1. Star Wars
2. American Graffitti
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Attack of the Clones
5. The Phantom Menace
6. THX 1138
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Author Archives: 4 Star Films
100 Essential Films by National Society of Film Critics
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- 42nd Street (1933)
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
- Blow-Up (1966)
- Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
- Breathless (1960)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Casablanca (1942)
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
- Children of Paradise (1945)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Closely Watched Trains (1967)
- Close-up (1990)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
- The Decalogue (1988)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
- Diner (1982)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- La Dolce Vita (1959)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- The Entertainer (1960)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Faces (1968)
- Fargo (1996)
- Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- The General (1927)
- The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Greed (1924)
- Happy Together (1997)
- High Noon (1952)
- The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Red Sorghum (1987)
- Killer of Sheep (1977)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Landscape in the Mist (1988)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- M (1931)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Nashville (1975)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- On The Waterfront (1954)
- Open City (1945)
- The Palm Beach Story (1942)
- Pandora’s Box (1928)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1958), The World of Apu (1960)
- The Piano (1993)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Searchers (1956)
- The Seven Samurai (1954)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
- Star Wars (1977)
- La Strada (1955) and Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Sunrise (1927)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Touch Of Evil (1958)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Ugetsu Monogatori (1953)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Les Vampires (1915)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Winchester ’73 (1950)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
The Best Films of Steven Spielberg
1. Schindler’s List
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. Jaws
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Jurassic Park
8. The Last Crusade
9. Lincoln
10. Catch me if You Can
11. Minority Report
12. Munich
13. The Adventures of Tintin
14. Duel
15. The Temple of Doom
16. The Color Purple
AMC Great Directors
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Charlie Chaplin
Orson Welles
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spieberg
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Woody Allen
David Lean
Billy Wilder
John Ford
Frank Capra
Clint Eastwood
Roman Polanski
Ridley Scott
David Lynch
Elia Kazan
John Huston
Howard Hawks
William Wyler
Joel Coen
Tim Burton
Fritz Lang
Brian De Palma
Robert Altman
George Cukor
Mike Nichols
Mel Brooks
Preston Sturges
John Cassavetes
