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June 15, 1999

CounterPunch’s 100 Favorite Films

by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair

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The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock 1935	SRC="the39steps.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
FACE="Verdana">The 400 Blows François Truffaut 1959	SRC="400blows.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
1900 Bernardo Bertolucci 1977	SRC="1900.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
A Condemned Man Escaped Robert Bresson 1956	SRC="condemnedmanescaped.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
My Night At Maud’s Eric Rohmer 1969	SRC="mauds.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Agony and The Ecstasy Carol Reed 1965	SRC="agony.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Aguirre: Wrath of God Werner Herzog 1972	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger 1959	SRC="anatomyofamurder.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
And God Created…Woman Roger Vadim 1956	SRC="andgodcreated.gif" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Badlands Terence Malick 1973	SRC="badlands.gif" WIDTH="79" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Bank Dick Eddie Cline/WC Fields 1940	SRC="bankdick.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 1966	SRC="battleofalgiers.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein	SRC="battleshippotem.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Beat the Devil John Huston 1951	SRC="beatdevil.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Belle de Jour Luis Buñuel 1967	SRC="belledejour.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Behind the Green Door 1972	SRC="greendoor.jpg" WIDTH="93" HEIGHT="147" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0">
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 1946	SRC="bigsleep.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1963	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Black Orpheus Marcel Camus 1958	SRC="blackorpheus.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Blue Angel Josef von Sternberg 1930	SRC="blueangel.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Blue Velvet David Lynch 1986	SRC="bluevelvet.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Bob le Flambeur Jean-Pierre Melville 1955	SRC="bobleflambeur.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Body and Soul Robert Rossen / Abraham Polonski 1947	SRC="bodysoul.jpg" WIDTH="80" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Bride of Frankenstein James Whale 1935	SRC="bridefranken.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Carry on Up the Kyber
Cat People Jacques Tourneur 1943	SRC="catpeople.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Celine and Julie Go Boating Jacques Rivette 1974	SRC="celineandjulie.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974	SRC="chinatown.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Closely Watched Trains Jiri Menzel 1966	SRC="closelywatchedtrains.jpg" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 1971 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Detour Edgar Ulmer 1946	SRC="detour.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Devil In Miss Jones 1972	SRC="devilmssjones.jpg" WIDTH="102" HEIGHT="147" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0">
Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick 1964	SRC="drstrangelove.gif" WIDTH="73" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Duck Soup Leo McCarey 1933	SRC="ducksoup.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
F For Fake Orson Welles 1975	SRC="ffake.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Floating Weeds Yasujiru Ozu 1959	SRC="floatingweeds.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Freaks Todd Browning 1932	SRC="freaks.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
From Russia With Love Terrence Young 1963	SRC="fromrussia.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Fury Fritz Lang 1936	SRC="fury.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Gap-Toothed Women Les Blank 1987 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Gold and Diamond Mines of South Africa Edison and Company 1917	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0">
The Girl Can’t Help It Frank Tashlin 1956	SRC="girlcan%27thelpit.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Gun Crazy Joseph L. Lewis 1949 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Hairspray John Waters 1988	SRC="hairspray.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Hamlet Grigori Kozintsev 1964	Not Available
High and Low Akira Kurosawa 1962	SRC="highlow.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
History Is Made At Night Frank Borzage 1937	HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Hustler Robert Rossen 1961	SRC="hustler.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Image of an Assassination Abraham Zapruder 1963	SRC="imageofassassin.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
In a Lonely Place Nicholas Ray 1950	SRC="inalonelyplace.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
In the Garden of the Finzi-Continis Vitorrio de Sica 1971	SRC="inthegarden.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Jazz on a Summer Day Bert Stern 1959	SRC="jazzonasummer.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Jekyll and Hyde Rouben Mamoulian 1932	SRC="jekyllhyde.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray 1954	SRC="johnnyguitar.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Kanal Andrei Wadja 1957	SRC="kanal.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
King Lear Peter Brook 1971 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Kiss Me Deadly Robert Aldrich 1955	SRC="kissmedeadly.gif" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl 1951	SRC="kontiki.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Lady Eve Preston Sturges 1941	SRC="ladyeve.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci 1973	SRC="lasttango.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
