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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Only Angels Have Wings
1939, in 10 top lists Check -
85 new
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
103 new
Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
108 new
Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
111 new
Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
113 new
Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
118 new
The Wrong Man
1956, in 8 top lists Check -
141 new
Fury
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
144 new
Hangmen Also Die!
1943, in 4 top lists Check -
145 new
Ministry of Fear
1944, in 3 top lists Check -
146 new
The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
147 new
Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
149 new
The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
181 new
Caught
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
182 new
The Reckless Moment
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
195 new
La bête humaine
1938 — a.k.a. The Human Beast, in 9 top lists Check -
200 new
The Woman on the Beach
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
210 new
The Docks of New York
1928, in 9 top lists Check -
211 new
Thunderbolt
1929, in 1 top list Check -
220 new
The Shanghai Gesture
1941, in 3 top lists Check -
224 new
The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
226 new
Touch of Evil
1958, in 31 top lists Check -
227 new
Mr. Arkadin
1955 — a.k.a. Confidential Report, in 7 top lists Check -
232 new
Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
233 new
The Big Knife
1955, in 3 top lists Check -
256 new
Moonrise
1948, in 4 top lists Check -
284 new
Gaslight
1944, in 12 top lists Check -
285 new
A Double Life
1947, in 1 top list Check -
322 new
Pickup on South Street
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
323 new
House of Bamboo
1955, in 3 top lists Check -
336 new
The Lawless
1950, in 1 top list Check -
337 new
The Prowler
1951, in 4 top lists Check -
338 new
The Big Night
1951, in 1 top list Check -
347 new
T-Men
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
349 new
Border Incident
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
350 new
Side Street
1950, in 2 top lists Check -
389 new
Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
390 new
Fallen Angel
1945, in 2 top lists Check -
392 new
Whirlpool
1950, in 1 top list Check -
393 new
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
394 new
Angel Face
1952, in 5 top lists Check -
403 new
They Live by Night
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
404 new
In a Lonely Place
1950, in 19 top lists Check -
405 new
On Dangerous Ground
1951, in 3 top lists Check -
472 new
The Roaring Twenties
1939, in 8 top lists Check -
473 new
They Drive by Night
1940, in 2 top lists Check -
482 new
The Man I Love
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
487 new
White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
498 new
The Killer Is Loose
1956, in 2 top lists Check -
507 new
Dark Waters
1944, in 1 top list Check
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