Shane (1953)

Posted on August 6, 2015 by 4 Star Films

Just rewatched this gem from George Stevens. One of the great western classics!

There is often something special about westerns and Shane is no different. Directed by George Stevens and starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, and other great character actors, Shane is simple yet charming. It has many of the qualities of a great movie because of what it shows of mankind. Furthermore, it simply makes you feel good.

In the film Shane (Ladd) is a wandering ex-gunslinger who decides to live with a frontier family as a hired hand. His presence makes everyone happy because he is quiet, humble, and fundamentally so good. However, there is trouble from a man named Riker and his gang. Heflin’s character is adamant he must face the foe and defend his home. Shane will not allow it knowing this is a job for him. The two friends fight it out with Shane winning and riding into town. In the end, he wins the shoot out but more importantly he is…

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2015 Oscar Predictions

Posted on February 22, 2015 by 4 Star Films

BEST PICTURE: BOYHOOD

BEST ACTOR: MICHAEL KEATON

BEST ACTRESS: ROSAMUND PIKE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. SIMMONS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: PATRICIA ARQUETTE

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: BIG HERO 6 (REALLY THE LEGO MOVIE)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: BIRDMAN

COSTUME DESIGN: GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

DIRECTING: BOYHOOD

FILM EDITING: WHIPLASH

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: IDA

MAKEUP AND HAIR-STYLING: GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

MUSIC ORIGINAL SCORE: INTERSTELLAR

MUSIC ORIGINAL SONG: GLORY

PRODUCTION DESIGN: GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

SOUND EDITING: INTERSTELLAR

SOUND MIXING: WHIPLASH

VISUAL EFFECT: INTERSTELLAR

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: THE IMITATION GAME

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: BIRDMAN

Teresa Wright: Unassuming Star of the 1940s

Posted on September 1, 2014 by 4 Star Films

Teresa Wright was a revelation for me when I first saw her. If I can remember correctly I saw her first in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and then Shadow of a Doubt (1943). In their day both films were quite popular and although one was a romantic drama directed by William Wyler and the other a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Wright remained steadfast in both. She is never villainous or petty, but in all circumstances, she exudes kindness. In a more innocent world where the girl next door was the dream, Teresa Wright was the perfect representation.

Although that unfairly suggests that it was all a front and Wright was actually not like that at all in real life. Such things were true of other stars, but I have no indication that they were true of her. She seemed like a genuine and humble person her entire life.

Despite being an Oscar winner* and 3 time Oscar nominee for her first three films (which is unheard of!), Ms. Wright said herself that she “only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.”

She did not need top billing on all the marquees, she was content with just being in the movies. The amazing thing is that she saw success even if it was not what she needed. She was a reluctant star and that makes her even more appealing to audiences.

Her career undoubtedly would have kept on going strong, but she had a disagreement with Samuel Goldwyn and her contract was terminated in 1948. She gladly took less money in her next roles; the falling out came partially because she had a long stipulation in her contract to preserve her modesty.

In other words, swimsuit modeling or shots of her hair flying were not allowed. That was for other stars who were willing to bend to the studio system, but Teresa Wright was not that type of actress. She worked on her own terms.

One performance of hers that I have yet to bring up is her role as Eleanor Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees (1942). I am not one to tear up in movies, but when I watch Wright as she begins to cry, knowing that later her husband (Gary Cooper) will die from ALS, I can barely stand it. I cannot bear anything bad happening to her because she is so innocent, this is not what she deserves, but life can be cruel.

Teresa Wright was the perfect choice for the role, going from moments of light-hearted playfulness to pure anguish. She certainly tugs at the heartstrings and makes the story of the already tragic Lou Gehrig that much more impactful.

Then, I read that Ms. Wright became an avid Yankees fan later in life and I was sold! This actress who I was so enthralled by was also a baseball fan? What more could you want to solidify a legacy.

She even met Babe Ruth and Eleanor Gehrig herself. That’s fantastic!

After she passed away at the age of 86 in 2005, her name was read aloud with other former Yankee players of old. She was always and forever a Yankee, but in the hearts of fans everywhere she was so much more. I hope that many others will discover her like I did back in 2011.

The beauty of her career is that she rose to the apex of Hollywood only to gracefully fade away, content with what she had done.

Her filmography includes:

The Little Foxes (1941) – Starring Bette Davis, Directed by William Wyler

The Pride of the Yankees (1942) – Starring Gary Cooper, Directed by Sam Wood

Mrs. Miniver (1942) – Starring Greer Garson, Directed by William Wyler

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) – Starring Joseph Cotten, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Best Year of Our Lives (1946) – Starring Dana Andrew, Directed by William Wyler

Pursued (1947) – Starring Robert Mitchum, Directed by Raoul Walsh

The Men (1950) – Starring Marlon Brando, Directed by Fred Zinnemann

Inspired by this story (Not this exact article):

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/sports/backtalk-becoming-a-yankee-fan-by-way-of-hollywood.html

Source: IMDb

*She won best supporting actress for the popular WWII drama Mrs. Miniver

Ten Films to Keep an Eye on in 2014!

