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351
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352
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353
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Casque d'or |
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JACQUES BECKER
(340) |
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| • Golden
Marie (USA title) |
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1952 | 96m | BW | France |
Crime Drama, Melodrama |
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Simone Signoret, Serge
Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussieres, Gaston Modot, Paul Barge,
Paul Azais, Loleh Bellon, Claude Castaing, Jean Clarieux |
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"Along with Touchez
pas au grisbi and Le Trou, Casque
d’or is now widely recognized as the summit of
Jacques Becker’s
achievement as a filmmaker, a distillation of everything that’s most
personal and central to his vision."
- Philip Kemp, The Criterion Collection, 2005 |
|
Selected by
Aki Kaurismäki, Jean-Pierre Berthome,
Bertrand Tavernier, Kenneth Turan, Martin Casariego. |
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357 → 314 → 340 →
351 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr) |
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Mon oncle |
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JACQUES TATI
(333) |
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| • My Uncle
(English title) |
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1958 | 126m | Col | France | Satire, Domestic Comedy |
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Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre
Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Bercourt, Yvonne Arnaud, Lucien Fregis,
Betty Schneider, Dominique Marie, J.F. Martial, Andre Dino |
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"Every bit as funny
as Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon oncle may also be the greatest
account of how the first half of the 20th century faded into the second.
With workmen already chipping away at its borders, Hulot's world is
about to give way to the new order of his sister's neighborhood. Nine
years later, when Playtime was released, that transition is
essentially complete"
- Keith
Phipps, The A.V. Club, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Terry Jones,
David Lynch, Ricardo Aldarondo, Nancy Berthier,
Jorge Gorostiza. |
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432 → 363 → 333 →
352 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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The Cameraman |
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BUSTER KEATON & EDWARD SEDGWICK
(338) |
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| 1928 | 69m | BW | USA | Slapstick, Romantic Comedy |
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Buster Keaton, Marceline
Day, Harry Gribbon, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Edward Brophy,
Richard Alexander, Ray Cooke, Vernon Dent, William Irving |
|
"Buster
Keaton's 1928 film on the problems and principles of making
movies... it includes some of the best asides on the techniques and
psychology of shooting films ever captured in a movie. In many ways it
summarizes Keaton's
career and makes a marvelous companion piece to his other
film-about-film, Sherlock Jr."
- Don
Druker, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Jim Jarmusch, Bruce Goldstein, Pupi Avati, Raymond Bellour,
Francesc Blanquer. |
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349 → 331 → 338 →
353 |
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Amazon
Slant Magazine
Time Out |
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354
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355
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356
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Heat |
|
MICHAEL MANN
(381) |
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|
1995 | 174m | Col | USA |
Crime, Thriller |
|
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino,
Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Amy Brenneman, Wes Studi, Dennis
Haysbert, Mykelti Williamson, Diane Venora |
|
"Heat occupies
an exalted position among the countless contemporary crime films.
Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast,
Michael Mann's
ambitious study of the relativity of good and evil stands apart from
other films of its type by virtue of its extraordinarily rich
characterizations and its thoughtful, deeply melancholy take on modern
life." -
Todd McCarthy, Variety, 1995 |
|
Selected by
Nick Love, Klaus Lemke,
Anke Sterneborg, Claudius Seidl, Christian Seebaum. |
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0 → 574 → 381 →
354 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Washington Post |
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The Navigator |
|
BUSTER KEATON & DONALD CRISP (317) |
 |
|
1924 | 69m | BW | USA | Comedy, Sea Adventure |
|
Buster Keaton, Frederick
Vroom, Kathryn McGuire |
|
"Gag
for gag, one of the funniest of all
Keaton's features as he copes with the
snags involved in running a deserted ocean liner single-handed,
philosophically accepting the fact that machinery has a malevolent will
of its own."
- Tom
Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Terry Jones, Vincent Ward, Peter Keough, Pascal Merigeau, Terrence Rafferty. |
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234 → 289 → 317 →
355 |
|
Amazon
Ozu's World Movie Reviews
Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr) |
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Closely Watched Trains |
|
JIRÍ MENZEL (351) |
 |
| • Ostre
sledované vlaky (original title); Closely Observed Trains (UK
title) |
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1966 | 89m | BW |
Czechoslovakia | Comedy Drama, War Drama |
|
Vaclav Neckar, Jitka
Bendova, Vladimir Valenta, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsky, Jiri Menzel,
Libuse Havelkova, Alois Vachek, Jitka Zelenohorska, Ferdinand Kruta |
|
"An apt alternative
title for the movie might be Closely Packed Frames;
despite its relatively short running time, and despite the fact that it
rarely strays beyond a sleepy, small-town railway station, it is rich in
character and comic incident."
- Richard
Schickel, The Criterion Collection, 2001 |
|
Selected by Ken Loach, Arnost Lustig, Steve Grant, Oleg Kovalov, Hanif Kureishi. |
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358 → 377 → 351 →
356 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Time Out (Tom Milne) |
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357
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358
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359
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Deliverance |
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JOHN BOORMAN (295) |
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1972 | 109m | Col | USA | Adventure Drama, Buddy Film |
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Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,
Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Bill McKinney, James Dickey, Herbert "Cowboy""
Coward, Ed Ramey, Billy Redden, Seamon Glass |
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"Terrific
boy's own adventure stuff with adult ingredients of graphic mutilation
and buggery, but Boorman
is never content either to leave it at that or to subscribe to the
ecological concerns of James
Dickey's novel. Instead, he adds a dark twist of his own by suggesting
that concern is too late."
