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
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have made it into the collection.
Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Criterion&m=dvd&s=spine
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
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
Todo el mejor cine de la historia
Liste des films présents dans le livre et le site Movieland www.movieland.io
List of Nominees and Winners
WILLIAM HOLDEN "Stalag 17" - WINNER
MARLON BRANDO "Julius Caesar"
RICHARD BURTON "The Robe"
MONTGOMERY CLIFT "From Here to Eternity"
BURT LANCASTER "From Here to Eternity"
FRANK SINATRA "From Here to Eternity" - WINNER
EDDIE ALBERT "Roman Holiday"
BRANDON DE WILDE "Shane"
JACK PALANCE "Shane"
ROBERT STRAUSS "Stalag 17"
AUDREY HEPBURN "Roman Holiday" - WINNER
LESLIE CARON "Lili"
AVA GARDNER "Mogambo"
DEBORAH KERR "From Here to Eternity"
MAGGIE MCNAMARA "The Moon Is Blue"
DONNA REED "From Here to Eternity" - WINNER
GRACE KELLY "Mogambo"
GERALDINE PAGE "Hondo"
MARJORIE RAMBEAU "Torch Song"
THELMA RITTER "Pickup on South Street"
"JULIUS CAESAR" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - WINNER
"MARTIN LUTHER" Art Direction: Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz
"THE PRESIDENT'S LADY" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Paul S. Fox
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler
"TITANIC" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Stuart Reiss
"THE ROBE" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - WINNER
"KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE" Art Direction: Alfred Junge, Hans Peters; Set Decoration: John Jarvis
"LILI" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams
"THE STORY OF THREE LOVES" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore
"YOUNG BESS" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Burnett Guffey - WINNER
"THE FOUR POSTER" Hal Mohr
"JULIUS CAESAR" Joseph Ruttenberg
"MARTIN LUTHER" Joseph C. Brun
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Frank Planer, Henri Alekan
"SHANE" Loyal Griggs - WINNER
"ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT" George Folsey
"BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF" Edward Cronjager
"LILI" Robert Planck
"THE ROBE" Leon Shamroy
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Edith Head - WINNER
"THE ACTRESS" Walter Plunkett
"DREAM WIFE" Helen Rose, Herschel McCoy
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Jean Louis
"THE PRESIDENT'S LADY" Charles LeMaire, Renie
"THE ROBE" Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago - WINNER
"THE BAND WAGON" Mary Ann Nyberg
"CALL ME MADAM" Irene Sharaff
"HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE" Charles LeMaire, Travilla
"YOUNG BESS" Walter Plunkett
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Fred Zinnemann - WINNER
"LILI" Charles Walters
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" William Wyler
"SHANE" George Stevens
"STALAG 17" Billy Wilder
"THE LIVING DESERT" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST" John Taylor, Leon Clore and Grahame Tharp, Producers
"A QUEEN IS CROWNED" Castleton Knight, Producer
"THE ALASKAN ESKIMO" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"THE LIVING CITY" John Barnes, Producer
"OPERATION BLUE JAY" United States Army Signal Corps
"THEY PLANTED A STONE" James Carr, Producer
"THE WORD" John Healy and John Adams, Producers
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" William Lyon - WINNER
"CRAZYLEGS" Irvine (Cotton) Warburton
"THE MOON IS BLUE" Otto Ludwig
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Robert Swink
"THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" Everett Douglas
George Stevens - WINNER
"LILI" Bronislau Kaper - WINNER
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Morris Stoloff, George Duning
"JULIUS CAESAR" Miklos Rozsa
"THIS IS CINERAMA" Louis Forbes
"CALL ME MADAM" Alfred Newman - WINNER
"THE BAND WAGON" Adolph Deutsch
"CALAMITY JANE" Ray Heindorf
"THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T" Frederick Hollander, Morris Stoloff
"KISS ME KATE" Andre Previn, Saul Chaplin
"Secret Love" in "Calamity Jane" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster - WINNER
"The Moon Is Blue" in "The Moon Is Blue" Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert; Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
"My Flaming Heart" in "Small Town Girl" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Leo Robin
"Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)" in "Miss Sadie Thompson" Music by Lester Lee; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"That's Amore" in "The Caddy" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Jack Brooks
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Buddy Adler, Producer - WINNER
"JULIUS CAESAR" John Houseman, Producer
"THE ROBE" Frank Ross, Producer
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" William Wyler, Producer
