Greatest Films Ever Made

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mine might appear less sophisticated compared to your lists. I haven't even seen most of the films on your lists. lol. But here goes just of f the top of mmy head:

Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Double Indemnity
The Godfather part 1 and 2
Schindler's List
Vertigo
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
A Streetcar Named Desire
Aliens
Badlands
To Kill A Mockingbird
Heavenly Creatures
Sunset Blvd
Thelma and Louise
Coal Miner's Daughter
Breaking the Waves
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Strongly disagree with Eternal Sunshine but oh well, here goes a partial list:
1-Sense & Sensibility
2-Memoirs of a Geisha (sorry but I loved it)
3-Requiem For A Dream
4-Pan's Labyrinth
There are many more so perhaps I should've given it more thought.

daisies!

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Cyrano de bergerac (french)
Once upon a time in the west
The seven samurai
Solaris (russian)
Battleship Potemkin
Last year in Marienbad
The Fearless Vampire killers
Lawrence of arabia
Hobsons choice



"Never eat yellow snow"

I haven't seen your last two, but until now I was under the impression that most of the director's fans thought A Hole in My Heart to be an absolute atrocity. Even Berardinelli - who gave it zero stars (one of the few times I've inadvertently yelled "holy *beep* when opening his site was the day that review was posted), named it the most disappointing movie he'd ever seen.

In other news, my all-time-top-ten greatest choices (at least based on the 1200+ films I've seen so far) are:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Breaking the Waves
3. The Last Temptation of Christ
4. Nashville
5. In the Mood for Love
6. Citizen Kane
7. Days of Heaven
8. Chinatown
9. Underground
10. Aguirre: The Wrath of God

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-12145/

It's always an impossible task to name best-ever films (what criteria to use? what films have we not seen yet? how much of our personal tastes influence us?). Here's my possible (and large) list.

FEATURES
- Basically all films by Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Alexandr Sokurov and Andrei Tarkovsky

- Jeunet & Caro's "La Cité Des Enfants Perdus" and "Delicatessen"

- Rodriguez & Miller's "Sin City"

- Woody Allen's "Manhattan"

- Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia"

- Jean-Jacques Annaud's "La Guerre Du Feu" and "The Name Of The Rose"

- Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Eclisse"

- Darren Aronofsky's "Pi" and "Requiem For A Dream"

- Matthew Barney's "Cremaster" cycle

- Robert Begnini's "La Vita È Bella"

- Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" and "Last Tango In Paris"

- Luis Buñuel's "El Ángel Exterminador"

- Jane Campion's "The Piano"

- Larry Clark's "Kids"

- Jack Clayton's "The Innocents"

- Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", "Dracula" and "The Godfather"

- Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" and "The Virgin Suicides"

- David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ", "Naked Lunch", "Spider" and "Videodrome"

- Frank Darabont's "The Shawshank Redemption"

- Jonathan Demme's, "The Silence Of The Lambs"

- Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale"

- Federico Fellini's "8 1/2" and "Satyricon"

- Mike Figgis' "Leaving Las Vegas"

- David Fincher's "Fight Club" and "Se7en"

- Bob Fosse's "Lenny"

- Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny"

- Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and "Tideland"

- Jean-Luc Godard's "JLG/JLG"

- Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" and "The Science Of Sleep"

- Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books"

- D. W. Griffith's "Broken Blossoms"

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Innocence"

- Veit Helmer's "Tuvalu"

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain"

- Akio Jissoji's "Mujo"

- Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Holy Mountain" and "El Topo"

- Wong Kar-Wai's "2046", "Chun Gwong Cha Sit", "Duo Luo Tian Shi" and "Fa Yeung Nin Wa"

- Kim Ki-Duk's "Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom"

- Masaki Kobayashi's "Kwaidan"

- Emir Kusturica's "Crna Macka, Beli Macor" and "Dom Za Vesanje"

- Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"

- Sergio Leone's "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo"

- Richard Linklater's "Before Sunset"

- Julio Medem's "Los Amantes Del Círculo Polar"

- Fernando Meirelles' "Cidade De Deus"

- Sam Mendes' "American Beauty"

- João César Monteiro's "Le Bassin De J.W." and "Recordações Da Casa Amarela"

- F. W. Murnau's "Faust", "Der Letzte Mann" and "Sunrise"

- Mike Nichol's "The Graduate"

- Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Decameron", "Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte" and "I Racconti Di Canterbury"

- Edgar Pêra's "A Janela"

- Sydney Pollack's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

- Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"

- Conrad Rooks' "Chappaqua"

- Ken Russell's "The Devils"

- Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation Of Christ", "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver"

- Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot"

- Kaneto Shindo's "Kuroneko" and "Onibaba"

- Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead II"

- Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels", "Revolver" and "Snatch"

- John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy"

- Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner"

- Tony Scott's "The Hunger"

- Steven Spielberg's "AI", "Empire Of The Sun", "Munich" and "Schindler's List"

- Oliver Stone's "The Doors", "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers"

- Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction"

- Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Otoshiana" and "Suna No Onna"

- Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo"

- Dziga Vertov's "Chelovek S Kino-Apparatom"

- Lars von Trier's "Breaking The Waves", "Dancer In The Dark", "Dogville", "Europa" and "Idioterne"

- Wim Wenders' "Himmel Über Berlin", "Lisbon Story", "Paris Texas" and "Until The End Of The World"

- Robert Wienne's "Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari"


SHORTS
- The works of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Fernand Léger, Len Lye, Man Ray and Hans Richter

- Buñuel & Dali's "Un Chien Andalou"

- Georges Méliès' "Le Voyage À Travers L'Impossible" and "Le Voyage Dans La Lune"

- Vsevolod Pudovkin's "Mat"


ANIMATION
- The pre-censorship Betty Boop cartoons

- The stop-motion works of the Quay bothers, Wladislaw Starewicz and Jan Svankmajer

- The works of Émile Cohl

- Don Hertzfeldt's skits

- Frédéric Back's "L'Homme Qui Plantait Des Arbres"

- Ralph Bakshi's "Fritz The Cat"

- Sylvain Chomet's "Les Triplettes De Belleville" and "La Vieille Dame Et Les Pigeons"

- George Dunning's "Yellow Submarine"

- Hiroyuki Kitakubo's "Blood: The Last Vampire"

- Satoshi Kon's "Paprika"

- René Laloux's "La Planète Sauvage"

- Richard Linklater's "Waking Life"

- Anthony Lucas' "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello"

- Hayao Miyazaki's "Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi"

- Mamoru Oshii's "Kokaku Kidotai"

- Gerald Potterton's "Heavy Metal"

- Lotte Reiniger's "Die Abenteuer Des Prinzen Achmed"

- Henry Selick's "A Nightmare Before Christmas"


DOCUMENTARIES
- "The Blue Planet"

- "Human All Too Human"

- "Planet Earth"

- "The Ten Thousand Day War"

- "Vietnam: A Television History"

- "Winter Soldier"

- The Maysles brother's "Gimme Shelter" and "Grey Gardens"

- Emile de Antonio's "In The Year Of The Pig"

- Kenneth Bowser's "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"

- William Cran's "Commanding Heights"

- Peter Davis' "Hearts And Minds"

- Guy Debord's "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni"

- Jean-Luc Godard's "Histoire(s) Du Cinéma"

- Gary Johnstone's "E=MC2"

- Mark Kitchell's "Berkeley In The Sixties"

- Adrian Maben's "Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii"

- Alain Resnais' "Guernica"

- Michael Wadleigh's "Woodstock"