TIFF's The Essential 100: Expert Panel

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TIFF's Essential 100 "represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with one 100 film list as determined by TIFF stakeholders."

This is the expert panel's list, compiled by five TIFF curators in 2009. Their goal was to create a list of "essential cinema" that balanced "best" and "most influential," with a limit of one film per director.

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  1. 17 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  2. 18 new

    Sherlock Jr.

    1924, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 37 new

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  4. 53 new

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  5. 54 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 59 new

    Cléo de 5 à 7

    1962 — a.k.a. Cleo from 5 to 7, in 15 top lists Check
  7. 61 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  8. 63 new

    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
  9. 66 new

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
  10. 67 new

    Chung Hing sam lam

    1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 68 new

    La ley del deseo

    1987 — a.k.a. Law of Desire, in 5 top lists Check
  12. 73 new

    What's Opera, Doc?

    1957, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 83 new

    The Palm Beach Story

    1942, in 14 top lists Check
  14. 88 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  15. 103 new

    Ostre sledované vlaky

    1966 — a.k.a. Closely Watched Trains, in 14 top lists Check
  16. 105 new

    Sweetie

    1989, in 5 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 29, 2012; source