An actual list of my ‘favorite’ films, in no particular order (other than the tiers)
first tier
Woman in the Dunes – Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
La Dolce Vita, 8 ½ – Federico Fellini
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) – Satyajit Ray
Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – Werner Herzog
Red Desert – Michelangelo Antonioni
the best of Woody Allen’s oeuvre collectively (especially Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Deconstructing Harry)
Terrence Malick’s oeuvre collectively
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Dreyer
The Trial – Orson Welles
That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Bunuel
The Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir
The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg
Faces – John Cassavetes
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa
Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Franco Zefirelli
A Zed and Two Noughts – Peter Greenaway
Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci
The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky
second tier
Casablanca – Michael Curtiz
Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesigner
The Graduate – Mike Nichols
Defending Your Life – Albert Brooks
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis
The Wall – Alan Parker
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
Lolita – Adrian Lyne
The Abyss – James Cameron
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green
