The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Remake

David Fincher, 2011

The long-awaited Americanized version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo became one of the latest movies to explore the darker side of killers, as if there is a light side. If you like this movie, you should have read all three bestselling books by Stieg Larsson and watched all three movies, the Swedish-Danish versions. The English version is quite interesting once you get past the explicit sex and violence (the Swedish version is worse, I said "not for the squeamish in my review, posted here) and get to the story of Mikael Blombkist (Daniel Craig), a reporter paid by a rich family to find their daughter from 40 years ago.

He gets an assistant in Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), an antisocial, gothic punker who is a brilliant hacker, and together they uncover a hot bed of corruption. Craig is not James Bond in this movie, but he is good. Actress Mara, who was briefly in David Fincher's film The Social Network, about the origins of Facebook, is very good, but I don’t know is she as good as the original Salander played by Noomi Rapace. This is not a family movie, and definitely not a date movie, so they released it around Christmas. Warning: be prepared to see some kinky stuff, things that aren't commonly included in London or Cardiff cinema listings!

Noomi Rapace provided

an angst-laden yet strong

willed performance

as the original Lisbeth

Mara's performance has certainly created a buzz, garnering an Oscar® nomination for best actress (see our list of nominations and predictions here, and director David Fincher is to be commended for being as faithful as possible both to the book and the original Swedish version while still conforming to big Hollywood conventions; but some critics think the original will be better to most people who see both side-by-side. There are a few people who actually have a bad opinion of the original best-selling novel, who think the two movie versions prove that the concept is one example of more dreary style over substance.

In the end, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo requires the viewer to either embrace its dark and sleazy subject matter and atmosphere, or else veer away from it and want some more family oriented cinema instead. If your intent is to see this at times stomach turning thriller, the David Fincher film is probably preferable to the more raw version, since there is a kind of slickness to the direction that makes the dark and twisted road he goes on more palatable to most audiences. Take a more sophisticated cinema fan with you, and hold the popcorn.

David Fincher has become one of my favorite directors, with modern classics like Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Game, and Zodiac to his credit. Here's our post of The Top Ranked Films of David Fincher

2012 Academy Award Nominations

2012 Oscar Nominations (for 2011 films)
My predictions are in gold


Best Picture

“The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
“The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
“The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
“Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
“Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
“Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
“The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
“War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

[Only nine? They could have added Drive, or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]

My personal choice would be The Tree of Life, which currently leads for total awards, 45, to 37 for The Artist.

Actor in a Leading Role

Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”

Actor in a Supporting Role

Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

Actress in a Leading Role

Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain in “The Help” (should have been nominated for The Tree of Life)
Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer in “The Help”

Animated Feature Film

“A Cat in Paris” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
“Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
“Kung Fu Panda 2″ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
“Rango” Gore Verbinski

Art Direction

“The Artist”
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“Hugo”
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
“Midnight in Paris”
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
“War Horse”
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography

The Tree of Life

“The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth
“Hugo” Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki (Incredibly photographed, a work of art)
“War Horse” Janusz Kaminski

The Tree of Life

Costume Design

“Anonymous” Lisy Christl
“The Artist” Mark Bridges
“Hugo” Sandy Powell
“Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor
“W.E.” Arianne Phillips

Directing

The Tree of Life

“The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne
“Hugo” Martin Scorsese
“Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
“The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick

Documentary (Feature)

“Hell and Back Again”
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
“Pina”
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
“Undefeated”
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)

“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement”
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
“God Is the Bigger Elvis”
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
“Incident in New Baghdad”
James Spione
“Saving Face”
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing

The Artist” Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Kevin Tent
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
“Hugo” Thelma Schoonmaker
“Moneyball” Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film

“Bullhead” Belgium
“Footnote” Israel
“In Darkness” Poland
“Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
“A Separation” Iran

Makeup

“Albert Nobbs”
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
“The Iron Lady”
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score)

“The Adventures of Tintin” John Williams
“The Artist” Ludovic Bource
“Hugo” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse” John Williams

Music (Original Song)

“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets”
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from “Rio”
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown; Lyric by Siedah Garrett

The Tree of Life

Short Film (Animated)

“Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
“La Luna” Enrico Casarosa
“A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
“Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)

“Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
“Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
“The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George
“Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
“Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing

“Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce
“Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
“War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
“Hugo”
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
“Moneyball”
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
“War Horse”
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
“Hugo”
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
“Real Steel”
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

“The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
“Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
“The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
“Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay)

“The Artist” Written by Michel Hazanavicius
“Bridesmaids” Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
“Margin Call” Written by J.C. Chandor
“Midnight in Paris” Written by Woody Allen
“A Separation” Written by Asghar Farhadi

The Tree of Life

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Trivia

More Than You Want to Know About The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Probably the most popular children’s film of all time, and listed as the top fantasy by the American Film Institute, the 1939 film was released to mixed reviews (Harvard Lampoon awarded it “worst film of all-time”) and commercial failure (according to some sources, it broke even) after being MGM’s most expensive production up to that time at an estimated four million.

Later, when televisions went into every household, the studio wisely saw a new market, licensing the film for decades beginning in 1956, and recouping it’s original cost, soared into profitability, and developing a new audience from repeated showings on the small screen. The film was the first complete film shown uncut on commercial tv in one evening. After 1959, it was then shown annually for years as a pre-Christmas event, always on the second Sunday in December.

The Original Children’s Literature

The Great and Powerful Oz, as he was known in his own land, actually is the psdeudonym of a character named Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, (who sometimes abbreviated his name: O.Z.P.I.N.H.E.A.D.; then since it read pinhead, he shortened that to simply Oz). He was created by author L. Frank Baum, in his children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). In the book, he appears to each character separately, and in different forms: as a giant head, as a beautiful fairy, as a ball of fire, and as a horrible monster. When he meets them all, he seems invisible, just a disembodied voice.

