Seven Times Ten
By: Charles Ziegler-Hartmann
Seven Times Ten (7×10): A Continuation of a Personal Canon
61. Le cercle rouge (Melville, 1970) “All men are guilty. They’re born innocent, but it doesn’t last.”
62. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) “I’m not following you, I’m looking for you. There’s a big difference.”
63. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976) “That jerk Karl Marx said opium was the… religion of people. I got news for him, it’s money.”
64. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979) “If I die, I’m sorry for all the bad things I did to you…And if I live, I’m sorry for all the bad things I’m gonna do to you.”
65. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella, 1999) “I always thought it’d be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
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Candidates for the list
Abbas Kiarostami: Certified Copy; Shirin; Ten
Atom Egoyan: Calendar; Adoration; Ararat; Next of Kin; Speaking Parts; The Sweet Hereafter
Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr.; The Cameraman; Seven Chances; Go West
Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard; The Apartment; Ace in the Hole
Pedro Almodovar: Bad Education; Matador; Talk to Her; Broken Embraces
Mikio Naruse: Apart From You; No Blood Relation; When a Woman Ascends the Stairs; Street Without End; Every-Night Dreams; Flunky, Work Hard!
Luis Bunuel: That Obscure Object of Desire; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Belle de jour; The Exterminating Angel
Aleksandr Sokurov: Russian Ark; Oriental Elegy; Dolce; Maria; A Humble Life
Mike Leigh: All or Nothing; Happy-Go-Lucky; Topsy-Turvy; Abigail’s Party
Brian De Palma: Femme Fatale; Scarface; Blow Out; Carlito’s Way; Obsession; Dressed to Kill
Masaki Kobayashi: The Human Condition; Black River; Harakiri
Catherine Breillat: Anatomy of Hell; Sex is Comedy; The Sleeping Beauty; Brief Crossing
Directors who could be on the next list but need more research
Gustav Machaty (Erotikon, Exstase); Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life); Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing); Budd Boetticher (The Bullfighter and the Lady); Jacques Tati (Mon oncle, Playtime); Hal Hartley (Trust, Henry Fool); Julian Schnabel; Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man); Kinji Fukasaku (Blackmail Is My Life, Black Lizard); Nagisa Oshima (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence); Rian Johnson (Brick); F.W. Murnau (The Last Laugh); D.W. Griffith (Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages, Orphans of the Storm); Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood For Love); Erich von Stroheim; Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday); Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl); Josef von Sternberg; François Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim); Federico Fellini (La dolce vita); Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief); Bela Tarr (Family Nest, Damnation); Sergei Parajanov (The Color of Pomegranates); Patrice Chereau (Intimacy); Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Hard Eight); Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration); Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, mon amour)
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01Jean-Pierre Melville
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02Francis Ford Coppola
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03John Cassavetes
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04Bob Fosse
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05Anthony Minghella