Bronenosets Potemkin (1925, Russia, Eisenstein)
Circus, the (1928, US, Chaplin) DVD
Crowd, the (1928, US, Vidor)
Gold Rush, the (1928, US, Chaplin) DVD, review
Intolerance (1916, US, Griffith) DVD
Kid, the (1921, US, Chaplin) DVD
Napoleon (1927, France, Glance)
Pandora's Box (1929, Germany, Pabst) VHS review
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, France, Dreyer) VHS
Our Hospitality (1924, US, Keaton) DVD
Runners Up (4):
General (d), Scherlock Jr (d), Sunrise, Wings
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The 1930's (21)
Alexander Nevsky (1938, Russia, Eisenstein) DVD
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, US, Milestone) DVD, review
Atalante, L' (1934, France, Vigo)
Blue Angel (1930, Germany, Von Sternberg) DVD
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, US, Whale) DVD
Bringing Up Baby (1938, US, Hawks) VHS
City Lights (1931, US, Chaplin) DVD, review
Duck Soup (1933, US, McCarey) DVD, review
Freaks (1932, US, Browning)
Gone With The Wind (1939, US, Fleming) DVD review
Grand Illusion (1937, France, Renoir) DVD
It Happened One Night (1934, US, Capra) DVD review
King Kong (1933, US, Cooper) VHS review
Modern Times (1936, US, Chaplin) DVD review
Public Enemy (1931, US, Wellman) VHS
Rules of the Game (1939, France, Renoir)
Scarface (1932, US, Hawks) VHS
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, US, Hand) review
Stagecoach (1939, US, Ford) DVD review
Thirty Nine Steps (1935, UK, Hitchcock) DVD
Wizard of Oz (1939, US, Fleming) DVD review
Runners Up (3):
Angels with Dirty Faces, Lady Vanishes (d), Mutiny on the Bounty
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The 1940's (27)
Best Years of Our Lives (1946, US, Wyler) DVD review
Bicycle Thief (1948, Italy, De Sica) DVD
Big Sleep (1946, US, Hawks) DVD
Casablanca (1942, US, Curtiz) DVD review
Children of Paradise (1945, France, Carne) DVD
Citizen Kane (1941, US, Welles) DVD review
Detour (1945, US, Ulmer) DVD
Double Indemnity (1944, US, Wilder) DVD review
Drunken Angel (1948, Japan, Kurosawa)
Fantasia (1940, US, Sharpsteen) review
Grapes of Wrath (1940, US, Ford) VHS review
Ivan the Terrible pt.1 & 2 (1945-46, Russia, Eisenstein) DVD
Lady Eve (1941, US, Sturges) DVD
Maltese Falcon (1941, US, Huston) DVD review
Mildred Pierce (1945, US, Curtiz) VHS
Notorious (1946, US, Hitchcock) DVD
Quai Des Orfevres (1947, France, Clouzot) DVD
Rome, Open City (1945, Italy, Rossellini) DVD
Out of the Past (1947, US, Tourneur) VHS
Ox-Bow Incident (1943, US, Wellman)
Sullivan's Travels (1942, US, Sturges) DVD
Third Man (1949, UK, Reed) DVD review
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, US, Huston) VHS review
To Have and Have Not (1944, US, Hawks) VHS
Unfaitfully Yours (1948, US, Sturges)
White Heat (1949, US, Walsh) VHS
Runners Up (6):
Gilda (d), Great Dictator (d), Naked City,
Red River (d), Shadow of a Doubt (d), Stray Dog
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The 1950's (37)
All About Eve (1950, US, Mankiewicz) DVD review
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, US, Preminger) DVD
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, UK, Lean) DVD review
Diabolique (1955, France, Clouzot) DVD
Four Hundred Blows (1959, France, Truffaut) DVD
From Here to Eternity (1953, US, Zinnemann) DVD review
Hidden Fortress (1958, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
High Noon (1952, US, Zinnemann) DVD review
Human Condition pt. 1, 2 &, 3 (1959-61, Japan, Kobayashi)
Ikiru (1952, Japan, Kurosawa)
