National Society of Film Critics - 100 Essential Films

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by the National Society of Film Critics (listed alphabetically)

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  1. 1.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  2. 2.
    42nd Street (Snap Case)
    by Lloyd Bacon

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  4. 4.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  5. 5.
    Annie Hall

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  6. 6.
    Ashes and Diamonds - Criterion Collection
    by Andrzej Wajda

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  7. 7.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  8. 8.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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  9. 9.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

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  10. 10.
    The Birth of a Nation

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  11. 11.
    Blow Up
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  12. 12.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  13. 13.
    Breathless

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  14. 14.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

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  15. 15.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  16. 16.
    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
    by Fred Schepisi

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  17. 17.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  18. 18.
    Chinatown

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  19. 19.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  20. 22.
    Close-Up

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  21. 23.
    Dance, Girl, Dance
    by Dorothy Arzner

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  22. 25.
    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  23. 26.
    Diner
    by Barry Levinson

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  24. 28.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  25. 29.
    Double Indemnity [Barbara Stanwyck & Fred Macmurray]
    by Billy Wilder

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  26. 30.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

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  27. 31.
    Easy Rider

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  28. 33.
    The Entertainer
    by Tony Richardson

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  29. 34.
    The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by William Friedkin

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  30. 35.
    Faces - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

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  31. 36.
    Fargo (Special Edition)
    by Joel Coen

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  32. 38.
    The Bride of Frankenstein
    by James Whale

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  33. 39.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  34. 40.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  35. 41.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  36. 42.
    Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

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  37. 43.
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  38. 44.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

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  39. 45.
    Greed
    by Erich von Stroheim

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  40. 46.
    Happy Together

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  41. 47.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  42. 48.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

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  43. 49.
    Jailhouse Rock
    by Richard Thorpe

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  44. 50.
    Ju Dou
    by Fengliang Yang

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Comments

numbering — 2 years ago

The actual list is irritating in that it combines several titles, sometimes not even part of the same series, into a single number. Here’s the breakdown, for anyone that’s curious:

37. both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
39. both Godfather Pt I and Pt II
48. Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, and Red Sorghum
70. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and The World of Apu)
85. La Strada and Nights of Cabiria