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 Prisoner of Shark Island
1936, in 2 top lists Check -
62 new
The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
63 new
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
69 new
Orphans of the Storm
1921, in 7 top lists Check -
72 new
Abraham Lincoln
1930, in 0 top lists Check -
83 new
Air Force
1943, in 2 top lists Check -
209 new
The Last Command
1928, in 9 top lists Check -
217 new
The Scarlet Empress
1934, in 12 top lists Check -
293 new
Bhowani Junction
1956, in 2 top lists Check -
299 new
The King of Kings
1927, in 3 top lists Check -
300 new
The Sign of the Cross
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
301 new
Cleopatra
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
302 new
The Crusades
1935, in 0 top lists Check -
303 new
The Plainsman
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
304 new
The Buccaneer
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
308 new
Unconquered
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
318 new
I Shot Jesse James
1949, in 1 top list Check -
348 new
Reign of Terror
1949 — a.k.a. The Black Book, in 1 top list Check -
360 new
The Last Frontier
1955, in 0 top lists Check -
397 new
Saint Joan
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
420 new
Captain Lightfoot
1955, in 0 top lists Check -
422 new
Battle Hymn
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
462 new
'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers)
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
491 new
The World in His Arms
1952, in 1 top list Check -
495 new
Band of Angels
1957, in 1 top list Check -
505 new
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960, in 1 top list Check -
529 new
The Iron Mask
1929, in 2 top lists Check -
530 new
Suez
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
531 new
Frontier Marshal
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
592 new
She Done Him Wrong
1933, in 8 top lists Check -
710 new
Der letzte Akt
1955 — a.k.a. The Last Ten Days, in 0 top lists Check -
718 new
Francesco, giullare di Dio
1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check -
723 new
Viva l'Italia!
1961 — a.k.a. Garibaldi, in 0 top lists Check -
725 new
La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV
1966 — a.k.a. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, in 6 top lists Check -
733 new
Senso
1954, in 12 top lists Check -
753 new
Viva Zapata!
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
774 new
Queen Christina
1933, in 3 top lists Check -
783 new
Julius Caesar
1953, in 4 top lists Check -
861 new
A Man for All Seasons
1966, in 14 top lists Check -
893 new
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
921 new
We Are Not Alone
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
953 new
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 — a.k.a. Rommel, Desert Fox, in 1 top list Check -
974 new
That Hamilton Woman
1941 — a.k.a. Lady Hamilton, in 2 top lists Check -
988 new
Kitty
1945, in 0 top lists Check -
1010 new
The War Lord
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
1047 new
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
1056 new
In Cold Blood
1967, in 8 top lists Check -
1105 new
Tom Jones
1963, in 13 top lists Check -
1122 new
The Great Escape
1963, in 14 top lists Check -
1138 new
Marat/Sade
1967, in 1 top list Check
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