8.8.2004

Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles | ||
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra | ||
The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed | ||
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean | ||
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone | ||
↑ | Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen | |
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood | ||
Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir | ||
↑ | Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis |

↓ | Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin | |
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford | ||
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder | ||
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
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 | ||
↓ | Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese | |
Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller | ||
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg | ||
↑ | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone | |
Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen | ||
Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton | ||
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster | ||
The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir | ||
Magnolia (1999) – Paul Thomas Anderson | ||
↑ | O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) – Joel Coen |

The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin | ||
The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin | ||
The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | ||
How Green Was My Valley (1941) – John Ford | ||
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston | ||
Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz | ||
To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch | ||
The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak | ||
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston | ||
Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder | ||
The African Queen (1951) – John Huston | ||
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise | ||
Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Vincente Minnelli | ||
The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford | ||
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa | ||
Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks | ||
Touch of Evil (1958) – Orson Welles | ||
Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
↓ | One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder | |
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards | ||
N | The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) – Sergio Leone | |
The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols | ||
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger | ||
The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah | ||
Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel | ||
O Lucky Man! (1973) – Lindsay Anderson | ||
N | Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski | |
The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino | ||
N | Manhattan (1979) – Woody Allen | |
The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner | ||
Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman | ||
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner | ||
N | Back to the Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis | |
Witness (1985) – Peter Weir | ||
Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner | ||
Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder | ||
Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven | ||
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton | ||
Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese | ||
Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – Adrian Lyne | ||
Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch | ||
The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam | ||
JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone | ||
The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan | ||
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley | ||
Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion | ||
Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg | ||
↓ | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen | |
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont | ||
SE7En (1995) – David Fincher | ||
Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen | ||
Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle | ||
Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon | ||
Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz | ||
American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes | ||
↓ | Being John Malkovich (1999) – Spike Jonze | |
The Matrix (1999) – Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | ||
The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan | ||
N | The Straight Story (1999) – David Lynch | |
N | Memento (2000) – Christopher Nolan | |
N | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – Ang Lee | |
N | Amélie (2001) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
N | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Peter Jackson | |
Moulin Rouge (2001) – Baz Luhrmann | ||
N | Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 2002 LIST:
Horse Feathers (1932)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Body Heat (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Hellraiser (1987)
Cape Fear (1991)
Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4 Joel Coen, Alfred Hitchcock
3 Charles Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick,
Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Peter Weir, Billy Wilder
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