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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14 new
The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
22 new
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931, in 11 top lists Check -
28 new
Air Mail
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
30 new
The Lost Patrol
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
37 new
Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
50 new
Mogambo
1953, in 0 top lists Check -
53 new
The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
57 new
The Horse Soldiers
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
60 new
Donovan's Reef
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
78 new
Ceiling Zero
1936, in 1 top list Check -
81 new
Only Angels Have Wings
1939, in 10 top lists Check -
84 new
To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
86 new
Red River
1948, in 17 top lists Check -
91 new
Hatari!
1962, in 3 top lists Check -
120 new
North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
132 new
The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
136 new
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924, in 13 top lists Check -
137 new
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 12 top lists Check -
150 new
Moonfleet
1955, in 4 top lists Check -
179 new
The Exile
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
216 new
Shanghai Express
1932, in 9 top lists Check -
231 new
Vera Cruz
1954, in 2 top lists Check -
237 new
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
238 new
The Dirty Dozen
1967, in 8 top lists Check -
265 new
Lost Horizon
1937, in 6 top lists Check -
278 new
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, &...
1935 — a.k.a. David Copperfield, in 4 top lists Check -
293 new
Bhowani Junction
1956, in 2 top lists Check -
294 new
Heller in Pink Tights
1960, in 1 top list Check -
298 new
Male and Female
1919, in 5 top lists Check -
302 new
The Crusades
1935, in 0 top lists Check -
304 new
The Buccaneer
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
306 new
North West Mounted Police
1940 — a.k.a. Northwest Mounted Police, in 0 top lists Check -
307 new
Reap the Wild Wind
1942, in 0 top lists Check -
308 new
Unconquered
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
315 new
The Great Race
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
328 new
Merrill's Marauders
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
345 new
Modesty Blaise
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
348 new
Reign of Terror
1949 — a.k.a. The Black Book, in 1 top list Check -
353 new
The Tall Target
1951, in 2 top lists Check -
354 new
Bend of the River
1952 — a.k.a. Where the River Bends, in 2 top lists Check -
357 new
The Far Country
1954, in 1 top list Check -
377 new
The Island at the Top of the World
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
378 new
The Pirate
1948, in 3 top lists Check -
395 new
River of No Return
1954, in 1 top list Check -
412 new
Wind Across the Everglades
1958, in 1 top list Check -
413 new
The Savage Innocents
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
415 new
A Scandal in Paris
1946 — a.k.a. Thieves' Holiday, in 0 top lists Check -
420 new
Captain Lightfoot
1955, in 0 top lists Check -
429 new
Gunga Din
1939, in 7 top lists Check -
445 new
Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check
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