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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Man of Aran
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Lost Patrol
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Judge Priest
1934, in 3 top lists Check -
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Twentieth Century
1934, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Merry Widow
1934, in 4 top lists Check -
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La signora di tutti
1934 — a.k.a. Everybody's Woman, in 7 top lists Check -
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Madame Bovary
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Scarlet Empress
1934, in 12 top lists Check -
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No Greater Glory
1934, in 1 top list Check -
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Little Man, What Now?
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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Cleopatra
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
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Our Daily Bread
1934, in 3 top lists Check -
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Imitation of Life
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Black Cat
1934, in 8 top lists Check -
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The President Vanishes
1934 — a.k.a. Strange Conspiracy, in 0 top lists Check -
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Of Human Bondage
1934, in 1 top list Check -
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Come On, Marines!
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Witching Hour
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hi, Nellie!
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sweet Adeline
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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One More River
1934 — a.k.a. Over the River, in 0 top lists Check -
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Crime Without Passion
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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David Harum
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Six of a Kind
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Man on the Flying Trapeze
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Belle of the Nineties
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Viva Villa!
1934, in 1 top list Check -
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Treasure Island
1934, in 1 top list Check -
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The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check
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