Magic Lantern Video & Book StoreMy Ten Most-Favorite
Films (and why)
Films (and why)
One person's viewpoint of the grandest and best motion pictures of all time,
narrowed down to a handful, including a few you may not be aware of ...
They are in no particular order.
— G.E. Nordell, proprietor of Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Great Movies collections on DVD
See also Magic Lantern Video & Book Store's
"The African Queen" 1951 Movie Page
"Apocalypse Now" 1979 Movie Page
"The Birth of A Nation" 1915 Movie Page
"Casablanca" 1942 Movie Page
"Citizen Kane" 1941 Movie Page
'The Godfather Saga' Page
"Gone With The Wind" 1939 Movie Page
von Stroheim's "Greed" 1924 Movie Page
'Lord of The Rings' Movies Page
"Metropolis" 1927 Movie Page
'Pirates of The Caribbean' Movies Page
Godfrey Reggio's 'Qatsi Trilogy' Page
'Rocky' Movies Page
"Seven Samurai" & "Magnificent Seven" Movies Page
"The Wizard of Oz" 1939 Movie Page
and also Spirit of America Bookstore's 'Tarzan' Movies Page
and at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore:
Dashiell Hammett's 'The Thin Man' Movies Page
and Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" 1941 Movie Page
"Fitzcarraldo" [1982]
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Look at the video/poster image: The movie was about a visionary who hauled a steamboat up a mountain by chains and ropes and brute manpower, in the steaming jungles of South America. Herzog did the same damn thing – his boat weighed 320 tons! – while producing and directing a 35mm feature motion picture – on a budget! Co-produced, written & directed by Werner Herzog; starring Klaus Kinski & Claudia Cardinale
Anchor Bay widescreen color VHS [10/99] for $14.99 Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [11/99] for $31.48 Les Blank documentary + book | full credits from IMDb "Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story" by Werner Herzog Fjord Press pb [1/83] out of stock/used |
"Wings of Desire" [1987]
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A brilliant, stunning, gorgeous subjective look at what it means to be human. "Luminously optimistic." Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "Der Himmel über Berlin" (Heaven Above Berlin); starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Peter Falk; many awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography & more; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)
Criterion Collection Blu-ray [11/2009] for $30.99 
MGM/UA widescreen DVD w/English subtitles [7/2003] out of prodn/many used MGM/UA color VHS w/English subtitles [6/2000] for $9.98 Orion color VHS w/English subtitles [5/93] out of stock/used Nonesuch soundtrack CD [10/90] for $18.98 11x17" poster at AllPosters.com | full credits from IMDb |
[ The 1998 remake "City of Angels" was dreadful – forget it. ]
sequel "Faraway, So Close" [1993]
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The sequel to "Wings of Desire" (above), this film is superb in its own right.
Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "In weiter Ferne, so nah!"; starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Nastasia Kinski; several awards for direction & cinematography
Col/TriStar widescrn DVD w/Engl subtitles [9/2000] for $22.49 Col/TriStar color VHS w/English subtitles [3/2000] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Wild Bunch" [1969]
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A deep meditation on the ending of the Western frontier, controversial for the vividness of the on-screen violence, yet superbly romantic: All that a Western tale should be.
Directed by Sam Peckinpah [1925-84]; starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, and the scurrilous L.Q. Jones & Strother Martin; nominated for Oscars for Best Script & Best Music; award for Best Cinematography from N.F.S.C.
Warner Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [9/2007] for $11.49 Warner Video widescreen Director's Cut 145-min. DVD [8/97] for $10.99 Warner Video Anniv. Edition 179-min. color VHS [11/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb Cambridge Film Handbook, edited by Stephen Prince Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/98] for $23.00 via Amazon.com |
"Reds" [Paramount Dec 1981]
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A radical combination of historical drama and actual history. The interspersed interviews with then-still-living witnesses to the story of American journalist and Bolshevik activist John Reed [1887-1920] give a resonance beyond any previous film about the Russian revolutionary era. Truly an epic film.
