Tosh Berman's Top 102 Films of All Time (and in no special order)
In Tribute to Sight and Sound
Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929, with some assistance from Salvador Dali)
Empire (Andy Warhol/John Palmer, 1965)
Performance (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
Histoire(s) du cinéna (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-1998)
Tokyo Story / 東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari (Yasujiro Ozū, 1953)
A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958)
Fox and his Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, 1936)
Meshes in the Afternoon (Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid, 1943)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1916)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman, 1924)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1993)
Detour (Edgar Ulmer, 1945)
Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death / 憂國, Yūkoku (Yukio Mishima, 1966)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965)
Los Ovidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
Last Year at Marienbad / L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
The Fire Within / Le Feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
The Late Mathias Pascal / Feu Mathias Pascal (Marcel L’Herbier, 1925)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy, 1969)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Un chant d’amour (Jean Genet, 1950)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger/Dudley Murphy, 1924)
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
The Connection (Shirley Clarke, 1961)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Stray Dog / 野良犬, Nora inu (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Aleph (Wallace Berman, 1956-1976)
Nippon musekinin jidai / The Crazycats (Kengo Furusawa, 1962)
Contempt / Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, 1952)
Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
Expresso Bongo (Val Guest, 1959)
Pennies From Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (William Klein, 1966)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
Viva (Anna Biller, 2007)
Oatmeal (Relah Eckstein, 1994)
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
Annette (Leos Carax, 2021)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
T.A.M.I. Show (Steve Binder, 1964)
42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon/Busby Berkeley, 1933)
Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
West Side Story (Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins, 1961
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch (Roy Andersson, 2014)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Seven Samurai / 七人の侍 Shichinin no Samurai (Akita Kurasawa, 1954)
Rififi (Jules Dassin)
The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1964)
Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973)
Steamboat Jr. (Buster Keaton/Charles Reisner, 1928)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, 1961)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933)
Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel, 1933
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) 1950
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Good Morning/ お早よう, Ohayō (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021)
Purple Noon / Plein soleil (René Clément, 1955
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1963)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
A Page of Madness 狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipeiji (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnés Varda, 1962)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
These 102 films are, without a doubt, the greatest films of all time. Beyond questioning!
Best,
Tosh
Fabulous list Tosh!, agree with all...glad to see Head in there...though I'm surprised to see no Teshigahara or Tarkovsky...or Sunset Boulevard or Eraserhead....but superb rundown nonetheless....
Great list, Tosh. I disliked the S&S list & much prefer yours. Cinema!