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THE WINNERS OF THE JONATHAN AWARD FOR BEST-LOVED MOVIES OF ALL TIME ARE . . .

10/4/2019

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1926   The General. Directed by Buster Keaton.
1941   Citizen Kane, Directed by Orson Welles.
1968   2001, A Space Odyssey. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
1975   Barry Lyndon. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
1979   Apocalypse Now, Final Cut. Directed by Francis Coppola.
1984   Once Upon a Time in America. Directed by Sergio Leone.
1992   The Long Day Closes. Directed by Terence Davies.
1998   The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick.
2004   The Lord of the Rings, Extended Cut. Directed by Peter Jackson.
2011   The Tree of Life. Directed by Terrence Malick.
 
Some greatest hits and usual suspects up there? Hell yes. Idiosyncratic? I certainly hope so! After all, it is MY list. One of these days I’ll probably issue an expanded version with commentary about each one. That’s a hope, not a promise or threat.
 
The list is not set in stone. Not even paper, for that matter. It is what I think today, and that may change. “The General,” for instance, has been off and on, for I am suspicious of any movie that might seem to romanticize the Old Confederacy. Right now it is back on. The list is ordered by date, which I prefer. If a movie was released in different years, as “Lord of the Rings,” I have used the date of the last one out.
 
The following list of Runners-Up includes a number that have from time to time dropped in or out of the Top List. Some may cycle through it again one of these days. If a director appears more than once in the list above (Kubrick, Malick), take that to mean The Collected Works, and additional movies of theirs are not listed below. In some cases below I will allow one movie to stand for many, choosing ones that have been most important to me. Example: Bergman, Hitchcock, Del Toro. For all directors who appear in the list below, please assume that I admire and possibly love others of their works. There are what might seem glaring omissions although they have been important in my life. I think of Antonioni and Fellini. I’m still thinking about them. Others are conscious choices, for in general I simply don’t like their movies even though they are considered great directors. Big examples Buñuel and Godard. There are no women in the list, something that I expect will be soon changing, but there are a couple of transgendered people.
 
Other lists that may turn up one of these days:
Directors I Love.
Movies I Abhor.
Pleasers About Which I Feel No Guilt Whatsoever.
 
RUNNERS-UP:
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1974​1938   Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1942   Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1942   The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1950   All about Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1955   The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1957   Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
1957   The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1960   Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1962   Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1962   Long Day’s Journey into Night (Sidney Lumet)
1962   The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1963   The Leopard, the uncut Italian version (Luchino Visconti)
1967   War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk)
1968   Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1971   Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
1974   Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975   Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
1978   The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
1979   Alien (Ridley Scott)
1980   Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
1981   Wolfen (Michael Wadleigh)
1982   Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1983   Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward . . . (Andrew Dominik)
1987   Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
1988   Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar)
1990   The Godfather Triloby (Francis Coppola)
1993   The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
1997   Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
2001   A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2001   Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
2001   The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
2002   Heaven (Tom Tykwer)
2003   Angels in America (Mike Nichols)
2003   Matrix Trilogy (Wachowski Siblings)
2007   Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2008   Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
2009   Avatar (James Cameron)
2009   Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2010   Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2010   The Social Network (David Fincher)
2012   Cloud Atlas (Wachowski Siblings, Tom Tykwer)
2012   Dark Knight Trilogy, The (Christopher Nolan)
2012   Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
2014   Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
2016   Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
2017   Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
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