The Century of Films

The Century of Films

The Century of Films was a weekly column by British film critic Derek
Malcolm published in The Guardian between 2000 and 2002. Malcolm chose
one hundred films he deemed artistically or culturally important. In
choosing the films, he used two guidelines. First, only one film would
be chosen for each director highlighted. Also, he tried to include as
many films from different countries as possible.

The List

* Tomas Gutierrez Alea: Memories of Underdevelopment
* Woody Allen: Broadway Danny Rose
* Robert Altman: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
* Santiago Álvarez: LBJ
* Kamal Amrohi: Pakeezah
* Theo Angelopoulos: The Travelling Players
* Michelangelo Antonioni: Professione: reporter aka The Passenger
* Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries
* Bernardo Bertolucci: Last Tango in Paris
* Les Blank: Burden of Dreams
* Walerian Borowczyk: Blanche
* Robert Bresson: Pickpocket
* Lino Brocka: Manila: In the Claws of Darkness
* Tod Browning: Freaks
* Luis Buñuel: Viridiana
* Frank Capra: The Bitter Tea of General Yen
* Marcel Carné: Children of Paradise
* John Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
* Claude Chabrol: La Femme Infidele
* Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux
* Jean Cocteau: La Belle et La Bête
* Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
* George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story
* Walt Disney: Fantasia
* Carl Dreyer: Day of Wrath
* Sergei Eisenstein: Strike
* Victor Erice: The Spirit of the Beehive
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun
* Federico Fellini: 8
* Robert Flaherty: Nanook of the North
* John Ford: Young Mr. Lincoln
* Sam Fuller: Shock Corridor
* Jean-Luc Godard: A Bout de Souffle
* D.W. Griffith: The Birth of a Nation
* Robert Hamer: Kind Hearts and Coronets
* Howard Hawks: Rio Bravo
* Werner Herzog: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
* Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo
* Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Time to Live and the Time to Die
* John Huston: Fat City
* Miklos Jancso: The Round-Up
* Humphrey Jennings: Fires Were Started
* Buster Keaton: The General
* Krzysztof Kieslowski: A Short Film About Killing
* Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory
* Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood
* Fritz Lang: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
* Claude Lanzmann: Shoah
* Charles Laughton: The Night of the Hunter
* Laurel and Hardy: Sons of the Desert
* David Lean: Brief Encounter
* Mitchell Leisen: Swing High, Swing Low
* Ken Loach: Kes
* David Lynch: Blue Velvet
* Dusan Makavejev: Mysteries of the Organism
* Károly Makk: Love
* Anthony Mann: Man of the West
* Chris Marker: Cuba Si!
* Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Samourai
* Jiri Menzel: Closely Observed Trains
* Vincente Minnelli: The Band Wagon
* The Mitchell Brothers: Behind the Green Door
* Kenji Mizoguchi: The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
* Paul Morrissey: Trash
* Ermanno Olmi: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
* Max Ophüls: Madame de ...
* Nagisa Oshima: Boy
* Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story
* GW Pabst: Pandora's Box
* Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Gospel According to St. Matthew
* Gillo Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers
* Powell and Pressburger: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
* Bob Rafelson: The King of Marvin Gardens
* Nicholas Ray: Johnny Guitar
* Satyajit Ray: The Music Room
* Carol Reed: The Third Man
* Jean Renoir: Boudu Saved from Drowning
* Michael Reeves: Witchfinder General
* Glauber Rocha: Antonio das Mortes
* Éric Rohmer: La Collectionneuse
* Roberto Rossellini: The Rise to Power of Louis XIV
* Francesco Rosi: Salvatore Giuliano
* Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull
* Ousmane Sembène: Xala
* Victor Sjostrom: The Wind
* Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels
* Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev
* François Truffaut: Jules et Jim
* Marcel Varnel: Oh, Mr Porter!
* Jean Vigo: L'Atalante
* Luchino Visconti: The Leopard
* Josef von Sternberg: The Scarlet Empress
* Erich von Stroheim: Greed
* Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds
* Orson Welles: Touch of Evil
* Wim Wenders: Kings of the Road
* Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity
* Frederick Wiseman: Welfare
* Sam Wood: A Night at the Opera
* Zhang Yimou: Raise the Red Lantern

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