- Tom
Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Peter Cowie, Mark Borchardt, Henrik Uth Jensen, Derek Adams, Richard
Barkley. |
|
293 → 279 → 295 →
357 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
Memories of Underdevelopment |
|
TOMÁS GUTIÉRREZ ALEA (376) |
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| • Memorias
del subdesarrollo (original title) |
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1968 | 97m | BW | Cuba |
Psychological Drama, Political Drama |
|
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy
Granados, Eslinda Nunez, Omar Valdes, Rene de la Cruz, Yolanda Farr,
Ofelia Gonzalez, Jose Gil Abad, Daniel Jordan, Luis Lopez |
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"Of all the dozens of
films produced in Cuba through Castro's insistence on the importance of
the cinema, Memories of Underdevelopment is the most
sophisticated. So much so, in fact, that those opposed to the revolution
tend to call it a magnificent and unrepeatable fluke, produced as it was
by a film institute that was virtually a Marxist ministry. Those in
favour cherish it as a landmark that avoids almost all of the radical
cliches."
- Derek
Malcolm, The Guardian, 2000 |
|
Selected by Gary Crowdus, Claudio Espana, Gael Garcia Bernal, B. Ruby Rich, Lourdes Portillo. |
|
326 → 375 → 376 →
358 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Time Out |
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|
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
|
JOHN CASSAVETES
(368) |
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| 1976 | 109m | Col | USA | Crime, Crime Drama |
|
Ben Gazzara, Timothy
Carey, Seymour Cassel, Azizi Johari, Meade Roberts, Alice Fredlund,
Virginia Carrington, Soto Joe Hugh, Robert Phillips, Morgan Woodward |
|
"In
John Cassavetes’
personal cinema, the director was always trying to break away from the
formulas of Hollywood narrative, in order to uncover some fugitive truth
about the way people behave... Nowhere was the tension between
Cassavetes’ linear and
digressive, driven and entropic tendencies more sharply fought out than
in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,
one of his most fascinating achievements."
- Phillip
Lopate, The Criterion Collection, 2004 |
|
Selected by Bruce LaBruce, Claire Denis,
Larry Clark, Paul Taylor, Chris Petit. |
|
411 → 381 → 368 →
359 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
The Criterion Collection |
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360
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361
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362
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Repulsion |
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ROMAN POLANSKI (325) |
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1965 | 105m | BW | UK | Thriller, Psychological Thriller |
|
Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne
Furneaux, John Fraser, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Valerie Taylor, Helen
Fraser, Renee Houston, James Villiers, Hugh Futcher |
|
"A wicked tale of madness
and female paranoia, Repulsion stars Catherine Deneuve as a
timid, sexually repressed Belgian girl living in London with her
callous, self-absorbed sister (Yvonne Furneaux)... Repulsion is a
frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time."
- Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 1998 |
|
Selected by Hubert Cornfield, George A. Romero, Agnieszka Holland, A. Hans Scheirl,
Ursula Vossen. |
|
316 → 328 → 325 →
360 |
|
Amazon
BFI Screen Online
The Criterion Collection |
|
|
|
Back to the Future |
|
ROBERT ZEMECKIS (392) |
 |
|
1985 | 116m | Col | USA | Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Comedy |
|
Michael J. Fox,
Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson,
Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, James
Tolkan |
|
"The people in
Robert Zemeckis's
films have the great fun of living out their craziest daydreams. And the
crazier the better... One of the most appealing things about Back to
the Future is its way of putting nostalgia gently in perspective.
Mr. Zemeckis takes a bemused but
unsentimental view of times gone by. And he seems no less fascinated by
the future, which is understandable. His own looks very bright."
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 1985 |
|
Selected by Anurag Mehta, Kevin Feige, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,
Hamid-Reza Sadr, Jose
Luis Guarner. |
|
429 → 444 → 392 →
361 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Slant Magazine |
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I Vitelloni |
|
FEDERICO FELLINI
(399) |
 |
|
1953 | 104m | BW | Italy | Comedy Drama, Satire |
|
Franco Interlenghi,
Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini,
Leonora Ruffo, Lida Baarova, Arlette Sauvage, Jean Brochard, Achille
Majeroni |
|
"A year before La
Strada' brought director
Federico Fellini international renown,
he made I Vitelloni, a semi-autobiographical film about a group
of 30-ish buddies in a small, Adriatic town who are loafing and wasting
their lives... It's a film of sensitivity, observation and humor - a
must-see for Fellini
enthusiasts and a worthwhile investment for everyone else." -
Mick LaSalle, San
Francisco Chronicle, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Mike Newell,
Philip Kaufman, Roger Michell, Philip Haas, Michel Boujut. |
|
346 → 409 → 399 →
362 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Criterion Collection Essay |
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363
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364
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365
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Great Expectations |
|
DAVID LEAN (360) |
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1946 | 118m | BW | UK | Period Film, Romantic Drama |
|
John Mills, Valerie
Hobson, Martita Hunt, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie,
Jean Simmons, Anthony Wager, Alec Guinness, Freda Jackson |
|
"A director adapting
a Dickens novel finds that much of his work has been done for him.
Certainly
that's the case with David
Lean's Great Expectations, which has been called the
greatest of all the Dickens films, and which does what few movies based
on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash
with the images already existing in our minds.