Killing, the (1956, US, Kubrick) DVD
Nights of Cabiria (1957, Italy, Fellini) DVD
North by Northwest (1959, US, Hitchcock) DVD review
On the Waterfront (1954, US, Kazan) DVD review
Paths of Glory (1957, US, Kubrick) DVD
Rashomon (1950, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
Rebel Without a Cause (1955, US, Ray) DVD review
Rear Window (1954, US, Hitchcock) DVD review
Rio Bravo (1959, US, Hawks) DVD
Seven Samurai (1954, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
Seventh Seal (1957, Sweden, Bergman) DVD
Shane (1953, US, Stevens) DVD review
Singin' in the Rain (1952, US, Donen/Kelly) DVD review
Some Like it Hot (1959, US, Wilder) DVD review
Strada, La (1954, Italy, Fellini) VHS
Strangers on a Train (1951, US, Hitchcock) DVD
Sunset Boulevard (1950, US, Wilder) DVD review
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, US, Mackendrick) DVD
Throne of Blood (1957, Japan, Kurosawa)
Touch of Evil (1958, US, Welles) DVD
Twelve Angry Men (1957, US, Lumet) DVD
Ugetsu (1953, Japan, Mizoguchi)
Vertigo (1958, US, Hitchcock) DVD review
Wages of Fear (1953, France, Clouzot) DVD
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, US, Wilder) DVD
Runners Up (11):
Asphalt Jungle, Bad and the Beautiful, Bad Day at Black Rock,
I Vitelloni, Sansho the Bailiff, Searchers (d),
Shadows, Stalag 17 (d), Streetcar Named Desire (d),
Tokyo Story, Wild Strawberries
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The 1960's (35)
Andrei Rublev (1966, Russia, Tarkovsky) DVD
Avventura, L' (1960, Italy, Antonioni) DVD
Band of Outsiders (1964, France, Godard)
Belle de Jour (1967, France, Bunuel) DVD
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, US, Penn) DVD review
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Spain/UK, Welles) VHS
Cool Hand Luke (1967, US, Rosenberg) DVD
Dr. Strangelove (1964, UK, Kubrick) DVD review
Dolce Vita, La (1960, Italy, Fellini) VHS
8 1/2 (1963, Italy, Fellini) DVD
Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill! (1965, US, Meyer)
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Italy, Leone) DVD
Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964, Italy, Pasolini)
Graduate (1967, US, Nichols) DVD review
High and Low (1963, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
Hustler (1961, US, Rossen) DVD
If... (1968, UK, Anderson) VHS
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, UK, Lean) DVD
Lolita (1962, US, Kubrick) DVD
Man for all Seasons (1966, UK, Zinnemann) DVD
Medium Cool (1969, US, Wexler) DVD
Midnight Cowboy (1969, US, Shlesinger) DVD review
Planet of the Apes (1968, US, Schaffner) DVD
Producers (1968, US, Brooks) DVD
Psycho (1960, US, Hitchcock) DVD review
Ride the High Country (1962, US, Peckinpah)
Rocco and his Brothers (1960, Italy, Visconti) DVD
Shoot the Piano Player (1960, France, Truffaut) DVD
Sword of Doom (1966, Japan, Okamoto)
Tom Jones (1963, UK, Richardson) DVD
2001: A Space Oddyssey (1968, US/UK, Kubrick) DVD review
West Side Story (1961, US, Robbins/Wise) DVD review
Wild Bunch, the (1969, US, Peckinpah) DVD review
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966, US, Nichols) DVD
Yojimbo (1961, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
Runners Up (18):
Dirty Dosen (d), Easy Rider (d), Hard Day's Night (d),
Juliet of the Spirits (d), Le Samourai, Mamma Roma,
My Fair Lady (d), My Life to Live, Night of the Living Dead,
Red Desert, Repulsion, Romeo and Juliet,
Rosemarie's Baby (d), Ship of Fools, Sanjuro,
Spartacus (d), To Kill a Mockingbird (d), Woman in the Dunes
