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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The Major and the Minor
1942, in 3 top lists Check -
825 new
Five Graves to Cairo
1943, in 4 top lists Check -
826 new
Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
827 new
The Lost Weekend
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
828 new
A Foreign Affair
1948, in 2 top lists Check -
829 new
Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
830 new
Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
831 new
Stalag 17
1953, in 7 top lists Check -
832 new
Love in the Afternoon
1957, in 3 top lists Check -
833 new
Witness for the Prosecution
1957, in 12 top lists Check -
834 new
Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
835 new
The Apartment
1960, in 28 top lists Check -
836 new
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964, in 1 top list Check -
837 new
The Fortune Cookie
1966, in 1 top list Check
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