Time Out New York's "Alt-Cannon"

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After many painstaking arguments, gallons of shed tears and several old-school barroom brawls, TONY’s film critics have come up with more than two dozen contenders that we feel deserve to be considered among the best that cinema has to offer. Don’t think of them as replacements for the tried-and-true greats of the past century-plus; they’re more like worthy, well-earned additions to the pantheon.

  1. 1.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

  2. 2.
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch

  3. 3.
    Videodrome (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Cronenberg

  4. 4.
    Hellzapoppin
    by H. C. Potter

  5. 5.
    Close-Up
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  6. 6.
    Pauline at the Beach
    by Eric Rohmer

  7. 7.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

  8. 8.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  9. 9.
    Something Wild
    by Jonathan Demme

  10. 10.
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah

  11. 11.
    Looney Tunes - Back in Action (Widescreen Edition)
    by Joe Dante

  12. 12.
    I Could Go On Singing
    by Ronald Neame

  13. 13.
    Starship Troopers

  14. 14.
    The Color Purple
    by Steven Spielberg

  15. 15.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Robert Altman

  16. 16.
    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
    by Sam Peckinpah

  17. 17.
    Secret Defense
    by Jacques Rivette

  18. 18.
    The Delta
    by Ira Sachs

  19. 19.
    Killing of a Chinese Bookie (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Cassavetes

  20. 20.
    Men in War
    by Anthony Mann

  21. 21.
    La Jetee/Sans Soleil (The Criterion Collection)
    by Chris Marker

  22. 22.
    Yearning (Midareru)
    by Mikio Naruse

  23. 23.
    Mouchette (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  24. 24.
    Platform

  25. 25.
    ?
    The Ghost Ship (1943)
    by Mark Robson

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Created by Emily on Aug 28, 2009.
 

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