Adam Frazier
I’ve been working on this for quite some time now. I’m finally ready to release my Top 100 Films, organized by the year in which the film was originally released. I plan on doing a feature of my Top 10 Favorite Films with full write-ups, organized by intensity of burning love and adoration for said cinematic work.
In perhaps a controversial move, I’ve added a film from 2011 to the list. Currently, “Beginners” is my favorite film of the year – of course with Awards Season upon us this could certainly change, but regardless I consider Mike Mills’ latest to be a personal, definitive film. So, without any further adieu, I present to you my Top 100 Films…
1 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
2 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper
3 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale
4 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming
5 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
6 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
7 Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
8 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
9 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
10 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
11 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
12 The Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold
13 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox
14 The Searchers 1956 John Ford
15 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
16 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman
17 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
18 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa
19 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
20 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
21 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
22 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey
23 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
24 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa
25 Dr. Strangelove 1964 Stanley Kubrick
26 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
27 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
28 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
29 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
30 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
31 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
32 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
33 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas
34 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
35 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
36 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
37 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
38 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
39 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
40 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper
41 Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman
42 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
43 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
44 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
45 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen
46 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
47 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
48 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
49 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
50 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
51 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
52 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter
53 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
54 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott
55 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kirshner
56 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
57 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
58 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma
59 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi
60 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
61 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter
62 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
63 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
64 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
65 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand
66 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman
67 A Nightmare On Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven
68 Return of the Living Dead 1985 Dan O’Bannon
69 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
70 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg
71 Aliens 1986 James Cameron
72 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter
73 Stand By Me 1986 Rob Reiner
74 Adventures in Babysitting 1987 Chris Columbus
75 Predator 1987 john McTiernan
76 Robocop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
77 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton
78 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
79 Tremors 1990 Ron Underwood
80 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron
81 Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
82 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone
83 The Sandlot 1993 David M. Evans
84 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater
85 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg
86 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas
87 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont
88 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
89 Se7en 1995 David Fincher
90 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
91 The Big Lebowski 1998 The Coen Brothers
92 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes
93 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe
94 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
95 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
96 Zodiac 2006 David Fincher
97 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro
98 Grindhouse 2007 Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriquez
99 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
100 Beginners 2011 Mike Mills
