No, not my favourite movies. Veteran Australian film critic David Stratton’s book My Favourite Movies, published in 2021, lists his 111 favourites in chronological order.
Stratton’s “personal pantheon” is restricted to a single film per director. It’s an excellent list, with a few pleasant surprises (including The Awful Truth, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Incredible Shrinking Man).
Stratton’s 111 favourite movies are as follows:
Stratton’s “personal pantheon” is restricted to a single film per director. It’s an excellent list, with a few pleasant surprises (including The Awful Truth, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Incredible Shrinking Man).
Stratton’s 111 favourite movies are as follows:
- Metropolis
- The General
- Wings
- The Last Command
- City Lights
- Love Me Tonight
- Trouble in Paradise
- It’s a Gift
- A Night at the Opera
- The Awful Truth
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- The Rules of the Game
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Public Enemy
- Citizen Kane
- The Lady Eve
- Casablance
- Went the Day Well?
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Les enfants du paradis
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Big Sleep
- Duel in the Sun
- Great Expectations
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- A Matter of Life and Death
- The Big Clock
- Letter from an Unknown Woman
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- All About Eve
- In a Lonely Place
- The African Queen
- Bend of the River
- The Man in the White Suit
- High Noon
- Shane
- Singin’ in the Rain
- M. Hulot’s Holiday
- I vitelloni
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Les diaboliques
- On the Waterfront
- Seven Samurai
- A Star Is Born
- The Night of the Hunter
- Attack
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The Brothers Rico
- The Incredible Shrinking Man
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Twelve Angry Men
- Wild Strawberries
- Breathless
- The 400 Blows
- North by Northwest
- The Apartment
- Cléo from 5 to 7
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire
- Viridiana
- Advise and Consent
- A Kind of Loving
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Dr. Strangelove
- The Leopard
- Charulata
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Andrei Rublev
- Accident
- The Unfaithful Wife
- Z
- Alice’s Restaurant
- The Wild Bunch
- The Conformist
- The Last Picture Show
- Taking Off
- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
- Don’t Look Now
- Chinatown
- The Conversation
- Jaws
- Nashville
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Cría cuervos
- Kings of the Road
- Annie Hall
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- Coming Home
- Newsfront
- Farewell My Concubine
- Alien
- Breaker Morant
- Manhunter
- High Tide
- Where Is the Friend’s House?
- Distant Voices, Still Lives
- Do the Right Thing
- Sweetie
- Lorenzo’s Oil
- The Age of Innocence
- Fargo
- Drifting Clouds
- Love Serenade
- Jackie Brown
- All About My Mother
- Lantana
- Million Dollar Baby
- Brokeback Mountain
- The Host
- Animal Kingdom
- Samson and Delilah
- Nebraska
- I, Daniel Blake
- Roma