I have seen most or all of fassbinder’s works except Berlin Alexanderplatz (trying to find the time to see it in one go!!). He is up there as my favourite director. A genius who crammed more than a lifetimes work into just 15 years of filmmaking. A true original. Here is my top ten fassbinder films I love them all. If you haven’t seen these you should!!!
1.Beware of A Holy Whore
2.Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
3.Satan’s Brew
4.Frauen In New York (tv play about society women in new york, fantasically bitchy and grotesque)
5.Love Is Colder Than Death
6.Jail Bait ( a shocking film banned by many countries for its depiction of a 15 year old girl’s carnivorous desire for her older boyfriend)
7.Fox and His Friends
8.Welt am Draht ( a two part mini series blending sci fi with film noir a bit like Alphaville but ten times more enlightning and entertaining)
9.In A Yearof Thirteen Moons
10.Veronika Voss
From all these directors I have seen the features still missing some of their shorts and documentaries:
Sam Peckinpah
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Orson Welles
Tsai Ming Liang
Theo Angelpoulos
Francois Truffaut
Andrei Tarkovsky
Luchino Visconti
Robert Bresson
Jim Jarmusch
Derek Jarman
Aki Kaurismaki
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Chan Wook Park
Pier Pasolini
Pedro Almodovar
Lindsay Anderson
Terence Malick
P T Anderson
Wes Anderson
Shane Meadows
Am only one or two off with Zhang Yimou, Nic Roeg, Ang Lee, John Cassavetes, Krystolf Kieslowski, Joel Coen, Rainer Fassbinder, Woody Allen, Robert Altman (post 1965), Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Haneke, Lars Von Trier, Paolo Taviani, Eric Rohmer and prob some more. Gosh I never realised I was such a movie geek until I did this list!!
rainer fassbinder – margit carstenson
werner herzog – eva mattes
bigas luna – javier bardem
robert altman -shelley duvall
pedro almodovar – rossy de palma
andre techine – emanuelle beart
luchino visconti – claudia cardinale
john cassavettes – peter falk
lars von trier – udo kier
lindsay anderson – malcolm mcdowell
I had to compile two lists one for the masters and one for contempary film makers.
1.Ingmar Bergman
2.Rainer Fassbinder
2.Alfred Hitchcock
4.Akira Kurosawa
5.Nagisa Oshima
6.John Cassavettes
7.Robert Altman
8.Andrei Tarkovsky
9.Federico Fellini
10.Jean Luc Godard
1.Lars Von Trier
2.Abbas Kiarostami
3.Achipthong Weerasethakul
4.Gaspar Noe
5.Alexsandr Sokurov
6.Michael Haneke
7.Paolo Sorrentino
8.Wes Anderson
9.Christophe Honore
10.Steve Mcqueen
Ozu – End of Summer
Pasolini – Accatone
Cocteau – La Belle et Bete
Dreyer – Days of Wrath
Eisenstein – Battleship Potemkin
Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
Visconti – Rocco and His Brothers
Satyajit Ray – Days and Nights in the Forest
Vigo –
Resnais – Providence
Bertolucci – The Conformist
Kieslowski – No End
Wajda – Landscape After Battle
Powell/Pressburger – A Canterbury Tale
Almodovar – Live Flesh
Spielberg – Duel
Mann – Manhunter
Gilliam – Tideland
Fincher – Fight Club
Scorsese – Mean Streets
Coppola – Godfather
De Palma –
Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
Coens – Man Who Wasn’t There
P.T.Anderson – Punch Drunk Love
Demme – Silence of the Lambs
Cassavetes – Husbands
Reiner – Stand By Me
Penny Marshall – Big
Eastwood – High Plains Drifter
Cameron – Terminator II
Wes Anderson – Life Aquatic
Jarmusch – Down By Law
Bay –
D.G. Green –
Huston – Asphalt Jungle
Ivan Reitman – Ghostbusters
Lumet – Running On Empty
Burton – Beetlejuice
1.2046 10/10
2.In the Mood for Love 9/10
3.Days of Being Wild 7/10
4.Happy Together 7/10
5.Chungking Express 7/10
6.Ashes of Time 7/10
7.Fallen Angels 7/10
8.As Tears Go By 6/10
9.My Blueberry Nights 3/10
1.Interiors
2.Broadway Danny Rose
3.Stardust Memories
4.Radio Days
5.Manhattan
6.Bullets Over Broadway
7.Sleeper
8.Everyone Says I Love You
9.Manhattan Murder Mystery
10.Annie Hall
Fellini – 8 1/2
Bergman – Autumn Sonata
Kurosawa – High and Low
Truffaut – 400 Hundred Blows
Renoir –
Fassbinder – Beware of A Holy Whore
Herzog – Strosek
Godard – Le Mepris
Antonioni – L’Aventurra
Bresson – Mouchette
Hitchcock – Vertigo
Bunuel – Belle de Jour
Lang – M
Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev
Mizoguchi – Ugetsu Monogatori
Rossellini – Germany Year Zero
Altman – Nashville
De Sica – Garden of Finzi-Contin
Polanski – Chinatown
Rivette – Histoire Marie et Julien
Wenders – Alice In the Cities
Rohmer – Green Ray
Melville – Le Deuxieme Souffle
Kubrick – Clockwork Orange
John Woo – hard Boiled
Mike Leigh – Bleak Moments
Stephen Frears – Grifters
Marc Forster – Monsters Ball
Bela Tarr – werckmeister Harmonies
Wong Kar Wai – 2046
Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
Atom Egoyan – Calendar
Costa-Gavras – Z
Michel Gondry – Science of Sleep
Guillermo Del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Alfonso Cuaron – Y Tu Mama Tambien
Alejandro Gonzelez Inurritu – Amoros Perros
Arturo Ripstein – Dark Crimson
Neil Jordan – Interview With A Vampire
Danny Boyle – Trainspotting
Mike Newell – Enchanted April
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys
Roger Donaldson -
Philip Noyce –
Peter Weir – Picnic At Hanging Rock
Park Chan Wook – Oldboy
Lasse Hallstrom – My Life As A Dog
Ridley Scott – Bladerunner
Walter Salles – Central Station
1.Autumn Sonata 11.Brink of Life
2.Fanny and Alexander 12.Virgin Spring
3.Face To Face 13.sawdust and tinsel
4.Through A Glass Darkly 14.wild strawberries
5.Seventh Seal 15.persona
6.the Silence 16.the Magician
7.From the Life of Marionettes 17.Summer With Monika
8.In the Presence of A Clown 18.the Touch
9.the Rite 19.Saraband
10.Cries and Whispers 20.These Waiting Women
01. Film – Le Mepris
02. Director – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
03. Book – Frankenstein
04. Author – William S Burroughs
05. Painting – the kiss (klimt)
06. Painter – Kandinsky
07. Song – Love Will Tear us Apart (joy division)
08. Band/Singer – Nina Simone
09. Composer (classical) – Arvo Part
10. Piece of music (classical) – mozart, requiem
1. Mort et Jardin, Luis Bunuel, 1956 Mexico
2.Pociag, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959 Poland
3.Diamonds of the Night, Jan Nemec, 1964 Czechoslovakia
4. Fist In His Pocket, Marco Bellocchio, 1965 Italy
5.The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966 Spain
6.Martin Fierro, Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson, 1968 Argentina
7.Love, Karoly Makk, 1971 Hungary
8.Harder They Come, Perry Henzell 1972 Jamaica
9.Wishing Tree, Tengiz Abuladze 1976 USSR-Georgia
