The Movie Archives: Top 1000 Movies of All-Time (Until 2014)

Pretty good list - with some inexpicable patchy spots......... but you can use it as a decent recommendations starting point - and not think about it much. They take the last 10 years off to let movies "age" or something or other.

* Full 1000 in the link, top 50 below

* In The Mood For Love (#5)  - highest most recent film

* Apocalypse Now (#4) - highest most recent American film

* Quick review of the list shows LOTS of Bergman............and Hitchcock.......

* Some interesting picks - The Searchers at #2 (hmm) - which is very out of step with Film Twitter, presentism and such nonsense.............PTA with 5 films pre-2014 including #68 and 80 (!)........... Denzel Washington gets a film at ~ #206  - Malcolm X .......so that's better than usual for him and his iffy filmography.........on the other hand.........there's not much else for him (He Got Game though....) .......

* Heaven's Gate at #201 (!)
* I am always fascinated when people pick Nostalghia (#8) for Tarkovsky - I love him but........well I like others far more than that  

* The list is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better if you don't get hung up on the numbers too much - also some great silent films here if you want to expand your scope of films..........

thecinemaarchives.com/2023/10/17/thebest1000filmsofalltime/

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick 1968
2. The Searchers Ford 1956
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc Dreyer 1928
4. Apocalypse Now F. Coppola 1979
5. In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000
6. Citizen Kane Welles 1941
7. Sunrise Murnau 1927
8. Nostalghia Tarkovsky 1983
9. Raging Bull Scorsese 1980
10. Vertigo Hitchcock 1958
11. Tokyo Story Ozu 1953
12. Stalker Tarkovsky 1979
13. 8 1/2 Fellini 1963
14. Barry Lyndon Kubrick 1975
15. The Godfather F. Coppola 1972
16. Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein 1925
17. The Conformist Bertolucci 1970
18. Intolerance Griffith 1916
19. Blade Runner R. Scott 1982
20. Bicycle Thieves De Sica 1948
21. Seven Samurai Kurosawa 1954
22. Rashomon Kurosawa 1950
23. Lawrence of Arabia Lean 1962
24. Breaking the Waves von Trier 1996
25. Goodfellas Scorsese 1990
26. La Dolce Vita Fellini 1960
27. Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai 1994
28. The Godfather Part II F. Coppola 1974
29. The Rules of the Game Renoir 1939
30. Taxi Driver Scorsese 1976
31. A Short Film About Killing Kieslowski 1988
32. Pulp Fiction Tarantino 1994
33. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Wiene 1920
34. Touch of Evil Welles 1958
35. The End of Summer Ozu 1961
36. Last Year at Marienbad Resnais 1961
37. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Greenaway 1989
38. Jules and Jim Truffaut 1962
39. Breathless Godard 1960
40. The Tree of Life Malick 2011
41. The Turin Horse Tarr 2011
42. Days of Heaven Malick 1978
43. The Last Laugh Murnau 1924
44. The Magnificent Ambersons Welles 1942
45. Persona Bergman 1966
46. I Am Cuba Kalatozov 1964
47. Children of Men Cuarón 2006
48. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Fassbinder 1974
49. The Seventh Seal Bergman 1957
50. Do the Right Thing S. Lee 1989