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451 |
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452 |
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453 |
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JFK |
|
OLIVER STONE
(418) |
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|
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,
Alexandre Tylski, Matt Zoller Seitz. |
| 665 → 685 → 487 → 492 →
396 → 418 → 451 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Reverse Shot |
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India Song |
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MARGUERITE DURAS
(433) |
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|
1974 | 120m | Col | France
| Avant-garde/Experimental, Psychological Drama |
|
Delphine Seyrig, Michel
Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriere, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier
Flamand, Claude Juan, Satasinh Manila, Nicole Hiss, Monique Simonet |
|
"Duras' thin dramas
are perceived through layers upon layers of style—she's the
Busby Berkeley
of structuralism. In this 1974 film, she uses constantly shifting
tenses, rigorous patterns of camera movement (and stillness), acting
boiled down to broad isolated gestures, nonsynchronous dialogue, and a
dozen other radical devices. The result is a film that is extremely
boring in rather fascinating ways, well worth seeing for those with a
tolerance for stasis and a taste for French abstraction."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Richard
Dyer, Michel Chion, Sakari Toiviainen,
Atom Egoyan, Anne-Marie Baron. |
| 417 → 455 → 425 → 449 →
409 → 433 → 452 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Cinepassion |
|
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|
The Adventures of Robin
Hood |
|
MICHAEL CURTIZ
&
WILLIAM KEIGHLEY
(434) |
 |
|
1938 | 102m | Col | USA |
Swashbuckler, Romantic Adventure |
|
Errol Flynn, Olivia de
Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale,
Patric Knowles, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Una O'Connor |
|
"William
Keighley
and Michael Curtiz's
rambunctious 1938 masterpiece—and Hollywood's definitive swashbuckler...
In the most engaging performance of his career, Errol Flynn is jaunty,
romantic, and larger than life, but also slyly funny as the Saxon knight
who takes on the nasty Normans...
Robin Hood is movie pageantry at its best, done in the grand
manner of silent spectacles, brimming over with the sort of primitive
energy that drew people to the movies in the first place."
- Elliott Stein, The Village Voice, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Robert
Clampett, Jerry Lewis,
Marjorie Bilbow, Lasse Bergstrom, Antonio Mercero. |
| 355 → 372 → 441 → 464 →
488 → 434 → 453 |
|
Amazon
Filmsite
The A.V. Club |
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454↑ |
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455 |
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456 |
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Dead
Man |
|
JIM JARMUSCH
(501) |
 |
|
1995 | 121m | BW | USA-Germany
| Hybrid Western, Psychological Western |
| Johnny
Depp, Gary Farmer, Robert Mitchum, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, John
Hurt, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital |
|
"A
quantum leap by American independent
Jim Jarmusch—a hypnotic and beautiful
black-and-white western... This masterpiece is
simultaneously a mystical, highly poetic account of dying; a
well-researched appreciation of Native American cultures; a frightening
portrait of modern American violence and capitalist greed that refuses to
traffic in the stylistic alibis of Hollywood; a warm, hilarious depiction
of cross-cultural friendship; and a hallucinatory trip across the American
wilderness."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Jill Godmilow, Daniil Dondurei, Alexandre Tylski,
Alexandra Seitz, Andreas Kilb. |
| 475 → 504 → 398 → 445 →
472 → 501 → 454 |
|
Amazon
The Film Journal
Metacritic |
|
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|
Dersu Uzala |
|
AKIRA KUROSAWA
(436) |
 |
|
1975 | 140m | Col |
Japan-Russia | Period Film, Adventure Drama |
|
Maksim Munzuk, Yuri
Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Svetlana Danilchenko,
Dmitri Korshikov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov, B. Khorulev,
Sovetbek Dzhumadylov |
|
"Director
Akira Kurosawa is
known for his epics, and this Russian-Japanese co-production was one of
the most sweeping of his long and brilliant career... Physically, it is
one of the most impressive filmed testaments to the majesty of nature.
Breathtaking cinematography makes the Siberia-Mongolian frontier the
real star of this slow-moving, proud, and unconventional buddy film.
Kurosawa
has made more accessible films in plot and structure, but the rugged
beauty of this work is unsurpassed in his canon."
- Michael Betzold, Allmovie |
|
Selected by
Teshome
Gabriel, Sally Hibbin, David Weissman, Tadeusz Soboelwski, Thomas
Bourguignon. |
| 560 → 594 → 587 → 451 →
418 → 436 → 455 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Wikipedia |
|
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|
Scenes from a Marriage |
|
INGMAR BERGMAN
(437) |
 |
| • Scener ur
ett äktenskap (original title) |
|
1973 | 168m | Col | Sweden
| Marriage Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Liv Ullmann, Erland
Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjo, Gunnel Lindblom, Anita Wall,
Barbro Hiort af Ornas, Lena Bergman, Wenche Foss, Rosanna Mariano |
|
"Part of the pleasure
in Scenes from a Marriage is getting to
watch two of the greatest modern screen actors, Liv Ullman and Erland
Johannsen, tangle with each other. The technical solidity, affective
range, attractiveness, and chemistry of these two performers ensure that
we are in secure hands, however bumpy a ride we may be in for
emotionally. Bergman,
following his master,
Carl Dreyer, reconstitutes the cinematic art as a language of
faces."
