Robert Humanick

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Top ten, ranked:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
2. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) .. Robert Altman
4. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
5. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
6. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
7. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
8. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) .. John Carpenter
9. Breaking the Waves (1996) .. Lars von Trier
10. Night of the Living Dead (1968) .. George A. Romero

40 honorable mentions, alphabetical:

• AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) .. Steven Spielberg
• All That Jazz (1979) .. Bob Fosse
• Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• Bad Lieutenant (1992) .. Abel Ferrara
• Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
• Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
• Broken Blossoms (1919) .. D.W. Griffith
• Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
• Come and See (1985) .. Elem Klimov
• Crash (1996) .. David Cronenberg
• The Crowd (1928) .. King Vidor
• Days of Heaven (1978) .. Terrence Malick
• Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
• Dumbo (1941) .. Ben Sharpsteen
• Faust (1926) .. F.W. Murnau
• Fight Club (1999) .. David Fincher
• The Fly (1986) .. David Cronenberg
• Fury (1936) .. Fritz Lang
• Go West (1925) .. Buster Keaton
• The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• Goodfellas (1990) .. Martin Scorsese
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) .. Joe Dante
• In a Lonely Place (1950) .. Nicholas Ray
• In the Mood for Love (2000) .. Wong Kar Wai
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
• Jaws (1975) .. Steven Spielberg
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) .. Martin Scorsese
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
• Mulholland Dr. (2001) .. David Lynch
• Nashville (1975) .. Robert Altman
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Scarface (1983) .. Brian De Palma
• Scenes from a Marriage (1973) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
• Showgirls (1995) .. Paul Verhoeven
• Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
• Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) .. John Huston
• Vampyr (1932) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer