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The infamous list that started everything

• Wilder – Some like it hot (USA, 1959)
• Wilder – Avanti! (USA, 1972)
• Wilder – Irma la Douce (USA, 1963)
• Lubitsch – Ninotchka (USA, 1939)
• Lubitsch – To be or not to be (USA, 1942)
• Hawks – Bringing up Baby (Leoparden küsst man nicht, USA, 1938)
• Jarmusch – Night on Earth (USA, 1991)
• Jarmusch – Mystery Train (USA, 1989)
• Resnais – On connaît la chanson
• Chatiliez – Tanguy
• Itami – Tampopo
• Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda
• Monty Python – The Meaning of Life
• Resnais – Providence
• Rivette – Va Savoir
• Truffaut – La Peau Douce (The Soft Skin)
• Godard – Le Mépris (Contempt)
• Chaplin – A King of New York
• Altman – A Wedding
• Altman – Short Cuts
• Ozu – Floating Weeds (Ukigusa/Abschied in der Dämmerung)
• Saks – Cactus Flower
• Welles – Citizen Kane
• Fellini – Roma
• Visconti – The Leopard
• Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris

My own Top 30 (in no particular order)

Films that I own in bold. Films I currently don’t have available in italics.

• Fincher – Fight Club (USA, 1999)
• Park – JSA/Joint Security Area (South Korea, 2000)
• von Trier – Dogville (Denmark, 2003)
• Kelly – Donnie Darko (USA, 2001)
• Jarmusch – Coffee & Cigarettes (USA, 2003)
• Lubitsch – To be or not to be (USA, 1942)
• Lubitsch – The Shop around the Corner (USA, 1940)
• Wilder – One, Two, Three (USA, 1961)
• Zhang – Huo Zhe/To Live (China, 1994)
• Tanović – No Man’s Land (Bosnia, 2001)
• Ashby – Harold and Maude (USA, 1971)
• Truffaut – Jules et Jim (France, 1962)
• Johnson – Brick (USA, 2005)
• Itami – Tampopo (Japan, 1985)
• Park – Welcome to Dongmakgol (South Korea, 2005)
• Bertolucci – The Dreamers (France/UK/Italy, 2003)
• Sono – Ai no Mukidashi (Japan, 2008)
• Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove (USA, 1964)
• Kassovitz – La Haine (France, 1995)
• Mankiewicz – All about Eve (USA, 1950)
• Hawks – His Girl Friday (USA, 1940)
• Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds (USA, 2009)
• Fassbinder – Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Germany, 1979)
• Kurosawa – Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954)
• Cuarón – Rudo y Cursi (Mexico, 2008)
• Hitchcock – Rear Window (USA, 1954)
• Murnau – Sunrise (USA, 1927)
• Coen – The Big Lebowski (USA, 1998)
• Hoshi – University of Laughs (Japan, 2004)
• Yang – Yi Yi (Taiwan, 2000)

Movies originally considered for this list but fell out:

• Jarmusch – Night on Earth (USA, 1991)
• Linklater, Before Sunrise
• Kubrick – Full Metal Jacket (USA, 1987)
• Antonioni – Le Amiche (Italy, 1955)
• Hanson – L.A. Confidential (USA, 1997)
• Lee – 25th Hour (USA, 2002)
• Xu – Letter from an Unknown Woman (China, 2004)
• Cao – The Equation of Love and Death (China, 2008)
• Carow – Die Legende von Paul und Paula (Germany, 1973)
• Hitchcock – The Trouble with Harry (USA, 1955)
• Docter – Up (USA, 2009)

2005 Favourites
* Fight Club
* JSA – Joint Security Area
* Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant Star)
* Memento
* To be or not to be
* Night on Earth
* Infernal Affairs
* Pleasantville
* La mala educación
* Interstella 5555
* Old Boy
* Tanguy
* Being John Malkovich
* Cruel Intentions
* Life as a house
* Hero
* Gosford Park
* Lord of the Rings I

2008 Favourites
* Fight Club
* JSA (Joint Security Area)
* Dogville
* Donnie Darko
* Night on Earth
* Mystery Train
* 25th Hour
* Huo Zhe/To Live
* To be or not to be
* La mala educación (Bad education)
* No Man’s Land
* Das Leben der Anderen (The Live of Others)
* Harold and Maude
* Jules et Jim
* M
* Brick
* Some like it hot
* Welcome to Dongmakgol

* Dolls
* Tampopo
* Match Point
* Manhattan
* Infernal Affairs
* Kontroll
* The Decalogue
* Before Sunrise
* Tanguy
* Wait Until Dark