- Phillip Lopate, The Criterion Collection, 2004 |
|
Selected by
Neil LaBute,
Olivier Assayas,
Jay DiPietro, Bill Pullman, Robert Weide. |
| 604 → 570 → 672 → 738 →
499 → 437 → 456 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Images Movie Journal |
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457 |
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458↑ |
|
459 |
|
Dumbo |
|
BEN SHARPSTEEN
(448) |
 |
|
1941 | 64m | Col | USA |
Animated Musical, Children's Fantasy |
|
Voices of Edward Brophy,
Herman Bing, Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards, Billy
Bletcher, Jim Carmichael, Noreen Gamill, Malcolm Hutton, John McLeish |
|
"With Fantasia,
Disney explicitly set out to test the technical limits of animation, but
with Dumbo, however inadvertently, the studio tested the
emotional limits. Though it ultimately provides sweet redemption,
Dumbo plunges its hero pretty close to the heart of darkness. Not
that its technical achievements should be ignored: From the bizarre,
justly famous "Pink Elephants On Parade" sequence to its less
show-stopping moments, Dumbo captures Disney feature filmmaking,
still near its infancy, at its best."
- Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club, 2002 |
|
Selected by
John Lasseter,
Carolee Schneemann, Gael Garcia Bernal, Norton Virgien, Leonard Maltin. |
| 570 → 612 → 668 → 706 →
480 → 448 → 457 |
|
Amazon
Pop Matters
Slant Magazine |
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|
Terra em Transe |
|
GLAUBER ROCHA
(477) |
 |
| •
Land in Anguish
(English title); Entranced Earth (alternative title) |
|
1967 | 106m | BW | Brazil
| Drama, Political Drama |
|
Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran,
Jose Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha, Paulo Gracindo, Hugo Carvana, Danuza Leao,
Jofre Soares, Modesto De Souza, Mario Lago |
|
"That
it is popular—not populist—culture which offers the only possibility for
national liberation is made explicit by
Rocha in Land in Anguish,
where
he contrasts traditional values to those of liberal populism, which is
shown to lead inevitably to co-option by the bourgeoisie.
Rocha’s
efforts to form a genuinely Brazilian cinema, founded on authentic
themes and expressed through an idiom peculiar to Latin America, led him
to make beautiful and moving films which continue to speak for his
ideals."
- John Mraz, International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, 2000 |
|
Selected by
Carlos Diegues,
Jytte Jensen, Walter
Salles, Jeanine Meerapfel, Jose Carlos Avellar. |
| 342 → 311 → 368 → 420 →
444 → 477 → 458 |
|
Amazon
Film International
The Lumière Reader |
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|
Winter Light |
|
INGMAR BERGMAN
(452) |
 |
| •
Nattvardsgästerna (original title) |
|
1962 | 80m | BW | Sweden |
Psychological Drama, Religious Drama |
|
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar
Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall, Kolbjorn
Knudsen, Olof Thunberg, Elsa Ebbesen, Lars-Olof Andersson, Eddie Axberg |
|
"Like Quattrocento
Italian painting, Ming porcelain, or the late quartets of Beethoven,
Ingmar Bergman’s
“chamber” films are an acquired taste. Winter Light
represents the Swedish director’s most concentrated inquiry into the
significance of religion, and of Lutheranism specifically...
Immaculately shot by Sven Nykvist, acted with extraordinary intensity by
the entire cast—and by Gunnar Björnstrand as Tomas Ericsson and Ingrid
Thulin as Märta Lundberg in particular—Winter Light clasps
us by the throat with numbed fingers and demands a response."
- Peter Cowie, The Criterion Collection, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Robert Towne,
Philip French, Carlos F. Heredero, Judith Crist,
Andrei Tarkovsky. |
| 420 → 414 → 443 → 479 →
504 → 452 → 459 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Slant Magazine |
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| |
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|
460↑ |
|
461↑ |
|
462↑ |
|
Raising Arizona |
|
JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN
(473) |
 |
|
1987 | 92m | Col | USA |
Crime Comedy, Domestic Comedy |
|
Nicolas Cage, Holly
Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray,
Randall 'Tex' Cobb, M. Emmet Walsh, Frances McDormand, T.J. Kuhn |
|
"The
superbly labyrinthine plotting of Blood Simple must have been a
hard act to follow; praise be, then, to the Brothers Coen for
confounding all expectations with this fervently inventive comedy...
What makes this hectic farce so fresh and funny is the sheer fertility
of the writing, while the lives and times of Hi, Ed and friends are
painted in splendidly seedy colours, turning Arizona into a mythical
haven for a memorable gaggle of no-hopers, halfwits and has-beens.
Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and
virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Lee Unkrich,
Edgar Wright, Matt Stone,
Antonia Bird, Christian Seidl. |
| 841 → 830 → 747 → 602 →
647 → 473 → 460 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
The Washington Post |
|
|
|
My Life as a Dog |
|
LASSE HALLSTRÖM (464) |
 |
| • Mitt liv
som hund (original title) |
|
1985 | 101m | Col | Sweden
| Comedy Drama, Childhood Drama |
|
Anton Glanzelius, Manfred
Serner, Anki Liden, Tomas von Bromssen, Melinda Kinnaman, Ing-mari
Carlsson, Kicki Rundgren, Lennart Hjulstrom, Leif Erickson, Christina
Carlwind |
|
"Hallström’s
oeuvre has unmistakable themes—the passage of the innocent outsider
through an alien social landscape, and, contrastingly, the power of
human idiosyncrasy in those societies. In effect, it’s a perspective
generous to everything it surveys, and My Life is the most
generous film
Hallström has ever made. At the same time, it’s far from
sentimental, exploring—as all memorable movies about childhood do—the
contentious struggle to understand or at least withstand the bulldozing
machinations of the adult world."
