Film Studies Association of Canada's Top 100 Films
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I humbly submit my latest attempt at making a "100 Best Films" list. I understand why most intelligent film scholars reject list-making and canon formation altogether. I do it mainly because I'm appalled at all of the lists I see in print. The AFI Best 100 American Films is, of course, the worst of the well-known examples because it was a totally corrupt exercise at promoting Hollywood (Major) studio films that were already available on video. It did nothing to help preserve and distribute worthy and lesser-known titles.
I also have problems in producing a list of only 100 films. The BFI idea of creating a repertory of 360 films for every (non-holi)day of the year is a great one, but unfortunately, theirs is much too heavily weighted towards Hollywood product -- over one third of the titles are American (139).
My own film studies formation (at Concordia and NYU) led me to see more American and French films than any other, and most people would agree that in the historical development of film style, they are the two key nations. But the Hollywood dominance of "best films" lists has become unacceptable. (And, I am sure that if FSAC were to do a compilation of their own members' choices, we would see a similar trend.) My list reflects a choice of films which, for me, represents the development of "Film as Art" whatever that might mean. I regret the exclusion of animated films÷I considered including one or two titles, but in the end decided it was best for me to stay away from a field I know very little about. I didn't deliberately exclude "entertainment" -- approximately a quarter of my list could classify here -- but this was not a major consideration.
Peter Rist
Concordia University
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine
1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine, in 9 top lists Check -
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Juve contre Fantômas
1913 — a.k.a. Fantomas: The Man in Black, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le mort qui tue
1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed, in 9 top lists Check -
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Fantômas contre Fantômas
1914 — a.k.a. Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le faux magistrat
1914 — a.k.a. Fantômas: The False Magistrate, in 9 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Immigrant
1917, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Blue Bird
1918, in 4 top lists Check -
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Herr Arnes pengar
1919 — a.k.a. Sir Arne's Treasure, in 7 top lists Check -
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Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924, in 13 top lists Check -
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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check -
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Our Hospitality
1923, in 13 top lists Check -
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Ballet mécanique
1924, in 7 top lists Check -
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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
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Ménilmontant
1926, in 6 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 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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Oktyabr
1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check -
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Zvenigora
1928, in 6 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Potomok Chingis-Khana
1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Docks of New York
1928, in 9 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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Limite
1931, in 10 top lists Check -
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Kameradschaft
1931 — a.k.a. Comradeship, in 4 top lists Check -
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Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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Ye mei gui
1932 — a.k.a. Wild Rose, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Ukikusa monogatari
1934 — a.k.a. A Story of Floating Weeds, in 7 top lists Check -
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Ma lu tian shi
1937 — a.k.a. Street Angel, in 6 top lists Check -
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Gion no shimai
1936 — a.k.a. Sisters of the Gion, in 5 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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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Listen to Britain
1942, in 7 top lists Check -
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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Vredens dag
1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check -
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Paisà
1946 — a.k.a. Paisan, in 14 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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La terra trema
1948 — a.k.a. The Earth Trembles, in 11 top lists Check -
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Los olvidados
1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check -
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Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
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Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
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Víctimas del pecado
1951 — a.k.a. Victims of Sin, in 2 top lists Check -
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Awaara
1951 — a.k.a. The Tramp, in 6 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 5, 2012; source