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"Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

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

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► NEW → Sight & Sound's Best of 2008 (pdf).

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	° BAY OF ANGELS (1963/France) Jacques Demy R Strictly Film School
	° ARMY OF SHADOWS (1969/France) Jean-Pierre Melville R Chicago Reader
	° VINCENT (1982/USA) Tim Burton R YouTube
	° SALESMAN (1968/USA) Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin W The Criterion Collection
	° VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (2008/Spain-USA) Woody Allen D metacritic
	° KINGPIN (1996/USA) Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly A metacritic
	° THE SILENCE (1963/Sweden) Ingmar Bergman W Criterion Collection Essay
	° FROST/NIXON (2008/USA-UK-France) Ron Howard A metacritic
	° RELIGULOUS (2008/USA) Larry Charles W metacritic
	° I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (2008/France-Germany) Philippe Claudel W metacritic
	° THE RESTLESS BREED (1957/USA) Allan Dwan R Time Out
	° THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE (1947/UK) Alberto Cavalcanti HR Noir of the Week
	° SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008/UK-USA) Danny Boyle A metacritic
	° YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938/USA) Frank Capra W Pop Matters
	° LATE MARRIAGE (2001/Israel-France) Dover Kosashvili R metacritic
	° BAMAKO (2006/France-Mali-USA) Abderrahmane Sissako R metacritic
	° A LIFE AT STAKE (1954/USA) Paul Guilfoyle D IMDB
	° CLIMATES (2006/Turkey-France-Netherlands) Nuri Bilge Ceylan R metacritic
	° PLAY DIRTY (1968/UK) André De Toth R DVD Savant Review
	° QUE VIVA MEXICO! (1932/Mexico-USA) Sergei Eisenstein R 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

December 2008

Sight & Sound Game for a century: For eight decades Manoel de Oliveira has played with audiences' expectations of cinema. Now, at the age of 100, this contradictory figure is not merely Portugal's most important director, he's an international treasure.

The Guardian Rouben Mamoulian, the natural born cineaste: A consistent innovator, Mamoulian was one of the first directors to rise to the challenges of sound and colour.

Henry Sheehan Japanese filmmaker Eiichi Kudo.

indieWIRE Viva La Revolution: Steven Soderbergh Rebels Again with "Che".

Undercurrent The Durability of Filmmaking in a Temporary Country.

LA Weekly How acclaimed indie director Gus Van Sant finally got Milk.

Offscreen The Face of Quatermass: National Identity in British Science-Fiction.

Screening the Past Against the Flow of Time: Michael Mann and Edward Hopper.

Slant Magazine Redefining success: An interview with Kelly Reichardt.

Moving Image Source Children of Paradise: How to watch Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies and why.

Sight & Sound The DVDs of 2008.

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 2008).


	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.

Tod Browning's "The Unknown". Number 1,000 on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films list

NEW - December 2008 Version

TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing has undergone its annual upgrade. It is now based on 1,825 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from many sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 900 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 96 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 96 films 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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