Sunday, December 02, 2012

2011 Arts & Faith Top 100 Films

The Arts and Faith list of 100 most spiritually significant films has changed. It's now presented by Image Journal. I missed the change at some point. I haven't referred back to the old list as often as I used to. At any rate, here's the current list:
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc
2 Andrei Rublev
3 Ordet
4 The Decalogue
5 Au Hasard Balthazar
6 Make Way For Tomorrow
7 The Gospel According to Matthew
8 Le Fils (The Son)
9 Ikiru
10 Babette's Feast
11 The Mirror
12 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
13 The Seventh Seal
14 Three Colors Trilogy
15 Stalker
16 Magnolia
17 Winter Light
18 The Searchers
19 Tokyo Story
20 La Promesse
21 Tender Mercies
22 The Apostle
23 The Diary of a Country Priest
24 Bicycle Thieves
25 A Man For All Seasons
26 The Miracle Maker
27 Paths of Glory
28 Grave of the Fireflies
29 Wild Strawberries
30 Into Great Silence
31 Munyurangabo
32 Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apu Sansar)
33 The Flowers of St. Francis
34 Nights of Cabiria
35 The Night of the Hunter
36 2001: A Space Odyssey
37 Chariots of Fire
38 The Straight Story
39 Touch of Evil
40 It's a Wonderful Life
41 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
42 Apocalypse Now
43 Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
44 Black Narcissus
45 Day of Wrath
46 The Child
47 Close-Up
48 Yi Yi: A One and a Two
49 Ponette
50 The Burmese Harp
51 Stroszek
52 Places in the Heart
53 The New World
54 Still Life
55 Jesus Of Montreal
56 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
57 Eureka
58 The Heartbeat Detector
59 Summer Hours
60 Playtime
61 Ran
62 Rashômon
63 The Double Life of Veronique
64 My Night at Maud's
65 Becket
66 Silent Light
67 Wings of Desire
68 A Man Escaped
69 Faust
70 Lawrence of Arabia
71 Koyaanisqatsi
72 Paris, Texas
73 My Life To Live
74 How Green Was My Valley
75 The Return
76 M
77 The Island
78 Days of Heaven
79 Crimes and Misdemeanors
80 Paprika
81 Floating Weeds
82 Born Into Brothels
83 Vertigo
84 Syndromes and a Century
85 After Life
86 Spirited Away
87 The Trial
88 The Rules of the Game
89 Sullivan's Travels
90 Schindler's List
91 Dogville
92 There Will Be Blood
93 The Spirit of the Beehive
94 Early Summer
95 Amadeus
96 Fiddler on the Roof
97 Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
98 Ratcatcher
99 The Iron Giant
100 The Story of the Weeping Camel
Ones I've seen are in bold print.

The Image Journal site says,
The 2011 list is the second edition of the Arts & Faith Top 100 conducted under the aegis of Image journal, which assumed responsibility for the Arts & Faith discussion board in 2009.
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No list is written in stone. Presumably the A&F Top 100 will see more iterations, and the A&F community will continue to welcome new films and reexamine old favorites.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:22 AM

    I have not seen anything that you have not, except interestingly enough, #88, The Rules of the Game. Somehow, I have seen it.

    Given that there may be a faith aspect to _any_ story reflecting the human condition, a couple of these are a stretch, to my mind.

    Fun list.

    -- A Pal

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