It is time once again for a Top 100 Films of All-Time list. As I’ve done for the last few years, the first ten spots on the list comprise a hypothetical Sight & Sound-style ballot. We had an on-going project related to this on The George Sanders Show, that will now be based at Seattle Screen Scene. This top ten is presented here in chronological order. The remaining 90 films were randomly selected from a consideration set of 867 films, which excluded films that made my Top Tens in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

1. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)

2. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)

3. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

4. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

5. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

6. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)

7. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

8. Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2003)

9. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

10. Linda Linda Linda (Nouhiro Yamashita, 2005)

11. The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)

12. Murmur of the Hearts (Sylvia Chang, 2015)

13. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)

14. Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982)

15. Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller, 1957)

16. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)

17. The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Paul Wegener & Carl Boese, 1920)

18. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

19. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)

20. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

21. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

22. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, 1984)

23. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

24. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

25. The Heroic Ones (Chang Cheh, 1970)

26. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)

27. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)

28. Hearts of the World (DW Griffith, 1918)

29. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)

30. There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1955)

31. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)

32. Written By (Wai Ka-fai, 2009)

33. Big Night (Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci, 1996)

34. The Pan-American Exposition by Night (Edwin S. Porter, 1901)

35. Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973)

36. Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney, 1953)

37. Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr, 2015)

38. Come Drink with Me (King Hu, 1966)

39. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)

40. City Girl (FW Murnau, 1930)

41. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)

42. Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz, 2012)

43. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)

44. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

45. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

46. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)

47. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)

48. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)

49. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)

50. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)

51. Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)

52. Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk, 2011)

53. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)

54. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)

55. City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)

56. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

57. 24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)

58. Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)

59. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)

60. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)

61. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis, 2007)

62. Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001)

63. The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)

64. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)

65. In Another Country (Hong Sangsoo, 2012)

66. Toute la mémoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956)

67. Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman, 1914)

68. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mike Naruse, 1935)

69. Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)

70. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)

71. PTU (Johnnie To, 2003)

72. The East is Red (Ching Siu-tung & Raymond Lee, 1993)

73. Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994)

74. Hapkido (Huang Feng, 1972)

75. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

76. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

77. Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988)

78. Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Jeffrey Lau, 2002)

79. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)

80. A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)

81. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

82. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

83. Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford, 1937)

84. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979)

85. Yesterday Once More (Johnnie To, 2004)

86. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)

87. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichhardt, 2010)

88. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)

89. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)

90. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, 1966)

91. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)

92. Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)

93. Two Tars (James Parrott, 1928)

94. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

95. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper, 1991)

96. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

97. Body Double (Brian De Palma, 1984)

98. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)

99. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)

100. Heroes of the East (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)