TIFF's The Essential 100: Expert Panel

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TIFF's Essential 100 "represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with one 100 film list as determined by TIFF stakeholders."

This is the expert panel's list, compiled by five TIFF curators in 2009. Their goal was to create a list of "essential cinema" that balanced "best" and "most influential," with a limit of one film per director.

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  1. 33 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  2. 15 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  3. 26 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  4. 22 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  5. 61 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 47 new

    Jaws

    1975, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 54 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  8. 52 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 62 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  10. 45 new

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  11. 31 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  13. 32 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  14. 57 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 35 top lists Check
  16. 13 new

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 98 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  18. 97 new

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  19. 17 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  20. 24 new

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  21. 82 new

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  22. 10 new

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  23. 50 new

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  24. 8 new

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 14 new

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 7 new

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 53 new

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  29. 12 new

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  30. 102 new

    Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

    1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 55 new

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
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    La battaglia di Algeri

    1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check
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    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Il conformista

    1970 — a.k.a. The Conformist, in 20 top lists Check
  36. 101 new

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
  37. 67 new

    Chung Hing sam lam

    1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check
  38. 2 new

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  39. 5 new

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  40. 4 new

    Pather Panchali

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
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    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check
  42. 18 new

    Sherlock Jr.

    1924, in 24 top lists Check
  43. 63 new

    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
  44. 11 new

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  45. 42 new

    Nashville

    1975, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 21 new

    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check
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    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check
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    Breaking the Waves

    1996, in 14 top lists Check
  49. 19 new

    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
  50. 30 new

    Viridiana

    1961, in 24 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 29, 2012; source