Godard: Vivre sa vie, Le petit soldat, Les carabiniers, Bande à part, Une femme mariée
Il bidone (Fellini)
Ossessione (Visconti)
The last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
M. Butterfly (Cronenberg)
John Ford: My Darling Clementine, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Jacques Demy: Lola, La Baie des Anges
Chabrol: Le beau Serge, Les cousins
Darling (Schlesinger)
The Servant (Losey)
Petulia (Richard Lester)
Tom Jones (Richardson)
In general, there is a noticeable absence of British films and directors.
Drew, I just saw this thread. My suggestions to add to your list would be two of Agnès Varda’s earlier films: Cléo de 5 à 7 and Le Bonheur. As for Lina Wertmüller’s, I’d recommend The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Swept Away and Seven Beauties.
" …one of the very few instances where a movie might have helped people in a bigger context and for a bigger cause." ?! Come on, you guys. The fight for the liberation of Algiers was a nationalist movement for independence from colonialism and oppression. Have you read about the systematic torture, the rapes, the concentration camps institutionalized by the French government? There was no other way for the Algerian people to respond and to claim freedom. And Pontecorvo pays homage (beautifully!) to that plea. The Pentagon, on the other hand, simply commits acts of genocide.
Point well taken, Noel. And I think what really counts here is that we all agree on Battle of Algiers’ cinematic greatness. And, Drew, I’m also glad that you can see this movie in a theater. I can still recall my feeling of absolute amazement when I did that, back in the late 60’s.
Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Mourir à Madrid, Is Paris Burning? Sundays and Cybele, Isadora, The Night of the Generals, Witness, A Passage to India, and many more.
I arrive to this thread kind of late but I can see that it’s still quite active; so, I’d like to mention John Schlesinger’s ’Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971), a trailblazer in many ways.
It is a good film, and it was Robert Rossen’s last. In his book ‘The American Cinema’ (1968), Andrew Sarris places Rossen in the ‘Strained Seriousness’ category of directors (“These are talented but uneven directors with the mortal sin of pretentiousness. Their ambitious projects tend to inflate rather than expand.” ), along with John Sturges, John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kubrick, among others. This was pre- ‘Barry Lindon’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’, but definitely post- ‘Lolita’ and ‘Space Odyssey’.
Breathless (Godard), The 400 Blows (Truffaut), Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais) and Les cousins (Chabrol). All during summer vacation between 7th and 8th grade, and not entirely coincidental. The French New Wave had just made it big in my corner of the world, and sneaking in the neighborhood movie theater was kind of a rite of passage. But it was only a few years later, at the cine-club, that I better understood why these movies had made such an impact at the time.
Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 3 years ago
Godard: Vivre sa vie, Le petit soldat, Les carabiniers, Bande à part, Une femme mariée
Il bidone (Fellini)
Ossessione (Visconti)
The last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
M. Butterfly (Cronenberg)
John Ford: My Darling Clementine, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Jacques Demy: Lola, La Baie des Anges
Chabrol: Le beau Serge, Les cousins
Darling (Schlesinger)
The Servant (Losey)
Petulia (Richard Lester)
Tom Jones (Richardson)
In general, there is a noticeable absence of British films and directors.
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What is your favorite ending? about 3 years ago
The 400 Blows. Antoine Doinel/Jean-Pierre Léaud looking straight into our eyes, and practically growing right in front of us.
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? about 3 years ago
Ron Howard.
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IF WE IGNORE 81/2 AND DOLCE VITA, WHAT'D BE THE BEST FELLINI MOVIE? about 3 years ago
The so-called “trilogy of loneliness”, which so beautifully underlines the theme of redemption: La Strada, Notti di Cabiria and Il Bidone.
And, of course, I Vitelloni and the much underrated Fellini’s Roma.
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TOP BERGMAN about 3 years ago
Face to Face, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Touch.
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LETS TALK FRANKLY ABOUT FEMALE DIRECTORS about 3 years ago
Drew, I just saw this thread. My suggestions to add to your list would be two of Agnès Varda’s earlier films: Cléo de 5 à 7 and Le Bonheur. As for Lina Wertmüller’s, I’d recommend The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Swept Away and Seven Beauties.
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Can someone recommend good movies about The Troubles in Northern Ireland? about 3 years ago
These three come immediately to mind: The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Crying Game, and In the Name of the Father.
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on those mass protest/revolt scenes about 3 years ago
" …one of the very few instances where a movie might have helped people in a bigger context and for a bigger cause." ?! Come on, you guys. The fight for the liberation of Algiers was a nationalist movement for independence from colonialism and oppression. Have you read about the systematic torture, the rapes, the concentration camps institutionalized by the French government? There was no other way for the Algerian people to respond and to claim freedom. And Pontecorvo pays homage (beautifully!) to that plea. The Pentagon, on the other hand, simply commits acts of genocide.
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on those mass protest/revolt scenes about 3 years ago
Point well taken, Noel. And I think what really counts here is that we all agree on Battle of Algiers’ cinematic greatness. And, Drew, I’m also glad that you can see this movie in a theater. I can still recall my feeling of absolute amazement when I did that, back in the late 60’s.
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Who is the greatest film composer? almost 3 years ago
Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Mourir à Madrid, Is Paris Burning? Sundays and Cybele, Isadora, The Night of the Generals, Witness, A Passage to India, and many more.
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What do you consider to be the best film about Vietnam? almost 3 years ago
Hal Ashby’s Coming Home. You never see a single war scene, but it captures the era in a way that no other Vietnam movie has.
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First Film you can remember seeing at the movies almost 3 years ago
Bambi, and I was 4 or 5.
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Gay and Lesbian Cinema almost 3 years ago
I arrive to this thread kind of late but I can see that it’s still quite active; so, I’d like to mention John Schlesinger’s ’Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971), a trailblazer in many ways.
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LILITH (1964) almost 3 years ago
It is a good film, and it was Robert Rossen’s last. In his book ‘The American Cinema’ (1968), Andrew Sarris places Rossen in the ‘Strained Seriousness’ category of directors (“These are talented but uneven directors with the mortal sin of pretentiousness. Their ambitious projects tend to inflate rather than expand.” ), along with John Sturges, John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kubrick, among others. This was pre- ‘Barry Lindon’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’, but definitely post- ‘Lolita’ and ‘Space Odyssey’.
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema almost 3 years ago
Breathless (Godard), The 400 Blows (Truffaut), Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais) and Les cousins (Chabrol). All during summer vacation between 7th and 8th grade, and not entirely coincidental. The French New Wave had just made it big in my corner of the world, and sneaking in the neighborhood movie theater was kind of a rite of passage. But it was only a few years later, at the cine-club, that I better understood why these movies had made such an impact at the time.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 2 years ago
Catherine Deneuve, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Gene Tierney, Jean Seberg.
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