100 favourite films — pt. 1

It’s easy to get bored during lockdown. Watching movies helps. Thinking about all the great examples of cinema you’ve seen throughout the years is almost staggering — making you wish you’d written it all down. When I was a child I used to collect the tickets to films I’d been to with my family. The poetry of the ink and one’s memory, fading away in tandem was poignant. I used to write little quotes from each film on the back, so I could remember which film the ticket was for even after it had faded into oblivion.

This year I started making a list of my 100 favourite films, in the hope that it would reinvigorate my memory and perhaps bring back memories of some fond moments. Instead, I found the main problem was not recalling the feeling or the plot, but often the title of the film itself. Which can be a problem when you are making a list of titles. Anyway, the first part including my top 25 shouldn’t be that hard to settle on. Here goes (all the lovely stills are from mubi.com and I do not claim to have the copyright to any of these images, if anyone requires an image removed just leave a comment).

1. Daisies (1966)

2. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

3. Solaris (1972)

4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

5. Stalker (1979)

6. L’eclisse (1962)

7. If… (1968)

8. The Holy Mountain (1973)

9. 2001 a Space Odyssey (1968)🛰

10. The Doom Generation (1995)

11. Partner (1968)

12. Don’t Look Now (1973)

13. Tout va bien (1972)

14. In the Mood For Love (2000)

15. The Clock (2010)

16. Zabriskie Point (1970)

17. Querelle (1982)

18. Metropolis (1927)

19. Logan’s Run (1976)

20. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

21. All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)

22. The Servant (1963)

23. Chelsea Girls (1966)

24. Shadows (1958)

25. Blade Runner (1982)