Sidney Lumet's Favorite Films

Sight & Sound 2002

308   7.9   8.2 

1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

593   8.3   8.1 

2. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

4833   8.7   9.2 

3. The Godfather (1972)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

500   8   8.2 

4. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

261   8.1   7.9 

5. Intolerance (1916)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

482   8.8   8.1 

6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

779   8.2   8.3 

7. Ran (1985)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

165   7.2   7.2 

8. Fellini's Roma (1972)

1415   8   8.4 

9. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

3173   8   8.4 

10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

Other Films

140   7.9   7.5 

11. Zero de Conduite (1933)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

3356   8.6   9 

12. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

88   7.3   7.2 

13. The White Sheik (1952)

309   8   7.9 

14. Winter Light (1963)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

99   7.7   7.9 

15. Dodsworth (1936)

136   8   7.9 

16. A Day in the Country (1936)

237   7.5   7.4 

17. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)

4694   8.4   8.9 

18. Schindler's List (1993)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

244   8.4   7.9 

19. Greed (1924)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

501   8.3   8.3 

20. The General (1926)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

529   7.8   7.8 

21. Amarcord (1973)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1110   8.3   8.1 

22. 8 1/2 (1963)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

2221   6.8   7.4 

23. Dumbo (1941)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

869   8.4   8.4 

24. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1480   8.2   8.4 

25. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

2046   8.1   8.5 

26. Citizen Kane (1941)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

293   8.2   8.1 

27. Rome, Open City (1945)

224   7.5   7.7 

28. The Public Enemy (1931)

2546   8.2   8.7 

29. Casablanca (1942)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

905   8   8.3 

30. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

293   8.4   8.1 

31. Ugetsu (1953)

912   8.4   8.4 

32. Rashomon (1950)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1353   8.4   8.6 

33. Modern Times (1936)

I thought Modern Times was the greatest movie I've seen at that point... maybe I still do. - Sidney Lumet, The Tramp and the Dictator

Mr. Saturn's rating:

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. - Sidney Lumet

Top ten is an impossible category. What I put down are ten movies that I can't resist watching, no matter when or where.

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