Lean
brings Dickens' classic set-pieces to life as if he'd been reading over
our shoulder." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1999 |
|
Selected by Bryan Forbes,
James Mangold,
Anthony Quinn,
Ingmar Bergman,
Henry Hathaway. |
|
274 → 311 → 360 →
363 |
|
Amazon
BFI Screen Online
Senses of Cinema |
|
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|
The Manchurian Candidate |
|
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER (329) |
 |
|
1962 | 126m | BW | USA | Political Thriller, Paranoid Thriller |
|
Frank Sinatra, Laurence
Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie
Parrish, John McGiver, Khigh Dhiegh, James Edwards |
|
"One of the strangest and
most mercurial movies ever made in Hollywood. A veritable salad of mixed
genres and emotional textures, this exciting black-and-white cold war
thriller runs more than two hours and never flags for an instant... It's
conceivably the only commercial American film that deserves to be linked
with the French New Wave, full of visual and verbal wit that recalls
Orson Welles."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Martin Campbell,
Stan Russo, Frank Arnold, Robert Horton, Mike D'Angelo. |
|
299 → 294 → 329 →
364 |
|
Amazon
The A.V. Club
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Groundhog Day |
|
HAROLD RAMIS (386) |
 |
|
1993 | 103m | Col | USA | Fantasy Comedy, Romantic Comedy |
|
Bill Murray, Andie
MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita
Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, Robin Duke |
|
"The most horrible thing
about life is not knowing what's going to happen next. Or at least
that's what we have thought up till now. But Groundhog Day,
Harold Ramis's
brilliantly imaginative, wildly funny new comedy starring Bill Murray,
demonstrates that there is something even more horrible -- knowing
exactly what's going to happen next." - Hal Hinson, Washington
Post, 1993 |
|
Selected by
Michel Gondry, Jack Lechner, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Barbara Schweizerhof, Milan Pavlovic. |
|
406 → 376 → 386 →
365 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
The A.V. Club |
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366
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367
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368
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A Canterbury Tale |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
(334) |
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| 1944 | 124m | BW | UK | Comedy Drama, Road Movie |
|
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim,
Sgt. John Sweet, Dennis Price, Esmond Knight, Hay Petrie, George
Merritt, Edward Rigby, Charles Hawtrey, Freda Jackson |
|
"If the most
important subjects of film are light and time, I can’t think of a more
poignant work than A Canterbury Tale. As seen by the Archers—the
writing-directing-production team of
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger—light
and time are the basis of our identity, which happens to be the theme of
this film...
A Canterbury Tale achieves that
rare synthesis. Unbearably moving at times, it touches the heart as well
as the soul."
-
Peter von Bagh, The Criterion Collection, 2006 |
|
Selected by
Sukhdev Sandhu, Kim Newman, Peter von Bagh, Charles Barr, George Armitage. |
|
428 → 434 → 334 →
366 |
|
Amazon
Screen Online
Film International |
|
|
|
Halloween |
|
JOHN CARPENTER (465) |
 |
|
1978 | 93m | Col | USA | Horror, Slasher Film |
|
Donald Pleasence, Jamie
Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards,
Brian Andrews, John Michael Graham, Nancy Stephens, Arthur Malet |
|
"Halloween is an
absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I
would compare it to Psycho... We see movies for a lot of reasons.
Sometimes we want to be amused. Sometimes we want to escape. Sometimes
we want to laugh, or cry, or see sunsets. And sometimes we want to be
scared. I'd like to be clear about this. If you don't want to have a
really terrifying experience, don't see Halloween."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1979 |
|
Selected by Dane Cook, Tom Tykwer,
Quentin Tarantino,
Richard Corliss, Erik Childress. |
|
474 → 386 → 465 →
367 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
The A.V. Club |
|
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|
Providence |
|
ALAIN RESNAIS
(345) |
 |
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1977 | 104m | Col | UK | Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde,
Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Cyril Luckham, Denis
Lawson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Milo Sperber, Samson Fainsilber |
|
"Like all of
Resnais'
best work, this is shot through with purposeful and lyrical enigmas, but
the family profile that emerges is warm and penetrating, recalling the
haunted Tyrones in Long Day's Journey Into Night rather than the
pieces of an abstract puzzle. The superb performances and Miklos Rozsa's
sumptuous Hollywood-style score give the film's conceit a moving
monumentality and depth, and
Resnais' insights into the
fiction-making process are mesmerizing and beautiful."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Jaco Van Dormael, Edna Fainaru, Alfredo Guevara, Mike Figgis, Jean-Pierre Berthome. |
|
334 → 347 → 345 →
368 |
|
Amazon
Ozu's World Movie Reviews
Time Out |
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369
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370
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371
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Stranger Than Paradise |
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JIM JARMUSCH (433) |
 |
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1984 | 90m | BW | USA | Comedy, Road Movie |
|
John Lurie, Eszter Balint,
Richard Edson, Cecilla Stark, Danny Rosen, Rammellzee, Tom DiCillo,
Richard Boes, Rockets Redglare, Harvey Perr |
|
"As modest and
self-contained as it is rich and distinctive,
Jarmusch’s remarkable synthesis crossed
film-school cinephilia with downtown club culture... Structurally, the
movie is a tour de force—a succession of brief vignettes punctuated by
opaque film stock. There are no reverse angles, no point-of-view shots;
each scene is a single take. Characters enter the frame as though it
were a stage, and the effect is Kabuki sitcom, yet powerfully
naturalistic." -
J. Hoberman, The Criterion
Collection, 2007 |
|
Selected by Ari Folman,
Roy Andersson, Yoichi Sai, Hans Helmut Prinzler, Harlan Jacobson. |
|
535 → 495 → 433 →
369 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection (Geoff Andrew)
Reverse Shot |
|
|
|
The
Flowers of St. Francis |
|
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI (652) |
 |
| •
Francesco, giullare di Dio (original title); Francis, God's
Jester (alternative title) |
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1950 | 83m | BW | Italy |
Religious Drama, Biography |
|
Aldo Fabrizi, Brother
Nazario Gerardi, Arabella Lemaitre, Gianfranco Bellini, Pino Locchi,
Peparuolo, Fra' Severino Pisacane, Roberto Sorrentino |
|
"This
first entry in
Rossellini's career-long exploration of
biopic figurativism is also the great moralist's most devout movie...
