This is so hard because so many greats come to mind. These are some of the ones that made a lasting impression on me and that I return to time and time again.
1) Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders
2) Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi
3) Raise The Red Lantern – Yimou Zhang
4) Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
5) La Strada – Federico Fellini
6) Raging Bull – Martin Scorcese
7) La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
8) L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
9) Pandora’s Box – G.W. Pabst
10) Landscape in the Mist – Theo Angelopoulos
Maybe I should break down into categories: best foreign, independent, classic films. Hmmmnnn….
This is so hard because so many greats come to mind. These are some of the ones that made a lasting impression on me and that I return to time and time again.
1) Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders
2) Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi
3) Raise The Red Lantern – Yimou Zhang
4) Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
5) La Strada – Federico Fellini
6) Raging Bull – Martin Scorcese
7) La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
8) L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
9) Pandora’s Box – G.W. Pabst
10) Landscape in the Mist – Theo Angelopoulos
Maybe I should break down into categories: best foreign, independent, classic films. Hmmmnnn….
Here’s mine. I checked them and couldn’t find any on either list, unless if by some other name….
1) Padre Padrone (Italy, 1977, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
2) Anita – Tänze des Lasters / Anita, Dances of Vice (Germany, 1987, Rosa von Praunheim)
3) Lola (Germany, 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4) Das Schreckliche Mädchen / The Nasty Girl (Germany, 1990, Michael Verhoeven)
5) Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries (Austria, 1977, Valie Export)
6) Höstsonaten / Autumn Sonata (Sweden, 1978, Ingmar Bergman)
7) La Planète Sauvage / Fantastic Planet (French, 1973, René Laloux)
8) Le Corbeau / The Raven (France, 1943, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
9) Le Retour de Martin Guerre / The Return of Martin Guerre (France, 1982, Daniel Vigne)
10) Putney Swope (U.S.A., 1969, Robert Downey, Sr.)
11) Salt of the Earth (U.S.A., 1954, Herbert J. Biberman)
12) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (U.S.A., 1962, Sidney Lumet)
13) Devi (India, 1960, Satyajit Ray)
14) Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (India, 2001, Ashutosh Gowariker)
15) Nobi / Fires on the Plain (Japan, 1959, Kon Ishikawa)
16) Vengeance Is Mine (Japan, 1979, Shohei Imamura)
17) Dodesukaden / Dodes’ka-Den (Japan, 1970, Akira Kurosawa)
18) A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong, 1987, Siu-Tung Ching)
19) Lan Feng Zheng / The Blue Kite (China, 1993, Zhuangzhuang Tian)
20) Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo / The Brotherhood of War (South Korea, 2004, Je-gyu Kang)
Doing the research for this brought lots of memories in many a darkened theater, drooling through the old facets catalog, and emblazoning hours and hours of imagery onto my retinas…
There are actually 7 of your selections that are ineligible. Au Hasard Balthazar, The Blood of a Poet, Le Feu Follet, Time of the Gypsies, Landscape in the Mist, The Sacrifice, and Kes are all in the TSPDT top 1000 list. The criteria have evolved somewhat into an alternative canon. See the new thread 2 posts before your own for the new criteria. By the way, ScorpioRising is waiting to receive your revised list. This thread is now defunct, pretty much. Check out the new one….
Not that I’m some crybaby, but, at the risk of being indulgent, these are some that managed to stir up a maelstrom of emotions:
1) City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) – the ending, of course
2) Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata) – immensely powerful antiwar film; soul crushing; physically painful for me to watch
3) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) – Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû’s dialogue after funeral
4) Ballad of Nayarama (Shohei Imamura) – mother/son relationship in last part of film
5) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
6) Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa) –
6) Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
7) To Live (Zhang Yimou)
8) The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
7) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann) – especially Filip Muller’s story
8) Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) – imagery forever etched into my brain
9) Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg) – gas chamber scene w/ Perlman’s violin, little girl w/ pink dress in the wheelbarrow, one more person scene, ending
10) A Special Day (Ettore Scola)
11) Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
12) The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
13) Padre Padrone (Vittorio & Paolo Taviani)
14) La Strada (Federico Fellini) – ending where Zampano realizes what he has lost
15) Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) – I knew these people; mother-child reunion; Aurore Clement loses Hunter
16) Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller) – Tunin’s futile gesture and aftermath
17) Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos) – Alexander crying at death of horse; rape scene; ending
18) It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) – of course; Auld Lang’s Syne always bring me back to here
19) Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
20) Wings of Desire – dunno, there’s a scene w/ intercuts of allied night bombing, an air raid klaxon roaring, urban squalor, and a boy crying for his mama that always gives me knots in my throat
Top 10 Films of All Time over 2 years ago
This is so hard because so many greats come to mind. These are some of the ones that made a lasting impression on me and that I return to time and time again.
1) Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders
2) Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi
3) Raise The Red Lantern – Yimou Zhang
4) Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
5) La Strada – Federico Fellini
6) Raging Bull – Martin Scorcese
7) La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
8) L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
9) Pandora’s Box – G.W. Pabst
10) Landscape in the Mist – Theo Angelopoulos
Maybe I should break down into categories: best foreign, independent, classic films. Hmmmnnn….
