Gerald Peary's "100 Films For Film Literacy"

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As chosen by film critic Gerald Peary. [Webmaster’s note: There’s actually more than 100 movies here, but Mr. Peary at times gave choices "MOVIE A or MOVIE B", and I just put all the choices in this list.]

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  1. 1.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  2. 2.
    21 Up
    by Michael Apted
  4. 4.
    Adam's Rib

  5. 5.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog
  6. 6.
    Airplane!
    by Jim Abrahams
  7. 7.
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (The Criterion Collection)
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  8. 8.
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    Alice In The Cities (Alice in den Städten)
    by Wim Wenders
  9. 9.
    The American Friend
    by Wim Wenders
  10. 10.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  11. 11.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen
  12. 12.
    Ashes and Diamonds [VHS]

  13. 13.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  14. 14.
    Belle de Jour

  15. 15.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica
  16. 16.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks
  17. 17.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith
  18. 18.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott
  19. 19.
    Blow Up

  20. 20.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg
  21. 21.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

  22. 22.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn
  23. 23.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  25. 25.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Wiene
  26. 26.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz
  27. 27.
    The Chelsea Girls
    by Paul Morrissey / Andy Warhol
  28. 28.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  29. 29.
    City Lights
    by Charles Chaplin
  30. 30.
    The Conformist (Dubbed) [VHS]

  31. 31.
  32. 32.
    The Dead [VHS]
    by John Huston
  34. 34.
    Diva
    by Jean-Jacques Beineix
  35. 35.
    Do the Right Thing: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Spike Lee
  37. 37.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder
  39. 39.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman
  41. 41.
    Gold Diggers of 1933 [VHS]
    by Mervyn LeRoy
  42. 42.
    The Gold Rush

  43. 43.
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    by Sergio Leone
  44. 44.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols
  45. 45.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  46. 46.
    Greed [VHS]
    by Erich von Stroheim
  47. 47.
    Hannah and Her Sisters

  48. 48.
    High School (1968 Documentary)
    by Frederick Wiseman
  49. 49.
    His Girl Friday

  50. 50.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

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Comments

wmrandth

Sloppy Programming Math — 3 years ago

I have seen you all, many more than once, and yet somehow List of Bests programmers cannot make 99+1=100

Jan 15, 09:35PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

southernbohemian

Sherlock, Jr. — 3 years ago

Replaced the combo version of Our Hospitality/Sherlock, Jr. with a version featuring only Sherlock, Jr., to better reflect the original list.

Jul 22, 08:09AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wmrandth

What is Whose Home Is This Anyway? — 4 years ago

The final film on Peary’s list is given as “Whose Home is This Anyway?”

I find no such film in IMDb. Perhaps this is a title translation issue.

To what film does this refer?

Sep 18, 09:25PM | 7 comments | Reply to this

wmrandth

Fixed Veronique + — 4 years ago

K.’s The Double Life of Veronique was on here twice — no really. I removed the old one & put the Criterion version in its proper place.

And updated The Passenger to point to the recent DVD release, and updated a couple others to their new Criterion Collection editions.

I also realphabetized the list, but left the titles as they were (some in English title, some in original language title.)

The source list is not alphabetic, however, but mostly chronological.

Sep 18, 08:31PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

penguinmdh

#8 Alice in the Cities — 5 years ago

Alice in the Cities is a 1974 film by Wim Wenders (German?). I cannot find it in either VHS or DVD.

Mar 10, 12:19PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

penguinmdh

#34 High School — 5 years ago

A documentary made by Frederick Wiseman in 1968. More information is available at

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/highschool/thefilm.html

Mar 10, 11:52AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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