In chronological order:
City Lights (1931) – Charles Chaplin
Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujiro Ozu
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
The Seventh Seal (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
The 400 Blows (1959) – François Truffaut
8½ (1963) – Frederico Fellini
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
Stalker (1979) – Andrei Tarkovsky
It’s a Wonderful Life [1946, Frank Capra]
L.A. Confidential [1997, Curtis Hanson]
To Kill a Mockingbird [1962, Robert Mulligan]
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ensayo de un crimen) [1955, Luis Buñuel]
Rio Bravo [1959, Howard Hawks]
Letter from an Unknown Woman [1948, Max Ophüls]
Judex [1963, Georges Franju]
Red Angel (Akai Tenshi) [1966, Yasuzo Masumura]
Gentleman Jim [1942, Raoul Walsh]
Rome Open City (Roma, città aperta) [1945, Roberto Rossellini]
PLEASE READ: I realize this is a bit unprofessional, but going through the results thus far there are a lot of ties near the top which I don’t think will be dissolved by the votes of the next five days. Therefore, I’m going to extend the voting until August 27th (two months after the original start date). I promise this will be the final extension.
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Okay..Here it goes…
1. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
2. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
3. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)
4. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
6. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
7. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
8. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, 1974)
9. Historias Extraordinarias (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Hey Punishment Park, I had that from Netflix a few weeks ago but I sent it back because Valeria and her Week of Wonders was so bad I needed to recover and couldn’t take on flight risks, but it’s good eh? Might have to re-add it :)
It’s that great. My favorite Peter Watkins film. Also, you should try to watch Edvard Munch as well. It’s equally intriguing, the reason I had not put it in my list is so i can get a diversity among directors.
Nice list, Andhika. Love to see Land of Silence and Darkness there.
Axelumog- I think Punishment Park is great for discussion, such a politcally charged piece, but to me feels a bit too overtly like an experiment or exercise. The other people watching with me fell asleep during it lol. Edvard Munch is my favorite film! but i understand that’s very subjective
Magnolia at #1 = awesome.
Punishment Park is fantastic. My favorite of the few Watkins I have seen though is Culloden.
Hey thanks R. I sometimes wonder why Land of Silence and Darkness hasn’t been mentioned in the same breath as Aguirre, or Fitzcarraldo. Maybe it’s the nature that this is a documentary. But hey, even people recognize Encounters at the End of the World more.
@Scottie
It’s just that everytime I dethrone Magnolia (happens a few time) the film just keep coming back into my head and I can’t help but to put it back in the number one spot. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it’s love
@Risselada
Thanks Ris. Haven’t seen Culloden. Will definitely check it out as soon as I can grab ahold of it..
Yeah, Punishment Park is quite good, I bought it a couple weeks back
@Andhika: It’s certainly my favorite film of the 90s. It’ll be on my list too, as soon as I can pull together a ten that I’m happy with.
Peter Watkins really doesn’t have a bad film not sure what I’d name his best, possibly La Commune
Pather Panchali
City Lights
Au Hasard Balthazar
Rules of the Game
Grand Illusion
The 400 Blows
Annie Hall
Bicycle Thief
Taxi Driver
Tokyo Story
It is a tragedy that there are no good prints of Pather Panchali available. Probably explains why it isn’t on more of the lists here. I’d make the whole world see that movie if I could.
(these are not my ten favourite films; these are the ones I find the greatest)
The Birth of a Nation, David Ward Griffith
Battleship Potenkim, Sergei Eisenstein
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Sunrise, FW Murnau
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
The Searchers, John Ford
A Bout de Souffle, Jean-Luc Godard
The Leopard, Luchino Visconti
Persona, Ingmar Bergman
Ran, Akira Kurosawa
@Jeff
I haven’t seen a good looking Ray film. All the cuts are iffy (that I’ve seen). I watched Panchali on YouTube. Looked ugly, but still a beautiful movie. You have my respects.
These are the ones that came to mind when I saw this. If I gave it more thought, there would be some changes, but these must be among the greatest as these are the ones that immidietly came to mind.
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dryer, 1928)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Mirror (Andrey Tarkovskiy, 1975)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1967)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Enter The Void (Gaspar Noe, 2009)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
1. Dekalog (1989) – Krzsystof Kieslowski
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
3. Mulholland Dr. (2001) – David Lynch
4. Mirror (1975) – Andrei Tarkovski
5. Sátántangó (1994) – Bela Tarr
6. Bigger than Life (1956) – Nicholas Ray
7. The Tree of Life (2011) – Terrence Mallick
8. Shoah (1985) – Claude Lanzmann
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) – R. W. Fassbinder
10. Vivre sa Vie (1962) – Jean-Luc Godard
Runners-up: The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut) & Les Amitiés Particulières (1964, Jean Delannoy).
A Japanese Village – Ogawa Shinsuke, 1982
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae – Shimazu Yasujiro 1934
Sans Soleil – Chris Marker, 1983
A Brighter Summer Day – Edward Yang, 1991
Century of Birthing – Lav Diaz, 2011
Moving – Somai Shinji, 1993
L’enfance Nue – Maurice Pialat, 1968
Yeelen – Souleymane Cissé, 1987
When the Tenth Month Comes – Dang Nhat Minh, 1984
Eight Deadly Shots – Mikko Niskanen, 1972
Olmi-Legend of the Holy Drinker
Olmi-The Fiances
Olmi-Tree of Wooden Clogs
May-A New Leaf
Renoir-Grande Illusion
Kaurismaki-The Man Without a Past
Ozu-Early Summer
J P Melville-Léon Morin, prêtre
Rossellini-Stromboli
Marker-Sans Soleil
@thesamuelcooke
Nice choice with Inland Empire- it’s not quite my favorite of Lynch’s work, but it’s certainly up there and there are times when I feel like it’s the ultimate consummation of his career.
@Scottie
Agreed!
Napoléon (Gance, 1927)
Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930)
At Land (Deren, 1944)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1965)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
A Man Asleep (Queysanne, 1974)
Eureka (Aoyama, 2000)
These are ten favourites at the moment. Chronological. Otherwise I found it impossible.
Napoléon (Gance, 1927)
Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930)
At Land (Deren, 1944)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1965)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
A Man Asleep (Queysanne, 1974)
Eureka (Aoyama, 2000)
These are ten favourites at the moment. Chronological. Otherwise I found it impossible.
Less than two weeks left!
Gundam Paroxysm
1. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Arnold, 1998)
2. Un Lac (Grandrieux, 2008)
3. Anticipation, Ou L’Amour en L’an 2000 (Godard, 1967)
4. The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003)
5. Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
6. The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm (Brakhage, 1997)
7. The General Returns from One Place to Another (Robinson, 2006)
8. Ah! Liberty (Rivers, 2008)
9. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
10. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard, 1997)