But what's most surprising is the movie's buoyant silliness and fond
humor—is this
Rossellini's only comedy? The brothers'
narrative pickles sometimes verge on slapstick, in a movie about
sainthood! Using a cast of actual monastery Franciscans,
Rossellini's movie is loose, generous,
and deceptively modest, just like its subject." - Michael
Atkinson, The Village
Voice, 2005 |
|
Selected by Ramin Bahrani, Amos Gitai, Jacques
Aumont, Hans Gunther Pflaum, Philippe d'Hugues. |
|
696 → 664 → 652 →
370 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection
Strictly Film School |
|
|
|
In a Year with 13 Moons |
|
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
(335) |
 |
| • In einem
Jahr mit 13 Monden (original title); In a Year of 13 Moons
(alternative title) |
|
1978 | 129m | Col | West Germany | Gay & Lesbian Films, Psychological Drama |
|
Volker Spengler, Ingrid
Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes, Gunther
Kaufmann, Lilo Pempeit, Isolde Barth, Karl Scheydt, Walter Bockmayer |
|
"In
a Year with 13 Moons is not only
Fassbinder's last word on victimised
innocence, it's also a subjective response to the suicide of his own
lover Armin Meier, and a sincere admission that life is messier than his
earlier films acknowledged. A movie riven with contradictions and
fuelled by vehemence and passion."
- Tony
Rayns, Time Out |
|
Selected by Richard Linklater, John Greyson, David Hanan, Chris Berry, John Harkness. |
|
347 → 392 → 335 →
371 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Slant Magazine |
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372
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373
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374
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Reservoir Dogs |
|
QUENTIN TARANTINO (398) |
 |
|
1991 | 99m | Col | USA | Crime Thriller, Gangster Film |
|
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth,
Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Randy
Brooks, Kirk Baltz, Edward Bunker, Quentin Tarantino |
|
"If
Quentin Tarantino's
gritty, bone-chilling, powerfully violent new film, Reservoir Dogs,
doesn't pin your ears back, nothing ever will... [It's] as caustic as
battery acid. It's brutal, it's funny and you won't forget it.
Guaranteed." - Hal Hinson, The Washington Post, 1992 |
|
Selected by Tian Zhuang-Zhuang,
Angela Pope, Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger,
Mike D'Angelo, Thomas
Schmitt. |
|
298 → 326 → 398 →
372 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Time Out |
|
|
|
Fellini Satyricon |
|
FEDERICO FELLINI (371) |
 |
| • Satyricon
(alternative title); Fellini's Satyricon (alternative title) |
|
1969 | 129m | Col | Italy
| Ensemble Film, Period Film |
|
Martin Potter, Hiram
Keller, Salvo Randone, Max Born, Mario Romagnoli, Magali Noel, Capucine,
Alain Cuny, Fanfulla, Lucia Bose |
|
"Today I'm not so sure
it's a masterpiece, except as an expression of the let-it-all-hang-out
spirit of the 1970 world that we both then occupied...
Fellini Satyricon
is always described as a film about ancient Rome, but it may be one of
the best films about the Summer of Love--not celebrating it, but
displaying the process of its collapse. What is fun for a summer can be
hard work for a lifetime."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2001 |
|
Selected by
Taylor Hackford,
Stuart Gordon,
Carlos Garcia Brusco, Patrick Duynslaegher, Fredric R. Jameson. |
|
325 → 336 → 371 →
373 |
|
Amazon
The A.V. Club
Allmovie |
|
|
|
Mulholland Dr. |
|
DAVID LYNCH (654) |
 |
| •
Mulholland Drive (alternative spelling) |
|
2001 | 146m | Col |
France-USA | Mystery, Psychological Thriller |
|
Justin Theroux, Naomi
Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Mark Pellegrino,
Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Katharine Towne, Lee Grant |
|
"While watching Mulholland
Drive, you might well wonder if any film maker has taken the cliché of
Hollywood as "the dream factory" more profoundly to heart than
David Lynch.
The newest film from the creator of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks
is a nervy full-scale nightmare of Tinseltown that seizes that concept
by the throat and hurls it through the looking glass."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times,
2001 |
|
Selected by Shunichi Nagasaki, Sophie Barthes, Ed
Gonzalez, Robert Sarafian, Pascal Manuel Heu. |
|
650 → 588 → 654 →
374 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Bright Lights Film Journal |
|
See Also:
The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films |
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376
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377
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|
The Silence of the Lambs |
|
JONATHAN DEMME
(378) |
 |
|
1991 | 118m | Col | USA | Psychological Thriller, Police Detective Film |
|
Jodie Foster, Anthony
Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Diane Baker, Brooke
Smith, Kasi Lemmons, Tracey Walter, Roger Corman |
|
"Caged Heat,
Demme’s
first directing effort for
Corman, is a woman-in-prison flick that
suggests that early on he was aware of the connection between genre
bends and gender twists—the connection that is stunningly realized in
The Silence of the Lambs. As
exhilarating as it is harrowing, The Silence of
the Lambs is a slasher film in which the woman is hero rather
than victim, pursuer rather than pursued."
