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I love movies. I'm not sure when I realised this. Maybe upon watching Disney's 'Aladdin' when I was a young kid or perhaps when I discovered 'The Godfather' at 14. My lists/reviews aim to share my opinion on films that made an impression on me. Enjoy, and please feel free to agree, disagree or send recommendations at amyth1ATgmail.com
________My Top 100 Favourite Films Of All Time____↓Below↓______

1. The Godfather I and II (1972/74) …............….………Francis Ford Coppola
2. East of Eden (1955) .……………………………………..…….....………..Elia Kazan
3. Casablanca (1942) .……………………………………………………..Michael Curtiz
4. The Wizard Of Oz (1939) .……………………………..……..………..Victor Fleming
5. Vertigo (1958) .………………………………………………………...Alfred Hitchcock
6. Children Of Paradise (1945) .…………………………….……………..Marcel Carné
7. Seven Samurai (1954) .…………………………….………..………Akira Kurosawa
8. Raging Bull (1980) .………………...........…….…...……… Martin Scorsese
9. Cries & Whispers (1972) .………………………..…………………Ingmar Bergman
10. Citizen Kane (1941) .……………….……………..…………………..Orson Welles
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .……………………….……………Stanley Kubrick
12. Faust (1926) .……………………………………………….…………...F.W. Murnau
13. La Dolce Vita & 8½ (1960/63) .…………......……...………..Federico Fellini
14. Taxi Driver (1976) .…………………………………..……………….Martin Scorsese
15. Winter Light (1962) .………………………………………….………Ingmar Bergman
16. Stalker (1979) .………………………………………………Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .……………………………..……….…………Billy Wilder
18. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .………………………………………………Vittorio De Sica
19. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) .………………………………………………David Lean
20. The Searchers (1956) .………………………………….………………….John Ford
21. La Règle Du Jeu (1939) .………………………….………...………….Jean Renoir
22. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) ..…...……………Sergio Leone
23. Ordet (1955) .…………………………………………….…...….Carl Theodor Dreyer
24. The Gold Rush (1925) .…………………………..……….…………Charles Chaplin
25. 12 Angry Men (1957) .……………………………….………………....Sidney Lumet
26. Some Like It Hot (1959) .…………………………………………………..Billy Wilder
27. On The Waterfront (1954) .………………………………………………..Elia Kazan
28. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) .……………….…….……………Robert Wiene
29. Gone With The Wind (1939) .……………………….………….……..Victor Fleming
30. Jean De Florette & Manon Of The Spring (1986) …….…….Claude Berri
31. M (1931) .………………………………………………………..……..……..Fritz Lang
32. Mirror (1975) .…………………...……………………...…..…...Andrei Tarkovsky
33. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938) .………….......……………Michael Curtiz
34. Cinema Paradiso (1988) .…………………….…...……………Giuseppe Tornatore
35. Psycho (1960) .………………………………….……..…………….Alfred Hitchcock
36. Metropolis (1927) .…………………….……….…………….……......……Fritz Lang
37. Tokyo Story (1953) .…………………………………….…….………...Yasujiro Ozu
38. Apocalypse Now (1979) .……………………...……..………Francis Ford Coppola
39. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) .…….………….……………Frank Darabont
40. Come And See (1985) .……………………………….………..……….Elem Klimov
41. A Man Escaped (1956) .…………………….………..…………...Robert Bresson
42. Rear Window (1954) .………………………………..……………...Alfred Hitchcock
43. Mulholland Dr (2001) .……………………………..….…….…………...David Lynch
44. Badlands (1973) .……………………………………….…..………..Terrence Malick
45. The Wild Bunch (1969) .…………………………….………….…….Sam Peckinpah
46. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) .……………………..……...…………Alain Resnais
47. Woman In The Dunes (1964) .…………………………………Hiroshi Teshigahara
48. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) .…………………..…………Tobe Hooper
49. Pulp Fiction (1994) .…………………………………….….………Quentin Tarantino
50. City Lights (1931) .……………………………………...…..………..Charles Chaplin
51. Double Indemnity (1944) .…………………………………………………Billy Wilder
52. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .…………………………….…………Stanley Kubrick
53. The Wages Of Fear (1953) .…………………….……….…Henri-Georges Clouzot
54. Death In Venice (1971) .…………………………………………….Luchino Visconti
55. Une femme deuce (1969) .………………………………………Robert Bresson
56. Quest For Fire (1981) .………………………...….…………Jean-Jacques Annaud
57. Close-Up (1989) .…………………………………….….………...Abbas Kiarostami
58. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) .……………...…..…………………….James Whale
59. Paris, Texas (1984) .………………………………….………………...Wim Wenders
60. Pather Panchali (1955) .……………………………..….………………..Satyajit Ray
61. My Fair Lady (1964) .………………………………………..………….George Cukor
62. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) .……………….…………………David Lean
63. King Lear (1971) .………………………………………….….……..Grigori Kozintsev
64. The Thief Of Bagdad (1940) .…………………………………………Michael Powell
65. Manhunter (1986) .………………………………………….....………..Michael Mann
66. The Piano (1993) .…………………………………….……….………..Jane Campion
67. Three Colors Trilogy (1993/94) .………………………………Krzysztof Kieslowski
68. The Tree Of Life (2011) .………………………..…...………………Terrence Malick
69. Interstellar (2014) .……………………………..…………..………Christopher Nolan
70. Downfall (2004) .…………………………………..…...…………Oliver Hirschbiegel
71. Grave Of The Fireflies (1985) .………………..……….………………Isao Takahata
72. Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966) ………………………………….....……………..Mario Bava
73. The Fly (1986) .…………………………………………....……..David Cronenberg
74. Chinatown (1974) .……………………………………...…….……..Roman Polanski
75. The Conversation (1974) .………………………..……..……Francis Ford Coppola
76. Eyes Without A Face (1960) .………………….……….……………Georges Franju
77. Army Of Darkness (1992) .……………………..……………….…………Sam Raimi
78. The Vanishing (1988) .…………………………...…………...………George Sluizer
79. The Lord Of The Rings I, II, III (2001/02/03.............…..Peter Jackson
80. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) .…………………………....…………Denis Villeneuve
81. Annie Hall (1977) .……………………………………….….……….…..Woody Allen
82. Faces (1968) .………………………………………………...…….John Cassavetes
83. The Night Of The Hunter (1955) .……………………...…………Charles Laughton
84. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) .…………………..…………Jonathan Demme
85. The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (1978) .………………..………………..Ermanno Olmi
86. The Trial (1962) .…………………………………….…..…………..…..Orson Welles
87. The Exorcist (1973) .…………………………………..………..……William Friedkin
88. Blue Velvet (1986) .……………………………………….…...………….David Lynch
89. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) .………………….……………………Elia Kazan
90. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ..…..Irvin Kershner
91. In My Father's Den (2004) .…………….………….………….......……Brad McGann
92. Aliens (1986) .…………………………………………….…..……...James Cameron
93. The Big Lebowski (1998) .…………………………...…..……………Coen Brothers
94. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) .………………...………Sergei Parajanov
95. The Matrix (1999) .………………………………Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 
96. Rashomon (1950) .…………………………..………..……………...Akira Kurosawa
97. Ben-Hur (1959) .…………………………………...……….…………...William Wyler 
98. First Blood (1982) .……………………………...………….……………..Ted Kotcheff
99. The Sweet Hereafter (1997) .……………………..……………………Atom Egoyan
100. Sundays and Cybèle (1962) .…………….…….....…………...Serge Bourguignon