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cecil B. DeMille
D.W. Griffith
Michael Curtiz
Arthur Penn
Peter Jackson
Reobert Zemeckis
Vincente Minnelli
Ernst Lubitsch
Michael Powell
Douglas Sirk
Terrance Malick
James Cameron
Spike Lee
George Lucas
Otto Preminger
Oliver Stone
Sam Peckinpah
Sam Raimi
AMC Great Actors and Actresses
Tom Hanks
Robert De Niro
Jack Nicholson
Henry Fonda
James Stewart
Marlon Brando
Humphrey Bogart
Paul Newman
Jack Lemmon
Gene Hackman
Danie Day-Lewis
Anthony Hopkins
Gregory Peck
Clint Eastwood
John Wayne
Gary Cooper
Morgan Freeman
Spencer Tracy
Burt Lancaster
Clark Gable
Laurence Olivier
Cary Grant
Dustin Hoffman
Kirk Douglas
George C. Scott
Denzel Washington
Robert Mitchum
Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Steve McQueen
Charles Chaplin
William Holden
Gene Kelly
Groucho Marx
Fred Astaire
Russell Crowe
Edward G. Robinson
James Cagney
Peter Sellers
Sidney Poitier
Sean Penn
James Dean
Orson Welles
Errol Flynn
James Mason
William Powell
Richard Burton
Buster Keaton
Johnny Depp
Bette Davis
Katharine Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Marilyn Monroe
Meryl Streep
Vivien Leigh
Olivia de Havilland
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Stanwyck
Kate Winslet
Ava Gardner
Rita Hayworth
Elizabeth Taylor
Judy Garland
Joan Crawford
Claudette Colbert
Joan Fontaine
Jodie Foster
Natalie Wood
Cate Blanchett
Judi Dench
Maureen O’Hara
Lauren Bacall
Julie Andrews
Grace Kelly
Deborah Kerr
Greta Garbo
Sandra Bullock
Julia Roberts
Sally Field
Myrna Loy
Susan Hayward
Shirley MacLaine
Natalie Portman
Sophia Loren
Nicole Kidman
Marlene Dietrich
Diane Keaton
Carole Lombard
Ginger Rogers
Jean Harlow
Jean Arthur
Doris Day
Jane Fonda
Reese Witherspoon
Mary Pickford
Angelina Jolie
Mae West
Barbara Streisand
Halle Berry
500 Classic Film Stars
*Bold on AFI 50 Stars
1. BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO
2. BRIAN AHERNE
3. DON AMECHE
4. EDDIE “ROCHESTER” ANDERSON
5. GILBERT M. “BRONCHO BILLY” ANDERSON
6. DANA ANDREWS
7. ROSCOE “FATTY” ARBUCKLE
8. GEORGE ARLISS
9. LOUIS ARMSTRONG
10. EDWARD ARNOLD
11. FRED ASTAIRE
12. GENE AUTRY
13. LEW AYRES
14. KING BAGGOT
15. JOHN BARRYMORE
16. LIONEL BARRYMORE
17. RICHARD BARTHELMESS
18. FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW
19. WARNER BAXTER
20. NOAH BEERY
21. WALLACE BEERY
22. RALPH BELLAMY
23. JOHN BELUSHI
24. WILLIAM BENDIX
25. JACK BENNY
26. EDGAR BERGEN & CHARLIE McCARTHY
27. MILTON BERLE
28. HUMPHREY BOGART
29. RAY BOLGER
30. WARD BOND
31. WILLIAM BOYD
32. CHARLES BOYER
33. EDDIE BRACKEN
34. MARLON BRANDO
35. WALTER BRENNAN
36. LLOYD BRIDGES
37. JOE E. BROWN
38. YUL BRYNNER
39. GEORGE BURNS
40. RICHARD BURTON
41. FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN
42. JAMES CAGNEY
43. EDDIE CANTOR
44. JOHN CARRADINE
45. LEO G. CARROLL
46. JACK CARSON
47. JOHN CASSAVETES
48. LON CHANEY
49. LON CHANEY, JR.
50. CHARLES CHAPLIN
51. MAURICE CHEVALIER
52. MONTGOMERY CLIFT
53. LEE J. COBB
54. CHARLES COBURN
55. RONALD COLMAN
56. JACKIE COOGAN
57. GARY COOPER
58. JACKIE COOPER
59. JOSEPH COTTEN
60. BUSTER CRABBE
61. BRODERICK CRAWFORD
62. HUME CRONYN
63. BING CROSBY
64. ROBERT CUMMINGS
65. TONY CURTIS
66. DAN DAILEY
67. OSSIE DAVIS
68. SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
69. JAMES DEAN
70. DIVINE
71. RICHARD DIX
72. ROBERT DONAT
73. BRIAN DONLEVY
74. KIRK DOUGLAS
