Okay, really short Sunday Showdown for me this week due to real writing deadlines coming up and massive amounts of writing that occurred yesterday at the NaNoWriMo all-night write-in.
And believe it or not, I have still not gotten around to watching The Wizard of Oz and Batman Begins – the #10 spot that I was supposed to have done two weeks ago. So this week, I’m going to look at Schindler’s List which shows up as number #8 for AFI and #7 for IMDb.
I’m going to write this on the assumption that everyone has seen that little girl in the red coat at least once. It’s certainly not a feel-good movie, so if you’ve only seen it once, that’s forgivable. (Although: see it again! You’ll be glad you did).
Schindler’s List is heartbreaking, powerful, thought-provoking. Well-deserving of being in the Top Ten.
And, as #8 against IMDb’s 12 Angry Men, there’s just no contest. Honestly, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how 12 Angry Men made it into the top ten, especially for IMDb which tends to veer away from the classics. I mean, yeah, Angry Men is good, and probably deserves to be on the top 100 list somewhere. But in the top ten? Um, no. (As a matter of fact it did not even win as #87 against Inglorious Basterds).
But as #7 against AFI’s Lawrence of Arabia, the decision was much more difficult. I’ve talked about Lawrence of Arabia before. When I watched it again this year I was quite impressed with it. It was much more of a compelling film than my memory had given it credit for.
And for all the good I’ve said about Schindler, there are some not-so-good things too. Words like (dare I say them?): inaccurate, manipulative, spoon-feeding, can come to mind.
So this brings the score to AFI – 49, IMDb – 43. Next week I will hopefully get to #10 The Wizard of Oz vs. The Dark Knight. If not, definitely Vertigo vs. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Although, my pick for that should be no surpise.
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AFI’s Top 100
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IMDb’s Top 100 (as of 1/1/12)
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49
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43
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#6
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Inception (2010)
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#7
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Schindler’s List (1993)
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#8
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Schindler's List (1993)
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12 Angry Men (1957)
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#11 |
City Lights (1931) |
LoTR: Return of the King (2003) |
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#12
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The
Searchers (1956)
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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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#13
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Star Wars (1977)
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Seven
Samurai (1954)
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#14
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Psycho
(1966)
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Star Wars (1977)
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#15
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Goodfellas
(1990)
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#16
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Sunset
Boulevard (1950)
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Casablanca (1942)
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#17
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The
Graduate (1967)
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Fight Club (1999)
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#18
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The General (1927)
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City
of God (2002)
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#19 |
On the Waterfront (1954) |
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
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#20
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It's
a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Rear Window (1954)
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#21
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Chinatown (1974)
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Once
Upon a Time in the West (1968)
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#22 |
Some
Like It Hot (1959)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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#23
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Toy
Story 3 (2010)
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#24
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E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Psycho (1960)
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#25
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To
Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
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#26
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Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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The Matrix (1999)
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#27
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High
Noon (1952)
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Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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#28
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All About Eve (1950)
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Se7en
(1995)
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#29
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Double
Indemnity (1944)
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
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#30
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Memento
(1990)
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#31 |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
LoTR: The Two Towers(2002) |
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#32
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
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Sunset
Boulevard (1950)
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#33
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Dr.
Strangelove (1964)
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#34
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
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Forrest
Gump (1994)
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#35
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Annie
Hall (1977)
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Leon: The Professional (1994)
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#36
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The
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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#37 |
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
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#38 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
North By Northwest (1959) |
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#39 |
Dr. Strangelove (1964) |
American Beauty (1999) |
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#40 |
The Sound of Music (1965) |
American History X (1998) |
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#41 |
King Kong (1933) |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
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#42 |
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
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#43 |
Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
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#44 |
The Philadelphia
Story (1940) |
Vertigo (1958) |
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#45 |
Shane (1953) |
Amelie (2001) |
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#46 |
It Happened One Night (1934) |
Alien (1979) |
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#47 |
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
Wall E (2008) |
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#48 |
Rear Window (1954) |
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
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#49 |
Intolerance (1916) |
The Shining (1980) |
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#50 |
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
Spirited Away (2001) |
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#51 |
West Side Story (1961) |
Paths of Glory (1957) |
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#52 |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
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#53 |
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
Double Indemnity (1944) |
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#54 |
M*A*S*H* (1970) |
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
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#55 |
North by Northwest (1959) |
The Pianist (2002) |
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#56 |
Jaws (1975) |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
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#57 |
Rocky (1976) |
The Departed (2006) |
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#58
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The Gold Rush (1925)
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Memento
(2000)
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#59 |
Nashville (1975) |
City Lights (1931) |
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#60
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Duck
Soup (1933)
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Aliens (1986)
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#61
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Eternal
Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)
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#62
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American
Graffiti (1973)
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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#63
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Cabaret
(1972)
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Das Boot (1981)
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#64
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Network (1976)
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The
Third Man (1949)
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#65
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The African Queen (1951)
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L.A.
Confidential (1997)
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#66
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
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#67
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Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Chinatown (1974)
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#68
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
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#69
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Tootsie
(1982)
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Modern Times (1936)
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#70
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A
Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Life is Beautiful (1997)
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#71
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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Monty
Python & the Holy Grail (1975)
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#72
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Back
to the Future (1985)
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#73
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Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
(1969)
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The
Prestige (2006)
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#74
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Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Pan’s
Labyrinth (2006)
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#75
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In
the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Raging Bull (1980)
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#76
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Forrest
Gump (1994)
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
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#77
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All
the President’s Men (1976)
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Singing In the Rain (1952)
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#78
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Modern
Times (1936)
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Some Like it Hot (1959)
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#79
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The
Wild Bunch (1969)
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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#80
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The
Apartment (1960)
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Rashomon (1950)
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#81
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Spartacus
(1960)
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All About Eve (1950)
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#82
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Amadeus
(1984)
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#83
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Titanic (1997)
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Once
Upon A Time in America (1984)
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#84
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Easy
Rider (1969)
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The Green Mile (1999)
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#85
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A
Night at the Opera (1935)
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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#86
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Platoon (1986)
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2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
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#87
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12
Angry Men (1957)
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Inglorious Basterds (2009)
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#88
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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The
Great Dictator (1940)
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#89
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Sixth Sense (1999)
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Braveheart
(1995)
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#90
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Swing
Time (1936)
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The Bicycle Thief (1948)
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#91
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Sophie’s Choice (1982)
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The
Apartment (1960)
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#92
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Goodfellas
(1990)
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Up (2009)
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#93
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The French Connection (1971)
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Downfall
(2004)
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#94
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Gran
Torino (2008)
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#95
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The
Last Picture Show (1971)
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Metropolis (1927)
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#96
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Do The Right Thing (1989)
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The
Sting (1973)
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#97
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Blade Runner (1982)
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Gladiator
(2000)
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#98
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Yankee
Doodle Dandy (1942)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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#99
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Toy Story (1995)
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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#100
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Ben Hur (1959)
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The
Elephant Man (1980)
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