New Ledger - Forget Zagat: 200 Movies You Really Ought to See

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The folks at Zagat have made a list of the top 1,000 movies. What cheats. 1,000 movies?!? There aren’t a thousand films worth your time unless you’re an absolute addict — and even then, there aren’t. But I’d been meaning for some time to expand my 150 movies list to a more appealing 200 and I felt bad for a cheat of my own (by lumping trilogies into one listing).

As an aside to the now five different people who’ve been emailing me about making their way through most of the 150 movies list — there should be only about thirty additional films here for you, given that I’ve just expanded the sequels to separate entries, etc.

So here’s a revised and expanded list of 200 movies you really ought to see. Again, it is very light on Kubrick, Fellini, Herzog, Malick and a great many others. It includes several entries from Hitchcock, but not Vertigo. There is no Woody Allen. But I hope this fills out your Netflix queue for the time being.

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  2. 3.
    Miller's Crossing
    by Ethan Coen

  3. 4.
    Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

  4. 5.
    Charade (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Stanley Donen

  5. 6.
    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

  6. 7.

  7. 8.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan

  8. 9.
    Bullitt [Blu-ray]
    by Peter Yates

  9. 10.
    The Sting
    by George Roy Hill

  10. 11.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

  11. 12.
    Ronin [Blu-ray]
    by John Frankenheimer

  12. 13.

  13. 14.

  14. 16.

  15. 17.
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [Blu-ray]
    by Peter Jackson

  16. 18.
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [Blu-ray]
    by Peter Jackson

  17. 22.
    Braveheart (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
    by Mel Gibson

  18. 23.
    Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (Widescreen Edition)
    by Mel Gibson

  19. 24.
    The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Philip Kaufman

  20. 25.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

  21. 26.
    Before the Rain (The Criterion Collection)
    by Milcho Manchevski

  22. 28.
    The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

  23. 29.
    Sexy Beast
    by Jonathan Glazer

  24. 30.
    Kagemusha (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  25. 31.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  26. 32.
    Yojimbo (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  27. 33.
    Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging)
    by Steven Spielberg

  28. 34.
    The Mosquito Coast
    by Peter Weir

  29. 35.
    The Year of Living Dangerously

  30. 36.
    Thief

  31. 37.
    Heat [Blu-ray]
    by Michael Mann

  32. 38.
    Rocky
    by John G. Avildsen

  33. 39.
    Apocalypse Now (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  34. 40.
    The Getaway (Deluxe Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah

  35. 41.
    The Natural: Director's Cut
    by Barry Levinson

  36. 42.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  37. 43.
    Unforgiven
    by Clint Eastwood

  38. 44.
    John Wayne: The Searchers
    by John Ford

  39. 45.
    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

  40. 46.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

  41. 47.
    Psycho (50th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  42. 50.
    Spartacus
    by Stanley Kubrick

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Comments

FitFortDanga — 1 year ago

That explains the closed-minded assumption that there couldn’t possibly be 1000 films out there worth seeing.


heh — 1 year ago

Although I had no idea who “New Ledger” is, as soon as I saw the first half of the list, I could tell it was put together by conservatives. Clicked the list source link, and… yep!




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