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

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell
02

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick
03

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky
04

Floating Weeds

Yasujirô Ozu
05

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Werner Herzog
06

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese
07

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton
08

Je vous salue Sarajevo

Jean-Luc Godard
09

The Thing

John Carpenter
10

Still Life

Jia Zhangke
11

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett
12

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky
13

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock
14

Alphaville

Jean-Luc Godard
15

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa
16

Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard
17

A City of Sadness

Hou Hsiao-hsien
18

An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujirô Ozu
19

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz
20

The General

Buster Keaton
21

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick
22

A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang
23

World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
24

28 Up

Michael Apted
25

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Werner Herzog

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lukewarneke

3Dec12

Why kaspar hauser instead of aguirre or stroszek? Welt am draht (world on a wire) is fucking class. Red Shoes is eternal. Haven't seen like 7 of these - are they in any particular order?

Zachary W

4Dec12

My love for Herzog knows no limit, so when I put Kaspar Hauser at the top I can still affirm those two films as masterpieces. It's really an intangible quality that elevates it above his others for me, no major aesthetic reason. I'd say they're more or less in order of preference, but with films this great a strict hierarchy can't really apply. Which films have you not seen?
lukewarneke

4Dec12

6,8,10,11,12,16,17,18,22,24. Stalker and Autumn Afternoon are only a matter of time before I see them, the rest, besides Scorcese, I'm pretty unfamiliar with.
Zachary W

5Dec12

Well, obviously I would recommend seeing all of them. Je vous salue Sarajevo is actually only three minutes long, and it's easy to find on YouTube, so you should definitely check it out. If you like it try Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema as well.