This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.
#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cinema-Necessity-Film-Canons/dp/0801889715
A personal introduction to 1000 movies by the provocative contemporary film critic and historian David Thomson.
Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-You-Seen-Introduction-masterpieces/dp/014102075X
Trading on its impeccable reputation, Halliwell’s now presents it’s Top 1,000 favorite films. Starting at number 1,000, each entry includes a plot summary, cast and crew, awards, key critical comments, DVD and soundtrack availability, and a wealth of other interesting details. To supplement the countdown, there is commentary from film stars, show business personalities, well-known critics, and the movers and shakers in the film industry, each naming their favorite films or weighing in on Halliwell’s selection. Illustrated throughout with classic and modern film stills and posters, this is a book that every cinema fan will want to own. John Walker is one of Britain’s leading film critics.
The list has 42 extra films, because trilogies, or series, are counted as one entry (The Godfather, The Apu Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Antoine Doinel, Laurel and Hardy shorts, etc...)
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Halliwells-Top-1000-Ultimate-Countdown/dp/0007181655
From one of the world's most acclaimed directors comes an absorbing and informative look at the evolution of American film and how the medium both shaped Scorsese's own artistic vision and influenced the whole of American culture. Hundreds of film stills, many in color, plus dialogue, quotations, and other sources add to and illustrate each chapter's overriding theme.
List is of all works with cited clips, in order of first appearance.
Part 1: 1-40
Part 2: 41-74
Part 3: 75-99
This list is compiled from a collection of movie reviews in the 501 Must See Movies book. The movies have been split up into 10 genres, each with 50 movies (except for the last, which has 51): Action/Adventure & Epic, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller, War and Western.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659583.501_Must_See_Movies
From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating.
100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive.
Source: http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/bfi-screen-guides/100-film-musical-book.html#.Wg3fhGhSzIU
The Best Christmas Movies
The best movies of the 1940's decade.
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Bring out your best jazz hands, because we’ve got a list that’s all-singing, all-dancing, and mostly fun (thanks Les Mis)! Every expression of the musical movie is present in this cavalcade of the 100 best-reviewed: the classics (Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris), the mostly moderns (La La Land, Hairspray), the MGMs (Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris), the Astaire & Rogers (Top Hat, Swing Time), intimate indies (Once, Dancer in the Dark), and stuff for the kids (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). We kept this countdown to live-action musicals, so nothing animated except for the partially so, like Mary Poppins. And though we included the grand Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born, we kept the new one off because, well, Lady Gaga told us to. Even she doesn’t think it’s a musical. Other than that, if the film was Fresh with some light feet and golden voices whose songs are key drivers of the plot, it was up for inclusion. After that, we ranked them all by Adjusted Tomatometer.
So with Mary Poppins Return hitting theaters, we’re bringing in the big showstopper: the 100 Best Musical Movies of All Time!