75. MELVYN DOUGLAS
76. JIMMY DURANTE
77. BUDDY EBSEN
78. NELSON EDDY
79. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
80. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
81. WILLIAM FARNUM
82. JOSE FERRER
83. W.C. FIELDS
84. PETER FINCH
85. BARRY FITZGERALD
86. ERROL FLYNN
87. HENRY FONDA
88. GLENN FORD
89. CLARK GABLE
90. JOHN GARFIELD
91. JOHN GIELGUD
92. JOHN GILBERT
93. JACKIE GLEASON
94. FARLEY GRANGER
95. STEWART GRANGER
96. CARY GRANT
97. SYDNEY GREENSTREET
98. SIR ALEC GUINNESS
99. EDMUND GWENN
100. JACK HALEY
101. REX HARRISON
102. WILLIAM S. HART
103. LAURENCE HARVEY
104. SESSUE HAYAKAWA
105. STERLING HAYDEN
106. GABBY HAYES
107. VAN HEFLIN
108. PAUL HENREID
109. CHARLTON HESTON
110. WILLIAM HOLDEN
111. BOB HOPE
112. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
113. JOHN HOUSEMAN
114. LESLIE HOWARD
115. TREVOR HOWARD
116. ROCK HUDSON
117. TAB HUNTER
118. JOHN HUSTON
119. WALTER HUSTON
120. REX INGRAM
121. BURL IVES
122. EMIL JANNINGS
123. BEN JOHNSON
124. VAN JOHNSON
125. AL JOLSON
126. LOUIS JOURDAN
127. RAUL JULIA
128. BORIS KARLOFF
129. DANNY KAYE
130. BUSTER KEATON
131. HOWARD KEEL
132. GENE KELLY
133. ARTHUR KENNEDY
134. ALAN LADD
135. BERT LAHR
136. BURT LANCASTER
137. HARRY LANGDON
138. MARIO LANZA
139. CHARLES LAUGHTON
140. STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY
141. PETER LAWFORD
142. OSCAR LEVANT
143. JERRY LEWIS
144. HAROLD LLOYD
145. PETER LORRE
146. BELA LUGOSI
147. KEYE LUKE
148. FRED MacMURRAY
149. GORDON MacRAE
150. KARL MALDEN
151. FREDRIC MARCH
152. HERBERT MARSHALL
153. DEAN MARTIN
154. LEE MARVIN
155. THE MARX BROTHERS
156. JAMES MASON
157. RAYMOND MASSEY
158. VICTOR MATURE
159. JOEL McCREA
160. RODDY McDOWALL
161. VICTOR McLAGLEN
162. STEVE McQUEEN
163. ADOLPHE MENJOU
164. BURGESS MEREDITH
165. RAY MILLAND
166. SAL MINEO
167. THOMAS MITCHELL
168. ROBERT MITCHUM
169. TOM MIX
170. RICARDO MONTALBAN
171. GEORGE MONTGOMERY
172. ROBERT MONTGOMERY
173. MANTAN MORELAND
174. FRANK MORGAN
175. ZERO MOSTEL
176. PAUL MUNI
177. GEORGE MURPHY
178. THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS
179. DAVID NIVEN
180. RAMON NOVARRO
181. JACK OAKIE
182. EDMOND O’BRIEN
183. PAT O’BRIEN
184. DONALD O’CONNOR
185. SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
186. JACK PALANCE
187. LARRY PARKS
188. GREGORY PECK
189. GEORGE PEPPARD
190. ANTHONY PERKINS
191. SLIM PICKENS
192. WALTER PIDGEON
193. SIDNEY POITIER
194. DICK POWELL
195. WILLIAM POWELL
196. TYRONE POWER
197. ELVIS PRESLEY
198. ROBERT PRESTON
199. VINCENT PRICE
200. ANTHONY QUINN
201. GEORGE RAFT
202. CLAUDE RAINS
203. BASIL RATHBONE
204. CHARLES RAY
205. RONALD REAGAN
206. WALLACE REID
207. RALPH RICHARDSON
208. PAUL ROBESON
209. BILL “BOJANGLES” ROBINSON
210. EDWARD G. ROBINSON
211. BUDDY ROGERS
212. ROY ROGERS
213. WILL ROGERS
214. GILBERT ROLAND
215. CESAR ROMERO
216. MICKEY ROONEY
217. CHARLES RUGGLES
218. HAROLD RUSSELL
219. ROBERT RYAN
220. SABU
221. GEORGE SANDERS
222. RANDOLPH SCOTT
223. PETER SELLERS
224. ROBERT SHAW
225. FRANK SINATRA
226. RED SKELTON
227. JAMES STEWART
228. DEAN STOCKWELL
229. WOODY STRODE
230. ROBERT TAYLOR
231. THE THREE STOOGES
232. FRANCHOT TONE
233. SPENCER TRACY
234. BEN TURPIN
235. PETER USTINOV
236. RUDOLPH VALENTINO
237. RUDY VALLEE
238. CONRAD VEIDT
239. ERICH VON STROHEIM
240. MAX VON SYDOW
241. ROBERT WALKER
242. JOHN WAYNE
243. CLIFTON WEBB
