David Bezanson

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1. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .. William Wyler
3. Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
4. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) .. Norman Jewison
5. The Bank Dick (1940) .. Edward F. Cline
   It's a Gift (1934) .. Norman Z. McLeod
   Tillie and Gus (1933) .. Francis Martin
6. Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean
7. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) .. Yasujiro Ozu
8. Lost Horizon (1937) .. Frank Capra
9. Gone With the Wind (1939) .. Victor Fleming
10. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
11. Notorious (1946) .. Alfred Hitchcock
12. Double Indemnity (1944) .. Billy Wilder
13. La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
14. Bedazzled (1967) .. Stanley Donen
15. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
16. Shane (1953) .. George Stevens
17. The African Queen (1951) .. John Huston
18. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
19. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) .. Robert Mulligan
20. The Last Picture Show (1971) .. Peter Bogdanovich
21. Play It Again, Sam (1972) .. Herbert Ross
22. Serial (1980) .. Bill Persky
23. South Pacific (1958) .. Joshua Logan
24. Network (1976) .. Sidney Lumet
25. A Face in the Crowd (1957) .. Elia Kazan
26. High Noon (1952) .. Fred Zinnemann
27. Groundhog Day (1993) .. Harold Ramis
28. The Lives of Others (2006) .. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
29. Ninotchka (1939) .. Ernst Lubitsch
30. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
31. The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming
32. The Philadelphia Story (1940) .. George Cukor
33. Fort Apache (1948) .. John Ford
34. The Graduate (1967) .. Mike Nichols
35. Gomorrah (2008) .. Matteo Garrone
36. All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
37. Flight of the Condor: Ice, Wind and Fire (1982) .. Michael Andrews
38. Pather Panchali (1955) .. Satyajit Ray
    Aparajito (1956) .. Satyajit Ray
    The World of Apu (1959) .. Satyajit Ray
39. Bringing Up Baby (1938) .. Howard Hawks
40. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) .. Rob Reiner
41. North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
42. My Fair Lady (1964) .. George Cukor
43. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) .. David Hand
    Fantasia (1940) .. various
    Lady and the Tramp (1955) .. Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske
44. Fail-Safe (1964) .. Sidney Lumet
45. WarGames (1983) .. John Badham
46. The Maltese Falcon (1941) .. John Huston
47. Kandahar (2001) .. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
48. Metropolitan (1990) .. Whit Stillman
49. Star Wars (1977) .. George Lucas
    American Graffiti (1973) .. George Lucas
50. The Emerald Forest (1985) .. John Boorman
51. The Cincinnati Kid (1965) .. Norman Jewison
52. Shakespeare in Love (1998) .. John Madden
53. Darling (1965) .. John Schlesinger
54. Deliverance (1972) .. John Boorman
55. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) .. Elia Kazan