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A selection of films, famed for their decision to throw convention out of the window. This list pays homage to the great surrealist films from the history of cinema.

Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.

Films listed in order of spine numbers. Releases with multiple films are listed as individual items where appropiate.

Last Update: Releases up to July 2024 (Spine #1228)

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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.

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Eccentric, Nostalgia, "quirky" Aesthetic, avant garde, cinematic, visually striking art movies and tv series

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X

As part of the Sight & Sound magazine's 75th anniversary, the editors asked 75 critics from around the world to select a single film that is "unduly obscure and worthy of greater eminence."

Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!

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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

Todo el mejor cine de la historia

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Between August and November 1888,the Whitechapel area of London was the scene of five brutal murders. The killer was dubbed 'Jack the Ripper'.

The name first originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was spread in the media and after more than a century the name, tale and mystery lives on through all forms of media.

Look through the history of interpretation with this list.

List of Nominees and Winners

• ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

EDDIE ALBERT "The Heartbreak Kid"
JAMES CAAN "The Godfather"
ROBERT DUVALL "The Godfather"
WINNER - JOEL GREY "Cabaret"
AL PACINO "The Godfather"

• ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

SHELLEY WINTERS "The Poseidon Adventure"
JEANNIE BERLIN "The Heartbreak Kid"
WINNER - EILEEN HECKART "Butterflies Are Free"
GERALDINE PAGE "Pete 'n' Tillie"
SUSAN TYRRELL "Fat City"

• BEST PICTURE

"CABARET" Cy Feuer, Producer
"DELIVERANCE" John Boorman, Producer
"THE EMIGRANTS" Bengt Forslund, Producer
WINNER - "THE GODFATHER" Albert S. Ruddy, Producer
"SOUNDER" Robert B. Radnitz, Producer

• CINEMATOGRAPHY

"BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE" Charles B. Lang
WINNER - "CABARET" Geoffrey Unsworth
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Harold E. Stine
"1776" Harry Stradling, Jr.
"TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT" Douglas Slocombe

• COSTUME DESIGN

"THE GODFATHER" Anna Hill Johnstone
"LADY SINGS THE BLUES" Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Paul Zastupnevich
WINNER - "TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT" Anthony Powell
"YOUNG WINSTON" Anthony Mendleson

• DIRECTING

WINNER - "CABARET" Bob Fosse
"DELIVERANCE" John Boorman
"THE EMIGRANTS" Jan Troell
"THE GODFATHER" Francis Ford Coppola
"SLEUTH" Joseph L. Mankiewicz

• FILM EDITING

WINNER - "CABARET" David Bretherton
"DELIVERANCE" Tom Priestley
"THE GODFATHER" William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
"THE HOT ROCK" Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Harold F. Kress

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

"THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET" Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WINNER - "THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE" France
"I LOVE YOU ROSA" Israel
"MY DEAREST SEÑORITA" Spain
"THE NEW LAND" Sweden

• ACTOR

WINNER - MARLON BRANDO "The Godfather"
MICHAEL CAINE "Sleuth"
LAURENCE OLIVIER "Sleuth"
PETER O'TOOLE "The Ruling Class"
PAUL WINFIELD "Sounder"

• ACTRESS

WINNER - LIZA MINNELLI "Cabaret"
DIANA ROSS "Lady Sings the Blues"
MAGGIE SMITH "Travels with My Aunt"
CICELY TYSON "Sounder"
LIV ULLMANN "The Emigrants"

• ART DIRECTION

WINNER - "CABARET" Art Direction: Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach; Set Decoration: Herbert Strabel
"LADY SINGS THE BLUES" Art Direction: Carl Anderson; Set Decoration: Reg Allen
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Art Direction: William Creber; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton
"TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT" Art Direction: John Box, Gil Parrondo, Robert W. Laing
"YOUNG WINSTON" Art Direction: Geoffrey Drake, Don Ashton, John Graysmark, William Hutchinson; Set Decoration: Peter James

• DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"HUNDERTWASSER'S RAINY DAY" Peter Schamoni, Producer
"K-Z" Giorgio Treves, Producer
"SELLING OUT" Tadeusz Jaworski, Producer
"THE TIDE OF TRAFFIC" Humphrey Swingler, Producer
WINNER - "THIS TINY WORLD" Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers

• DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"APE AND SUPER-APE" Bert Haanstra, Producer
"MALCOLM X" Marvin Worth and Arnold Perl, Producers
"MANSON" Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, Producers
WINNER - "MARJOE" Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, Producers
"THE SILENT REVOLUTION" Eckehard Munck, Producer

• JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

WINNER - Rosalind Russell

• SHORT SUBJECT (LIVE ACTION)

"FROG STORY" Ron Satlof and Ray Gideon, Producers
WINNER - "NORMAN ROCKWELL'S WORLD...AN AMERICAN DREAM" Richard Barclay, Producer
"SOLO" David Adams, Producer

• WRITING (SCREENPLAY--BASED ON MATERIAL FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM)

"CABARET" Jay Allen
"THE EMIGRANTS" Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
WINNER - "THE GODFATHER" Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
"PETE 'N' TILLIE" Julius J. Epstein
"SOUNDER" Lonne Elder, III

• SOUND

"BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE" Arthur Piantadosi, Charles Knight
WINNER - "CABARET" Robert Knudson, David Hildyard
"THE CANDIDATE" Richard Portman, Gene Cantamessa
"THE GODFATHER" Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman, Christopher Newman
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis

• MUSIC (SONG--ORIGINAL FOR THE PICTURE)

"Ben" from "BEN"; Music by Walter Scharf; Lyrics by Don Black
"Come Follow, Follow Me" from "THE LITTLE ARK"; Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Marsha Karlin
"Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" from "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN"; Music by Maurice Jarre; Lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman
WINNER - "The Morning After" from "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE"; Music and Lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
"Strange Are The Ways Of Love" from "THE STEPMOTHER"; Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

• WRITING (STORY AND SCREENPLAY--BASED ON FACTUAL MATERIAL OR MATERIAL NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED OR PRODUCED)

WINNER - "THE CANDIDATE" Jeremy Larner
"THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE" Story and Screenplay by Luis Buñuel; in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière
"LADY SINGS THE BLUES" Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe
"MURMUR OF THE HEART" Louis Malle
"YOUNG WINSTON" Carl Foreman

• MUSIC (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)

WINNER - "LIMELIGHT" Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell
"IMAGES" John Williams
"NAPOLEON AND SAMANTHA" Buddy Baker
"THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" John Williams
"SLEUTH" John Addison

• MUSIC (SCORING: ADAPTATION AND ORIGINAL SONG SCORE)

WINNER - "CABARET" Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
"LADY SINGS THE BLUES" Adaptation Score by Gil Askey
"MAN OF LA MANCHA" Adaptation Score by Laurence Rosenthal

• SHORT SUBJECT (ANIMATED)

WINNER - "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Richard Williams, Producer
"KAMA SUTRA RIDES AGAIN" Bob Godfrey, Producer
"TUP TUP" Nedeljko Dragic, Producer

• SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (VISUAL EFFECTS)

WINNER - "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers

Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.

This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" (St. Martin's Griffin, $24.95), edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004. For additional information about the list, read Peter M. Nichols's preface, or A. O. Scott's introduction.