10.Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes, Rangel Vulchanov 1979 Bulgaria
11.German Sisters, Margarethe Von Trotta 1981 West Germany
12.A Successful Man, Humberto Solas, 1985 Cuba
13.Black Rain, Shohei Imamura, 1989 Japan
14.East Palace, West Palace, Zhang Yuan 1996 China
15.Rose Seller, Victor Gaviria, 1998 Colombia
16.Whisky, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, 2004 Uruguay
17.Times and the Wind, Reha Erdem, 2006 Turkey
18.Bothersome Man, Jens Lien, 2006 Norway
19.California Dreamin’, Christian Nemescu, 2007 Rumania
20.Better Things, Duane Hopkins, 2008 United Kingdom
Unscruplous Ones (1962, Ruy Guerra, Brazil)
The Comissar (1967, Alexsandr Askoldov, Russia)
Jackal Of Nahueltoro (1969, Miguel Littin, Chile)
Ten Days Wonder (1971, Claude Chabrol, France)
Images (1972, Robert Altman, USA)
The Adversary (1972, Satyajit Ray, India)
Do You Remember Me Dolly Bell? (1981, Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Simple Minded Murderer (1982, Hans Alfredson, Sweden)
Babette’s Feast (1987, Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
Halfouine (1990, Ferid Boughedir, Tunisia)
The Northerners (1992, Alex Van Warmendam, Holland)
Calendar (1993, Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Palms (1993, Artour Aristakisian, Moldova)
Miss Amerigua (1994, Luis F Vera, Paraguay)
Cyclo (1995, Anh Hung Tran, Vietnam)
Waati (1995, Souleymane Cisse, Mali)
Lies (1999, Sun-Woo Jang, South Korea)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming Liang, Taiwan)
Turtles Can Fly (2004, Bahman Gohbadi, Iran)
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (2006, Djamshed Usmanov, Tajikistan)
UNDERATED MASTERPIECES
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Wayward Cloud
Climates
Fantasma
Alexander the Great
Syndromes and A Century
My Winnipeg
XXY
Hunger
Christiane F
Zed and Two Noughts
Alice (1988, Jan Svankmajer CZE)
Match Factory Girl
D’est
Cold Water
Irma Vep
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Gummo
After Life
the Hole
I Stand Alone
Rosetta
Eureka
Suzhou River
Werckmeister Harmonies
Time Out
Demonlover
Holy Girl
Innocence
Twenty Four Eyes
Death of A Cyclist
Mother Joan of Angels
Pitfall
Salvatore Giuliani
Bad Sleep Well
Judex
This Sporting Life
Onibaba
Shop On Main Street
Face of Another
Pharaoh
Wings
Samurai Rebellion
Reconstruction (1970 Theo Angelopoulos GRE)
Valley of the Bees
Boy
Adelheid
Minnie and Moskovitz
Red Psalm
Hour Glass Sanatorium
India Song
the Ascent
Cria Cuervos
Padre Padrone
Les Rendez Vous d’Anna
Vengeance Is Mine
INTERESTING BUT NO MASTERPIECE AND SOME GREAT FILMS ALREADY EXPOSED
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Sabotage
Il Grido
Mother India
Tokyo Twilight
the Magician
the Housemaid
Paris Belongs To Us
the Young One
Divorce Italian Style
Through A Glass Darkly
Big City
Assassination
Black Girl
Round-Up
Silence and Cry
Je T’aime Je T’aime
A Gentle Woman
Night of Counting the Years
Deep End
Third Part of the Night
Alice In the Cities
Chinese Roulette
Autumn Sonata
Yol
What HaveI Done To Deserve This?
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Gang of Four
Autumn Moon
Hyenas
Blue Kite
My Favourite Season
Everyone Says I Love You
Robinson In Space
the Apple
Day I Became A Woman
Platform
Songs From the Second Floor
Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Millenium Mambo
What Time Is It There
Blissfully Yours
Morvern Callar
the Son
I’m Not Scared
Duck Season
L’Intrus
Kung Fu Hustle
Machuca
Tropical Malady
Battle In Heaven
Death of Mr Lazarescu
Election (Johnny To)
Three Times
Dry Season
Still Life
Lust, Caution
Ballad of A Soldier
the Man Who Left His Will On Camera
THE DISAPPOINTING, THE DULL AND THE SHIT BUT HIGHLY ENJOYABLE
-1
Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Triple Agent
the World
Be With Me
Brokeback Mountain
New World
Regular Lovers
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Lights In the Dusk
the Orphanage
Silent Light
Interrogation
Carmen
Fourth Man
Rumble Fish
Three Crowns of A Sailor
Voyage To Cythera
Colonel Redl
Melo
Mapantsula
Trust
Kikijuro
Man Bites Dog
Quince Tree Sun
Bad Boy Bubby
Raining Stones
Ashes of Time
Heavenly Creatures
Silences of the Palace
Strawberry and Chocolate
Vive l’Amour
Open Your Eyes
Lovers of the Artic Circle
Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Anatomy
Mysterious Objects At Noon
All About Lily Chou-Chou
the Circle
the Others
8 Women
Friday Night
Twilight Samurai
Awaara
Street of Shame
La Notte Bianche
Devi
When A Woman Ascends the Stairs
Knife In Water
Actor’s Revenge
Fistful of Dollars
Death of A Bureaucrat
the Stranger
Terra em Transe
Innocence Unprotected
the Cow
American Soldier
Valarie and Her Week of Wonders
Fata Morgana
Distant Thunder
Turks Fruit
Big Racket
I Only Want You To Love Me
Wise Blood
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls On the Heap
No Man’s Land
Hero
THE FAILED, THE UTTERLY PAINT DRYING BORING, THE UP ITS OWN ARSE IT HURTS, AND THE PURE CRAP
-2
Michael
Repast
Ascent To Heaven
Sound of the Mountain
Ballad of Narayama
Kinghts of the Teutonic Order
Flowing
Hawks and Sparrows
Made In U.S.A
Love Affair, Or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
the Cremator
Dodes’ka-Den
Zabriskie Point
Four Nights of A Dreamer
Merchant of Four Seasons
WR: Mysteries of An Organism
Le Grande Bouffe
Holy Mountain
Mother and the Whore
Wicker Man
Edvard Munch
Zardoz
Shivers
I Pierre Riviere
American Friend
Christ Stopped At Eboli
Aviator’s Wife
Lola
Possession
Identification of A Woman
Querelle
Return of Martin Guerre
Comrades
Decline of the American Empire
the Mission
Bad Taste
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Daughter of the Nile
Ariel
the Vanishing
Alice(1990 Woody Allen USA)
Nasty Girl
Nouvelle Vague
Prospero’s Books
Braindead
Red Squirrel
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Mina Tannenbaum
Maborosi
Drifting Clouds
Secrets and Lies
Thesis
Run Lola Run
Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai
Girl Interrupted
Battle Royale
Joint Security Area
101 Reykjavik
Tears of the Black Tiger
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge
the Coastguard
Divine Intervention
Man Without A Past
Ten
Kontroll
Clean
Match Point
the Fountain
Opera Jawa
In the City of Sylvia
I really am a tough marker so out of the thousands of films I’ve seen I would only give roughly 50 of them ten out of ten and most of them by different directors. For me any film I score above eight is seriously good! These film makers get the highest amounts of films over eight.
