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The 1,000
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The Top 400 (1-25) |
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Greatest Films Home
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The Top 400 Films
• The Full List
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The Top 400
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1-25
• 26-50
• 51-75
• 76-100
• 101-150
• 151-200
• 201-250
• 251-300
• 301-350
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• Welcome to
TSPDT's detailed view of the leading 400 films from
the 1,000 Greatest list. Slowly but surely, we hope to display all 1,000 films in this manner, but
for now, 400 is where it's at. For those who appreciate lame
number-associations, we humbly dedicate this edition to
François Truffaut. |
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• So then, here is the
supposed cream of the crop. Based on our calculations, these are the 400 most critically acclaimed films of all-time. If you've only seen a
handful of these, then you better get cracking! Or then again, please
yourself. |
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• Alongside each
director's name is the position each film held in our last
update (December 2008). For each film, we've also included a
list of five critics and/or filmmakers that have
included it in their personal list of favourites. |
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Leading cast listings for each film. |
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New These numbers
and arrows, 2 →
3 → 3 → 3, indicate the position each film has held within
the last four 1,000 Greatest Films listings (Dec06 → Dec07 →
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• Due to videos
constantly being removed from YouTube due to copyrighting
and other issues, we've decided to omit the YouTube links
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Citizen
Kane |
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ORSON
WELLES
(1) |
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| 1941
| 119m | BW | USA | Drama, Period Film |
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Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten,
Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead,
Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford |
| "Far and
away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture
to have been seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes
close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood." -
Bosley
Crowther, New York Times |
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imagery (not forgetting the oppressive ceilings) as
Welles
delightedly explores his mastery of a new vocabulary, still
amazes and delights, from the opening shot of the forbidding
gates of Xanadu to the last glimpse of the vanishing Rosebud
(tarnished, maybe, but still a potent symbol). A film that gets
better with each renewed acquaintance." -
Tom
Milne, Time Out |
| Selected by
Roland
Emmerich, Rian Johnson,
Ken
Russell,
Ridley Scott,
John Walker. |
| 1 → 1 → 1 →
1 |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Vertigo |
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ALFRED
HITCHCOCK (2)
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1958
| 128m | Col | USA | Romantic Mystery, Psychological Thriller |
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James Stewart, Kim Novak,
Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby, Lee Patrick,
Raymond Bailey, Konstantin Shayne, Paul Bryar |
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"Of all
Hitchcock's films the one nearest to perfection. Indeed, its profundity
is inseparable from the perfection of form: it is a perfect organism,
each character, each sequence, each image, illuminating each other."
- Robin Wood, Hitchcock's Film's Revisited, 1989 |
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"It's
nice to see critics accepting
Alfred Hitchcock's
1958 commercial flop as a masterpiece; when I first saw it more
than 30 years ago it was a neglected film cited by Pauline Kael
as a junky
Hitchcock
demonstrating the absurdity of auteurism. But masterpiece it is:
I can think of no film that makes romance more palpable and
affecting."
- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 1996 |
| Selected by
Richard Kelly,
James Gray,
Wong Kar-Wai, Andrew Sarris, Robin Buss. |
| 3 → 2 → 2 →
2 |
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Amazon
Images Journal
Bright Lights Film Journal |
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The Rules
of the Game |
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JEAN
RENOIR (3) |
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| • La Règle
du jeu (original title) |
| 1939
| 113m | BW | France | Comedy
Drama, Comedy of Manners |
| Marcel
Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir,
Roland Toutain, Mila Parely, Gaston Modot, Julien Carette,
Pauline Dubost, Pierre Magnier, Odette Talazac |
| "How
brilliantly Renoir focuses the confusion! The rather fusty luxury of the
chateau, the constant mindless slaughter of wild animals, the minuets of
adultery and seduction, the gavottes of mutual hatred or
mistrust." - Basil Wright, 1972 |
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frame of La règle du jeu seems dominated by
Renoir's
personality; yet the most appealing facets of that personality
are generosity, openness, responsiveness. As a result, La
règle is at once the auteur film par excellence
and a work of co-operation and active participation." -
Robin
Wood, Film Reference |
| Selected by
Cameron Crowe,
Paul Schrader, Carrie Rickey,
Amy Taubin,
Carlos Diegues. |
| 2 → 3 → 3 →
3 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
