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sight and sound's greatest films of all time: the 2022 top 20
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- 01Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- 02Vertigo
- 03Citizen Kane
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🎞️20 from Scorsese's 85-film list
Martin Scorsese named 85 films in a 2012 Fast Company interview. These are the 20 I'd make someone watch first - his words, not mine on which ones matter.
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01
Citizen Kane
02
The Godfather
03
The Third Man
zither score by Anton Karas, still unlike anything else
04
Sweet Smell of Success
Tony Curtis playing pure sleaze. start here if noir's new to you
05
Apocalypse Now
06
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Altman anti-western, Leonard Cohen on the soundtrack the whole time
07
The Conversation
Coppola, same year as Godfather Part II somehow
08
Klute
09
Peeping Tom
killed Michael Powell's career in 1960, reputation flipped decades later
10
Nashville
24 characters. don't try to track them all on the first watch
11
Midnight Cowboy
12
The Red Shoes
Powell & Pressburger, Technicolor ballet drama, 1948
13
Touch of Evil
Welles's opening long take, still the reference for one-take openers
14
Cape Fear
not the one Scorsese remade - the 1962 original with Gregory Peck
15
Rome, Open City
shot in 1945 while the war was barely over. it looks it
16
The Leopard
17
Do the Right Thing
hottest day in Brooklyn, still the best one-day movie
18
Mishima
Paul Schrader on Yukio Mishima, the deep cut on this list
19
Born on the Fourth of July
20
Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder's meanest movie. media cynicism before it had a name
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