FILM - The Best
MY FAVORITE FILMS
viewed 10+ times
Brazil , 1985
There are at least three different versions of Brazil. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/alternateversions
Blade Runner (1982) - The best-known versions are
Apocalypse Now (1979) - dirs cut, read Conrad's short story "Heart of Darkness" first. a compelling, groundbreaking film about the journey into the heart of darkness and the insanity of war.
alien
12 monkeys
Mulholland Dr. (2001), David Lynch, an aspiring ingénue who moves in with an amnesiac woman on her arrival in Hollywood. Non-linear narratives- the idea that films can reverse time and turn interpretations upside down.
Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock - There has never been a more influential horror film than Psycho and everything since has referenced it somehow. masterful blending of entertainment and psychological depth.
2001: A Space Odyssey
viewed 5-9 times
Metropolis (1927) (the 2008 restored version) a dystopian future in which a privileged elite rule over the futuristic city of Metropolis until one day the workers rise up from underground to rebel against their masters.
the deer hunter
Chinatown
black hawk down
full metal jacket
rosemary's baby
Amedeus
clint eastwood westerns (the film scores are fantastic):
a fist full of dollard
the good, the bad, and the ugly
The Wild Bunch (1969) - gang of outlaws goes out in a blaze of violence and glory in this film about the dying days of the wild west.
The Searchers, 1956, John Ford & John Wayne- a western for people who don’t much care for westerns. a Civil War veteran doggedly hunting the Comanche who have kidnapped his niece.
viewed 2-4 times
The Train
au avoir les enfants - french
Taxi Driver
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1954
Sunset Blvd. - 1950
Blue Velvet (1986)
Chinatown - 1974
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), german, Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski
Vertigo - 1958 - Alfred Hitchcock - A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past.
viewed once and liked it.
Battleship Potemkin - filmed in Odessa. russian?
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Bicycle Thieves (1948) - italian
La dolce vita - Federico Fellini, France/Italy 1960
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock 1959
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin, 1936
Nashville (1975)
Comedies:
The General
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA 1926
Set during the American civil war, Buster Keaton’s most ambitious film combines spectacular action sequences and hilarious comedy aboard the runaway locomotive of the title.
From the golden age of silent comedy, The General is as funny as it gets, with ingenious storytelling and filmmaking.
Orson Welles described The General as “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, and he wasn’t wrong. The vision, clarity and economy with which Keaton tells his story are remarkable.
— Paul Whitington
City Lights
Charlie Chaplin, USA 1931, - The Tramp wins the affections of a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) in this hilarious but heartbreaking comedy – one of Charlie Chaplin’s uncontested masterpieces.
No one merged emotional mush with slapstick brilliance in quite the same way at Chaplin in City Lights
DON't waste your time on these films.
they are always listed in the 'greatest movies ever' lists.
I don't know why.
Casablanca (1942)
Singin’ in the Rain
Citizen Kane 1941 (unless you study it in a film class)
Some Like It Hot (1959) - comedy staring Marilyn Monroe
Raging Bull (1980)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
any movie directed by Ingmar Bergman (unless you study it in a film class)
Any movie directed by Federico Fellini (unless you study it in a film class) exception: La dolce vita.
Any movie directed by Kurosawa Akira (unless you like samurai fight scenes)
actors
al pacino
James Stewart
Klaus Kinski
directors
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
Ridley Scott
Robert Altman
Roman Polanski
Stephen Spielberg
The Coen Brothers (Joel & Ethan)
Spike Lee
Werner Herzog
Terri Gillium
Martin Scorsese
Russian/Soviet Union Films
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union 1925 - Filmed in Odessa, including one of the most famous scenes in film history - filmed on the Odessa Steps.
Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary.
it is one of the first films to show the power of cinema and what it could achieve. It wants to move viewers to feel differently and to act differently as a result of what they experience. As a result, it has been banned in many places. This film will always move people.
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929
An impression of city life in the Soviet Union.
the Constructivist Soviet silent of choice. it’s an agit-experiment that sees montage as the means to a revolutionary consciousness; but rather than proceeding through fable and illusion, it’s explicitly engaged both with recording the modern urban everyday and with its representation back to its participant-subjects.
— Nick Bradshaw
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1974
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before The Great War for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
in The Mirror Andrei found a poetic equivalent for the verses of his father Arseny Tarkovsky and convinced the world of the immortality of the great Russian artistic tradition.
a story about the main character’s relationship with himself. If – following the usual method of film watching – we identify with the protagonist, then the film becomes a meditation on our own relationship with ourselves.
