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...Wizard of Oz (1939). To understand how great this movie is, remember this: Generations of us faithfully watched it on TV once a year, and loved it every time. 3: Badlands (1973). Highly underappreciated -- it's shocking this didn't even make the AFI's list. 2: Citizen Kane (1941). Saying this is a great movie is a little like pointing out that the sky is blue. Still, this is a really great movie. 1: Lawrence of Arabia (1962). No movie has ever taken such advantage of the big screen...
...Badlands (1973). Terence Malick's teenagers-in-love-turn-killers-on-the-road movie, which inspired a thousand imitators. The unheralded gem of American cinema. Raging Bull (1980). The finest sports movie ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep...
...Citizen Kane 2. Casablanca (1943) 3. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Network (1976) 6. Schindler's List (1993) 7. Brazil (1985) 8. Amadeus (1984) 9. The Elephant Man (1981) 10. Fantasia...
...impossible to see this movie too many times. And if you are the right kind of person, it will make you want to go to jail. 9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1981). Bogey and Walter Huston get out in the sun for a real psychological gripper. 10. Citizen Kane (1940). I know, I know, it's number one -- just trying to mix things up a little around here...
What set the Beatles apart, amid all those fabled acts, was their dazzling interpersonal chemistry (showcased to irresistible effect in the 1964 feature film A Hard Day's Night, which critic Andrew Sarris called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox movies"), their novel sound (produced on offbeat--to most Americans--Gretsch, Rickenbacker and Hofner guitars and cranked out through snarly little Vox amplifiers brought over from England) and of course their awesome facility for making ravishing hit records...