The Best Films According to Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema
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In Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema, every director in the book has their full filmography listed, and Sarris italicizes the best films of each director. Here is the full collection of every film italicized in the book (with the exception of Out of the Past, which remains unitalicized likely as an error as he calls it Jacques Torneur's masterpiece).
The book has multiple sections, with who Sarris viewed as the pantheon directors at the top, and slowly dwindling in quality as the list goes down. However, there is merit to be found towards the bottom, as he lists a series of oddities, one-shots, and, at the time, newcomers, as well as subjects for further research.
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Birds
1963, in 18 top lists Check -
170 new
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
172 new
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
1926 — a.k.a. Faust, in 15 top lists Check -
235 new
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962, in 15 top lists Check -
343 new
The Damned
1962 — a.k.a. These Are the Damned, in 2 top lists Check -
553 new
Taste of Fear
1961 — a.k.a. Scream of Fear, in 1 top list Check -
555 new
The Nanny
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
597 new
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
635 new
Cat People
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
636 new
I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
642 new
Night of the Demon
1957 — a.k.a. Curse of the Demon, in 7 top lists Check -
643 new
The Black Cat
1934, in 8 top lists Check -
644 new
Bluebeard
1944, in 1 top list Check -
687 new
The Ghost Goes West
1935, in 1 top list Check -
712 new
Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
713 new
Dance of the Vampires
1967 — a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers, in 4 top lists Check -
714 new
Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
772 new
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931, in 7 top lists Check -
1007 new
The Bad Seed
1956, in 5 top lists Check -
1040 new
Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
1041 new
The Old Dark House
1932, in 5 top lists Check -
1042 new
The Invisible Man
1933, in 8 top lists Check -
1044 new
Bride of Frankenstein
1935, in 19 top lists Check -
1058 new
The Innocents
1961, in 12 top lists Check -
1091 new
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945, in 5 top lists Check -
1125 new
The Body Snatcher
1945, in 2 top lists Check -
1140 new
The Raven
1963, in 1 top list Check -
1141 new
X
1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check -
1142 new
The Masque of the Red Death
1964, in 3 top lists Check -
1159 new
The Thing from Another World
1951, in 7 top lists Check -
1196 new
Dracula
1931, in 11 top lists Check -
1197 new
Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
1198 new
The Devil-Doll
1936, in 2 top lists Check -
1250 new
Körkarlen
1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check -
1293 new
The Lodger
1944, in 2 top lists Check -
1295 new
Hangover Square
1945, in 3 top lists Check -
1312 new
Them!
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
1360 new
The Cat and the Canary
1939, in 2 top lists Check -
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Five
1951, in 0 top lists Check
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