My Essential 100

there are only 2 qualifications for this personal list:
1. I love these films
2. films that were included on TIFF's 'Essential 100' list are excluded

titles listed in no order

1. The Godfather Part 2 (coppola)
2. Duck Soup (mccarey)
3. A Night at the Opera (wood)
4. Talk To Her (almodovar)
5. The Killer (woo)
6. Two Men and a Wardrobe (polanski - short)
7. Dr. Strangelove (kubrick)
8. Rear Window (hitchcock)
9. Crumb (zwigoff)
10. Jackie Brown (tarantino)
11. Goodfellas (scorsese)
12. The Conversation (coppola)
13. The Celebration (vinterberg)
14. Il Posto (olmi)
15. Comment Je Me Suis Dispute... (desplechin)
16. The Insider (mann)
17. Punch-Drunk Love (anderson)
18. Manhattan (allen)
19. Sullivan's Travels (sturges)
20. La Maman et Le Putain (eustache)
21. Pierrot Le Fou (godard)
22. House of Bamboo (fuller)
23. Night of the Hunter (laughton)
24. Grey Gardens (maysles)
25. David Holzman's Diary (mc bride)
26. Fanny & Alexander (bergman)
27. Welfare (wiseman)
28. The Empire Strikes Back (kershner)
29. Knife in the Water (polanski)
30. Sans Soleil (marker)
31. Scarface (de palma)
32. Touch of Evil (welles)
33. Two-Lane Blacktop (hellman)
34. Bigger Than Life (ray)
35. Les Ordres (brault)
36. The Dead (huston)
37. Rois et Reine (desplechin)
38. Rebels of the Neon God (tsai)
39. Chicken Ranch (bloomfield, sissel)
40. Very Nice, Very Nice (lipsett - short)
41. Antonio Das Mortes (rocha)
42. North By Northwest (hitchcock)
43. A Woman Under The Influence (cassavetes)
44. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (haynes - short)
45. Le Ballon Rouge (lamorisse - short)
46. Le Samourai (melville)
47. The Manchurian Candidate (frankenheimer)
48. My Neighbor Totoro (miyazaki)
49. A Married Couple (king)
50. Kiss Me, Deadly (aldrich)
51. Year of the Dragon (cimino)
52. Dawn of the Dead (romero)
53. The Wild Bunch (peckinpah)
54. Days of Heaven (malick)
55. All The President's Men (pakula)
56. Prime Cut (ritchie)
57. Paddle To The Sea (mason - short)
58. Central Station (salles)
59. Meshes in the Afternoon (deren - short)
60. Une Femme est Une Femme (godard)
61. Point of Order (de antonio)
62. Toby Dammit (fellini - short)
63. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (nichols)
64. Lolita (kubrick)
65. Beyond The Valley of the Dolls (meyer)
66. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (demy)
67. Spirited Away (miyazaki)
68. The Best Years of Our Lives (wyler)
69. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (spielberg)
70. Double Indemnity (wilder)
71. Harlan County, USA (kopple)
72. White Heat (walsh)
73. Once Upon a Time in the West (leone)
74. Stranger Than Paradise (jarmusch)
75. Fox and His Friends (fassbinder)
76. Sweet Smell of Success (mackendrick)
77. Rosemary’s Baby (polanski)
78. The Magnificent Ambersons (welles)
79. Point Blank (boorman)
80. Red Desert (antonioni)
81. Stroszek (herzog)
82. The Power of Nightmares (curtis)
83. Dekalog (kieslowski)
84. Powers of Ten (eames - short)
85. Buffalo 66 (gallo)
86. Anna (koralnik)
87. Robocop (verhoeven)
88. Broadway Danny Rose (allen)
89. Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (klein)
90. L'Eclisse (antonioni)
91. Shoot The Piano Player (truffaut)
92. Aliens (cameron)
93. To Live and Die in LA (friedkin)
94. Femme Fatale (de palma)
95. The Shining (kubrick)
96. Chameleon Street (harris)
97. Rio Bravo (hawks)
98. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (kaufman)
99. Pigs and Battleships (imamura)
100.Smile (ritchie)