The Film-Lover's Check List: TimeOut 100

TimeOut 100

Compiled in 1995 to mark the Centenary of Cinema. The TimeOut Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine TimeOut.

Centenary Top One Hundred


1.	Citizen Kane (1941)
2.	The Godfather (1972)
3.	The Rules of the Game (1939)
4.	Vertigo (1958)
5.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
6.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
7.	Raging Bull (1980)
8.	Touch of Evil (1958)
9.	Tokyo Story (1953)
10.	L'Atalante (1934)
11.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
12.	The Conformist (1970)
13.	Children of Paradise (1945)
14.	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
15.	8 1/2 (1963)
16.	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
17.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
18.	North By Northwest (1959)
19.	Chinatown (1974)
20.	La Dolce Vita (1960)
21.	The Searchers (1956)
22.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
23.	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
24.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
25.	Taxi Driver (1976)
26.	Napoleon (1927)
27.	Rear Window (1954)
28.	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
29.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
30.	Performance (1970)
31.	The General (1927)
32.	Breathless (1960)
33.	Mean Streets (1973)
34.	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
35.	Rio Bravo (1959)
36.	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
37.	All About Eve (1950)
38.	My Darling Clementine (1946)
39.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
40.	The Piano (1993)
41.	Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
42.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
43.	The 400 Blows (1959)
44.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
45.	The Lady Eve (1941)
46.	Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
47.	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
48.	The Gold Rush (1925)
49.	Grand Illusion (1937)
50.	A Day In the Country (1936)
51.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52.	Pickpocket (1959)
53.	Schindler's List (1993)
54.	The Shining (1980)
55.	The Third Man (1949)
56.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
57.	The Reckless Moment (1949)
58.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
59.	Blade Runner (1982)
60.	Blue Velvet (1986)
61.	Pather Panchali (1955)
62.	Le Samourai (1967)
63.	Sans Soleil (1983)
64.	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
65.	Amarcord (1973)
66.	Greed (1924)
67.	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
68.	Persona (1966)
69.	Rashomon (1950)
70.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
71.	All That Heaven Allows (1955)
72.	Black Narcissus (1947)
73.	Double Indemnity (1944)
74.	Intolerance (1916)
75.	Notorious (1946)
76.	Out of the Past (1947)
77.	The Red Shoes (1948)
78.	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
79.	Casablanca (1942)
80.	City Lights (1931)
81.	Ran (1985)
82.	The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
83.	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
84.	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
85.	Ordet (1955)
86.	Red (1994)
87.	Aliens (1986)
88.	Amadeus (1984)
89.	L'Avventura (1960)
90.	Badlands (1973)
91.	Barry Lyndon (1975)
92.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
93.	Color of Pomegranates (1968)
94.	Don't Look Now (1973)
95.	Earth (1930)
96.	Fanny and Alexander (1982)
97.	La Jetee (1962)
98.	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
99.	The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
100.	The Mirror (1975)
101.	Pandora's Box (1929)
102.	The Quiet Man (1952)
103.	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
104.	The Seventh Seal (1957)
105.	Ugetsu (1953)
106.	West Side Story (1961)

The Readers Top One Hundred


1.	The Godfather (1972)
2.	Casablanca (1942)
3.	Citizen Kane (1941)
4.	Blade Runner (1982)
5.	Vertigo (1958)
6.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
7.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
8.	Taxi Driver (1976)
9.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
10.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
11.	Goodfellas (1990)
12.	North By Northwest (1959)
13.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
14.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
15.	The Third Man (1949)
16.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
17.	Raging Bull (1980)
18.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
19.	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
20.	Schindler's List (1993)
21.	Rear Window (1954)
22.	The Searchers (1956)
23.	Children of Paradise (1945)
24.	Chinatown (1974)
25.	Manhattan (1979)
26.	Star Wars (1977)
27.	Withnail & I (1987)
28.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
29.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
30.	Psycho (1960)
31.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
32.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
33.	Red (1994)
34.	The Big Sleep (1946)
35.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
36.	Paris, Texas (1984)
37.	Blue Velvet (1986)
38.	Tokyo Story (1953)
39.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
40.	Blue (1993)
41.	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
42.	The Piano (1993)
43.	Double Indemnity (1944)
44.	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
45.	L'Atalante (1934)
46.	Aliens (1986)
47.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
48.	Performance (1970)
49.	Wings of Desire (1987)
50.	Brazil (1985)
51.	The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
52.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
53.	The Rules of the Game (1939)
54.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
55.	Fargo (1996)
56.	Don't Look Now (1973)
57.	Touch of Evil (1958)
58.	Annie Hall (1977)
59.	Cinema Paradiso (1988)
60.	L.A. Confidential (1997)
61.	The English Patient (1996)
62.	The Apartment (1960)
63.	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
64.	A Heart In Winter (1992)
65.	Jules and Jim (1962)
66.	Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67.	High Noon (1952)
68.	Mean Streets (1973)
69.	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
70.	His Girl Friday (1940)
71.	The Mirror (1975)
72.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
73.	Trainspotting (1996)
74.	Chungking Express (1994)
75.	Seven (1995)
76.	The Sound of Music (1965)
77.	The Thing From Another World (1951)
78.	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
79.	Amadeus (1984)
80.	The Age of Innocence (1993)
81.	The Seventh Seal (1957)
82.	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
83.	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
84.	The General (1927)
85.	La Dolce Vita (1960)
86.	Miller's Crossing (1990)
87.	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
88.	Top Hat (1935)
89.	My Life As a Dog (1985)
90.	The Full Monty (1997)
91.	Black Narcissus (1947)
92.	Halloween (1978)
93.	Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
94.	M (1931)
95.	Ran (1985)
96.	Secrets & Lies (1996)
97.	Breathless (1960)
98.	Andrei Rublev (1966)
99.	L'Avventura (1960)
100.	Delicatessen (1991)
101.	Great Expectations (1946)
102.	The Remains of the Day (1993)