- Michael Atkinson, The Criterion Collection, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Roger Donaldson,
Nick Broomfield, Stefan Schwartz, Claire Binns,
Arthur Borman. |
| 497 → 387 → 404 → 421 →
454 → 464 → 461 |
|
Amazon
Pop Matters
The Washington Post |
|
|
|
The Last Detail |
|
HAL ASHBY
(547) |
 |
|
1973 | 105m | Col | USA
| Buddy Film, Military Comedy |
|
Jack Nicholson, Otis
Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Michael Moriarty, Carol Kane, Luana
Anders, Nancy Allen, Kathleen Miller, Gerry Salsberg |
|
"Two career sailors
escort a backward young colleague to naval prison to serve an eight-year
stretch for petty thievery... A tough-talking,
sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by
Jack Nicholson as the arrogant and salty (but feeling) sailor who tries to
stay in charge of the odyssey, and almost doesn't."
- Don Druker, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Judd Apatow,
Wes Anderson,
Max Winkler, Neil Burger, Evgeny Tsymbal. |
| 0 → 980 → 0 → 0 → 491 →
547 → 462 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Culture Vulture |
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463 |
|
464 |
|
465↑ |
|
Raise the Red Lantern |
|
ZHANG YIMOU
(454) |
 |
| • Da hong
deng long gao gao gua (original title) |
|
1991 | 125m | Col | Hong
Kong | Period Film, Marriage Drama |
|
Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, He
Caifei, Cao Cuifeng, Jin Shuyuan, Kong Lin, Ding Weimin, Cui Zhihgang,
Chu Xiao, Cao Zhengyin |
|
"Yimou
uses the bold, bright colors of Ju Dou again this time; his film
was shot in the classic three-strip Technicolor process, now abandoned
by Hollywood, which allows a richness of reds and yellows no longer
possible in American films. There is a sense in which Raise the Red
Lantern exists solely for the eyes. Entirely apart from the plot,
there is the sensuous pleasure of the architecture, the fabrics, the
color contrasts, the faces of the actresses. But beneath the beauty is
the cruel reality of this life, just as beneath the comfort of the rich
man's house is the sin of slavery."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1992 |
|
Selected by
Dan Georgakas, Paul Cox,
Jeanette Gentele, Aruna Vasudev, Andreas Kilb. |
| 450 → 413 → 355 → 410 →
448 → 454 → 463 |
|
Amazon
The Washington Post
New York Sun |
|
|
|
The Young Girls of
Rochefort |
|
JACQUES DEMY
(456) |
 |
| • Les
Demoiselles de Rochefort (original title) |
|
1967 | 124m | Col | France
| Musical Romance, Musical Comedy |
|
Catherine Deneuve,
Francoise Dorleac, George Chakiris, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli,
Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Henri Cremieux, Danielle Darrieux, Gene
Kelly |
|
"Demy's
most ambitious film and the one I cherish the most is this 1967
big-budget musical shot exclusively on location, a tale of various
dreamers searching for and usually missing their ideal mates, who are
usually only blocks away...
Demy pays tribute to the American
musical yet mixes in accoutrements of French poetic realism: dreams and
reality coexist more strangely and stubbornly than in most other
musicals. The results may be quintessentially French, but the energy and
optimism are clearly inspired by America, and
Gene Kelly's appearances are sublime."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Geoff Andrew, David Bordwell, Keith Uhlich, Jean Olle-Laprune, Gerard
Langlois. |
| 257 → 266 → 288 → 417 →
424 → 456 → 464 |
|
Amazon
Salon
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
|
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
|
BLAKE EDWARDS
(499) |
 |
|
1961 | 115m | Col | USA |
Romantic Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy |
|
Audrey Hepburn, George
Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney, John
McGiver, Jose-Luis de Villalonga, Dorothy Whitney, Stanley Adams |
|
"Between
Edwards' frothy
pacing, Franz F. Planer's lovely location camerawork, and Henry
Mancini's memorable score, Breakfast at
Tiffany's is a
thoroughly charming and witty valentine to one special woman and the
city she loves that still enchants more than 40 years after it first hit
the screen."
- Mark Deming, Allmovie |
|
Selected by David Robert Mitchell, Jerry Lewis,
Hans Schifferle, Fernando Mendez-Leite, Gerardo Vera. |
| 733 → 653 → 450 → 401 →
455 → 499 → 465 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Slant Magazine |
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466 |
|
467 |
|
468↑ |
|
It's a Gift |
|
NORMAN Z. MCLEOD
(442) |
 |
|
1934 | 73m | BW | USA |
Comedy, Screwball Comedy |
|
W.C. Fields, Kathleen
Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp, Baby LeRoy, Tammany
Young, Morgan Wallace, Charles Sellon, Josephine Whittell |
|
"It's
a masterpiece, and Fields' definitive study in the horrors of small town
family life. Every person and thing around causes sublime winces of
irritation... There's little sentiment (or plot) to provide any relief,
either; the film's string of set pieces (three of them taken from the
1925 Ziegfeld Follies) maintains a relentless pace and tone,
making this easily the most devastating comedy of the '30s. "
- Geoff Brown, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Gerald
Peary, Daniel Talbot, Geoff Brown, Gavin Millar, Frieda Grafe. |
| 343 → 374 → 369 → 423 →
428 → 442 → 466 |
|
Amazon
Filmsite
Wikipedia |
|
|
|
Nostalghia |
|
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
(444) |
 |
| • Nostalgia
(English title) |
|
1983 | 120m | Col | Italy
| Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Oleg Yankovsky, Erland
Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi, Delia
Boccardo, Milena Vukotic, Raffaele Di Mario, Rate Furlan, Livio Galassi |
|
"Another
of Tarkovsky's
strange, hauntingly beautiful meditations on man's search for self. The
film may forsake the run-down space station of Solaris or the
miraculous Zone of Stalker for the hilltop villages of Tuscany,
but its framework is familiar (flashbacks in spectral black-and-white,
the use of rich sepia alongside pastel colour to blur distinctions
between dream and reality), and so are its themes (memory, melancholia,
disenchantment with the material world, dogged stumbling after
salvation)."
