| 1. The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | 2011 |
| 2. Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 |
| 3. Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | 2017 |
| 4. The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr | 2011 |
| 5. The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2012 |
| 6. The Revenant | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2015 |
| 7. La La Land | Damien Chazelle | 2016 |
| 8. Birdman | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2014 |
| 9. Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski | 2018 |
| 10. Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | 2015 |
| 11. The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | 2014 |
| 12. Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | 2019 |
| 13. Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | 2013 |
| 14. The Social Network | David Fincher | 2010 |
| 15. Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 |
| 16. The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2018 |
| 17. Inside Llewyn Davis | The Coen Brothers | 2013 |
| 18. Midsommar | Ari Aster | 2019 |
| 19. Melancholia | Lars von Trier | 2011 |
| 20. Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | 2016 |
| 21. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | 2019 |
| 22. Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | 2010 |
| 23. About Endlessness | Roy Andersson | 2012 |
| 24. Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | 2016 |
| 25. Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | 2019 |
| 26. Shame | Steve McQueen | 2011 |
| 27. Ad Astra | James Gray | 2019 |
| 28. Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 2019 |
| 29. Columbus | Kogonada | 2017 |
| 30. The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | 2019 |
| 31. Burning | Lee Chang-dong | 2018 |
| 32. Waves | Trey Edward Shults | 2019 |
| 33. Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2017 |
| 34. Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | 2014 |
| 35. First Reformed | Paul Schrader | 2017 |
| 36. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Roy Andersson | 2014 |
| 37. A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | 2019 |
| 38. 1917 | Sam Mendes | 2019 |
| 39. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsey | 2011 |
| 40. Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | 2014 |
| 41. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasetkul | 2010 |
| 42. Enemy | Denis Villeneuve | 2013 |
| 43. Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | 2013 |
| 44. Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | 2016 |
| 45. Little Women | Greta Gerwig | 2019 |
| 46. Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | 2019 |
| 47. Hereditary | Ari Aster | 2018 |
| 48. Holy Motors | Leos Carax | 2012 |
| 49. Son of Saul | László Nemes | 2015 |
| 50. The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino | 2013 |
| 51. 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | 2013 |
| 52. Call Me By Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | 2017 |
| 53. Good Time | The Safdie Brothers | 2017 |
| 54. Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | 2012 |
| 55. Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2013 |
| 56. Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | 2010 |
| 57. Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2011 |
| 58. The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | 2012 |
| 59. The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2016 |
| 60. Mommy | Xavier Dolan | 2014 |
| 61. Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | 2015 |
| 62. The Assassin | Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2015 |
| 63. The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | 2019 |
| 64. The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | 2017 |
| 65. Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | 2012 |
| 66. Widows | Steve McQueen | 2018 |
| 67. Climax | Gaspar Noé | 2018 |
| 68. The Grandmaster | Wong Kar-wai | 2013 |
| 69. Gone Girl | David Fincher | 2014 |
| 70. Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | 2013 |
| 71. Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | 2012 |
| 72. Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | 2010 |
| 73. Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | 2013 |
| 74. The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | 2010 |
| 75. Boyhood | Richard Linklater | 2014 |
| 76. Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 |
| 77. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman | 2018 |
| 78. The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2015 |
| 79. Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 2014 |
| 80. Carol | Todd Haynes | 2015 |
| 81. Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | 2013 |
| 82. Swallow | Carlo Mirabella-Davis | 2019 |
| 83. Jackie | Pablo Larraín | 2016 |
| 84. A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | 2011 |
| 85. Frances Ha | Greta Gerwig | 2012 |
| 86. Tale of Tales | Matteo Garrone | 2015 |
| 87. If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | 2018 |
| 88. The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Davies | 2011 |
| 89. Skyfall | Sam Mendes | 2012 |
| 90. Her | Spike Jonze | 2013 |
| 91. You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsey | 2017 |
| 92. The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | 2019 |
| 93. Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | 2014 |
| 94. Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | 2010 |
| 95. Submarine | Richard Ayoade | 2010 |
| 96. Sunset Song | Terence Davies | 2015 |
| 97. Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | 2015 |
| 98. The Big Short | Adam McKay | 2015 |
| 99. The Immigrant | James Gray | 2013 |
| 100. Get Out | Jordan Peele | 2017 |
Have you seen Twin Peaks: The Return yet? (I’m currently on Part 11)
If not, I’d highly recommend you at least watch Part 8 in isolation. I haven’t seen anyone who uses The Cinema Archives’ system give an individual episode a grade yet, and I would love to see your review.
I haven’t yet, first I will need to prioritise a rewatch of season 1 and then get through season 2. It may take some time but I would like to get to The Return eventually.
Part 8 can work in isolation if you don’t have the patience for the rest. It’s a myth that Season 2 is mostly bad, it actually has some of the best episodes of the show. I know the consensus is that Part 8 is peak Twin Peaks, but I would still pick the Season 2 finale.
Will you review the original show when you finish it?
I’m not too sure yet – it’s possible I will, but this may be a project for next year.
Do you know of any other tv shows that have impressed you from a cinematic style perspective? For me, its only Twin Peaks (and even then only certain episodes and scenes), but I’ve only seen a few shows. I’ve never seen Breaking Bad.
Largely auteur-driven shows. There’s been a good number in recent years – The Underground Railroad, Small Axe, Copenhagen Cowboy, or more recently Ripley. Going back further, Kieslowski’s Dekalog is pretty remarkable.
I’m not a expert on Twin Peaks by any means. But I would recommend you skip Season 2 and go straight from Season 1 to Season 3(or The Return). Lynch’s involvement is minimal in that season barring 2-3 episodes and there are like 18 episodes in total. The Return is the one to prioritize.
I would definitely watch every Lynch-directed episode of the first two seasons (there are 6), ESPECIALLY the series finale (of the original). As for the rest of the show, this guy I think summarizes the quality pretty well.
Twin Peaks Review
This blog I think summarizes the quality of the show quite well:
https://www.alternateending.com/2017/06/twin-peaks-1990-1991-2017.html
(I accidentally made a duplicate)