My Personal Movie Canon

....at the request of Der Fersko



Gold:
1. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
2. The Producers - Mel Brooks
3. The Decalogue - Krzysztof Kieslowski
4. Animal House - John Landis
5. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
6. Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
7. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola/Mario Puzo
8. Shakespeare in Love - John Madden/Tom Stoppard
9. Annie Hall - Woody Allen
10. The Big Lebowski - Joel/Ethan Coen
11. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
12. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
13. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
14. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
15. Before Sunrise - Richard Linklater
The Barbarian Invasions
16. E.T. - Steven Spielberg
17. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Milos Forman
18. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming
19. The Social Network - David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin
20. F For Fake - Orson Welles


Silver:
21. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
22. Pan’s Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro
23. Manhattan - Woody Allen
24. Amadeus - Milos Forman
25. The Pianist - Roman Polanski
26. Liberty Heights - Barry Levinson
27. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
28. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
29. All About My Mother - Pedro Almodovar
30. Pleasantville - Gary Ross
Rushmore - Wes Andersen
30. Juno - Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody
31. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
32. Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
33. Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville
34. Schindler’s List - Steven Spielberg
35. The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich
36. Iris - Richard Eyre
37. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
38. North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
39. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Robert Zemeckis
40. Bad Education - Pedro Almodovar


Bronze
41. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz/The Epstein Brothers
42. A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann/Robert Bolt
43. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
44. The Empire Strikes Back - George Lucas/Irvin Kershner
45. Fish Called Wanda - Charles Crichton
46. Fiddler on the Roof - Norman Jewison
47 The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer
48. Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee
49. City of God - Fernando Meirelles
50. Elephant Man - David Lynch
51. Diner - Barry Levinson
52. The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut
53. The Naked Gun - Jim Abrahams/The Zucker Brothers
54. Death to Smoochy - Danny DeVito
55. Forrest Gump - Robert Zemeckis
56. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
57. Thank You for Smoking - Jason Reitman
58. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
59. The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks/William Faulkner
60. 81/2 - Frederico Fellini



Placeholders:
61. Laura - Otto Preminger
62. Pinocchio - Walt Disney
63. Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis
64. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
65. Romeo and Juliet - Franco Zeffirelli
66. Star Wars - George Lucas
67. Borat - Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles
68. The Third Man - Carol Reed/Graham Greene
69. WALL-E - Andrew Stanton
70. Sunshine - Istvan Szabo
71. M*A*S*H - Robert Altman
72. On The Waterfront - Elia Kazan
73. Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese
74. Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn/Warren Beatty
75. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
76. City Slickers - Ron Underwood/Billy Crystal
77. Blue Velvet - David Lynch
78. Fight Club - David Fincher
79. Raiders of the Lost Art - Steven Spielberg/George Lucas
80. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
81. The Right Stuff - Philip Kaufman
82. Chinatown - Roman Polanski
83. Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks
84. Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
85. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
86. Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa
87. Prairie Home Companion - Robert Altman/Garrison Keillor
88. Take the Money and Run - Woody Allen
89. Bananas - Woody Allen
90. Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard/Peter Morgan
91. Quiz Show - Robert Redford
92. Everyone Says I Love You
93. White - Krysztof Kieslowski
94. My Dinner with Andre - Louis Malle
95. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut - Trey Parker/Matt Stone
96. Up In The Air - Jason Reitman
97. Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
98. Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
99. Sin City - Robert Rodriguez
100. Last Temptation of Christ - Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader



Honorable Mentions:
101. Network - Sidney Lumet/Paddy Chayefsky
102. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry/Charlie Kaufman
103. Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
104. The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner/William Goldman
105. The Lavendar Hill Mob - Charles Crichton
106. The French Connection - William Friedkin
107. The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
108. Rosemary’s Baby - Roman Polanski
109. Primary Colors - Mike Nichols/Elaine May
110. The Queen - Stephen Frears/Peter Morgan
111. Mean Girls - Mark Waters/Tina Fey
112. Vanya on 42nd Street - Louis Malle
113. The Truman Show - Peter Weir/Andrew Niccol
114. Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
115. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Steven Spielberg/George Lucas/Tom Stoppard
116. Love and Death - Woody Allen
117. Charlie Wilson's War - Mike Nichols/Aaron Sorkin
118. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
119. Monty Python and the Meaning of Life - Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam
120. A.I. - Steven Spielberg/Stanley Kubrick
121. Faithless - Liv Ullmann/Ingmar Bergman
122. Superbad - Greg Motolla/Seth Rogan/Evan Goldberg
123. Antz - Eric Darnell/Tim Johnson
124. What's Up Tiger Lilly - Woody Allen
125. Manhattan Murder Mystery - Woody Allen
126. Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
127. Whatever Works - Woody Allen
128. Play It Again, Sam - Herbert Ross/Woody Allen
129. Sleeper - Woody Allen
130. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy - Woody Allen


....always subject to change...obviously...there will be far more updates to this in coming weeks. In the meantime it will be a bit of a mess.