Posted on August 28, 2014 by 4 Star Films

I could have made one of these lists to open this year, but in all honesty it seemed unnecessary. If you really want to get down to the nitty-gritty, the films that could potentially be up for Oscar contention, you wait until the end of the year. Now as the summer months start waning, the big blockbusters are put on the shelf and many of the major award front runners take center stage.

Here is a list of films that you should keep an eye on because more likely than not at least a few of these titles might be coming away with hardware this next year. Some of them have already been released, but most have yet to be seen. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

1. Boyhood: Richard Linklater’s latest film which was shot over a period of 12 years

2. Interstellar: Christopher Nolan’s next project starring Matthew Mcconaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. With a focus on Space could this be Nolan’s own 2001?

3. Gone Girl: Mystery-thriller directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck (Best Picture for Argo in 2012).

4. Foxcatcher: Wrestling drama starring Channing Tatum and Steve Carell

5. Unbroken: Based on the acclaimed book chronicling the life of Olympic runner and WWII P.O.W. Louis Zamperini (Directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen Brothers).

6. Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film starring Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix.

7. Mr. Turner: Drama based on the life of revolutionary English painter J.M.W. Turner.

8. American Sniper: Clint Eastwood directed film starring Bradley Cooper as a Navy Seal.

9. The Imitation Game: Biographical film with Benedict Cumberbatch starring as WWII code cracker Alan Turing.

10. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson’s latest period piece.

I could not end with just 10 so here are a few more to note:

Into the Woods: Fairy tale Musical starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Anna Kendrick and Johnny Depp.

Birdman: Black comedy with a cast including Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis and Edward Norton.

Big Eyes: Biopic directed by Tim Burton starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.

Knight of Cups: Terence Malick’s next film starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett.

Men, Women & Children: Jason Reitman’s next project including Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner and Emma Thompson.

Mockingjay Part I: Of course everyone knows the Hunger Games but this next installment is worth acknowledging after The epic cliffhanger in Catching Fire.

Last but not least…

Fury / Two Days, One Night / Whiplash / The Immigrant.

Rolling Stone’s 100 Maverick Films

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

1. The Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990, Francis Ford Coppola)

2. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

3. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

5. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

6. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

7. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)

8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)

9. Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)

10. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)

11. King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernst B. Schoedsack)

12. The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)

13. Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)

14. All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

15. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

16. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)

17. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)

18. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)

19. Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)

20. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)

21. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)

22. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)

23. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

24. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)

25. Don’t Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)

26. Gone with the Wind (1939, produced by David O. Selznick)

27. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

28. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

29. Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

30. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)

31. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)

32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman)

33. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)

34. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)

35. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

36. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

37. Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)

38. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)

39. Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)

40. Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)

41. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

42. All the President’s Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)

43. Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)

44. Rebel without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)

45. Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)

46. Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)

47. The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

48. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)

49. Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

50. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)

51. M (1931, Fritz Lang)

52. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

53. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)

54. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)

55. The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio De Sica)

56. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953, Max Ophuls)

57. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)

58. The Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

59. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

60. Breathless (1959, Jean-Luc Godard)

61. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)

62. La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)

63. Viridiana (1961, Luis Bunuel)

64. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

65. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)

66. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

67. Seven Beauties (1976, Lina Wertmuller)

68. Wings of Desire (1988, Wim Wenders)

69. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988, Pedro Almodovar)

70. The Killer (1989, John Woo)

71. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)

72. Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)

73. Quiz Show (1994, Robert Redford)

74. A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)

75. The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)

76. Lost in America (1985, Albert Brooks)

77. The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)

78. White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh)

79. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)

80. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)

81. The Piano (1993, Jane Campion)

82. Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)

83. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)

84. The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)

85. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)

86. Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

87. Diner (1982, Barry Levinson)

88. To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett)

89. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)

90. Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)

91. Lone Star (1996, John Sayles)

92. The Naked Kiss (1964, Samuel Fuller)

93. The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)

94. Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)

95. Dead Ringers (1988, David Cronenberg)

96. My Little Chickadee (1940, Edward Cline)

97. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)

98. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam)

99. Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)

100. Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)

