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Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies Of The 20th Century

Added on by C. Maoxian.

It’s a pretty good list! Sean Young made the cover.

  1. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

  2. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

  3. The Ten Commandments (1923)

  4. The Gold Rush (1925)

  5. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

  6. The General (1926)

  7. Metropolis (1927)

  8. The Blue Angel (1930)

  9. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

  10. M (1931)

  11. Duck Soup (1933)

  12. King Kong (1933)

  13. Modern Times (1936)

  14. La grande illusion (1937)

  15. Gone with the Wind (1939)

  16. Fantasia (1940)

  17. Citizen Kane (1941)

  18. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

  19. Casablanca (1942)

  20. The Big Sleep (1946)

  21. Beauty and the Beast (1946)

  22. Notorious (1946)

  23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

  24. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

  25. The Third Man (1949)

  26. All About Eve (1950)

  27. Rashomon (1950)

  28. The Young and the Damned (1950)

  29. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  30. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

  31. The African Queen (1951)

  32. High Noon (1952)

  33. Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)

  34. The Wages of Fear (1953)

  35. La Strada (1954)

  36. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

  37. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

  38. Giant (1956)

  39. The Searchers (1956)

  40. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

  41. Wild Strawberries (1957)

  42. Vertigo (1958)

  43. The 400 Blows (1959)

  44. Some Like It Hot (1959)

  45. Ben-Hur (1959)

  46. La Dolce Vita (1960)

  47. L'Avventura (1960)

  48. Psycho (1960)

  49. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

  50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  51. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

  52. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

  53. Goldfinger (1964)

  54. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

  55. Pierrot le fou (1965)

  56. Andrei Rublev (1966)

  57. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

  58. The Graduate (1967)

  59. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

  60. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

  61. Easy Rider (1969)

  62. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

  63. The Wild Bunch (1969)

  64. Death in Venice (1971)

  65. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  66. Deliverance (1972)

  67. Cabaret (1972)

  68. The Godfather (1972)

  69. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

  70. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

  71. Chinatown (1974)

  72. Jaws (1975)

  73. 73. Jaws

  74. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

  75. Taxi Driver (1976)

  76. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

  77. Annie Hall (1977)

  78. The Deer Hunter (1978)

  79. The Tin Drum (1979)

  80. Mad Max (1979)

  81. Apocalypse Now (1979)

  82. Raging Bull (1980)

  83. Fitzcarraldo (1982)

  84. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

  85. Scarface (1983)

  86. Blade Runner (1982)

  87. The 4th Man (1983)

  88. Blue Velvet (1986)

  89. Dead Ringers (1988)

  90. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  91. Forrest Gump (1994)

  92. Chungking Express (1994)

  93. Pulp Fiction (1994)

  94. L.A. Confidential (1997)

  95. Face/Off (1997)

  96. The Celebration (1998)

  97. All About My Mother (1999)

  98. American Beauty (1999)

  99. Magnolia (1999)

  100. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Rachel Sennott's Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I’ve added the five movies that Rachel Sennott picked in her Criterion Closet appearance. I googled “Is Rachel Sennott a man” after watching her visit. I hated BookSmart, which she apparently wrote or directed or something.

  • Tiny Furniture

  • Happiness

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

  • Punch-Drunk Love

  • To Die For

Rachel Sennott made no original picks (few kids do). This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.

Top 25 Most Picked Movies in the Criterion Closet

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I created a Master List of every movie ever picked by guests in the Criterion Closet. Using my advanced data analysis skills (meaning I went through and counted all the titles by hand), I have determined that these are the top 25 most picked movies (NOT including box sets, see below) in the Criterion Closet (to date):

  1. Do the Right Thing

  2. Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom

  3. 8 1/2

  4. All That Jazz

  5. La strada

  6. Wanda

  7. Dekalog

  8. Naked

  9. Yi Yi

  10. Mirror

  11. Being There

  12. The Night of the Hunter

  13. The Red Shoes

  14. Amores Perros

  15. Down By Law

  16. Loves of a Blonde

  17. Pickpocket

  18. Punch-Drunk Love

  19. Shampoo

  20. Barry Lyndon

  21. Bicycle Thieves

  22. Blue Velvet

  23. 3 Women

  24. Eraserhead

  25. His Girl Friday

The top 5 most picked box sets in the Criterion Closet are:

  1. John Cassavetes: Five Films

  2. The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

  3. The Complete Jacques Tati

  4. Essential Fellini

  5. 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman

Kathryn Bigelow's Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I’ve added the nine movies Kathryn Bigleow picked in her Criterion Closet appearance. She dressed up as Diane Keaton for her visit. Also I really don’t like any of the movies she’s made, but that’s just my personal opinion.

