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The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-budget Beauties, Genre-bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love

Jacques Tourneur's "Stranger on Horseback"

Luis Bunuel's Nazarin and Illusion Travels by Streetcar

Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection

Eclipse Series 8 - Lubitsch Musicals (The Love Parade / The Smiling Lieutenant / One Hour with You / Monte Carlo)

The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You

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--Recent Viewings--

	° CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935/USA) Michael Curtiz R Senses of Cinema
	° LOVE FROM A STRANGER (1937/UK) Rowland V. Lee A All-Movie Guide
	° WALL-E (2008/USA) Andrew Stanton R metacritic
	° DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948/Japan) Akira Kurosawa R Slant Magazine
	° THE CIRCUS (1928/USA) Charles Chaplin HR Bright Lights Film Journal
	° THE DUCHESS (2008/UK-Italy-France) Saul Dibb W metacritic
	° INSIDE DEEP THROAT (2005/USA) Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato A metacritic
	° GREGORY'S GIRL (1980/UK) Bill Forsyth R Film Reference
	° INFRA-MAN (1975/Hong Kong) Hua Shan A Love HK Film
	° LA GRANDE BOUFFE (1973/France-Italy) Marco Ferreri D Bright Lights Film Journal
	° FAST FOOD NATION (2006/USA-UK) Richard Linklater W metacritic
	° THE OTHER LOVE (1947/USA) André De Toth W Time Out
	° FUNNY HA HA (2002/USA) Andrew Bujalski W metacritic
	° THE HORSE (1973/USA) Charles Burnett R New York Magazine
	° BATTLES WITHOUT HONOUR AND HUMANITY (1973/Japan) Kinji Fukasaku W Images Journal
	° THE GOLEM (1920/Germany) Carl Boese & Paul Wegener W Kinoeye
	° THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (1970/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder R Time Out
	° ELECTION (2005/Hong Kong) Johnnie To A metacritic
	° OLD YELLER (1957/USA) Robert Stevenson W IMDB
	° MICHAEL (1924/Germany) Carl Dreyer W Slant Magazine

	HR = Highly Recommended (masterpiece/near-masterpiece); R = Recommended (very good); W = Worth a Look (good); A = Approach with Caution (average; not great, but not a disaster); D = Dud (A disaster).
	You can view all of our film recommendations here.

Recommended Reading

The 1,000 Greatest Films

October 2008

Film Comment A Samurai Among Farmers: Rejecting the orthodoxies of postwar Japanese society, Nagisa Oshima created a radical and uniquely protean body of work.

Senses of Cinema 1963-1968. Paris: The Godard Years.

The Boston Phoenix Brief Fling: Carole Lombard’s nine years of stardom.

Cinema-Scope Time and the Hour: For the Melancholy Mastery of Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Film International Interview with Etgar Keret, co-director of Cannes Golden Camera winner Jellyfish.

Film-Philosophy Towards a Theory of Film Worlds (pdf).

Filmmaker Mood Swings: An interview with Mike Leigh.

GreenCine Alex Gibney: "There's Nothing Tough About Torturing a Defenseless Man".

The Guardian Something happened: Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film The Queen of Spades has been called 'a masterpiece' by Martin Scorsese - so why is his work not better known? Philip Horne celebrates a daring director who was beset by bad luck.

IonCinema! 46th NYFF Interview: Steven Soderbergh (Che).

Previous recommended reading.

The Shooting Gallery

...Or the 100 Most Fortunate Actors in Film History?

Who are the most important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades, those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of the screen's finest films?

See what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our inclusions and also by many of our omissions. (Last Updated during December 2007).


	Acclaimed Music
	Lists of the 3,000 most acclaimed albums and songs of all time, compiled from critics' best-of lists all around the world.

Rene Clair's "Paris qui dort". Number 1,000 on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films list

TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing is now based on 1,604 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from various sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 650 magazine polls, film institute polls, and many other polls of interest. The net effect of all our fine-tuning over the last twelve months is that a total of 139 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 139 films (and some very fine ones at that) have dropped out. View The 1,000 Greatest Films.

Film Noir: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films

"From Alien through The Wicker Man, each entry brings a breath of fresh air to the consideration of seminal movies many of us thought had been analyzed to death. As editor Aaron Christensen puts it, Keep America strong! Watch more monster movies!" - Joe Dante

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