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

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  2. 2.
    21 Up
    by Michael Apted

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    Adam's Rib
    by George Cukor

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  5. 5.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  6. 6.
    Airplane!
    by David Zucker

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  8. 8.
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    Alice In The Cities (Alice in den Städten)
    by Wim Wenders

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  9. 9.
    The American Friend

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  10. 10.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  11. 11.
    Annie Hall

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  12. 12.
    Ashes and Diamonds
    by Andrzej Wajda

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  13. 13.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

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  14. 14.
    Belle de Jour

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  15. 15.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  16. 16.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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  17. 17.
    The Birth of a Nation

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  18. 18.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  19. 19.
    Blow Up
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  20. 20.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  21. 21.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
    by David Lynch

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  22. 22.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  23. 23.
    Breathless

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  24. 24.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

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  25. 25.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    by Robert Wiene

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  26. 26.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  27. 27.
    The Chelsea Girls
    by Paul Morrissey / Andy Warhol

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  28. 28.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  29. 29.
    City Lights

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  30. 30.
    The Conformist
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  31. 31.
    Contempt - Criterion Collection

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  32. 32.
    Dead (1987) / Movie
    by John Huston

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    Diva
    by Jean-Jacques Beineix

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  37. 37.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

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  38. 38.
    The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  39. 39.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  40. 40.
    The Godfather DVD Collection

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  41. 41.
    Gold Diggers of 1933
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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  42. 42.
    The Gold Rush

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  43. 43.
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    by Sergio Leone

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

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  45. 45.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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    Hannah and Her Sisters

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  48. 48.
    High School (1968 Documentary)
    by Frederick Wiseman

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  49. 49.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  50. 50.
    Ikiru - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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wmrandth
Seattle

Sloppy Programming Math — 47 weeks 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 | 0 comments | Reply to this

southernbohemian
Austin

Sherlock, Jr. — 1 year 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
Seattle

What is Whose Home Is This Anyway? — 2 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 | 6 comments | Reply to this

wmrandth
Seattle

Fixed Veronique + — 2 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
Pittsburgh

#8 Alice in the Cities — 3 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
Pittsburgh

#34 High School — 3 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