- Angus MackInnon, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Veronique
Godard, Kim Ji-Seok, John Gianvito, Hans Gunther Pflaum, David Sterritt. |
| 406 → 410 → 406 → 425 →
431 → 444 → 467 |
|
Amazon
TCM
Strictly Film School |
|
|
|
Edward Scissorhands |
|
TIM BURTON
(494) |
 |
|
1990 | 100m | Col | USA |
Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy |
|
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder,
Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, Alan
Arkin, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell, Caroline Aaron |
|
"Strange, funny and
powerfully moving… Burton
has found a way to move through camp to emotional authenticity, to
communicate-through a concentration of style and an innocence of
regard-a depth and sincerity of feeling that his deliberately (and
often, comically) flat characters could not summon on their own."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune, 1990 |
|
Selected by Floria Sigismondi, Isabel Coixet, Rainer Knepperges, Ricardo
Aldarondo, Stephane Levy. |
| 677 → 713 → 711 → 625 →
637 → 494 → 468 |
|
Amazon
Rolling Stone
The Washington Post |
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|
469↑ |
|
470↑ |
|
471 |
|
Videodrome |
|
DAVID CRONENBERG
(492) |
 |
|
1983 | 90m | Col | Canada
| Media Satire, Sci-Fi Horror |
|
James Woods, Sonja Smits,
Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley, Les Carlson, Lynne Gorman,
David Bolt, Lally Cadeau, Harvey Chao |
|
"Videodrome is
a key work in the David Cronenberg oeuvre. For this Virgil among
filmmakers, our personable guide to bio- and cyberhell, this movie about
how technology alters its users was not only prophetic but a personal
artistic breakthrough. Prior to Videodrome, Cronenberg had been
concerned with the external side effects of so-called medical advances.
By inviting us to consider both the physical and psychological
repercussions of new technologies, Videodrome anticipated
Cronenberg’s mature masterpieces The Fly (1986) and Dead
Ringers (1988)."
- Carrie Rickey, The Criterion Collection, 1984 |
|
Selected by
Chris Rodley, Tom Mes, Christophe Goffette, Alexander Horwath, Frances
Lynn. |
| 558 → 524 → 448 → 505 →
463 → 492 → 469 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
The A.V. Club |
|
|
|
A Touch of Zen |
|
KING HU
(514) |
 |
| • Hsia nu
(original title) |
|
1969
| 200m | Col | Taiwan | Drama, Martial Arts |
|
Billy Chan, Ping-yu Chang,
Roy Chiao, Shih Chun, Hsue Han, Yin-Chieh Han, Feng Hsu, Ching-Ying Lam,
Tien Miao, Peng Tien |
|
"King
Hu's remarkable Ming Dynasty epic deliberately makes itself impossible to
define, beginning as a ghost story, then turning into a political
thriller, and finally becoming a metaphysical battle as the role of the
monk Hui-Yuan (Chiao) comes to the fore...
Delights include a heroine who holds her own with men without being
'masculine', and transcendent moments like the stabbing of the monk, who
bleeds gold... And the visual style will set your eyes on fire."
- Tony Rayns, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Chris Berry, Yomota Inuhiko, Peter Rist, Stephen Teo,
Diego Brodersen. |
| 391 → 409 → 477 → 468 →
565 → 514 → 470 |
|
Amazon
Reverse Shot
The New York Times |
|
|
|
Three Colours: Red |
|
KRSZYSTOF KIESLOWSKI
(451) |
 |
| • Trois
couleurs: Rouge (original title); Red (alternative title) |
|
1994 | 99m | Col |
France-Switzerland-Poland | Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis
Trintignant, Federique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan,
Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Benoit Regent, Zbigniew Zamachowski,
Marion Stalens |
|
"It's
a film about destiny and chance, solitude and communication, cynicism
and faith, doubt and desire; about lives affected by forces beyond
rationalisation. The assured direction avoids woolly mysticism by using
material resources - actors, colour, movement, composition, sound - to
illuminate abstract concepts. Stunningly beautiful, powerfully scored
and immaculately performed, the film is virtually flawless, and one of
the very greatest cinematic achievements of the last few decades. A
masterpiece."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Tim Lucas, Claire Binns, Angela Pope, Peter Debruge, Howard Feinstein. |
| 412 → 383 → 418 → 463 →
436 → 451 → 471 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) |
|
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|
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|
472↑ |
|
473 |
|
474↑ |
|
The Enigma of Kaspar
Hauser |
|
WERNER HERZOG
(491) |
 |
| •
Jeder für sich
und Gott gegen alle (original title); Every Man for Himself and
God Against All (alternative title) |
|
1974 | 110m | Col | West
Germany | Psychological Drama, Period Film |
|
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast,
Brigitte Mira, Herbert Achternbusch, Wolfgang Bauer, Wilhelm Bayer,
Gloria Doer, Willy Semmelrogge, Volker Prechtel, Enno Patalas |
|
"A
film that shares with Aguirre, Wrath of God a fascination with
historical manuscripts, an uneasy laughter at human aspiration, and an
awe of landscape... Not the same dizzy folly as Aguirre, but
Herzog's similarly long perspective conjures as powerful a picture of
man's aimless tracks through an impassive landscape. Stunning."
