10.1.2000
| Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles | ||
| It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra | ||
| Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone | ||
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| ↑ | Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola | |
| Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood | ||
| N | Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir | |
| N | Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster |
s| ↑ | The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin | |
| The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed | ||
| ↑ | The Searchers (1956) – John Ford | |
| Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| ↓ | Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder | |
| One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder | ||
| 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 | ||
| ↑ | Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen | |
| Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller | ||
| ↓ | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg | |
| Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder | ||
| ↑ | Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen | |
| ↑ | The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan | |
| Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton | ||
| ↑ | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen | |
| ↓ | Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino | |
| N | Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle |
| ↓ | The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin | |
| The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | ||
| ↓ | Horse Feathers (1932) – Norman McLeod | |
| Sons of the Desert (1933) – William A. Seitler | ||
| The Great Dictator (1940) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| N | 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 | ||
| N | To Have and Have Not (1944) – Howard Hawks | |
| The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak | ||
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston | ||
| N | Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder | |
| The African Queen (1951) – John Huston | ||
| N | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise | |
| Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford | ||
| Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| ↓ | Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks | |
| Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards | ||
| N | The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols | |
| N | Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger | |
| The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah | ||
| Bananas (1971) – Woody Allen | ||
| ↓ | Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel | |
| N | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Sidney Lumet | |
| N | The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino | |
| ↓ | The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick | |
| Body Heat (1981) – Lawrence Kasdan | ||
| N | Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott | |
| The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner | ||
| ↓ | Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman | |
| This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner | ||
| Witness (1985) – Peter Weir | ||
| ↓ | Year of the Dragon (1985) – Michael Cimino | |
| Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner | ||
| ↓ | Hellraiser (1987) – Clive Barker | |
| Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven | ||
| N | Dead Poets Society (1989) – Peter Weir | |
| My Left Foot (1989) – Jim Sheridan | ||
| Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton | ||
| Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| N | Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – Adrian Lyne | |
| N | Miami Blues (1990) – George Armitage | |
| Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch | ||
| Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam | ||
| JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone | ||
| Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) – James Cameron | ||
| ↓ | Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley | |
| N | Raising Cain (1992) – Brian De Palma | |
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
| N | Carlito’s Way (1993) – Brian De Palma | |
| N | Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis | |
| N | The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion | |
| ↓ | Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg | |
| Quiz Show (1994) – Robert Redford | ||
| N | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont | |
| Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| N | Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch | |
| N | Dead Man Walking (1995) – Tim Robbins | |
| Dolores Claiborne (1995) – Taylor Hackford | ||
| ↓ | SE7En (1995) – David Fincher | |
| N | Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen | |
| N | Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon | |
| N | Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz | |
| N | The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir | |
| N | The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑= On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 1996 LIST:
Night at the Opera (1935)
High Sierra (1941)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Inspector Palmu’s Error (1960)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Little Big Man (1970)
MASH (1970)
The Sting (1973)
Jaws (1975)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Blues Brothers (1980)
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
The World According to Garp (1982)
Top Secret! (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Into the Night (1985)
The Fly (1986)
Salvador (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Commitments (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
The Snapper (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
High Sierra (1941)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Inspector Palmu’s Error (1960)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Little Big Man (1970)
MASH (1970)
The Sting (1973)
Jaws (1975)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Blues Brothers (1980)
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
The World According to Garp (1982)
Top Secret! (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Into the Night (1985)
The Fly (1986)
Salvador (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Commitments (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
The Snapper (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
5 Martin Scorsese
4 Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Weir
3 Joel Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
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