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Cahiers Top 100

Venerable French cinema snob magazine Cahier du Cinema just put out a Top 100 list. Two of their former writers rank highly: Jean-Luc Godard (#15, Contempt) and Alain Resnais (#26, Hiroshima mon amour). Francois Truffaut is way down the list. (Snobs, I said with merit.)

These sort of things are always going to stir up opinions, but it's useful to see what movies the critical community regards as canonical. I have to say I'm disappointed to see Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game once again ranking so high, since I find it to be one of his least enjoyable films.

But Citizen Kane as #1 is something I can live with (and have been, since it has ranked #1 in most of these type of surveys during my lifetime).

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