Philip French at The Guardian has listed his picks for the top ten movie trilogies.
The Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-90)
The Gorky Trilogy: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship, My Universities (Mark Donskoy, 1938-40)
The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1955-59)
The Cavalry Trilogy: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande (John Ford, 1948-50)
The Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, Red, White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993-94)
The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001-03) "One of the peaks in cinema's history of creating epic fantasy for the screen."
The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home (Bill Douglas, 1972-78)
The Dollar Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1964-66)
The Scream Trilogy (Wes Craven, 1996-2000)
The Bergman Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1961-63)
I guessed Godfather, Apu, Three Colours, LOTR and the Spaghetti westerns, and kick myself for forgetting Bergman's "Faith Trilogy." Star Wars, Indie, Terence Davies, The Matrix, Lindsay Anderson, Andrzej Wajda and István Szabó were all near misses.
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Scream? Really? IMHO I think most of the near miss trilogies, plus a few more I'm listing, are a cut above the Scream movies. I know he's casting his net wide, but if French wants a horror trilogy then throw in George Romero's Dead trilogy - Night of the Living Dead , Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead - (I'm a purist, and think that Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead are more reworkings or side stories to the originals, but don't really work on a continuing storyline basis).
How about the Mad Max trilogy?
The Bourne Trilogy (I know they're planning a fourth, but Indy,at 4 films, was a near miss)?
Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy?
Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi Trilogy?
How about the Mad Max trilogy?
The Bourne Trilogy (I know they're planning a fourth, but Indy,at 4 films, was a near miss)?
Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy?
Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi Trilogy?
Link to the thread on 'greatest trilogy ever?' (Dec 2003 - Sep 2005).
QUOTE (Baal_T'shuvah @ Jul 27 2008, 09:23 PM) 
Scream? Really? IMHO I think most of the near miss trilogies, plus a few more I'm listing, are a cut above the Scream movies. I know he's casting his net wide, but if French wants a horror trilogy then throw in George Romero's Dead trilogy - Night of the Living Dead , Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead - (I'm a purist, and think that Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead are more reworkings or side stories to the originals, but don't really work on a continuing storyline basis).
How about the Mad Max trilogy?
The Bourne Trilogy (I know they're planning a fourth, but Indy,at 4 films, was a near miss)?
How about the Mad Max trilogy?
The Bourne Trilogy (I know they're planning a fourth, but Indy,at 4 films, was a near miss)?
Good ones. I've not seen the SCREAM movies, but you're dead right about the Romeros, and I'd give serious consideration to the Maxes. I'm not particularly a Bourne fan, but most people are. Good calls.
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