Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

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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.

#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions

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  1. 533 -

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  2. 301 -

    Annie Get Your Gun

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  3. 821 -

    Bird

    1988, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 549 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  5. 154 -

    Cleopatra

    1934, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 904 -

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  7. 184 -

    Detstvo Gorkogo

    1938 — a.k.a. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, in 3 top lists Check
  8. 656 -

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 380 -

    The Eddy Duchin Story

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  10. 678 -

    Edvard Munch

    1974, in 9 top lists Check
  11. 1063 +7

    Find Me Guilty

    2006, in 1 top list Check
  12. 916 -

    From the Journals of Jean Seberg

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  13. 827 -

    Golub

    1988, in 1 top list Check
  14. 940 -

    Great Performances: Robert Altman's Jazz '34

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  15. 1109 new

    Hannah Arendt

    2012, in 1 top list Check
  16. 692 -

    Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland

    1977 — a.k.a. Hitler: A Film from Germany, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 1069 +7

    I'm Not There

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 241 -

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  19. 242 -

    Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor

    1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check
  20. 813 -

    The Last Emperor

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  21. 384 -

    Lola Montès

    1955, in 12 top lists Check
  22. 885 -

    The Long Day Closes

    1992, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 385 -

    The Long Gray Line

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
  24. 848 -

    Mr. Hoover and I

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  25. 1085 new

    Of Time and the City

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 1124 new

    Pasolini

    2014, in 1 top list Check
  27. 84 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 1083 new

    Les plages d'Agnès

    2008 — a.k.a. The Beaches of Agnès, in 6 top lists Check
  29. 558 -

    La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV

    1966 — a.k.a. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, in 6 top lists Check
  30. 173 -

    The Prisoner of Shark Island

    1936, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 866 -

    Ruan Ling Yu

    1991 — a.k.a. Center Stage, in 10 top lists Check
  32. 573 -

    Sayat Nova

    1969 — a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates, in 12 top lists Check
  33. 799 -

    Sherman's March

    1985, in 10 top lists Check
  34. 472 -

    Spartacus

    1960, in 19 top lists Check
  35. 662 -

    Stavisky...

    1974 — a.k.a. L'empire d'Alexandre, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 458 -

    Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas...

    1960 — a.k.a. Testament of Orpheus, in 7 top lists Check
  37. 908 -

    Le tombeau d'Alexandre

    1993 — a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik, in 3 top lists Check
  38. 790 -

    Tóngnián wangshì

    1985 — a.k.a. A Time to Live, a Time to Die, in 8 top lists Check
  39. 818 -

    Walker

    1987, in 2 top lists Check
  40. 899 -

    Xi meng ren sheng

    1993 — a.k.a. The Puppetmaster, in 11 top lists Check
  41. 1018 +7

    Young Mr. Lincoln

    1939, in 8 top lists Check
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Last updated on Feb 27, 2016 by joachimt; source