Jonathan
Rosenbaum Top 100 Movie List
Ace
in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951, Billy Wilder)
Affair to Remember, An
(1957, Leo McCarey)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger)
Avanti!
(1972, Billy Wilder)
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Big
Sky, The (1952, Howard Hawks)
Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
Black
Cat, The (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
Christmas in July (1940, Preston Sturges)
Confessions of an Opium Eater
(1962, Albert Zugsmith)
Crowd, The (1928, King Vidor)
Dead Man (1995,
Jim Jarmusch)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Docks of New York,
The (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974,
Thom Andersen)
11 x 14 (1976, James Benning)
Eraserhead (1978, David Lynch)
Foolish Wives (1922, Erich von Stroheim)
Force of Evil (1948, Abraham
Polonsky)
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
General, The (1927, Buster Keaton)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)
Great Garrick, The (1937, James Whale)
Greed (1925, Erich Von Stroheim)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933, Lewis Milestone)
Heartbreak Kid, The (1972,
Elaine May)
Housekeeping (1987, Bill Forsyth)
Hustler, The (1961, Robert
Rossen)
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas
Ray)
Judge Priest (1934, John Ford)
Killer of Sheep (1978, Charles Burnett)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976, John Cassavettes)
Killing, The
(1956, Stanley Kubrick)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
Ladies'
Man, The (1961, Jerry Lewis)
Lady From Shanghai, The (1948, Orson Welles)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost)
Laughter (1930, Harry d'Abbadie
d'Arrast)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
Lonesome (1929,
Paul Fejos)
Love Me Tonight (1932, Rouben Mamoulian)
Love Streams (1984,
John Cassavetes)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942, Orson Welles)
Make
Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962,
John Ford)
Man's Castle (1933, Frank Borzage)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(1971, Robert Altman)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
Mikey
and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charles Chaplin)
My
Son John (1952, Leo McCarey)
Naked Spur, The (1953, Anthony Mann)
Nanook
of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles
Laughton)
Nutty Professor, The (1963, Jerry Lewis)
Palm Beach Story, The
(1942, Preston Sturges)
Panic in the Streets (1950, Elia Kazan)
Park Row
(1952, Samuel Fuller)
Phenix City Story, The (1955, Phil Karlson)
Point
Blank (1967, John Boorman)
Real Life (1979, Albert Brooks)
Reminiscences
of a Journey to Lithuania (1971, Jonas Mekas)
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
Scarlet Empress, The (1934, Josef von Sternberg)
Scarlet Street (1945, Fritz Lang)
Scenes From Under Childhood (1970)
Scenic
Route, The (1978, Mark Rappaport)
Seventh Victim, The (1943, Mark Robson)
Shadows (1960, John Cassavettes)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
Shooting,
The (1967, Monte Hellman)
Shop Around the Corner, The (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
Sound of Fury, The / Try and Get Me! (1950, Cy Endfield)
Stars in My Crown
(1950, Jacques Tourneur)
Steel Helmet, The (1951, Samuel Fuller)
Stranger
Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
Strawberry Blonde, The (1941, Raoul Walsh)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Sylvia Scarlett (1935, George Cukor)
Tarnished
Angels, The (1958, Douglas Sirk)
That's Entertainment! III (1994, Bud Friedgen
& Michael J. Sheridan)
This Land Is Mine (1943, Jean Renoir)
Thunderbolt
(1929, Josef von Sternberg)
To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett)
Tom,
Tom, the Piper's Son (1969, Frank Moser & Paul Terry)
Track of the Cat
(1954, William A. Wellman)
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
Vinyl
(1965, Andy Warhol)
Wanda (1971, Barbara Loden)
While the City Sleeps
(1956, Fritz Lang)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957, Frank Tashlin)
Woodstock
(1970, Michael Wadleigh)
Wrong Man, The (1957, Alfred Hitchcock)
Zabriskie
Point (1969, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
Jonathan
Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, created this top 100 list as an
alternative to AFI's back on June 26, 1998. To go to that web page. Click
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