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The 1970's (32)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Germany, Herzog) DVD
Alien (1979, US, Scott) DVD
Autumn Sonata (1978, Sweden, Bergman)
Amarcord (1973, Italy, Fellini) DVD
Apocalypse Now (1979, US, Coppola) DVD review
Badlands (1973, US, Malick) DVD
Chinatown (1974, US, Polanski) DVD review
Clockwork Orange (1971, UK, Kubrick) DVD
Dawn of the Dead (1978, US, Romero) DVD
Days of Heaven (1978, US, Malick) DVD
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, US, Lumet) DVD
Drunken Master (1978, Hong Kong, Yuen) DVD
Erraserhead (1977, US, Lynch) VHS
Five Easy Pieces (1970, US, Rafaelson) DVD
Godfather pt. 1 & 2 (1972-74, US, Coppola) DVD review
Jaws (1975, US, Spielberg) DVD review
Kaspar Hauser (1974, Germany, Herzog)
Last Detail (1973, US, Ashby) DVD
Last Picture Show (1971, US, Bodanovich) DVD
Life of Brian (1979, UK, Jones) DVD
Mad Max (1979, Australia, Miller) DVD
Mean Streets (1973, US, Scorcese) DVD review
Mirror, the (1975, Russia, Tarkovsky) DVD
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, UK, Gilliam/Jones) DVD review
Nasville (1975, US, Altman) DVD
Network (1975, US, Spielberg) DVD review
One Flew Over the Cuokoo¦s Nest (1975, US, Forman) DVD review
Stalker (1979, Russia, Tarkovsky) DVD
Star Wars (1977, US, Lucas) VHS review
Straw Dogs (1971, UK, Peckinpah) DVD
Taxi Driver (1976, US, Scorsese) DVD review
Runners Up (24):
American Grafiti (d), Animal House (d), Annie Hall,
Assault on Percinct 13, Barry Lyndon (d), Blazing Saddles (d),
Blue Collar, Close Encounters of the third Kind (d), Conformist,
Deliverance (d), Dersu Uzala, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie,
Don't Look Now (d), Enter the Dragon (d), Fellini Roma (d),
Halloween (d), McGabe and Mrs.Miller (d),Night Porter,
Outlaw Josey Wales (d), Pink Flamingos (d), Serpico (d),
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (d), Tin Drum, Wicker Man (d)
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The 1980's (27)
Aliens (1986, US, Cameron) DVD
Amadeus (1984, US, Forman) DVD review
Ballad of Narayama (1983, Japan, Imamura)
Blade Runner (1982, US, Scott) DVD
Blue Velvet (1986, US, Lynch) DVD
Das Boot (1981, Germany, Petersen) DVD
Down by Law (1986, US, Jarmusch) DVD
Drugstore Cowboy (1989, US, Van Sant) DVD
Empire Strikes Back (1980, US, Kershner) VHS
Fanny and Alexander (1982, Sweden, Bergman) VHS
Full Metal Jacket (1987, US, Kubrick) DVD
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Japan, Takahata) DVD
Kagemusha (1980, Japan, Kurosawa)
Killer (1989, Hong Kong, Woo) DVD
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Japan, Miyazaki) DVD
Mystery Train (1989, US, Jarmusch) DVD
Nostalgia (1983, Russia/Italy, Tarkovsky) DVD
Raging Bull (1980, US, Scorsese) DVD review
Ran (1985, Japan, Kurosawa) DVD
Road Warrior (1981, Australia, Miller) DVD
Room with a View (1986, UK, Ivory) VHS
Sacrifice (1986, Sweden, Tarkovsky) DVD
Sid and Nancy (1986, UK/US, Cox) DVD
Shining, the (1980, US, Kubrick) DVD
Terminator (1984, US, Cameron) DVD
This is Spinal Tap (1984, US, Reiner) DVD
Wings of Desire (1987, Germany, Wenders)
Runners Up (38):
Akira, After Hours, Blood Simple (d),
Blues Brothers (d), Color of Money, City of Women,
City on Fire, Commando (d), Come and See,
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Do the Right Thing (d),Elephant Man (d),
Evil Dead II (d), Gallipoli, Gandhi,
Glory (d),Hairspray (d), House of Games,
Intervista, Killing Fields, King of Comedy (d),
Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, Passage to India,
Pixote, Platoon (d), Police Story,
Predator (d), Re-Animator (d), River's Edge (d),
Raising Arizona (d), Robocop (d), Rumblefish,
Scarface, Stranger than Paradise (d), Vagabond,
Valmont (d), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (d)
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The 1990's (29)
Blair Witch Project (1999, US, Myrick/Sanchez) DVD review
Big Lebowski (1998, US, Coen) DVD
Boogie Nights (1997, US, Anderson) DVD
Chungking Express (1994, Hong Kong, Kar-Wai) DVD
Clerks (1994, US, Smith) DVD
Crying Game (1992, UK, Jordan) DVD
Dead Man (1995, US, Jarmusch) DVD
Dreamlife of Angels (1998, France, Zonca) DVD review
Ed Wood (1994, US, Burton) DVD
Fight Club (1999, US, Fincher) DVD
Goodfellas (1990, US, Scorsese) DVD review
Hard Boiled (1992, Hong Kong, Woo) DVD
Heavenly Creatures (1994, New Zealand, Jackson) DVD
In the Company of Men (1997, US, LaButte) DVD
LA Confidential (1997, US, Hanson) DVD
Miller's Crossing (1990, US, Coen) DVD
Naked (1993, UK, Leigh) VHS
Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Hong Kong, Hark) DVD
Player (1992, US, Altman) DVD
Pulp Fiction (1994, US, Tarantino) DVD review
Reservoir Dogs (1992, US, Tarantino) DVD
Romper Stomper (1992, Australia, Wright) DVD
Run Lola Run (1999, Germany, Tykwer) review
Show Me Love (aka F*cking Amal) (1998, Sweden, Moodysson) DVD
Thin Red Line (1998, US, Malick) DVD review
Topsy Turvy (1999, UK, Leigh) DVD review
Trainspotting (1996, UK, Boyle) DVD
Unforgiven (1992, US, Eastwood) DVD review
Wellcome to the Dollhouse (1995, US, Solondz) DVD
Runners Up (48):
American Beauty (d), Age of Innocence, Being John Malkovich,
Big Night (d), Bullet in the Head (d), Braindead (Dead Alive),
Bullets over Broadway, Butcher Boy, Carlito's Way (d),
Casino (d), Clockers (d), Donnie Brasco (d),
Drunken Master II (d), Election (d), Fargo (d),
Fireworks/Hana-bi, Gas Food Lodging, Ghost Dog (d),
Happiness (d), Hate/La Haine, Heat (d),
Hudsucker Proxy, Ice Storm, Jackie Brown (d),
Life is Sweet, Limey, Lost Highway,
Magnolia (d), Men in Black (d),Menace II Society (d),
Night on Earth, Office Space (d), People vs. Larry Flynt (d),
Princess Mononoke (d), Professional (d), Richard III,
Secrets and Lies, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redeption (d),
Sonatine, Sweet Hereafter, Tai Chi Master (d),
Three Colors Red, Thelma and Louise (d), There's Something about Mary (d),
Twelve Monkeys (d), Usual Suspects (d), Your Friends and Neighbors (d)
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The 2000's (8)
City of God (2002, Brazil, Meirelles)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Hong Kong, Kar-Wai) DVD
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000, US, Coen) DVD
Mulholland Drive (2001, US, Lynch) DVD review
Pianist, the (2002, UK, Polanski) DVD
Spirited Away (2001, Japan, Miyazaki) DVD
Yi Yi (2000, Taiwan, Yang) DVD
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mexico, Cuaron) DVD
Zatoichi (2003, Japan, Kitano) DVD
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, US, Gondry) DVD
Runners Up (14):
About Schmidt, Amores Perros, Chicago, Ghost World (d),
Fast Runner/Atanarjuat, Gosford Park (d), Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) (d),
Lord of the Rings:Two Towers, Man who Wasn't There (d), Memento (d), Piano Teacher,
Talk to Her, Vertical Ray of the Sun, With a Friend Like Harry,
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