OK, top 25!
My #25 is The Seventh Seal, a stark, uncompromising movie about God, death, faith, and faithlessness. Although it released in 1957, it doesn't really belong to that year; it barely belongs to the decade. Director Ingmar Bergman made The Seventh Seal as one might make a silent movie from the 1920s. Images are what makes the movie so brilliant: thick, heavy crosses; the scuplted, almost statuesque visage of Max Von Sydow; the immortal picture of Death playing chess. A unique masterpiece.