- Amy
Taubin, The Criterion Collection, 1998 |
|
Selected by M. Night Shyamalan, Davina Belling, Tobias Kniebe, Frank Schnelle,
Judith Halberstam. |
|
607 → 397 → 378 →
375 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Time Out (Geoff Andrew) |
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Don't Look Back |
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D.A. PENNEBAKER
(342) |
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1967 | 96m | BW | USA | Music, Documentary |
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Bob Dylan, Joan Baez,
Donovan, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Alan Price, Tito Burns, Derroll
Adams, Chris Ellis, Allen Ginsberg |
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"An unforgettable
all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour,
D.A. Pennebaker's's landmark 1967 rock
doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video with its
oft-copied Subterranean Homesick Blues clip... The concert
footage of the young Dylan in his punky prime is electrifying, but the
most fun comes from the privileged glimpses of his sadistic wit."
- Jim
Ridley, The Village Voice, 2008 |
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Selected by
Tim Robbins, Roger Michell, Chris Hegedus, Klaus Lemke, Angela Glaser. |
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314 → 313 → 342 →
376 |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
The A.V. Club |
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Love Streams |
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JOHN CASSAVETES (419) |
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1984 | 141m | Col | USA | Drama, Psychological Drama |
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Gena Rowlands, John
Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott, Jakob Shaw,
Risa Blewitt, Doe Avedon, Tom Badal, Frank Beetson |
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"John
Cassavetes's final film, the all too rarely screened and
still underappreciated Love Streams, [is] a movie that gets
better with each viewing... Love Streams is at once a culmination
of the director's
obsessions and his most atypical film. It's a movie that gives up its
mysteries slowly—flirting with theatricality, inserting dream sequences,
concluding on a brazenly surreal enigma."
- Dennis Lim, The Village Voice, 2005 |
|
Selected by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Adrian Martin, Vivian Kleiman, Tetsuo Shinohara,
Kevin B. Lee. |
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376 → 436 → 419 →
377 |
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
Screening the Past |
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378
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379
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380
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Point Blank |
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JOHN BOORMAN
(380) |
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1967 | 92m | Col | USA | Crime Thriller, Gangster Film |
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Lee Marvin, Angie
Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong,
John Vernon, Sharon Acker, James B. Sikking, Sandra Warner |
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"John
Boorman's modernist, noirish thriller is still his best and
funniest effort...
Boorman's treatment of cold
violence and colder technology has lots of irony and visual flash—the
way objects are often substituted for people is especially brilliant,
while the influence of pop art makes for some lively 'Scope
compositions—and the
Resnais-like experiments with time and editing are still
fresh and inventive."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by Nick Schager, Chris Rodley, Elaine Paterson, Max Tessier, Philip Coorey. |
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473 → 400 → 380 →
378 |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Slant Magazine |
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The Dead |
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JOHN HUSTON
(416) |
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1987 | 83m | Col | USA | Period Film, Marriage Drama |
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Anjelica Huston, Donal
McCann, Helena Carroll, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly, Cathleen Delany,
Ingrid Craigie, Rachael Dowling, Marie Kean, Frank Patterson |
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"What looked
unimaginative then now appears bold, almost experimental: The Dead
sometimes looks a little like an old-style live television broadcast of
a stage-play on a single set, but this unitary effect has rigour,
clarity and life. Huston
holds his nerve and just follows, with eagle-eyed attention to detail,
the inconsequential chatter and the to-ings and fro-ings of the
dinner-jacketed folk." -
Peter
Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2006 |
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Selected by Carlos F. Heredero, Jacques Aumont, Miguel Picazo, Javier Marias,
Vincent Pinel. |
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618 → 402 → 416 →
379 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Film Reference |
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Listen to Britain |
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HUMPHREY JENNINGS
(362) |
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1941 | 20m | BW | UK | Sociology, Documentary |
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Chesney Allen, Leonard
Brockington, Bud Flanagan, Myra Hess |
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"Jennings' Listen to
Britain is, I believe, a very direct example of the kind of
narrative that Third Cinema wishes to create... The film is a
masterpiece of sound mixing; it uses natural sounds and music to create
the sound of Britain... It creates an audio landscape of Britain during
the war, with images both accompanying and conflicting with the
multitude of sounds." - Tomas Leach, The British Film Resource |
|
Selected by
David Meeker, Geoff Brown, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith,
Lindsay Anderson, Michael Eaton. |
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307 → 346 → 362 →
380 |
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Amazon
Screen Online
Shooting Down Pictures |
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381
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382
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383
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The
Lady Vanishes |
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK (431) |
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1938 | 97m | BW | UK | Spy
Film, Thriller |
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Margaret Lockwood, Michael
Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers,
Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare, Googie Withers |
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"In The
Lady Vanishes,
Alfred Hitchcock pushes the romantic
comedy-thriller form to perfection. Endlessly imitated, the film remains
unique, even in
Hitchcock's canon. In no other
movie but North by Northwest was he able to blend
these two genres so perfectly."
