More Rohmer films!!
Great suggestions, Ramsay!! I also think “Songs from the Second Floor” would be a great addition to TA’s Film Library…
I second the reccomendation for Satyajit Ray. Apart from the ‘Apu’ trilogy, some of his no-so-well-known greats include Days And NIghts In The Forest, Charulata, The Music Room; they’d all make fine additions.
Nagisa Oshima, especially his work through the late 60s/early 70s.
Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak would be worthy of inclusion as well.
There’s lots of great Japanese new wave that would be nice to see.
Some Youssef Chahine? Emilo Fernandez?
Week End
It’s been on the “Long wait” status on my queue for quite some time :/
any and all cocteau! also, bresson and rohmer, please.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. But I’ve a list, and I’m going to use it.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
First, a little one:
Auteurs:
Michael Balcon
Evgenii Bauer
Joseph Losey
Alexander Mackendrick
Norman McLaren (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ronald Neame
Francesco Rosi
David O Selznick
(I realise that Balcon and Selznick are producers rather than directors, but I’m assuming that that’s what Alexander Korda’s currently on the list because of, rather than The Private Life Of Henry VIII. Besides, if there ever was an auteur in Hollywood, it was Selznick, and if there were no Balcon, British cinema as we know it may never have existed.
Actually, come to think of it, why isn’t there some option for auteuristic non-directors? Oh, this has probably already been discussed somewhere else…but I can’t get over the idea that I’d darn well like to imagine my having, say, Saul Bass’s name on my profile page someday.)
And now!
Films!
OK! Here it comes!!! Here comes an absurd, and very, very ridiculously lengthy list!!!
Look away now!!!
First, the obvious:
Judex (Feuillade, 1916)
Der letzte Mann (Murnau, 1924)
L’année dernière à Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
La nuit américaine (Truffaut, 1973)
Zegen (Imamura, 1981)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Girard, 1993)
The very important:
Design For Living (Lubitsch, 1933)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley, 1938)
The Four Feathers (Korda, 1939)
In Which We Serve (Coward/Lean, 1942)
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1943)
Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947)
The Time Of Your Life (Potter, 1948)
Ningen no joken I-III (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
A Taste Of Honey (Richardson, 1961)
The Servant (Losey, 1963)
Two For The Road (Donen, 1967)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Schlesinger, 1971)
Don’t Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
Le septième ciel (Jacquot, 1997)
And a whole bunch more:
Posle smerti (Bauer, 1915)
Ich möchte kein Mann sein (Lubitsch, 1918)
Die Austernprinzessin (Lubitsch, 1919)
Herr Arnes pengar (Stiller, 1919)
The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)
Something To Sing About (Schertzinger, 1937)
The Roaring Twenties (Walsh, 1939)
Contraband (Powell, 1940)
This Happy Breed (Lean, 1944)
The Card (Neame, 1952)
Lola Montès (Ophüls, 1955)
Marty (Mann, 1955)
I’m All Right Jack (Boulting, 1959)
Our Man In Havana (Reed, 1959)
Zazie dans le metro (Malle, 1960)
Advise And Consent (Preminger, 1962)
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (Richardson, 1962)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Preminger, 1963)
Becket (Glenville, 1964)
Cerný Petr (Forman, 1964)
Il deserto rosso (Antonioni, 1964)
The Americanization Of Emily (Hiller, 1964)
Darling (Schlesinger, 1965)
Alfie (Gilbert, 1966)
Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (Reisz, 1966)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Neame, 1969)
The Go-Between (Losey, 1970)
Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1971)
The Hospital (Hiller, 1971)
I racconti di Canterbury (Pasolini, 1972)
O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Love And Death (Allen, 1975)
1900 (Bertolucci, 1976)
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Rosi, 1979)
Quintet (Altman, 1979)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Gregory’s Girl (Forsyth, 1981)
Reds (Beatty, 1981)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Reisz, 1981)
Gandhi (Attenborough, 1982)
Educating Rita (Gilbert, 1983)
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Oshima, 1983)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984)
Once Upon A Time In America (Leone, 1984)
Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
37°2 le matin (Beineix, 1986)
Swimming To Cambodia (Demme, 1986)
Maurice (Ivory, 1987)
September (Allen, 1987)
Another Woman (Allen, 1988)
Things Change (Mamet, 1988)
Crimes And Misdemeanours (Allen, 1989)
Kuroi ame (Imamura, 1989)
Vincent And Theo (Altman, 1990)
JFK (Stone, 1991)
The Remains Of The Day (Ivory, 1993)
Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
Kansas City (Altman, 1996)
Deconstructing Harry (Allen, 1997)
La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano (Tornatore, 1998)
And now, for my next act, I will collapse.
