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Eyewear's Top 140 Films Of All Time

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Eyewearers may beg to difffer - but here are the Top 140 Eyewear Films Of All Time.  Many are currently available at Amazon for under £10.  Have a good summer of visual pleasure! [editor's note: I have revised and expanded this list from the original 125, after considering the comments sent to me.]




After the Fox
Aliens
Altered States
American Gigolo
An Officer and a Gentleman
Antichrist
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon
Barton Fink
Black Book
Black Narcissus
Blade Runner
Bonnie & Clyde
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Cape Fear
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Colonel Redl
Congo
Cyclo
Darkman
Days of Heaven
Death in Venice
Diamonds Are Forever
Die Hard
Dillinger
Doctor Zhivago
Don't Say a Word
Double Indemnity
Dune
Elmer Gantry
Excalibur
Eyes Wide Shut
Fantastic Voyage
Fargo
Fear Strikes Out
Five Corners
Flash Gordon
Flightplan
Forbidden Planet
French Connection
Gallipoli
Girl, Interrupted
Glorious 39
Good Will Hunting
Gun Crazy
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Henry Fool
Hud
Humoresque
In the Mood for Love
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jennifer's Body
JFK
King Lear
Kiss Me Deadly
L.A. Confidential
Last Year at Marienbad
Lawrence of Arabia
Less Than Zero
Let the Right One In
Looker
Lost in Translation
Lust for Life
Man of Flowers
Matewan
Meet John Doe
Miracle on 34th Street
Mississippi Burning
Modern Times
Mr. Majestyk
North by Northwest
Operation Daybreak
Outland
Papillion
Paris, Texas
Play Time
Pollock
Prick Up Your Ears
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Radio Days
Reds
Report to the Commissioner
Rope
Rushmore
Schindler's List
Sea of Love
Shane
South Pacific
Sunset Boulevard
Taken
Terminator 2 (T2)
The Andromeda Strain
The Battle of Algiers
The Bounty
The Cassandra Crossing
The Consequences of Love
The Conversation
The Day of the Jackal
The Dead Zone
The Fighter
The Fugitive
The Hustler
The Lost Weekend
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Between
The Ministry of Fear
The Odessa File
The Painted Veil
The Player
The Poseidon Adventure
The Red Shoes
The Runaways
The Servant
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Son
The Sound Of Music
The Sun
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Third Man
The Tree of Life
The Trial
The Untouchables
The Year of Living Dangerously
Thunderheart
Titanic
Touch of Evil
Tremors
True Grit
Twilight
Twister
Under The Sand
Unfaithful
Unknown
Vertigo
Wonder Boys
You The Living
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Mark Granier said…
Todd, I know this is a personal choice, but you're pulling the leg, right? Firstly, you forgot to say the list is exclusively Western/English language films. While I can go with a few of these: Apocalypse Now, Death in Venice, Barry Lyndon, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, The Third Man... I am mystified as to why you include such mildly diverting fluff as Die Hard, Diamonds Are Forever, Excalibur and Flash Gordon while leaving out Glengarry Glenross, Scarecrow, The Conversation, Walkabout, Godfather 1 and 2, etc., etc.. Like yourself, I enjoy spooky movies such as Dead Zone, but where is Robert Wise's The Haunting and Jack Clayton's The Innocents (to name but two)? And surely if you appreciate SF (as you seem to) you MUST include the brilliant and beautiful Alien and Blade-Runner, and why not the more recent Moon and District 9? But you ARE joking, right?
Sun Jul 17, 02:17:00 pm 2011
EYEWEAR said…
The Conversation is included. Diamonds Are Forever is the best Bond film, which gives it classic status to me. Excalibur is a Boorman masterwork. Flash Gordon is the height of kitsch. Die Hard is the greatest American "actioner". I prefer Apocalypse Now to the Godfather films, personally. Blade-Runner would make my top 200. Aliens would be up there. I went with T2. I selected films I love, because they are fun, or artful, or beautiful. Or all of the above. It is of course partial. Do post your list.
Mon Jul 18, 03:10:00 pm 2011
EYEWEAR said…
I agree that Blade-Runner should be there.
Sun Jul 24, 07:07:00 pm 2011
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