100 Favourite Films - A freehand exercise

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is a truly fab resource for the great canon of great cinema, in its many forms. I was perusing their 1000 greatest films list last night (they recently revamped their site and it is gorgeous) and was inspired to try something, to write down my list of 100 favourite films without consulting any of my enormous lists or previous writing and see what I came up with. Next year I plan on doing the same thing and seeing how my list changes and what it says about the things I look for in an experience with a film. So here's edition 1. 



1. Sweet Movie
2. If....
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
5. A Lake
6. Apocalypse Now Redux
7. Mon Oncle
8. North By Northwest
9. L'Avventura
10. The Red Shoes
11. Ivan's Childhood
12. Dawn of the Dead
13. L'argent
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. Youth of the Beast
16. Days of Heaven
17. Black Narcissus
18. 8½
19. The Kiss of Her Flesh
20. Cat People
21. I Fidanzati
22. The Red & The White
23. Children of Men
24. Blow-Up
25. Let The Right One In
26. Eichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy
27. Miracle Of Morgan's Creek
28. The Wages of Fear
29. Rules of the Game
30. Beauty & The Beast
31. Murderous Maids
32. Fists In The Pocket
33. The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
34. White Material
35. Cries & Whispers
36. The Royal Tenenbaums
37. Pola X
38. The Hudsucker Proxy
39. The Lady From Shanghai
40. The Night Of The Hunter
41. The Sword of Doom
42. Woman In The Dunes
43. Seven Samurai
44. Hannah & Her Sisters
45. Blue Velvet
46. L'Eclisse
47. The Conformist
48. Trouble In Paradise
49. M. Hulot's Holiday
50. Before The Revolution
51. Targets
52. Juliet of the Spirits
53. The Wild Bunch
54. The Last Picture Show
55. 13 Assassins
56. Brief Encounter
57. The Long Day Closes
58. The New World
59. The Devil, Probably
60. Pierrot Le Fou
61. All That Heaven Allows
62. The Thing
63. Kiss Me Deadly
64. Point Blank
65. Fat City
66. Unsere Afrikareise
67. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
68. The Last of the Mohicans
69. Man Without A Map
70. Alien
71. Le Cercle Rouge
72. Down By Law
73. Repulsion
74. Mademoiselle
75. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
76. Vampyr
77. Notorious
78. Pulp Fiction
79. The Devils
80. The Double Life of Veronique
81. La Dolce Vita
82. The Brood
83. Metropolis
84. There Will Be Blood
85. Le Bonheur
86. Lancelot du Lac
87. Contempt
88. Killer of Sheep
89. I Walked With A Zombie
90. Pandora & The Flying Dutchman
91. Inferno
92. Who Can Kill a Child?
93. Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave
94. Onibaba
95. À Nous la Liberté
96. Betty Blue
97. Near Dark
98. The Exorcist
99. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
100. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford