Scottish list
Comrades (Douglas)
Local Hero (Forsyth)
The Maggie (Mackendrick)
Tunes Of Glory (Neame)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
The Edge Of The World (Powell)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)
Sweet Sixteen (Loach)
16 Years of Alcohol (Jobson)
Crying with Laughter (Molotnikov)
Sweden
1. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
2. Körkarlen (Sjöström, 1921)
3. Elvira Madigan (Widerberg, 1967)
4. här har du ditt liv (Troell, 1966)
5. Fanny och Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
6. Herr arnes pengar (Stiller, 1919)
7. Syskonbädd 1782 (Sjöman, 1966)
8. Du Levande (Andersson, 2007)
9. Viskningar och rop (Bergman, 1972)
10. Smultronstället (Bergman, 1957)
India
1. Apu Trilogy – Ray
2. Meghe Dhake Tara – Ghatak
3. Chashme Badoor – Sai Pranjpaye
4. Bhuvan Shome – Mrinal Sen
5. Jaane bhi do yaaron – Kundan Shah
6. Pyasa – Guru Dutt
7. Mughal-e-azam
8. Monsoon Wedding – Mira Nair
9. Manthan – Shyam Benegal
10. Dev.d – Anurag Kashyap
…..barring tamil and malyalam language films…..
Britain (in no order):
1. Brazil
2. Get Carter (1971)
3. Trainspotting
4. Withnail and I
5. Clockwork Orange
6. The Third Man
7. The Lady Vanishes
8. Don’t Look Now
9. Doctor Zhivago
10. Blow Up
Argentina.
TOP 5
El Romance del Aniceto y La Francisca (1967) Leonardo Favio
La Patagonia Rebelde (1974) Hector Olivera
Invasion (1969) Hugo Santiago Muchnick
El Dependiente (1969) Leonardo Favio
Los Muertos (2005) Lisandro Alonso
Republic of New York
Stranger than paradise (Jarmusch)
Addiction (Ferrara)
The apartment (Wilder)
All about Eve (Mankiewicz)
Raging bull (Scorsese)
Sweet smell of success (Mackendrick)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen)
Pi (Aronofsky)
Easy living (Leisen)
Nice thread. It is interesting to see such a variety of countries…
Québec, Canada:
La vraie nature de Bernadette (Gilles Carle)
Les ordres (Michel Brault)
Le chat dans le sac (Gilles Groulx)
Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
La neuvaine (Bernard Émond)
Le règne du jour (Pierre Perrault)
Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault)
Requiem pour un beau sans coeur (Robert Morin)
La vie heureuse de Léopold Z. (Gilles Carle)
Roger Toupin, épicier variété (Benoît Pilon)
U.S.A.
The Scarlet Empress
Touch of Evil
The Gang’s All Here
The Long Goodbye
The Big Sleep
The Big Heat
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Badlands
Footlight Parade
The Crowd
Garmany:
1. LIEBELEI, Max Ophüls (the french write Max Ophuls)
2. PEOPLE IN SHEFFIELD, Peter Nestler, one of the greatest documentary filmmaker in the world)
3. BERLIN CHAMISSOPLATZ, Rudolf Thome)
4. NOSFERATU, Friederich Wilhelm Murnau
5. VAMPIRE (Carl Theodor Dreyer, a film really a german production
6. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders)
7. WINTER ADE (Helke Misselwitz)
8- SPUR DER STEUBE (TRACE OF STONES), Frank Beyer)
9.THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog)
10. DIE CHRONIK DER ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jeab-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954, Kurosawa)
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963, Kurosawa)
Ran (1985, Kurosawa)
Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa)
Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna) (1964, Teshigahara)
Kwaidan (1964, Kobayashi)
Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (1954, Mizoguchi)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi)
Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) (1953, Ozu)
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959, Ozu)
I was born in Slovenia which was back than part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which existed from ca. 1943 till 1992. So I will list films from that period. Nationality is such a difficult topic as borders and countries and languages in our world are constantly shifting. But if you are a purist, don’t worry as there are also some Slovene films on my list. ;-)
In chronological order:
Dolina miru “Valley of Peace” (France Stiglic / 1956)
Ples v dezju “Dancing in the Rain” (Bostjan Hladnik / 1961)
Gratinirani mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk “Fried Brain of Pupilija Ferkeverk” (Karpo Godina / 1970)
Rdece klasje “Red Wheat” (Zivojin Pavlovic / 1970)
Crni Film “Black Film” (Zelimir Zilnik / 1971)
W.R. – Misterije organizma “W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism” (Dusan Makavejev / 1971)
Nacionalna klasa do 785 ccm “National Class Category Up to 785 ccm” (Goran Markovic / 1979)
Rdeci boogie ali Kaj ti je deklica “Red Boogie” (Karpo Godina / 1982)
Kako sam sistematski unisten od idiota “How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot” (Slobodan Sijan / 1983)
Otac na sluzbenom putu “When Father Was Away on Business” (Emir Kusturica / 1985)
Born in Russia, but I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen more than fifteen Russian films, so I will simply settle for a Top 5 for now.