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Ratings for films:
10. Outstanding
9. Near-masterpiece
8. Very good
7. Worth watching
6. Good
5. Average
4. Passable
3. Pretty lame
2. Very poor
1. Terrible

_________________Some Of My Favourite Filmmakers__________________

| Ingmar Bergman | Denis Villeneuve
| Alfred Hitchcock | Billy Wilder
| Robert Bresson | David Fincher
| Francis Ford Coppola | Coen Brothers
| Andrei Tarkovsky | Martin Scorsese
| Akira Kurosawa | Luis Buñuel
| David Lynch | Federico Fellini
| Stanley Kubrick | Roman Polanski
| Christopher Nolan | Charles Chaplin
| James Cameron | Orson Welles
| Michael Mann | Carl Theodor Dreyer
| Richard Linklater | Terrence Malick
| Woody Allen | Pedro Almodóvar
| Werner Herzog | Luchino Visconti
| Krzysztof Kieslowski | Michael Haneke
| Mario Bava | Anurag Kashyap

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“Religion, philosophy, art — those three pillars on which the world has rested — were invented by man in order to symbolically encapsulate the idea of infinity, setting against it a symbol of its possible attainment (which in real terms is of-course impossible). Humanity has found nothing else on such an enormous scale. Admittedly man found it by instinct, without understanding why he needed God (easier that way!) or philosophy (explains everything, even the meaning of life!) or art (immortality).�

― Andrei Tarkovsky