Robert Altman: (5) Streamers, Nashville, Mccabe and Mrs Miller, California Split, Images
Ingmar Bergman: (8) Fanny and Alexander, Life of the Marionettes, Autumn Sonata, Face to Face, Hour of the Wolf, Through A Glass Darkly, Seventh Seal, In the Presence of A Clown
John Cassavettes: (6) Love Streams, Killing of A Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskovitz, Woman Under the Influence
Rainer Fassbinder: (6)In the Year of Thirteen Moons, Satan’s Brew, Beware of A Holy Whore, Jail Bait, Frauen In New York, Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Jean Luc Godard: (5) Le Mepris, Alphaville, Pierrot Le Fou, Masculin Feminin, Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
Alfred Hitchcock: (7) Family Plot, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Rebecca, Shadow of A Doubt
Akira Kurosawa: (7) Ran, High and Low, Bad Sleep Well, Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Stray Dog
Nagisa Oshima (6) Death By Hanging, Diary of A Shinjuku Thief, Boy, Violence At High Noon, the Ceremony, Night and Fog In Japan
Tsai-Ming-Liang: (5)Hole, I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone, the River, Wayward Cloud, Goodbye Dragon Inn
Orson Welles: (6) Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, the Trial, Chimes At Midnight, Immortal Story
I not sure Britain is or was a major force in filmaking but being British myself feel a need to defend its film industry. In the last two decades or so many of Britain’s greatest filmmakers are no longer working in this country or have passed on. Peter Greenaway (working in Holand) Peter Watkins (working in Norway), Derek Jarman and Jane Arden spring to mind. It is quite alarming to find so much British talent not just lured away by Hollywood but by other traditionally smaller producing nations such as Holland and Norway. That said in the last decade many new talents emerged. I believe there has been a noticeable shift in style in British cinema. Maybe not a filmic movement, but contemporary British filmmakers seem just as inspired by French or German new wave cinema as they do the likes of Loach, Leigh and the rest of the British old guard. Films such as Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay), Better Things (Duane Hopkins), Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel), Helen (Christine Molloy), Hunger (Steve Mcqueen), Pavee Lackeen (Perry Ogden), Red Road, Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) Soi Cowboy (Thomas Clay), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg), Sommers Town, Dead Mans Shoes (Shane Meadows) possess a new freshness, a Britain reinventing itself. These films are stylized lyrical poetic works, beautifully shot and have moved away from the gritty neo realist film one associates with British film. I also believe that Britain’s multicultural diversity should be applauded, Gurindar Chadha, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Hanif Kureishi, Udyan Prassad, and others hail from ethnic backgrounds and certainly their voices are better represented than say their counterparts in France, Germany and Italy. As long as Britain can keep hold of these talents and not lose them to Hollywood or elsewhere Britain can become a leader in western european cinema. France is and has been in decline for some years, Germany and Spain’s leading filmmakers have veered towards the mainstream (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Orpanage, Volver, Baader Meinhof, Lives of Others, Downfall) and Denmark and the whole dogme school is now a little passe. In terms of world cinema I believe that all western countries are struggling to compete against new international competitors in terms of recognition. First Iran, then South Korea, Rumania, Turkey and China have all had a recent buzz. It seems like there is a reaction against the normal leading players and a wanton for new discoveries from different cultural and historical backgrounds. You can see this trend from the Auteurs world cup where countries like Britain, USA, Germany and France did not make a great impact. It is up to to western filmmakers to jump to the challenges and Britain seems better equipped than most.
I’ve been trying to do the same thing. Here are some of my selctions from some of the countries Iyou have not seen. Central America, Carribbean, Parts of southwest asia, and Africa are real difficult to complete. Some rather obscure countries such as Burkina Faso have such a rich film culture but so little is available to watch other than at film festivals. I suggest you also buy the international film guide sponsered by tcm (used to be the Guardian). Every year they release a guide of the best films made in different countries. Its quite comprehensive and I have found it valuable in tracking down some real rare finds in contemporary cinema.
Don’t know if you have region free dvd player but have listed how I purchased films as well.