The A.V. Club |
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2001:
A Space Odyssey |
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STANLEY
KUBRICK
(4) |
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• Two Thousand and One: A
Space Odyssey (alternative spelling) |
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1968
| 139m | Col | UK | Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi |
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Keir Dullea, Gary
Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret
Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Frank Miller, Alan Gifford |
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"The
genius is not in how much
Stanley Kubrick
does in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but in how little. This is the
work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a
single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its
essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it,
to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies,
2001 is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our
awe." -Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1997 |
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Selected by Richard Kelly,
James Gray,
Bryan Singer, Rian Johnson, Bennett Miller. |
| 4 → 4 → 4 →
4 |
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Amazon
Images Journal
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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8½ |
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FEDERICO
FELLINI (5) |
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• Otto e mezzo
(original title/alternative spelling); Eight and a Half
(alternate spelling) |
| 1963
| 135m | BW | Italy | Satire,
Psychological Drama |
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Marcello
Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo,
Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Guido Alberti, Mario Pisu,
Madeleine LeBeau, Jean Rougeul |
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"If all you
know about this exuberant, self-regarding 1963 film is based on
its countless inferior imitations (from
Paul Mazursky's
Alex in Wonderland and The Pickle to
Woody Allen's
Stardust Memories to
Bob Fosse's All That Jazz),
you owe it to yourself to see
Federico Fellini's
exhilarating, stocktaking original... It's
Fellini's
last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous
and inventive thing he ever did--certainly more fun than
anything he made after it."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Marc Forster, David Ehrenstein, John Walker,
Martin Scorsese,
Joe Dante. |
| 5 → 5 → 5 →
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films |
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The
Godfather |
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FRANCIS
FORD COPPOLA (6) |
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1972
| 175m | Col | USA | Gangster
Film, Crime Drama |
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Marlon Brando, Al Pacino,
James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John
Marley, Richard Conte, Diane Keaton, John Cazale |
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"Taking a
best-selling novel of more drive than genius, about a subject of
something less than common experience (the Mafia), involving an isolated
portion of one very particular ethnic group (first-generation and
second-generation Italian-Americans),
Francis Ford Coppola has made one of
the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed
within the limits of popular entertainment." - Vincent Canby, New York
Times, 1972 |
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Selected by
A.O. Scott, Robert
Rodriguez,
Alex Proyas,
Roland Emmerich,
Paul Schrader. |
| 7 → 6 → 6 →
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Metacritic |
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The
Searchers |
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JOHN
FORD (7) |
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1956
| 119m | Col | USA | Western, Revisionist Western |
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John Wayne, Jeffrey
Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Hank Worden, Henry Brandon,
Harry Carey Jr., Olive Carey, John Qualen |
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"We may still be
waiting for the Great American Novel, but
John Ford gave us the Great American
Film in 1956. The Searchers gathers the deepest concerns of
American literature, distilling 200 years of tradition in a way
available only to popular art, and with a beauty available only to a
supreme visual poet like Ford."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Christopher Frayling, Andrew Sarris,
Martin Scorsese,
Terence Davies, Bill Rothman. |
| 9 → 7 → 7 →
7 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Images Journal |
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The Seven Samurai |
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AKIRA KUROSAWA
(9) |
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• Shichinin no
samurai (original title) |
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1954 | 200m | BW | Japan | Samurai Film, Drama |
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Takashi Shimura, Toshiro
Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Ko
Kimura, Kokuten Kodo, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchiya |
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"It is as sheer
narrative, rich in incisiveness and sharp observation, that it makes its
strongest impact... It provides a fascinating display of talent, and
places its director in the forefront of creative film-makers of his
generation."
