The Time film critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, created a Top 100 list of films since the magazine began publishing film reviews. For the cineastes, here is a checklist fof the classics section of your favorite video rental establishment. If this is (fair & balanced) aesthetics, so be it.
Time's Top 100 Films Since 1923
A - C
• Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
• The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Baby Face (1933)
• Bande à part (1964)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Brazil (1985)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Camille (1936)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Charade (1963)
• Children of Paradise (1945)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• City Lights (1931)
• City of God (2002)
• Closely Watched Trains (1966)
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• The Crowd (1928)
D - F
• Day for Night (1973)
• The Decalogue (1989)
• Detour (1945)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Drunken Master II (1994)
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Fly (1986)
G - J
• The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Ikiru (1952)
• In A Lonely Place (1950)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• It's A Gift (1934)
• It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
• Kandahar (2001)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• The Last Command (1928)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Léolo (1992)
• The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
• The Man With a Camera (1929)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
• Mouchette (1967)
N - P
• Nayakan (1987)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• Notorious (1946)
• Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Persona (1966)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Pyaasa (1957)\
Q – S
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• The Singing Detective (1986)
• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Star Wars (1977)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Sunrise (1927)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• Swing Time (1936)
T - Z
• Talk to Her (2002)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• A Touch of Zen (1971)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
• Umberto D (1952)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• White Heat (1949)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Yojimbo (1961)
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