Univarn's 100 Favorite Films

The following is my list of the top 100 films ever made. The list was organized during Fall of 2008, as such this list is subject to updates and criticism as I continue my trek through films. It is by no means a definitive list, nor a list of randomly selected films. The criteria involved in the selection process was as follows: a) I had to have seen the movie, b) it had to have made a long term impact on me, and c) the movie has to have been influential in both my life and film.

Top 100 films:

1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
3. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
4. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
5. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
6. Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
7. Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989)
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
9. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
10. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
11. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
12. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
13. Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
14. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
15. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
17. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
18. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
20. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
21. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
22. Raging Bull (Martin Scorcese, 1980)
23. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
24. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
25. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
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26. Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948)
27. The Longest Day (Annakin/Marton/Wicki/Zanuck, 1962)
28. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
29. West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961)
30. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
31. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
32. Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
33. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
34. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
35. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
36. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
37. My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964)
38. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
39. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
40. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
41. Singin' In the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
42. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
43. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
44. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
45. The Matrix (The Wachowski’s Brothers, 1999)
46. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
47. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
48. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
49. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
50. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
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51. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
52. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)
53. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
54. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan, 1990)
55. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
56. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
57. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
58. Limelight (Charlie Chaplin, 1952)
59. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
60. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
61. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)
62. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
63. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
64. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
65. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
66. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
67. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
68. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
69. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
70. The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
71. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)
72. The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994)
73. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
74. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
75. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
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76. MASH (Robert Altman, 1970)
77. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
78. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
79. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
80. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
81. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
82. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
83. The Wizard of Oz (Victory Fleming, 1939)
84. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
85. Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
86. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
87. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
88. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
89. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
90. There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
91. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
92. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
93. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
94. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
95. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
96. Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
97. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
98. From Russia With Love (Terence Young, 1963)
99. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
100. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)

*reviews for each film began during the fall of 2009.