My 100 Favorite Movies, 2020 Edition

If I do this, will I be the last living blogger?

Anyway, I mainly used this blog to keep track of lists. Here's an updated list of my favorite movies, ranked 1 to 100 (101, actually) in a swift and poorly-considered way.

1. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)

2. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

3. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)

4. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)

5. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)

6. Playtime (Tati, 1967)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Singin' In The Rain (Donen, 1952)

9. La Jetee (Marker, 1962)

10. Badlands (Malick, 1973)

11. Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)

12. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)

13. Ride The High Country (Peckinpah, 1962)

14. Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)

15. No Country For Old Men (Coen, 2007)

16. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

17. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)

18. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)

19. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003)

20. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)

21. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, 2003)

22. The Grand Budapest Hotel (W Anderson, 2014)

23. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)

24. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2002)

25. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)

26. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)

27. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

28. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

29. True Grit (Coens, 2010)

30. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)

31. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)

32. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)

33. Inherent Vice (PT Anderson, 2014)

34. Cleo From 5 To 7 (Varda, 1962)

35. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (Raimi, 1987)

36. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)

37. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

38. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, 1932)

39. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)

40. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964)

41. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1942)

42. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)

43. Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

44. F For Fake (Welles, 1976)

45. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

46. M (Lang, 1931)

47. The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1938)

48. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)

49. L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)

50. Bob Le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)

51. Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)

52. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang, 1933)

53. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)

54. Parasite (Joon-ho, 2019)

55. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999)

56. Week End (Godard, 1967)

57. Out Of The Past (Tourneur, 1947)

58. Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)

59. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1954)

60. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)

61. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong, 2010)

62. I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007)

63. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)

64. Gerry (Van Sant, 2002)

65. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

66. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)

67. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)

68. Always For Pleasure (Blank, 1995)

69. The General (Keaton, 1927)

70. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

71. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)

72. Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016)

73. Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

74. Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010)

75. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)

76. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)

77. Persona (Bergman, 1966)

78. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

79. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (Ford, 1962)

80. The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988)

81. Human Resources (Cantet, 1999)

82. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)

83. Topsy-Turvy (Leigh, 1999)

84. High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963)

85. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)

86. La Ronde (Ophuls, 1950)

87. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)

88. A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1957)

89. Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Herzog, 1997)

90. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

91. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

92. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)

93. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)

94. Cockfighter (Hellman, 1974)

95. Harlan County, USA (Kopple, 1976)

96. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1929)

97. Paterson (Jarmusch, 2016)

98. My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981)

99. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)

100. Scarface (Hawks, 1932)

101. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008)