KENJI's 1000
by Kenji
Just my favourites, so of course there are famous films and directors hard done by. Most films here are not in English, reflecting the reality of film-making worldwide.
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DIRECTORS WITH MOST FILMS:
Mizoguchi, Satyajit Ray, Hitchcock, Renoir, Bunuel, Bergman, Kurosawa, Ozu.
NEAR MISSES:
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop,
Woman Getting into Bed,
Arrival of a Train at Ciotat,
The Man with the Rubber Head,
A Trip to the Moon,
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire,
Course a la Saucisse,
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend,
The Abyss,
Suspense,
The Immigrant,
Broken Blossoms,
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari,
The Goat,
Manhatta,
The Phantom Carriage,
Safety Last,
The Smiling Madame Beudet,
L’Inhumaine.
The Navigator,
Seven Chances,
Bridal Party at Hardanger,
The Crowd,
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein),
The Fall of the House of Usher (Webber, Watson),
The Little Match Girl,
Blackmail,
Diary of a Lost Girl,
A Propos de Nice,
Other Men’s Women,
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrowna,
Kuhle Wampe,
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,
I Was Born But,
Night at the Crossroads,
The Dancing Girl of Izu,
Snow-White (Fleischer).
The Water Magician,
The Mascot,
El Compadre Mendoza,
La Signora di Tutti,
The Song of Ceylon,
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange,
Wife Be Like a Rose,
Osaka Elegy,
Sisters of the Gion,
The Story of a Cheat,
Sylvia Scarlett,
Easy Living,
You Only Live Once,
Pinocchio,
Courtyard of Ballads,
Shadow of a Doubt,
A Canterbury Tale,
Jammin’ the Blues,
Maria Candelaria,
Ministry of Fear,
Under the Bridges,
Cluny Brown,
Fallen Idol,
Force of Evil,
Moonrise,
Portrait of Jennie,
Thieves’ Highway,
Such a Pretty Little Beach,
Aventurera,
Portrait of Madame Yuki,
The Day the Earth Stood Still,
Bellissima,
The Golden Coach,
The White Reindeer,
Naked Dawn,
Hobson’s Choice,
Vera Cruz,
Le Amiche,
One Froggy Evening,
Crazed Fruit,
Nightfall,
Kisses,
The Tarnished Angels,
Ashes and Diamonds,
Giants and Toys,
The Indian Tomb,
The Tiger of Eschnapur,
Shepherds of Orgosolo,
Anatomy of a Murder,
The Ballad of a Soldier,
The Housemaid,
Spartacus,
Wild River,
The Young One,
Girl with a Suitcase,
Lola,
Pigs and Battleships,
La Pyramide Humaine,
Very Nice Very Nice,
Yanco,
Carnival of Souls,
Chronicle of a Summer,
Confessions of an Opium Eater,
The Easy Life,
Kanchenjungha,
Nine Days of One Year,
Salvatore Giuliano,
Sundays and Cybele,
The Trial (Welles),
The Cry (Jires),
The Dark Room of Damocles,
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,
The Green Years,
The Raven’s End,
Revolucion,
Shock Corridor,
Diamonds of the Night,
Genevieve (Brault),
Goldfinger,
Lilith,
Manji,
The Naked Kiss,
Noviciat,
The Pumpkin Eater,
Boniface’s Holiday,
Film (Schneider),
The Ipcress File,
My Way Home (Jancso),
Cathy Come Home,
Death of a Bureaucrat,
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,
Hunger (Carlsen),
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short,
The Shop on the High Street,
Silence Has No Wings,
Wings (Shepitko),
The Affair (Yoshida),
Anticipation (Godard),
Brief Encounters,
The Commissar,
Far from Vietnam,
The Valley of the Bees,
The White Bus,
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (Ilyenko),
Petulia,,
The Valley of the Bees,
The Cow,
The Jackal of Nahueltoro,
Midnight Cowboy,
Our Daily Bread,
Pirosmani,
Don’t Cry Pretty Girls!,
Death in Venice,
Punishment Park,
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach.
Two Lane Blacktop.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism,
The Adversary,
The Dawns Here Are Quiet,
Solaris (Tarkovsky),
The Day of the Jackal,
Distant Thunder,
The Hour Glass Sanatorium,
The Mongols (Kimiavi),
Through and Through,
We Won’t Grow Old Together.
They Do Not Exist,
Ivor the Engine (TV),
Penda’s Fen,
The Innocent (Visconti),
1900,
The American Friend,
Our Hitler, A Film frorm Germany,
Providence,
Unfinished Piece for Player Piano,
The Suspended Vocation,
Alien,
The Bogeyman,
Black Jack,
Raining in the Mountain,
Testament of Youth (TV),
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV),
Alexander the Great (Angelopoulos),
Hopscotch,
In Search of Famine,
Pixote,
The Aviator’s Wife,
Body Heat,
Tango,
Veronika Voss,
One Deadly Summer,
Our Century,
Manuel on the Island of Wonders,
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,
A Summer at Grandpa’s,
Sunday in the Country,,
Taipei Story,
Bombay Our City,
The Hour of the Star,
The Mind of Clay,
A Room with a View,
Witness,
The Horse Thief.
