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20 from Scorsese's 85-film list
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Citizen KaneThe GodfatherThe Third ManSweet Smell of SuccessApocalypse NowMcCabe & Mrs. Miller+14
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🎬Stanley Kubrick's favorite films
the only top 10 he ever gave anyone, to Cinema magazine in 1963. his words, not mine
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01
I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini
start here if you haven't seen it, this is the one that surprises people most
02
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
one of the three he reportedly never dropped from the list in later years
03
Citizen Kane
04
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
05
City Lights
silent, and it still lands
06
Henry V - Laurence Olivier
Jan Harlan, his producer, said Kubrick later preferred the Branagh version to this one
07
La Notte - Michelangelo Antonioni
08
The Bank Dick - W.C. Fields
the biggest "wait, Kubrick liked THIS?" entry on here
09
Roxie Hart - William Wellman
1942, Ginger Rogers, practically nobody's seen it outside an archive
10
Hell's Angels - Howard Hughes
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