Jay’s Top 100 Movies
1. Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1980)
2. Thing, The (Carpenter, 1982)
3. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
4. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
5. Salesman (Maysles, 1968)
6. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
7. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
8. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
9. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
10. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
11. Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1982)
12. Exorcist, The (Friedkin, 1973)
13. After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
14. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
15. Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976)
16. Paradise Lost 2: Revalations (Berlinger – Sinsofsky, 2000)
17. Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog, 1971)
18. Dr. Strangelove or: How ILearned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
19. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
20. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
21. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
22. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
23. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
24. Burden of Dreams (Blank, 1982)
25. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
26. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
27. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)
28. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
29. Fail-Safe (Lumet, 1964)
30. Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)
31. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
32. Do the Right Thing (S Lee, 1989)
33. Thin Blue Line, The (Morris, 1988)
34. Aguirre: Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
35. Grey Gardens (Maysles, 1975)
36. Duel (Spielberg, 1971)
37. They Live! (Carpenter, 1988)
38. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
39. Hoop Dreams (S James, 1994)
40. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
41. Graduate, The (Nichols, 1967)
42. Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
43. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
44. Freaks (Browning, 1932)
45. American Movie (C. Smith, 1999)
46. Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter, 1986)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
48. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
49. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg, 1967)
50. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
51. Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
52. United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
53. Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
54. Danger:Diabolik (Bava, 1968)
55. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (Hooper, 1974)
56. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
57. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
58. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
59. Hudsucker Proxy (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1994)
60. Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987)
61. Gimme Shelter (Maysles, 1970)
62. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
63. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz, 1995)
64. Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987)
65. Evil Dead II (Raimi, 1987)
66. Deliverance (Boorman, 1972)
67. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964)
68. Oldboy (Park, 2003)
69. Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999)
70. Royal Tenenbaums, The (Anderson, 2001)
71. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
72. Boogie Nights (PT Anderson, 1997)
73. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
74. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
75. Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
76. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Feuerzeig, 2005)
77. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2004)
78. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
79. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
80. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
81. Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
82. Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963)
83. The Blair Witch Project (Myrick – Sánchez, 1999)
84. Escape from New York (Carpenter, 1981)
85. Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1991)
86. Crimson Tide (Scott, 1995)
87. Batman: The Movie (Martinson, 1966)
88. All the Real Girls (Green, 2003)
89. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
90. Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
91. Rescue Dawn (Herzog, 2007)
92. Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
93. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
94. Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
95. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Meyer, 1991)
96. Election (Payne, 1999)
97. Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004)
98. Three Kings (Russel, 1999)
99. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (McKay, 2004)
100. Gummo (Korine, 1997)




