Vanity Fair’s 50 Greatest Films

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

1. All About Eve (Twentieth Century Fox, 1950)

2. Amarcord (F.C. Produzione/P.E.C.F., 1973)

3. Annie Hall (United Artists, 1977)

4. Blow-up (Premier Productions/MGM, 1966)

5. Bonnie and Clyde (Warner Bros., 1967)

6. Breathless (UGC DA International, 1960)

7. Bringing Up Baby (RKO Radio Pictures, 1938)

8. Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1943)

9. Chinatown (Paramount Pictures, 1974)

10. Citizen Kane (RKO Radio Pictures, 1941)

11. The Conformist (Mars Film Produzione, Marianne Productions, Maran Film, 1970)

12. Die Hard (Twentieth Century Fox, 1988)

13. Dirty Harry (Warner Bros., 1971)

14. Double Indemnity (Paramount Pictures, 1944)

15. Dumbo (Walt Disney Pictures/RKO Radio Pictures, 1941)

16. The General (United Artists, 1927)

17. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Paramount Pictures, 1972 and 1974)

18. Goldfinger (United Artists, 1964)

19. The Gold Rush (United Artists, 1925)

20. Gone With the Wind (MGM, 1939)

21. GoodFellas (Warner Bros., 1990)

22. The Graduate (Embassy Pictures, 1967)

23. Grand Illusion (Realisations D’Art Cinematographique, 1937)

24. It Happened One Night (Columbia Pictures, 1934)

25. It’s a Gift (Paramount Pictures, 1934)

26. Jaws (Universal Pictures, 1975)

27. Lawrence of Arabia (Columbia Pictures, 1962)

28. Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945)

29. National Lampoon’s Animal House (Universal Pictures, 1978)

30. North by Northwest (MGM, 1959)

31. Now, Voyager (Warner Bros., 1942)

32. Paths of Glory (United Artists, 1957)

33. Psycho (Paramount Pictures, 1960)

34. Red River (United Artists, 1948)

35. Reds (Paramount Pictures, 1981)

36. Rome, Open City (Excelsa Film, 1945)

37. The Rules of the Game (Nouvelle Edition Francaise, 1939)

38. Seven Samurai (Toho Company, 1954)

39. The Seventh Seal (Svensk Filmindustri, 1957)

40. Singin’ in the Rain (MGM, 1952)

41. Some Like It Hot (United Artists, 1959)

42. Stagecoach (United Artists, 1939)

43. Sullivan’s Travels (Paramount Pictures, 1941)

44. Sunset Boulevard (Paramount Pictures, 1950)

45. Toy Story (Walt Disney Pictures, 1995)

46. Trouble in Paradise (Paramount Pictures, 1932)

47. 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM, 1968)

48. The Wild Bunch (Warner Bros., 1969)

49. The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939)

50. The Women (MGM, 1939)

TV Guide 50 Greatest Films

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

1. The Godfather Part II (1974)

2. Casablanca (1942)

3. Citizen Kane (1941)

4. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

6. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

7. The Godfather (1972)

8. Psycho (1960)

9. Chinatown (1974)

10. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

11. Vertigo (1958)

12. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

13. Pinocchio (1940)

14. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

15. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

16. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

17. Some Like It Hot (1959)

18. The Searchers (1956)

19. Duck Soup (1933)

20. Raging Bull (1980)

21. Annie Hall (1977)

22. Ninotchka (1939)

23. All About Eve (1950)

24. Double Indemnity (1944)

25. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

26. The Exorcist (1973)

27. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Ba… (1980)

28. Gone with the Wind (1939)

29. The Lion King (1994)

30. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

31. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

32. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Wo… (1964)

33. Schindler’s List (1993)

34. Apollo 13 (1995)

35. The African Queen (1951)

36. The Graduate (1967)

37. American Graffiti (1973)

38. Jaws (1975)

39. Laura (1944)

40. On the Waterfront (1954)

41. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

42. Modern Times (1936)

43. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ar… (1981)

44. Babe (1995)

45. Top Hat (1935)

46. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

47. Cabaret (1972)

48. The Quiet Man (1952)

49. Dirty Harry (1971)

50. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Empire’s 100 Best Films of World Cinema

