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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    1970, in 2 top lists Check
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    Deliverance

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    Dementia 13

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    1954, in 9 top lists Check
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    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
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    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
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    Dressed to Kill

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    1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check
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    1997, in 5 top lists Check
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    Jaws

    1975, in 29 top lists Check
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    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  46. 540 new

    Klute

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
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    Lifeboat

    1944, in 2 top lists Check
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    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
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    The Long Goodbye

    1973, in 15 top lists Check
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