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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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Exile
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Woman on the Beach
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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A Double Life
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Unconquered
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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T-Men
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Daisy Kenyon
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Man I Love
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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Pursued
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Cheyenne
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ramrod
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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Le silence est d'or
1947 — a.k.a. Man About Town, in 1 top list Check -
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Les maudits
1947 — a.k.a. The Damned, in 0 top lists Check -
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Boomerang!
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
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Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Red House
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dark Passage
1947, in 5 top lists Check -
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Nightmare Alley
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
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13 Rue Madeleine
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Kiss of Death
1947, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Macomber Affair
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Golden Earrings
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Good News
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Brute Force
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
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Johnny O'Clock
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Body and Soul
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
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Ride the Pink Horse
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Brasher Doubloon
1947 — a.k.a. The High Window, in 1 top list Check -
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 — a.k.a. A Woman Destroyed, in 0 top lists Check -
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Deep Valley
1947, in 1 top list Check
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