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Premiere Magazine's "100 Movies that Shook the World"

Rather than quibble with AFI’s list of 100 best American movies, Premiere Magazine decided to take a different track: "Why not celebrate the filmmakers who dared to be ridiculous, offensive, or even (imagine!) unpopular, and who still came up with classics?" None of the following 100 films (in alphabetical order) were featured on "http://www.listsofbests.com/list/22" AFI’s 100 Greatest list, but they’re all noteworthy for their startling ideas and images.

(found at: http://www.filmsite.org/premiere.html)

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1. Airplane!
by David Zucker
  
2. Akira
by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
  
3. Animal Crackers
by Victor Heerman
  
4. Badlands  
5. Bananas  
6. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
7. Belle de Jour  
8. The Birds (Collector's Edition)  
9. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
  
10. Blazing Saddles  
11. Blow Up
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
12. Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
by David Lynch
  
13. Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection  
14. Brazil - Criterion Collection  
15. Breathless  
16. The Bride of Frankenstein
by James Whale
  
17.
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 Cat People (1942)
by Jacques Tourneur
  
18. Un Chien Andalou  
19. The Conformist (Extended Edition)
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
21. The Conversation  
22. Crimes and Misdemeanors  
23.
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 The Crowd
by King Vidor
  
24. Dead Ringers  
25. Detour (B&W)
by Edgar G. Ulmer
  
26.
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 The Devil in Miss Jones
by Gerard Damiano
  
27. Dirty Harry  
28. Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
by D.A. Pennebaker
  
29. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection  
30. Drugstore Cowboy
by Gus Van Sant
  
31. Dumbo
by Ben Sharpsteen
  
32. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection  
33. Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
by Georges Franju
  
34.
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 Faces - Criterion Collection
by John Cassavetes
  
35.
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 Faster, Pussycat! Kill!... Kill!
by Russ Meyer
  
36. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
by Amy Heckerling
  
37. Flesh
by Paul Morrissey
  
38. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
39. Freaks
by Tod Browning
  
40.
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 The Gang's All Here
by Busby Berkeley
  
41. The Girl Can't Help It
by Frank Tashlin
  
42. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Sergio Leone
  
43. Halloween  
44. A Hard Day's Night
by Richard Lester
  
45. The Harder They Come - Criterion Collection
by Perry Henzell
  
46. The Hustler
by Robert Rossen
  
47. If... (Criterion Collection)
by Lindsay Anderson
  
48. In the Company of Men
by Neil LaBute
  
49. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
by Don Siegel
  
50. Johnny Guitar
by Nicholas Ray
  
51. Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by François Truffaut
  
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Created by alyxstarr on Feb 23, 2006.