"SHANE" George Stevens, Producer
"TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK AND BOOM" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"CHRISTOPHER CRUMPET" Stephen Bosustow, Producer
"FROM A TO Z-Z-Z-Z" Edward Selzer, Producer
"RUGGED BEAR" Walt Disney, Producer
"THE TELL TALE HEART" Stephen Bosustow, Producer
"THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR OVERTURE" Johnny Green, Producer - WINNER
"CHRIST AMONG THE PRIMITIVES" Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi, Producer
"HERRING HUNT" National Film Board of Canada
"JOY OF LIVING" Boris Vermont, Producer
"WEE WATER WONDERS" Jack Eaton, Producer
"BEAR COUNTRY" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"BEN AND ME" Walt Disney, Producer
"RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL" Dublin Gate Theatre Productions
"VESUVIUS EXPRESS" Otto Lang, Producer
"WINTER PARADISE" Cedric Francis, Producer
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director - WINNER
"CALAMITY JANE" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller, Sound Director
"KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins, Sound Director
"THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
"THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
"THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" Paramount Studio - WINNER
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Dalton Trumbo - WINNER
"ABOVE AND BEYOND" Beirne Lay, Jr.
"THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE" Alec Coppel
"LITTLE FUGITIVE" Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Daniel Taradash - WINNER
"THE CRUEL SEA" Eric Ambler
"LILI" Helen Deutsch
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton
"SHANE" A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
"TITANIC" Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen - WINNER
"THE BAND WAGON" Betty Comden, Adolph Green
"THE DESERT RATS" Richard Murphy
"THE NAKED SPUR" Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom
"TAKE THE HIGH GROUND" Millard Kaufman
All credits go to IMDb user: jakilcz
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
Movies in black in white from 1940 to 1959.
A list of the 100 Greatest Films Noir compiled by Digital Dream Door. These Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, box office success and popularity. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Film Noir Movies".
Library for Kodi import
Early 20th Century Noir films I need to watch
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private investigator (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.). Although film noir was originally associated with American productions, the term has been used to describe films from around the world. Many films released from the 1960s onward share attributes with film noirs of the classical period, and often treat its conventions self-referentially. Some refer to such latter-day works as neo-noir.
I've got the 10th edition of the German translation of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". It's a 960-paged book edited by Steven Jay Schneider, containing the combined knowledge of 77 internationally renowned movie ciritics, with short one to half-sided essays, movie credits, and trivia, throughout all genres and countries.
There are already a number of lists out, however, this book is reviewed every year, and as far as I can tell (I did go through a lot of these lists) non depicts the 2013 edition I possess, which ends with Life of Pi. I then thought of the ideal list being on that includes all movies, starting from the original list from 2003, with all the editions but non of the removals since then. Thanks to the internet, such list exists and therefore I will be adding these here, one by one. I did not "rank" them, because actually the book doesn't either - they are ordered by year and that is as meaningful as any other order I guess. Also, the "ranked lists" all have the problem that some movies are removed, which is why a number of people think about how to renumber this list probably... all things I deem unnecessary.
And yes, I intend to watch them all! If you watch one of them every week, it's just a 20 years task :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die
http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.
The 250 Quintessential Noir Films listing contains 241 films that all contain three key ingredients.
The nine films, that have been included, that exclude at least one of these key ingredients are two Non-American-produced noir (The Third Man and Mr. Arkadin), four colour noir films (Leave Her to Heaven, Niagara, Party Girl and Slightly Scarlet), and three films from the early 1960s (Cape Fear, Underworld, U.S.A. and The Naked Kiss).
List has been curated by Bill Georgaris on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
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by Shawn Bicknell