National Society of Film Critics's "100 Essential Films"

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by the National Society of Film Critics (listed alphabetically)

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  1. 1.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  2. 2.
    42nd Street (Snap Case)

  3. 3.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  4. 4.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  5. 5.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  6. 6.
    Ashes and Diamonds - Criterion Collection
    by Andrzej Wajda

  7. 7.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  8. 8.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  9. 9.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  10. 10.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith

  11. 11.
    Blow Up

  12. 12.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

  13. 13.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  14. 14.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  15. 15.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

  16. 16.
    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
    by Fred Schepisi

  17. 18.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  18. 19.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  19. 21.
    Closely Watched Trains (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jiri Menzel

  20. 22.
    Close-Up
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  21. 23.
    Dance, Girl, Dance
    by Dorothy Arzner

  22. 24.
    The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  23. 25.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  24. 26.
    Diner
    by Barry Levinson

  25. 27.
    Do the Right Thing: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Spike Lee

  26. 29.
    Double Indemnity [Barbara Stanwyck & Fred Macmurray]
    by Billy Wilder

  27. 30.
    Duck Soup

  28. 31.
    Easy Rider (Special Edition)

  29. 32.
    Enter the Dragon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Bruce Lee

  30. 33.
    The Entertainer

  31. 34.
    The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by William Friedkin

  32. 35.
    Faces - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

  33. 36.
    Fargo (Special Edition)

  34. 39.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  35. 40.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  36. 41.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  37. 42.
    Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

  38. 43.

  39. 44.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

  40. 45.
    Greed

  41. 46.
    Happy Together

  42. 47.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  43. 48.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

  44. 49.
    Jailhouse Rock

  45. 50.
    Ju Dou
    by Zhang Yimou

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Comments

Fixed — 1 year ago

For some reason, someone removed The Seventh Seal. I added it again.


numbering — 5 years ago

The actual list is irritating in that it combines several titles, sometimes not even part of the same series, into a single number. Here’s the breakdown, for anyone that’s curious:

37. both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein

39. both Godfather Pt I and Pt II

48. Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, and Red Sorghum

70. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and The World of Apu)

85. La Strada and Nights of Cabiria




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