Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time

Miguel Sandoval, Spike Lee, and Ossie Davis

Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Criterion Channel

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Spike Lee’s vibrant, vital, thoroughly accomplished third feature is a provocative and intelligent exploration of race and racism that opens with a call to action and ends with a ferocious cry in the face of injustice.

Marlon Brando stars in the Oscar-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy on Paramount+

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Al Pacino is Michael Corleone in the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business in the Oscar-winning trilogy based on the novel by Mario Puzo.

Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic.

Leaving soon: Martin Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ on Max

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Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci star in Scorsese’s violent, dynamic, exhilarating mob thriller, the greatest American gangster movie since Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’

‘Bicycle Thieves’ – an Italian odyssey on Max and Criterion Channel

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Vittorio De Sica directs this classic of life on the streets on Italy in the devastating depression after World War II. It placed in the number 41 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.

Charlie Chaplin takes on ‘Modern Times’ on Max and Criterion Channel

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This silent comedy for the sound era takes on industrialization and Big Brother while bidding farewell the The Little Tramp.

‘The Gold Rush’ – Charlie Chaplin in the frozen North on Max and Criterion Channel

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The Little Tramp goes to Alaska in one of the funniest movies of the silent era, an underdog comedy set against an epic backdrop of snow-covered mountains.

David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Dr.’ on Criterion Channel

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Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.

‘The General’ – Buster Keaton’s one-man Civil War on Prime Video and free on Kanopy

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The Great Stone Face is a Southern engineer who goes behind enemy lines in this epic comedy set during the American Civil War. It’s one of the greatest comedies of all time.

‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ – the definitive version of a visionary film

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, Tubi 03/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott’s visionary reworking of Philip K. Dick’s novel may have flopped when it was released but it has become a science fiction touchstone and has colonized the imaginations of writers, directors, and die-hard fans of science fiction.

‘The Earrings of Madame de…’ – Max Ophuls’ romantic classic on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica star in this elegant drama of romance as an elaborate dance played out in a society where appearances are everything. It placed in the number 90 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.