper)
  39. Enter the Dragon (1973; Robert Clouse)
  40. The Entertainer (1960; Tony Richardson)
  41. The Exorcist (1973; William Friedkin)

  43. Faces (1968; John Cassevetes)
  44. Fargo (1996; Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
  45. Frankenstein (1931; James Whale)

  47. The General (1926; Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
  48. The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
  49. The Godfather, Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  50. Gone With The Wind (1939; Victor Flemming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
  51. The Gospel According to St. Matthew [Il Vangelo secondo Matteo] (1964; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  52. The Graduate (1967; Mike Nichols)
  53. Greed (1924; Erich von Stroheim)

  55. Happy Together [Chun gwong cha sit] (1997; Kar Wai Wong)
  56. High Noon (1952; Fred Zinnemann)

  58. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956; Don Siegel)

  60. Jailhouse Rock (1957; Richard Thorpe)
  61. Ju Dou (1990)

  63. Killer Of Sheep (1977; Charles Burnett)

  65. L.A. Confidential (1997; Curtis Hanson)
  66. Landscape in the Mist [Topio stin omichli] (1988; Theodoros Angelopoulos)
  67. Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)

  69. M (1931; Fritz Lang)
  70. The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Houston)
  71. Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929; Dziga Vertov)
  72. The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] (1978; RW Fassbinder)
  73. Metropolis (1927; Fritz Lang)
  74. Modern Times (1936; Charles Chaplin)
  75. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939; Frank Capra)

  77. Nashville (1975; Robert Altman)
  78. The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum)
  79. Night of the Living Dead (1968; George A. Romero)
  80. Nights of Cabiria [Le Notti di Cabiria](1957; Federico Fellini)
  81. Nosferatu [Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens] (1922; FW Murnau)

  83. On The Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
  84. Open City [Roma, città aperta] (1945; Roberto Rosellini)

  86. The Palm Beach Story (1942; Preston Sturges)
  87. Pandoras Box [Die Büchse der Pandora] (1928; Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
  88. The Passion of Joan of Arc [La passion de Jeanne d'Arc] (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  89. Pather Panchali (1955; Satyajit Ray)
  90. The Piano (1993; Jane Campion)
  91. Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
  92. The Public Enemy (1931; William A. Wellman)
  93. Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino)

  95. Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorcese)
  96. Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] (1991; Yimou Zhang)
  97. Rashomon (1950; Akira Kurosawa)
  98. Rebel Without a Cause (1955; Nicholas Ray)
  99. Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] (1987; Yimou Zhang)
  100. The Rules of the Game [La Règle du jeu] (1939; Jean Renoir)

  102. Schindlers List (1993; Steven Speilberg)
  103. The Searchers (1956; John Ford)
  104. Seven Samurai [Shichinin no samurai] (1954; Akira Kurosoawa)
  105. The Seventh Seal [Det sjunde inseglet] (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
  106. Singin' in the Rain (1952; Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
  107. Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977; George Lucas)
  108. La Strada (1954; Federico Fellini)
  109. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927; F.W. Murnau)
  110. Sunset Blvd (1950; Billy Wilder)

  112. The Thief of Bagdad (1924; Raoul Walsh)
  113. Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] (1953; Yasujiro Ozu)
  114. Top Hat (1935; Mark Sandrich)
  115. Touch Of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
  116. Trouble in Paradise (1932; Ernst Lubitsch)

  118. Ugetsu [Ugetsu Monogatori] (1953; Kenji Mizoguchi)
  119. Unforgiven (1992; Clint Eastwood)

  121. Les vampires (1915; Louis Feuillade)
  122. Vertigo [1958; Alfred Hitchcock)

  124. The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
  125. Winchester 73 (1950; Anthony Mann)
  126. The Wizard of Oz [1939; Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor)
  127. Written on the Wind (1956; Douglas Sirk)
  128. The World of Apu [Apur Sansar) (1960; Satyajit Ray)

  130. The Young and the Damned [Los Olvidados] (1950; Luis Buñuel)
Cloned From: 
Seen from "The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films" (actually 107)