Afghanistan- Osama, Siddiq Barmak (uk dvd)
Armenia- Vodka Lemon, Hineer Salem (uk dvd)
Bangladesh-Last Thakur, Sadiq Ahmed (uk dvd)
Bhutan-Milarepa, Neten Chokling (uk dvd)
Bolivia-Sexual Dependency, Rodrigo Bellot (u.s dvd)
Bulgaria-Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes, Rangel Volchanov (Bulgarian dvd)
Burkina Faso-Yaaba (on youtube)
Cameroon-Sisters In Law, Florence Ayisi, Kim Longinotto (uk dvd)
Chad-Abouna,Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (uk dvd)
Colombia-Rose Seller, Victor Gaviria (us dvd)
Croatia-Balkan Post, Rajko Grlic (uk dvd)
Cuba, Lucia, Humberto Solas (uk dvd)
Ecuador-Cronicos, Sebastian Cordero (us dvd)
Egypt-Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine (on youtube)
Estonia-Darkness In Tallin, Ilkka Järvi-Laturi (uk vhs)
Iceland- Noi Albinoi, Dagur Kauri (uk dvd)
Indonesia-Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho (uk dvd)
Iraq-Ahlaam,Mohamed Al Daradji (uk dvd)
Jamaica- Harder They Come, Perry Henzell (uk dvd)
Lebanon- Caramel, Nadine Labaki (uk dvd)
Liberia- Johnny Mad Dog, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, was finanaced in France, set in Liberia (uk dvd)
Lithuania- A casa, Sharunas Bartas (on youtube)
Macedonia- Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski (uk dvd)
Malaysia- I Don’t want To Sleep Alone, Tsai Ming Liang (uk dvd)
Mauritania-Waiting For Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako (uk dvd)
Moldova-Palms, Artour Aristakisian (uk dvd)
Morocco- Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir (uk vhs)
Netherlands- the Northerners, Alex Van Warmendam (uk vhs)
Pakistan- Silent Waters, Sabiha Sumar (uk dvd)
Paraguay- Miss Amerigua , Luis Vera (not available)
Peru- Dias de Santiago, Josue Mendez (us dvd)
Philippines- The Masseur, Brillante Mendoza (uk dvd)
Portugal- Blood, Pedro Costa (uk dvd)
Serbia- Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, Srdjan Dragojevic (uk vhs)
Singapore- Ten, Roystan Tan, (uk dvd)
Slovakia- Kristove Roky, Juraj Jakubisco, made in Czechoslovakia, (on youtube)
Slovenia- Spare Parts, Dojan Kozole, (uk dvd)
South Africa- Mapantsula, Oliver Schmitz, (uk vhs)
Switzerland-Dans Ma Ville Blanche, Alain Tanner, (download)
Tajikistan-To get To Heaven You Have To Die First, Djamshed Usmonov (uk dvd)
Ukraine- Legend Of Princess Olga, Yuri Ilyenko, (on youtube, no subs)
Uruguay- Whisky, Pablo Stoll, Juan Rebella (uk dvd)
Vatican City, does the pope make home videos?!!
Venezuela- Secuestro Express, Jonathan Jakubowicz, (uk dvd)
These countries really want to see these films, either can’t track down or saving to buy on dvd.
Angola- the Hero, Zeze Gambao
Azerbaijan- Yarasa, Ayaz Salayev
Belarus- Maria , Victor Asliuk
Botswana- The Gods Must Be Crazy, Jamie Uys
Cambodia- Sea Wall, Rith Panh
Cape Verde-Fintar el Destino, Fernando Vendrell
Congo (democratic republic)- Identity Pieces, Mweze Ngangara
Costa Rica-Red Sky, Miguel Gomez
Cyprus- The Last Homecoming, Corinna Avraamidou
Dom Republic-Yuniol, Alfonso Rodriguez
Ethiopia-Adwa, Haile Gerima
Fiji-The Land Has Eyes, Vilsoni Hereniko
Gabon-Tam tams se sont tus,Philippe Mory
Ghana-Heritage Africa, Kwah Ansah
Guatemala- Petrol, Julio Hernandez Cordon
Guinea- Dakan, Mohammed Kamara
Haiti-Moloch Tropical, Raoul Peck,
Honduras, Spirit of My Mother, Ali Allie
Ivory Coast- Lost Illusion, Bernard Massilli
Jordan- Captain Abu Raed, Amin Matalqa
Kazakhstan- Tulpan, Sergey Dvortsevoi (soon to be realeased on uk dvd)
Kyrgyzstan-Unknown Route, Timor Birnazarov
Latvia-Defenders of Riga,Aigars Grauba,Andrejs Ekis
Luxembourg- Arabian Knights, Paul Kieffer
Madagascar- Souli, Alexander Abela
Mongolia, Story of the Weeping Camel, Byambasuren Davaa (available in uk dvd)
Mozambique- Neilo’s Story, Solveig Nordlund (available in uk dvd)
Nepal-Kaagbeni, Bhusan Dahal
Nicaragua-Spectre of War,Ramiro Lacayo
Niger, Polygamic Wazzou,Oumaru Ganda
Nigeria- Narrow Path, Tunde Kelani
North Korea- A Schoolgirl’s Diary, Jang In Hok
Sri Lanka- Uppalavanna, Sunil Ariyaratne
Syria-Bab Al Makam, Mohammed Malas
Uzbekistan- Chashma, Elkin Tuichiev
Yemen- A New Day In Old San’a, Bader Ben Hersi
Zimbabwe-NeriaGoodwin Mawuru
Unfortunately the majority of the above films will never be seen in commercial release, and will remain unknown and anonymous. Its hard enough finding films from places like Finland and Austria let alone Nicaragua and Uzbekistan.
Favorite fassbinder film over 2 years ago
I have seen most or all of fassbinder’s works except Berlin Alexanderplatz (trying to find the time to see it in one go!!). He is up there as my favourite director. A genius who crammed more than a lifetimes work into just 15 years of filmmaking. A true original. Here is my top ten fassbinder films I love them all. If you haven’t seen these you should!!!
1.Beware of A Holy Whore
2.Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
3.Satan’s Brew
4.Frauen In New York (tv play about society women in new york, fantasically bitchy and grotesque)
5.Love Is Colder Than Death
6.Jail Bait ( a shocking film banned by many countries for its depiction of a 15 year old girl’s carnivorous desire for her older boyfriend)
7.Fox and His Friends
8.Welt am Draht ( a two part mini series blending sci fi with film noir a bit like Alphaville but ten times more enlightning and entertaining)
9.In A Yearof Thirteen Moons
10.Veronika Voss
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Which directors have you seen every feature from? over 2 years ago
From all these directors I have seen the features still missing some of their shorts and documentaries:
Sam Peckinpah
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Orson Welles
Tsai Ming Liang
Theo Angelpoulos
Francois Truffaut
Andrei Tarkovsky
Luchino Visconti
Robert Bresson
Jim Jarmusch
Derek Jarman
Aki Kaurismaki
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Chan Wook Park
Pier Pasolini
Pedro Almodovar
Lindsay Anderson
Terence Malick
P T Anderson
Wes Anderson
Shane Meadows
Am only one or two off with Zhang Yimou, Nic Roeg, Ang Lee, John Cassavetes, Krystolf Kieslowski, Joel Coen, Rainer Fassbinder, Woody Allen, Robert Altman (post 1965), Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Haneke, Lars Von Trier, Paolo Taviani, Eric Rohmer and prob some more. Gosh I never realised I was such a movie geek until I did this list!!
