San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Movie List
Ali: Fear
Eats the Soul (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Angel at My Table, An (1991, Jane Campion)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
Bad Lieutenant (1992, Abel Ferrara)
Bear, The (1988, Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933, Frank Capra)
Black Is... Black Ain't (1995, Marlon Riggs)
Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
Cameraman, The (1928, Buster Keaton)
Camille (1937, George Cukor)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980, Michael Apted)
Crowd, The (1928, King Vidor)
Crumb (1995, Terry Zwigoff)
Day for Night (1973, Francois Truffaut)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
Dead, The (1987, John Huston)
Divorcee, The (1930, Robert Z. Leonard)
Dogfight (1991, Nancy Savoca)
Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Bruce Beresford)
Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953, Max Ophuls)
Ecstasy (1933, Gustav Machaty)
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
Female Trouble (1974, John Waters)
Fingers (1978, James Toback)
Flashdance (1983, Adrian Lyne)
Footlight Parade (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
Girl Can't Help It, The (1956, Frank Tashlin)
Gloria (1980, John Cassavettes)
Going Places (1974, Bertrand Blier)
Great Dictator, The (1940, Charles Chaplin)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
Hard Day's Night, A (1964, Richard Lester)
Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
High Tide (1987, Gillian Armstrong)
Honeymoon Killers, The (1970, Leonard Kastle)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939, William Dieterle)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, Robert Aldrich)
Hustler, The (1961, Robert Rossen)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
I'm No Angel (1933, Wesley Ruggles)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
It's a Gift (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
King of Kings (1961, Nicholas Ray)
King of the Hill (1993, Steven Soderbergh)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette)
Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
Last Tycoon, The (1976, Elia Kazan)
Lola (1961, Jacques Demy)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
Member of the Wedding, The (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
Naked Killer (1994, Clarence Fok)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles Laughton)
Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
Place in the Sun, A (1951, George Stevens)
Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Remember the Night (1940, Michael Leisen)
Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
Savage Nights (1994, Cyril Collard)
Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Shampoo (1975, Hal Ashby)
Shane (1953, George Stevens)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951, Elia Kazan)
Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The (1927, Ernst Lubitsch)
Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
Thousand Clowns, A (1965, Fred Coe)
Three Comrades (1938, Frank Borzage)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984, Robert Epstein)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
True Stories (1986, David Byrne)
Two English Girls (1972, Francois Truffaut)
Umberto D (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
Unmarried Woman, An (1978, Paul Mazursky)
Virgin Spring, The (1959, Ingmar Bergman)
War and Peace (1968, Sergei Bondarchuk)
Wetherby (1985, David Hare)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993, Lasse Hallstrom)
Wife, The (1996, Tom Noonan)
World Apart, A (1988, Chris Menges)