As the real person, and not a wizard, he was nothing more than a performer in a circus, largely doing magic, who wrote his name Oz on the side of a hot-air balloon, which left Kansas one day and heavy winds blew them away, eventually landing in the Land of Oz. At the time, it had no ruler, so he was seen as sorcerer and made the supreme leader of the land. After he leaves Oz at the end of the book, in subsequent books the scarecrow first rules, then the rightful heir is enthroned, The Princess Ozma, freed from the wicked witch Mombi, to whom she was handed by Oz himself, who saw an opportunity to seize power over the superstitious populace.

Dorothy Gale is blown to Oz by a Kansas tornado, which causes debris to strike her on the head just as the journey begins. Of course, in the book she visits a real fantasy world, but in the film, it’s implied that she is merely in an unconscious coma and dreams up the entire story.

In the fourth Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), Dorothy returns to Oz after visiting cousin Zeb in California, and they are swallowed up by an earthquake and returned to Oz via underground.

In all, Baum wrote 14 Oz books, from the original in 1900, to Glinda of Oz in 1920. In the eighth book, Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), he introduces Oz to mobile phones! The inspiration for the character of Dorothy appears to be Alice in Wonderland, each are little girls who visit fantasy realms. The name came from his niece, Dorothy Louise Gale, who died in infancy.


The Wizard of Oz Film (1939)

Two different musical stage versions of the book were produced in both 1901 and 1902. The latter appeared on Broadway in 1903, and toured the country until 1909.

The celebrated version of the film is actually the third filming of the original novel. Silent versions appeared in 1910 and 1925.

Rights to the film were bought by MGM from Samuel Goldwyn, who wanted it as a vehicle for Eddie Cantor, who was to play the Scarecrow.

According to Wikipedia, there are at least 44 identifiable difference in the 1939 film from the original book. Most notable was that in the books, Oz was a real place, while it was a dream in the film. In a later book, Auntie Em and Uncle Henry take refuge in Oz when they can’t pay the mortgage on the new house built after the tornado removed their first house, which is miraculously intact at the end of the film.

Because fantasy films had not fared well at the box office, it was suggested before filming that the film tone down any references to fantasy or magic.

Screenwriter Herman L. Manckiewicz, who later co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles, turned in the first major screenplay re-write very quickly. At least three other screenwriting ‘teams’ were also hired, each without knowledge of the others, and the final mishmash of everyone’s efforts was eventually worked on by an estimated 17 authors.

The cowardly lion is not a main character in the book, so it has a minor appearance in the 1925 silent film.

Even though Dorothy is a little girl in the books, 16 year old Judy Garland is chosen to play her in the 1939 film, and they had to use either a corset or a brace, depending on whom you read, to suppress her adult breasts and render her flat-chested. This still reportedly didn’t keep the cast from hitting on Judy, especially the actors playing the munchkins. Even as a kid, I thought she was awfully large for a girl, she’s as big as all the men she travels with except for the lion (even though Garland is listed at 4 foot 11 inches). The original choice was Shirley Temple, who was to have been borrowed from Fox in exchange for Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, whose tragic early death made that impossible, allowing Garland to get her big break. The studio originally had her in a blonde wig and heavy makeup. Director George Cukor thankfully forced the studio to let her be more natural.

Judy Garland’s real name was Frances Ethel Gumm, and her nicknames were Joots, Miss Show Business and Baby Gumm. She chose the name Judy from a popular 30's song - or it was chosen for her by Louis B. Mayer, depending on who you read. Her salary was just $500 per week, and the Cairn terrier who played Toto, named Terry, was the only cast member paid less, at $125 per week for it’s trainer Carl Spitz. The film’s credits list the dog as Toto ‘as himself’, not as Terry. She ended up receiving a special 'juvenile' Oscar, a smaller statue, for this performance.

Most of the 124 munchkin actors were from Europe and didn’t speak English, as they could find enough little people in Hollywood. Their voices were dubbed by American actors, then sped up to create their high-pitched sound. This is why the voices don’t appear well-synced at all in the film. It was also rumored that they had wild parties and even orgies, something they later denied.

The Lollipop Guild actors wanted to

give Judy a different kind of treat

Screen dancer Buddy Ebsen was all set to play the tin man, and had an allergic reaction to the makeup made from aluminum. The aluminum powder was breathed into his lungs, coating them, and he ended up in an iron lung in the hospital; this gave him healthy problems throughout his career, and it wasn’t until his role as Jed Clampett on tv’s Beverly Hillbillies that he again achieved any notoriety as a star.

The film was shot entirely on MGM’s sound stages (which is obvious as Oz has little but perfectly flat ground beneath their feet), but the number of sets totalled 94, so they were each destroyed as later sets had to be built on the same stages.

The always popular song Over the Rainbow was originally cut from the film after bad reaction from preview audiences. After all, musically the song stands apart from all the children’s level songs like "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "If I Only Had a Heart", and the adult sentiment of the song hardly seems like that of a little girl. The song was inserted later, and won the Oscar® for best song. As a children’s film, how many kids would be enthralled by that song for three minutes? When I was a kid, we booed any cowboy that kissed a girl or started singing.

One pair of the ruby slippers worn by

Dorothy once sold at auction

for just $10,000

Margaret Hamilton, as the wicked witch, was badly burned on her face and hands during her ball of fire exit from Munchkinland, and had to hospitalized; she didn’t return to the cast for six weeks. The take used in the film is the first one because she was burned on the second take, before she fell through a trap door in the stage, assisted by a malfunctioning elevator. She later refused to ride the broomstick billowing smoke, and her stand-in Betty Danko was injured filming that scene.