  • Army of Shadows

  • Detour

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

  • Notorious

  • Straw Dogs

  • The Battle of Algiers

  • The Confession

  • The Lodger

  • Z

Kathryn Bigelow made three original picks: Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Confession, and The Lodger. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.

Wagner Moura's Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I’ve added the seven movies Wagner Moura picked in his Criterion Closet appearance.

  • Black God, White Devil

  • Il posto

  • Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2

  • Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3

  • Memories of Underdevelopment

  • Rosetta

  • The Kid with a Bike

Wagner Moura had one original pick: Black God, White Devil. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.

Eighty Movies That Turn Us On

Added on by C. Maoxian.

The National Society of Film Critics put out a book in 2005 called “The X List.” These were the 80 films listed in the book, sorted chronologically:

Pandora's Box    1929
Morocco    1930
The Mummy     1932
Shanghai Express    1932
Trouble in Paradise    1932
Baby Face    1933
Ecstasy    1933
The Song of Songs    1933
It Happened One Night    1934
Tarzan and His Mate    1934
Wuthering Heights    1939
Rebecca    1940
Ossessione    1943
Laura     1944
Gilda    1946
Carmen Jones    1954
Picnic    1955
Baby Doll    1956
Horror of Dracula    1958
The Long, Hot Summer    1958
Eyes Without a Face    1959
Hercules    1959
Black Sunday    1960
Hercules Unchained    1960
Peeping Tom     1960
Splendor in the Grass    1961
Bye Bye Birdie    1963
Contempt    1963
Secretary     1963
Persona    1966
Belle De Jour    1967
Frankenstein Created Woman    1967
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid    1969
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls    1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis    1970
Klute    1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller    1971
Behind the Green Door    1972
Deep Throat    1972
Last Tango in Paris    1972
Don't Look Now    1973
Shampoo    1975
In the Realm of the Senses    1976
Young Lady Chatterley    1977
Days of Heaven    1978
Talk Dirty To Me    1980
Body Heat    1981
The Makioka Sisters    1983
A Nos Amours    1984
Crimes of Passion    1984
Blue Velvet    1986
The Unbearable Lightness of Being    1988
The Fabulous Baker Boys    1989
La Femme Nikita    1990
Basic Instinct    1992
The Last of the Mohicans    1992
Poison Ivy    1992
The Age of Innocence    1993
Crash    1996
Irma Vep    1996
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life    1997
The Tango Lesson    1997
Great Expectations    1998
Eyes Wide Shut    1999
Forever Mine    1999
Baise-Moi    2000
In the Mood For Love    2000
O Fantasma    2000
Intimacy    2001
Mulholland Drive    2001
Y Tu Mama Tambien    2001
Femme Fatale    2002
Irreversible    2002
Laurel Canyon    2002
In the Cut    2003
Twentynine Palms     2003
Anatomy of Hell     2004
Bad Education    2004
Kinsey    2004
Troy    2004

Elle Fanning's Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet

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I’ve added the ten movies Elle Fanning picked in her Criterion Closet appearance.

  • The Red Shoes

  • The Virgin Suicides

  • Daisies

  • Bringing Up Baby

  • To Die For

  • The Power of the Dog

  • The Worst Person in the World

  • Parasite

  • The Princess Bride (rando pick)

  • I Knew Her Well (rando pick)

Ella Fanning had one original pick: The Power of the Dog. No one in the history of Closet Picks has chosen this movie. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.

Claire Danes's Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet

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I’ve added the seven movies Claire Danes picked in her Criterion Closet appearance.

  • A Woman Under the Influence

  • Defending Your Life

  • Dogfight

  • Some Like It Hot

  • Streetwise

  • The Breakfast Club

  • The Grifters

Claire Danes didn’t have any original picks, although to date only one other person has selected Streetwise and one other person selected The Breakfast Club. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.

Criterion Collection Closet Picks Master List

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I have a lot of time on my hands so I made a sortable master list of all the closet picks ever made by those invited by the Criterion Collection to raid their closet. The movie selections made by every guest, from Agnes Varda to Zoe Kravitz, is included in the list. There are over 2,500 rows in the list (and counting).

It’s interesting to see what are the most common picks, but I find it more interesting to see which movies have only been picked once despite there having been over 300 closet videos posted to date. For instance, I never would have watched The Cremator, which I enjoyed, if Carrie Coon hadn’t recommended it, and she is the only person who did so.

Enjoy! If you find any mistakes or omissions, please email me and I’ll correct it.