My friend Brian and I once toiled together behind the counters of Laser Blazer in the very very late 90s and into the aughts.  Both of us found working at the video store a badge of honor, being appreciators of strange, awesome, or terrible cinema.   Brian is easily one of the greatest cinephiles I have the pleasure to know and to be invited into his home for karaoke and video games is a personal delight.  And look what the hell he’s done, he’s picked his 100 favorite films of the fricken century (modeled after this guy’s post).  Not one to turn down a challenge, I’ll give it a shot too.

Personal Criteria:
- Unforgettable after one viewing
- Re-watchable and/or quotable, often belongs in my personal cinema vault
- Changed my perception of what cinema can be/do/say/convey
- In the case of some titles, told compelling, unique and inspiring “chick-centric” stories

1920s
1 — Cops (Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, 1922) (pictured)
2 — Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923)
3 — Bronenosets Potyomkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
4 — Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
5 — Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1929)

1930s
6 — Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
7 — Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
8 — Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
9 — The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy/Busby Berkeley, 1933) (pictured)
10 — It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934)
11 — My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
12 — La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

1940s
13– The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
14 — Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
15 — The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
16 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
17 — Sullivan’s Travels (Preson Sturges, 1942)
18 — Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
19 — Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincent Minnelli, 1944)
20 — Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
21 — The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
22 — Ladri di Bicicletti (Vittorio De Sica, 1947)
23 — Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947) (pictured)
24 — Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)

1950s
25 –  Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
26 — Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
27 — Tôkyô monogatari (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) (pictured)
28 — Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
29 — Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
30 — Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
31 — Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958)
32 — Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
33 — Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
34 — Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
35 — Les quatre cents coups (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
36 — Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
37 — North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

1960s
38 — À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
39 — L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
40 — Otto y Mezzo (Federico Fellini, 1963)
41 — Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
42 — A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
43 — Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) (pictured)
44 — Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
45 — Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Sergio Leone, 1966)
46 — Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
47 — Belle du Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967)
48 — Koroshi no rakuin (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
49 — La mariée était en noir (Francois Truffaut, 1968)
50– Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

1970s
51 — Kes (Ken Loach, 1970)
52 — Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
53 — Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
54 — Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)
55 — Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972)
56 — Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry, 1972) (pictured)
57 — Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
58 — The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
59 — Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
60 — California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
61 — The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
62 — Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
63 — Female Trouble (John Waters, 1975)
64 — Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
65 — Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975)
66 – Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Bruno Barreto, 1976)
67 — 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
68 — Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
69 — Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

1980s
70 — Coal Miner’s Daughter (Michael Apted, 1980)
71 — The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
72 — Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
73 — Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
74 — Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
75 — The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
76 — Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
77 — Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
78 — A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1986)
79 — Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
80 — Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
81 — Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) (pictured)
82 — Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten, 1989)
83 — Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
84 — Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989)

1990s
85 – Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
86 — Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
87 — Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
88 — Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Yimou Zhang, 1991)
89 — Howards End (James Ivory, 1992)
90 — The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
91 — Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
92 — Trois couleurs: Bleu — (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
93 — Chung Hing sam lam (Kar Wai Wong, 1994)
94 — Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
95 –Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
96 — Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
97 — The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
98 –Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
99 — Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
100 — Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)

Quirky Stats
Directors most represented – Luis Bunuel: 3, Orson Welles: 3, Woody Allen: 3, Robert Altman: 4
B & W to color ratio -  39: 100
Most represented actress: Sissy Spacek – 3 (Badlands, 3 Women, Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Number of films secretly added to this list just to anger/confound you: 3

If you take the 100 personal movies  of the last dang century challenge, please let me know!