My 1.11%

This is a list of 113 outstanding films that I selected from my movie-going career. All the films I have watched up to now amount to a complex experiential landscape dominated by trivial, routine, empty, senseless, pretentious, overestimated, arrogant or just plain silly enterprises, painted with a curious mix of disregard and cultural hegemony, but spiked with the instances of charm, grace and joy which remind us that we are lucky to be alive. The brightest of these sparks comprise the list.

I made a wider selection of 235 films according to a set of the interrelated poetic criteria such as concept, structure, screenwriting, directing, cinematography, acting, music, editing, art direction, visual and sound design, and overall atmosphere. Out of these I selected the films which touch and fascinate me the most, which are most fun, excitement and pleasure to watch, which repeatedly surprise me, teach me something new and bring up that incomparable ‘larger than life’ feeling. I narrowed down the final set as much as possible but would not go below without eliminating some essential and a couple of idiosyncratic works because this is an intimate choice of a film lover.

The list is not and cannot be hierarchical. It is initially ordered by the production year, but you can reorder it by all three headers, and click any title to search for it on the IMDb. Here is the basic stats. Here is my other 1.23%.