Time Out's Centenary Top 100

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"Directors, producers, actors, programmers and critics were polled to name their top ten films which they felt had been the high points of the last 100 years in world cinema. The resulting list was drawn up from that poll."

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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
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    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
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    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
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    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
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    Il conformista

    1970 — a.k.a. The Conformist, in 20 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
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    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
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    The Magnificent Ambersons

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
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    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
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    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
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    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
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    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
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    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
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    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
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    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
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    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
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    Mean Streets

    1973, in 22 top lists Check
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    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check
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    Rio Bravo

    1959, in 19 top lists Check
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    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
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    My Darling Clementine

    1946, in 20 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
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    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
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    L'année dernière à Marienbad

    1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    1948, in 15 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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    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 30 top lists Check
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    La grande illusion

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