The New Republic's The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
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"We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren’t sure what; then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine’s great passion and come up with a list of history’s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.)
It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. Hoberman changed it from “best” to “most significant” and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists." (The New Republic)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939, in 15 top lists Check -
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La chinoise
1967 — a.k.a. The Chinese, in 5 top lists Check -
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Election
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Candidate
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Great McGinty
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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Born in Flames
1983, in 5 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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Bulworth
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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Wag the Dog
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina...
1973 — a.k.a. Love & Anarchy, in 1 top list Check -
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Khrustalyov, mashinu!
1998 — a.k.a. Khrustalyov, My Car!, in 6 top lists Check -
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The American President
1995, in 1 top list Check -
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Being There
1979, in 15 top lists Check -
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They Live
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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Week End
1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check
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