Filmically Perfect
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What is a perfect movie you ask? Well it comes from the WYSO radio show Filmically Perfect (available as a free podcast on itunes) where George Willimam (of the Library of Congress Film Archives) and J. Todd Anderson (storyboard artist for the Coen Brothers and many others) along with host Nikki Dakota review movies they consider perfect. The criteria used to choose these movies are 1. A perfect movie creates the world it exists in. 2. A perfect movie sustains that world. And 3. Regardless of changes in society, it retains meaning and entertainment value.
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Gold Diggers of 1933
1933, in 11 top lists Check -
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Brian's Song
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Getaway
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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Young Man with a Horn
1950 — a.k.a. Young Man of Music, in 0 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Man from Laramie
1955, in 5 top lists Check -
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Jailhouse Rock
1957, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Natural
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
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Rabbit of Seville
1950, in 2 top lists Check -
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Carnival of Souls
1962, in 5 top lists Check -
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T-Men
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Loved One
1965, in 2 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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Employees' Entrance
1933, in 1 top list Check -
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White Zombie
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les croix de bois
1932 — a.k.a. Wooden Crosses, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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Los olvidados
1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Music Box
1932, in 9 top lists Check -
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Streets of Fire
1984, in 1 top list Check -
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The California Kid
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Delicatessen
1991, in 15 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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Memento
2000, in 27 top lists Check -
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Mischief
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rabbit Seasoning
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
90 new
What's Opera, Doc?
1957, in 7 top lists Check -
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One Froggy Evening
1955, in 4 top lists Check -
88 new
Duck Amuck
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1952, in 4 top lists Check -
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Down with Love
2003, in 1 top list Check -
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Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Salesman
1969, in 10 top lists Check -
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985, in 4 top lists Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
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8½
1963, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Manchurian Candidate
1962, in 15 top lists Check -
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Winchester '73
1950, in 7 top lists Check -
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938, in 9 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 24, 2012; source