At the film’s end, it’s unclear whether her real life Kansas persona, Almira Gulch, is going to get the dog Toto or not, they simply left that out of the plot. As a kid, I was worried that nothing had been done to stop the law from taking the dog. Depending on what account you read, up to three dogs had to play Toto, as two were killed during filming. Personally, other than the jump from the bridge at the wicked witch’s castle, I can’t see where any dog could be injured, unless the flying monkeys fell on it during their many mishaps.

The munchkins, who were paid $50 per week, augmented their parts as the flying monkeys of the wicked witch, getting another $25 per week for those roles. Many were injured as the piano wire suspending them broke during filming, sending several to the hospital. Maybe Toto was smashed during one of these mishaps.

The tail of Bert Lahr, the lion, was also suspended by piano wire and worked by a crewmember from a catwalk above.

The house used in the tornado sequence was a tiny model one, not even a foot wide.

The special effects lost the Oscar® that year to the film The Rains Came, which dramatically recreated a famous tragedy in India in 1916, when a rain-weakened dam burst and flooded an inhabited valley.

The part of the wizard was written for W.C. Fields, who turned it down, basically by demanding so much money the studio never agreed to terms.

I never realized until I went to college that poppies (the source of opium and morpine) sent by the wicked witch, made Dorothy’s troupe fall asleep – while snow (sent by the good witch), the nickname for cocaine, made them wake back up. I’m sure this reference is over the heads of most children, though in Baum’s time both drugs were legal and could be bought cheaply at any pharmacy simply by asking for them. In fact, morphine could be bought in bars, usually for a little more than a shot of whiskey. It’s a wonder anyone could even walk home after a trip to a bar.

It took the art department over a week to settle on the shade of yellow for the brick road, finally settling on a basic yellow available for outdoor painting without any remixing.

The monochrome films of Kansas were actually the last to be filmed. King Vidor filmed these scenes, the sixth director that worked on the film if you count producer Mervyn Leroy, also a well-known director. Rather than hand-tint the film sepia, instead the farmhouse was painted sepia, and the clothes were sepia colored.

Directors Richard Thorpe and Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) were dismissed quickly; the only other director to leave his mark was the famour George Cukor (The Women, My Fair Lady). Main credit went to Victor Fleming, who also was the last director to take over Gone With the Wind the following year.

Not really one of my favorites, even as a child I thought the music and acting were pretty lame, nevertheless the restored version is a masterpiece of color and imaginitive visuals. See my review here at 1000 Dvds to See. I didn't appreciate Judy Garland until I saw her singing blues and jazz much later in her career. My current favorite film of hers is Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, which, for me, has the best Halloween in all of cinema, with bonfires lit in the streets and a fake body thrown on the streetcar tracks. During the Trolley Song, watch for someone yelling out "Hiya, Judy!", causing her to look over but continue the song without missing a beat. This film also features the classic Christmas opp song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". This was the film that brought Judy together with her future husband Vincente Minnelli, father of their daughter Liza.

Director Vincente Minnelli

and daughter Liza.

Top 500 Ranked U.S. Films of All Time

All U.S. Films Ranked in the top 1000
509 Total Films

Some of these films were joint productions, such as A Clockwork Orange and Bridge on the River Kwai (US-UK), and Doctor Zhivago (US-Italy), and I listed all those that were in English, which eliminated Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (US-China-Taiwan). [No, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was thankfully not a U.S. production, it was a joint Italian-Spanish one]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Pictures in Gold won the best picture Oscar®

US Rank - Title (Year) [Director] - Overall Rank in the top 1000
1. Godfather, The (1972) [Coppola, Francis] #1
2. Taxi Driver (1976) [Scorsese, Martin] #3
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Kubrick, Stanley] #4
4. Chinatown (1974) [Polanski, Roman] #5
5. Wizard of Oz, The (1939) [Fleming, Victor] #6
6. Star Wars (A New Hope) (1978) [Lucas, George] #8
7. Modern Times (1936) [Chaplin, Charles] #9
8. Night of The Hunter, The (1955) [Laughton, Charles] #10
9. Citizen Kane (1941) [Welles, Orson] #11
10. Vertigo (1958) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #12

Shelly Winters sleeps with the fish in

Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter

11. Blade Runner (1982) [Scott, Ridley] #13
12. Psycho (1960) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #14
13. Godfather: Part II, The (1974) [Coppola, Francis] #15
14. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) [Capra, Frank] #17

The beginning of Sunset Boulevard

15. Sunset Boulevard (1950) [Wilder, Billy] #19
16. Pulp Fiction (1995) [Tarantino, Quentin] #20
17. Apocalypse Now (1979) [Coppola, Francis] #22
18. Raging Bull (1980) [Scorsese, Martin] #25
19. Goodfellas (1990) [Scorsese, Martin] #26
20. North by Northwest (1959) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #27
21. City Lights (1931) [Chaplin, Charles] #28
22. Schindler's List (1993) [Spielberg, Steven] #30
23. Singin' in the Rain (1952) [Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly] #32
24. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [Spielberg, Steven] #33
25. General, The (1927) [Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman] #35

Anne Baxter butts wills with Bette Davis  in All

About Eve, while Gary Merrill, George

Saunders and Marilyn Monroe watch, a

best picture winner of one of Hollywood's best

26. Touch of Evil (1958) [Welles, Orson] #38
27. All About Eve (1950) [Mankiewicz, Joseph L.] #41
28. On the Waterfront (1954) [Kazan, Elia] #42
29. Sunrise (1927) [Murnau, F.W.] #43 Most artistic picture Oscar
30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) [Forman, Milos] #44