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

1. Seven Samurai
2. Amelie
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. The Bicycle Thief
5. Pan’s Labyrinth
6. The Battle of Algiers
7. City of God
8. The Seventh Seal
9. The Wages of Fear
10. Spirited Away
11. La Dolce Vita
12. Metropolis
13. The Rules of the Game
14. Three Colors Trilogy (Blue/White/Red)
15. Let The Right One In
16. Tokyo Story
17. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali/Aparajito/The World of Apu)
18. Oldboy
19. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
20. Y Tu Mama Tambien
21. Nosferatu
22. Rashomon
23. The Spirit of The Beehive
24. Come and See
25. Das Boot
26. Beauty And The Beast
27. Cinema Paradiso
28. Raise the Red Lantern
29. The 400 Blows
30. Infernal Affairs
31. Godzilla
32. La Haine
33. M
34. Waltz With Bashir
35. The Grand Illusion
36. The Decalogue
37. Rome, Open City
38. Ashes and Diamonds
39. Le Samourai
40. L’Avventura
41. My Neighbour Totoro
42. In the Mood for Love
43. Cyrano de Bergerac
44. Ikiru
45. Suspiria
46. Jules and Jim
47. Ten
48. Downfall
49. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
50. Closely Watched Trains
51. Akira
52. Touki Bouki
53. All About My Mother
54. The Celebration
55. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
56. Belle de Jour
57. Central Station
58. Persepolis
59. Heimat
60. Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources
61. Knife in the Water
62. 8 1/2
63. A Prophet
64. Wings of Desire
65. Un Chien Andalou
66. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
67. The Vanishing
68. Solaris
69. Ringu
70. Hard Boiled
71. Persona
72. Ten Canoes
73. Cache
74. Devdas
75. Breathless
76. The Idiots
77. House of Flying Daggers
78. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
79. Band of Outsiders
80. Mother India
81. The Host
82. Battle Royale
83. Xala
84. Orpheus
85. The Conformist
86. Run Lola Run
87. Andrei Rublev
88. Leningrad Cowboys Go America
89. Loves of a Blonde
90. Rififi
91. Good Bye, Lenin!
92. Ghost in the Shell
93. The Fourth Man
94. Yeelen/Brightness
95. Way Of The Dragon
96. Delicatessen
97. Farewell My Concubine
98. Ran
99. Iron Monkey
100. Night Watch

Village Voice Top 100

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Rules Of The Game (1939)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. The Searchers (1956)
5. The Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
6. Sunrise (1927)
7. L’ Atalante (1934)
8. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
9. Balthazar (1966)
10. Rashomon (1950)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12. The Godfather (1972)
13. Song Of The Little Road (1955)
14. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
15. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
16. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
17. The Word (1955)
18. Intolerance (1916)
19. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
20. Psycho (1960)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. M (1931)
23. The Seven Samurai (1954)
24. Madame de… (1953)
25. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
26. A Man Escaped (1956)
27. Broken Blossoms (1919)
28. Greed (1924)
29. Ugetsu (1953)
30. The Third Man (1949)
31. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
32. The General (1926)
33. The Seventh Seal (1957)
34. Taxi Driver (1967)
35. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
36. Tokyo Story (1953)
37. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
38. City Lights (1931)
39. King Kong (1933)
40. Metropolis (1926)
41. My Life To Live (1962)
42. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
43. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972)
44. Duck Soup (1933)
45. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
46. Barry Lyndon (1975)
47. The 400 Blows (1959)
48. Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928)
49. Contempt (1963)
50. The Gold Rush (1925)
51. North By Northwest (1959)
52. Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
53. The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)
54. The Apu Trilogy (1955-59)
55. Touch Of Evil (1958)
56. A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
57. The Lady Eve (1941)
58. The Conformist (1970)
59. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
60. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
61. Pickpocket (1959)
62. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
63. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
64. Close-Up (1990)
65. The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1965)
66. The Pier (1961)
67. Modern Times (1936)
68. October (1927)
69. The Forgotten Ones (1950)
70. Paisan (1946)
71. Performance (1970)
72. Shoah (1985)
73. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
74. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966)
75. Umberto D (1952)
76. The Vampires (1915)
77. All About Eve (1950)
78. All That Heaven Allows (1956)
79. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
80. Notorious (1946)
81. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
82. Fox And His Friends (1975)
83. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
84. A Trip To The Moon (1902)
85. Wavelength (1967)
86. Ashes And Diamonds (1958)
87. Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
88. The Golden Coach (1952)
89. Salo (1975)
90. Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974)
91. Masculine-Feminine (1966)
92. Nosferatu (1922)
93. Star Wars (1977)
94. Blade Runner (1982)
95. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
96. Jules And Jim (1961)
97. Landscape In The Mist (1968)
98. Mean Streets (1973)
99. Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
100. Suspiria (1977)

100 Greatest Films by TIME Magazine

Posted on August 12, 2014 by 4 Star Films

Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande à part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Camille (1936)

Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE

City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Dodsworth (1936) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
8 1/2 (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)

The Fly (1986)
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
GoodFellas (1990)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It’s A Gift (1934)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léolo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Man With a Camera (1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Miller’s Crossing (1990)

Mon oncle d’Amérique (1980)

Mouchette (1967)
Nayakan (1987)

Ninotchka (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Persona (1966) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pyaasa (1957)
Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Talk to Her (2002) – BEST FILM OF ITS DECADE
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)

White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)