L’Atalante Jean Vigo 1932	SRC="l%27atalante.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
L’Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni 1962	SRC="lavventura.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
La Marseillaise Jean Renoir 1937	SRC="marseillaise.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Le Samourai Jean-Pierre Melville 1967	SRC="lesamourai.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Lola Montes Max Ophuls 1955	SRC="lolamontes.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Les Bonnes Femmes Claude Chabrol 1960	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Life of Oharu Kenji Mizoguchi 1952	SRC="oharu.gif" WIDTH="79" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Lucifier Rising Kenneth Anger 1986	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
M Fritz Lang 1931	SRC="langm.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Man With a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov 1929	SRC="manwmovecam.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Ministry of Fear Fritz Lang 1944	SRC="ministryoffear.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek Preston Sturges 1944	HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Modern Times Charles Chaplin 1936	SRC="moderntimes.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Nanook of the North Robert Flaherty 1922	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Night and Fog Alain Resnais 1955	SRC="nightandfog.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton 1955	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 1963	SRC="nuttyprofessor.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Oedipus Rex Pier Paolo Pasolini 1967	SRC="oedipusrex.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Ordet Carl Dreyer 1955	SRC="ordet.jpg" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Ossessione Luchino Visconti 1942	SRC="ossessione.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Pandora’s Box G.W. Pabst 1928	SRC="pandorasbox.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Passion of Joan d’Arc Carl Dreyer 1928	SRC="passionjoandarc.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Piano Jane Campion 1993	SRC="piano.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Pickup on South Street Samuel Fuller 1953	SRC="pickup.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Pierrot Le Fou Jean-Luc Godard 1965	SRC="pierrot.gif" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Point of Order Emile di Antonio 1964	SRC="pointoforder.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Producers Mel Brooks 1968	SRC="producers.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Purple Noon René Clement 1960	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni 1964	SRC="redesert.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Repo Man Alex Cox 1984	SRC="repoman.jpg" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Richard Pryor Live In Concert Jeff Margolis / Richard Pryor 1979	SRC="pryor.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Rodney King Beating Videotape George Halliday March 3, 1991	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Rome: Open City Roberto Rossellini 1945	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 1939	SRC="rulesofthegame.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Safety Last Sam Taylor / Harold Lloyd 1923 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 [Not available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Satan’s Brew Rainier Werner Fassbinder 1976	SRC="satansbrew.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Stray Dog Akira Kurosawa 1964	SRC="straydog.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Shoeshine Vittorio de Sica 1947 [Not Available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Silent World Jacques Cousteau / Louis Malle 1957 [Not Available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Sorrow and the Pity Marcel Ophuls 1971	SRC="sorrowpity.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 1960	SRC="spartacus.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Strike! Sergei Eisenstein 1925	SRC="strike.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Summer With Monika Ingmar Bergman 1952	SRC="monika.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Sunrise FW Murnau 1927 [Not Available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Sweet Smell of Success Alexander Mackendrick 1957	SRC="sweetsmell.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Sherlock Jr. Buster Keaton 1924	SRC="sherlockjr.gif" WIDTH="111" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Tabu Robert Flaherty/FW Murnau 1931	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman 1964 [Not Available]	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
T FACE="Verdana">ouch of Evil Orson Welles 1958	SRC="touchofevil.jpg" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Trash Paul Morrisey/Andy Warhol 1970	SRC="trash.gif" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Un Chien Andalou Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali 1928	SRC="unchien.gif" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Viridiana Luis Buñuel 1961	SRC="viridiana.gif" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot 1953	SRC="wagesoffear.gif" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Walkabout Nicholas Roeg 1971	SRC="walkabout.gif" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Week-End Jean-Luc Godard 1967	SRC="weekend.gif" WIDTH="80" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
White Heat Raoul Walsh 1949	ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969	SRC="wildbunch.gif" WIDTH="81" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">
Written on the Wind Douglas Sirk 1956	SRC="writtenonwind.gif" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">