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Greatest Director/Actor Collaborations over 2 years ago
rainer fassbinder – margit carstenson
werner herzog – eva mattes
bigas luna – javier bardem
robert altman -shelley duvall
pedro almodovar – rossy de palma
andre techine – emanuelle beart
luchino visconti – claudia cardinale
john cassavettes – peter falk
lars von trier – udo kier
lindsay anderson – malcolm mcdowell
to name a few…
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Top 10 Directors. over 2 years ago
I had to compile two lists one for the masters and one for contempary film makers.
1.Ingmar Bergman
2.Rainer Fassbinder
2.Alfred Hitchcock
4.Akira Kurosawa
5.Nagisa Oshima
6.John Cassavettes
7.Robert Altman
8.Andrei Tarkovsky
9.Federico Fellini
10.Jean Luc Godard
1.Lars Von Trier
2.Abbas Kiarostami
3.Achipthong Weerasethakul
4.Gaspar Noe
5.Alexsandr Sokurov
6.Michael Haneke
7.Paolo Sorrentino
8.Wes Anderson
9.Christophe Honore
10.Steve Mcqueen
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WORLD CUP: VOTING-SOUTH KOREA V HUNGARY (GROUP 2) over 2 years ago
Could only score these two as had not time to watch other two korean films.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring 0 – Werkmeister Harmonies 1
Two great directors but spring… is not the best from ki ki duk much prefer the isle or 3iron and werkmeister is Bela Tarr’s very best
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WORLD CUP: VOTING- SWEDEN V IRAN (GROUP 7) over 2 years ago
Fucking Amal 0 v Taste of Cherry 1
without a doubt TOC is one of kiarostami’s best films. Fucking Amal entertaining as it is feels like a swedish Hollyoaks.
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Best Film by Each of These Directors - Part 2 over 2 years ago
Ozu – End of Summer
Pasolini – Accatone
Cocteau – La Belle et Bete
Dreyer – Days of Wrath
Eisenstein – Battleship Potemkin
Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
Visconti – Rocco and His Brothers
Satyajit Ray – Days and Nights in the Forest
Vigo –
Resnais – Providence
Bertolucci – The Conformist
Kieslowski – No End
Wajda – Landscape After Battle
Powell/Pressburger – A Canterbury Tale
Almodovar – Live Flesh
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Best Film by Each of These Directors: Hollywood Style over 2 years ago
Spielberg – Duel
Mann – Manhunter
Gilliam – Tideland
Fincher – Fight Club
Scorsese – Mean Streets
Coppola – Godfather
De Palma –
Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
Coens – Man Who Wasn’t There
P.T.Anderson – Punch Drunk Love
Demme – Silence of the Lambs
Cassavetes – Husbands
Reiner – Stand By Me
Penny Marshall – Big
Eastwood – High Plains Drifter
Cameron – Terminator II
Wes Anderson – Life Aquatic
Jarmusch – Down By Law
Bay –
D.G. Green –
Huston – Asphalt Jungle
Ivan Reitman – Ghostbusters
Lumet – Running On Empty
Burton – Beetlejuice
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Rank WKW's Films over 2 years ago
Graded out of 1-10
1.2046 10/10
2.In the Mood for Love 9/10
3.Days of Being Wild 7/10
4.Happy Together 7/10
5.Chungking Express 7/10
6.Ashes of Time 7/10
7.Fallen Angels 7/10
8.As Tears Go By 6/10
9.My Blueberry Nights 3/10
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FAVORITE 5 OR 10 WOODY ALLEN MOVIES over 2 years ago
1.Interiors
2.Broadway Danny Rose
3.Stardust Memories
4.Radio Days
5.Manhattan
6.Bullets Over Broadway
7.Sleeper
8.Everyone Says I Love You
9.Manhattan Murder Mystery
10.Annie Hall
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Top 5 Hitchcock over 2 years ago
1.Vertigo
2.North By Northwest
3.Shadow of A Doubt
4.Family Plot
5.Man Who Knew Too Much (later version)
Honorable mentions to
Marnie
Rope
Rebecca
Sabotage
Strangers On A Train
All of these are masterpieces.
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Best film by each of these directors over 2 years ago
Fellini – 8 1/2
Bergman – Autumn Sonata
Kurosawa – High and Low
Truffaut – 400 Hundred Blows
Renoir –
Fassbinder – Beware of A Holy Whore
Herzog – Strosek
Godard – Le Mepris
Antonioni – L’Aventurra
Bresson – Mouchette
Hitchcock – Vertigo
Bunuel – Belle de Jour
Lang – M
Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev
Mizoguchi – Ugetsu Monogatori
Rossellini – Germany Year Zero
Altman – Nashville
De Sica – Garden of Finzi-Contin
Polanski – Chinatown
Rivette – Histoire Marie et Julien
Wenders – Alice In the Cities
Rohmer – Green Ray
Melville – Le Deuxieme Souffle
Kubrick – Clockwork Orange
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Best Film By Each of These Directors: Contemporary Non-Americans over 2 years ago
John Woo – hard Boiled
Mike Leigh – Bleak Moments
Stephen Frears – Grifters
Marc Forster – Monsters Ball
Bela Tarr – werckmeister Harmonies
Wong Kar Wai – 2046
Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
Atom Egoyan – Calendar
Costa-Gavras – Z
Michel Gondry – Science of Sleep
Guillermo Del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Alfonso Cuaron – Y Tu Mama Tambien
Alejandro Gonzelez Inurritu – Amoros Perros
Arturo Ripstein – Dark Crimson
Neil Jordan – Interview With A Vampire
Danny Boyle – Trainspotting
Mike Newell – Enchanted April
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys
Roger Donaldson -
Philip Noyce –
Peter Weir – Picnic At Hanging Rock
Park Chan Wook – Oldboy
Lasse Hallstrom – My Life As A Dog
Ridley Scott – Bladerunner
Walter Salles – Central Station
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WORLD CUP: 1/8 FINAL VOTING- RUSSIA V HUNGARY over 2 years ago
mirror 1 Diary for my children 0
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WORLD CUP: 1/8 FINAL VOTING- BELGIUM V CHINA over 2 years ago
Aaltra 1 Still Life0