The Hustler and The Caine Mutiny so I can add them to my favorites.
I would second OUT 1, and also wavelength……..and where the hell is “Chameleon Street”????
Films by Tony Gatlif, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jour de Fête by Tati, Plein Soleil, more RW Fassbinder, more Agnès Varda, more Fritz Lang, more Almodovar…
A couple foreign films from last year that should definitely be on here:
Alice’s House (A Casa de Alice, Brazil, 2007)
Up the Yangtze (Canada, 2007)
The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet, France, 2007)
La fille sur le pont.
Robert Altman
The Long Goodbye
California Split
Nicholas Ray
They Drive By Night
*In A Lonely Place
Battle Victory
Sam Fuller
The Baron of Arizona
And you guys just have to get the ball rolling on a Spielberg page.
Though he’s an animator, Hayao Miyazaki. lovelovelove all his movies.
Though he’s an animator, Hayao Miyazaki. lovelovelove all his movies.
I would like to add Blind Shaft to my favorites.
Also, you need more Mamet.
These are some films I would love to see and have a difficult time coming across to rent before I decide to buy. Or are OOP. Whether or not they are worthy of being on here I couldn’t say as I haven’t seen them.
Miracle in Milan and Shoeshine by Vittorio De Sica
My Dinner with Andre by Louis Malle
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed
Spirits of the Dead and Vanya on 42nd Street by Louis Malle
L’Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais
Four Flies On Grey Velvet By Argento
I really want to see these films especially L’Année dernière à Marienbad. As far as films I have already seen
I would like to see on here, there’s not enough time for those.
Oh and Akira.
I’d like to see more shorts and early works of accomplished directors. Anything that’s included on Criterion supplements ([ike Godard’s “Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick” which is found on the extras of “A Woman is a Woman” or the (hopefully) soon to be Criterion release of “The Darjeeling Limited”’s short “Hotel Chevalier.”]
I’d imagine those would be a lot easier to acquire than the rights to showcase early films like Scorsese’s “The Big Shave,” though that’s easily seen with YouTube.
Jeanne Dielman by Akerman; Jodorowsky – Holy Mountain & El Topo. Haven’t seen these myself, so wonder what all the fuss is about
Jean Epstein: a brilliant silent film director, pick up the Kino Avant Garde set for a taste.
Didn’t read this whole thread, but definitely Punch Drunk Love. If you have Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will be Blood why not PDL?
All of George A. Romero.
Please please John Waters ans Lloyd Kaufman movies!
“Iron 3”
More of Dario Argento’s films, and more horror films – specifically giallo and slasher would be awesome.
Any James Benning film, please! But if I had to pick, “Los”, “El Valley Centro” and “RR”, although I heard it’s really best to watch them in the cinema to get the full experience. Michael Almereyda’s Another Girl, Another Planet as well? Cheers!
Dorte-I’m assuming you mean 3 Iron? A great film.
Soul Plane. hahahaha
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Saw it the other night and it’s absolutely incredible.
Rica, totally right. Takashi Miike, and maybe some Park Chan Wook.
I would love to see some Don Hertzfeldt on here too. The man’s a damned genius, and an auteur in his own right.
Troels Kampmann Kay
I saw that Robert Altman´s only film in the library was “Shortcuts”
i would like to see “MASH”, “Nashville”, “The Player”, “Gosford Park” and “A Prairie Home Companion” on that list as well.
Also Todd Solonz and Paul Thomas Andersons films are among some of my favourites
So get them in there :)