- Chris Peachment, Time Out |
|
Selected by Dina Iordanova, Jonathan Romney, Tao Ruspoli, Patricia
Rozema, Lotte H. Eisner. |
| 357 → 375 → 462 → 484 →
524 → 491 → 472 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Pop Matters |
|
|
|
All That Jazz |
|
BOB FOSSE
(399) |
 |
|
1979 | 123m | Col | USA |
Showbiz Drama, Musical Drama |
|
Roy Scheider, Jessica
Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet
Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMassena |
|
"Fosse
might owe a lot to
Fellini's plunge into self-obsession, but the pungent texture
of showbiz grime and sweaty, thrusting body geometry are completely his
own. In powerhouse numbers like "Take Off With Us" and the infamous
"Bye-Bye Love" (easily the longest on-screen death rattle of all time),
Fosse brings his own unique style of rhythmic, dance-like film editing
that he initiated with Cabaret to its apotheosis."
- Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Jacques Goimard,
R.J. Cutler, Juan Jose Campanella,
David Fincher, Francois Ramasse. |
| 547 → 499 → 604 → 454 →
414 → 399 → 473 |
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Amazon
The A.V. Club
Wikipedia |
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The
Shawshank Redemption |
|
FRANK DARABONT
(520) |
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1994 | 142m | Col | USA
| Drama, Prison Film |
|
Tim Robbins, Morgan
Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark
Rolston, James Whitmore, Jeffrey DeMunn, Larry Brandenburg |
|
"Darabont's
adaptation of a Stephen King novella is a throwback to the kind of
serious, literate drama Hollywood used to make (Birdman of Alcatraz,
say) though the big spiritual resolution takes some swallowing...
Against this weighs the pleasure of discovering a first-time
director with evident respect for the intelligence of his audience, brave
enough to let character details accumulate without recourse to the
fast-forward button. Darabont plays the long game and wins: this is an
engrossing, superbly acted yarn, while the Shawshank itself is a truly
formidable mausoleum."
- Tom Charity, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Morgan Spurlock, Habib Azar, Russ Meyer, Roger Ebert,
Sharat Raju. |
| 394 → 390 → 411 → 462 →
513 → 474 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Rolling Stone |
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475↑ |
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476 |
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477↑ |
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12 Angry Men |
|
SIDNEY LUMET
(484) |
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| •
Twelve Angry
Men (alternative spelling) |
|
1957 | 95m | BW | USA |
Drama, Courtroom Drama |
|
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb,
Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, John
Fiedler, George Voskovec, Robert Webber |
|
"Lumet's
origins as a director of teledrama may well be obvious here in his first
film, but there is no denying the suitability of his style - sweaty
close-ups, gritty monochrome 'realism', one-set claustrophobia - to his
subject... What really transforms the piece from a rather talky
demonstration that a man is innocent until proven guilty, is the
consistently taut, sweltering atmosphere, created largely by Boris
Kaufman's excellent camerawork. The result, however devoid of action, is
a strangely realistic thriller."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by Antonia Bird,
Jacques Zimmer, Fanny Lignon, Heinz Niemann, Frederic Gimello. |
| 437 → 688 → 517 → 510 →
473 → 484 → 475 |
|
Amazon
The A.V. Club
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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An Affair to Remember |
|
LEO MCCAREY
(463) |
 |
|
1957 | 115m | Col | USA |
Romance, Melodrama |
|
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr,
Cathleen Nesbitt, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Robert Q. Lewis,
Charles Watts, Fortunio Bonanova, Matt Moore, Louis Mercier |
|
"A remake by
Leo McCarey of
his own 1939 classic Love Affair, the film progresses as a
graceful switch from romantic comedy to weepie melodrama, reflecting the
director's deep-rooted belief in the intricate bond between laughter and
tears... McCarey
is frequently compared to Japanese master
Yasujiro Ozu, and indeed, An Affair
to Remember looks back at Love Affair the way Ozu's
Floating Weeds looks back at A Story of Floating Weeds: as
a story that once moved the director, retold in changed times as an act
of defiantly anachronistic humanism."
- Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine, 2008 |
|
Selected by
Thierry
Jousse, Jerry Lewis,
Jos Oliver, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, Paul Vecchiali. |
| 582 → 626 → 452 → 407 →
468 → 463 → 476 |
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Amazon
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Wikipedia |
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The Producers |
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MEL BROOKS
(485) |
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1968 | 88m | Col | USA |
Showbiz Comedy, Farce |
|
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder,
Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn, Estelle Winwood, Renee Taylor, Lee Meredith,
Christopher Hewett, Andreas Voutsinas, Michael Davis |
|
"Brooks's
magnum opus is still a ferocious gale of bulldozing Jewish mockery,
dominated by Zero Mostel's comb-over juggernaut. However familiar, it
delivers like a shorted slot machine; memories of the tame and safely
distant stage version will evaporate in the runway turbulence of
Mostel's spittle-spray-in-your-eye performance. In fact, the more time
passes the more combustible
Brooks's burlesque of Nazism and the
post-war remnants of old-school Jewish showbiz seems."
- Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Jonathan Ross, Bill Plympton, Davina Belling, Patrick Laurent, Ray
Bradbury. |
| 523 → 543 → 548 → 553 →
528 → 485 → 477 |
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Amazon
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478 |
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479 |
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480 |
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Seven Chances |
|
BUSTER KEATON
(450) |
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|
1925 | 56m | BW | USA |
Comedy of Errors, Romantic Comedy |
|
Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer,
T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Frances Raymond, Erwin Connelly, Jules
Cowles, Jean Arthur, Lori Bara, Bartine Burkett |
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"Less
ambitious and less concerned with plastic values than the best of
Keaton, this
is nevertheless a dazzlingly balletic comedy in which
Buster has a
matter of hours to acquire the wife on which a seven million dollar
inheritance depends... From a leisurely start, the film takes off into a
fantastically elaborate, gloriously inventive chase sequence, in which
Buster
escapes the mob of pursuing harridans only to find an escalating
avalanche of rocks taking over at his heels as he hurtles downhill."
