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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Alternate 100 One of the most prominent movie critics to denounce the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list was Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader. He wrote a strong criticism of it called List-o-Mania or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies. He also provided an alternate list of not so safe movies, without attempting to order them, that I've found fascinating to explore. The List # Title Year Director IMDb 11x14 1976 James Benning IMDb Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder IMDb An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey IMDb Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger IMDb Avanti! 1972 Billy Wilder IMDb The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz IMDb The Big Sky 1952 Howard Hawks IMDb Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray IMDb The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer IMDb Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale IMDb Broken Blossoms 1919 D. W. Griffith IMDb Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur IMDb Christmas in July 1940 Preston Sturges IMDb Confessions of an Opium Eater 1962 Albert Zugsmith IMDb The Crowd 1928 King Vidor IMDb Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch IMDb Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee IMDb The Docks of New York 1928 Josef Von Sternberg IMDb Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1974 Thom Anderson IMDb Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch IMDb Foolish Wives 1922 Erich Von Stroheim IMDb Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky IMDb Freaks 1932 Tod Browning IMDb The General 1926 Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman IMDb Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks IMDb Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor IMDb The Great Garrick 1937 James Whale IMDb Greed 1924 Erich Von Stroheim IMDb Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933 Lewis Milestone IMDb The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Elaine May IMDb Housekeeping 1987 Bill Forsyth IMDb The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen IMDb Intolerance 1916 D. W. Griffith IMDb Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray IMDb Judge Priest 1934 John Ford IMDb Killer of Sheep 1979 Charles Burnett IMDb The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick IMDb The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes IMDb Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich IMDb The Ladies Man 1961 Jerry Lewis IMDb The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles IMDb Last Chants for a Slow Dance 1977 Jon Jost IMDb Laughter 1930 Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast IMDb Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls IMDb Lonesome 1928 Pál Fejös IMDb Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian IMDb Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes IMDb The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles IMDb Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey IMDb The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford IMDb Man's Castle 1933 Frank Borzage IMDb McCabe & Mrs Miller 1971 Robert Altman IMDb Meet Me in St Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli IMDb Mikey and Nicky 1976 Elaine May IMDb Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin IMDb My Son John 1952 Leo McCarey IMDb The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann IMDb Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty IMDb The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton IMDb The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis IMDb The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges IMDb Panic in the Streets 1950 Elia Kazan IMDb Park Row 1952 Samuel Fuller IMDb The Phenix City Story 1955 Phil Karlson IMDb Point Blank 1967 John Boorman IMDb Real Life 1979 Albert Brooks IMDb Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1971 Jonas Mekas IMDb Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks IMDb Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks IMDb The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef Von Sternberg IMDb Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang IMDb Scenes from Under Childhood 1970 Stan Brakhage IMDb The Scenic Route 1978 Mark Rappaport IMDb The Seventh Victim 1943 Mark Robson IMDb Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes IMDb Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton IMDb The Shooting 1966 Monte Hellman IMDb The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb The Sound of Fury 1950 Cy Endfield IMDb Stars in My Crown 1950 Jacques Tourneur IMDb The Steel Helmet 1951 Samuel Fuller IMDb Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch IMDb The Strawberry Blonde 1941 Raoul Walsh IMDb Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F. W. Murnau IMDb Sylvia Scarlett 1935 George Cukor IMDb The Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk IMDb That's Entertainment! III 1994 Bud Friedgen & Michael J. Sheridan IMDb This Land is Mine 1943 Jean Renoir IMDb Thunderbolt 1929 Josef Von Sternberg IMDb To Sleep with Anger 1990 Charles Burnett IMDb Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son 1969 Ken Jacobs IMDb Track of the Cat 1954 William A. Wellman IMDb Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb Vinyl 1965 Andy Warhol IMDb Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden IMDb While the City Sleeps 1956 Fritz Lang IMDb Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957 Frank Tashlin IMDb Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh IMDb The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni IMDb

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