Posted by Bytes on 07/01/06 22:44

Critic's and filmmaker's picks of new DVDs:

1 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA
2 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA
3 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France
4 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA
5 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA
6 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA
7 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA
8 Yi Yi 2000 Yang, Edward Taiwan / Japan
9 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA
10 Viridiana 1961 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / Spain
11 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA
12 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA
13 Platoon 1986 Stone, Oliver USA
14 Crumb 1994 Zwigoff, Terry USA
15 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Lee, Ang USA
16 Dumbo 1941 Sharpsteen, Ben / Armstrong, Samuel / Ferguson,
Norman / Jackson, Wilfred / Kinney, Jack / Roberts, Bill USA
17 Moonstruck 1987 Jewison, Norman USA
18 The Informer 1935 Ford, John USA
19 To Have and Have Not 1944 Hawks, Howard USA
20 The Nun's Story 1959 Zinnemann, Fred USA
21 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA
22 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Riefenstahl,
Leni Germany
23 Frenzy 1972 Hitchcock, Alfred UK
24 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki,
Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA
25 Jezebel 1938 Wyler, William USA
26 Munich 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA
27 The Passenger 1975 Antonioni, Michelangelo France / Italy /
USA / Spain
28 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Brooks, Richard USA
29 Swept Away 1974 Wertmüller, Lina Italy
30 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany
31 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Hawks, Howard USA
32 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA
33 Baby Doll 1956 Kazan, Elia USA
34 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Riefenstahl, Leni
Germany
35 The Long Voyage Home 1940 Ford, John USA
36 Blazing Saddles 1974 Brooks, Mel USA
37 Crash 2005 Haggis, Paul USA / Germany
38 Morocco 1930 von Sternberg, Josef USA
39 The Princess Bride 1987 Reiner, Rob USA
40 Delicatessen 1991 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France
41 Petulia 1968 Lester, Richard UK
42 The War Game 1965 Watkins, Peter UK
43 Late Spring 1949 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
44 Out of Sight 1998 Soderbergh, Steven USA
45 Seven Beauties 1975 Wertmüller, Lina Italy
46 Match Point 2005 Allen, Woody UK / USA / Luxembourg
47 Guys and Dolls 1955 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA
48 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 Keighley, William USA
49 Syriana 2005 Gaghan, Stephen USA
50 Harlan County, USA 1976 Kopple, Barbara USA

Full list of new acclaimed DVDs:
http://www.films101.com/dvdrelv.htm

Enjoy!

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