🎬23 picks from Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite films

He keeps updating the actual list on Letterboxd and MUBI, in his own chronological order. These are the ones I'd start with.

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Nosferatu (1922)

start here for silent horror, still unsettling a century later

The General (1926)

Keaton did his own stunts, no CGI in sight, obviously

Metropolis (1927)

City Lights (1931)

Chaplin, ends on one of the best closing shots ever cut

start here if you've never done a Hitchcock deep dive

North by Northwest (1959)

Psycho (1960)

everyone's already seen clips of this one, still cold in full

The Apartment (1960)

Wilder's quieter one, less quoted than Sunset Boulevard but better

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Kubrick's funniest movie and his bleakest, at the same time

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

The Exorcist (1973)

practical effects only, still the one that gets people on this list

Chinatown (1974)

got its ending rewritten late in production, that rewrite is why the movie works

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Blade Runner (1982)

which cut you watch changes the movie, start with the Final Cut

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The Terminator (1984)

Cameron on a fraction of the sequel's budget, tighter for it

Back to the Future (1985)

Aliens (1986)

swaps genres entirely from the first one and still wins, rare for a sequel

Akira (1988)

animation a lot of modern anime is still trying to catch up to

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

the tension scenes do more work than the violence ever does

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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