- Michael Wilmington, The Criterion Collection, 1998 |
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Selected by
Robin Wood, Charles Barr,
Manuel Antin, Jean Dutourd, Leslie Halliwell. |
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501 → 582 → 431 →
381 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection (Robin Wood)
Screen Online |
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Breaking the Waves |
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LARS VON TRIER (383) |
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1996 | 156m | Col | Denmark-Sweden-France-Netherlands-Norway | Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama |
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Emily Watson, Stellan
Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan
Hackett, Sandra Voe, Udo Kier, Mikkel Gaup, Roef Ragas |
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"Courting and sometimes
winning ridicule, daring to fuse true love with lurid exploitation and
pure religious faith, the Danish director
Lars von Trier has created a fierce,
wrenchingly passionate film about the struggles of a shy young woman who
is goodness personified. Truly, bells ring in heaven for a heroine like
this."
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 1996 |
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Selected by
Joel Schumacher, Andrey Plakhov,
Tom Tykwer, Michaela Boland, Claudio Espana. |
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377 → 335 → 383 →
382 |
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Amazon
Rolling Stone
Film Reference |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
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BUSTER KEATON & CHARLES F. REISNER (327) |
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1928 | 71m | BW | USA | Adventure Comedy, Slapstick |
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Buster Keaton, Ernest
Torrence, Marion Byron, Tom McGuire, Tom Lewis, Joe Keaton |
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"A
marvellous comedy set in a lazy riverside town in the Deep South, with
Buster as
the foppish, city-educated boy who returns home to prove a grave
disappointment to his father... Hilarious, of course, with both
delicately observed jokes and energetically athletic stuntwork coursing
through the movie."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
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Selected by Terry Jones,
Vincent Ward, Doug Block, Elliott Stein,
E. Rubinstein. |
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261 → 323 → 327 →
383 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr) |
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384
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385
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386
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Loves of a Blonde |
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MILOS FORMAN (352) |
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| • Lásky
jedné plavovlásky (original title); A Blonde in Love
(alternative title) |
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1965 | 88m | BW | Czechoslovakia | Comedy Drama, Satire |
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Hana Brejchova, Vladimir
Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik, Antonin Blazejovsky, Milada Jezkova, Josef
Sebanek, Ivan Kheil, Jiri Hruby, Marie Salacova, Jana Novakova |
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"Usually, when a film
achieves instant acceptance, that means there is something wrong with
it—that it is too obvious, too sentimental, or too eager to please. None
of this is true of Loves of a Blonde, which
remains an amazing balancing act of subtle social satire and adolescent
romantic longing, of blank despair and irrepressible hope... this is
certainly one of the most sweetly seductive films ever made."
- Dave
Kehr, The Criterion Collection, 2002 |
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Selected by Ken Loach,
Arnost Lustig, Pawil Pawlikowski, Les Blair, Malgorzata Dipont. |
|
312 → 373 → 352 →
384 |
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Amazon
Film Reference
The A.V. Club |
|
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Claire's Knee |
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ERIC ROHMER
(450) |
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| • Le Genou
de Claire (original title) |
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1971 | 103m | Col | France | Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners |
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Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora
Cornu, Beatrice Romand, Laurence De Monaghan, Michele Montel, Fabrice
Luchini, Gerard Falconetti |
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"The penultimate
entry in Eric Rohmer's
series of Six Moral Tales, and the loveliest, most crystalline of
the lot. With his serenely precise plot structures and camera
placements, Rohmer
is the greatest logician of the movies; he treats the mysteries of love
as if they were math problems, but with such generous concern that he
never betrays the humanity of his characters."
- Dave
Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Neil LaBute, Ken Mogg, Tom Milne, Robert Benton, Iain Johnstone. |
|
482 → 440 → 450 →
385 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection (Molly Haskell)
Senses of Cinema |
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|
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
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SAM PECKINPAH (385) |
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1974 | 112m | Col | USA | Black Comedy, Action Thriller |
|
Warren Oates, Isela Vega,
Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Fernandez, Robert Webber, Helmut
Dantine, Jorge Russek, Chano Urueta, Don Levy |
|
"Alfredo
Garcia is a work teeming with contradiction: it’s
Peckinpah’s
grittiest, ugliest film, but it centres on the most respectful,
affectionate relationship he ever wrote. Benny is a multiple murderer,
but also a sympathetic hero trying, in his way, to do the right thing.
Oates’s performance is a revelation."
- Tom Huddleston, Time Out, 2009 |
|
Selected by Shunichi Nagasaki, Takeshi Kitano,
Nick Schager, John McNaughton,
Jeremy Thomas. |
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360 → 393 → 385 →
386 |
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Amazon
The Village Voice
Slant Magazine |
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387
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388
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389
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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GEORGE ROY HILL
(402) |
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1969 | 112m | Col | USA | Western, Buddy Film |
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Paul Newman, Robert
Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey,
Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, George Furth, Kenneth Mars |
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"Note-perfect
performances, a screenplay steeped in both nostalgia and a timely sense
of insight, and anti-heroes you can't help but love: it's no surprise
that the always re-watchable Butch And Sundance was once labelled
the most likeable film ever made."
- Bob McCabe, Empire |
|
Selected by David Fincher, Vadim Jean, Michael Parkinson, Jurgen Egger, Sathyan Ramesh. |
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556 → 414 → 402 →
387 |
|
Amazon
The A.V. Club
Metacritic |
|
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|
A Streetcar Named Desire |
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ELIA KAZAN (356) |
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1951 | 122m | BW | USA | Marriage Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Vivien Leigh, Marlon
Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias,
Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere |
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"The film itself, hailed
as realistic in 1951, now seems claustrophobic and mannered - and all
the more effective for that... Despite the overwhelming power of
Brando's performance, Streetcar is one of the great ensemble
pieces in the movies."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1993 |
|
Selected by Les Blank, Paul Burston, Susannah Frankel, Kenneth Turan,
Yoko Narahashi. |
|
0 → 429 → 356 →
388 |
|
Amazon
The Washington Post
Film Reference |
|
|
|
The Colour of Pomegranate |
|
SERGEI PARAJANOV
(382) |
 |
| • Sayat
Nova (original title) |
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1969 | 73m | Col | USSR | Avant-garde/Experimental, Essay Film |
|
Sofico Chiaureli, M.
