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| DRAMA CITIZEN KANE (1941) Orson Welles THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Peter Bogdonavich HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) John Ford THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977-Germany) Wim Wenders NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) Charles Laughton OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS (1951-England) Carol Reed THE LAST DETAIL (1973) Hal Ashby PETULIA (1968) Richard Lester THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) P.T. Anderson KILLER OF SHEEP (1977) Charles Burnett |
SILENT DRAMA THE LAST LAUGH (1924-Germany) F.W. Murnau NAPOLEON (1927-France) Abel Gance
THE WHEEL (1922-France) Abel Gance PANDORA’S BOX (1929-Germany) G.W.Pabst MADAM DuBARRY (1919-Germany) Ernst Lubitsch WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1928) Tod Browning MONEY (1919-France) Marcel L’Herbier ASPHALT (1929-Germany) Joe May |
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HISTORICAL DRAMA
BURN! (1969-Italian-French) Gillo Pontecorvo THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) Philip Kaufman THE DUELLISTS (1977-England) Ridley Scott EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) John Sayles GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005) George Clooney |
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| ACTION/ADVENTURE THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954-Japan) Akira Kurosawa THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1978) John Huston TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) John Huston BODYGUARD (1961-Japan) Akira Kurosawa LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962-England) David Lean BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974) Sam Peckinpah YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) Lewis Gilbert THUNDERBALL (1965) Terrence Young THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981) George Miller THE FOUR FEATHERS (1939) Zoltan Korda BEAU GESTE (1939) William Wellman |
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| ROMANCE SUNRISE (1927) F.W. Murnau QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933) Rouben Mamoulian ROBIN AND MARION (1976-England) Richard Lester FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (1967-England) John Schlesinger RANDOM HARVEST (1940) Mervin LeRoy THE MODERNS (1988) Alan Rudolph |
WESTERNS THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID (1972) Philip Kaufman STAGECOACH (1939) John Ford RED RIVER (1948) Howard Hawks DIRTY LITTLE BILLY (1972) Stan Dragoti THE BIG TRAIL (1930) Raoul Walsh RED SUN (1972) Terence Young BAD COMPANY (1973) Robert Benton THE CULPEPPER CATTLE COMPANY (1972) Dick Richards |
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| CRIME THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) William Wellman THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939) Raoul Walsh POINT BLANK (1967) John Boorman STRAY DOG (1949-Japan) Akira Kurosawa WHITE HEAT (1949) Raoul Walsh STRAIGHT TIME (1978) Ulu Grosbard THE FREINDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) Peter Yates THE DRIVER (1978) Walter Hill |
CAPER/HEIST
THE KILLING (1956) Stanley Kubrick THE ANDERSON TAPES (1972) Sidney Lumet RIFIFI (1954-France) Jules Dassin TOPKAPI (1964-France) Jules Dassin THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 (1974) Joseph Sargent THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974) Michael Cimino THE GETAWAY (1972) Sam Peckinpah |
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FILM NOIR DETOUR (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Orson Welles LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948) Orson Welles THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949) Nicholas Ray ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) Billy Wilder THE SET-UP (1949) Robert Wise NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) Edmund Goulding |
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| SUSPENSE WAGES OF FEAR (1952-France) Henri Clouzot SECONDS (1966) John Frankenheimer THE CONVERSATION (1974) Francis Coppola VERTIGO (1958) Alfred Hitchcock BLOW UP (1966-England) Michelangelo Antonioni CUTTER AND BONE (1981) Ivan Passar |
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| MYSTERY THE THIRD MAN (1949-England) Carol Reed REAR WINDOW (1954) Alfred Hitchcock THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Billy Wilder STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940) Boris Ingster KISS ME DEADLY (1955) Robert Aldrich |
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| COMEDY DR.STRANGELOVE (1964-England) Stanley Kubrick BEDAZZLED (1967-England) Stanley Donen SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Billy Wilder DUCK SOUP (1933) Leo McCarey ANNIE HALL (1977) Woody Allen MY UNCLE (1958) Jacques Tati THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH (1955) Billy Wilder WILL SUCCSESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (1957) Frank Tashlin AFTER HOURS (1985) Martin Scorsese |
SCREWBALL COMEDY
THE PHILIDELPHIA STORY(1940) George Cuckor BRINGING UP BABY (1938) Howard Hawks THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) Leo MC Carey HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) Howard Hawks BALL OF FIRE (1941) Howard Hawks THE LADY EVE (1941) Preston Sturges YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) Frank Capra NOTHING SACRED (1937) William A. Wellman MY MAN GODFREY (1936) Gregory LaCava |
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| NAUTICAL THE SEA HAWK (1940) Michael Curtiz MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003) Peter Weir BILLY BUDD (1962-England) Peter Ustinov CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935) Michael Curtiz CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (1951-England) Raoul Walsh CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937) Victor Fleming DAMN THE DEFIANT! (1962-England) Lewis Gilbert |
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| POLITICAL BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1961-Italian) Gillo Pontecorvo MEDIUM COOL (1969) Haskell Wexler ODD MAN OUT (1947-England) Carol Reed THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES (1941) Sam Wood THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) John Ford SALT OF THE EARTH (1953) Herbert Biberman THE CANDIDATE (1972) Michael Ritchie |
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| HORROR THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) James Whale DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) George Romero THE EXORCIST (1971) William Friedkin WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922-Sweden) Ben Kristiansen THE RING (2002) Gore Verbinski |