Anthony Hopkins won best actor for best

picture Silence of the Lambs

31. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) [Demme, Jonathan] #47
32. Gold Rush, The (1925) [Chaplin, Charles] #48
33. Fargo (1996) [Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen] #49
34. Alien (1979) [Scott, Ridley] #51
35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) [Leone, Sergio] #52
36. Duck Soup (1933) [McCarey, Leo] #53
37. Notorious (1946) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #54
38. Casablanca (1942) [Curtiz, Michael] #55
39. Barry Lyndon (1975) [Kubrick, Stanley] #56
40. Unforgiven (1992) [Eastwood, Clint] #57
41. Jaws (1975) [Spielberg, Steven] #58
42. Clockwork Orange, A (1971) [Kubrick, Stanley] #59
43. L.A. Confidential (1997) [Hanson, Curtis] #61
44. Rear Window (1954) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #64
45. Searchers, The (1956) [Ford, John] #65
46. Some Like it Hot (1959) [Wilder, Billy] #66
47. Manhattan (1979) [Allen, Woody] #67
48. King Kong (1933) [Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack] #68
49. Sherlock Jr. (1924) [Keaton, Buster] #69
50. Amadeus (1984) [Forman, Milos] #70

Aliens

51. Double Indemnity (1944) [Wilder, Billy] #71
52. Toy Story (1995) [Lasseter, John] #72
53. Aliens (1986) [Cameron, James] #75
54. Annie Hall (1977) [Allen, Woody] #77

Director Peter Jackson

55. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) [Jackson, Peter] #79
56. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) [Frankenheimer, John] #81
57. Apartment, The (1960) [Wilder, Billy] #82
58. Graduate, The (1967) [Nichols, Mike] #84

59. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [Kershner, Irvin] #90
60. Paths of Glory (1957) [Kubrick, Stanley] #91
61. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) [Jackson, Peter] #92
62. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) [Huston, John] #93
63. Shining, The (1980) [Kubrick, Stanley] #94
64. Exorcist, The (1973) [Friedkin, William] #96

American Beauty

65. American Beauty (1999) [Mendes, Sam] #97
66. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [Spielberg, Steven] #100
67. Maltese Falcon, The (1941) [Huston, John] #102
68. Gone with the Wind (1939) [Fleming, Victor] #103
69. Do The Right Thing (1989) [Lee, Spike] #105
70. High Noon (1952) [Zinnemann, Fred] #106
71. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) [Ford, John] #107
72. Saving Private Ryan (1998) [Spielberg, Steven] #109
73. Days of Heaven (1978) [Malick, Terrence] #110
74. Deer Hunter, The (1978) [Cimino, Michael] #111
75. Conversation, The (1974) [Coppola, Francis] #113
76. 12 Angry Men (1957) [Lumet, Sidney] #116
77. Wild Bunch, The (1969) [Peckinpah, Sam] #117
78. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) [Jackson, Peter] #119
79. Casino (1995) [Scorsese, Martin] #120
80. Mulholland Dr. (2001) [Lynch, David] #122

81. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [Lean, David] #127
82. Terminator, The (1984) [Cameron, James] #128
83. Reservoir Dogs (1991) [Tarantino, Quentin] #129
84. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) [Mulligan, Robert] #130
85. Great Dictator, The (1940) [Chaplin, Charles] #131
86. Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) [Welles, Orson] #132
87. No Country for Old Men (2007) [Coen Ethan and Joel] #133
88. Full Metal Jacket (1987) [Kubrick, Stanley] #135
89. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) [Penn, Arthur] #137

Network

90. Network (1976) [Lumet, Sidney] #138
91. Usual Suspects, The (1995) [Singer, Bryan] #141
92. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) [Ford, John] #144
93. Pickpocket (1959) [Bresson, Robert] #146
94. His Girl Friday (1940) [Hawks, Howard] #147
95. Intolerance (1916) [Griffith, D.W.] #148
96. Lady Eve, The (1941) [Sturges, Preston] #149
97. There Will Be Blood (2007) [Anderson, Paul Thomas] #150
98. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) [Leone, Sergio] #152
99. Rebecca (1940) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #153
100. Big Sleep, The (1946) [Hawks, Howard] #154

Wall-E

101. WALL-E (2008) [Stanton, Andrew] #155
102. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) [Mackendrick, Alexander] #156
103. Strangers on a Train (1951) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #157
104. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) [Kazan, Elia] #158
105. It Happened One Night (1934) [Capra, Frank] #160
106. Greed (1924) [von Stroheim, Erich] #161
107. Birth of a Nation, The (1915) [Griffith, D.W.] #162
108. Rosemary's Baby (1968) [Polanski, Roman] #164
109. Mean Streets (1973) [Scorsese, Martin] #166

Eternal Sunshine

110. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) [Gondry, Michael] #169
111. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) [Hill, George Roy] #173
112. Groundhog Day (1993) [Ramis, Harold] #174
113. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) [Wyler, William] #175
114. Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) [Cassavetes, John] #177
115. Donnie Darko (2001) [Kelly, Richard] #178
116. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) [Lumet, Sidney] #179
117. Toy Story 3 (2010) [Lasseter, John] #180

118. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) [Darabont, Frank] #182
119. Heat (1995) [Mann, Michael] #184
120. Elephant Man, The (1980) [Lynch, David] #185
121. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [Cameron, James] #186
122. Dark Knight, The (2008) [Nolan, Christopher] #189
123. Matrix, The (1999) [Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski] #190
124. Departed, The (2006) [Scorsese, Martin] #191
125. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [Whale, James] #192
126. Blue Velvet (1986) [Lynch, David] #193
127. Memento (2000) [Nolan, Christopher] #195
128. Scarface (1982) [De Palma, Brian] #198

David Fincher and Edward Norton

on the set of Fight Club

129. Fight Club (1999) [Fincher, David] #201
130. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) [Hamer, Robert] #203
131. Easy Rider (1969) [Hopper, Dennis] #204
132. Forrest Gump (1994) [Zemeckis, Robert] #205
133. Hustler, The (1961) [Rossen, Robert] #207
134. This is Spinal Tap (1984) [Reiner, Rob] #208
135. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) [Capra, Frank] #209
136. Boogie Nights (1997) [Anderson, Paul Thomas] #212
137. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) [Allen, Woody] #215
138. Bringing Up Baby (1938) [Hawks, Howard] #217
139. Die Hard (1988) [McTiernan, John] #219