Produced & co-written & directed by Warren Beatty; based on the Reed biography by Robert A. Rosenstone; starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson & Maureen Stapleton; witnesses include Henry Miller & Will Durant; won Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress; nominated for 9 more; won DGA, WGA, two BAFTA Awards
Paramount color DVD [10/2006] for $14.99 Paramount color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used BMG soundtrack CD [4/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed" [1975] by Robert A. Rosenstone Replica Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2001] out of print/used Random House hardcover [6/75] out of print/many used |
"Forrest Gump" [Paramount July 1994]
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The hilarious and profound epic story of a dim-wit nobody.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis; starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright & Gary Sinise; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Effects & Best Editing, nominated for 7 more
Paramount widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2009] 2 disks for $19.99
Paramount widescreen color DVD [8/2001] 2 disks for $8.49 Paramount color VHS [9/96] out of prodn/many, many used Sony soundtrack CD [8/94] out of prodn/many used Sony/Legacy soundtrack double CD [8/2001] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb • theme music [2min:47sec midi file] • movie entry at Wikipedia "Making of.." documentary [1994] Directed by Peyton Reed
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based on the 1988 novel by Winston Groom
Washington Square Press 8x5¼ pb [10/2002] for $10.80 Pocket mass pb [8/94] out of print/used Pocket 8x5¾ hardcover [11/94] out of print/used |
"Barry Lyndon" [Hawk/Peregrine Dec 1975]
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Producer/director Stanley Kubrick translated Thackerey's novel into the fulfillment of Vachel Lindsay's "Art of the Moving Picture": Each scene begins from the cinematic reproduction of a famous painting of the period. Kubrick and John Alcott also managed to film the interiors by candlelight! Directed by Stanley Kubrick; starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson & Patrick Magee; won Oscars for Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes & Music; nominated for Best Picture, Best Director & Best Script; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005) Warner letterbox DVD [6/2001] for $22.48 Warner color VHS [6/99] 2 tapes out of stock/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" white poster from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" brown poster from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" black poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Taxi Driver" [Columbia Feb 1976]
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A veritable course in feature camera work, and the score by Bernard Herrmann may be the best ever written.
Directed by Martin Scorsese; starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel & Cybill Shepherd; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Score; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)
Col/TriStar Special Edition widescreen DVD [12/2000] for $14.96 Col/TriStar widescreen DVD [9/97] out of stock/used Col/TriStar Special Edition VHS [5/99] for $14.95 Col/TriStar color VHS [6/96] out of stock/used Col/TriStar VHS w/Spanish subtitles [5/99] out of stock/used Arista soundtrack CD [5/98] for $14.99 Varese soundtrack CD [10/90] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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movie posters available purchase 24"x36" poster via AllPosters.com 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Apocalypse Now" [Zoetrope Aug 1979]
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A movie like no other: Wild and weird, cuts to the bone about the madness of war.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, script by John Milius, based on a Joseph Conrad novella; starring Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford & Frederic Forrest; won Oscars for Cinematography & Sound, nominated for Best Picture, Director, Script, Supporting Actor, Editing & Art Direction
full credits from IMDb Elektra soundtrack CD [8/88] 2 disks out of prodn/used "Apocalypse Now" posters at AllPosters.com "Apocalypse Now Redux" [15 August 2001]: re-release with never-before-seen 49 minutes added "Redux" info at IMDb "Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier" DVD box set [2006] Paramount widescreen color DVD [8/2006] 2 disks for $13.99 includes the complete 1981 release and the complete 2001 'Redux' release, plus outtakes, commentary & featurettes |
more details (synopsis, books, re-release, posters, links) on the
"Apocalypse Now" 1979 Movie Page
"2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968]
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Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story "The Sentinel", the movie "2001" took sci-fi movies out of the drive-in theaters and into wide-screen movie palaces. Director Stanley Kubrick & special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull set the standard for space effects, which "Stars Wars" expanded upon nine years later. The movie is subjective – only 40 minutes of dialogue in its 139-minute general release version – and redefined the parameters of cinema. The "Also Sprach Zarathustra" theme has become a melodic icon, evoking images that are deeply part of the culture – the black monolith, the apes, the space station, HAL's red light, and the surreal ending.
Co-written & directed by Stanley Kubrick; starring Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain & Gary Lockwood; won Oscar for Best Effects, nominated for Best Director, Script & Art Direction; also Hugo Award from W.S.F.S.
