The Great Movies II

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This is the second Great Movies book, but the titles in it are not the second team. I do not believe in rankings and lists and refuse all invitations to reveal my “ten all-time favorite musicals,” etc., on the grounds that such lists are meaningless and might well change between Tuesday and Thursday. I make only two exceptions to this policy: I compile an annual list of the year's best films, because it is graven in stone that movie critics must do so, and I participate every ten years in the Sight & Sound poll of the world's directors and critics.

As I made clear in the introduction to the first Great Movies book, it was not a list of “the” 100 greatest movies but simply a collection of 100 great movies—unranked, selected because of my love for them and for their artistry, historical role, influence, and so on. I wrote the essays in no particular order, inspired sometimes by the availability of a newly restored print or DVD.

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