244. JOHNNY WEISSMULLER
245. ORSON WELLES
246. RICHARD WIDMARK
247. CORNEL WILDE
248. CHILL WILLS
249. GIG YOUNG
250. ROBERT YOUNG
1. GRACIE ALLEN
2. JUNE ALLYSON
3. DAME JUDITH ANDERSON
4. ANNABELLA
5. EVE ARDEN
6. JEAN ARTHUR
7. MARY ASTOR
8. LAUREN BACALL
9. PEARL BAILEY
10. LUCILLE BALL
11. TALLULAH BANKHEAD
12. VILMA BÁNKY
13. THEDA BARA
14. ETHEL BARRYMORE
15. ANNE BAXTER
16. LOUISE BEAVERS
17. BARBARA BEL GEDDES
18. CONSTANCE BENNETT
19. JOAN BENNETT
20. INGRID BERGMAN
21. JOAN BLONDELL
22. CLAIRE BLOOM
23. ANN BLYTH
24. BEULAH BONDI
25. SHIRLEY BOOTH
26. CLARA BOW
27. ALICE BRADY
28. HELEN BRODERICK
29. BETTY BRONSON
30. LOUISE BROOKS
31. VIRGINIA BRUCE
32. BILLIE BURKE
33. SPRING BYINGTON
34. KITTY CARLISLE
35. MADELEINE CARROLL
36. CYD CHARISSE
37. RUTH CHATTERTON
38. MAE CLARKE
39. CLAUDETTE COLBERT
40. DOLORES COSTELLO
41. JEANNE CRAIN
42. JOAN CRAWFORD
43. VIOLA DANA
44. DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
45. BEBE DANIELS
46. LINDA DARNELL
47. DANIELLE DARRIEUX
48. JANE DARWELL
49. MARION DAVIES
50.BETTE DAVIS
51. JOAN DAVIS
52. DORIS DAY
53. LARAINE DAY
54. YVONNE DE CARLO
55. RUBY DEE
56. GLORIA DeHAVEN
57. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
58. DOLORES DEL RIO
59. MARLENE DIETRICH
60. LOUISE DRESSER
61. MARIE DRESSLER
62. MARGARET DUMONT
63. IRENE DUNNE
64. DEANNA DURBIN
65. JEANNE EAGELS
66. DALE EVANS
67. FRANCES FARMER
68. GLENDA FARRELL
69. ALICE FAYE
70. BETTY FIELD
71. GRACIE FIELDS
72. GERALDINE FITZGERALD
73. RHONDA FLEMING
74. NINA FOCH
75. JOAN FONTAINE
76. KAY FRANCIS
77. GRETA GARBO
78. AVA GARDNER
79. JUDY GARLAND
80. PEGGY ANN GARNER
81. BETTY GARRETT
82. GREER GARSON
83. JANET GAYNOR
84. MITZI GAYNOR
85. HERMIONE GINGOLD
86. DOROTHY GISH
87. LILLIAN GISH
88. PAULETTE GODDARD
89. RUTH GORDON
90. BETTY GRABLE
91. GLORIA GRAHAME
92. BONITA GRANVILLE
93. KATHRYN GRAYSON
94. JANE GREER
95. CORINNE GRIFFITH
96. JEAN HAGEN
97. BARBARA HALE
98. MARGARET HAMILTON
99. ANN HARDING
100. JEAN HARLOW
101. JUNE HAVER
102. HELEN HAYES
103. SUSAN HAYWARD
104. RITA HAYWORTH
105. SONJA HENIE
106. AUDREY HEPBURN
107. KATHARINE HEPBURN
108. JUDY HOLLIDAY
109. CELESTE HOLM
110. MIRIAM HOPKINS
111. LENA HORNE
112. MARSHA HUNT
113. KIM HUNTER
114. RUTH HUSSEY
115. BETTY HUTTON
116. JENNIFER JONES
117. RUBY KEELER
118. GRACE KELLY
119. MADGE KENNEDY
120. DEBORAH KERR
121. VERONICA LAKE
122. HEDY LAMARR
123. DOROTHY LAMOUR
124. ELSA LANCHESTER
125. PRISCILLA LANE
126. ANGELA LANSBURY
127. PIPER LAURIE
128. FLORENCE LAWRENCE
129. JANET LEIGH
130. VIVIEN LEIGH
131. JOAN LESLIE
132. VIVECA LINDFORS
133. GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
134. CAROLE LOMBARD
135. SOPHIA LOREN
136. BESSIE LOVE
137. MYRNA LOY
138. IDA LUPINO
139. JEANETTE MacDONALD
140. ANNA MAGNANI
141. MARJORIE MAIN
142. DOROTHY MALONE
143. JAYNE MANSFIELD
144. MAE MARSH
145. MARY MARTIN
146. VIRGINIA MAYO
147. MAY McAVOY
148. MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
149. HATTIE McDANIEL
150. DOROTHY McGUIRE
151. NINA MAE McKINNEY
152. BUTTERFLY McQUEEN
153. UNA MERKEL
154. ETHEL MERMAN
155. ANN MILLER
156. CARMEN MIRANDA
157. MARILYN MONROE
158. MARIA MONTEZ
159. COLLEEN MOORE
160. AGNES MOOREHEAD
161. RITA MORENO
162. MAE MURRAY
163. MILDRED NATWICK
164. ALLA NAZIMOVA
165. DAME ANNA NEAGLE
166. PATRICIA NEAL
167. POLA NEGRI
168. ANNA Q. NILSSON
169. MABEL NORMAND