Aleksanian, V. Galstian, G. Gegechkori, O. Minasian, Spartak Bagashvili,
Medea Djaparidze, Yuri Amiryan, I. Babayan, Guranda Gabunia |
|
"Originally
refused an export licence,
Paradjanov's extraordinary film traces
the life of 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova ('The King of Song'),
but with a series of painterly images strung together to form tableaux
corresponding to moments of his life rather than any conventional
biographic techniques."
- Chris
Peachment, Time Out |
|
Selected by Atom Egoyan, Ulrich Gregor, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Chua, Azzedine Mabrouki. |
|
407 → 388 → 382 →
389 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Reverse Shot |
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390
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391
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392
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The Servant |
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JOSEPH LOSEY (359) |
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1963 | 115m | BW | UK | Drama, Psychological Drama |
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Dirk Bogarde, James Fox,
Wendy Craig, Sarah Miles, Catherine Lacey, Richard Vernon, Ann Firbank,
Patrick Magee, Harold Pinter, Doris Knox |
|
"As in plays such as
The Birthday Party and The Caretaker Pinter's spare,
elliptical dialogue, with its pauses and silences, is the perfect
vehicle for expressing the unspoken dynamics of human relationships and
for establishing a pervasive sense of menace and unease. More important
still, however, is
Losey's masterly direction, elaborate yet tightly controlled
and never merely decorative."
- Julian Petley, Film Reference |
|
Selected by Gore Verbinski, Paolo D'Agostini, Liliana Cavani, Juan Carlos Laviana, Laurent Vachaud. |
|
351 → 349 → 359 →
390 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Screen Online |
|
|
|
Tristana |
|
LUIS BUÑUEL
(349) |
 |
|
1970 | 98m | Col | France-Spain | Psychological Drama, Marriage Drama |
|
Catherine Deneuve,
Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, Jesus Fernandez,
Vicente Solar, Jose Calvo, Fernando Cebrian, Candida Losada |
|
"Luis
Buñuel's Tristana is a
haunting study of a human relationship in which the power changes hands.
Power over human lives is a lifelong theme of
Buñuel, that most sadomasochistic of
directors, and Tristana is his most explicit study of the
subject. Not his best, but his most explicit."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1970 |
|
Selected by
Derek Malcolm, Patrick Duynslaegher, Michael Wood, Helena Ylanen, Paul Cox. |
|
288 → 312 → 349 →
391 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Time Out |
|
|
|
Scorpio Rising |
|
KENNETH ANGER
(366) |
 |
|
1964 | 29m | Col | USA | Avant-garde/Experimental, Surrealist Film |
|
Bruce Byron, Ernie Allo,
Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell, Johnny Dodds, Johnny Sapienza, Bill
Dorfman, John Palone, Barry Lubin |
|
"The film expands greatly
on Anger's
exploration in Fireworks of the connection between sex and
violence with its potential for death. It opens with a sideburned youth
working on his motorcycle, but when he finishes his tinkering and peers
into a mirror, the classic figure of Death as a hooded skeleton peers
back... Anger
never made a more dynamic or disturbing film."
- Kevin
Thomas, Los Angeles Times, 2006 |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, Carolee Schneemann, Roumuald Karmakar, Russel Forster,
Hans Schifferle. |
|
481 → 497 → 366 →
392 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Reverse Shot |
|
| |
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393
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394
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395
|
|
Our Hospitality |
|
BUSTER KEATON & JOHN BLYSTONE
(369) |
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|
1923 | 74m | BW | USA | Romantic Comedy, Adventure Comedy |
|
Buster Keaton, Natalie
Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Ralph Bushman, Craig Ward, Monte Collins, Joe
Keaton, Leonard Chapman, Edward Coxen, Jean Dumas |
|
"With this work,
Keaton began
to display a dramatic sense to complement his comic sensibility—like
The General, it is built with the integrity of a high-adventure
story. Of course,
Keaton still finds room for his inimitable sight gags and
beloved gadgets." -
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Geoff Andrew, Geoff Brown, John Gillett, Markku Tuuli, Lenny Borger. |
|
361 → 359 → 369 →
393 |
|
Amazon
Variety
Time Out |
|
|
|
Doctor Zhivago |
|
DAVID LEAN (476) |
 |
|
1965 | 197m | Col | USA |
Romantic Epic, Period Film |
|
Omar Sharif, Julie
Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan
McKenna, Rod Steiger, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Adrienne Corri |
|
"The
sweep and scope of the Russian revolution, as reflected in the
personalities of those who either adapted or were crushed, has been
captured by David Lean
in Doctor Zhivago, frequently with soaring dramatic intensity.
Director has accomplished one of the most meticulously designed and
executed films--superior in several visual respects to his Lawrence
of Arabia."