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WORLD CUP 1/4 FINAL VOTING: GERMANY V INDIA over 2 years ago
Paris, Texas 1 v The Big City 0
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Top 5 Antonioni over 2 years ago
1.l’eclisse
2.l’aventurra
3.le Amiche
4.Red Desert
5.I Vinti (the british section is pure genius)
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TOP BERGMAN over 2 years ago
1.Autumn Sonata 11.Brink of Life
2.Fanny and Alexander 12.Virgin Spring
3.Face To Face 13.sawdust and tinsel
4.Through A Glass Darkly 14.wild strawberries
5.Seventh Seal 15.persona
6.the Silence 16.the Magician
7.From the Life of Marionettes 17.Summer With Monika
8.In the Presence of A Clown 18.the Touch
9.the Rite 19.Saraband
10.Cries and Whispers 20.These Waiting Women
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the ultimate favourite list over 2 years ago
01. Film – Le Mepris
02. Director – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
03. Book – Frankenstein
04. Author – William S Burroughs
05. Painting – the kiss (klimt)
06. Painter – Kandinsky
07. Song – Love Will Tear us Apart (joy division)
08. Band/Singer – Nina Simone
09. Composer (classical) – Arvo Part
10. Piece of music (classical) – mozart, requiem
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: In the Process of Making A Film Buff's Guide to Alternative Cinema over 2 years ago
1. Mort et Jardin, Luis Bunuel, 1956 Mexico
2.Pociag, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959 Poland
3.Diamonds of the Night, Jan Nemec, 1964 Czechoslovakia
4. Fist In His Pocket, Marco Bellocchio, 1965 Italy
5.The Hunt, Carlos Saura, 1966 Spain
6.Martin Fierro, Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson, 1968 Argentina
7.Love, Karoly Makk, 1971 Hungary
8.Harder They Come, Perry Henzell 1972 Jamaica
9.Wishing Tree, Tengiz Abuladze 1976 USSR-Georgia
10.Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes, Rangel Vulchanov 1979 Bulgaria
11.German Sisters, Margarethe Von Trotta 1981 West Germany
12.A Successful Man, Humberto Solas, 1985 Cuba
13.Black Rain, Shohei Imamura, 1989 Japan
14.East Palace, West Palace, Zhang Yuan 1996 China
15.Rose Seller, Victor Gaviria, 1998 Colombia
16.Whisky, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, 2004 Uruguay
17.Times and the Wind, Reha Erdem, 2006 Turkey
18.Bothersome Man, Jens Lien, 2006 Norway
19.California Dreamin’, Christian Nemescu, 2007 Rumania
20.Better Things, Duane Hopkins, 2008 United Kingdom
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top 10 favourite films from your home country over 2 years ago
UNITED KINGDOM
1.This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
2.Hunger (Steve McQueen)
3.Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
4.Better Things (Duane Hopkins)
5.London (Patrick Keiller)
6.Jubilee (Derek Jarman)
7.Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
8.Performance (Nic Roeg, Donald Camell)
9.Elephant (Alan Clarke)
10.Sleep Furiously (Gideon Keppel)
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: In the Process of Making A Film Buff's Guide to Alternative Cinema over 2 years ago
Unscruplous Ones (1962, Ruy Guerra, Brazil)
The Comissar (1967, Alexsandr Askoldov, Russia)
Jackal Of Nahueltoro (1969, Miguel Littin, Chile)
Ten Days Wonder (1971, Claude Chabrol, France)
Images (1972, Robert Altman, USA)
The Adversary (1972, Satyajit Ray, India)
Do You Remember Me Dolly Bell? (1981, Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Simple Minded Murderer (1982, Hans Alfredson, Sweden)
Babette’s Feast (1987, Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
Halfouine (1990, Ferid Boughedir, Tunisia)
The Northerners (1992, Alex Van Warmendam, Holland)
Calendar (1993, Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Palms (1993, Artour Aristakisian, Moldova)
Miss Amerigua (1994, Luis F Vera, Paraguay)
Cyclo (1995, Anh Hung Tran, Vietnam)
Waati (1995, Souleymane Cisse, Mali)
Lies (1999, Sun-Woo Jang, South Korea)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming Liang, Taiwan)
Turtles Can Fly (2004, Bahman Gohbadi, Iran)
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (2006, Djamshed Usmanov, Tajikistan)
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: The Voting Process over 2 years ago
UNDERATED MASTERPIECES
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Wayward Cloud
Climates
Fantasma
Alexander the Great
Syndromes and A Century
My Winnipeg
XXY
Hunger
Christiane F
Zed and Two Noughts
Alice (1988, Jan Svankmajer CZE)
Match Factory Girl
D’est
Cold Water
Irma Vep
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Gummo
After Life
the Hole
I Stand Alone
Rosetta
Eureka
Suzhou River
Werckmeister Harmonies
Time Out
Demonlover
Holy Girl
Innocence
Twenty Four Eyes
Death of A Cyclist
Mother Joan of Angels
Pitfall
Salvatore Giuliani
Bad Sleep Well
Judex
This Sporting Life
Onibaba
Shop On Main Street
Face of Another
Pharaoh
Wings
Samurai Rebellion
Reconstruction (1970 Theo Angelopoulos GRE)
Valley of the Bees
Boy
Adelheid
Minnie and Moskovitz
Red Psalm
Hour Glass Sanatorium
India Song
the Ascent
Cria Cuervos
Padre Padrone
Les Rendez Vous d’Anna
Vengeance Is Mine
INTERESTING BUT NO MASTERPIECE AND SOME GREAT FILMS ALREADY EXPOSED
THE DISAPPOINTING, THE DULL AND THE SHIT BUT HIGHLY ENJOYABLE+1
Sabotage
Il Grido
Mother India
Tokyo Twilight
the Magician
the Housemaid
Paris Belongs To Us
the Young One
Divorce Italian Style
Through A Glass Darkly
Big City
Assassination
Black Girl
Round-Up
Silence and Cry
Je T’aime Je T’aime
A Gentle Woman
Night of Counting the Years
Deep End
Third Part of the Night
Alice In the Cities
Chinese Roulette
Autumn Sonata
Yol
What HaveI Done To Deserve This?
