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	° TSOTSI (2005/South Africa-UK) Gavin Hood A metacritic
	° DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922/Germany) Fritz Lang W Slant Magazine
	° HUNGER (2008/UK-Ireland) Steve McQueen R Slant Magazine
	° MAN ON WIRE (2007/UK) James Marsh R metacritic
	° THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954/USA) John Ireland & Edward Sampson A Internet Archive
	° MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN (1975/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder W Strictly Film School
	° MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937/USA) Leo McCarey HR Slant Magazine
	° LOCAL HERO (1983/UK) Bill Forsyth W Screen Online
	° BLACK AND TAN (1929/USA) Dudley Murphy R Like Television
	° COLOUR ME KUBRICK (2005/UK-France) Brian Cook A metacritic
	° DRIFTING CLOUDS (1996/Finland-Germany-France) Aki Kaurismäki R Strictly Film School
	° I SHOT JESSE JAMES (1949/USA) Samuel Fuller R Time Out
	° THE VERY EYE OF NIGHT (1958/USA) Maya Deren A Google Video
	° LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951/USA) King Vidor R Mystery File
	° TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934/USA) Howard Hawks W Slant Magazine
	° YOUNG MAN WITH IDEAS (1952/USA) Mitchell Leisen A IMDB
	° 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (2006/Romania-France) Corneliu Porumboiu W Slant Magazine
	° WHISKY GALORE! (1949/UK) Alexander Mackendrick W Screen Online
	° BURN AFTER READING (2008/USA-UK-France) Joel & Ethan Coen W metacritic
	° MON ONCLE D'AMÉRIQUE (1980/France) Alain Resnais R Time Out

	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

November 2008

Rouge Mitchell Leisen.

Offscreen Form Inversion in Alfred Hitchcock.

Reverse Shot Hou Hsiao-hsien: In Search of Lost Time.

Sight & Sound Who needs critics? and Critics on Critics.

Bright Lights Film Journal Dana Andrews: The Forties Hero and His Shadow.

Cineaste Mr. Freedom: An Interview with William Klein.

Cineuropa Interview with Thomas Vinterberg.

Film Comment A Blast from the Past: Kent Jones talks movies, writing, and harp music with America’s most original film critic Manny Farber.

Filmmaker The Play's the Thing: For Charlie Kaufman, the whole world fits into Synecdoche, New York.

GreenCine Errol Morris: "The Photographs Actually Hide Things From Us".

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The Shooting Gallery

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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?

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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

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