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
Eclipse from the Criterion Collection is a brand for a line of DVD film series released by the Criterion Collection. It debuted on March 27, 2007. The brand was created to produce budget-priced, high-quality DVD editions of hard-to-find films. The DVDs are released in boxed sets that typically contain between two to seven films across and focus on a specific film director. Future sets will also focus on themes. Typically, they are released monthly. In order to keep prices low, the films do not receive the same degree of remastering nor any of the special features that have became associated with Criterion Collection titles.
Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Eclipse&p=1&pp=all
The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."
This is a list of all films (main feature, extra featurette, making of, box-set meta entry, etc if it has a separate entry on trakt) released under Criterion Collection catalog, Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory collections etc. as DVD/BluRay. So far LaserDisc releases have not been included.
Notes to self:
Reviewed/cross-checked entries till Criterion Collection #200.
Last entry: Criterion Collection Spine #845 / Eclipse Series #44.
All 180 musicals that were voted on for AFI's top 25 musials of the first 100 year of film
Winners and nominees (Winners first)
1927/28: 1, 2, 3
1928/29: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1929/30: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
1930/31: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
1931/32: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
1932/33: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
1934: 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
1935: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
1936: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
1937: 71 ,72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
1938:
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
1939:
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
1940:
101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
1941:
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120
1942:
121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
1943:
131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
1944:
141, 142, 143, 144, 145
1945:
146, 147, 148, 149, 150
1946:
151, 152, 153, 154, 155
1947:
156, 157, 158, 159, 160
1948:
161, 162, 163, 164, 165
1949:
166, 167, 168, 169, 170
1950:
171, 172, 173, 174, 175
1951:
176, 177, 178, 179, 180
1952:
181, 182, 183, 184, 185
1953:
186, 187, 188, 189, 190
1954:
191, 192, 193, 194, 195
1955:
196, 197, 198, 199, 200
1956: 201, 202, 203, 204, 205
1957:
206, 207, 208, 209, 210
1958:
211, 212, 213, 214, 215
1959:
216, 217, 218, 219, 220
1960:
221, 222, 223, 224, 225
1961:
226, 227, 228, 229, 230
1962:
231, 232, 233 ,234, 235
1963:
236, 237, 238, 239, 240
1964:
241, 242, 243, 244, 245
1965:
246, 247, 248, 249, 250
1966:
251, 252, 253, 254, 255
1967:
256, 257, 258, 259, 260
1968:
261, 262, 263, 264, 265
1969:
266, 267, 268, 269, 270
1970:
271, 272, 273, 274, 275
1971:
276, 277, 278, 279, 280
1972:
281, 282, 283, 284, 285
1973:
286, 287, 288, 289, 290
1974:
291, 292, 293, 294, 295
1975:
296, 297, 298, 299, 300
1976:
301, 302, 303, 304, 305
1977:
306 ,307, 308, 309, 310
1978:
311, 312, 313, 314, 315
1979:
316, 317, 318, 319, 320
1980:
321, 322, 323, 324, 325
1981:
326, 327, 328, 329, 330
1982:
331, 332, 333, 334, 335
1983:
336, 337, 338, 339, 340
1984:
341, 342, 343, 344, 345
1985:
346, 347, 348, 349, 350
1986:
351, 352, 353, 354, 355
1987:
356, 357, 358, 359, 360
1988:
361, 362, 363, 364, 365
1989:
366, 367, 368, 369, 370
1990:
371, 372, 373, 374, 375
1991:
376, 377, 378, 379, 380
1992:
381, 382, 383, 384, 385
1993:
386, 387, 388, 389, 390
1994:
391, 392, 393, 394, 395
1995:
396, 397, 398, 399, 400
1996:
401, 402, 403, 404, 405
1997:
406, 407, 408, 409, 410
1998:
411, 412, 413, 414, 415
1999:
416, 417, 418, 419, 420
2000:
421, 422, 423, 424, 425
2001:
426, 427, 428, 429, 430
2002: 431, 432, 433, 434, 435
2003:
436, 437, 438, 439, 440
2004:
442, 442, 443, 444, 445
2005: 446, 447, 448, 449, 450
2006:
451, 452, 453, 454, 455
2007:
456, 457, 458, 459, 460
2008:
461, 462, 463, 464, 465
2009:
466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475
2010:
476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485
2011:
486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494
2012:
495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503
2013:
504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512
2014:
513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520
2015: 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528
2016:
529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537
2017:
538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546
2018:
547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554
2019:
555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563
2020/21: 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571
2022: 573, 572, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581
2023: 586, 582, 583, 584, 585, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591
2024: 598, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 599, 600, 601
List of Nominees and Winners.
