It’s time once again for a list of my favorite movies. For the last decade or so, I’ve been creating a randomly selected Top 100 out of a much larger consideration set. This year, I tried to make a list of my favorites that was as small as possible, and ended up with 309 I simply couldn’t bear to cut. Here they are in random order.

1. Labyrinth of Cinema
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating
4. An Autumn Afternoon
5. Hard-Boiled
6. Millennium Mambo
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. Ballet
9. Vampyr
10. Red Cliff
11. The Lion in Winter
12. A Canterbury Tale
13. The Love Eterne
14. Dangerous Encounters — First Kind
15. Kicking and Screaming
16. The Grandmaster
17. Trouble in Paradise
18. Whisper of the Heart
19. Ran
20. School on Fire
21. Funny Face
22. The Day He Arrives
23. Seven Samurai
24. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
25. Modern Times

26. One Froggy Evening
27. Made in Hong Kong
28. Shanghai Express
29. I’m Not There
30. Rushmore
31. The Matrix
32. The Right Stuff
33. Yi yi
34. The Lady Eve
35. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle through the Ages
36. Only Angels Have Wings
37. Legend of the Mountain
38. Throw Down
39. In the Mood for Love
40. House
41. The Empire Strikes Back
42. The Adventures of Robin Hood
43. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
44. 35 Shots of Rum
45. Once Upon a Time in the West
46. Casablanca
47. Nomad
48. A Matter of Life and Death
49. Dead Man
50. Fantasia

51. A Touch of Zen
52. Blind Detective
53. Dazed and Confused
54. Days of Being Wild
55. Eyes Wide Shut
56. Oki’s Movie
57. The Flowers of Shanghai
58. The Thin Red Line
59. The General
60. The Bellboy
61. Zulu
62. Bull Durham
63. Slacker
64. Jackie Brown
65. Original Cast Album: Company
66. Die Nibelungen
67. L’Avventura
68. Harlan County, USA
69. Metropolis
70. Fantastic Mr. Fox
71. Duck Soup
72. The Puppetmaster
73. Black Narcissus
74. Duvidha
75. The Midnight After

76. Inherent Vice
77. Awaara
78. Last of the Mohicans
79. Chan is Missing
80. Orlando
81. Reds
82. Heat
83. The History of the Seattle Mariners
84. Comrades: Almost a Love Story
85. Still Life
86. The Mission (1999)
87. Big Night
88. Xiao Wu
89. Johnny Guitar
90. The Last Temptation of Christ
91. Duck Amuck
92. In the Heat of the Sun
93. The New World
94. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
95. A New Leaf
96. What’s Opera, Doc?
97. The Red Shoes
98. The Terrorizers
99. Pierrot le fou
100. A City of Sadness

101. Two-Lane Blacktop
102. The Philadelphia Story
103. Wheels on Meals
104. Yearning
105. Mahanagar
106. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
107. The Searchers
108. Shanghai Blues
109. Bringing Up Baby
110. All About Eve
111. The Quiet Man
112. Howard’s End
113. All that Jazz
114. Robin and Marian
115. The Battle of Algiers
116. Mughal-e-azam
117. Les amants du Pont-Neuf
118. Hero
119. They Were Expendable
120. A Day in the Country
121. The Docks of New York
122. The Musketeers of Pig Alley
123. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
124. The Third Man
125. Raiders of the Lost Ark

126. Touch of Evil
127. Stranger than Paradise
128. The Rules of the Game
129. Romancing in Thin Air
130. Certified Copy
131. Sunrise
132. The Miracle Fighters
133. Annie Hall
134. Dragon Gate Inn
135. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
136. A Woman is a Woman
137. Hatari!
138. Beau travail
139. Unforgiven
140. The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
141. The Harder They Come
142. Singin’ in the Rain
143. Exiled
144. The Shop Around the Corner
145. The Blade
146. Police Story
147. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
148. Lovers Rock
149. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
150. Punch-Drunk Love

