This is the second half of this list. 1970 51. BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore (the “whore” being Hollywood) is one of the best movies about the making of a movie. Or about not making a movie, since cast and crew are gathered at a Spanish hotel […]

This list (in two parts, of which this is the first) is chronological. It consists of a snapshot of the 100 best films through 2007, in my opinion on a particular day, from Germany, or East or West Germany, the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), Finland and Austria. There are two “cheats” from elsewhere: […]