- Tom Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Mike Leigh,
Terry Jones,
Yvette Biro, Udagawa Koyo, Paul Vecchiali. |
| 476 → 510 → 644 → 434 →
425 → 450 → 478 |
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Amazon
Cinepassion
DVD Savant |
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The Tiger of Eschnapur |
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FRITZ LANG
(455) |
 |
| • Der Tiger
von Eschnapur (original title); Tiger of Bengal (alternative
title) |
|
1958 | 101m | Col |
Germany | Adventure Drama, Romantic Drama |
|
Debra Paget, Walther Reyer,
Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm, Luciana Paluzzi, Valery Inkijinoff, Sabine
Bethmann, Rene Deltgen, Jochen Brockmann, Victor Francen |
|
"After
years of working in Hollywood on mostly contemporary thrillers,
Lang took
advantage of an opportunity to work with lavish sets and colorful
costumes. The visuals are the clear winner here, carrying along the
story over some rough narrative patches... Contemporary audiences might
find Hubschmid and Paget's acting stiff, but psychological nuance is not
what Lang was
looking for here, and the two do generate genuine sexual chemistry,
especially in their flight across the desert which ends this
installment."
- Tom Wiener, Allmovie |
|
Selected by
Jesus Franco,
Jean Douchet, Agustin L. Sotto, Pere Gimferrer, Jos Oliver. |
| 539 → 528 → 546 → 536 →
558 → 455 → 479 |
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Amazon
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Wikipedia |
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Le Voyage dans la lune |
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GEORGES MÉLIÈS
(465) |
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| • A Trip to
the Moon (English title); Voyage to the Moon (alternative title) |
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1902 | 14m | BW | France |
Science Fiction, Space Adventure |
|
Victor Andre, Bleuette
Bernon, Brunnet, Jeanne d'Alcy, Henri Delannoy, Depierre, Farjaut, Kelm,
Georges Melies |
|
"With its evocative
sets Le voyage dans la lune has been frequently cited as seminal
to the development of the German expressionist movement, while for its
spontaneity and fantasy the film became a reference point for
avant-garde filmmakers and surrealists.
Buñuel, for one, acknowledged Le
voyage dans la lune as a formative influence, while the films of
René Clair and
Jacques Prévert owe much to their pioneering compatriot."
- R.F. Cousins, Film Reference |
|
Selected by
Pat Thomson,
Freddy Buache, Raoul Coutard, Wilson Cunha, Bernard Cohn. |
| 506 → 540 → 469 → 512 →
449 → 465 → 480 |
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Amazon
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482 |
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483↑ |
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Cool Hand Luke |
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STUART ROSENBERG
(489) |
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1967 | 126m | Col | USA|
Drama, Prison Film |
|
Paul Newman, George
Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin, Jo
Van Fleet, Clifton James, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton |
|
"A
caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving
chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who
refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow-prisoners. Underlying
the hard-bitten surface is a slightly uncomfortable allegory which
identifies Newman as a Christ figure. But this scarcely detracts from
the brilliantly idiosyncratic script (by Donn Pearce from his own novel)
or from Conrad Hall's glittering camerawork."
- Tom Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Ramin Bahrani,
Andrew Stanton, Russ Meyer,
Jurgen Egger, Peter Debruge. |
| 908 → 906 → 0 → 0 → 460
→ 489 → 481 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Slant Magazine |
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Lola |
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JACQUES DEMY
(453) |
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1961 | 90m | BW | France |
Romantic Drama, Melodrama |
|
Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel,
Jacques Harden, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Margo Lion, Annie
Duperoux, Catherine Lutz, Corinne Marchand, Yvette Anziani |
|
"Demy's
insouciant first feature—shot by Raoul Coutard in black-and-white
Cinema-scope in Demy's
hometown of Nantes—is also his most New Wave... In between café
blah-blah and wistful set pieces, Lola toys with a blatantly
underdeveloped criminal subplot, but
Demy is far more interested in evoking
the excitement of first love and old movies than orchestrating a shoot-'em-up....
Like a Hollywood fairy tale, Lola is always threatening to turn
into a musical. Its edge as a film comes from the fact that it never
quite does."
- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice, 2001 |
|
Selected by
Jonathan
Romney, Armond White, Jean-Pierre Berthome, Gerard Langlois, Pierre
Sauvage. |
| 329 → 335 → 344 → 411 →
434 → 453 → 482 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Slant Magazine |
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Scarface |
|
HOWARD HAWKS
(507) |
 |
| •
Scarface, the Shame of the Nation
(alternative title) |
|
1932 | 90m | BW | USA
| Gangster Film, Crime Drama |
| Paul
Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, Boris Karloff, C. Henry
Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell |
|
"Howard Hawks's 1932
masterpiece is a dark, brutal, exhilaratingly violent film, blending
comedy and horror in a manner that suggests Chico Marx let loose with a
live machine gun. Paul Muni gives his best performance as the simian hood
Tony Camonte, whose one redeeming virtue is that he loves his sister (Ann
Dvorak, of the limpid eyes and jutting limbs)...
The supporting actors—Osgood Perkins, Karen Morely, Boris Karloff, Vince
Barnett, George Raft (flipping his coin)—seem to have been chosen for
their geometric qualities; the film is a symphony of body shapes and
gestures, functioning dynamically as well as dramatically."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Marc Cerisuelo, Luis
Alberto de Cuenca, Rogerio Sganzerla, Olivier De Bruyn, Fernando
Mendez-Leite. |
| 507 → 529 → 532 → 490 →
453 → 507 → 483 |
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Amazon
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Film Reference |
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484 |
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485 |
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486 |
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French Cancan |
|
JEAN RENOIR
(457) |
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1955 | 93m | Col | France
| Comedy of Manners, Musical Comedy |
|
Jean Gabin, Francoise
Arnoul, Maria Felix, Anna Amendola, Dora Doll, Giani Esposito, Philippe
Clay, Michel Piccoli, Edith Piaf, Patachou |
|
"Renoir's
return to film-making in France after an absence of fifteen years is a
nostalgic studio reconstruction of the Paris of his painter father.
