The Seattle Screen Scene Top 100 Films of All-Time Project

When the new Sight & Sound poll came out in 2012, Mike and I each came up with hypothetical Top Tens of our own. For the next few years, we came up with an entirely new Top Ten on our podcast, The George Sanders Show every year around Labor Day. The podcast has ended, but the project continues here at Seattle Screen Scene.

The idea is that we keep doing this until the next poll comes out, by which time we’ll each have a Top 100 list. Well, I will. Mike will have only 98 because he repeated two from his 2012 list on the 2013 one.

Here are Mike’s Top Ten Films of All-Time for 2016:

1. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

2. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)

4. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)

5. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)

6. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

7. Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)

8. The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)

9. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)

10. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

And here are Sean’s Top Ten Films of All-Time for 2016:

1. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)

2. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)

3. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

4. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

5. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

6. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)

7. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

8. Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2003)

9. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

10. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhrio Yamashita, 2005)