Warner color VHS [6/99] out of stock/used Warner widescreen VHS [6/99] out of stock/used Warner VHS w/Spanish subtitles [6/2001] for $19.98 Warner letterbox DVD [6/99] out of stock/used Warner widescreen DVD [6/2001] for $21.49 Rhino soundtrack CD [10/96] for $14.99 11"x17" black poster from Amazon for $14.99 full credits from IMDb | theme music [1 minute] |
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novel by Arthur C. Clark Roc pb (9/2000) for $6.29 Roc hardcover (10.99) for $14.01 NAL 25th Anniv pb [8/93] for $10.36 |
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"The Making of 2001" Edited by Stephanie Schwam & Martin Scorsese Modern Library 8x5 pb [3/2000] for $12.76 |
more details (synopsis, books, sequel "2010", posters, links) on the
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968] Movie Page
"Akahige" aka 'Red Beard'
[April 1965; US release Dec 1968]
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An earnest exploration of duty, honor and compassion. Yes, master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa also made "Yojimbo" and "Seven Samurai" and "Ran" and so many others, but "Red Beard" breaches all cynicism and puts the viewer in touch with the poignancy and poetry of humanity's condition. Co-written & directed by Akira Kurosawa [1910-98]; starring Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Terumi Niki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Zushi & Takashi Shimura Home Vision widescreen b&w VHS [2/99] for $29.95 Home Vision widescreen b&w DVD [7/2002] for $35.99 full credits from IMDb 11"x17" Japanese-language poster available at AllPosters.com |
Books: Lists of Top Films
 | "Jeffrey Lyons' 100 Great Movies For Kids" [1996]
Lyons's choices range from obvious to surprising, such as: "A Christmas Story"; "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court"; "The Adventures of Robin Hood" [1938] with Errol Flynn; "Around The World In 80 Days"; "Bad Day At Black Rock" with Spencer Tracy; "The Bridge On The River Kwai"; "Captain Blood" [1935] with Errol Flynn; "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye; "Field of Dreams"; "Friendly Persuasion"; "Harvey"; "Hoosiers"; "How The West Was Won"; "Inheret The Wind"; Hemingway's "Islands In The Stream"; "The King and I"; "Little Women"; Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" [1937]; John Ford's "Mister Roberts" [1955]; Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" [1939]; "Mutiny On The Bounty"; Frank Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles" [1961]; "The Red Balloon"; John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony"; "Stand and Deliver" with Edward James Olmos; "To Kill A Mocking-bird"; and "Treasure Island" Fireside 9x6¼ pb [4/96] for $18.95 |
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"The New York Times Guide To The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" [1999] by Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin & others, edited by Peter M. Nichols St. Martin's 9x7¼ pb [2/2004] 1200 pages for $16.97 Three Rivers Press 9¼x7½ pb [11/99] for $17.00 N.Y. Times online list |
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"The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films" [2002] Edited by Jay Carr Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [1/2002] for $11.67 |
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"Four-Star Movies: The 101 Greatest Films of All Time" [2003] by Gail Kinn & Jim Piazza Black Dog & Leventhal 12¾x10¾ (5.2 pounds!) hardcover [10/2003] for $34.95 |
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"America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide To The Landmark Movies In The National Film Registry" [2009] by Daniel Eagan Continuum Publng Group 9¾x7 pb [10/2009] for $17.96 Continuum Publng Group 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $97.06 |
 | "The Great Movies" [2002] by Roger Ebert
Broadway 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.21 Broadway 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] out of print/used Ebert's first 100 includes chapters on "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968] by Stanley Kubrick; "The 400 Blows" by François Truffaut; "8 1/2" by Fellini; "A Hard Day's Night" [1964] with the Beatles; "A Woman Under The Influence" [1974] by John Cassavetes; "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" [1972] by Werner Herzog; "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" [1974] by Fassbinder; "All About Eve" [1950] starring Bette Davis; "The Apartment" [1960] by Billy Wilder; "Apocalypse Now" [1979] by Francis Ford Coppola; The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray; "Battleship Potemkin" [1925] by Sergei M. Eisenstein; "Beauty and The Beast" [1946] by Jean Cocteau; "Belle de Jour" [1967] by Luis Buñuel; "The Bicycle Thieves" [1948] by Vittorio De Sica; "The Big Sleep" [1946] by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart; "Blowup" [1966] by Antonioni; "Body Heat" [1981]; "Bonnie and Clyde" [1967] by Arthur Penn; "Bride of Frankenstein" [1935] by James Whale; "Broken Blossoms" [1919] by D.W. Griffith; |