Despite its artificiality and meandering plot construction - with
Renoir falling
in love with some of his minor characters - it brilliantly evokes the
world of the French Impressionists, building into a comic riot of colour
and movement... The climactic cancan scene is one of the finest dance
sequences ever filmed, and worth the price of a ticket on its own."
- Rod McShane, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Philip
Strick, Tag Gallagher, Joseph McBride, Chris Fujiwara, Luciano Berriatua. |
| 396 → 405 → 407 → 426 →
475 → 457 → 484 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection (Andrew Sarris)
Senses of Cinema |
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Fat City |
|
JOHN HUSTON
(426) |
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|
1972 | 100m | Col | USA |
Drama, Sports Drama |
|
Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges,
Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon, Curtis
Cokes, Sixto Rodriguez, Billy Walker, Wayne Mahan |
|
"Marvellous,
grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people
construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall. The setting is
Stockton, California, a dreary wasteland of smoky bars and sunbleached
streets where the lives of two boxers briefly meet, one on the way up,
one on the way down...
Huston directs with the same puritanical rigour he brought to
Wise Blood."
- Tom Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Michael Radford,
Harmony Korine, Geoffrey Macnab, Auram Heffner, Miguel Picazo. |
| 621 → 665 → 568 → 606 →
571 → 426 → 485 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
The Village Voice |
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A Moment of Innocence |
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MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF
(459) |
 |
| • Nun va
Goldoon (original title) |
|
1995 | 78m | Col |
Iran-France-Switzerland | Comedy Drama, Satire |
|
Mirhadi Taiebi, Ali Bakshi,
Ammar Tafti, Mariyam Mohammad-Amini, Fariba Faghiri, Lotfollah Ghaslaghi,
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Moharram Zainlazadeh, Ali Irani, Hana Makhmalbaf |
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"Though its methods
lie somewhere between Pirandello and Rashomon, A Moment Of Innocence
adds a personal dimension that's uniquely its own, as
Makhmalbaf's
investigation into the past evolves into a touching act of contrition.
On a more universal scale, he questions the use of violence as a
catalyst for positive social change. Banned upon its initial release...
A Moment Of Innocence is further evidence of Iran's cinematic
vitality."
- Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Mark Cousins, Michael Sicinski, Dina Iordanova,
Alexander Payne,
Hamid Dabashi. |
| 541 → 517 → 564 → 412 →
437 → 459 → 486 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Slant Magazine |
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487 |
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488 |
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489↑ |
|
Fitzcarraldo |
|
WERNER HERZOG
(476) |
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|
1982 | 157m | Col | West
Germany | Adventure Drama, Jungle Film |
|
Klaus Kinski, Claudia
Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher,
Huerequeque Bohorquez, Grande Otelo, Peter Berling, David Perez
Espinosa, Milton Nascimento |
|
"In a long, slow,
rewarding film, Kinski essentially plays a benevolent but no less
monomaniacal variation on the character he played in
Herzog's
Aguirre: The Wrath Of God, but rather than conquering the New World,
here he seeks to bring culture to a land with a culture and a way of its
own. Whether his dream is foolish, noble, or misguided is left entirely
up to the viewer, though it's not hard to see where
Herzog's
sympathies lie."
- Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Baz Luhrmann,
Albert Maysles, Simeon Tegel, Raphael Bassan, Hideyuki Hirayama. |
| 516 → 557 → 543 → 575 →
600 → 476 → 487 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Images Movie Journal |
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Faces |
|
JOHN CASSAVETES
(461) |
 |
|
1968 | 130m | BW | USA |
Marriage Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
John Marley, Gena Rowlands,
Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver,
Joanne Moore Jordan, Darlene Conley, Gene Darfler |
|
"John
Cassavetes' Faces is
the sort of film that makes you want to grab people by the neck and drag
them into the theater and shout: "Here!" It would be a triumphant shout.
Year after year, we get a tide of bilge that passes for "the American
way of life" in the movies. We know it isn't like that. We don't live
that way and neither does anyone we know. What Cassavetes has done is
astonishing. He has made a film that tenderly, honestly and
uncompromisingly examines the way we really live."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1968 |
|
Selected by
Mark
Borchardt, Jana Bokova,
Hal Hartley, Andre S. Labarthe, Emma Gray Munthe. |
| 403 → 404 → 437 → 447 →
469 → 461 → 488 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection
Slant Magazine |
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Midnight Run |
|
MARTIN BREST
(497) |
 |
|
1988 | 122m | Col | USA |
Action Comedy, Road Movie |
|
Robert De Niro, Charles
Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano,
Richard Foronjy, Robert Miranda, Jack Kehoe, Wendy Phillips |
|
"Martin
Brest directed this comedy thriller from a George Gallo
script. Considering all the shopworn materials used here, including the
aggressive banality of Danny Elfman's pop score, one's expectations
quickly sink to zero; but miraculously, De Niro and Grodin turn this
sow's ear into a plausible vehicle for a buddy movie, and thanks to both
of them, this movie springs to life."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Doug Liman,
Ruben Fleischer, Jay DiPietro, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,
Hans-Dieter Delkus. |
| 0 → 593 → 550 → 615 →
514 → 497 → 489 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) |
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491↑ |
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492 |
|
Barton Fink |
|
JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN
(470) |
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|
1991 | 117m | Col | USA |
Comedy Drama, Black Comedy |
|
John Turturro, John
Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, Jon
Polito, Steve Buscemi, David Warrilow, Richard Portnow |
|
"What Raising
Arizona was to baby lust, Barton Fink is to writer's block --
a rapturously funny, strangely bittersweet, moderately horrifying and,
yes, truly apt description of the condition and its symptoms... A
deco-period film by Ethan
and Joel Coen, Barton Fink is in fact their own
creative solution to the writer's block that plagued them during the
making of Miller's Crossing. A triumph for the offbeat, grimly
funny brothers, it reveals in its mythic fashion the vagaries of the
creative process that plague every artist."
