Roger Ebert - Great Movies

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"Movie history did not begin in 1967, but my career as a movie critic did.
"Since then I’ve reviewed most of the new movies as they’ve opened, but there is almost never time to go back and write about the great movies of the past….

"Now I want to change that—to a small degree, anyway. Readers often helpfully suggest, ‘Why don’t you go back and review all the great movies of the past?’ I sigh and explain that there are about 250 new releases every year for me to review, that time is at a premium, that man doth not live by looking at movies alone, etc. But they have a point.

"I’ve begun a new bi-weekly feature called ‘The Great Movies,’ in which I review a classic from years past."

Last 10 additions

Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)
Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
Richard III (1996)
The Grey Zone (2002)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Souls for Sale (1923)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)

[Last update: November 4, 2009]Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)

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  1. 151.
    Late Spring - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  2. 152.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  3. 153.

  4. 154.
    Le Boucher
    by Claude Chabrol

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  5. 155.
    Le Samourai - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

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  6. 156.
    Leaving Las Vegas

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  7. 157.
    Leolo

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  8. 158.
    Leon Morin, Pretre (Import)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

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  9. 159.

  10. 160.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  11. 161.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Robert Altman

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  12. 162.
    M - Criterion Collection
    by Fritz Lang

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  13. 163.
    Magnolia
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

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  14. 164.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  15. 165.
    Man With the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

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  16. 166.
    Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs
    by Paul Leni

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  17. 167.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by John Frankenheimer

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  18. 168.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

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  19. 169.
    The Marriage of Maria Braun
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  20. 170.
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

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  21. 171.
    Mean Streets

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  22. 172.
    Mephisto
    by István Szabó

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  23. 173.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  24. 174.
    Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters
    by Paul Schrader

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  25. 175.
    Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection

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  26. 176.
    Mon Oncle Antoine
    by Claude Jutra

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  27. 177.
    Mon Oncle d'Amerique
    by Alain Resnais

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  28. 178.

  29. 179.
    Moonstruck (Deluxe Edition)
    by Norman Jewison

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  30. 181.
    Jalsaghar - The Music Room
    by Satyajit Ray

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  31. 182.
    My Darling Clementine
    by John Ford

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  32. 183.
    My Dinner with Andre
    by Louis Malle

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  33. 184.
    My Fair Lady
    by George Cukor

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  34. 185.
    My Life to Live

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  35. 186.
    My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
    by Gregory La Cava

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  36. 187.
    My Neighbor Totoro (Full Screen Edition)
    by Hayao Miyazaki

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  37. 188.
    Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
    by Robert J. Flaherty

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  38. 189.
    Nashville
    by Robert Altman

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  39. 190.
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

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  40. 191.
    Night Moves (1975)
    by Arthur Penn

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  41. 192.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  42. 193.
    Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  43. 194.
    Nosferatu - Special Edition
    by F.W. Murnau

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  44. 195.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  45. 196.

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  47. 199.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau

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  48. 200.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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Update — 2 years ago

Added The Great Dictator (1940).


wokelstein
Layton

Just gotta say.... — 2 years ago

This is by far the best Great Movie list I’ve seen so far. Ebert has a healthy blend of modern and classic, fine art and pop art, comedy, horror, musical, and noir. More and more, I find myself gravitating toward this list to find stuff to watch.


Addition — 2 years ago

Added Babel (2006).


Roger Ebert Returns... — 2 years ago

Fans of this list may have noticed that Mr Ebert is back doing the bi weekly ‘Greats’ column…

Here are the last few additions>

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
WR—Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Moolaade (2007)


penguinmdh
Pittsburgh

#43 Bring Me the Head Og Alfredo Gardia — 2 years ago

Replaced with a link that has “of” spelled correctly.


update — 2 years ago

Added Moolaade. Also changed Army of Shadows to the Criterion edition.


Perlle
East Hampton

listsource — 2 years ago

The old link was not valid anymore. I updated the listsource to the current address.


Larry Gilbert
San Diego

Minor tune-up — 2 years ago

I added two movies that Roger Ebert added since the last update: Army of Shadows and The Dead. I also re-alphabetized the numeric titles library-style (i.e. going by the words instead of the digits).


sfcaf
San Francisco

Update 8/13/06 — 3 years ago

Linked entries with gray boxes to available titles, except for Chuck Jones: 3 Cartoons and The Films of Buster Keaton which do not refer to single products, and The Marriage of Maria Braun, which on DVD is only available as part of a three disc set.


More Revisions — 3 years ago

Close to ten titles were missing, several were duplicated, some misrepresented as an entire trilogy when Ebert only names one film on his list, and many more simply not in alphabetical order.

Notes:

The Films of Buster Keaton – this ambiguous blanket term is confusing, because The General appears elsewhere on his list, and Ebert’s full article gives more of a biography than a filmography of Keaton. He also briefly mentions several full-length titles and several shorts. I chose Ebert’s label instead of guessing individual films he’d include or exclude. Make of this what you will.

Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons. Ebert specifies which cartoons in his review. They are: “Duck Amuck,” “What’s Opera, Doc?” and “One Froggy Evening.” They are available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD.



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