- A.D. Murphy, Variety, 1965 |
|
Selected by Jerry Bruckheimer, Subhash Ghai, Cherd
Songsri, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Julian Mateos. |
|
496 → 541 → 476 →
394 |
|
Amazon
Screen Online
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) |
|
|
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
|
FRANK CAPRA (373) |
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|
1939 | 129m | BW | USA | Comedy Drama, Message Movie |
|
James Stewart, Jean
Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene
Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, H.B. Warner |
|
"Stewart's
young Wisconsin senator exposing corruption and upholding true American
values in a Senate House riddled with graft is quintessential
Capra -
popular wish-fulfilment served up with such fast-talking comic panache
that you don't have time to question its cornball idealism." -
Nigel Floyd, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Ivan Passer, Charles Champlin, Louis Marcorelles, Frederic Vitoux,
Alexandre Tylski. |
|
339 → 330 → 373 →
395 |
|
Amazon
Chicago Reader
Film Reference |
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| |
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396
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397
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398
|
|
JFK |
|
OLIVER STONE
(492) |
 |
|
1991 | 188m | Col-BW | USA | Political Thriller, Paranoid Thriller |
|
Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman,
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Rooker, Jay O.
Sanders, Sally Kirkland, Edward Asner, Jack Lemmon |
|
"The first order of
business concerning JFK,
Oliver Stone's movie about the Kennedy
assassination, is entertainment. As such,
Stone creates a riveting marriage of
fact and fiction, hypothesis and empirical proof in the edge-of-the-seat
spirit of a conspiracy thriller. It doesn't hurt matters that his
subject -- who really killed Kennedy -- is the most fascinating whodunit
in modern history."
- Desson
Howe, The Washington Post, 1991 |
|
Selected by
Kevin Smith, Alejandro Amenábar, Gary Crowdus, Klaus Lemke, Matt Zoller Seitz. |
|
685 → 487 → 492 →
396 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Reverse Shot |
|
|
|
Chelsea Girls |
|
ANDY WARHOL
(364) |
 |
|
1967 | 215m | Col-BW | USA | Avant-garde/Experimental, Trash Film |
|
Brigid Berlin, Randy
Borscheidt, Christian Aaron Boulogne, Angelina 'Pepper' Davis, Dorothy
Dean, Eric Emerson, Patrick Flemming, Ed Hood, Arthur Loeb, Donald Lyons |
|
"The most celebrated
Andy Warhol
feature, and for many the best, is made up of a dozen 33-minute reels
that are projected two at a time, side by side... the results are often
spellbinding; the juxtaposition of two film images at once gives the
spectator an unusual amount of freedom in what to concentrate on and
what to make of these variously whacked-out performers."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
John Waters, David Schwartz, Nick Zedd, Michael Eaton,
Jovan Jovanovic. |
|
364 → 413 → 364 →
397 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Rouge |
|
|
|
Forbidden Games |
|
RENÉ CLÉMENT
(367) |
 |
| • Jeux
interdits (original title) |
|
1951 | 87m | BW | France | Childhood Drama, War Drama |
|
Brigitte Fossey, Georges
Poujouly, Lucien Hubert, Suzanne Courtal, Jacques Marin, Laurence Badie,
Andre Wasley, Amedee, Denise Pereonne, Louis Sainteve |
|
"Over the years
countless films have been made about war, its horrors and its
devastations. Few, however, have been as moving and heartfelt as
René Clément’s
Forbidden Games. The Academy Award winner for Best Foreign
Language Film in 1952, this deeply touching French drama has stirred the
emotions of every moviegoer who has had the good fortune to see it."
- David
Ehrenstein, The Criterion Collection, 1988 |
|
Selected by
Hubert Cornfield, Bryan Forbes,
Xavier Dolan, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Haruo Mizuno. |
|
363 → 387 → 367 →
398 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
The Criterion Collection (Peter Matthews) |
|
| |
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399
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400
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|
Thelma & Louise |
|
RIDLEY SCOTT (444) |
 |
| • Thelma
and Louise (alternative spelling) |
|
1991 | 128m | Col | USA |
Road Movie, Buddy Film |
|
Susan Sarandon, Geena
Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Stephen
Tobolowsky, Brad Pitt, Timothy Carhart, Lucinda Jenney, Jason Beghe |
|
"Thelma & Louise
reveals the previously untapped talent of
Mr. Scott for exuberant comedy, and for
vibrant American imagery, notwithstanding his English roots. It
reimagines the buddy film with such freshness and vigor that the genre
seems positively new. It discovers unexpected resources in both its
stars, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, who are perfectly teamed as the
spirited and original title characters."
- Janet
Maslin, The New York Times, 1991 |
|
Selected by Yvonne Tasker, Havana Marking, B. Ruby
Rich, Jane Bartlett, Peter Korte. |
|
521 → 507 → 444 →
399 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Rolling Stone |
|
|
|
I Know Where I'm Going! |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER (413) |
 |
|
1945 | 91m | BW | UK | Drama, Romance |
|
Wendy Hiller, Roger
Livesey, Finlay Currie, Pamela Brown, Nancy Price, John Laurie, Norman
Shelley, Catherine Lacey, George Carney, Walter Hudd |
|
"I Know
Where I’m Going! is a love story that is also a
fable... Powell
and Pressburger had yet to launch into the glorious
expressionism that would lead to The Red Shoes and
The Tales of Hoffmann, but they were already
reaching far beyond commercial realism... I Know Where
I’m Going! boldly defies the sober style of much World War
II cinema."
- Ian Christie, The Criterion Collection, 2001 |
|
Selected by Ty Burr,
D.A. Pennebaker, Catriona O'Shaughnessy, Scott Meek,
Jean Olle-Laprune. |
|
447 → 385 → 413 →
400 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Screen Online |
|
|
• To 401-1000
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|
|