Pictures and methodology at
my website, along with a hypothetical
Sight & Sound version Top Ten, but here's the Top 100 list I submitted:
1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
2. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008)
3. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
4. The Tales of Hoffman (Powell & Pressburger, 1951)
5. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941)
6. Gojira (Ishiro Honda, 1954)
7. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
9. A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932)
10. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
11. A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)
12. Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
13. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
14. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
15. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen, 1966)
16. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Ackerman, 1975)
17. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
18. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
19. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)
20. My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
21. Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
22. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
23. He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker & Anthony Mann, 1948)
24. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
25. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
26. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
27. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011)
28. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
29. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
30. The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
31. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
32. Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
33. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
34. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher, 1957)
35. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
36. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
37. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
38. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)
39. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
40. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
41. Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)
42. Thomas Mao (Zhu Wen, 2010)
43. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli, 1945)
44. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006)
45. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
46. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)
47. Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
48. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
49. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)
50. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
51. Orphans of the Storm (DW Griffith, 1921)
52. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)
53. LA Story (Mick Jackson, 1991)
54. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
55. Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)
56. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
57. Wagon Master (John Ford, 50)
58. God of Gamblers (Wong Jing, 1989)
59. Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
60. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
61. Going My Way (Leo McCarey, 1944)
62. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)
63. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
64. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
65. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
66. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
67. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
68. The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
69. It's Always Fair Weather (Donen & Kelly, 1955)
70. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
71. Anchorman (Adam McKay, 2004)
72. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
73. 24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
74. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
75. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
76. Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
77. The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, 1930)
78. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
79. Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
80. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
81. Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
82. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
83. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)
84. Airplane! (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, 1980)
85. Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman, 1968)
86. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
87. No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage, 1934)
88. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
89. Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
90. Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1949)
91. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
92. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
93. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
94. True Heart Susie (DW Griffith, 1919)
95. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
96. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1979)
97. Oki's Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)
98. Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969)
99. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
100. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais, 1980)