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FANTASY BARON MUNCHHAUSEN (1989) Terry Gilliam THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953) Roy Rowland FAUST (1926-Germany) F.W. Murnau BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946-France) Jean Cocteau RETURN TO OZ (1985) Walter Murch |
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| SUPERHEROES THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) Christopher Nolan IRON MAN (2008) Jon Favreau THE ROCKETEER (1991) Joe Johnston THE PHANTOM (1996) Simon Wincer THE INCREDIBLES (2004) Brad Bird |
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| MUSICALS STORMY WEATHER (1943) Andrew Stone WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Robert Wise THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956) Frank Tashlin HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964-England) Richard Lester YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) Michael Curtiz COTTON CLUB (1984) Francis Ford Coppola ON THE TOWN (1949) Gene Kelly FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933) Lloyd Bacon ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) Alan Arkush THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD (1975) Sig Shore GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Mervyn LeRoy |
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| BIOGRAPHIES AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (1972-Germany) W. Herzog LUST FOR LIFE (1956) Vincent Minnelli AMERICA, AMERICA (1963-USA) Elia Kazan COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (1980) Michael Apted MILK (2008) Gus Van Sant COOLEY HIGH (1975) Michael Schultz HEAVENLY CREATURES (1996-New Zealand) Peter Jackson |
CULT MADAM SATAN (1930) Cecil B. DeMille EASY RIDER (1969) Dennis Hopper REPO MAN (1984) Alex Cox FREAKS (1932) Tod Browning SIMON OF THE DESERT (1968-Mexico) Luis Bunuel CABIN BOY (1994) Adam Resnik HEAD (1968) Bob Rafelson SCHIZOPOLIS (1997) Steven Soderberg THE WORLD"S GREATEST SINNER (1962) Timothy Carey |
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| URBAN DRAMAS TAXI DRIVER (1976) Martin Scorsese MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) John Schlesinger THE APARTMENT (1960) Billy Wilder MEAN STREETS (1974) Martin Scorses THE LANDLORD (1970) Hal Ashby THE WANDERERS (1979) Philip Kaufman THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (1974) Stephen Verona STONY ISLAND (1978) Andrew Davis |
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WAR
PATHS OF GLORY (1957) Stanley Kubrick FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959-Japan) Kon Ichikawa ACES HIGH (1977-England) Jack Gold DOWNFALL (2004-Germany) Oliver Hirschbeigel THE BRIDGE (1960-German) Bernhard Wicki FULL METAL JACKET (1987-England) Stanley Kubrick CATCH-22 (1970) Mike Nichols CROSS OF IRON (1976) Sam Peckanpah THE BEAST (1988) Kevin Reynolds DAWN PATROL (1938) Edmund Goulding ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001) Jean-Jacques Annaud, |
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| FOREIGN CLASSICS BREATHLESS (1959-France) Jean-Luc Godard THE ROAD (1954-Italy) Federico Fellini THE BICYCLE THIEF (1947-Italy) Vittorio De Sica SONG OF THE ROAD (1955-India) Satyajit Ray SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960-France) Francois Truffaut |
FILMS ABOUT TELEVISION & MOVIES NETWORK (1976) Sidney Lumet SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Billy Wilder A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) Elia Kazan SHOW PEOPLE (1928) King Vidor THE PLAYER (1996) Robert Altman |
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| BEST FILMS OF THE 1990s TOPSY-TURVY (1998-England) Mike Leigh HEAVENLY CREATURES (1996-New Zealand) Peter Jackson JFK (1991) Oliver Stone DOROTHY PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1997) Alan Rudolph THE LIMEY (1999) Stephen Soderberg CASINO (1995) Martin Scorsese |
SCI-FI THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976-England) Nicolas Roeg A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick FARENHEIT 451 (1967-England) Francois Truffaut FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Fred Wilcox METROPOLIS (1927) Fritz lang PLANET OF THE APES (1968) Franklin J. Schaffner WESTWORLD (1973) Michael Crichton BUCKAROO BANZAI (1984) W.D. Richter |
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| BEST FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY THE NEW WORLD (2005) Terrence Malick CITY OF GOD (2002-Brazil) Fernando Meirelles MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003) Peter Weir THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) P.T. Anderson DISTRICT 9 (2009) Neill Blomkamp FOG OF WAR (2003) Errol Morris HERO (2002-China) Yimou Zhang 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002-England) Michael Winterbottom GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005) George Clooney MILK (2008) Gus Van Sant CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) Alfonso Cuarón |
STEAMPUNK 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) Richard Fleisher CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) Ken Hughes THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Billy Wilder TIME AFTER TIME (1979) Nicholas Myer MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961-England) Cy Endfield THE TIME MACHINE (1960) George Pal THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (1995-France) Jean Jeunet THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2007) Chris Weitz BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001) Christopher Gans MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961) William Witney |
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RECENT POPCORN GOODNESS GLADIATOR THE MUMMY THE MASK OF ZORRO DARK CITY |
STEAMPUNK in SPIRIT THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1978) John Huston ROYAL FLASH (1975) Richard Lester THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THOSE FLYING MACHINES (1965) Ken Annakin SKY CAPTAIN (2004) Kerry Conran |
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STAR TREK Star Trek (2009) Wrath of Khan First Contact The Undiscovered Country Generations |
JAMES BOND You Only Live Twice Thunderball Diamonds are Forvever Die Another Day On Her Majesties Secret Service |
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 Terrence Malick's "The New World" is the best film of the 21st century...so far
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