Ben-Hur (1959 remake)

140. Ben-Hur (1959) [Wyler, William] #221
141. Nashville (1975) [Altman, Robert] #224
142. French Connection, The (1971) [Friedkin, William] #225
143. Kid, The (1921) [Chaplin, Charles] #226
144. Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) [Curtiz, Michael/William Keighley] #227
145. Badlands (1973) [Malick, Terrence] #232
146. Halloween (1978) [Carpenter, John] #234
147. Social Network (2010) [Fincher, David] #235
148. Finding Nemo (2003) [Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee] #236

149. Million Dollar Baby (2004) [Eastwood, Clint] #237
150. Killer of Sheep (1977) [Burnett, Charles] #239
151. Palm Beach Story, The (1942) [Sturges, Preston] #242
152. Broken Blossoms (1919) [Griffith, D.W.] #247
153. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) [Hooper, Tobe] #248
154. Incredibles, The (2004) [Bird, Brad] #253
155. Written on the Wind (1956) [Sirk, Douglas] #256
156. Lost in Translation (2003) [Coppola, Sofia] #257
157. Cabaret (1972) [Fosse, Bob] #258
158. Children of Men (2006) [Cuaron, Alfonso] #259
159. Big Lebowski, The (1998) [Coen, Ethan and Joel] #260
160. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #264
161. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) [Ray, Nicholas] #265
162. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) [Milestone, Lewis] #266
163. Night of the Living Dead (1968) [Romero, George A.] #267
164. Truman Show, The (1998) [Weir, Peter] #270
165. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) [Allen, Woody] #271
166. Producers, The (1968) [Brooks, Mel] #274
167. Rocky (1976) [Avildsen, John G.] #276
168. Being John Malkovich (1999) [Jonze, Spike] #278
169. Back to the Future (1985) [Zemeckis, Robert] #281
170. Birds, The (1963) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #282
171. Stagecoach (1939) [Ford, John] #283
172. Tootsie (1982) [Pollack, Sydney] #284

Close Encounters

173. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) [Spielberg, Steven] #285
174. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Scott, Ridley] #287
175. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) [Tarantino, Quentin] #288
176. Black Swan (2010) [Aronofsky, Darren] #289
177. Wrestler, The (2008) [Aronofsky, Darren] #294
178. Out of the Past (1947) [Tourneur, Jacques] #295
179. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) [Hand, David] #298
180. Se7en (1995) [Fincher, David] #300

Inception

181. Inception (2010) [Nolan, Christopher] #302
182. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) [Altman, Robert] #303
183. Rushmore (1998) [Anderson, Wes] #305
184. Up (2009) [Docter, Peter] #306
185. Last Picture Show, The (1971) [Bogdanovich, Peter] #312
186. Patton (1970) [Shaffner, Frank] #314
187. My Darling Clementine (1946) [Ford, John] #315
188. Paris, Texas (1984) [Wenders, Wim] #316
189. Pandora's Box (1928) [Pabst, G.W.] #318
190. Roman Holiday (1953) [Wyler, William] #319
191. Magnolia (1999) [Anderson, Paul Thomas] #320
192. Princess Bride, The (1987) [Reiner, Rob] #321
193. Trouble in Paradise (1932) [Lubitsch, Ernst] #322

Jennifer Connelly and Jared Leto

in Requiem for a Dream

194. Requiem for a Dream (2000) [Aronofsky, Darren] #323
195. Mystic River (2003) [Eastwood, Clint] #324
196. All That Heaven Allows (1955) [Sirk, Douglas] #325
197. West Side Story (1961) [Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins] #329
198. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [Keaton, Buster/Charles F. Reisner] #330
199. To Be or Not to Be (1942) [Lubitsch, Ernst] #331
200. Inglourious Basterds (2009) [Tarantino, Quentin] #332
201. M*A*S*H (1970) [Altman, Robert] #333
202. Brokeback Mountain (2005) [Lee, Ang] #336
203. Pinocchio (1940) [Sharpsteen, Ben & Hamilton Luske] #337
204. Midnight Cowboy (1969) [Schlesinger, John] #338
205. Philadelphia Story, The (1940) [Cukor, George] #340
206. American History X (1998) [Kaye, Tony] #343
207. Rio Bravo (1959) [Hawks, Howard] #346
208. Great Escape, The (1963) [Sturges, John] #353
209. Deliverance (1972) [Boorman, John] #358
210. Five Easy Pieces (1970) [Rafelson, Bob] #359
211. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) [Tarantino, Quentin] #364
212. Killing, The (1956) [Kubrick, Stanley] #366
213. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) [Eastwood, Clint] #367
214. Player, The (1992) [Altman, Robert] #368
215. Red River (1948) [Hawks, Howard] #371

The Thin Red Line

216. Thin Red Line, The (1998) [Malick, Terrence] #373
217. Star Trek (2009) [Abrams, J.J.] #374
218. Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) [Greengrass, Paul] #376
219. Cool Hand Luke (1967) [Rosenberg, Stuart] #377
220. Diner (1982) [Levinson, Barry] #380

