Samuel Robert Dunn

Film Studies, University of Utah

My favorite fifty plus five, off the top of my head:

  1. Winter Light (1962) .. Ingmar Bergman
  2. Andrei Rublev (1966) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  3. Ordet (1955) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  4. My Darling Clementine (1946) .. John Ford
  5. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
  6. Faust (1926) .. F.W. Murnau
  7. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
  8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
  9. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  10. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  11. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
  12. Wild Strawberries (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
  13. On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
  14. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  15. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) .. Andrzej Wajda
  16. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  17. Singin' in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
  18. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
  19. The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
  20. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  21. 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
  22. The Gold Rush (1925) .. Charles Chaplin
  23. La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
  24. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
  25. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) .. Marcel Carné
  26. Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  27. Mother (1926) .. Vsevolod Pudovkin
  28. L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo
  29. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
  30. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  31. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
  32. La Strada (1954) .. Federico Fellini
  33. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) .. Buster Keaton
  34. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) .. John Ford
  35. All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  36. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  37. The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Franτois Truffaut
  38. His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks
  39. Modern Times (1936) .. Charles Chaplin
  40. Pas de Deux (1968) .. Norman Mclaren
  41. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
  42. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
  43. Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
  44. Gone With the Wind (1939) .. Victor Fleming
  45. Safety Last! (1923) .. Fred Neymeyer & Sam Taylor
  46. Badlands (1973) .. Terrence Malick
  47. The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah
  48. Breaking the Waves (1996) .. Lars von Trier
  49. Diary of a Country Priest (1950) .. Robert Bresson
  50. Babette's Feast (1987) .. Gabriel Axel
    Black Sunday (1960) .. Mario Bava
    Night and Fog (1955) .. Alain Resnais
    Way Down East (1920) .. D.W. Griffith
    The Quiet Man (1952) .. John Ford
    The Lives of Others (2006) .. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

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