— Vlastimir Sudar
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1979
The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the overgrown labyrinth of the Zone, an area of alien traps and treasures, containing a room where wishes may come true…
Stalker is a genius melancholy utopist’s filmic fever-dream come true.
— Michel Lipkes
Stalker is about searching for the truth inside us. Not one of its main protagonists is able to cross the border of the miraculous room: they are afraid of their real inner desires. It is also a film about victimising oneself for others; and about human modesty and humbleness.
— Zuzana Gindl-Tatarova
What's the name of these films?
the blood something, spanish, woman has no hands, son commits her crimes
french film - child goes missing, imposter returns many years later, neighbor confesses to killing the boy.
FILM TO WATCH
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Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami, Iran 1990
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M
Fritz Lang, Germany 1931
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La Maman et la putain
Jean Eustache, France 1973
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Pickpocket
Robert Bresson, France 1959
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A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson, France 1956
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The Third Man
Carol Reed, UK/USA 1949
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Nashville
Robert Altman, USA 1975
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice, Spain 1973
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Persona
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1966
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L’Avventura (1960)
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Rashomon
Kurosawa Akira, Japan 1950
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Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966
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Gertrud
Carl Dreyer, Denmark 1964
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La Jetée
Chris Marker, France 1962
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice, Spain 1973
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Un chien andalou
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, France 1928
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Tokyo Story
Ozu Yasujiro, Japan 1953
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La Règle du jeu
Jean Renoir, France 1939
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Dreyer, France 1927
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Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson, France/Sweden 1966
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Ordet
Carl Dreyer, Denmark 1955
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France 1975
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Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut, France 1959
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La dolce vita
Federico Fellini, France/Italy 1960
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viewed 10+ times
Brazil , 1985
There are at least three different versions of Brazil. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/alternateversions
- The original 142-minute European release, aka the "final director's cut" (142 minutes)
- a shorter 132-minutes prepared by Gilliam for the American release
- the Sheinberg Edit, from Universal's then-boss Sid Sheinberg
Blade Runner (1982) - The best-known versions are
- the Workprint,
- the US Theatrical Cut,
- the International Cut,
- The Ridley Scott-approved Director's Cut (1992, 116 minutes), and
- the Ridley Scott's Final Cut (2007, 117 minutes) - the only version over which Ridley Scott had complete artistic control
Apocalypse Now (1979) - dirs cut, read Conrad's short story "Heart of Darkness" first. a compelling, groundbreaking film about the journey into the heart of darkness and the insanity of war.
alien
12 monkeys
Mulholland Dr. (2001), David Lynch, an aspiring ingénue who moves in with an amnesiac woman on her arrival in Hollywood. Non-linear narratives- the idea that films can reverse time and turn interpretations upside down.
Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock - There has never been a more influential horror film than Psycho and everything since has referenced it somehow. masterful blending of entertainment and psychological depth.
2001: A Space Odyssey
viewed 5-9 times
Metropolis (1927) (the 2008 restored version) a dystopian future in which a privileged elite rule over the futuristic city of Metropolis until one day the workers rise up from underground to rebel against their masters.
the deer hunter
Chinatown
black hawk down
full metal jacket
rosemary's baby
Amedeus
clint eastwood westerns (the film scores are fantastic):
a fist full of dollard
the good, the bad, and the ugly
The Wild Bunch (1969) - gang of outlaws goes out in a blaze of violence and glory in this film about the dying days of the wild west.
The Searchers, 1956, John Ford & John Wayne- a western for people who don’t much care for westerns. a Civil War veteran doggedly hunting the Comanche who have kidnapped his niece.
viewed 2-4 times
The Train
au avoir les enfants - french
Taxi Driver
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1954
Sunset Blvd. - 1950
Blue Velvet (1986)
Chinatown - 1974
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), german, Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski
Vertigo - 1958 - Alfred Hitchcock - A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past.
viewed once and liked it.
Battleship Potemkin - filmed in Odessa. russian?
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Bicycle Thieves (1948) - italian
La dolce vita - Federico Fellini, France/Italy 1960
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock 1959
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin, 1936
Nashville (1975)
Comedies:
The General
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA 1926
Set during the American civil war, Buster Keaton’s most ambitious film combines spectacular action sequences and hilarious comedy aboard the runaway locomotive of the title.
From the golden age of silent comedy, The General is as funny as it gets, with ingenious storytelling and filmmaking.
