The A List - National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
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This is the Amazon book description for "The A List", published in 2002:
People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays—most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee—name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up.
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Dekalog
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
102 new
Les vampires
1915, in 14 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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La dolce vita
1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check -
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Nashville
1975, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Thief of Bagdad
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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The Wild Bunch
1969, in 25 top lists Check -
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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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All About Eve
1950, in 25 top lists Check -
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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L.A. Confidential
1997, in 27 top lists Check -
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Il vangelo secondo Matteo
1964 — a.k.a. The Gospel According to St. Matthew, in 14 top lists Check -
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Tôkyô monogatari
1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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Faces
1968, in 11 top lists Check -
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Unforgiven
1992, in 24 top lists Check -
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939, in 16 top lists Check -
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Topio stin omihli
1988 — a.k.a. Landscape in the Mist, in 7 top lists Check -
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Da hong denglong gaogao gua
1991 — a.k.a. Raise the Red Lantern, in 21 top lists Check -
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Pather Panchali
1955, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Exorcist
1973, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Piano
1993, in 14 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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Die Ehe der Maria Braun
1979 — a.k.a. The Marriage of Maria Braun, in 11 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
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Journal d'un curé de campagne
1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check -
74 new
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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Blow-Up
1966, in 20 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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Rebel Without a Cause
1955, in 16 top lists Check -
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Aparajito
1956 — a.k.a. The Unvanquished, in 15 top lists Check -
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Diner
1982, in 7 top lists Check -
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Le notti di Cabiria
1957 — a.k.a. Nights of Cabiria, in 19 top lists Check -
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La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
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