Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century

I was glad to see the site for Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century. Reading it gave me an idea about the best movies of all times. I actually don't know and haven't watched most of the films simply because I was born during the 80's but I know, based on the description that these films are really exceptional. Here's the complete list in case you might also want to know:

===Silent Years===

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
186 minutes, D: D. W. Griffith

Intolerance (1916)
178 minutes, D: D. W. Griffith

Our Hospitality (1923)
74 minutes, D: Buster Keaton

Greed (1924)
140 minutes, D: Erich von Stroheim

The Gold Rush (1925)
82 minutes, D: Charlie Chaplin

Potemkin (1925 - Russian)
65 minutes, D: Sergei Eisenstein

The Big Parade (1925)
141 minutes, D: King Vidor

The Freshman (1925)
70 minutes, D: Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer

Metropolis (1927 - German)
120 minutes, D: Fritz Lang

The General (1927)
74 minutes, D: Buster Keaton

Sunrise (1927)
110 minutes, D: F. W. Murnau

The Crowd (1928)
104 minutes, D: King Vidor


===1930s===
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
133 minutes, D: Lewis Milestone

City Lights (1931)
86 minutes, D: Charlie Chaplin

M (1931 - German)
99 minutes, D: Fritz Lang

Dracula (1931)
75 minutes, D: Tod Browning

Frankenstein (1931)
70 minutes, D: James Whale

Trouble in Paradise (1932)
83 minutes, D: Ernst Lubitsch

King Kong (1933)
103 minutes, D: Merian C. Cooper

Duck Soup (1933)
70 minutes, D: Leo McCarey

Sons of the Desert (1933)
69 minutes, D: William A. Seiter

It Happened One Night (1934)
105 minutes, D: Frank Capra

It's A Gift (1934)
73 minutes, D: Norman Z. McLeod

A Night at the Opera (1935)
92 minutes, D: Sam Wood

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
75 minutes, D: James Whale

The 39 Steps (1935 - British)
87 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

Swing Time (1936)
103 minutes, D:George Stevens

Modern Times (1936)
89 minutes, D: Charlie Chaplin

Dodsworth (1936)
101 minutes, D: William Wyler

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
115 minutes, D: Frank Capra

Grand Illusion (1937 - French)
117 minutes, D: Jean Renoir

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
83 minutes, D: Ben Sharpsteen

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
102 minutes, D: Michael Curtiz

The Lady Vanishes (1938 - British)
97 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

Stagecoach (1939)
96 minutes, D: John Ford

Gone With The Wind (1939)
222 minutes, D: Victor Fleming

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
101 minutes, D: Victor Fleming

===1940s===
His Girl Friday (1940)
92 minutes, D: Howard Hawks

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
129 minutes, D: John Ford

Fantasia (1940)
120 minutes, D: Ben Sharpsteen (production supervisor)

Sullivan's Travels (1941)
91 minutes, D: Preston Sturges

Citizen Kane (1941)
119 minutes, D: Orson Welles

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
100 minutes, D: John Huston

The Lady Eve (1941)
94 minutes, D: Preston Sturges

Casablanca (1942)
102 minutes, D: Michael Curtiz

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
75 minutes, D: William A. Wellman

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
99 minutes, D: Preston Sturges

Double Indemnity (1944)
106 minutes, D: Billy Wilder

My Darling Clementine (1946)
97 minutes, D: John Ford

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
129 minutes, D: Frank Capra

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
172 minutes, D: William Wyler

Great Expectations (1946 - British)
118 minutes, D: David Lean

The Bicycle Thief (1948 - Italian)
90 minutes, D: Vittorio De Sica

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
124 minutes, D: John Huston

Gun Crazy (1949)
86 minutes, D: Joseph H. Lewis

===1950s===
All About Eve (1950)
138 minutes, D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
110 minutes, D: Billy Wilder

Rashomon (1950 - Japanese)
88 minutes, D: Akira Kurosawa

Strangers on a Train (1951)
101 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

Singin' In The Rain (1952)
102 minutes, D: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

High Noon (1952)
84 minutes, D: Fred Zinnemann

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
103 minutes, D: Stanley Donen

On The Waterfront (1954)
108 minutes, D: Elia Kazan

The Seven Samurai (1954 - Japanese)
141 minutes, D: Akira Kurosawa

The Searchers (1956)
119 minutes, D: John Ford

Paths of Glory (1957)
86 minutes, D: Stanley Kubrick

The Seventh Seal (1957 - Sweden)
96 minutes, D: Ingmar Bergman

Vertigo (1958)
128 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

North By Northwest (1959)
136 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

The 400 Blows (1959 - French)
99 minutes, D: Francois Truffaut

Some Like It Hot (1959)
119 minutes, D: Billy Wilder

===1960s===
Psycho (1960)
109 minutes, D: Alfred Hitchcock

La Dolce Vita (1962 - Italian)
175 minutes, D: Federico Fellini

Lawrence of Arabia (1962 - British)
216 minutes, D: David Lean

8 1/2 (1963 - Italian)
135 minutes, D: Federico Fellini

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying... (1964 - British)
93 minutes, D: Stanley Kubrick

Mary Poppins (1964)
140 minutes, D: Robert Stevenson

Blow-Up (1966 - British/Italian)
111 minutes, D: Michelangelo Antonioni

The Graduate (1967)
105 minutes, D: Mike Nichols

Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
111 minutes, D: Arthur Penn

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 - British)
139 minutes, D: Stanley Kubrick

The Wild Bunch (1969)
134 minutes, D: Sam Peckinpah

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
113 minutes, D: John Schlesinger

===1970s===
The Godfather (1972)
175 minutes, D: Francis Ford Coppola

Mean Streets (1973)
110 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese

The Godfather, Part II (1974)
200 minutes, D: Francis Ford Coppola

The Conversation (1974)
113 minutes, D: Francis Ford Coppola

Blazing Saddles (1974)
93 minutes, D: Mel Brooks

Jaws (1975)
124 minutes, D: Steven Spielberg

Nashville (1975)
159 minutes, D: Robert Altman

Annie Hall (1977)
94 minutes, D: Woody Allen

Star Wars (1977)
121 minutes, D: Geroge Lucas

The Deer Hunter (1978)
183 minutes, D: Michael Cimino

Apocalypse Now (1979)
150 minutes, D: Francis Ford Coppola


====1980s====
Raging Bull (1980)
128 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese

E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
115 minutes, D: Steven Spielberg


===1990s===
GoodFellas (1990)
146 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese

Schindler's List (1993)
195 minutes, D: Steven Spielberg

Pulp Fiction (1994)
154 minutes, D: Quentin Tarantino

Fargo (1996)
97 minutes, D: Joel Coen

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