All your 5 are certainly great, but only 5?
Sansho the Bailiff
Zerkalo/Mirror
Rules of the Game
Sunrise
Andrei Rublev
+ Hiroshima mon Amour…well, it could go on, and should include some from Africa, Latin America and neglected countries, since the idea of greatness is partially attributable to received wisdom and the power of some cultures and countries to elicit respect for certain norms and their grandeur
1. Eros Plus Massacre
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. Un homme qui dort
5. Meshes of the Afternoon
So far, not unusually, we’ve only come up with films from powerful nations with histories of imperialism. So, how about an alternative 5:
Lucia
Hour of the Furnaces
Yeelen
The Colour of Pomegranates
Gamperaliya
and still no women…
Zerkalo
8½
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Nostalghia
Man of Marble
Playtime
Brief Encounter
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Wild Strawberries
Safety Last!
“we’ve only come up with films from powerful nations with histories of imperialism…and still no women…”
This place is getting awfully PC
Five random:
Antonio das Mortes
Heroic Purgatory
The Courage of the People (El coraje del pueblo)
Manuel on the Island of Wonders
The Quince Tree Sun
Dennis, i just like to keep the idea floating, even if to question myself, more than wanting to set rules. People are perfectly entitled to their own judgment on greatness.
Beau Travail
The Conformist
Fellini’s Satyricon
Blade Runner
Enter the Void
I see PC as following what’s prescribed without proper questioning- swallowing hook line and sinker the media and establishment guff on imperialism, the army, the royal family, patriotism etc. And also their brainwashing on what PC is
I would like to propose that there is zero relationship between the country of origin of one’s favorite films and the inclination to support imperialism.
We’re talking greatness, which is slightly different from favourites. I’m not even taking my own selection as inclination to support imperialism. Don’t mind me, carry on; i was just putting into the thread the pricking of my mind, not wishing to undermine the fun as i may have done.
1. Vertigo
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Raging Bull
5. The Godfather
I love all five, #1 is my favorite film of all time, but it’s a bit different from my top 5. Compared to my favorites:
1. Vertigo
2. The Godfather
3. Psycho
4. Taxi Driver
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Days of Heaven
L’Avventura
Point Blank
Stalker
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Where does the “cinema as an art” part of this thread fit in?
1) Nashville
2) Taxi Driver
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) Citizen Kane
5) Psycho
Movies that I consider Artistically Great
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (CZECH)
Variety (WOMAN DIRECTOR)
Possession (POLISH DIRECTOR)
The Ring Finger (WOMAN DIRECTOR)
Le bonheur (WOMAN DIRECTOR)
Don’t mind me, carry on; i was just putting into the thread the pricking of my mind, not wishing to undermine the fun as i may have done
Damn! Now I’m on a guilt trip that won’t quit. All the awful images of the brutalities of France in North Africa, the rape of Nanjing, Hiroshima, lions eating Christians…mea maxima culpa. …
Den, Den… (shakes head)
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
3. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
4. In A Lonely Place (Ray)
5. Le Notti Bianche (Visconti)
5 that came to mind since there are many more that are cinematic art.
What’s the definition of a ‘great’ film? To me if it explores peoples’ psychology with honesty and authenticity, and/or offers some sort of insight into the human condition and does so with supreme technical ability then it’s great. I think you could make a case for these five:
The Human Condition (1959-1961)
Scenes From A Marriage (1973)
Aparajito (1956)
The Browning Version (1951)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Of course, anyone who applies a star-rating to a film immediately undermines any notion they may have about it being art by fitting it into a mode of analysis created for entertainment. Just saying.
The Complete works of William Shakespeare – 1/5 (Anglophone)
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony – 3/5 (too commercial)
The Mona Lisa 2/5 (overrated)
2001: A Space Odyssey (usa)
The Leopoard (italy)
Citizen Kane (usa)
M (germany)
A Man Escaped (france)
1. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
2. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
3. Nashville (Altman)
4. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
5. Contempt (Godard)
GERTRUD (Dreyer)
1-zerkalo
2-eyes wide shut
3-simon of the desert
4-badlands
5-metropolis
1-zerkalo
2-eyes wide shut
3-simon of the desert
4-badlands
5-metropolis
Trois Couleurs: Bleu
Trois Couleurs:Rouge
Persona
Ivan’s Childhood
Sansho the Bailiff
Keenan DeMarsico
1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. The Rules of the Game
4. The General
5. L’Atalante