Personal Favourites (NOT a "Best of" list)
By: deckard croix
If I had to describe myself through the use of cinema, the films I’d use to convey that would look something like this list. For me, these are the only films I would require on a desert island (one in which electricity was available of course), the films that I continuously (some might say to the point of exhaustion – for both parties) recommend, and films that I will never tire of. Some of them are widely accepted in “cinephile” circles, others not so much. Many of these are flawed either technically or possibly narratively, but they are, for me, masterpieces and a masterpiece must reflect a bit of humanity and imperfection is an essential part of that. They are not listed according to “quality”, but just as they came to mind … so, no order. They’re all equally masterful.
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01Ingmar Bergman
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02John Huston
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03Andrei Tarkovsky
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04Orson Welles
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05Werner Herzog
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06Sam Peckinpah
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07David Cronenberg
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08John Carpenter
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09Terry Gilliam
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10Roman Polanski
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11John Cassavetes
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12Peter Greenaway
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13Jean-Luc Godard
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14Stanley Kubrick
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15Nicolas Roeg
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16Akira Kurosawa
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17Sergio Leone
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18Alfred Hitchcock
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19Martin Scorsese
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20Michelangelo Antonioni
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21Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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22John Frankenheimer
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23Alejandro Jodorowsky
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24Robert Houston
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25Shinya Tsukamoto
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26Andrzej Żuławski
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27Orson Welles
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28Ingmar Bergman
