John Hauser

Great Films

The Adventures of Robin Hood - 1938
Gone with the Wind - 1939
The Wizard of Oz - 1939
The Grapes of Wrath - 1940
His Girl Friday - 1940
The Maltese Falcon - 1941
Casablanca - 1942
The Lost Weekend - 1945
My Darling Clementine - 1946
Red River - 1948
The Third Man - 1949
All About Eve - 1950
The Searchers - 1956
Sweet Smell of Success - 1957
The Apartment - 1960
Spartacus - 1960
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - 1961
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
Dr. Strangelove: Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 1964
Doctor Zhivago - 1965
Andrei Rublev - 1966
2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968
Patton - 1970
Duel - 1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - 1971
The Last Picture Show - 1971
The Godfather - 1972
Trick Baby - 1972
The Sting - 1973
The Godfather, Part II - 1974
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - 1975
Star Wars - 1977
Alien - 1979
Apocalypse Now - 1979
Life of Brian - 1979
The Blues Brothers - 1980
Caddyshack - 1980
The Empire Strikes Back - 1980
Tootsie - 1982
The Jewel in the Crown  [14-part series] - 1984
Sixteen Candles - 1984
Blue Velvet - 1986
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 1988
Do the Right Thing - 1989
A Few Good Men - 1992
Malcolm X - 1992
Reservoir Dogs - 1992
Unforgiven - 1992
Pulp Fiction - 1994
A Close Shave - 1995
Toy Story - 1995
The Peacock Spring - 1996
Trainspotting - 1996
In the Company of Men - 1997
Wolf Hall  [6-part series] - 2015

Also Good

Scarface - 1932
The Old-Fashioned Way - 1934
The Thin Man - 1934
Grand Illusion - 1937
Rebecca - 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1945
The Big Sleep - 1946
It’s a Wonderful Life - 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1946
Key Largo - 1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948
The Heiress - 1949
Decision Before Dawn - 1951
Roman Holiday - 1953
The War of the Worlds - 1953
Rear Window - 1954
Sansho the Bailiff - 1954
Lady and the Tramp - 1955
Baby Doll - 1956
The Big Country - 1958
Run Silent Run Deep - 1958
L’Avventura - 1960
The Hustler - 1961
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - 1962
Charade - 1963
From Russia with Love - 1963
I Am Cuba - 1964
The Battle of Algiers - 1965
A Charlie Brown Christmas - 1965
The Saragossa Manuscript - 1965
The Sound of Music - 1965
A Man for All Seasons - 1966
Cool Hand Luke - 1967
The Outsider - 1967
MASH - 1970
Mean Streets - 1973
Paper Moon - 1973
Sleeper - 1973
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 1974
Dog Day Afternoon - 1975
Animal House - 1978
Being There - 1979
My Dinner with André - 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981
Blade Runner - 1982
An Officer and a Gentleman - 1982
Baby, It’s You - 1983
A Christmas Story - 1983
Risky Business - 1983
Repo Man - 1984
This Is Spinal Tap - 1984
Brazil - 1985
The Princess Bride - 1987
GoodFellas - 1990
Miller’s Crossing - 1990
The Silence of the Lambs - 1991
Boyz n the Hood - 1992
Red Rock West - 1992
Dazed and Confused - 1993
The Wrong Trousers - 1993
Hated - 1994
Sense and Sensibility - 1995
The Horse Whisperer - 1998
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - 2003
The Pursuit of Happyness - 2006
Superbad - 2007
Tess of the d’Ubervilles - 2008
(500) Days of Summer - 2009
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 2013

Honorable Mentions

The Gold Rush - 1925
Perfect Day - 1929
Things to Come - 1936
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1938
Pinocchio - 1940
Sunset Boulevard - 1950
Quo Vadis - 1951
A Star Is Born - 1954
Kiss Me Deadly - 1955
Night of the Hunter - 1955
Forbidden Planet - 1956
King Creole - 1958
Lolita - 1962
King Rat - 1965
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - 1965
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? - 1966
Night of the Living Dead - 1968
Planet of the Apes - 1968
Shaft - 1971
Cabaret - 1972
Airplane! - 1980
Time Bandits - 1981
The Day After - 1983
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure - 1985
Cherry 2000 - 1987
Babe - 1995
Screamers - 1995
The Fifth Element - 1997
Good Night, and Good Luck - 2005
Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 2006
An Inconvenient Truth - 2006

Film Sites

[] The Internet Movie Database.
[] All Movie Guide.
[] Movie Review Query Engine.
[] The Online Film Critics Society.
[] Roger Ebert’s movie reviews.
[] James Berardinelli’s ReelViews.
[] MaryAnn Johanson’s FlickFilosopher.com.
[] Samuel Stoddard’s At-A-Glance Film Reviews.
[] Tim Dirks’s Filmsite.

John Hauser, 2024 September 12