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| Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles | ||
| It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra | ||
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean | ||
| Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone | ||
| N | Deliverance (1972) – John Boorman | |
| Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen | ||
| Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood | ||
| Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir | ||
| Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis |
s| Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| ↓ | The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed | |
| The Searchers (1956) – John Ford | ||
| Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| ↑ | Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| ↑ | Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski | |
| The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| N | Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Milos Forman | ||
| Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| N | Das Boot (1981) – Wolfgang Petersen | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg | ||
| Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone | ||
| Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton | ||
| ↑ | Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen | |
| Magnolia (1999) – Paul Thomas Anderson | ||
| Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch | ||
| N | There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson |
| The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | ||
| Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz | ||
| To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch | ||
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston | ||
| Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks | ||
| Touch of Evil (1958) – Orson Welles | ||
| ↓ | Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder | |
| N | The Apartment (1960) – Billy Wilder | |
| One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder | ||
| Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards | ||
| The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols | ||
| Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger | ||
| The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah | ||
| ↓ | A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick | |
| N | Mccabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) – Robert Altman | |
| N | Harold and Maude (1972) – Hal Ashby | |
| O Lucky Man! (1973) – Lindsay Anderson | ||
| The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino | ||
| N | Alien (1979) – Ridley Scott | |
| Manhattan (1979) – Woody Allen | ||
| The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| ↓ | Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller | |
| Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman | ||
| This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner | ||
| Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner | ||
| Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder | ||
| ↓ | Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen | |
| Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven | ||
| Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton | ||
| Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan | ||
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
| The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion | ||
| Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg | ||
| ↓ | Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino | |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont | ||
| SE7En (1995) – David Fincher | ||
| ↓ | Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster | |
| Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle | ||
| N | The Ice Storm (1997) – Ang Lee | |
| Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon | ||
| Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz | ||
| ↓ | The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir | |
| Being John Malkovich (1999) – Spike Jonze | ||
| The Matrix (1999) – Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | ||
| The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan | ||
| The Straight Story (1999) – David Lynch | ||
| O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) – Joel Coen | ||
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – Ang Lee | ||
| Amélie (2001) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet | ||
| N | Lantana (2001) – Ray Lawrence | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Peter Jackson | ||
| Moulin Rouge (2001) – Baz Luhrmann | ||
| N | The Pledge (2001) – Sean Penn | |
| N | Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002) – Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | |
| N | Gangs of New York (2002) – Martin Scorsese | |
| N | Capturing the Friedmans (2003) – Andrew Jarecki | |
| N | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – Michel Gondry | |
| N | Brokeback Mountain (2005) – Ang Lee | |
| N | Into the Wild (2007) – Sean Penn | |
| N | Wall-E (2008) – Andrew Stanton |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 2004 LIST:
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Killers (1946)
The African Queen (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Man With Two Brains (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
Witness (1985)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
The Fisher King (1991)
JFK (1991)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
American Beauty (1999)
Memento (2001)
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4 Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
3 Charles Chaplin, Joel Coen, Francis Ford Coppola
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