The Big Screen - The Story of the Movies (2012) - David Thomson

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All films mentioned in Thomson's book.

+ "Band of Brothers", "Berlin Alexanderplatz", "Boardwalk Empire", "Brideshead Revisited", "Deadwood", "Dexter", "Downtown Abbey", "I Love Lucy", "John Adams", "Mad Men", "Mission: Impossible", "Monty Python's Flying Circus", "Perry Mason", "Rawhide", "Sex and the City", "Six Feet Under", "The Sopranos", "Starsky and Hutch", "Star Trek", "True Blood", "24", "Twin Peaks", "The Wire", "The World at War" and "You Bet Your Life" among other TV-(mini)series.

Also included are "Cathy Come Home" and "The Century of the Self".

ISBN: 978-0-374-53413-4

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    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 480 new

    Inglourious Basterds

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  3. 393 new

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    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  4. 23 new

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  5. 199 new

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  8. 1065 new

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  9. 401 new

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    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  10. 735 new

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    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  11. 246 new

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  12. 394 new

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  14. 711 new

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  16. 879 new

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  17. 43 new

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  18. 1014 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  19. 366 new

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  20. 168 new

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    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  21. 589 new

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  22. 940 new

    The Social Network

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  23. 681 new

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  24. 535 new

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    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 190 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  26. 501 new

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    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  27. 883 new

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  28. 39 new

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  29. 19 new

    Amadeus

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  30. 899 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  31. 510 new

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    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  32. 576 new

    Das Leben der Anderen

    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
  33. 993 new

    Sunset Blvd.

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  35. 405 new

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  36. 186 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  37. 650 new

    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 857 new

    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
  39. 827 new

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  40. 863 new

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 558 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  42. 127 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  43. 398 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  44. 643 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  45. 169 new

    Casino

    1995, in 11 top lists Check
  46. 1084 new

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  47. 599 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  48. 949 new

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  49. 667 new

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  50. 243 new

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
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