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Gang of Four
Autumn Moon
Hyenas
Blue Kite
My Favourite Season
Everyone Says I Love You
Robinson In Space
the Apple
Day I Became A Woman
Platform
Songs From the Second Floor
Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Millenium Mambo
What Time Is It There
Blissfully Yours
Morvern Callar
the Son
I’m Not Scared
Duck Season
L’Intrus
Kung Fu Hustle
Machuca
Tropical Malady
Battle In Heaven
Death of Mr Lazarescu
Election (Johnny To)
Three Times
Dry Season
Still Life
Lust, Caution
Ballad of A Soldier
the Man Who Left His Will On Camera
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Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Triple Agent
the World
Be With Me
Brokeback Mountain
New World
Regular Lovers
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Lights In the Dusk
the Orphanage
Silent Light
Interrogation
Carmen
Fourth Man
Rumble Fish
Three Crowns of A Sailor
Voyage To Cythera
Colonel Redl
Melo
Mapantsula
Trust
Kikijuro
Man Bites Dog
Quince Tree Sun
Bad Boy Bubby
Raining Stones
Ashes of Time
Heavenly Creatures
Silences of the Palace
Strawberry and Chocolate
Vive l’Amour
Open Your Eyes
Lovers of the Artic Circle
Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Anatomy
Mysterious Objects At Noon
All About Lily Chou-Chou
the Circle
the Others
8 Women
Friday Night
Twilight Samurai
Awaara
Street of Shame
La Notte Bianche
Devi
When A Woman Ascends the Stairs
Knife In Water
Actor’s Revenge
Fistful of Dollars
Death of A Bureaucrat
the Stranger
Terra em Transe
Innocence Unprotected
the Cow
American Soldier
Valarie and Her Week of Wonders
Fata Morgana
Distant Thunder
Turks Fruit
Big Racket
I Only Want You To Love Me
Wise Blood
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls On the Heap
No Man’s Land
Hero
THE FAILED, THE UTTERLY PAINT DRYING BORING, THE UP ITS OWN ARSE IT HURTS, AND THE PURE CRAP
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Michael
Repast
Ascent To Heaven
Sound of the Mountain
Ballad of Narayama
Kinghts of the Teutonic Order
Flowing
Hawks and Sparrows
Made In U.S.A
Love Affair, Or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
the Cremator
Dodes’ka-Den
Zabriskie Point
Four Nights of A Dreamer
Merchant of Four Seasons
WR: Mysteries of An Organism
Le Grande Bouffe
Holy Mountain
Mother and the Whore
Wicker Man
Edvard Munch
Zardoz
Shivers
I Pierre Riviere
American Friend
Christ Stopped At Eboli
Aviator’s Wife
Lola
Possession
Identification of A Woman
Querelle
Return of Martin Guerre
Comrades
Decline of the American Empire
the Mission
Bad Taste
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Daughter of the Nile
Ariel
the Vanishing
Alice(1990 Woody Allen USA)
Nasty Girl
Nouvelle Vague
Prospero’s Books
Braindead
Red Squirrel
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Mina Tannenbaum
Maborosi
Drifting Clouds
Secrets and Lies
Thesis
Run Lola Run
Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai
Girl Interrupted
Battle Royale
Joint Security Area
101 Reykjavik
Tears of the Black Tiger
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge
the Coastguard
Divine Intervention
Man Without A Past
Ten
Kontroll
Clean
Match Point
the Fountain
Opera Jawa
In the City of Sylvia
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: The Voting Process over 2 years ago
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Election (2005, Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
+2
Hunger (2008, Steve McQueen, UK)
Innocence (2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Belgium)
soory bout that!
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: The Voting Process over 2 years ago
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The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorwosky, Mexico)
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Which directors have you given the most 10/10's to? over 2 years ago
I really am a tough marker so out of the thousands of films I’ve seen I would only give roughly 50 of them ten out of ten and most of them by different directors. For me any film I score above eight is seriously good! These film makers get the highest amounts of films over eight.
Robert Altman: (5) Streamers, Nashville, Mccabe and Mrs Miller, California Split, Images
Ingmar Bergman: (8) Fanny and Alexander, Life of the Marionettes, Autumn Sonata, Face to Face, Hour of the Wolf, Through A Glass Darkly, Seventh Seal, In the Presence of A Clown
John Cassavettes: (6) Love Streams, Killing of A Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskovitz, Woman Under the Influence
Rainer Fassbinder: (6)In the Year of Thirteen Moons, Satan’s Brew, Beware of A Holy Whore, Jail Bait, Frauen In New York, Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Jean Luc Godard: (5) Le Mepris, Alphaville, Pierrot Le Fou, Masculin Feminin, Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
Alfred Hitchcock: (7) Family Plot, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Rebecca, Shadow of A Doubt
Akira Kurosawa: (7) Ran, High and Low, Bad Sleep Well, Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Stray Dog
Nagisa Oshima (6) Death By Hanging, Diary of A Shinjuku Thief, Boy, Violence At High Noon, the Ceremony, Night and Fog In Japan
Tsai-Ming-Liang: (5)Hole, I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone, the River, Wayward Cloud, Goodbye Dragon Inn
Orson Welles: (6) Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, the Trial, Chimes At Midnight, Immortal Story
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As I Was Browsing The Auteurs, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: The Voting Process over 2 years ago
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Still Life 2006 Jia Zhangke
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the Others 2001, Alejandro Amenabar
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Is Britain still a major world power in filmmaking? over 2 years ago
I not sure Britain is or was a major force in filmaking but being British myself feel a need to defend its film industry. In the last two decades or so many of Britain’s greatest filmmakers are no longer working in this country or have passed on. Peter Greenaway (working in Holand) Peter Watkins (working in Norway), Derek Jarman and Jane Arden spring to mind. It is quite alarming to find so much British talent not just lured away by Hollywood but by other traditionally smaller producing nations such as Holland and Norway. That said in the last decade many new talents emerged. I believe there has been a noticeable shift in style in British cinema. Maybe not a filmic movement, but contemporary British filmmakers seem just as inspired by French or German new wave cinema as they do the likes of Loach, Leigh and the rest of the British old guard. Films such as Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay), Better Things (Duane Hopkins), Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel), Helen (Christine Molloy), Hunger (Steve Mcqueen), Pavee Lackeen (Perry Ogden), Red Road, Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) Soi Cowboy (Thomas Clay), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg), Sommers Town, Dead Mans Shoes (Shane Meadows) possess a new freshness, a Britain reinventing itself. These films are stylized lyrical poetic works, beautifully shot and have moved away from the gritty neo realist film one associates with British film. I also believe that Britain’s multicultural diversity should be applauded, Gurindar Chadha, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Hanif Kureishi, Udyan Prassad, and others hail from ethnic backgrounds and certainly their voices are better represented than say their counterparts in France, Germany and Italy. As long as Britain can keep hold of these talents and not lose them to Hollywood or elsewhere Britain can become a leader in western european cinema. France is and has been in decline for some years, Germany and Spain’s leading filmmakers have veered towards the mainstream (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Orpanage, Volver, Baader Meinhof, Lives of Others, Downfall) and Denmark and the whole dogme school is now a little passe. In terms of world cinema I believe that all western countries are struggling to compete against new international competitors in terms of recognition. First Iran, then South Korea, Rumania, Turkey and China have all had a recent buzz. It seems like there is a reaction against the normal leading players and a wanton for new discoveries from different cultural and historical backgrounds. You can see this trend from the Auteurs world cup where countries like Britain, USA, Germany and France did not make a great impact. It is up to to western filmmakers to jump to the challenges and Britain seems better equipped than most.
