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This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.

#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cinema-Necessity-Film-Canons/dp/0801889715

1
69%

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

 

 

2
63%

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

 

 

3
53%

Tunneling the English Channel

 

 

4
58%

A Corner in Wheat

 

 

5
59%

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

 

 

6
54%

The Avenging Conscience

 

 

7
50%

Child of the Big City

 

 

8
55%

The Child of Paris

 

 

9
51%

The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England

 

 

10
69%

The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

 

 

11
55%

A Burlesque on Carmen

 

 

12
71%

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

 

 

13
62%

Judex

 

 

14
62%

One A.M.

 

 

15
62%

Tih Minh

 

 

16
51%

Barrabas

 

 

17
65%

Broken Blossoms

 

 

18
77%

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 

 

19
63%

The Oyster Princess

 

 

20
63%

True Heart Susie

 

 

21
52%

The Last of the Mohicans

 

 

22
65%

The Parson's Widow

 

 

23
71%

The Doll

 

 

24
71%

Cops

 

 

25
69%

Destiny

 

 

26
81%

The Kid

 

 

27
73%

Nanook of the North

 

 

28
73%

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

 

 

29
63%

Foolish Wives

 

 

30
75%

Nosferatu

 

 

31
67%

Orphans of the Storm

 

 

32
48%

Crime and Punishment

 

 

33
60%

The Smiling Madame Beudet

 

 

34
64%

The Covered Wagon

 

 

35
66%

Three Ages

 

 

36
64%

Ballet Mécanique

 

 

37
73%

Greed

 

 

38
64%

L'Inhumaine

 

 

39
74%

The Last Laugh

 

 

40
72%

Michael

 

 

41
78%

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

 

 

42
74%

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

 

 

43
65%

The Crazy Ray

 

 

44
75%

Peter Pan

 

 

45
79%

Sherlock Jr.

 

 

46
75%

Strike

 

 

47
72%

The Thief of Bagdad

 

 

48
76%

The Big Parade

 

 

49
66%

Chess Fever

 

 

50
79%

The Gold Rush

 

 

51
62%

Master of the House

 

 

52
67%

The Merry Widow

 

 

53
79%

Metropolis

 

 

54
75%

Battleship Potemkin

 

 

55
76%

Seven Chances

 

 

56
71%

Tartuffe

 

 

57
67%

By the Law

 

 

58
77%

Faust

 

 

59
50%

Fig Leaves

 

 

60
68%

Moana

 

 

61
67%

Mother

 

 

62
67%

A Page of Madness

 

 

63
58%

The Italian Straw Hat

 

 

64
43%

Charleston Parade

 

 

65
78%

The General

 

 

66
57%

The Three-Sided Mirror

 

 

67
70%

It

 

 

68
71%

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

 

 

69
61%

The Ring

 

 

70
73%

7th Heaven

 

 

71
76%

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

 

 

72
69%

L'Argent

 

 

73
78%

The Cameraman

 

 

74
71%

Un Chien Andalou

 

 

75
66%

The Fall of the House of Usher

 

 

76
76%

The Crowd

 

 

77
71%

The Docks of New York

 

 

78
61%

Leave 'Em Laughing

 

 

79
78%

The Passion of Joan of Arc

 

 

80
68%

The Little Match Girl

 

 

81
59%

Queen Kelly

 

 

82
72%

Spies

 

 

83
62%

Two Tars

 

 

84
64%

Arsenal

 

 

85
61%

Black and Tan

 

 

86
69%

Blackmail

 

 

87
50%

Dynamite

 

 

88
65%

The General Line

 

 

89
62%

Hallelujah

 

 

90
73%

Lonesome

 

 

91
66%

The Love Parade

 

 

92
80%

Man with a Movie Camera

 

 

93
58%

The New Babylon

 

 

94
56%

Thunderbolt

 

 

95
69%

L'Âge d'or

 

 

96
77%

All Quiet on the Western Front

 

 

97
74%

The Blue Angel

 

 

98
65%

Earth

 

 

99
59%

Her Man

 

 

100
60%

Laughter

 

 

101
57%

Monte Carlo

 

 

102
66%

Under the Roofs of Paris

 

 

103
71%

Tabu

 

 

104
60%

That Night's Wife

 

 

105
71%

Blonde Crazy

 

 

106
75%

The Champ

 

 

107
78%

La Chienne

 

 

108
81%

City Lights

 

 

109
74%

Dishonored

 

 

110
60%

Enthusiasm

 

 

111
80%

M

 

 

112
71%

Broken Lullaby

 

 

113
60%

Night at the Crossroads

 

 

114
63%

Philips-Radio

 

 

115
51%

The Struggle

 

 

116
70%

Boudu Saved from Drowning

 

 

117
76%

Freaks

 

 

118
74%

Horse Feathers

 

 

119
67%

Land Without Bread

 

 

120
50%

Ivan

 

 

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