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JONATHAN ROSENBAUM'S 100 FAVOURITE FILMS (2004)

By: Kenji

The distinguished American film critic made a selection of 1000 films, with a top 100 too, in his book Essential Cinema (2004). See the list Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films. Check out too the list by an excellent British critic, from a few years before – Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films

Missing from this site:

Out One: Spectre (Rivette)

Die Nibelungen, in 2 parts- Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge- was chosen as one film. I’ve been told Corpus Callosum does not belong here, but it is marked in my book among the 100.

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Rosenbaum’s top 10 for Sight and Sound poll, 2002:

Les Vampires
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Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
Ivan the Terrible
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Last Year at Marienbad
The House is Black
Gertrud
Playtime
When it Rains

Sight & Sound list 2012:

Greed (Stroheim)
Spione (Lang)
Ivan (Dovzhenko)
I was born but (Ozu)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Cuadecuc Vampir (Portabella(
Satantango (Tarr)
Histoires du Cinéma (Godard)
The Wind will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
The world (Jia)


Gertrud

 

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Dimitris Psachos

5Aug11

Mistakes or no mistakes, it's quite an uneven list with a handful of titles I haven't yet checked but I can't put my finger on it just yet....I kind of trust his 1000 picks a whole lot more, even if this one has several impressive titles.

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zaviar wun

3Jul11

Great list, except it's not entirely Rosenbaum's. Switch out Trip to the Moon for Tunneling the English Channel by Melies, get rid of Corpus Callosum and add Paul Fejos' 1928 silent Lonesome and then you've got the list Rosenbaum actually compiled. Not that the erroneous additions aren't great films (well, Trip to the Moon is) or worthy of whatever canon - they just aren't to be numbered among the ranks of this one, apparently....

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    Kenji

    3Jul11

    Er, is my book an erroneous edition?

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    zaviar wun

    4Jul11

    I'm not sure if your book is or isn't. Check the following link against what your book has http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum100.html Somehow, in that link, the listmaker manages to find room for The Wind Will Carry Us, even though with just the substitutions I previously pointed out you still get 100. Weird.

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    zaviar wun

    11Jul11

    I figured it out! You've mistakenly included Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (though Heaven Can Wait does indeed belong), to the exclusion of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. All the other substitutions I've already pointed out, nonetheless, continue to apply.

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Tøkk

5Mar11

I just think it's a little difficult to consider him one of the worlds best film critics while he thought The Mirror was "opaque". I mean - doesn't that imply a lack of understanding for the film medium in general???

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Kenji

6Jun10

Christopher, from 2004-9 i would pick Innocence, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The New World, My Winnipeg, The White Ribbon from several closely matched contenders, but no single film really standing out

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