9.9.1996

Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin | ||
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles | ||
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra | ||
Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder | ||
↑ | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone | |
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
↑ | Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese | |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg | ||
↑ | Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood | |
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino |

The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin | ||
↑ | Horse Feathers (1932) – Norman McLeod | |
The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed | ||
Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks | ||
N | One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder | |
Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel | ||
The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
↑ | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Milos Forman | |
↓ | Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese | |
The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
↓ | Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller | |
Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman | ||
↑ | Year of the Dragon (1985) – Michael Cimino | |
↓ | Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder | |
Hellraiser (1987) – Clive Barker | ||
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley | ||
Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg | ||
N | Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton | |
N | SE7En (1995) – David Fincher |

↓ | The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin | |
The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | ||
Sons of the Desert (1933) – William A. Seitler | ||
Night at the Opera (1935) – Leo McCarey | ||
The Great Dictator (1940) – Charles Chaplin | ||
High Sierra (1941) – Raoul Walsh | ||
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston | ||
Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz | ||
N | To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch | |
N | Scarlet Street (1945) – Fritz Lang | |
The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak | ||
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston | ||
The African Queen (1951) – John Huston | ||
Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
N | The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Vincente Minnelli | |
N | The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford | |
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
N | Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa | |
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford | ||
N | Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock | |
Inspector Palmu’s Error (1960) – Matti Kassila | ||
Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards | ||
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) – Sergio Leone | ||
The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah | ||
Little Big Man (1970) – Arthur Penn | ||
Mash (1970) – Robert Altman | ||
Bananas (1971) – Woody Allen | ||
The Sting (1973) – George Roy Hill | ||
↓ | Jaws (1975) – Steven Spielberg | |
Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen | ||
↓ | National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) – John Landis | |
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
Blues Brothers (1980) – John Landis | ||
N | Body Heat (1981) – Lawrence Kasdan | |
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) – Steven Spielberg | ||
The World According to Garp (1982) – George Roy Hill | ||
The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner | ||
↓ | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner | |
Top Secret! (1984) – David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker | ||
Back to the Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis | ||
↓ | Into the Night (1985) – John Landis | |
Witness (1985) – Peter Weir | ||
The Fly (1986) – David Cronenberg | ||
Salvador (1986) – Oliver Stone | ||
Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner | ||
Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen | ||
↓ | Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven | |
The Untouchables (1987) – Brian De Palma | ||
My Left Foot (1989) – Jim Sheridan | ||
↓ | Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton | |
N | Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese | |
Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch | ||
Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese | ||
The Commitments (1991) – Alan Parker | ||
The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam | ||
JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone | ||
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Jonathan Demme | ||
↓ | Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) – James Cameron | |
The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan | ||
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) – Michael Mann | ||
Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
In the Line of Fire (1993) – Wolfgang Petersen | ||
The Snapper (1993) – Stephen Frears | ||
Forrest Gump (1994) – Robert Zemeckis | ||
N | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen | |
Quiz Show (1994) – Robert Redford | ||
N | Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese | |
N | Dolores Claiborne (1995) – Taylor Hackford |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 1995 LIST:
To Have and Have Not (1944)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Unknown Soldier (1955)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Graduate (1967)
Pähkähullu Suomi (1967)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Eye of the Needle (1981)
48 Hrs. (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Angel Heart (1987)
House of Games (1987)
Singles (1992)
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
5 Martin Scorsese
3 Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg
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