1. Andrei Rublev (1969, Tarkovsky)
2. The Cranes are Flying (1957, Kalatozov)
3. Dersu Uzala (1974, Kurosawa)
4. Stalker (1979, Tarkovsky)
5. The Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein)
USA
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
2. Little Big Man (1970) Arthur Penn
3. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
4. Johnny Got His Gun (1971) Dalton Trumbo
5. Stand by Me (1986) Rob Reiner
6. Hester Street (1975) Joan Micklin Silver
7. My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava
8. You Can’t Take it with You (1938) Frank Capra
9. East of Eden (1955) Elia Kazan
10. Stagecoach (1939) John Ford
Not in the order of preference..
Sano, can you say something about How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot? The title seems very apt for my life at present
U.S.A.
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
To Sleep With Anger(Burnett)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
Milestones (Robert Kramer)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Chain Letters (Mark Rappaport)
The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol)
Sweden: (there is another one above, but there is no overlap between our lists)
In chronological order:
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende), Bergman, 1955
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), Bergman, 1957
I am Curious (Yellow) (Jag är nyfiken – gul), Sjöman, 1967
They Call Us Misfits (De kallar oss mods), Jarl, 1968
A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria), Andersson, 1970
Land of Dreams (Sagolandet), Troell, 1988
Lucky People Center International, 1998
Songs From the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen), Andersson, 2000
The Guitar Mongoloid (Gitarrmongot), Östlund, 2004
Falkenberg Farewell (Farväl Falkenberg), Ganslandt, 2006
@Kenji
Lol. The film is a satire on the (political) system of the Socialist Republic during the late 60s. Director Sijan said that somebody asked him why he didn’t make a movie about Che Guevara – so he did.
The protagonist, who is an old marxist wanders through different regions of Yugoslavia meeting people and confronting them with his personal truth – he is a kind of wise fool, a village idiot with a lot of life experience who can’t understand his surroundings. In the end, I would say he and his life and vision are systematically destroyed by a society which is not socialist at all, but carries as many contradictions within itself as the protagonist.
The film feels a bit like a mixture between Bunuel and Monty Python, with an elegant direction by Sijan who has some visual treats to offer. Essentially a must see for any fan of grotesque humour which has a firm footing in socio-political reality.
USA
Citizen Kane- (Orson Welles- 1941)
Vertigo- Alfred (Hitchcock- 1958)
Killer of Sheep- (Charles Burnett- 1977)
The Bride of Frankenstein- (James Whale- 1935)
At Land- (Maya Deren- 1944)
Greed- (Erich Von Strohiem- 1924)
A Woman Under the Influence- (John Cassavettes- 1974)
The Salt of the Earth- (Herbert J. Bibermen- 1954)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller- (Robert Altman- 1971)
Johnny Guitar- (Nicolas Ray- 1954)
I’m never sure if 2001 is technically American. or if any of Kubrick’s films since then are. is there a definitive answer, other than that Warner Bros. was the distributor.
Oh, this great thread has resurfaced again.
I grew up in Canada, but I shamefully know so little about Canadian cinema, so I’d better stick to a list for my country of birth, China.