The Terrorizers,
Full Metal Jacket,
King of the Children,
Rouge (Kwan),
Chocolat (Denis),
Feeling from Mountain and Water,
Blood (Costa),
Near Death,
Recollections of the Yellow House,
Sidewalk Stories,
No or the Vainglory of Command,
Hearts of Darkness: A Film-maker’s Apocalypse.,
Lovers on the Bridge,
Night on Earth,
Malcolm X,
The Passing (Viola),
Boatman on the River Padma,
The Journey (Solanas),
Farewell My Concubine,
The Last Seduction,
Amateur,
Ed Wood,
Exotica,
Hoop Dreams,
Jeanne la Pucelle: The Battles,
The Flower of my Secret,
Heat,
Land and Freedom,
Irma Vep,
Ponette,
A Summer’s Tale,
Wind (Ivanyi),
The Man of the Story,
Taste of Cherry,
Secret Défense,
Audition,
Eyes Wide Shut,
Humanité,
Outer Space,
Ratcatcher,
Time Regained,
The Day I Became a Woman,
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
Lilya 4-Ever,
The Century of the Self,
Eldra,
Goodbye Dragon Inn,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,
Machuca,
2046,
Video Game,
Inland Empire,
The Lighthouse (Saakyan),
The Wind That Shakes the Barley,
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone,
Autumn (Alper),
Below Sea Level,
Our Beloved Month of August,
Sleep Furiously,
Synecdoche New York,
35 Shots of Rum,
Wild China,
Poetry,
Cave of Forgotten Dreams,
Robinson in Ruins,
Boro in the Box,
Pina,
Laurence Anyways,
The Recorder Exam,
Endeavour (TV)
Frances Ha,
Spring Breakers,
The Seventh Walk,
Virunga,
Wild Tales,
The Handmaiden,
Sami Blood,
Moonlight,
Ash is Purest White,
Cold War,
Nooreh,
Family Romance LLC,
The Souvenir,
Farewell Amor,
Talking about Trees,
Beginning (Kulumbegashvili),
Nomadland,
Shiva Baby.
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SIMILAR MUBI LISTS I RECOMMEND: They Shoot Pictures Don’t They 1000, Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000, The Mubi Forum Users’ Top 20 Poll, Blue Kim’s 666 (extended to over 1000), Dionysus67’s 1000, Roy Rezaali’s Forget Film School, David Thomson’s Have You Seen?, and the communal Mubi 1000. I only wish we had 1000 by Apursansar, but his lists by decades will do fine.
A SHORTER LIST OF FAVOURITES .
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We didn’t have a TV till i was 12. My first memory of going to the cinema was Fantasia – my introduction to the devil and dinosaurs. My small town’s cinema closed when i was 7- TV was too strong a competitor-, my sole memory of films there are of “red Indians” on a hill. The bigger films were at the grand metropolis of the county town of 3,000 people 20 miles away, or an even greater city of a few thousand more in the other direction. How i wept when the child catcher caught them in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the sky outside had changed, with castles hidden in the majestic domes of cumulo-nimbus. At 11, The Great Escape was the greatest adventure, at 12, El Cid. At 13, i joined the school film society. I gazed at the naked female on a motorbike in Vanishing Point- more fun than that boring Wild Strawberries (which I still can’t take to). In my mid teens, the best discoveries were North by Northwest and Fred Astaire. At uni, on a French course, my special subject was French Cinema of the 30s- Renoir and Pagnol..- but i really got obsessively hooked on world cinema once i’d bought a video player in the late 80s (those Wenders road movies!) and John Kobal’s book The Top 100 Movies (see my list on that); Seven Samurai and 2001 inspired awe, while Tarkovsky and Mizoguchi were new names to me. Soon i saw Andrei Rublev and the rain and light had changed. Then a few years on (much less availability in those days) it was the turn of Sansho the Bailiff.~
I’ve been asked to do a list of all my lists, but that would take time and anyway would get jumbled in with the others. So here are the ones i like and the most popular.
Essential Japanese Films ,
Essential Films by Women ,
The Labyrinth ,
The Mubi/Auteurs World Cup Films ,
The Welsh Connection ,
Mizoguchi Revered ,
Let There be Light: The Birth of Films ,
Notable Films by Black Directors ,
Essayists, Diarists, Musers..Funambulists of Free Thought ,
A Rosefinch Sang: the Czechoslovakian New Wave ,
My Haiku ,
19th Century Britain ,
Essential French Films ,
100 Directors’ Essential Films ,
Essential African Films ,
Portugal, Land of My Dreams ,
They Do Not Exist: Palestine ,
We Love Lesotho ,
India ,
Essential Iranian Films ,
Essential Turkish Films ,
Essential Documentaries ,
Essential Short Films & Featurettes ,
Essential Animation ,
Hidden Treasures ,
Le Cinema, c’est Jean Renoir ,
Satyajit Ray ,
Kubrick, With A-Z Guide ,
Essential Hitchcock, With A-Z Guide ,
Eric Rohmer & His Legacy ,
Essential Godard: More Than a List ,
Leftist Films ,
Great Cinematographers ,
Films Admired by Tarkovsky ,
Susan Sontag’s Favourite Films ,
Mental Health ,
Films about Film .
Painters and Films ,
Kenji’s Poetry Anthology 1 ,
Kenji’s Poetry Anthology 2