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

  5. 6.
    An American in Paris

  6. 7.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  7. 8.
    The Apartment

  8. 9.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

  9. 10.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  10. 11.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  11. 12.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  12. 13.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  13. 14.

  14. 15.
    Day for Night
    by François Truffaut

  15. 16.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

  16. 17.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  17. 19.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  18. 20.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  19. 22.

  20. 23.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  21. 24.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  22. 25.
    It Happened One Night

  23. 26.
    Kramer vs. Kramer

  24. 27.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

  25. 28.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean

  26. 29.
    Marty
    by Delbert Mann

  27. 30.
    My Fair Lady

  28. 31.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

  29. 32.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  30. 33.

  31. 34.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  32. 35.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  33. 36.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  34. 37.
    Rocky
    by John G. Avildsen

  35. 38.
    Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  36. 39.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

  37. 40.
    Singin' in the Rain
    by Gene Kelly

  38. 41.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

  39. 42.

  40. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  41. 44.
    Terms of Endearment
    by James L. Brooks

  42. 45.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  43. 46.

  44. 47.
    Unforgiven (Snap Case)
    by Clint Eastwood

  45. 48.
    Wild Reeds
    by André Téchiné

  46. 49.

  47. 50.
    Z
    by Costa-Gavras

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Created by Perlle on Jun 12, 2006.
 

Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

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


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.


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.




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