GEORGE ARLISS "Disraeli" - WINNER
GEORGE ARLISS "The Green Goddess"
WALLACE BEERY "The Big House"
MAURICE CHEVALIER "The Big Pond"
MAURICE CHEVALIER "The Love Parade"
RONALD COLMAN "Bulldog Drummond"
RONALD COLMAN "Condemned"
LAWRENCE TIBBETT "The Rogue Song"
NORMA SHEARER "The Divorcee" - WINNER
NANCY CARROLL "The Devil's Holiday"
RUTH CHATTERTON "Sarah and Son"
GRETA GARBO "Anna Christie"
GRETA GARBO "Romance"
NORMA SHEARER "Their Own Desire"
GLORIA SWANSON "The Trespasser"
"KING OF JAZZ" Herman Rosse - WINNER
"BULLDOG DRUMMOND" (William Cameron Menzies)
"THE LOVE PARADE" (Hans Dreier)
"SALLY" (Jack Okey)
"THE VAGABOND KING" (Hans Dreier)
"WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE" Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van Der Veer - WINNER
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" (Arthur Edeson)
"ANNA CHRISTIE" (William Daniels)
"HELL'S ANGELS" (Gaetano Gaudio), (Harry Perry)
"THE LOVE PARADE" (Victor Milner)
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" Lewis Milestone - WINNER
"ANNA CHRISTIE" Clarence Brown
"ROMANCE" Clarence Brown
"THE DIVORCEE" Robert Leonard
"THE LOVE PARADE" Ernst Lubitsch
"HALLELUJAH" King Vidor
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" Universal - WINNER
"THE BIG HOUSE" Cosmopolitan
"DISRAELI" Warner Bros.
"THE DIVORCEE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"THE LOVE PARADE" Paramount Famous Lasky
"THE BIG HOUSE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director - WINNER
"THE CASE OF SERGEANT GRISCHA" (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Tribby, Sound Director)
"THE LOVE PARADE" (Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department, Franklin Hansen, Sound Director)
"RAFFLES" (United Artists Studio Sound Department, Oscar Lagerstrom, Sound Director)
"SONG OF THE FLAME" (First National Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director)
"THE BIG HOUSE" Frances Marion - WINNER
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" (George Abbott), (Maxwell Anderson), (Del Andrews)
"DISRAELI" (Julian Josephson)
"THE DIVORCEE" (John Meehan)
"STREET OF CHANCE" (Howard Estabrook)
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
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
all the academy awards nominees for best picture since 1927
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.
http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html
In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films.
104 movies missing. Imported from external source.
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.
http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html
This list contains all movies that have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#Winners_and_nominees
PART 2 (1947-1964)
PART 3 (1965-1984)
PART 4 (1985-2002)
PART 5 (2003-2019)
PART 6 (2020-2024)
1-10 — 1929 Winners
11-25 — 1929 Nominees
26-23 — 1930 Winners
24-52 — 1930 Nominees
53-58 — 1930 Winners
59-78 — 1930 Nominees
79-84 — 1931 Winners
85-100 — 1931 Nominees
101-110 — 1932 Winners
111-126 — 1932 Nominees
127-135 — 1934 Winners
136-154 — 1934 Nominees
155-165 — 1935 Winners
166-186 — 1935 Nominees
187-199 — 1936 Winners
200-231 — 1936 Nominees
232-244 — 1937 Winners
245-283 — 1937 Nominees
284-298 — 1938 Winners
299-339 — 1938 Nominees
340-352 — 1939 Winners
353-396 — 1939 Nominees
397-407 — 1940 Winners
408-446 — 1940 Nominees
447-462 — 1941 Winners
463-515 — 1941 Nominees
516-532 — 1942 Winners
533-612 — 1942 Nominees
613-631 — 1943 Winners
632-708 — 1943 Nominees
709-726 — 1944 Winners
727-792 — 1944 Nominees
793-805 — 1945 Winners
806-877 — 1945 Nominees
878-897 — 1946 Winners
898-961 — 1946 Nominees
Movies I need to see
Academy award winners and nominees best film all catagories,
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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