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"Casablanca" [1942] by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart; "Chinatown" [1974] by Roman Polanski; "Citizen Kane" [1941] by Orson Welles; "City Lights" [1931] by Charlie Chaplin; "Days of Heaven" [1978] by Terrence Malick; "The Decalogue" [1989] by Krzysztof Kieslowski; "Detour" [1945]; "Do The Right Thing" [1989] by Spike Lee; James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity" [1944] by Billy Wilder; "Dracula" [1931] starring Bela Lugosi; "Dr. Strangelove" [1964] by Stanley Kubrick; "Duck Soup" [1933] with The Marx Brothers; "E.T." [1982] by Steven Spielberg; "The Exterminating Angel" [1962] by Luis Buñuel; "Fargo" [1996] by the Coen Brothers; "Floating Weeds" [1950] by Yasujiro Ozu; "Gates of Heaven" [1978] by Errol Morris; "The General" [1927] by Buster Keaton; "The Godfather" [1972] by Francis Ford Coppola; "Gone With The Wind" [1939]; "Grand Illusion" [1937] by Jean Renoir; "Greed" [1924] by Erich von Stroheim; "Hoop Dreams" [1994]; "Ikiru" [1952] by Akira Kurosawa; "It's A Wonderful Life" [1946] by Frank Capra; "J.F.K." [1991] by Oliver Stone; "La Dolce Vita" [1960] by Fellini; "The Lady Eve" [1941] by Preston Sturges; "Last Year At Marien-bad" [1961] by Alain Resnais; "L'Atalante" [1934] by Jean Vigo; "L'Avventura" [1960] by Antonioni; "Lawrence of Arabia" [1962]; "Le Samourai" [1967] by Jean-Pierre Melville; "M" [1931] by Fritz Lang; "The Maltese Falcon" [1941] by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart; "Manhattan" [1979] by Woody Allen; "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" [1971] by Robert Altman; "Metropolis" [1927] by Fritz Lang; "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" [1953] by Jacques Tati; "My Darling Clementine" [1946] by John Ford; "My Life To Live" [1962] by Jean-Luc Godard; "Nashville" [1975] by Robert Altman; "Network" [1976] by Sidney Lumet; "The Night of The Hunter" [1955] by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum; "Nosferatu" [1922] by F.W. Murnau; "Notorious" [1946] by Hitchcock; "On The Waterfront" [1954] by Elia Kazan; "Pandora's Box" [1929] by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks; "The Passion of Joan of Arc" [1928] by Carl Theodor Dreyer; "Peeping Tom" [1960] by Michael Powell; "Persona" [1966] by Ingmar Berg-man; "Pickpocket" [1959] by Robert Bresson; animated "Pinocchio" [1940] by Walt Disney; "Psycho" [1960] by Hitchcock; "Pulp Fiction" [1994] by Quentin Tarantino; "Raging Bull" [1980] by Martin Scorsese; "Red River" [1948] by Howard Hawks; "Schindler's List" [1993] by Steven Spielberg; "The Seven Samurai" [1956] by Akira Kurosawa; "The Seventh Seal" [1957] by Ingmar Bergman; "The Shawshank Redemption" [1994]; "The Silence of The Lambs" [1991]; "Singin' In The Rain" [1952]; "Some Like It Hot" [1959] by Billy Wilder; "Star Wars"; "Sunset Blvd." [1950] by Billy Wilder; "Sweet Smell of Success" [1957]; "Swing Time" [1936] starring Astaire & Rogers; "Taxi Driver" [1976] by Martin Scorsese; "The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles; "Trouble In Paradise" [1932] by Ernst Lubitsch; "Un Chien Andalou" [1929] by Luis Buñuel; The 'Up' Documentaries by Michael Apted; "Vertigo" [1958] by Hitchcock; "The Wild Bunch" [1969] by Sam Peckinpah; "Wings of Desire" [1987] by Wim Wenders; "The Wizard of Oz" ]1939]; "Woman In The Dunes" [1964] by Hiroshi Teshigahara; and "Written On The Wind" [1956] by Douglas Sirk |
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"The Great Movies II" [2005] by Roger Ebert
