Perlle's "Movie List to Simplify Movie Lists"

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This list brings together movies from seven lists. Each movie is on at least three of the seven lists listed below.

Lists used:

1. Academy Awards

2. AFI 100

3. Los Angeles Film Critics Association

4. National Film Registry

5. National Society of Film Critics

6. New York Film Critics Circle

7. Sight and Sound International Critics Survey

  1. 1.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  2. 2.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  3. 3.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  4. 4.
    All Quiet on the Western Front

  6. 6.
    An American in Paris

  7. 7.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen
  8. 8.
    The Apartment

  9. 9.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler
  10. 10.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  11. 11.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean
  12. 12.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz
  13. 13.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  14. 14.
  15. 15.
    Day for Night
    by François Truffaut
  16. 16.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino
  17. 17.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  19. 19.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  20. 20.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  22. 22.
  23. 23.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  24. 24.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  25. 25.
    It Happened One Night

  26. 26.
    Kramer vs. Kramer

  27. 27.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

  28. 28.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean
  29. 29.
    Marty
    by Delbert Mann
  30. 30.
    My Fair Lady

  31. 31.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger
  32. 32.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan
  33. 33.
  34. 34.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino
  35. 35.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  36. 36.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  37. 37.
    Rocky
    by John G. Avildsen
  38. 38.
    Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  39. 39.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford
  40. 40.
    Singin' in the Rain
    by Gene Kelly
  41. 41.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  44. 44.
    Terms of Endearment
    by James L. Brooks
  45. 45.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  46. 46.
  47. 47.
    Unforgiven (Snap Case)
    by Clint Eastwood
  48. 48.
    Wild Reeds
    by André Téchiné
  49. 49.
  50. 50.
    Z
    by Costa-Gavras
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Created by Perlle on Jun 12, 2006.
 

Comments

realcorpsebride

Untitled — 2 years ago

Oh and the Sound of Music, and Chariots of Fire, and the King and I.

Sep 24, 01:43PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

realcorpsebride

Untitled — 2 years ago

I love your list. But it needs to include Fargo, The Wizard of Oz, Jaws and a hand full of other unforgettable movies everyone probably has.

Sep 24, 01:42PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

kthejoker

This list is the best starting point — 3 years ago

for anyone wanting to see The Great Films, mostly because it is full of “safe” films. A lot of times people really want these lists to suggest “underrated” or overlooked films. But this list really boils it down to a list of Great Films. It’s de facto definitive, because it has almost every facet of cinema represented (although the lack of animation and pre-awards ceremony films hurts it, obviously.)

There’s nothing on here that really requires a certain point of view to admire. You don’t have to be a J-horror buff, or a lover of gritty Burt Lancaster tough guys, or an admirer of Cassevetes’s intentional sloppiness or Tarkovsky’s dreamscapes or Frank Tashlin’s misogyny to appreciate these films.

Hopefully this list will get people going in the right direction – lots of threads run through this list – but distilling out the arthouse fare and some of the divisive movies – I can’t think of a better list to start with if you want to see the Great Films.

Jul 14, 12:58PM | 3 comments | Reply to this



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