221. Sideways (2004) [Payne, Alexander] #381
222. Johnny Guitar (1954) [Ray, Nicholas] #387
223. Eraserhead (1977) [Lynch, David] #388
224. Spartacus (1960) [Kubrick, Stanley] #390
225. In a Lonely Place (1950) [Ray, Nicholas] #392
226. King of Comedy, The (1982) [Scorsese, Martin] #393
227. Freaks (1932) [Browning, Tod] #394
228. Prestige, The (2006) [Nolan, Christopher] #395
229. Laura (1944) [Preminger, Otto] #396
230. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) [Marquand, Richard] #397
231. Top Hat (1935) [Sandrich, Mark] #401
232. Fantasia (1940) [Sharpsteen, Ben] #402
233. Sting, The (1973) [Hill, George Roy] #403
234. Lion King, The (1994) [Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert] #404
235. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) [Preminger, Otto] #405
236. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [Nichols, Mike] #406

237. Shane (1953) [Stevens, George] #407
238. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) [Aldrich, Robert] #410
239. Sin City (2005) [Rodgriguez, Robert] #411
240. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) [Minnelli, Vincente] #412
241. Adaptation (2002) [Jonze, Spike] #416
242. Age of Innocence, The (1993) [Scorsese, Martin] #417
243. Before Sunset (2004) [Linklater, Richard] #418
244. White Heat (1949) [Walsh, Raoul] #421
245. Dead Man (1995) [Jarmusch, Jim] #423
246. Quiet Man, The (1952) [Ford, John] #425
247. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) [Deren, Maya] #426
248. 12 Monkeys (1995) [Gilliam, Terry] #429

Inception

249. Hurt Locker, The (2008) [Bigelow, Kathryn] #430
250. Dawn of the Dead (1978) [Romero, George A.] #433
251. Faces (1968) [Cassavetes, John] #434
252. Night at the Opera, A (1935) [Wood, Sam] #435
253. Gran Torino (2008) [Eastwood, Clint] #436
254. Band Wagon, The (1953) [Minnelli, Vincente] #441
255. Short Cuts (1993) [Altman, Robert] #446
256. Harold and Maude (1971) [Ashby, Hal] #450
257. Shadows (1959) [Cassavetes, John] #451
258. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) [Meyer, Russ] #452
259. All the President's Men (1972) [Pakula, Alan J.] #455
260. Avatar (2009) [Cameron, James] #456
261. Rope (1948) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #457
262. African Queen, The (1951) [Huston, John] #459
263. Star is Born, A (1954) [Cukor, George] #460
264. American Graffiti (1973) [Lucas, George] #461
265. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) [Jarmusch, Jim] #462
266. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) [Edwards, Blake] #463
267. Frankenstein (1931) [Whale, James] #465
268. Barton Fink (1991) [Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen] #467
269. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) [Zemeckis, Robert] #468
270. Ninotchka (1939) [Lubitsch, Ernst] #471

The Asphalt Jungle

271. Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) [Huston, John] #473
272. Lolita (1962) [Kubrick, Stanley] #474
273. Ed Wood (1994) [Burton, Tim] #477
274. Thing, The (1982) [Carpenter, John] #479
275. Toy Story 2 (1999) [Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash] #485
276. Man on Wire (2008) [Marsh, James] #486
277. Sound of Music, The (1965) [Wise, Robert] #488
278. Edward Scissorhands (1990) [Burton, Tim] #489
279. Crumb (1994) [Zwigoff, Terry] #492
280. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) [Anderson, Wes] #493
281. Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) [Scorsese, Martin] #494
282. Evil Dead II (1987) [Raimi, Sam] #497
283. Straight Story, The (1999) [Lynch, David] #498
284. Doctor Zhivago (1965) [Lean, David] #499
285. Crowd, The (1928) [Vidor, King] #501
286. To Have and Have Not (1944) [Hawks, Howard] #505

V For Vendetta

287. V for Vendetta (2005) [McTeigue, James] #506
288. Carrie (1976) [De Palma, Brian] #510
289. 42nd Street (1933) [Bacon, Lloyd] #513
290. Insider, The (1999) [Mann, Michael] #514
291. Awful Truth, The (1937) [McCarey, Leo] #515
292. Gladiator (2000) [Scott, Ridley] #517
293. Scarface (1932) [Hawks, Howard] #518
294. Ghost World (2001) [Zwigoff, Terry] #519
295. Imitation of Life (1959) [Sirk, Douglas] #520
296. Milk (2008) [Van Sant, Gus] #524
297. Sixth Sense, The (1999) [Shyamalan, M. Knight] #526
298. How Green Was My Valley (1941) [Ford, John] #528
299. Traffic (2000) [Soderbergh, Steve] #529
300. Dazed and Confused (1993) [Linklater, Richard] #530
301. After Hours (1985) [Scorsese, Martin] #531
302. Dead Poets Society (1989) [Weir, Peter] #534
303. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) [Hughes, John] #535
304. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) [Anderson, Paul Thomas] #536
305. Beauty and the Beast (1992) [Trousdale, Gary] #542
306. Platoon (1986) [Stone, Oliver] #543

All That Jazz

307. All That Jazz (1979) [Fosse, Bob] #548
308. Point Blank (1967) [Boorman, John] #550
309. Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976) [Cassavetes, John] #552
310. Dirty Harry (1971) [Siegel, Don] #555
311. Being There (1979) [Ashby, Hal] #557
312. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) [Banksy] #558
313. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) [Chaplin, Charles] #560
314. Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) [Lubitsch, Ernst] #561
315. Big Heat, The (1953) [Lang, Fritz] #563
316. sex, lies, and videotape (1989) [Soderberg, Steve] #565
317. Ace in the Hole (1951) [Wilder, Billy] #566
318. Shutter Island (2010) [Scorsese, Martin] #567
319. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) [Kubrick, Stanley] #568
320. Down by Law (1986) [Jarmusch, Jim] #570
321. Stand by Me (1986) [Reiner, Rob] #571
322. Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) [Anderson, Wes] #572
323. East of Eden (1955) [Kazan, Elia] #573