170. MARGARET O’BRIEN
171. MAUREEN O’HARA
172. MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
173. MERLE OBERON
174. SEENA OWEN
175. GERALDINE PAGE
176. LILLI PALMER
177. ELEANOR PARKER
178. GAIL PATRICK
179. MARY PICKFORD
180. ZASU PITTS
181. ELEANOR POWELL
182. JANE POWELL
183. MARIE PREVOST
184. EDNA PURVIANCE
185. LUISE RAINER
186. VERA HRUBA RALSTON
187. MARTHA RAYE
188. DONNA REED
189. LEE REMICK
190. ANNE REVERE
191. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
192. THELMA RITTER
193. DAME FLORA ROBSON
194. GINGER ROGERS
195. RUTH ROMAN
196. GAIL RUSSELL
197. JANE RUSSELL
198. ROSALIND RUSSELL
199. ANN RUTHERFORD
200. LIZABETH SCOTT
201. MARTHA SCOTT
202. JEAN SEBERG
203. NORMA SHEARER
204. ANN SHERIDAN
205. DINAH SHORE
206. SYLVIA SIDNEY
207. JEAN SIMMONS
208. SIMONE SIMON
209. PENNY SINGLETON
210. ALEXIS SMITH
211. GALE SONDERGAARD
212. ANN SOTHERN
213. BARBARA STANWYCK
214. GLORIA STUART
215. MARGARET SULLAVAN
216. GLORIA SWANSON
217. BLANCHE SWEET
218. CONSTANCE TALMADGE
219. NORMA TALMADGE
220. JESSICA TANDY
221. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
222. SHIRLEY TEMPLE
223. GENE TIERNEY
224. ANN TODD
225. THELMA TODD
226. CLAIRE TREVOR
227. LANA TURNER
228. HELEN TWELVETREES
229. LUPE VELEZ
230. EVELYN VENABLE
231. VERA-ELLEN
232. ETHEL WATERS
233. MAE WEST
234. PEARL WHITE
235. ESTHER WILLIAMS
236. LOIS WILSON
237. MARIE WILSON
238. MARIE WINDSOR
239. SHELLEY WINTERS
240. ESTELLE WINWOOD
241. JANE WITHERS
242. ANNA MAY WONG
243. NATALIE WOOD
244. IRENE WORTH
245. FAY WRAY
246. TERESA WRIGHT
247. JANE WYATT
248. JANE WYMAN
249. CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
250. LORETTA YOUNG
The Best Films of Frank Capra
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. It Happened One Night
4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
5. You Can’t Take it With You
6. Lost Horizon
7. Meet John Doe
8. Arsenic and Old Lace
9. The Bitter Tea of General Yen
10. Lady for a Day
11. American Madness
12. Platinum Blonde
13. The Miracle Woman
The Best Films of John Ford
1. The Searchers
2. Stagecoach
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. The Quiet Man
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6. How Green was My Valley
7. My Darling Clementine
8. Young Mr. Lincoln
9. The Long Voyage Home
10. The Informer
11. Fort Apache
12. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
13. They Were Expendable
14. Wagon Master
15. Mister Roberts
16. 3 Bad Men
17. The Whole Town’s Talking
18. Sergeant Rutledge
19. Rio Grande
20. 3 Godfathers
21. The Horse Soldiers
22. Steamboat ‘Round the Bend
23. The Long Gray Line
24. How The West Was Won
The Best Films of Billy Wilder
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Double Indemnity
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. Stalag 17
6. The Apartment
7. Sabrina
8. The Lost Weekend
9. Ace in the Hole
10. One, Two, Three
11. The Seven Year Itch
12. The Fortune Cookie
13. The Spirit of St. Louis
14. Irma la Douce
15. A Foreign Affair
16. The Major and the Minor
17. Five Graves to Cairo
18. Ninotchka
19. Midnight
20. Ball of Fire
21. People on Sunday
The Best Films of Jean Simmons
1. Spartacus
2. Hamlet
3. Elmer Gantry
4. Black Narcissus
5. Angel Face
6. The Big Country
7. Guys and Dolls
8. Great Expectations
9. Divorce American Style
10. The Robe
4 Star Films 