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3 most visually pleasing films you've ever seen over 2 years ago
Thin Red Line (Terence Malick)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsien)
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the rumplesink mission: a film from every country - help! over 2 years ago
I’ve been trying to do the same thing. Here are some of my selctions from some of the countries Iyou have not seen. Central America, Carribbean, Parts of southwest asia, and Africa are real difficult to complete. Some rather obscure countries such as Burkina Faso have such a rich film culture but so little is available to watch other than at film festivals. I suggest you also buy the international film guide sponsered by tcm (used to be the Guardian). Every year they release a guide of the best films made in different countries. Its quite comprehensive and I have found it valuable in tracking down some real rare finds in contemporary cinema.
Don’t know if you have region free dvd player but have listed how I purchased films as well.
Afghanistan- Osama, Siddiq Barmak (uk dvd)
Armenia- Vodka Lemon, Hineer Salem (uk dvd)
Bangladesh-Last Thakur, Sadiq Ahmed (uk dvd)
Bhutan-Milarepa, Neten Chokling (uk dvd)
Bolivia-Sexual Dependency, Rodrigo Bellot (u.s dvd)
Bulgaria-Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes, Rangel Volchanov (Bulgarian dvd)
Burkina Faso-Yaaba (on youtube)
Cameroon-Sisters In Law, Florence Ayisi, Kim Longinotto (uk dvd)
Chad-Abouna,Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (uk dvd)
Colombia-Rose Seller, Victor Gaviria (us dvd)
Croatia-Balkan Post, Rajko Grlic (uk dvd)
Cuba, Lucia, Humberto Solas (uk dvd)
Ecuador-Cronicos, Sebastian Cordero (us dvd)
Egypt-Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine (on youtube)
Estonia-Darkness In Tallin, Ilkka Järvi-Laturi (uk vhs)
Iceland- Noi Albinoi, Dagur Kauri (uk dvd)
Indonesia-Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho (uk dvd)
Iraq-Ahlaam,Mohamed Al Daradji (uk dvd)
Jamaica- Harder They Come, Perry Henzell (uk dvd)
Lebanon- Caramel, Nadine Labaki (uk dvd)
Liberia- Johnny Mad Dog, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, was finanaced in France, set in Liberia (uk dvd)
Lithuania- A casa, Sharunas Bartas (on youtube)
Macedonia- Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski (uk dvd)
Malaysia- I Don’t want To Sleep Alone, Tsai Ming Liang (uk dvd)
Mauritania-Waiting For Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako (uk dvd)
Moldova-Palms, Artour Aristakisian (uk dvd)
Morocco- Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir (uk vhs)
Netherlands- the Northerners, Alex Van Warmendam (uk vhs)
Pakistan- Silent Waters, Sabiha Sumar (uk dvd)
Paraguay- Miss Amerigua , Luis Vera (not available)
Peru- Dias de Santiago, Josue Mendez (us dvd)
Philippines- The Masseur, Brillante Mendoza (uk dvd)
Portugal- Blood, Pedro Costa (uk dvd)
Serbia- Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, Srdjan Dragojevic (uk vhs)
Singapore- Ten, Roystan Tan, (uk dvd)
Slovakia- Kristove Roky, Juraj Jakubisco, made in Czechoslovakia, (on youtube)
Slovenia- Spare Parts, Dojan Kozole, (uk dvd)
South Africa- Mapantsula, Oliver Schmitz, (uk vhs)
Switzerland-Dans Ma Ville Blanche, Alain Tanner, (download)
Tajikistan-To get To Heaven You Have To Die First, Djamshed Usmonov (uk dvd)
Ukraine- Legend Of Princess Olga, Yuri Ilyenko, (on youtube, no subs)
Uruguay- Whisky, Pablo Stoll, Juan Rebella (uk dvd)
Vatican City, does the pope make home videos?!!
Venezuela- Secuestro Express, Jonathan Jakubowicz, (uk dvd)
These countries really want to see these films, either can’t track down or saving to buy on dvd.
Angola- the Hero, Zeze Gambao
Azerbaijan- Yarasa, Ayaz Salayev
Belarus- Maria , Victor Asliuk
Botswana- The Gods Must Be Crazy, Jamie Uys
Cambodia- Sea Wall, Rith Panh
Cape Verde-Fintar el Destino, Fernando Vendrell
Congo (democratic republic)- Identity Pieces, Mweze Ngangara
Costa Rica-Red Sky, Miguel Gomez
Cyprus- The Last Homecoming, Corinna Avraamidou
Dom Republic-Yuniol, Alfonso Rodriguez
Ethiopia-Adwa, Haile Gerima
Fiji-The Land Has Eyes, Vilsoni Hereniko
Gabon-Tam tams se sont tus,Philippe Mory
Ghana-Heritage Africa, Kwah Ansah
Guatemala- Petrol, Julio Hernandez Cordon
Guinea- Dakan, Mohammed Kamara
Haiti-Moloch Tropical, Raoul Peck,
Honduras, Spirit of My Mother, Ali Allie
Ivory Coast- Lost Illusion, Bernard Massilli
Jordan- Captain Abu Raed, Amin Matalqa
Kazakhstan- Tulpan, Sergey Dvortsevoi (soon to be realeased on uk dvd)
Kyrgyzstan-Unknown Route, Timor Birnazarov
Latvia-Defenders of Riga,Aigars Grauba,Andrejs Ekis
Luxembourg- Arabian Knights, Paul Kieffer
Madagascar- Souli, Alexander Abela
Mongolia, Story of the Weeping Camel, Byambasuren Davaa (available in uk dvd)
Mozambique- Neilo’s Story, Solveig Nordlund (available in uk dvd)
Nepal-Kaagbeni, Bhusan Dahal
Nicaragua-Spectre of War,Ramiro Lacayo
Niger, Polygamic Wazzou,Oumaru Ganda
Nigeria- Narrow Path, Tunde Kelani
North Korea- A Schoolgirl’s Diary, Jang In Hok
Sri Lanka- Uppalavanna, Sunil Ariyaratne
Syria-Bab Al Makam, Mohammed Malas
Uzbekistan- Chashma, Elkin Tuichiev
Yemen- A New Day In Old San’a, Bader Ben Hersi
Zimbabwe-NeriaGoodwin Mawuru
Unfortunately the majority of the above films will never be seen in commercial release, and will remain unknown and anonymous. Its hard enough finding films from places like Finland and Austria let alone Nicaragua and Uzbekistan.
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