The Thin Red Line

324. Reds (1981) [Beatty, Warren] #574
325. Place in the Sun, A (1951) [Stevens, George] #575
326. An American in Paris (1951) [Minnelli, Vincente] #581
327. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) [Hawks, Howard] #584
328. My Fair Lady (1964) [Cukor, George] #586
329. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) [Peckinpah, Sam] #588
330. Good Will Hunting (1997) [Van Sant, Gus] #589
331. Gosford Park (2001) [Altman, Robert] #593
332. Ben-Hur (1926) [Niblo, Fred] #594
333. Shakespeare in Love (1998) [Madden, John] #595
334. Mildred Pierce (1945) [Curtiz, Michael] #599
335. Nanook of the North (1922) [Flaherty, Robert] #602
336. Winter's Bone (2010) [Granik, Debra] #603

Ginger Rogers and

Fred Astaire

337. Swing Time (1936) [Stevens, George] #604
338. Gimme Shelter (1970) [Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin] #605
339. Tabu (1931) [Murnau, F.W.] #606
340. Now, Voyager (1942) [Rapper, Irving] #609
341. River, The (1951) [Renoir, Jean] #610
342. American Splendor (2003) [Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert] #611
343. Cat People (1942) [Tourneur, Jacques] #615
344. Dead, The (1987) [Huston, John] #616
345. Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) [Welles, Orson] #622
346. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) [Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie] #623
347. Squid and the Whale, The (2005) [Baumbach, Noah ] #624
348. Dumbo (1941) [Sharpsteen, Ben] #625
349. Raising Arizona (1987) [Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen] #626
350. Serious Man, A (2009) [Coen Bros.] #627
351. Green Mile, The (1999) [Darabont, Frank] #628
352. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) [McCarey, Leo] #633
353. Happiness (1998) [Solondz, Todd] #639
354. Detour (1945) [Ulmer, Edgar G.] #643
355. Braveheart (1995) [Gibson, Mel] #648

The Tree of Life

356. Tree of Life, The (2011) [Malick, Terrence] #650
357. Capote (2005) [Miller, Bennett] #652
358. Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) [Wise, Robert] #655
359. Dial M for Murder (1954) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #657
360. Lost Highway (1997) [Lynch, David] #658
361. Juno (2007) [Reitman, Jason] #659
362. Far from Heaven (2002) [Haynes, Todd] #665
363. Scarlet Empress, The (1934) [von Sternberg, Josef] #666
364. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) [Hellman, Monte] #669
365. Fog of War, The (2003) [Morris, Errol] #671
366. Miller's Crossing (1990) [Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen] #673
367. Wind, The (1928) [Sjöström, Victor] #675

The Tree of Life

368. Cameraman, The (1928) [Keaton, Buster/Edward Sedgwick] #677
369. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) [Spielberg, Steven] #679
370. Marnie (1964) [Hitchcock, Alfred] #681
371. Limelight (1952) [Chaplin, Charles] #684
372. United 93 (2006) [Greengrass, Paul] #686
373. Waking Life (anime, 2001) [Linklater, Richard] #687
374. Navigator, The (1924) [Keaton, Buster/Donald Crisp] #688
375. It's a Gift (1934) [McLeod, Norman Z.] #689
376. Superman II (1980) [Donner, Richard] #691
377. Thin Blue Line, The (1988) [Morris, Errol] #692
378. Wedding March, The (1928) [von Stroheim, Erich] #693
379. Leaving Las Vegas (1996) [Figgis, Mike] #699
380. Batman Begins (2005) [Nolan, Christopher] #701
381. Iron Giant, The (1999) [Bird, Brad] #704
382. Sita Sings the Blues (2008) [Paley, Nina] #713
383. Blood Simple (1984) [Coen Bros.] #717
384. Don't Look Back (1967) [Pennebaker, D.A.] #718
385. Reversal of Fortune (1990) [Schroeder, Barbet] #719

The Tree of Life

386. Right Stuff, The (1983) [Kaufman, Philip] #721
387. Straw Dogs (1971) [Peckinpah, Sam] #722
388. Zodiac (2007) [Fincher, David] #723
389. Stop Making Sense (1984) [Demme, Jonathan] #724
390. Frantic (1988) [Polanski, Roman] #725
391. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [Capra, Frank] #727
392. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) [Wilder, Billy] #728
393. My Perestroika (2010) [Hessman, Robin ] #729
394. Snatch (2000) [Ritchie, Guy] #730
395. Capturing the Friedmans (2003) [Jarecki, Andrew] #731
396. Servant, The (1963) [Losey, Joseph] #732
397. Paranoid Park (2007) [Van Sant, Gus] #737
398. Chelsea Girls (1967) [Warhol, Andy] #739
399. Zelig (1983) [Allen, Woody] #741
400. Our Hospitality (1923) [Keaton, Buster/John Blystone] #742
401. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) [Mitchell, John Cameron] #744
402. Up in the Air (2009) [Reitman, Jason] #745
403. Midnight Run (1988) [Brest, Martin] #750
404. Before Sunrise (1995) [Linklater, Richard] #752
405. Bambi (1942) [Hand, David] #753
406. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) [Solondz, Todd ] #754
407. My Voyage to Italy (1999) [Scorsese, Martin] #755
408. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) [Lewis, Joseph H.] #760

The Tree of Life

409. Blow Out (1981) [De Palma, Brian] #762
410. Almost Famous (2000) [Crowe, Cameron] #763
411. Into the Wild (2007) [Penn, Sean] #764
412. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) [Ford, John] #765
413. 4 Little Girls (1997) [Lee, Spike] #769
414. Funny Girl (1968) [Wyler, William] #770
415. Titanic (1997) [Cameron, James] #772
416. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) [Charles, Larry] #774
417. Half Nelson (2006) [Fleck, Ryan] #775
418. No End in Sight (2007) [Ferguson, Charles] #777
419. Goodbye Solo (2008) [Bahrani, Ramin] #779
420. Monsters, Inc. (2001) [Dokter, Unkrich, Silverman] #780
421. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) [Burton, Tim] #781
422. They Were Expendable (1945) [Ford, John] #782
423. In Cold Blood (1967) [Brooks, Richard] #784
424. Love Me Tonight (1932) [Mamoulian, Rouben] #785
425. 127 Hours (2010) [Boyle, Danny] #786
426. Affair to Remember, An (1957) [McCarey, Leo] #791

