Daniel Lindvall

Film International

Here's my top-50 list. It's very much chosen off the top of my head (or heart really) and probably embarrassingly free from self-censorship. If I were to make another list next week the bottom 49 films might well all be replaced, but Land and Freedom will always remain no. 1 with a bullet.

Is it possibly necessary to point out that I'm not taking the piss with my choice for no. 50? - It reflects my life long faiblesse for British "lowbrow" humour.

  1. Land and Freedom (1995) .. Ken Loach
  2. Land of the Dead (2005) .. George A. Romero
  3. Salesman (1968) .. Albert Maysles & David Maysles
  4. American Psycho (2000) .. Mary Harron
  5. La Commune (2000) .. Peter Watkins
  6. Riff-Raff (1991) .. Ken Loach
  7. Spartacus (1960) .. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Kuhle Wampe (1932) .. Slatan Dudow
  9. Adalen '31 (1969) .. Bo Widerberg
  10. Human Resources (1999) .. Laurent Cantet
  11. The Counterfeiters (2007) .. Stefan Ruzowitzky
  12. La Cérémonie (1995) .. Claude Chabrol
  13. Raining Stones (1993) .. Ken Loach
  14. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) .. Jean Renoir
  15. Arsenal (1928) .. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  16. Strike (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  17. Bread and Roses (2000) .. Ken Loach
  18. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) .. Ken Loach
  19. Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  20. Split Wide Open (1999) .. Dev Benegal
  21. Destiny of a Man (1959) .. Sergei Bondarchuk
  22. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) .. Guillermo del Toro
  23. Fast Food Nation (2006) .. Richard Linklater
  24. The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
  25. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) .. Walter Salles
  26. Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
  27. The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah
  28. Gosford Park (2001) .. Robert Altman
  29. The Killing (1956) .. Stanley Kubrick
  30. They Live! (1988) .. John Carpenter
  31. Braveheart (1995) .. Mel Gibson
  32. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  33. If.... (1968) .. Lindsay Anderson
  34. O Lucky Man! (1973) .. Lindsay Anderson
  35. Alien (1979) .. Ridley Scott
  36. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
  37. Paradise Now (2005) .. Hany Abu-Assad
  38. The Battle of Algiers (1966) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
  39. Brokeback Mountain (2005) .. Ang Lee
  40. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) .. Luis Buñuel
  41. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov
  42. The Sexual Life of the Belgians 1950–1978 (1994) .. Jan Bucquoy
  43. The Insider (1999) .. Michael Mann
  44. High Plains Drifter (1973) .. Clint Eastwood
  45. It's a Free World... (2007) .. Ken Loach
  46. The Damned (1969) .. Luchino Visconti
  47. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
  48. Apocalypto (2006) .. Mel Gibson
  49. It's a Gift (1934) .. Norman Z. McLeod
  50. Carry on Camping (1969) .. Gerald Thomas

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