8.8.2004

 
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra
The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone
Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood
Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir
Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis
 
Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock
Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick
The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Milos Forman
Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone
Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen
Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino
Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir
Magnolia (1999) – Paul Thomas Anderson
O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) – Joel Coen
 
The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin
The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin
The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
How Green Was My Valley (1941) – John Ford
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston
Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz
To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch
The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder
The African Queen (1951) – John Huston
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise
Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Vincente Minnelli
The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks
Touch of Evil (1958) – Orson Welles
Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock
One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick
A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards
N The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) – Sergio Leone
The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger
The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah
Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel
O Lucky Man! (1973) – Lindsay Anderson
N Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski
The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino
N Manhattan (1979) – Woody Allen
The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner
Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner
N Back to the Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis
Witness (1985) – Peter Weir
Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner
Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder
Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton
Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – Adrian Lyne
Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch
The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam
JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley
Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino
The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont
SE7En (1995) – David Fincher
Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen
Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle
Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon
Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz
American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich (1999) – Spike Jonze
The Matrix (1999) – Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan
N The Straight Story (1999) – David Lynch
N Memento (2000) – Christopher Nolan
N Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – Ang Lee
N Amélie (2001) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
N The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Peter Jackson
Moulin Rouge (2001) – Baz Luhrmann
N Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch

THE SYMBOLS

N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
 
DROPPED OFF THE 2002 LIST:

Horse Feathers (1932)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Body Heat (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Hellraiser (1987)
Cape Fear (1991)
Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)

 
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4  Joel Coen, Alfred Hitchcock
3  Charles Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick,
    Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Peter Weir, Billy Wilder
 
Other TOP 100 lists:

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