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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    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 1091 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 39 new

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  4. 928 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  5. 647 new

    Midnight in Paris

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
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  8. 405 new

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    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  9. 398 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  10. 192 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  11. 137 new

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    1961, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 311 new

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    1999, in 11 top lists Check
  13. 617 new

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  14. 814 new

    Punch-Drunk Love

    2002, in 12 top lists Check
  15. 1063 new

    True Romance

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  17. 741 new

    On the Waterfront

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  18. 1131 new

    Smultronstället

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  19. 798 new

    Pretty Woman

    1990, in 12 top lists Check
  20. 496 new

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  21. 992 new

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  22. 715 new

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  23. 513 new

    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check
  24. 904 new

    Shakespeare in Love

    1998, in 12 top lists Check
  25. 143 new

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  26. 842 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 237 new

    Days of Heaven

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  28. 442 new

    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  29. 779 new

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  30. 1045 new

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 579 new

    Lolita

    1962, in 11 top lists Check
  32. 141 new

    Brief Encounter

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  33. 151 new

    Cabaret

    1972, in 24 top lists Check
  34. 296 new

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  37. 816 new

    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 138 new

    Breaking the Waves

    1996, in 14 top lists Check
  39. 441 new

    Hiroshima mon amour

    1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check
  40. 843 new

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  41. 94 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  42. 636 new

    Mean Streets

    1973, in 22 top lists Check
  43. 912 new

    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
  44. 559 new

    Leaving Las Vegas

    1995, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 261 new

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  46. 295 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  47. 780 new

    La pianiste

    2001 — a.k.a. The Piano Teacher, in 7 top lists Check
  48. 935 new

    Sleepless in Seattle

    1993, in 8 top lists Check
  49. 633 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  50. 93 new

    La meglio gioventù

    2003 — a.k.a. The Best of Youth, in 12 top lists Check
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