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Empire Magazine's "Masterpieces"

Masterpieces
A regular feature since issue 167, the masterpiece feature is a two page essay on a film selected by Empire in the At Home section. The selection of the films seem to be quite random and follow no specific pattern. Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one – 169, 179, 196, 197 and 198.

(Updated with Issue 243, September 2009)

The films to feature in this section so far are:

(found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(magazine))

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1. Raging Bull  
2. Gone with the Wind
by Victor Fleming
  
3. The Shawshank Redemption
by Frank Darabont
  
4. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
  
5. Blade Runner
by Ridley Scott
  
6. La Dolce vita
by Federico Fellini
  
7. The Shining  
8. The Third Man  
9. The 400 Blows  
10. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
11. Schindler's List  
12. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
13. King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  
14. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
15. Fight Club
by David Fincher
  
16. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
  
17. Annie Hall  
18. The Bride of Frankenstein
by James Whale
  
19. It's a Wonderful Life
by Frank Capra
  
20. This Is Spinal Tap  
21. The Silence of the Lambs
by Jonathan Demme
  
22. L' Atalante
by Jean Vigo
  
23. L.A. Confidential
by Curtis Hanson
  
24. The Searchers
by John Ford
  
25. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection  
26. Brief Encounter
by David Lean
  
27. Brazil  
28. On the Waterfront
by Elia Kazan
  
29. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Milos Forman
  
30. Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
by Roberto Rossellini
  
31. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
32. Deliverance
by John Boorman
  
33. The French Connection
by William Friedkin
  
34. The Battle of Algiers  
35. Das Boot
by Wolfgang Petersen
  
36. Don't Look Now
by Nicolas Roeg
  
37. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
38. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical and Extended Limited Edition)  
39. Some Like It Hot
by Billy Wilder
  
40. The Wizard of Oz
by Victor Fleming
  
41. The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  
42. Belle de Jour  
43. Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
by Víctor Erice
  
44. Die Hard (Widescreen Edition)
by John McTiernan
  
45. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
  
46. Performance
by Nicolas Roeg
  
47. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
  
48. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Sergio Leone
  
49. The Big Sleep
by Howard Hawks
  
50.
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 Days of Heaven - Criterion Collection  
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