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Did anyone know there was a "Vatican's Top 45 films" list?
Created in 1995 to celebrate 100 years of filmmaking. They released a list 45 films that need to be seen based on three categories, here it is:
Religion
Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
Babette's Feast (1987, Axel)
Ben-Hur (1959, Wyler)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950, Rossellini)
Francesco (1989, Cavani)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1966, Pasolini)
La Passion De Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ (1905, Zecca & Nonguet)
A Man of All Seasons (1966, Zinnemann)
The Mission (1986, Joffé)
Monsieur Vincent (1947, Cloche)
Nazarin (1958, Buñuel)
Ordet (1954, Dreyer)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer)
The Sacrifice (1986, Tarkovsky)
Therese (1986, Cavalier)
Values
Au Revoir les Enfants (1988, Malle)
Bicycle Thieves (1949, Sica)
The Burmese Harp (1956, Ichikawa )
Chariots of Fire (1981, Hudson)
The Decalogue (1988, Kieślowski)
Dersu Uzala (1975, Kurosawa)
Gandhi (1982, Attenborough)
Intolerance (1916, Griffith)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)
On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan)
Rome, Open City (1945, Rossellini)
Schindler's List (1993, Spielberg)
The Seventh Seal (1956, Bergman)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Olmi)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Bergman)
Art
Citizen Kane (1941, Wells)
8 1/2 (1963, Fellini)
Fantasia (1940, Armstrong, Algar, Roberts, Satterfield, Sharpsteen, Hand, Luske, Handley, Beebe, Hee, Ferguson & Jackson)
Grand Illusion (1937, Renoir)
La Strada (1954, Fellini)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Crichton)
The Leopard (1963, Visconti)
Little Women (1933, Cukor)
Metropolis (1927, Lang)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Napoleon (1927, Gance)
Nosferatu (1922, Murnau)
Stagecoach (1939, Ford)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)
So does the Vatican's approval make you want to watch these films? Do you agree with their listings? Any notable omissions? And if they were to revive the list today, what would like to see omitted or included?