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• 100 must-see films of 20th century - Leonard Maltin

  Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 6:52PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  there is always a list of this sort floating around, we had one in film school too... but i couldn't find it (sorry Jaine).  this is the list from Leonard Maltin, so here you go.  i find it incredibly American centric, and i'm particularly appalled that Ozu is not on this list!  then again, he did put in a lot of John Ford... so that's cool...  what do you think?
  
  The Birth of a Nation (1915) D. W. Griffith
  Intolerance (1916) D. W. Griffith
  Our Hospitality (1923) Buster Keaton
  Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim
  The Gold Rush (1925) Charlie Chaplin
  Potemkin (1925 - Russian) Sergei Eisenstein
  The Big Parade (1925) King Vidor
  The Freshman (1925) Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
  Metropolis (1927 - German) Fritz Lang
  The General (1927) Buster Keaton
  Sunrise (1927) F. W. Murnau
  The Crowd (1928) King Vidor
  All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone
  City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin
  M (1931 - German) Fritz Lang
  Dracula (1931) Tod Browning
  Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
  Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
  King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper
  Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
  Sons of the Desert (1933) William A. Seiter
  It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
  It's A Gift (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
  A Night at the Opera (1935) Sam Wood
  Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale
  The 39 Steps (1935 - British) Alfred Hitchcock
  Swing Time (1936) George Stevens
  Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplin
  Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Frank Capra
  Grand Illusion (1937 - French) Jean Renoir
  Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Ben Sharpsteen
  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Michael Curtiz
  The Lady Vanishes (1938 - British) Alfred Hitchcock
  Stagecoach (1939) John Ford
  Gone With The Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
  The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
  His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks
  The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
  Fantasia (1940) Ben Sharpsteen (production supervisor)
  Sullivan's Travels (1941) Preston Sturges
  Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
  The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
  The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges
  Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
  The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) William A. Wellman
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) Preston Sturges
  Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
  My Darling Clementine (1946) John Ford
  It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler
  Great Expectations (1946 - British) David Lean
  The Bicycle Thief (1948 - Italian) Vittorio De Sica
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston
  Gun Crazy (1949) Joseph H. Lewis
  All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
  Rashomon (1950 - Japanese) Akira Kurosawa
  Strangers on a Train (1951) Alfred Hitchcock
  Singin' In The Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
  High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) Stanley Donen
  On The Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
  The Seven Samurai (1954 - Japanese) Akira Kurosawa
  The Searchers (1956) John Ford
  Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick
  The Seventh Seal (1957 - Sweden) Ingmar Bergman
  Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
  North By Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
  The 400 Blows (1959 - French) Francois Truffaut
  Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
  Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
  La Dolce Vita (1962 - Italian) Federico Fellini
  Lawrence of Arabia (1962 - British) David Lean
  8 1/2 (1963 - Italian) Federico Fellini
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying... (1964 - British) Stanley Kubrick
  Mary Poppins (1964) Robert Stevenson
  Blow-Up (1966 - British/Italian) Michelangelo Antonioni
  The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
  Bonnie And Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 - British) Stanley Kubrick
  The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
  Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
  The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
  Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese
  The Godfather, Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
  The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
  Blazing Saddles (1974) Mel Brooks
  Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
  Nashville (1975) Robert Altman
  Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
  Star Wars (1977) Geroge Lucas
  The Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino
  Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
  Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
  E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg
  GoodFellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
  Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg
  Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
  Fargo (1996) Joel Coen
  
   
  

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