…and the darkness comprehended it not

 There is this website of deepbrowed religious types (well maybe some of them would prefer "spiritual") called artsandfaith.com.  They produce lists of top films. 

In 2010 they produced The Arts & Faith Top 100 Films (2010) .  This is a list of the top 100 films of all time from the whole world.  No English language film until number 22 (the Cohen Brother's A Serious Man), not that there is anything wrong with that. The best 100 films of all time. So what did they do in 2011? The Arts & Faith Top 100 Films (2011).  They did not do it in 2012 or 2013. That would just have been silly.

Eight Questions about the 2010 list. Reading the Eternities about the 2011 list.

There is also The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Marriage. I have heard of number 12, seen number 20, but the rest could just be a leg pull. I have done better with The Arts & Faith Top 25 Road Films, having seen 1-4, 13, 14, 19 and 20.

So here is 2011 list [with 2010 ranking in square brackets].

The Passion of Joan of Arc [4] by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Andrei Rublev [8] by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Ordet [1] by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

The Decalogue [2] by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Au Hasard Balthazar [6] by Robert Bresson

Make Way For Tomorrow [-] by Leo McCarey.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew [10] by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The Son by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne.

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa.

10 Babette's Feast [3] by Gabriel Axel.

11 The Mirror [16] by Andrei Tarkovsky.

12 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [7] by F. W. Murnau.

13 The Seventh Seal [13] by Ingmar Bergman.

14 Three Colors Trilogy [15] by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

15 Stalker [30] by Andrei Tarkovsky.

16 Magnolia [58] by Paul Thomas Anderson.

17 Winter Light [38] by Ingmar Bergman.

18 The Searchers [-] by John Ford.

19 Tokyo Story [21] by Yasujiro Ozu.

20 La Promesse [44] by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne.

21 Tender Mercies [73] by Bruce Beresford.

22 The Apostle [32] by Robert Duvall.

23 Diary of a Country Priest [11] by Robert Bresson.

24 The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) [28] by Vittorio De Sica.

25 A Man For All Seasons [31] by Fred Zinnemann.

26 The Miracle Maker [-] by Derek W. Hayes & Stanislav Sokolov.

27 Paths of Glory [-] by Stanley Kubrick.

28 Grave of the Fireflies [-] by Isao Takahata.

29 Wild Strawberries (Smültronstället) [35] by Ingmar Bergman.

30 Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille) [24] by Philip Gröning.

31 Munyurangabo [19] by Lee Isaac Chung.

32 The Apu Trilogy [17] by Satyajit Ray.

33 The Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, Guillare de Dio) [55] by Roberto Rosselini.

34 Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.

35 The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton.

36 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick.

37 Chariots of Fire [68] by Hugh Hudson.

38 The Straight Story [54] by David Lynch.

39 Touch of Evil [-] by Orson Welles.

40 It's a Wonderful Life [45] by Frank Capra.

41 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days [70] by Cristian Mungiu.

42 Apocalypse Now by Francis Coppola.

43 Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys by Michael Haneke.

44 Black Narcissus by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.

45 Day of Wrath [] by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

46 The Child by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne.

47 Close-Up by Abbas Kiarostami.

48 Yi Yi: A One and a Two by Edward Yang.

49 Ponette by Jacques Doillon.

50 The Burmese Harp by Kon Ichawa.

51 Stroszek [87] by Werner Herzog.

52 Places in the Heart [-] by Robert Benton.

53 The New World [96] by Terrence Malick.

54 Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) [26] by Zhang Ke Jia.

55 Jesus of Montreal [88] by Denys Arcand.

56 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [-] by Cristi Puiu.

57 Eureka [78] by Shinji Aoyama.

58 Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine) [72] by Nicolas Klotz.

59 Summer Hours [74] by Olivier Assayas.

60 Playtime [37] by Jacques Tati.

61 Ran [-] by Akira Kurosawa.

62 Rashômon [75] by Akira Kurosawa.

63 The Double Life of Veronique [-] by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

64 My Night at Maud's [23] by Éric Rohmer.

65 Becket [76] by Peter Glenville.

66 Silent Light [43] by Carlos Reygadas.

67 Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [12] by Wim Wenders.

68 A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent soufflé où il veut) [29] by Robert Bresson.

69 Faust [59] by F. W. Murnau.

70 Lawrence of Arabia [-] by David Lean.

71 Koyaanisqatsi [-] by Godfrey Reggio.

72 Paris, Texas [61] by Wim Wenders.

73 My Life To Live (Vivre sa vie) [53] by Jean-Luc Godard.

74 How Green Was My Valley [-] by John Ford.

75 The Return [98] by Andrei Zvyagintsev.

76 M [46] by Fritz Lang.

77 The Island [33] by Pavel Lungin.

78 Days of Heaven [36] by Terrence Malick.

79 Crimes and Misdemeanors [95] by Woody Allen.

80 Paprika [-] by Satoshi Kon.

81 Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) [18] by Yasujiro Ozu.

82 Born Into Brothels [-] by Zana Briski & Robert Kauffman.

83 Vertigo [-] by Alfred Hitchcock.

84 Syndromes and a Century (Sang sattawat) [81] by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

85 After Life (Wandâfuru raifu) [65] by Hirokazu Koreeda.

86 Spirited Away [-] by Hayao Miyazaki.
 
87 The Trial [-] by Orson Welles.
 
88 The Rules of the Game [-]  Jean Renoir.

89 Sullivan's Travels [-] by Preston Sturges.

90 Schindler's List [-] by Steven Spielberg.

91 Dogville [-] by Lars von Trier.

92 There Will Be Blood [-] by Paul Thomas Anderson.

93 The Spirit of the Beehive [51] by Victor Erice.

94 Early Summer [9] by Yasujiro Ozu.

95 Amadeus [-] by Milos Forman.

96 Fiddler on the Roof [-] by Norman Jewison.

97 Sophie Scholl: The Final Days by Marc Rothemund.

98 Ratcatcher [-] by Lynne Ramsay.

99 The Iron Giant [-] by Brad Bird.

100 The Story of the Weeping Camel [-] by Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni.

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And here are the 32 films in the 2010 list which did not make the 2011 list:

22 A Serious Man by Joel & Ethan Cohen.

25 Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky.

40 The House is Black by Forough Farrokhzad.

41 Summer / The Green Ray by Éric Rohmer.

47 Late Spring by Yasujiro Ozu.

48 Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett.

49 Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky.

50 The Cyclist by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

52 Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman.

57 The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami.

60 Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman.

62 A Moment of Innocence by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

63 The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson.

66 By Brakhage: An Anthology by Stan Brakhage.

67 Lorna's Silence by Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne.

69 Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa.

71 An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) by Yasujiro Ozu.

79 Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid.

80 Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini.

82 Rosetta by Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne.

84 Pickpocket by Robert Bresson.

85 Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson.

86 The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky.

89 Ushpizin by Giddi Dar.

90 Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher by David Di Sabatino.

91 Au Revoir, Les Enfants by Louis Malle.

92 Son of Man by Mark Dornford-May.

93 The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman.

94 In Praise of Love Jean-Luc Godard.

97 M. Hulot's Holiday by Jacques Tati.

99 Breaking the Waves by Lars Von Trier.

100 The Song of Bernadette by Henry King.