- Gavin Lambert, Sight & Sound |
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Selected by
Rian Johnson,
John Sayles,
Mike Newell,
Ridley Scott, John Walker. |
| 6 → 8 → 9 →
8 |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Senses of Cinema |
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Singin'
in the Rain |
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STANLEY
DONEN & GENE KELLY (11) |
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1952
| 102m | Col | USA | Musical,
Showbiz Comedy |
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Gene Kelly, Donald
O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse,
Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Madge Blake, King Donovan |
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"One of the shining
glories of the American musical... The setting is Hollywood's troubled
transition to sound, and there is just enough self-reflexive content (on
the eternal battle between illusion and reality in the movies) to
structure the film's superb selection of numbers."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Kevin MacDonald, Nick James,
Peter Wollen,
Bryan Forbes,
Gillian Armstrong. |
| 10 → 11 →
11 → 9 |
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Amazon
The Village Voice
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Battleship
Potemkin |
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SERGEI
EISENSTEIN (8)
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• Bronenosets
Potyomkin (original title); Potemkin (alternative title) |
| 1925
| 65m | BW | Russia | Historical Film, Political Drama |
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Alexander Antonov,
Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Goronorov, Levchenko,
Repnikova, Marusov, I. Bobrov, A. Fait, Sergei Eisenstein |
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"Upon its release in
1925, Potemkin was hailed as a masterpiece, as much for the way
it dramatized the emotions behind the communist revolution as for its
innovative use of montage... Battleship Potemkin remains
remarkable for the way it builds over a brisk 69 minutes, setting the
pace for nearly every action movie made since."
- Noel
Murray, The A.V. Club, 2007 |
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Selected by Christopher Frayling, Robin Buss,
Ronald Neame,
Roger Corman,
Barry Norman. |
| 12 → 12 → 8
→ 10 |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film as Art |
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Tokyo
Story |
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YASUJIRO
OZU (10) |
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• Tôkyô monogatari
(original title) |
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1953
| 134m | BW | Japan | Drama, Family Drama |
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Chishu Ryu, Chieko
Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Soh Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake,
Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka |
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"Tokyo Story lacks
sentimental triggers and contrived emotion; it looks away from moments a
lesser movie would have exploited. It doesn't want to force our
emotions, but to share its understanding. It does this so well that I am
near tears in the last 30 minutes. It ennobles the cinema. It says, yes,
a movie can help us make small steps against our imperfections."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2003 |
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Selected by
Mike Leigh,
Paul Schrader,
John Walker, Geoff Andrew,
Jim Jarmusch. |
| 8 → 9 → 10
→ 11 |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
Strictly Film School |
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Sunrise |
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F.W.
MURNAU (12) |
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• Sunrise: A Song
of Two Humans (original title) |
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1927
| 110m | BW | USA | Melodrama,
Romantic Drama |
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George O'Brien, Janet
Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph
Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Housman, Eddie Boland, Barry Norton |
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"Like Citizen Kane,
Sunrise is one of those movies that introduce viewers to the
notion of film as art... Part of what continues to make it great is its
creation in a particular utopian moment in film history: the end of the
silent era, when movies reached a certain pinnacle of visual
expressiveness that was tied to a dream of universality, a belief that
cinema could speak an international tongue."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Guardian, 2004 |
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Selected by
Gus Van Sant, Andrew Sarris, Carrie Rickey,
Carlos Diegues,
Vincent Ward. |
| 11 → 10 →
12 → 12 |
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Village Voice
Strictly Film School |
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Lawrence
of Arabia |
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DAVID
LEAN (13) |
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1962
| 216m | Col | UK | Epic, British Empire Film |
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Peter O'Toole, Alec
Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Omar Sharif, Anthony
Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit |
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"Here is an
epic with intellect behind it, an unforgettable display of action staged
with artistry. A momentous story told with moral force... A revolutionary
film in possessing an epic hero whom it doesn't hero-worship."
- Alexander Walker, Evening Standard |
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Selected by
Roland Emmerich,
Edward Zwick,
Renny Harlin,
Kathryn Bigelow,
Andrew Stanton. |
| 13 → 13 →
13 → 13 |
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Amazon
Screen Online
Washington Post |
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Bicycle Thieves |
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VITTORIO
DE SICA (14) |
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• Ladri di
biciclette (original title); The Bicycle Thief (alternative
title) |
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1948
| 90m | BW | Italy | Family Drama, Urban Drama |
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Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo
Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio
Chiari, Elena Altieri, Carlo Jachino, Michele Sakara, Emma Druetti |
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" Hailed around the
world as one of the greatest movies ever made,
Vittorio De Sica’s
Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in
cinema... Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight,
Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the
neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social
righteousness, and brutal honesty."