Nine favourite films from mainland China, in chronological order (since it’s always difficult for me to rank films):
Daybreak/Tian Ming (1933, Sun Yu)
The Goddess/Shen Nu (1934, Wu Yonggang)
Street Angel/Ma Lu Tian Shi (1937, Yuan Muzhi)
Spring in a Small Town/Xiao Chen Zhi Chun (1948, Fei Mu)
Yellow Earth/Huang Tu Di (1984, Chen Kaige)
Raise the Red Lantern/Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua (1991, Zhang Yimou)
The Blue Kite/Lan Feng Zheng (1993, Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Devils on the Doorstep/Gui Zi Lai Le (2000, Jiang Wen)
Still Life/San Xia Hao Ren (2006, Jia Zhangke)
Kubrick’s film was inducted in the US as a culturally significant film in 1991 for the National Film Registry but I think it can be claimed by both the U.S. and England because it was written by Kubrick who was American despite his long residence in England and Arthur C. Clarke who was English.
According to most sources (BFI, IMDB, etc.), all films from 2001 on are USA-UK co-productions.
Country of origin is determined by the production company/ies involved, regardless of the nationality of the director and/or producer.
ie : 2001 A Space Odyssey
production companies
MGM (USA)
Stanley Kubrick Productions (UK)
Poland:
My number 1 is Ashes and Diamonds. Not as familiar with Polish cinema as i wish i could be.
well i was born in Bermuda, and i think anyone would struggle to name 10 films coming from that country, does anyone actually know of any Bermudian films or filmmakers? i very much doubt anything of the sort exists.
I was raised in Scotland and can think of no Scottish film that i hold any great affection for, i hate Trainspotting and Danny Boyle with a passion as do i hate Sweet Sixteen and Ken Loach with a passion. Local Hero was a nice little film but nothing extraordinary. I do really like the Wicker Man (the original, naturally) so there we go, one scottish film i really like.
my favorite Turkish movies:
Yol (The Way) (1982, Serif Goren)
Zugurt Aga (The Agha) (1985, Nesli Colgecen)
Aaah Belinda (1986, Atif Yilmaz)
Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel) (1987, Omer Kavur)
Muhsin Bey (1987, Yavuz Turgul)
Ask Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yonetmeni (1990, Yavuz Turgul)
Tabutta Rovasata (Sommersault in a Coffin) (1996, Dervis Zaim)
Uzak (Distant) (2002, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Yazi Tura (Toss Up) (2004, Ugur Yucel)
Kader (Destiny) (2006, Zeki Demirkubuz)
France ( chronological order ) :
- La Règle du jeu ( Jean Renoir )
- Madame de … ( Max Ophüls )
- Adieu Philippine ( Jacques Rozier )
- Le Mépris ( Jean-Luc Godard )
- Pierrot le fou ( Jean-Luc Godard )
- Play Time ( Jacques Tati )
- Quatre nuits d’un rêveur ( Robert Bresson )
- La Maman et la putain ( Jean Eustache )
- Céline et Julie vont en bateau ( Jacques Rivette )
- Van Gogh ( Maurice Pialat )
The Taste of Tea
Summer of Kikujiro
Branded to Kill
Linda Linda Linda
Bright Future
High and Low
Survive Style 5+
The Face of Another
Spirited Away
Crazed Fruit
A new addition to my previous list, an absolute must for cinema in Quebec, Canada: «Le goût de la farine» by Pierre Perrault once again…but what a film!!
US
Casablanca
Citizen kane
The Birds
Wizards of Oz
The Searchers
Fort Apache
How Green was my Valley
Godfather 1 and 2
Apocalypse Now
ralch
I was born in Peru but I live in Puerto Rico, so I’ll mix up both countries:
La boca del lobo (Peru, 1988, Dir. Francisco Lombardi)
El clown (P.R., 2006, Dir. Pedro Adorno, Emilio Rodríguez)
La vida es una sola (Peru, 1997, Dir. Marianne Eyde)
Punto final: de cómo Tito Mangual aprendió a bregar (P.R., 1999, Dir. Edwin Reyes)
Caídos del cielo (Peru, 1990, Dir. Francisco Lombardi)
Ángel (P.R., 2007, Dir. Jacobo Morales)
Tinta roja (Peru, 1999, Dir. F. Lombardi)
Los peloteros (P.R., 1953, Dir. Jack Delano)
Madeinusa (Peru, 2006, Dir. Claudia Llosa)
Maldeamores (P.R., 2007, Dir. Carlos Ruiz, Mariem Perez)