David Thomson’s Moments That Made the Movies

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"David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments—which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery—from seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called “a miracle” by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The Big Screen (“a pungently written, brilliant book” according to David Denby), Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text."

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    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    Morocco

    1930, in 9 top lists Check
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    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
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    20,000 Years in Sing Sing

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
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    Dodsworth

    1936, in 9 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Letter

    1940, in 5 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
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    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
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    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
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    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
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    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
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    A Place in the Sun

    1951, in 13 top lists Check
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    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Band Wagon

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
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    A Star Is Born

    1954, in 13 top lists Check
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    Sanshô dayû

    1954 — a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff, in 21 top lists Check
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    Lola Montès

    1955, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 35 top lists Check
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    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
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    Sweet Smell of Success

    1957, in 20 top lists Check
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    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
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    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959, in 12 top lists Check
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    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
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    Hiroshima mon amour

    1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check
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    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
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    Jules et Jim

    1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check
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    El ángel exterminador

    1962 — a.k.a. The Exterminating Angel, in 18 top lists Check
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    Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux

    1962 — a.k.a. Vivre Sa Vie, in 12 top lists Check
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    L'eclisse

    1962 — a.k.a. Eclipse, in 13 top lists Check
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    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
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    Mickey One

    1965, in 1 top list Check
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    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
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    Point Blank

    1967, in 15 top lists Check
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
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    Il conformista

    1970 — a.k.a. The Conformist, in 20 top lists Check
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    Klute

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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    The King of Marvin Gardens

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

    1973, in 9 top lists Check
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