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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    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 1072 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  3. 807 new

    Prometheus

    2012, in 4 top lists Check
  4. 915 new

    Shutter Island

    2010, in 8 top lists Check
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    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  6. 640 new

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    2000, in 27 top lists Check
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  8. 311 new

    Eyes Wide Shut

    1999, in 11 top lists Check
  9. 994 new

    Super 8

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 299 new

    Eraserhead

    1977, in 20 top lists Check
  11. 691 new

    Mystic River

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  12. 127 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  13. 1091 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  14. 186 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  15. 964 new

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 121 new

    Blow-Up

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    Psycho

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  18. 17 new

    Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

    1965 — a.k.a. Alphaville, in 13 top lists Check
  19. 403 new

    Gosford Park

    2001, in 6 top lists Check
  20. 833 new

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  21. 830 new

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  22. 1019 new

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  23. 100 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  24. 599 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  25. 63 new

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  26. 209 new

    The Conversation

    1974, in 23 top lists Check
  27. 328 new

    A Few Good Men

    1992, in 3 top lists Check
  28. 894 new

    Jodaeiye Nader az Simin

    2011 — a.k.a. A Separation, in 15 top lists Check
  29. 104 new

    Birth

    2004, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 834 new

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  31. 148 new

    Bullitt

    1968, in 11 top lists Check
  32. 536 new

    Kiss Me Deadly

    1955, in 20 top lists Check
  33. 953 new

    Spellbound

    1945, in 7 top lists Check
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    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
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    To Catch a Thief

    1955, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Trouble with Harry

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
  37. 270 new

    Dressed to Kill

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 548 new

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  39. 911 new

    Shock Corridor

    1963, in 14 top lists Check
  40. 31 new

    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959, in 12 top lists Check
  41. 24 new

    American Gigolo

    1980, in 3 top lists Check
  42. 276 new

    Duel

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 608 new

    Made in U.S.A

    1966, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 619 new

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    1934, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 540 new

    Klute

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  46. 129 new

    Body Double

    1984, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 685 new

    Murder on the Orient Express

    1974, in 1 top list Check
  48. 273 new

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, in 14 top lists Check
  49. 476 new

    In a Lonely Place

    1950, in 19 top lists Check
  50. 484 new

    In the Heat of the Night

    1967, in 17 top lists Check
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