Considering the absence of any Latin American films not made by Bunuel, any Indian films not made by S. Ray, any Japanese films not made by Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa and any east Asian films made outside Japan, there's a lot to complain about it here ( as well as one or two things to cheer, like Pialat making the cut). I bet the individual ballots were a lot more interesting.

The Cahiers list is in some ways awesome - a list full of magical masterpieces from the classical age of film making.
But in other ways…
All discussion, from understandably wailing British critics, is about leaving British filmmakers off the list. Hey: THE RED SHOES is a classic.
But let me be the first film historian in the world to note:
No woman directors.
No black directors.
No directors of color from Western countries (I’m thrilled that Ray and the Japanese Big Three are there, of course).
The only person of color in a non-Asian movie: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR. (OK, we have Peter Sellers in brownface in THE PARTY).
Only Jewish characters: Manhattan, once upon a time in america.
No openly gay characters. (Not even my beloved Fante and Mingo from THE BIG COMBO).
No films with black characters.
They are doing better with the disabled: RIO BRAVO favors the immortal Stumpy! (Howard Hawks really “gets it” about the disabled having value.)

Cinephile film culture is not “inclusive”, it is very unwelcoming to The Other. Lists like this seem designed to make every minority person in the world feel bad about themselves, left out, not wanted, second class, human garbage.

The Cahiers list is an example of what a serious problem the cinephile community has.
It just does not recognize the contributions of women and blacks, and wants gays to be invisible.
I’m not interested in labeling people. I do not want to put labels on the 76 French film experts who made up this list. Probably, they are all decent, respectable human beings. But one suspects, they are somehow caught up in cultural forces that cause The Other to become obscure. They don’t mean to do it - but they are caught up in cultural forces, that like a fish not seeing water in a goldfish bowl, make them unaware of minorities around them.
I AM interested in fixing this problem. What can be done to change things?
I have to speak up. I have to walk a fine line between saying mean, nasty things to people - which accomplishes nothing. And pretending that there is not a serious huge problem in the film critic community.