Link: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-musical-movies-of-all-time/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-christmas-movies/
UPDATE: 1/3/24
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List of Nominees and Winners
BING CROSBY "Going My Way" - WINNER
CHARLES BOYER "Gaslight"
BARRY FITZGERALD "Going My Way"
CARY GRANT "None but the Lonely Heart"
ALEXANDER KNOX "Wilson"
BARRY FITZGERALD "Going My Way" - WINNER
HUME CRONYN "The Seventh Cross"
CLAUDE RAINS "Mr. Skeffington"
CLIFTON WEBB "Laura"
MONTY WOOLLEY "Since You Went Away"
INGRID BERGMAN "Gaslight" - WINNER
CLAUDETTE COLBERT "Since You Went Away"
BETTE DAVIS "Mr. Skeffington"
GREER GARSON "Mrs. Parkington"
BARBARA STANWYCK "Double Indemnity"
ETHEL BARRYMORE "None but the Lonely Heart" - WINNER
JENNIFER JONES "Since You Went Away"
ANGELA LANSBURY "Gaslight"
ALINE MACMAHON "Dragon Seed"
AGNES MOOREHEAD "Mrs. Parkington"
"GASLIGHT" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky - WINNER
"ADDRESS UNKNOWN" Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher; Interior Decoration: Joseph Kish
"THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN" Art Direction: John J. Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred MacLean
"CASANOVA BROWN" Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
"LAURA" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
"NO TIME FOR LOVE" Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin
"STEP LIVELY" Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter
"WILSON" Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little - WINNER
"THE CLIMAX" Art Direction: John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb
"COVER GIRL" Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Cary Odell; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock
"THE DESERT SONG" Art Direction: Charles Novi; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy
"KISMET" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
"LADY IN THE DARK" Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene du Bois; Interior Decoration: Ray Moyer
"THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE" Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol
"LAURA" Joseph LaShelle - WINNER
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" John Seitz
"DRAGON SEED" Sidney Wagner
"GASLIGHT" Joseph Ruttenberg
"GOING MY WAY" Lionel Lindon
"LIFEBOAT" Glen MacWilliams
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes
"THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO" Robert Surtees, Harold Rosson
"THE UNINVITED" Charles Lang
"THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER" George Folsey
"WILSON" Leon Shamroy - WINNER
"COVER GIRL" Cover Girl
"HOME IN INDIANA" Edward Cronjager
"KISMET" Charles Rosher
"LADY IN THE DARK" Ray Rennahan
"MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" George Folsey
"GOING MY WAY" Leo McCarey - WINNER
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" Billy Wilder
"LAURA" Otto Preminger
"LIFEBOAT" Alfred Hitchcock
"WILSON" Henry King
"THE FIGHTING LADY" United States Navy - WINNER
"RESISTING ENEMY INTERROGATION" United States Army Air Force
"WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA" United States Marine Corps - WINNER
"ARTURO TOSCANINI" United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
"NEW AMERICANS" RKO Radio
"WILSON" Barbara McLean - WINNER
"GOING MY WAY" Leroy Stone
"JANIE" Owen Marks
"NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART" Roland Gross
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom
Darryl F. Zanuck - WINNER
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Max Steiner - WINNER
"ADDRESS UNKNOWN" Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch
"THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN" Max Steiner
"THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY" Dimitri Tiomkin
"CASANOVA BROWN" Arthur Lange
"CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY" H. J. Salter
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" Miklos Rozsa
"THE FIGHTING SEABEES" Walter Scharf, Roy Webb
"THE HAIRY APE" Edward Paul, Michel Michelet
"IT HAPPENED TOMORROW" Robert Stolz
"JACK LONDON" Frederic Efrem Rich
"KISMET" Herbert Stothart
"NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART" Hanns Eisler, C. Bakaleinikoff
"THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE" David Rose
"SUMMER STORM" Karl Hajos
"THREE RUSSIAN GIRLS" Franke Harling
"UP IN MABEL'S ROOM" Edward Paul
"VOICE IN THE WIND" Michel Michelet
"WILSON" Alfred Newman
"WOMAN OF THE TOWN" Miklos Rozsa
"COVER GIRL" Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon - WINNER
"BRAZIL" Walter Scharf
"HIGHER AND HIGHER" C. Bakaleinikoff
"HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN" Ray Heindorf
"IRISH EYES ARE SMILING" Alfred Newman
"KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY" Werner R. Heymann, Kurt Weill
"LADY IN THE DARK" Robert Emmett Dolan
"LADY, LET'S DANCE" Edward Kay
"MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" Georgie Stoll
"THE MERRY MONAHANS" H. J. Salter
"MINSTREL MAN" Ferde Grofe, Leo Erdody
"SENSATIONS OF 1945" Mahlon Merrick
"SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD" Charles Previn
"UP IN ARMS" Ray Heindorf, Louis Forbes
"Swinging On A Star" in "Going My Way" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke - WINNER
"I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night" in "Higher and Higher" Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
"I'll Walk Alone" in "Follow the Boys" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"I'm Making Believe" in "Sweet and Lowdown" Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
"Long Ago And Far Away" in "Cover Girl" Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
"Now I Know" in "Up in Arms" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
"Remember Me To Carolina" in "Minstrel Man" Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster
"Rio De Janeiro" in "Brazil" Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Silver Shadows And Golden Dreams" in "Lady, Let's Dance" Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman
"Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" in "Hollywood Canteen" Music by M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
"Too Much In Love" in "Song of the Open Road" Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
"The Trolley Song" in "Meet Me in St. Louis" Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin
"GOING MY WAY" Paramount - WINNER
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" Paramount
"GASLIGHT" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Selznick International Pictures
"WILSON" 20th Century-Fox
"MOUSE TROUBLE" Frederick C. Quimby, Producer - WINNER
"AND TO THINK I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET" George Pal, Producer
"DOG, CAT AND CANARY" Screen Gems
"FISH FRY" Walter Lantz, Producer
"HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL" Walt Disney, Producer
"MY BOY JOHNNY" Paul Terry, Producer
"SWOONER CROONER" Warner Bros.