- The Criterion Collection |
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Selected by
Danny Boyle,
Ken Loach, Robin Buss,
Philip Kaufman,
Charles Burnett. |
| 17 → 15 →
14 → 14 |
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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The
Godfather Part II |
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FRANCIS
FORD COPPOLA (20) |
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1974
| 200m | Col | USA | Gangster Film, Crime Drama |
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Al Pacino, Robert Duvall,
Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg,
Michael V. Gazzo, Richard Bright, Gastone Moschin |
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"Combined, The
Godfather and The Godfather Part II represent the apex of
American movie-making and the ultimate gangster story. Few sequels have
expanded upon the original with the faithfulness and detail of this
one... The Godfather is not so much about crime lords as it is
about prices paid in the currency of the soul for decisions made and
avoided. It is that quality which establishes this saga as timeless. "
- James
Berardinelli, Reel Views, 1994 |
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Selected by
F. Gary Gray,
Peter Segal,
Carrie Rickey,
Alan Parker,
Todd McCarthy. |
| 18 → 17 →
20 → 15 |
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Amazon
Filmsite
Pop Matters |
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L'Atalante |
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JEAN
VIGO (16) |
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1934
| 89m | BW | France | Drama, Romance |
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Michel Simon, Jean Daste,
Dita Parlo, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefevre, Fanny Clar, Raphael
Diligent, Maurice Gilles, Rene Bleck, Charles Goldblatt |
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"The film is a
masterpiece not because of the tragic story of its maker nor because of
its awkward genesis, but because, as
Truffaut has said, in filming prosaic
words and acts, Vigo
effortlessly achieved poetry... The poetic power of the film, however,
had a lot to do with the cinematography of the Russian-born Boris
Kaufman, who worked on each of
Vigo's films."
- Derek Malcolm, The Guardian, 1999 |
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Selected by
Michel Gondry, Geoff Andrew, Jim Jarmusch,
Gilbert Adair,
Aki Kaurismäki.
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| 16 → 14 →
16 → 16 |
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Amazon
Slant Magazine
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Casablanca |
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MICHAEL CURTIZ
(15) |
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1942 | 102m | BW | USA |
Drama, War Romance |
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Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid
Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet,
Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson, Marcel Dalio, S.Z. Sakall |
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"Michael
Curtiz's 1942 classic is irresistible, big-hearted
film-making - a unique kind of romantic noir - with cracking dialogue
and a thrilling leading man in Humphrey Bogart as bar owner Rick: a
stateless, cynical American in second world war Casablanca, where
desperate refugees plead for transit papers and which has become a
sordid marketplace in cash and sexual favours."
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2007 |
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Selected by
F. Gary Gray, Carrie Rickey, Michel Chion, Richard Lester,
Norman Jewison. |
| 25 → 20 →
15 → 17 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
The A.V. Club |
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Rashomon |
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AKIRA
KUROSAWA (19) |
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• Rashômon
(original title) |
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1950
| 88m | BW | Japan | Drama, Samurai Film |
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Toshiro Mifune, Machiko
Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Fumiko Honma,
Kichijiro Ueda, Daisuke Kato, Scinobu Hascimoto |
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"The film is
much less formally daring than its literary source, but its virtues are
still plentiful:
Kurosawa's visual style at its most muscular,
rhythmically nuanced editing, and excellent performances."
- Tony Rayns, Time Out |
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Selected by
Werner Herzog,
Dennis Hopper,
Dusan Makavajev, Andrey Plakhov,
Paul Mazursky. |
| 15 → 19 →
19 → 18 |
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Amazon
The Criterion Collection
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Raging
Bull |
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MARTIN
SCORSESE (18) |
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1980
| 128m | BW | USA | Biography, Sports Drama |
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Robert De Niro, Cathy
Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana,
Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Frank Topham, Lori Anne Flax |
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"Despite an initial
flurry of rabbit punches (most of them from the Kael wing of the
critical establishment), Raging Bull is now treasured as an
American masterwork, a fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision
couched in images and sounds that are kinetic and visceral, and closer
to poetry than pulp."
- Amy Taubin, The Village Voice |
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Selected by Rian Johnson,
John Sayles, John Walker,
Alan Parker,
Milos Forman. |
| 19 → 18 →
18 → 19 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films |
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The
Passion of Joan of Arc |
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CARL
DREYER (17) |
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• La Passion de
Jeanne d'Arc (original title) |
| 1928
| 77m | BW | France | Historical Film, Biography |
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Renee Maria Falconette,
Eugene Sylvain, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon, Antonin Artaud, Louis
Ravet, Andre Berley, Jean d'Yd, Jacques Ama, Alexandre Mihalesco |
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"Dreyer's
most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most
staggeringly intense films ever made. It deals only with the final
stages of Joan's trial and her execution, and is composed almost
exclusively of close-ups... The entire film is less moulded in light
than carved in stone: it's magisterial cinema, and almost unbearably
moving."
