"Best"? Don't really believe in the concept.
Here is a list I made up a while back of films that might be worthwhile
putting into a general film study curriculum - spurred by the fact that
most filmmaking programs do not have a viewing curriculum.... idiots.
In something resembling alphabetical order:
The 39 Steps
Ace in the Hole
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension
After Dark, My Sweet
Annie Hall
The Apartment
The Birds
Brazil
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
The Conversation
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Double Indemnity
Ed Wood
El Dorado
The Emerald Forest
A Face in the Crowd
A Fish Called Wanda
The Fortune Cookie
The General
Ghostbusters
Gun Crazy
His Girl Friday
The Horse's Mouth
It Happened One Night
The Killing
The Lady Eve
Lady For a Day
The Limey
Love and Death
Manhattan
Meet John Doe
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Near Dark
Night of the Hunter
North by Northwest
Notorious
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Two Three
Our Hospitality
The Palm Beach Story
Peeping Tom
A Perfect World
Point Blank
The Princess Bride
Psycho
Raging Bull
Red River
Sabrina
The Searchers
Seconds
Shadow of a Doubt
Sherlock Jr.
Singles
Soapdish
Some Like It Hot
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Strangers on a Train
Sullivan's Travels
Sunrise
Sunset Boulevard
The Taking of Pelham 123
Targets
Touch of Evil
Twelve Angry Men
Vertigo
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Speed and Time
The World of Henry Orient
Uh.. not all of these are available readily...
...but this should keep you busy, greg. :-)
dha
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