Orson Welles described The General as “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, and he wasn’t wrong. The vision, clarity and economy with which Keaton tells his story are remarkable.
— Paul Whitington
City Lights
Charlie Chaplin, USA 1931, - The Tramp wins the affections of a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) in this hilarious but heartbreaking comedy – one of Charlie Chaplin’s uncontested masterpieces.
No one merged emotional mush with slapstick brilliance in quite the same way at Chaplin in City Lights
DON't waste your time on these films.
they are always listed in the 'greatest movies ever' lists.
I don't know why.
Casablanca (1942)
Singin’ in the Rain
Citizen Kane 1941 (unless you study it in a film class)
Some Like It Hot (1959) - comedy staring Marilyn Monroe
Raging Bull (1980)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
any movie directed by Ingmar Bergman (unless you study it in a film class)
Any movie directed by Federico Fellini (unless you study it in a film class) exception: La dolce vita.
Any movie directed by Kurosawa Akira (unless you like samurai fight scenes)
actors
al pacino
James Stewart
Klaus Kinski
directors
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
Ridley Scott
Robert Altman
Roman Polanski
Stephen Spielberg
The Coen Brothers (Joel & Ethan)
Spike Lee
Werner Herzog
Terri Gillium
Martin Scorsese
Russian/Soviet Union Films
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union 1925 - Filmed in Odessa, including one of the most famous scenes in film history - filmed on the Odessa Steps.
Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary.
it is one of the first films to show the power of cinema and what it could achieve. It wants to move viewers to feel differently and to act differently as a result of what they experience. As a result, it has been banned in many places. This film will always move people.
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929
An impression of city life in the Soviet Union.
the Constructivist Soviet silent of choice. it’s an agit-experiment that sees montage as the means to a revolutionary consciousness; but rather than proceeding through fable and illusion, it’s explicitly engaged both with recording the modern urban everyday and with its representation back to its participant-subjects.
— Nick Bradshaw
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1974
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before The Great War for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
in The Mirror Andrei found a poetic equivalent for the verses of his father Arseny Tarkovsky and convinced the world of the immortality of the great Russian artistic tradition.
a story about the main character’s relationship with himself. If – following the usual method of film watching – we identify with the protagonist, then the film becomes a meditation on our own relationship with ourselves.
— Vlastimir Sudar
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1979
The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the overgrown labyrinth of the Zone, an area of alien traps and treasures, containing a room where wishes may come true…
Stalker is a genius melancholy utopist’s filmic fever-dream come true.
— Michel Lipkes
Stalker is about searching for the truth inside us. Not one of its main protagonists is able to cross the border of the miraculous room: they are afraid of their real inner desires. It is also a film about victimising oneself for others; and about human modesty and humbleness.
— Zuzana Gindl-Tatarova
What's the name of these films?
the blood something, spanish, woman has no hands, son commits her crimes
french film - child goes missing, imposter returns many years later, neighbor confesses to killing the boy.
FILM TO WATCH
----------------------------
Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami, Iran 1990
----------------------------
M
Fritz Lang, Germany 1931
----------------------------
La Maman et la putain
Jean Eustache, France 1973
----------------------------
Pickpocket
Robert Bresson, France 1959
----------------------------
A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson, France 1956
----------------------------
The Third Man
Carol Reed, UK/USA 1949
----------------------------
Nashville
Robert Altman, USA 1975
----------------------------------------------
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice, Spain 1973
----------------------------------------------
Persona
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1966
----------------------------------------------
L’Avventura (1960)
Michelangelo Antonioni
----------------------------------------------
Rashomon
Kurosawa Akira, Japan 1950
----------------------------------------------
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966
----------------------------------------------
Gertrud
Carl Dreyer, Denmark 1964
----------------------------------------------
La Jetée
Chris Marker, France 1962
----------------------------------------------
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice, Spain 1973
----------------------------------------------
Un chien andalou
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, France 1928
----------------------------------------------
Tokyo Story
Ozu Yasujiro, Japan 1953
----------------------------------------------
La Règle du jeu
Jean Renoir, France 1939
----------------------------------------------
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Dreyer, France 1927
----------------------------------------------
Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson, France/Sweden 1966
----------------------------------------------
Ordet
Carl Dreyer, Denmark 1955
----------------------------------------------
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France 1975
----------------------------------------------
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut, France 1959
----------------------------------------------
La dolce vita
Federico Fellini, France/Italy 1960
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