Not Ten, But Twenty-Five for All Time

By: Zachary W

My ten picks for Rich Uncle Skeleton’s ‘unofficial’ MUBI Film Poll. Entirely likely to look vastly different in my mind tomorrow. ‘28 Up’ is really standing in for Michael Apted’s entire ‘Up’ series, which is in many ways a single film being produced serially over the course of these many years. I do, however, consider it to be the pinnacle of the series, if only for the immensely beautiful and heartbreaking ‘Neil’ section.

UPDATE: Screw ten, here’s twenty-five.

• 01
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 02
  28 Up
  Michael Apted
• 03
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 04
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 05
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 06
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 07
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 08
  Killer of Sheep
  Charles Burnett
• 09
  Alphaville
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 10
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 11
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 12
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 13
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 14
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  Werner Herzog
• 15
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 16
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 17
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 18
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 19
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 20
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 21
  Nostalghia
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 22
  Fitzcarraldo
  Werner Herzog
• 23
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 24
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 25
  The Thing
  John Carpenter