Total Film's Contributors Favourite Films Of Our Lifetime

A C

Stephen Armstrong

Sam Ashurst

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Rushmore
4. Blue Valentine
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Buffalo 66
7. Dead Man's Shoes
8. The New World
9. Batman Begins
10. Inland Empire
11. The Thin Red Line
12. No Country For Old Men
13. I'm Not There
14. The Departed
15. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

George Bass

1 Das Experiment (2000)
2 Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
3 Pu-239 (2007)
4 Good Will Hunting (1997)
5 Memento (2000)
6 Drive (2011)
7 Moon (2009)
8 Kick Ass (2010)
9 The Lives of Others (2007)
10 The Iron Giant (1999)
11 Dark Days (2000)
12 Spider-Man 2 (2004)
13 As Good As It Gets (1997)
14 Shaun of the Dead (2004)
15 My Summer of Love (2004)

Paul Bradshaw

1. Tree Of Life
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The New World
5. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
6. The White Ribbon
7. The Life Aquatic
8. Inception
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Lost In Translation
11. Gangs Of New York
12. Caché
13. Black Swan
14. Up
15. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

Jenny Cooney Carrillo

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Titanic
3. Avatar
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
5. Lord Of The Rings trilogy
6. The Help
7. The Social Network
8. Toy Story
9. Up
10. The Dark Knight
11. Slumdog Millionaire
12. Brokeback Mountain
13. Million Dollar Baby
14. The Hours
15. Moulin Rouge

For the combined list, check out the 50 Best Movies Of Total Film Magazine's Lifetime

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C - D

Nick Chen

1. Rushmore (1998)
2. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
3. The Social Network (2010)
4. There Will Be Blood (2007)
5. Being John Malkovich (1999)
6. Broken Flowers (2005)
7. All The Real Girls (2003)
8. You Can Count On Me (2000)
9. Wall-E (2008)
10. Cold Weather (2011)
11. American Beauty (1999)
12. Almost Famous (2001)
13. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
14. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
15. Dancer In The Dark (2000)

D - G

Emma Dibdin (alphabetical)

G - H

Jamie Graham

1. Fight Club (1999)
2. Amelie (2001)
3. No Country For Old Men (2007)
4. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
6. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
7. The Big Lebowski (1998)
8. Children Of Men (2006)
9. WALL-E (2008)
10. The Dark Knight (2008)
11. Sexy Beast (2000)
12. The Matrix (1999)
13. Oldboy (2003)
14. Inception (2010)
15. Requiem For A Dream (2000)

1. Adaptation (2002)
2. All About My Mother (1999)
3. Aurora (2010)
4. The Class (2008)
5. Dogville (2003)
6. The Headless Woman (2008)
7. Hidden (2005)
8. A History Of Violence (2005)
9. In the Mood For Love (2000)
10. The Lives Of Others (2006)
11. Lost Highway (1997)
12. Nostagia for the Light (2010)
13. The Turin Horse (2011)
14. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
15. White Material (2009)

I - K

Emily Ip (alphabetical)

K - L

Simon Kinnear

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
2. Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
3. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
4. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
5. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
6. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)
7. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter / Ash Brannon / Lee Unkrich, 1999)
8. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
9. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
10. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
11. The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
12. Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011)
13. Last Night (Don McKellar, 1998)
14. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
15. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)

M - M

John Marrs

1) Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
2) There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson)
3) Zodiac (Fincher)
4) Hana-Bi (Kitano)
5) Carlos (Assayas)
6) Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
7) Adaptation (Jonze)
8) The Man Who Wasn't There (Coens)
9) The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
10) All About My Mother (Almodovar)
11) The Thin Red Line (Malick)
12) Control (Corbijn)
13) Amores Perros (Innaritu)
14) Capturing The Friedmans (Jarecki)
15) The Lives of Others (Henckel von Donnersmarck)

N - S

Jayne Nelson

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
4. Out of Sight (1998)
5. The Incredibles (2004)
6. After Life (1998)
7. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
8. Innocence (2004)
9. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
10. Fight Club (1999)
11. A Serious Man (2009)
12. Gosford Park (2001)
13. Memento (2000)
14. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
15. Four Lions (2010) / Shaun of the Dead (2004)

S - T

Kate Stables

T - W

Kathryn Twyford (alphabetical)

1. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
2. Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
3. The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sanchez, Dan Myrick, 1999)
4. Running Out of Time (Johnnie To, 1999)
5. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich, 1999)
6. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
7. Suicide Club (Shion Sono, 2001)
8. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2002)
9. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsey, 2002)
10. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
11. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
12. A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005)
13. Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007)
14. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
15. Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga, 2009)