Top 100 films list — 2020 edition
Have survived two years since the last one, so might as well. I’ll leave the old one up if you’re inclined to find it in its separate parts. This is the first time in a decade I’ve budged on #1.
1 — Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
2 — The Tree of Life (2011) Terrance Malick
3 — Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick
4 — 8 ½ (1963) Federico Fellini
5 — Three Colors: Blue (1993) Krzysztof Kieslowski
6 — Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
7 — La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini
8 — The Godfather (1970) Francis Ford Coppola
9 — Dekalog (1988) Krzysztof Kieslowski
10 — Midsommar (2019) Ari Aster
11 — Woman in the Dunes (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara
12 — There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson
13 — 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
14 — Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
15 — Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
16 — Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Denis Villeneuve
17 — The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
18 — Time Regained (1998) Raoul Ruiz
19 — The Thin Red Line (1998) Terrance Malick
20 — The Libertine (2004) Laurence Dunmore
21 — Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Stanley Kramer
22 — Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick
23 — The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
24 — Blade Runner (1982 — Final Cut) Ridley Scott
25 — The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
26 — Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa
27 — Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins
28 — No Country for Old Men (2007) Coen bros
29 — Schindler’s List (1993) Steven Spielberg
30 — The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan
31 — Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Celine Sciamma
32 — Kingdom of Heaven (2005 — Director’s Cut) Ridley Scott
33 — Three Colors: Red (1994) Krzysztof Kieslowski
34 — The Fountain (2006) Darren Aronofsky
35 — Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
36 — Before Sunset (2004) Richard Linklater
37 — All The President’s Men (1976) Alan Pakula
38 — The Prince of Egypt (1998) Chapman, Hickner, Wells
39 — In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-wai
40 — Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov
41 — Taste of Cherry (1997) Abbas Kiarostami
42 — Good Will Hunting (1997) Gus Van Sant
43 — The Thing (1982) John Carpenter
44 — Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman
45 — Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky
46 — Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick
47 — Before Midnight (2013) Richard Linklater
48 — Mandy (2018) Panos Cosmatos
49 — The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Coen bros
50 — Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog
51 — That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Luis Bunuel
52 — Evil Dead II (1987) Sam Raimi
53 — Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
54 — The Witch (2015) Robert Eggers
55 — Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki
56 — Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
57 — The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Dan O’Bannon
58 — Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch
59 — A Serious Man (2009) Coen bros
60 — Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) Mike Leigh
61 — The Handmaiden (2016) Park Chan-wook
62 — Close-Up (1990) Abbas Kiarostami
63 — Nostalghia (1983) Andrei Tarkovsky
64 — The Master (2012) Paul Thomas Anderson
65 — Hero (2002) Zhang Yimou
66 — Under the Skin (2013) Jonathan Glazer
67 — Ugetsu (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi
68 — A Separation (2011) Asghar Farhadi
69 — Videodrome (1983) David Cronenberg
70 — Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Koreeda
71 — 12 Years a Slave (2013) Steve McQueen
72 — The Ascent (1977) Larisa Shepitko
73 — Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) Werner Herzog
74 — Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais
75 — Daisies (1966) Vera Chytilova
76 — Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
77 — Still Walking (2008) Hirokazu Koreeda
78 — Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Hayao Miyazaki
79 — Incendies (2010) Denis Villeneuve
80 — Secrets & Lies (1996) Mike Leigh
81 — Vagabond (1985) Agnes Varda
82 — The White Ribbon (2009) Michael Haneke
83 — Prospero’s Books (1991) Peter Greenaway
84 — The Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky
85 — Red Beard (1965) Akira Kurosawa
86 — The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo
87 — Barton Fink (1991) Coen bros
88 — Predator (1987) John McTiernan
89 — Mamma Roma (1962) Pier-Paolo Pasolini
90 — Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Isao Takahata
91 — About Elly (2009) Asghar Farhadi
92 — Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
93 — Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Maya Deren
94 — Top Secret! (1984) Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker
95 — Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini
96 — Annihilation (2018) Alex Garland
97 — Underground (1995) Emir Kusturica
98 — Nobody Knows (2004) Hirokazu Koreeda
99 — An Education (2009) Lone Scherfig
100 — The Terminator (1983) James Cameron
