Seen of Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films

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  1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
  2. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
  3. Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim, 1922)
  4. Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1925)
  5. Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927)
  6. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, 1928)
  7. The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
  8. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)
  9. Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)
  10. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
  11. An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg, 1931)
  12. Que Viva Mexico (Sergei Eisenstein, 1931)
  13. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
  14. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
  15. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
  16. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
  17. Gueule D’amour (Jean Grémillon, 1937)
  18. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  19. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
  20. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
  21. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940)
  22. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
  23. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
  24. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
  25. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
  26. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
  27. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
  28. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
  29. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
  30. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)
  31. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)
  32. Ensayo de un Crimen (Luis Buñuel, 1955)
  33. Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
  34. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
  35. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
  36. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
  37. The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
  38. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
  39. Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith, 1962)
  40. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
  41. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
  42. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
  43. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
  44. 7 Women (John Ford, 1966)
  45. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966)
  46. Masculin, Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
  47. Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
  48. The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1967)
  49. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)
  50. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  51. Hi Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970)
  52. The Lickerish Quartet (Radley Metzger, 1970)
  53. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
  54. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
  55. A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
  56. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
  57. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
  58. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
  59. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
  60. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
  61. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
  62. Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1975)
  63. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976)
  64. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1976)
  65. The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
  66. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
  67. In A Year Of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
  68. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  69. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
  70. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
  71. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
  72. Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982)
  73. The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, 1983)
  74. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)
  75. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)
  76. Yeelen (Soulymane Cissé, 1987)
  77. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
  78. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
  79. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
  80. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
  81. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
  82. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
  83. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992)
  84. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
  85. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993)
  86. Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
  87. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
  88. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
  89. Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
  90. Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
  91. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
  92. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
  93. Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)
  94. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)
  95. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
  96. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
  97. Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
  98. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
  99. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
  100. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003)
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Seen of Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films