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113 landmark films of the silent era through 1999. From Citizen Kane and Casablanca to Seven Samurai, Vertigo, 2001, and The Godfather, a curated guide to the classics that built the language of cinema.
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Citizen Kane
Welles, twenty five, made the film that tops most greatest lists: deep focus photography, overlapping dialogue, and a fractured in...
Casablanca
Of all the gin joints, the luckiest accident in studio history. A wartime script rewritten daily became the most quotable film eve...
Seven Samurai
A starving village hires seven ronin against bandits. Three and a half hours that established the assemble a team plot: The Magnif...
Vertigo
A retired detective with acrophobia falls for a woman he is hired to follow, loses her, refinds her, and remakes her. Vertigo topp...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apes, monoliths, HAL 9000, and a star child. Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke built the most rigorous science fiction film: real space...
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga turned pulp into opera. Marlon Brando mutters, Al Pacino darkens across three hours from war hero to don,...
Psycho
Kill the star halfway through and cinema lost its innocence. Janet Leigh takes the wrong turn off the highway, Anthony Perkins red...
Pulp Fiction
Two hitmen discuss the metric system, a boxer runs from a fixed fight, and chapters fold time into a loop. Tarantino video store d...
The Matrix
A hacker learns reality is a simulation, and leather, bullets, and bullet time ensue. The Wachowskis fused anime, Hong Kong action...