Broadway 9x6 pb [2/2006] for $11.53 Broadway 9½x6 hardcover [2/2005] out of print/used Ebert's sequel 100 includes chapters on "12 Angry Men" [1957] by Sidney Lumet; Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story" [1983]; "A Sunday In The Country" [1984] by Bertrand Tavernier; "A Tale of Winter" [1992] by Eric Rohmer; "The Adventures of Robin Hood" [1938] by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn; "Alien" [1979] by Ridley Scott; "Amadeus" [1984] by Milos Forman; "Amarcord" [1973] by Fellini; "Annie Hall" [1977] by Woody Allen; "Au Hasard, Balthazar" [1966] by Robert Bresson; "The Bank Dick" [1940] starring W.C. Fields; "Beat The Devil" [1953] by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart; Jerzy Kosinski's "Being There" [979] by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers; "The Big Heat" [1953] by Fritz Lang; "The Birth of A Nation" [1915]; "Bob le Flambeur" [1955] by Jean-Pierre Melville; "Breathless" [1960] by Jean-Luc Godard; "The Bridge On The River Kwai" [1957]; "Bring Me The Head of Alfredo García" [1974] by Sam Peckinpah; "Children of Paradise" [1945] by Marcel |
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Carné;
"The Color Purple" [1985] by Steven Spielberg;
"The Conversation" [1974] by Francis Ford Coppola;
"Cries and Whispers" [1973] by Ingmar Bergman;
"The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie" [1972] by Luis Buñuel;
"Don’t Look Now" [1973] by Nicolas Roeg;
"The Earrings of Madame de ..." [1953] by Max Ophüls;
"The Fall of The House of Usher" [1928 silent short];
"The Firemen’s Ball" [1967] by Milos Forman;
"Five Easy Pieces" [1970]; "Goldfinger" [1964] with James Bond; "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" [1966] by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood; "Goodfellas" [1990] by Martin Scorsese; "The Gospel According To Matthew" [1964] by Pier Paolo Pasolini; John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" [1940] by John Ford; animated "Grave of The Fireflies" [1988] by Isao Takahata; "Great Expectations" [1946]; "House of Games" [1987] by David Mamet; "The Hustler" [1961]; Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" [1967] by Richard Brooks; "Jaws" [1975] by Steven Spielberg; "Jules and Jim" [1962] by François Truffaut; Buster Keaton; Kieslowski’s 'Three Colors Trilogy' [1993-94]; "Kind Hearts and Coronets" [1949] starring Alec Guinness; "King Kong" [1933]; "The Last Laugh" [1924 silent] by F.W. Murnau; "Laura" [1944] by Otto Preminger; "Leaving Las Vegas" [1995]; "Le Boucher" [1970] by Claude Chabrol; "The Leopard" [1963] by Luchino Visconti; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [1943] by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; "The Manchurian Candidate" [1962]; "The Man Who Laughs" [1928]; "Mean Streets" [1973] by Martin Scorsese; "Mon Oncle" [1958] by Jacques Tati; "Moonstruck" [1987]; "The Music Room" [1958] by Satyajit Ray; "My Dinner With Andre" [1981] by Louis Malle; animated "My Neighbor Totoro" [1988] by Hayao Miyazaki; "Nights of Cabiria" [1957] by Dino De Laurentiis; Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest" [1975] by Milos Forman; "Orpheus" [1950] by Jean Cocteau; "Paris, Texas" [1984] by Wim Wenders; "Patton" [1970] starring George C. Scott; "Picnic At Hanging Rock" [1975] by Peter Weir; "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" [1987]; "The Producers" [1968] by Mel Brooks; "Raiders of The Lost Ark" [1981] by Steven Spielberg; "Raise The Red Lantern" [1991] by Zhang Yimou; "Ran" [1985] by Akira Kurosawa; "Rashômon" [1950] by Akira Kurosawa; "Rear Window" [1954] by Hitchcock, starring James Stewart; "Rififi" [1955] by Jules Dassin; Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" [1983] by Philip Kaufman; Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" [1968] by Franco Zeffirelli; "The Rules of The Game" [1939] by Jean Renoir; "Saturday Night Fever" [1977]; "Say Anything" [1989]; "Scarface" [1932] by Howard Hawks; "The Searchers" [1956] by John Ford, starring John Wayne; Jack Schaefer's "Shane" [1953] by George Stevens; animated "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" [1937] by Walt Disney; "Solaris" [1972] by Andrei Tarkovsky; "Strangers On A Train" [1951] by Hitchcock; "Stroszek" [1977] by Werner Herzog; "Sunrise" [1927 silent] by F.W. Murnau; Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man" [1934]; "This Is Spinal Tap" [1984]; "Tokyo Story" [1953] by Yasujiro Ozu; "Touchez Pas au Grisbi" [1954] by Jacques Becker; "Touch of Evil" [1958] by Orson Welles; "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" [1948] by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart; "Ugetsu" [1953] by Kenji Mizoguchi; "Umberto D" [1952] by Vittorio De Sica; "Unforgiven" [1992] by Clint Eastwood; "Victim" [1961]; "Walkabout" [1971] by Nicolas Roeg; "West Side Story" [1961]; and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" [1942] by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney |
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