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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Films top movies

This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie. — Author: iCheckMovies

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    L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

    1896 — a.k.a. Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
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    La sortie des usines Lumière

    1895 — a.k.a. Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
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    Le tunnel sous la manche ou Le cauchemar...

    1907 — a.k.a. Tunneling the Channel
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    A Corner in Wheat

    1909
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    The Musketeers of Pig Alley

    1912
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    Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine

    1913
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    The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'

    1914
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    Ditya bolshogo goroda

    1914 — a.k.a. Child of the Big City
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    L'enfant de Paris

    1913
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    The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England

    1914
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    Les vampires

    1915
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    Carmen

    1915
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916
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    Judex

    1916
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    One A.M.

    1916 — a.k.a. Solo
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    Tih Minh

    1918
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    Barrabas

    1919
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    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

    1919 — a.k.a. Scarlet Blossoms
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    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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    Die Austernprinzessin

    1919 — a.k.a. My Lady Margarine
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    True Heart Susie

    1919
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    The Last of the Mohicans

    1920
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    Prästänkan

    1920 — a.k.a. The Witch Woman
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    Die Puppe

    1919 — a.k.a. The Doll
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    Cops

    1922
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    Der müde Tod

    1921 — a.k.a. Between Two Worlds
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    The Kid

    1921
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    Nanook of the North

    1922
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    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime
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    Foolish Wives

    1922
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu the Vampire
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    Orphans of the Storm

    1921
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    Raskolnikow

    1923 — a.k.a. Crime and Punishment
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    La souriante Madame Beudet

    1923 — a.k.a. The Smiling Madame Beudet
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    The Covered Wagon

    1923
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    Three Ages

    1923
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    Ballet mécanique

    1924
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    Greed

    1924
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    L'inhumaine

    1924 — a.k.a. The Inhuman Woman
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    Der letzte Mann

    1924 — a.k.a. The Last Laugh
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    Michael

    1924 — a.k.a. Chained
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    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    1924 — a.k.a. Siegfried's Death
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    Paris qui dort

    1925 — a.k.a. At 3:25
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    Peter Pan

    1924
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    Sherlock Jr.

    1924
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    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike
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    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924
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    The Big Parade

    1925
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    Shakhmatnaya goryachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Chess Fever
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    The Gold Rush

    1925