Note that this list is in a constant state of flux. If you check back in a few weeks, don't be surprised to find it drastically different. I change it every time I look at it...

- La Strada (Federico Fellini, 54)

- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 41)
- The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 80)

- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 54)

- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 79)

- Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 74)

- Star Wars (Lucas, et al, 77-present)

- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 58)

- Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 01)

- It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 46)

- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 86)
- The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 57)

- City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 31)
- Sunrise (FW Murnau, 27)

- Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 55)

- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 72-90)
- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 85)
- The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 40)
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 43)
- E.T., The Extra-terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 82)

- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 71)

- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 55)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 51)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 60)
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 52)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 81)

- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 58)

- Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 74)
- Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 53)

- Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 59)

- Being There (Hal Ashby, 79)
- Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 69)
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 79)
- The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 98)

- The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 60)

- Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 36)
- Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 99)

- The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 01-03)

- Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 64)
- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 60)

- GoodFellas (Martin Scorcese, 90)
- The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 35)
- Manhattan (Woody Allen, 79)
- The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 87)
- The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 39)

- Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 59)

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 04)

- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 95)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 00)

- American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 99)

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 68)
- Fargo (Joel Coen, 96)
- Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 95)
- Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 88)
- The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, 56)
- On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 54)
- Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 96)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 46)
- This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 84)

- Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 85)
- The Piano (Jane Campion, 93)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorcese, 80)
- Limelight (Charles Chaplin, 35)
- Lenny (Bob Fosse, 76)
- Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 86)
- Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 81)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Foreman, 75)
- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 97)
- The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 62)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 48)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 51)
- Reds (Warren Beatty, 81)
- The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 84)
- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 34)
- The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 54)
- Amadeus (Milos Foreman, 84)

- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 71)
- Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 74)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 72)
- My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 89)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 89)
- Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 89)
- The Untouchables (Brian DePalma, 87)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 86)
- Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 33)
- Tess (Roman Polanski, 80)
- Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 89)
- All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 79)
- Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 81)

- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 89)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese, 76)
- All About Eve (Joe Mankiewicz, 50)
- The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 99)

- Blood Simple (Joel Coen, 83)
- Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 98)
- The Mission (Roland Joffe, 86)
- Airplane! (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, 80)
- Blow Out (Brian DePalma, 81)
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 85)
- Smoke (Wayne Wang, 95)
To see this list in a more descriptive form, check out SHADOWS Q&A.
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