50 American films that changed the way we look at the world

The pow­er of cin­e­ma lies in the force of images. If one of them is enough to sum up a film, a sim­ple look alone can cap­ture what sur­rounds us. Cin­e­ma has always made us dream, trav­el, desire, fan­ta­size, laugh, cry. But how many films have been able to shake up our cer­tain­ties, ques­tion our beliefs, ques­tion our prej­u­dices and put our own views into per­spec­tive? From the inven­tion of the Lumière broth­ers to the present day, we can no longer count the images that have suc­ceed­ed, reflect­ing his­to­ry and its evo­lu­tion, that of cin­e­ma and our societies.

For its 50^thanniver­sary, the Deauville Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val want­ed to high­light a selec­tion of 50 films that have changed the way we look at the world. 50 Amer­i­can films, from D. W. Griffith’s INTOLERANCE (1916) to Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD (2019), select­ed sub­jec­tive­ly for their way of hav­ing pro­found­ly shaped the sev­enth art dur­ing its first cen­tu­ry of exis­tence, both through their tech­nique, their stag­ing, their inven­tive­ness, their audac­i­ty, their con­tent and all the diverse ideas that they were able to project.

On this occa­sion, the Deauville Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val is extend­ing its col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Morny cin­e­ma to offer fes­ti­val­go­ers a sec­ond screen­ing room, where films will be pre­sent­ed by tal­ents or indus­try pro­fes­sion­als. Spe­cial­ly ded­i­cat­ed to this excep­tion­al ret­ro­spec­tive, this new the­ater will embody a vast panora­ma of Amer­i­can cin­e­ma, where eyes meet in a mir­ror which refers to our past, accom­pa­nies our present and pre­dicts our future.

The 50^th films

1916 INTOLERANCEby D. W. Griffith

1927 SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANSby Friedrich Wil­helm Murnau

1932 FREAKSby Tod Browning

1939 GONE WITH THE WINDby Vic­tor Fleming

1940 THE GREAT DICTATOR by Char­lie Chaplin

1941 CITIZEN KANEby Orson Welles

1942 CASABLANCAby Michael Curtiz

1942 TO BE OR NOT TO BEby Ernst Lubitsch

1946 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFEby Frank Capra

1950 OUTRAGEby Ida Lupino

1950 ALL ABOUT EVEby Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1955 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTERby Charles Laughton

1956 THE SEARCHERSby John Ford

1959 ANATOMY OF A MURDERby Otto Preminger

1959 RIO BRAVOby Howard Hawks

1959 IMITATION OF LIFEby Dou­glas Sirk

1959 SOME LIKE IT HOTby Bil­ly Wilder

1960 PSYCHOby Alfred Hitchcock

1961 WEST SIDE STORYby Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins

1967 BONNIE AND CLYDEby Arthur Penn

1968 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYby Stan­ley Kubrick

1969 EASY RIDERby Den­nis Hopper

1969 THE WILD BUNCHby Sam Peckinpah

1970 WANDAby Bar­bara Loden

1972 THE GODFATHERby Fran­cis Ford Coppola

1972 CABARETby Bob Fosse

1973 THE EXORCISTby William Friedkin

1974 A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCEby John Cassavetes

1975 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTby Milos Forman

1976 NETWORKby Sid­ney Lumet

1976 CARRIEby Bri­an de Palma

1976 TAXI DRIVERby Mar­tin Scorsese

1977 STAR WARSby Georges Lucas

1978 THE DEERHUNTERby Michael Cimino

1982 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIALby Steven Spielberg

1982 FIRST BLOODby Ted Kotcheff

1984 TERMINATORby James Cameron

1989 DO THE RIGHT THINGby Spike Lee

1990 EDWARD SCISSORHANDSby Tim Burton

1992 UNFORGIVENby Clint Eastwood

1997 BOOGIE NIGHTSby Paul Thomas Anderson

1999 THE MATRIXby Lana & Lily Wachowski

1999 THE VIRGIN SUICIDESby Sofia Coppola

2001 MULHOLLAND DRIVEby David Lynch

2003 ELEPHANTby Gus Van Sant

2007 ZODIACby David Fincher

2010 INCEPTIONby Christo­pher Nolan

2012 ZERO DARK THIRTYby Kathryn Bigelow

2015 SPOTLIGHTby Tom McCarthy

2019 ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOODby Quentin Tarantino

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