151. Chungking Express
152. Alien
153. Hellzapoppin’
154. Airplane!
155. Fort Apache
156. Blackhat
157. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
158. Les Vampires
159. Mulholland Dr.
160. Histoire(s) du cinema
161. Wagon Master
162. Renaldo & Clara
163. Out of the Past
164. The Last Days of Disco
165. La Commune (Paris 1871)
166. Charade
167. Peking Opera Blues
168. Bambi
169. The Bad News Bears
170. Mahjong
171. Broadcast News
172. Hana and Alice
173. Sans soleil
174. Pyaasa
175. The Age of Innocence

176. Holiday
177. Los Angeles Plays Itself
178. The Heart of the World
179. His Motorbike, Her Island
180. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
181. Metropolitan
182. Shadow Kingdom
183. The Fellowship of the Ring
184. Late Spring
185. Throne of Blood
186. Running on Karma
187. Three Colors: Blue
188. Vertigo
189. City Lights
190. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
191. Liz and the Blue Bird
192. The Bridges of Madison County
193. Tropical Malady
194. Perceval le Gallois
195. The Princess Bride
196. Ash is Purest White
197. Anatomy of a Murder
198. Ugetsu
199. Satantango
200. Speed Racer

201. Chimes at Midnight
202. The Royal Tenenbaums
203. Glengarry Glen Ross
204. Mad Max: Fury Road
205. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
206. Playtime
207. Let the Bullets Fly
208. A Charlie Brown Christmas
209. Rear Window
210. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
211. Sparrow
212. My Fair Lady
213. The Music Room
214. La danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
215. Trainspotting
216. Dirty Ho
217. Young Mr. Lincoln
218. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
219. The BIg Sleep
220. Miller’s Crossing
221. My Neighbor Totoro
222. I am Cuba
223. Platform
224. Meek’s Cutoff
225. Citizen Kane

226. Linda Linda Linda
227. Fallen Angels
228. Miami Vice
229. Children of Paradise
230. Song of the Exile
231. Night of the Hunter
232. Only Yesterday (1991)
233. Happy Together
234. Meet Me in St. Louis
235. Broken Blossoms
236. Kiki’s Delivery Service
237. The Big Red One
238. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
239. Excalibur
240. Green Snake
241. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
242. Kung Fu Hustle
243. The Killer
244. Good Men, Good Women
245. Conan the Barbarian
246. A Moment of Romance
247. An American in Paris
248. Phantoms of Nabua
249. Henry V
250. It Felt Like a Kiss

251. Voyage in Italy
252. Journey to the West (2014)
253. Days of Heaven
254. Sherlock, Jr
255. Once Upon a Time in China
256. Kill Bill Vol. 1
257. Rio Bravo
258. Kiss Me Kate
259. The Big Lebowski
260. Wolf Children
261. Om Shanti Om
262. Dangerous Liaisons
263. City on Fire
264. Irma Vep
265. Morocco
266. The Time to Live, the Time to Die
267. M. Hulot’s Holiday
268. The Rocking Horsemen
269. Pulp Fiction
270. Full Contact
271. Safety Last
272. It’s a Wonderful Life
273. A Brighter Summer Day
274. Last Life in the Universe
275. Paterson

276. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
277. Apocalypse Now
278. The Story of Woo Viet
279. Do the Right Thing
280. Fire Walk with Me
281. Rouge
282. F for Fake
283. Little Women
284. The Birds
285. Ruggles of Red Gap
286. 2046
287. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
288. News from Home
289. The Green Ray
290. Ashes of Time
291. Mean Streets
292. The Band Wagon
293. Cat People
294. A Better Tomorrow
295. Oxhide II
296. The Pirate
297. One Week
298. Psycho
299. Jaws
300. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

301. Amanda (2019)
302. Spring in a Small Town
303. Japanese Girls at the Harbor
304. Ishtar
305. North by Northwest
306. Yourself & Yours
307. Claire’s Camera
308. Baahubali
309. Early Summer