The Great Movie List: A Theory of Everything

Top 41-50 Double Features

41. Bucket of Bolts: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1979), Model Starship (2012), Unclear Proof (2013)
    More: The Real Aerial Battles That Inspired Star Wars, Intro to Opera Without Singing for Kids, The Animated Works of Max Hattler – Senses of Cinema
    
    
42. Diabolus ex Machina: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), Apur Sansar (1959), i.e. The Apu Trilogy
    
43. True Grit (2010), The Last Picture Show (1971)
    More: The Particulars Are In Your Bill: Words and Flesh in the Coens’ “True Grit”, Straight Shooting: Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit (2010), The Turning of the Earth: True Grit, The Coen brothers: the cartographers of cinema‘True Grit’ as a (Strangely) Therapeutic Movie, The Conversations: True Grit, Roger Ebert on True Grit, Roger Ebert on The Last Picture Show
    
    
44. Lord of the Flies: Akira (1988), Moonlight (2016)

    If we are ever going to move toward a genuinely free society, then we’re going to have to recognize how the triangular and mutually constitutive relationship of bully, victim, and audience really works, and then develop ways to combat it. ~ The Bully’s Pulpit

    More: Moonlight as a Mass Art Film
    
    
45. Plato’s Cave: Naked (1993), The Matrix (1999), Samsara (2011)
    Conspiracy nuts and simulacra. More: Behind the scenes Matrix Cloning agent Smith, The Moment The Matrix Changed Everything, The Matrix Changed Hollywood, But Was It For the Worse?, Jean Baudrillard and Cinema: The Problems of Technology, Realism and History, An Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Who Predicted the Simulation-Like Reality in Which We Live
    
    
    

46. Action Girl: Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
    More: TV Tropes: Action Girl, 40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s Alien, The Risk Always Lives: Words to Live by On the Set of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’, Jodorowsky’s Dune Didn’t Get Made for a Reason… and We Should All Be Grateful For That
    
    
    
47. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), North by Northwest (1959)
    More: Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #19 North by Northwest (1959)
    
    
48. Inequality Breeds Corruption: Goodfellas (1990), Jules and Jim (1962), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
    More: Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #36 Goodfellas (1990), GoodFellas: Five Films that Influenced Martin Scorsese’s Gangster Classic, Ranking The 20 Greatest, Most Celebrated Long Takes, Vicky and Woody and François: On Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    
    
    
49. How to Do Crime: Rififi (1955), Pickpocket (1959), Le Cercle RougeOcean’s Eleven (2001)
    More: In Revival and Streaming: “Le Cercle Rouge,” a Crime Thriller in Which Knowledge Is Power, On Paul Schrader’s “Rethinking Transcendental Style”
    
    
    
50. Jaws (1975), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963)
    More: Shock, Horror, Spirit: Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960): Part One, Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #11 Psycho (1960)