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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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Les vampires
1915, in 14 top lists Check -
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Thief of Bagdad
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 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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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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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 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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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 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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The Public Enemy
1931, in 13 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935, in 19 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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Modern Times
1936, in 30 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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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939, in 16 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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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Bank Dick
1940, in 8 top lists Check -
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Dance, Girl, Dance
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Palm Beach Story
1942, in 14 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 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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Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
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All About Eve
1950, in 25 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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Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Winchester '73
1950, in 7 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 -
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High Noon
1952, in 19 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Tôkyô monogatari
1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check -
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Ugetsu monogatari
1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 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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La strada
1954, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check
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