"WHO'S WHO IN ANIMAL LAND" Jerry Fairbanks, Producer - WINNER
"BLUE GRASS GENTLEMEN" Edmund Reek, Producer
"JAMMIN' THE BLUES" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
"MOVIE PESTS" Pete Smith, Producer
"SCREEN SNAPSHOTS' 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTION PICTURES" Ralph Staub, Producer
"I WON'T PLAY" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer - WINNER
"BOMBALERA" Louis Harris, Producer
"MAIN STREET TODAY" Jerry Bresler, Producer; Herbert Moulton, Associate Producer
"WILSON" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director - WINNER
"BRAZIL" Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director
"CASANOVA BROWN" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
"COVER GIRL" Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
"HIS BUTLER'S SISTER" Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
"HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
"IT HAPPENED TOMORROW" Sound Service, Inc., Jack Whitney, Sound Director
"KISMET" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
"MUSIC IN MANHATTAN" RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director
"VOICE IN THE WIND" RCA Sound, W. M. Dalgleish, Sound Director
"THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO" Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer - WINNER
"THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN" Photographic Effects by Paul Detlefsen, John Crouse; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson
"DAYS OF GLORY" Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by James G. Stewart, Roy Granville
"SECRET COMMAND" Photographic Effects by David Allen, Ray Cory, Robert Wright; Sound Effects by Russell Malmgren, Harry Kusnick
"SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" Photographic Effects by John R. Cosgrove; Sound Effects by Arthur Johns
"THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL" Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart; Sound Effects by George Dutton
"WILSON" Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman
"GOING MY WAY" Leo McCarey - WINNER
"A GUY NAMED JOE" Chandler Sprague, David Boehm
"LIFEBOAT" John Steinbeck
"NONE SHALL ESCAPE" Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
"THE SULLIVANS" Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
"WILSON" Lamar Trotti - WINNER
"HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO" Preston Sturges
"THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK" Preston Sturges
"TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR" Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
"WING AND A PRAYER" Jerome Cady
"GOING MY WAY" Frank Butler, Frank Cavett - WINNER
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
"GASLIGHT" John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
"LAURA" Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
"MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe
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Straight from the book of the same title, an essential list for film buffs and more casual movie lovers alike. Titles are ranked here based on when they appear in the book, which is divided by the genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller, War and Western, then further organized by year released.
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (TSPDT) is a modest but growing film resource dedicated to the art of motion picture filmmaking and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.
This list is based on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films, a list compilated by Bill Georgaris using thousands of best-of/all-time lists.
www.theyshootpictures.com
The A.V. Club has singled out 90 important, terrific, even canonical movies that weren’t nominated—one for every Best Picture lineup going back to the beginning. Hindsight is, of course, 20/20, but you’d have to be legally blind to ignore most of these films, especially given what often made the cut instead.
https://www.avclub.com/do-the-wrong-thing-90-years-90-movies-that-should-hav-1823328066
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BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made. The results are surprising – Gone With the Wind appears at 97.
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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