San Francisco Chronicle

A Hot 100 from Out of the Past

by Mick La Salle & Edward Guthmann

(Oct. 1997)

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
• Angel at My Table, An (1991, Jane Campion)
• Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
• Bad Lieutenant (1992, Abel Ferrara)
• Bear, The (1988, Jean-Jacques Annaud)
• Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
• Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933, Frank Capra)
• Black Is... Black Ain't (1995, Marlon Riggs)
• Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
• Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
• Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
• Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
• Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
• Cameraman, The (1928, Buster Keaton)
• Camille (1937, George Cukor)
• City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
• Coal Miner's Daughter (1980, Michael Apted)
• Crowd, The (1928, King Vidor)
• Crumb (1995, Terry Zwigoff)
• Day for Night (1973, Francois Truffaut)
• Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
• Dead, The (1987, John Huston)
• Divorcee, The (1930, Robert Z. Leonard)
• Dogfight (1991, Nancy Savoca)
• Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Bruce Beresford)
• Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953, Max Ophuls)
• Ecstasy (1933, Gustav Machaty)
• Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
• Female Trouble (1974, John Waters)
• Fingers (1978, James Toback)
• Flashdance (1983, Adrian Lyne)
• Footlight Parade (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
• Girl Can't Help It, The (1956, Frank Tashlin)
• Gloria (1980, John Cassavettes)
• Going Places (1974, Bertrand Blier)
• Great Dictator, The (1940, Charles Chaplin)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
• Hard Day's Night, A (1964, Richard Lester)
• Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
• High Tide (1987, Gillian Armstrong)
• Honeymoon Killers, The (1970, Leonard Kastle)
• Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939, William Dieterle)
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, Robert Aldrich)
• Hustler, The (1961, Robert Rossen)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
• I'm No Angel (1933, Wesley Ruggles)
• In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
• It's a Gift (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
• JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
• Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
• King of Kings (1961, Nicholas Ray)
• King of the Hill (1993, Steven Soderbergh)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette)
• Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
• Last Tycoon, The (1976, Elia Kazan)
• Lola (1961, Jacques Demy)
• Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
• Member of the Wedding, The (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
• Naked Killer (1994, Clarence Fok)
• Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles Laughton)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
• Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
• Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
• Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
• Place in the Sun, A (1951, George Stevens)
• Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
• Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• Remember the Night (1940, Michael Leisen)
• Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
• Savage Nights (1994, Cyril Collard)
• Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Shampoo (1975, Hal Ashby)
• Shane (1953, George Stevens)
• Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951, Elia Kazan)
• Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The (1927, Ernst Lubitsch)
• Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
• Thousand Clowns, A (1965, Fred Coe)
• Three Comrades (1938, Frank Borzage)
• Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984, Robert Epstein)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
• True Stories (1986, David Byrne)
• Two English Girls (1972, Francois Truffaut)
• Umberto D (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
• Unmarried Woman, An (1978, Paul Mazursky)
• Virgin Spring, The (1959, Ingmar Bergman)
• War and Peace (1968, Sergei Bondarchuk)
• Wetherby (1985, David Hare)
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993, Lasse Hallstrom)
• Wife, The (1996, Tom Noonan)
• World Apart, A (1988, Chris Menges)