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A Trip to the Moon -
The Great Train Robbery -
The Birth of a Nation -
Les Vampires -
Intolerance -
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the… -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -
Way Down East -
Within Our Gates -
The Phantom Carriage
1001 Films You Must See Before You Die
All 1103 films that have been listed thus far in the '1001 Films You Must See Before You Die' book…
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The Bridge on the River Kwai -
White Heat -
A Prophet -
Birdman of Alcatraz -
The Hill -
A Man Escaped -
Brute Force -
The Great Escape -
In Cold Blood -
Escape from New York
Prison Films: Ranked
A list of most of the prison films I've seen in order of greatness. No doubt I'm missing quite a…
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The Godfather -
The Sting -
The Godfather: Part II -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -
Rocky -
Annie Hall -
The Deer Hunter -
Kramer vs. Kramer -
Ordinary People -
Chariots of Fire
'Best Picture' films from the last 40 years... how many have you seen?
So, having just added Ordinary People to my watchlist it struck me that I probably haven't actually seen many of…
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The Master -
The Seventh Seal -
2001: A Space Odyssey -
Raging Bull -
The Tree of Life -
In the Mood for Love -
No Country for Old Men -
There Will Be Blood -
Mulholland Drive -
A Serious Man
Films that I needed to see a couple times to appreciate.
Not every movie hits you after the first time you watch it. Usually this has to do with how great…
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Argo -
Margaret -
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Looper -
Life of Pi -
The Cabin in the Woods -
Detachment -
Monsieur Lazhar -
The Raid: Redemption -
Snowtown
2012 Favourites
Note: Films that I wasn't able to get my hands on in 2011 ended up here too.
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Looper -
Killer Joe -
The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki -
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Chronicle -
Anna Karenina -
Django Unchained -
The Cabin in the Woods -
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -
Safe
Movies of 2012
Every movie I've seen in 2012 that was released in 2012, in order of importance.
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Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent -
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About… -
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American Movie -
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TV Junkie -
The Queen of Versailles -
Don't Look Back -
Hoop Dreams -
Catfish
Louis Theroux's Twelve Terrific Documentaries
"I’m often asked to name my favourite documentaries. I’m much too indecisive and changeable to be able to nail down…
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The Red Shoes -
Synecdoche, New York -
Time of the Gypsies -
Speed Racer -
The Pier -
In the Mood for Love -
Days of Heaven -
2001: A Space Odyssey -
El Topo -
The Holy Mountain
Films that Fully Utilise the Medium of Cinema
Apologies for the rather clumsy and drab title, I was going to call it Pure Cinema but that isn't quite…
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Detachment -
Blue Valentine -
Shame -
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Revolutionary Road -
The Hurt Locker -
Black Hawk Down -
Rome, Open City -
This Sporting Life -
Nil by Mouth
Too real!
A list of films that are so believable and well made they almost feel too real to be a film.…
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Frankenstein -
Freaks -
Shadow of a Doubt -
Greed -
Modern Times -
Beauty and the Beast -
Goodfellas -
The Young and the Damned -
Nosferatu -
8½
Guillermo Del Toro's 2012 Sight & Sound Ballot
358 directors were polled for Sight & Sound's most recent list of the greatest films of all time. This was Guillermo…
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Ashes and Diamonds -
The Best Years of Our Lives -
I Vitelloni -
The Bad Sleep Well -
Yojimbo -
Singin' in the Rain -
The King of Comedy -
Raging Bull -
The Apartment -
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Francis Ford Coppola's 2012 Sight & Sound Ballot
358 directors were polled for Sight & Sound's most recent list of the greatest films of all time. This was Francis…
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8½ -
2001: A Space Odyssey -
Ashes and Diamonds -
Citizen Kane -
The Leopard -
Paisan -
The Red Shoes -
The River -
Salvatore Giuliano -
The Searchers
Martin Scorsese's 2012 Sight & Sound Ballot
358 directors were polled for Sight & Sound's most recent list of the greatest films of all time. This was Martin…