- Tony Rayns, Time Out |
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Selected by
Jean-Michel Frodon,
Bruce Beresford,
Sidney Lumet,
Armond White, Donald Richie. |
| 14 → 16 →
17 → 20 |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Strictly Film School |
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Touch
of Evil |
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ORSON
WELLES (21) |
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1958
| 108m | BW | USA | Film Noir, Psychological Thriller |
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Charlton Heston, Janet
Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich,
Dennis Weaver, Ray Collins, Mercedes McCambridge, Lalo Rios |
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"Touch of Evil is a
flat-out all-cylinders-running, eye-popping masterpiece, one of a few
monumental 1950s swan songs marking the end of the great epoch of
traditional studio filmmaking. It belongs alongside Vertigo and
The Searchers and Kiss Me Deadly and Some Came Running
as a tribute to the kind of directorial vision that used the
machinery of the studio to create a work of pure visual poetry."
-
Fred Camper, Chicago
Reader, 1998 |
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Selected by
Mark Cousins, Peter
Bogdanovich, Joe Dante,
Philip Kaufman,
Yvonne Tasker. |
| 22 → 22 →
21 → 21 |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
Filmsite |
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See Also:
250 Quintessential
Noir Films |
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BILLY
WILDER (22) |
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1959
| 119m | BW | USA | Sex Comedy, Farce |
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Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon,
Marilyn Monroe, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff,
Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, George E. Stone |
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"A large part of what
makes Some Like It Hot a perennial favorite is that it has the
go-for-broke commitment of an early Marx brothers farce, but it's
harnessed by a well-structured script that keeps building on itself.
It's no fluke that the capper is the most famous closing line in movie
history." -
Scott Tobias, The A.V.
Club |
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Selected by
Christopher Frayling, Mike
Leigh,
Cameron Crowe, John Walker, Philip Kemp. |
| 32 → 28 →
22 → 22 |
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Amazon
Salon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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La
Dolce vita |
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FEDERICO
FELLINI (26) |
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1960
| 175m | BW | Italy | Comedy
Drama, Media Satire |
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Marcello Mastroianni,
Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimee, Anita Ekberg, Magali Noel, Alain Cuny,
Annibale Ninchi, Lex Barker, Nadia Gray, Walter Santesso |
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"Setting aside the
small gestures, the delicate observation of daily life and the
sympathetic characterisation associated with neo-realism, La Dolce
Vita is a large-scale satire with grand set pieces and forceful
visual metaphors... The film has probably lost much of its ability to
shock, and the orgies are tame by present standards. But it has not lost
the power to fascinate, stimulate and provoke, and it remains a work of
moral force and a visual delight."
- Philip French, The Observer, 2008 |
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F. Gary Gray,
A.O. Scott,
Neil LaBute,
Mrinal Sen,
Roger
Ebert. |
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JEAN
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• Grand Illusion
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| 1939
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Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay,
Erich von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Georges Peclet, Werner
Florian, Jean Daste, Sylvain Itkine, Gaston Modot |
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"Grand Illusion
escapes the confines of the war movie genre. Scarcely a gun is fired in
anger. The trenches are nowhere in sight. Yet through some alchemy,
Renoir imbues
the film with his passionate belief in man’s humanity to man... French
critic André Bazin wrote of
Renoir that “he has inherited from the
literary and pictorial sensibility of his father’s era a profound,
sensual and moving sense of reality." A film like Grand Illusion
illustrates this to perfection." -
Peter Cowie, The Criterion
Collection, 1999 |
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by Peter
Bogdanovich, Robin Buss, Ginette Vincendeau,
Guy Hamilton,
Jim McBride. |
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25 → 24 |
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1931
| 86m | BW | USA | Comedy Drama, Romance |
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Charles Chaplin, Virginia
Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia, Henry
Bergman, Albert Austin, John Rand, James Donnelly |
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"Chaplin's
sentimental side was never more delicately stated. But his funny side,
as he desperately tries to earn money for the operation that will
restore the girl's sight, was never more hilariously deployed than it
was in this spare, curiously haunting film."
- Richard Schickel, Time, 2005 |
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Selected by
Carlos Diegues, Irene Bignardi,
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Michel Chion, Milos
Forman. |
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23 → 25 |
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