The Tree of Life

427. Bigger Than Life (1956) [Ray, Nicholas] #793
428. Last Waltz , The (1978) [Scorsese, Martin] #796
429. Superman: The Movie (1978) [Donner, Richard] #797
430. Some Came Running (1958) [Minnelli, Vincente] #800
431. Sense and Sensibility (1995) [Lee, Ang] #804
432. Love Streams (1984) [Cassavetes, John] #808
433. In the Heat of the Night (1967) [Jewison, Norman] #813
434. Inside Job (2010) [Ferguson, Charles] #815
435. Quiz Show (1994) [Redford, Robert] #820
436. 45365 (2009) [Ross, Bill IV] #822
437. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) [Foley, James] #824
438. Little Women (1994) [Armstrong, Gillian] #825
439. Seven Chances (1925) [Keaton, Buster] #826
440. Kids Are All Right, The (2010) [Cholodenko, Lisa ] #831
441. Boys Don't Cry (1999) [Pierce, Kimberly] #834
442. Serpico (1973) [Lumet, Sydney] #837
443. Foolish Wives (1922) [von Stroheim, Erich] #838 (yes, a U.S. production)
444. Tarnation (2003) [Caouette, Jonathan] #846
445. American Movie (1999) [Smith, Chris] #847
446. Murderball (2005) [Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam] #848
447. Blue Valentine (2010) [Cianfrance, Derek] #849
448. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) [Lumet, Sydney] #853
449. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) [DeBlois (Dean), Sanders (Chris)] #854
450. Breaking Away (1979) [Yates, Peter] #857
451. To Die For (1995) [Van Sant, Gus] #858
452. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) [Gilliam, Terry] #860
453. 42 UP (1998) [Apted, Michael] #861
454. Say Anything… (1989) [Crowe, Cameron] #862
455. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) [Ford, John] #865
456. Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) [Sturges, Preston] #868
457. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) [Tourneur, Jacques] #869
458. Cove, The (2009) [Psihoyos, Louie ] #871
459. In the Bedroom (2001) [Field, Todd] #875
460. Devil is a Woman, The (1935) [von Sternberg, Josef] #877
461. Drag Me to Hell (2009) [Raimi, Sam] #881
462. On the Town (1949) [Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly] #885
463. Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) [Allen, Woody] #886
464. Pickup on South Street (1953) [Fuller, Sam] #887
465. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) [Kramer, Stanley] #888

Joel and Ethan Coen

466. True Grit (2010) [Coen Bros.] #889
467. Deliver Us from Evil (2006) [Berg, Amy] #891
468. Circus, The (1928) [Chaplin, Charles] #894
469. High Fidelity (2000) [Frears, Stephen] #896
470. Coraline (2009) [Selick, Henry] #898
471. Grifters, The (1990) [Frears, Stephen] #899
472. Rachel Getting Married (2008) [Demme, Jonathan] #910
473. Party, The (1968) [Edwards, Blake] #914
474. Fugitive, The (1993) [Davis, Andrew] #915

Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock

475. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) [Burns, Rick] #918
476. Before Night Falls (2000) [Schnabel, Julian] #922
477. Children Underground (2001) [Belzberg, Edet] #924
478. Hours, The (2002) [Daldry, Steven] #925
479. Life Aquatic w Steve Zissou (2004) [Anderson, Wes] #926
480. Stalag 17 (1953) [Wilder, Billy] #927
481. You Can Count On Me (2000) [Lonergan, Kenneth] #928
482. There's Always Tomorrow (1956) [Sirk, Douglas] #929
483. JFK (1991) [Stone, Oliver] #931
484. Savages, The (2007) [Jenkins, Tamara] #932
485. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) [Peckinpah, Sam] #937
486. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) [Andersen, Thom] #940
487. Knocked Up (2007) [Apatow, Judd] #941
488. Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) [Minnelli, Vincente] #944
489. Airplane! (1980) [Abrahams, Jim] #952
490. Street Fight (2005) [Curry, Marshall] #953
491. Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) [Selick, Henry] #954
492. O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) [Coen Bros.] #958
493. About Schmidt (2002) [Payne, Alexander] #959
494. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The (2007) [Gordon, Seth] #960
495. Domestic Violence (2001) [Wiseman, Frederick] #962
496. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006) [Demme, Jonathan] #963
497. Last Seduction, The (1993) [Dahl, John] #964
498. Synecdoche, New York (2008) [Kaufman, Charlie] #968
499. Out of Sight (1998) [Soderbergh, Steven] #979
500. Angel (1937) [Lubitsch, Ernst] #980
501. Restrepo (2010) [Hetherington, Tim & Junger, Sebastian] #982
502. Passing Strange (2009) [Lee, Spike] #983

Meek's Cutoff, an enigmatic and

existential western

503. Meek's Cutoff (2010) [Reichardt, Kelly ] #984
504. Paragraph 175 (2000) [Epstein, Rob & Friedman, Jeffrey] #985
505. Sound and Fury (2000) [Aronson, Josh] #987
506. Long Night's Journey Into Day (2001) [Hoffman, Deborah] #988
507. From Here to Eternity (1953) [Zinnemann, Fred] #992
508. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) [Cassavetes, Alexandra ] #997
509. Sling Blade (1996) [Thornton, Billy Bob] #999

2001: A Space Odyssey