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Top 10 Films of All Time over 2 years ago
This is so hard because so many greats come to mind. These are some of the ones that made a lasting impression on me and that I return to time and time again.
1) Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders
2) Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi
3) Raise The Red Lantern – Yimou Zhang
4) Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
5) La Strada – Federico Fellini
6) Raging Bull – Martin Scorcese
7) La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
8) L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
9) Pandora’s Box – G.W. Pabst
10) Landscape in the Mist – Theo Angelopoulos
Maybe I should break down into categories: best foreign, independent, classic films. Hmmmnnn….
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Top 10 Films of All Time over 2 years ago
That’s a great list, Roku. I, also, prefer Hiroshima, Mon Amour over Marienbad. And it’s good to see Days of Heaven. What a great film…
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The Making of The Auteurs' Film Canon, Essential 100 Films: What do you think? over 2 years ago
Here’s mine. I checked them and couldn’t find any on either list, unless if by some other name….
1) Padre Padrone (Italy, 1977, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
2) Anita – Tänze des Lasters / Anita, Dances of Vice (Germany, 1987, Rosa von Praunheim)
3) Lola (Germany, 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4) Das Schreckliche Mädchen / The Nasty Girl (Germany, 1990, Michael Verhoeven)
5) Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries (Austria, 1977, Valie Export)
6) Höstsonaten / Autumn Sonata (Sweden, 1978, Ingmar Bergman)
7) La Planète Sauvage / Fantastic Planet (French, 1973, René Laloux)
8) Le Corbeau / The Raven (France, 1943, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
9) Le Retour de Martin Guerre / The Return of Martin Guerre (France, 1982, Daniel Vigne)
10) Putney Swope (U.S.A., 1969, Robert Downey, Sr.)
11) Salt of the Earth (U.S.A., 1954, Herbert J. Biberman)
12) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (U.S.A., 1962, Sidney Lumet)
13) Devi (India, 1960, Satyajit Ray)
14) Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (India, 2001, Ashutosh Gowariker)
15) Nobi / Fires on the Plain (Japan, 1959, Kon Ishikawa)
16) Vengeance Is Mine (Japan, 1979, Shohei Imamura)
17) Dodesukaden / Dodes’ka-Den (Japan, 1970, Akira Kurosawa)
18) A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong, 1987, Siu-Tung Ching)
19) Lan Feng Zheng / The Blue Kite (China, 1993, Zhuangzhuang Tian)
20) Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo / The Brotherhood of War (South Korea, 2004, Je-gyu Kang)
Doing the research for this brought lots of memories in many a darkened theater, drooling through the old facets catalog, and emblazoning hours and hours of imagery onto my retinas…
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The Making of The Auteurs' Film Canon, Essential 100 Films: What do you think? over 2 years ago
So are The Blood of a Poet, Le Feu Follet, Landscape in the Mist, and Kes.
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The Making of The Auteurs' Film Canon, Essential 100 Films: What do you think? over 2 years ago
There are actually 7 of your selections that are ineligible. Au Hasard Balthazar, The Blood of a Poet, Le Feu Follet, Time of the Gypsies, Landscape in the Mist, The Sacrifice, and Kes are all in the TSPDT top 1000 list. The criteria have evolved somewhat into an alternative canon. See the new thread 2 posts before your own for the new criteria. By the way, ScorpioRising is waiting to receive your revised list. This thread is now defunct, pretty much. Check out the new one….
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What film scenes really make you cry? over 2 years ago
Not that I’m some crybaby, but, at the risk of being indulgent, these are some that managed to stir up a maelstrom of emotions:
1) City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) – the ending, of course
2) Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata) – immensely powerful antiwar film; soul crushing; physically painful for me to watch
3) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) – Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû’s dialogue after funeral
4) Ballad of Nayarama (Shohei Imamura) – mother/son relationship in last part of film
5) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
6) Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa) –
6) Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
7) To Live (Zhang Yimou)
8) The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
7) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann) – especially Filip Muller’s story
8) Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) – imagery forever etched into my brain
9) Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg) – gas chamber scene w/ Perlman’s violin, little girl w/ pink dress in the wheelbarrow, one more person scene, ending
10) A Special Day (Ettore Scola)
11) Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
12) The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
13) Padre Padrone (Vittorio & Paolo Taviani)
14) La Strada (Federico Fellini) – ending where Zampano realizes what he has lost
15) Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) – I knew these people; mother-child reunion; Aurore Clement loses Hunter
16) Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller) – Tunin’s futile gesture and aftermath
17) Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos) – Alexander crying at death of horse; rape scene; ending
18) It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) – of course; Auld Lang’s Syne always bring me back to here
19) Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
20) Wings of Desire – dunno, there’s a scene w/ intercuts of allied night bombing, an air raid klaxon roaring, urban squalor, and a boy crying for his mama that always gives me knots in my throat
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