List by Ronan Doyle
Top 100 Films
An ordered list of the 100 best films I have ever seen. Been toying with building one of these for months, finally decided I might as well. Hugely subjective, of course, these are the best films ever made by my estimation that I have had the good fortune to see. The ranking of the list is subject not just to quality, but to my own personal attachment (Garage, for instance, was instrumental in making me a movie fan, it'll always hold a special place for that). As I imagine the list will attest, I have a preference for slow and morbid reflections on mortality and the utter meaninglessness of life. Cheery stuff. I should say that the idea of ranking so many great films is something I'm not entirely comfortable with; each of the films here is important to me in its own way and setting it out as better or worse than those to either side feels like a cruel disservice. Nevertheless, I'm eager to share my tastes with y'all, to get feedback, and most importantly of all to fly the flag for some greats you might not have come across. Enjoy, let me know what you (dis)agree with, and if there's anything you're curious about be sure to ask!
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Yeah, I've only seen maybe half of that list of 420-ish films. I'm still 50 off being halfway through the Halliwell's top 1000 list. Will be a long time before I even approach the finishing point. With Shoah and Heimat on the list, honestly imagine Death will win this game of cinematic chess.
@ronan really interesting list Ronan, and as it says in my profile, "i like poking around in others peoples lists and i'll watch your number 1 film if i havent seen it", so that's on my watch list. :)
Good stuff, hope you enjoy it!
Awesome list!
Very interesting list. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together.
Just had another look through your list and have seen another couple I love that I missed the first time around. Umberto D, which is my favourite neo realist film and the Maya Deren experimental films which I first saw in college last year. The looping, soundless, melodic feel of them really blew me away. Good choices
Umberto's a wonderful film. Gets far less attention that The Bicycle Thieves despite, in my mind, being a heck of a lot more worthy. One of cinema's greatest dogs too. Looks like our curricula are similar, I saw the Deren stuff last year too! Not a big experimental fan in general, but hers just stuck with me. Really melodic, like you said. Haunting in the best way possible.
Amazed to find O'Horten in here and that high as well. Not many have that one on their top 100. Did you see Baard Owe in Gertrud?
I have no idea what it was about O' Horten that hit me so hard, but it's really stuck with me. I haven't seen Gertrud, no, but considering it's got Owe, Dreyer, and a 10 minute take it sounds like just the kind of thing I'd love.
I suspect Day of Wrath and Ordet will fit right in as well.