My All-Time Favourite 5-Star Rated Films: Part One – 1920’s-1940’s
My All-Time Favourite 5-Star Rated Films: Part Two – 1950’s Onwards

My Ratings System:

5 Stars – Outstanding/Masterpiece
4 Stars – Extremely Good
3 Stars – Pretty Good
2 Stars – OK
1 Star – Not worth the effort…

‘I have not yet made a film that pleases me…’ (Kenji Mizoguchi, speaking in 1950)

‘I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary
imitation of others’ (Yasujirô Ozu)

‘To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes’ (Akira Kurosawa)

‘If it were all in the script, why make the film?’ (Nicholas Ray)

‘I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images’ (Ingmar Bergman)

‘Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression’
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

’I’m a little screwed up but I’m beautiful…’ (Steve McQueen)