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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Alternative List to the AFI's
List creator: etaviotal
Created on: March 16, 2008 - 4:52 PM PDT
Description: From Rosenbaum's 1998 article in the Chicago Reader: List-o-mania, Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love American Movies (Films were listed alphabetically only.)

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Ace in the Hole (Criterion Collection) (1951)
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
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Not Rated
Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion) (1959)
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Not Rated
Avanti! (1972)
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The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have The Big Sky (1952, Howard Hawks), Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray), The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Not Rated
Broken Blossoms (1919)
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Not Rated
Cat People/The Curse of the Cat People (1942)
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Not Rated
  (Cat People is the one on the list but The Curse of the Cat People is good too with one of the best performances by a child actor I've ever seen.)
Christmas in July (1940)
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  Green Cine doesn't have Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962, Albert Zugsmith)
Dead Man (1995)
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Do the Right Thing (Criterion Collection) (1989)
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  Green Cine doesn't have The Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternberg), Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974, Thom Andarsen), 11 x 14 (1976, James Benning)
Eraserhead (1977)
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Not Rated
Foolish Wives (1922)
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Not Rated
Force of Evil (1948)
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Not Rated
Freaks (1932)
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Not Rated
The General (Special Edition) (1927)
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
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Not Rated
Gilda (1946)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have The Great Garrick (1937, James Whale), Greed (1925, Erich von Stroheim)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
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Not Rated
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
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  Green Cine doesn't have Housekeeping (1987, Bill Forsyth)
The Hustler (1961)
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Not Rated
Intolerance (1916)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
Judge Priest/Doctor Bull (1934)
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  Judge Priest is the film that is on Rosenbaum's list
Killer of Sheep (Special Edition) (Disc 1 of 2) (1977)
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Killer of Sheep (Special Edition) (Disc 2 of 2) (1977)
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie: 1976 Cut (Criterion Collection) (1976)
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The Killing (Criterion) (1956)
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Not Rated
Kiss Me Deadly (Criterion) (1955)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have The Ladies' Man (1961, Jerry Lewis), I don't think this is a big loss. I actually would prefer to watch the Tim Meadows movie because at least it extols the romantic allure of fish sandwiches.
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost), Laughter (1930, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast), Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls), Lonesome (1929, Paul Fejos)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Love Streams (1984, John Cassavettes), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Man's Castle (1933, Frank Borzage)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
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Not Rated
Mikey & Nicky (1976)
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Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion) (1947)
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Not Rated
The Naked Spur (1953)
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Not Rated
Nanook of the North (Criterion Collection) (1922)
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Not Rated
The Night of the Hunter (Criterion) (1955)
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Not Rated
The Nutty Professor (1963)
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Not Rated
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
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Not Rated
Panic in the Streets (1950)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Park Row (1952, Samuel Fuller)
Point Blank (1967)
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Not Rated
Real Life (1979)
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Scarface (1932)
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Not Rated
Rio Bravo (1959)
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Not Rated
The Scarlet Empress (Criterion Collection) (1934)
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Not Rated
Scarlet Street (1945)
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  Green Cine doesn't have Scenes From Under Childhood (1970, Stan Brakhage), The Scenic Route (1978, Mark Rappaport)
The Seventh Victim/Shadows in the Dark (1943)
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Not Rated
  The Seventh Victim is the one on Rosenbaum's list.
Shadows (Criterion Collection) (1959)
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Our Hospitality/Sherlock, Jr. (1923)
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  Sherlock, Jr. is the one on Rosenbaum's list, but Our Hospitality is a classic too.
The Shooting (1967)
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Not Rated
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have The Sound of Fury / Try and Get Me! (1950, Cy Endfield), Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)
The First Films of Samuel Fuller: The Steel Helmet (Eclipse) (1950)
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Stranger Than Paradise (Criterion) (1984)
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  Green Cine doesn't have The Strawberry Blonde (1941, Raoul Walsh)
Sunrise (1927)
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  Green Cine doesn't have Sylvia Scarlett (1935, George Cukor), The Tarnished Angels (1958, Douglas Sirk)
That's Entertainment! Part 3 (1994)
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  Green Cine doesn't have This Land Is Mine (1943, Jean Renoir), Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg), To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett), Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969, Frank Moser & Paul Terry)
Track of the Cat (1954)
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Not Rated
Trouble in Paradise (Criterion Collection) (1932)
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Not Rated
  Green Cine doesn't have Vinyl (1965, Andy Warhol)
Wanda (1970)
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  Green Cine doesn't have While the City Sleeps (1956, Fritz Lang)
Jayne Mansfield Collection: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) (1970)
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The Wrong Man (1956)
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Not Rated
Zabriskie Point (1970)
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  In his article, Rosenbaum regretted not having room for the movies below on his top 100, acknowledging the inadequacies of such lists.
Adam's Rib (1949)
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Not Rated
Angel Face (1953)
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The Band Wagon (1953)
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Not Rated
Fort Apache (1948)
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Not Rated
Rio Grande (1950)
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Not Rated
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
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Not Rated
Crumb (Criterion) (1994)
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Dog Day Afternoon (Special Edition) (1975)
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
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Not Rated
Family Plot (1976)
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Gun Crazy (1949)
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Not Rated
The Old Dark House (1932)
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Not Rated
Paths of Glory (Criterion) (1957)
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Not Rated
Pickup on South Street (Criterion Collection) (1953)
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Not Rated
Point of Order (1964)
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Rope (1948)
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Safe (1995)
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Salt of the Earth (1954)
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Two-Lane Blacktop (Criterion) (1971)
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The King of Comedy (1983)
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Kundun (1997)
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The Conversation (1974)
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Dumbo (Big Top Edition) (1941)
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  Rosenbaum didn't put the following movies on his list because they were collaborations between American cinema and other countries.
Tabu (1931)
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Not Rated
Luis Bunuel: The Young One (1960)
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Not Rated
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
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Not Rated
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1982)
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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Naked Lunch (Criterion Collection) (1991)
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  These last two were mentioned in passing as good films.
Wild Strawberries (Criterion Collection) (1957)
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Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
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