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)
Source: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list?sort=spine_number
...the sexuality that cinema left us.
More comprehensive IMDB List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls089219989/
List of NC-17 rated films and couple of my personal favorites.
Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.
Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die
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
Since the 2015 TSPDT has released a companion to their greatest 1000 films, consisting of the films ranked 1001-2000. This list contains the most recent version of this list, with all the previous lists in the history.
Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_films1001-2000.htm
#BEST ACTRESS & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR
Actresses only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list
This is a list of the films featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey series by Mark Cousins.
The films are in order of appearance in the series.
The following are missing (not in Trakt):
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey
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 is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", published in 2004. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times in a time period of over seven decades. 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.
The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source.
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
The best 100 British films were chosen by 1,000 people from the UK's film industry, including producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, academics, exhibitors, distributors, executives and critics. The final selection spans seven decades and accommodates the work of 70 film directors. Unsurprisingly, literary adaptations feature strongly - ranging from Shakespeare and Dickens to Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh - and the highbrow mixes easily with the low.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/455170.stm
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation.
The series provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry."
Note: "Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas," a documentary about the making of Avatar, is missing because it does not appear to have an imdb page.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Cinema-Hollywood-Dream/dp/B00AMQ1B1O
List of Nominees and Winners
WINNER - JOHN MILLS "Ryan's Daughter"
CHIEF DAN GEORGE "Little Big Man"
GENE HACKMAN "I Never Sang for My Father"
JOHN MARLEY "Love Story"
RICHARD CASTELLANO "Lovers and Other Strangers"
WINNER - HELEN HAYES "Airport"
KAREN BLACK "Five Easy Pieces"
LEE GRANT "The Landlord"
SALLY KELLERMAN "M*A*S*H"
MAUREEN STAPLETON "Airport"
WINNER - "PATTON" Frank McCarthy, Producer
"AIRPORT" Ross Hunter, Producer
"FIVE EASY PIECES" Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, Producers
"LOVE STORY" Howard G. Minsky, Producer
"M*A*S*H" Ingo Preminger, Producer
WINNER - "RYAN'S DAUGHTER" Freddie Young
"AIRPORT" Ernest Laszlo
"PATTON" Fred Koenekamp
"TORA! TORA! TORA!" Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh
"WOMEN IN LOVE" Billy Williams
WINNER - "CROMWELL" Nino Novarese
"AIRPORT" Edith Head
"DARLING LILI" Donald Brooks, Jack Bear
"THE HAWAIIANS" Bill Thomas
"SCROOGE" Margaret Furse
WINNER - "PATTON" Franklin J. Schaffner
"WOMEN IN LOVE" Ken Russell
"FELLINI SATYRICON" Federico Fellini
"LOVE STORY" Arthur Hiller
"M*A*S*H" Robert Altman
WINNER "PATTON" Hugh S. Fowler
"WOODSTOCK" Thelma Schoonmaker
"AIRPORT" Stuart Gilmore
"M*A*S*H" Danford B. Greene
"TORA! TORA! TORA!" James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya
WINNER - "INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION" Italy
"FIRST LOVE" Switzerland
"HOA-BINH" France
"PAIX SUR LES CHAMPS" Belgium
"TRISTANA" Spain
WINNER - GEORGE C. SCOTT "Patton"
MELVYN DOUGLAS "I Never Sang for My Father"
JAMES EARL JONES "The Great White Hope"
JACK NICHOLSON "Five Easy Pieces"
RYAN O'NEAL "Love Story"
WINNER - GLENDA JACKSON "Women in Love"
JANE ALEXANDER "The Great White Hope"
ALI MACGRAW "Love Story"
SARAH MILES "Ryan's Daughter"
CARRIE SNODGRESS "Diary of a Mad Housewife"
WINNER - "PATTON" Art Direction: Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thevenet
"SCROOGE" Art Direction: Terry Marsh, Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Pamela Cornell
"TORA! TORA! TORA!" Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day, Taizoh Kawashima; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett, Carl Biddiscombe
"AIRPORT" Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore, Mickey S. Michaels
"THE MOLLY MAGUIRES" Art Direction: Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
WINNER - "IS IT ALWAYS RIGHT TO BE RIGHT?" Nick Bosustow, Producer
"THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF UNCLE SAM: PART TWO" Robert Mitchell and Dale Case, Producers
"THE SHEPHERD" Cameron Guess, Producer
WINNER - Ingmar Bergman
WINNER - "LOVE STORY" Francis Lai
"AIRPORT" Alfred Newman
"CROMWELL" Frank Cordell
"PATTON" Jerry Goldsmith
"SUNFLOWER" Henry Mancini
WINNER - "INTERVIEWS WITH MY LAI VETERANS" Joseph Strick, Producer
"THE GIFTS" Robert McBride, Producer
"A LONG WAY FROM NOWHERE" Bob Aller, Producer
"OISIN" Vivien Carey and Patrick Carey, Producers
"TIME IS RUNNING OUT" Horst Dallmayr and Robert Menegoz, Producers
WINNER - "WOODSTOCK" Bob Maurice, Producer
"CHARIOTS OF THE GODS" Dr. Harald Reinl, Producer
"JACK JOHNSON" Jim Jacobs, Producer
"KING: A FILMED RECORD...MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS" Ely Landau, Producer
"SAY GOODBYE" David H. Vowell, Producer
WINNER - Frank Sinatra
WINNER - "THE RESURRECTION OF BRONCHO BILLY" John Longenecker, Producer
"SHUT UP...I'M CRYING" Robert Siegler, Producer
"STICKY MY FINGERS...FLEET MY FEET" John Hancock, Producer
WINNER - "M*A*S*H" Ring Lardner, Jr.
"AIRPORT" George Seaton
"I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER" Robert Anderson
"LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS" Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman
"WOMEN IN LOVE" Larry Kramer
WINNER - "PATTON" Douglas Williams, Don Bassman
"AIRPORT" Ronald Pierce, David Moriarty
"RYAN'S DAUGHTER" Gordon K. McCallum, John Bramall
"TORA! TORA! TORA!" Murray Spivack, Herman Lewis
"WOODSTOCK" Dan Wallin, Larry Johnson
WINNER - "TORA! TORA! TORA!" A. D. Flowers, L. B. Abbott
"PATTON" Alex Weldon
WINNER - "For All We Know" from "LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS" Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Robb Royer (aka Robb Wilson) and James Griffin (aka Arthur James)
"Pieces Of Dreams" from "PIECES OF DREAMS" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
"Thank You Very Much" from "SCROOGE" Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
"Till Love Touches Your Life" from "MADRON" Music by Riz Ortolani; Lyrics by Arthur Hamilton
"Whistling Away The Dark" from "DARLING LILI" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
WINNER - "LET IT BE" Music and lyrics by The Beatles
"THE BABY MAKER" Music by Fred Karlin; lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry
"A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN" Music by Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter; lyrics by Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez and Al Shean; adaptation score by Vince Guaraldi
"DARLING LILI" Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"SCROOGE" Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer
WINNER - "PATTON" Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
"FIVE EASY PIECES" Story by Bob Rafelson, Adrien Joyce; Screenplay by Adrien Joyce
"JOE" Norman Wexler
"LOVE STORY" Erich Segal
"MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S" Eric Rohmer
LGBTQ+ movies
In 1999 the British Film Institute invited a large amount of people working within the film and television industry to take part in finding the 100 top British films of the 20th century.
Stage/Literature-to-Film
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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.
Movies released during the 1960s to watch
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