Welcome to my 1000 Favorite Films list. This is a work in progress and won’t be finished for several years. I don’t make any claim that these are the best movies of all time. (I don’t know how one could ever measure it.) They are the films which have dug their claws into me the deepest. I’ve found favorites in every corner in which I’ve looked so you’ll films on this list which are drawn from a wide assortment of decades, countries, and genres. For the moment, I’ve minimized the number of short films in this list. Once this list nears its conclusion, I’ll reconsider them and add the appropriate number. In general, I seem to agree with a lot of the critics regarding many of the great films. Consequently, you’ll see the usual celebrated films all over my list. There are also some oddball personal favorites, and those you’ll just have to accept as my own idiosyncratic choices. This list is far short of 1000 films because there is a large chunk of film history that I am still learning about. I anticipate adding many more from the 1960s through today. Take my list with a grain of salt and I hope you find some of your own favorites here.
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Cabiria
by Giovanni Pastrone
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Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
by Max Linder
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The 'High Sign' (short, 1921)
by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
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The Play House (1921)
by Buster Keaton
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The Blacksmith (1922)
by Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
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La roue
by Abel Gance
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Our Hospitality
by John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton
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Safety Last!
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The Pilgrim (1923)
by Charlie Chaplin
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The Last Laugh
by F.W. Murnau
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
by Fritz Lang
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Girl Shy (1924)
by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer
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The Thief of Bagdad (Deluxe Edition)
by Raoul Walsh
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Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
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Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life
by Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Strike
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
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The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)
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Variety (1925)
by Ewald André Dupont
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Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
by Carl Koch
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Visages d' Enfants (1925)
by Jacques Feyder
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The Flesh and the Devil ~ starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert [Import, All-region] (Dvd)
by Clarence Brown
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Hands Up! (1926)
by Clarence G. Badger
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Ménilmontant (1926 short)
by Dimitri Kirsanoff
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Now You Tell One
by Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller
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The General
by Clyde Bruckman
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Seventh Heaven (1927)
by Frank Borzage
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My Best Girl
by Sam Taylor
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Napoléon (France - 1927)
by Abel Gance
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Storm over Asia
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
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The Cameraman (1928)
by Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick
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The Circus (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
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The Docks of New York
by Josef von Sternberg
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The Last Command
by Josef von Sternberg
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Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection
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Liberty (1929)
by Leo McCarey
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City Girl
by F.W. Murnau
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The Blue Angel
by Josef von Sternberg
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Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or
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The Story of the Fox (Le Roman de Renard)
by Irene Starewicz & Wladyslaw Starewicz
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A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection
by René Clair
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Blonde Crazy (1931)
by Roy Del Ruth
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
by Rouben Mamoulian
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La Chienne
by Jean Renoir
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Le Million - Criterion Collection
by René Clair
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M - Criterion Collection
by Fritz Lang
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Fanny (1932)
by Marc Allégret
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Love Me Tonight
by Rouben Mamoulian
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Minnie the Moocher (1932)
by Dave & Max Fleischer
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