Thanks J-Man for bringing this to the top again!!!

For the record (only ten):

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles,1941) - Incredibly moving...artistically ravishing (and perfect!)...and a hell of a lot of fun!

2.	The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) - We'll never find the missing 15 minutes (the original neg was destroyed), but still unforgettable.  Walks a fine line between ridiculing its subjects and embracing them at the same time.  Bravo!

3.	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger, 1943) - A propoganda film that travels BEYOND its place and time.  A film about why we fight wars (for home, family and friends), instead why WE SHOULD fight wars (to beat, in this case, The Nazis).  A heartbreakingly beautiful film and my choice for the UK's best.

4.	Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)  -  He made some masterpieces before and after this one, but I think this one is the only one that can be described as perfect!
 
5.	Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) - Not my favourite Kubrick, but one I think is perfect.  One should probably only see this film on a big screen, preferably with a large audience who WANTS to be there.

6.	Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) - A sentimental favourite.  It was the first Bergman I ever saw and it doesn't matter how many times I've seen it (20 and counting), it still has the power to both shock and amaze me.  Best use of 'fades' in film history!
   
7.	McCabe and Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) - Gorgeous!  My favourite (anti) western.  Has scenes in it that can only be described as "visual poetry".  Altman's use of the 'zoom' to reveal character was never more appropriate or poignant.  Masterful!

8.	Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) - Visual pyrotechnics used to illustrate a story about ordinary people.  Don't you wish he was still around to make a film about YOUR life.

9.	Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)  - A film that both Roosevelt and Mussolini loved.  That's all that needs to be said, but I'll add that is is the most humane of all the films this greatest of humanist directors made.  Deeply moving AND profound!

10.	F for Fake (Orson Welles w/ Francois Reichenbach, 1973) - Orson Welles takes the editing room castoffs from a film he was supposed to just narrate, shoot some new footage, creates a tall tale or two, throws in a great Michel Legrand score (it's possible!), mixes it all in a blender and creates the best documentary about art ever attempted.  So ahead of it's time that it looks like it was made yesterday!