- Rita Kempley, The Washington Post, 1991 |
|
Selected by
Alexei
Balabanov, Sean Byrne,
Patrice Leconte, Gabe Klinger, Philip
Ridley. |
| 542 → 581 → 529 → 529 →
538 → 470 → 490 |
|
Amazon
Metacritic
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) |
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Juliet
of the Spirits |
|
FEDERICO FELLINI
(533) |
 |
| •
Giulietta degli spiriti (original title) |
|
1965 | 148m | Col | Italy |
Comedy Drama, Marriage Drama |
|
Giulietta Masina, Mario
Pisu, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Valeska Gert, Jose-Luis de
Villalonga, Friedrich von Ledebur, Caterina Boratto, Lou Gilbert, Sylva
Koscina |
|
"Made in 1965, around
the time the term psychedelia was coined to describe a luminous Day-Glo
vision of the world, Federico Fellini's phantasmagoric Juliet of the
Spirits was the Italian master's first color film. Arriving when
serious European filmmakers were discovering color, this gorgeous,
sometimes garish immersion in a rainbow palette invites you to contemplate
the symbolic vibration of every hue in its teeming, overcrowded canvas."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times, 2001 |
|
Selected by
Mark L. Lester,
Chris Berry, Danny Elfman, David Weissman, Donald Cammell. |
| 705 → 766 → 726 → 574 →
630 → 533 → 491 |
|
Amazon
The Criterion Collection
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
|
|
|
The Thing from Another
World |
|
CHRISTIAN NYBY & HOWARD
HAWKS
(462) |
 |
| • The Thing
(alternative title) |
|
1951 | 87m | BW | USA |
Science Fiction, Alien Invasion Film |
|
Kenneth Tobey, Margaret
Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, Douglas Spencer, Dewey
Martin, James R. Young, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz |
|
"Though the nominal
director is Christian Nyby (who was still toiling away at TV movies in
the mid-80s), this 1951 science fiction classic is steeped in the
personality of its producer,
Howard Hawks. The special effects are
largely limited to the rubber suit worn by James Arness in the title
role, but the film has more frissons than most of today's mega-budget
productions, simply because it has the grace to construct a meaningful
situation and coherent characters."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
George A. Romero,
Mark Jancovich, George Armitage, Gerard Lefort, Luc Moullet. |
| 565 → 550 → 593 → 581 →
631 → 462 → 492 |
|
Amazon
Wikipedia
Time Out |
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|
494 |
|
495 |
|
I Am Cuba |
|
MIKHEIL KALATOSOV
(481) |
 |
| • Soy Cuba
(original title) |
|
1964 | 85m | Col |
USSR-Cuba | Drama, Propaganda Film |
|
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador
Wood, Jose Gallardo, Raul Garcia, Luz Maria Collazo, Jean Bouise,
Alberto Morgan, Celia Rodriguez, Fausto Mirabal, Roberto Garcia York |
|
"Inspired by the
films of Sergei
Eisenstein, and designed as an uplifting propaganda piece for
Fidel Castro's Cuba - a cinematic poem to the cure-all of Communism -
I Am Cuba may be one of the most stylistically vigorous films of all
time. A joint Soviet-Cuban production, directed by
Mikheil
Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying) and originally
released in 1964, I Am Cuba' is a delirious hybrid: an
overheated, agitprop salute to the Cuban revolution and a mad, unbridled
exercise in film technique."
- Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 1995 |
|
Selected by
Sukhdev Sandhu, Mike Leigh,
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Eric Lavallee,
George Clooney. |
| 688 → 682 → 748 → 446 →
464 → 481 → 493 |
|
Amazon
Sight & Sound
Time Out |
|
|
|
Where is the Friend's
Home? |
|
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
(466) |
 |
| • Khane-ye
doust kodjast? (original title); Where is My Friend's House?
(alternative title) |
|
1987 | 85m | Col | Iran |
Drama, Childhood Drama |
|
Babak Ahmed Poor, Ahmed
Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari, Sadika Taohidi,
Biman Mouafi, Ali Djamali, Aziz Babai, Nadir Ghoulami |
|
"Where Is the
Friend's House?, one of Kiarostami's most popular films in Iran, is
a miniature epic about a schoolboy trying to return a classmate's
notebook... This is a sustained meditation on singular landscapes and
the way ordinary people live in them; an obsessional quest that takes on
the contours of a parable; a concentrated inquiry that raises more
questions than it answers; and a comic as well as cosmic poem. It's
about making discoveries and cherishing what's in the world—including
things that we can't understand."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Werner Herzog,
Tadao Sato, Lukas
Moodysson, Christian Petzold, Thomas Schmitt. |
| 646 → 513 → 483 → 501 →
429 → 466 → 494 |
|
Amazon
Cinepassion
Time Out |
|
|
|
Underground |
|
EMIR KUSTURICA
(468) |
 |
| • Bila
jednom jedna zemlja (original title) |
|
1995 | 192m | Col |
France-Germany-Hungary | Political Satire, Black Comedy |
|
Miki Manojlovic, Lazar
Riztovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Mirjana Karanovic, Srdjan
Todorovic, Ernst Stotzner, Milena Pavlovic, Bata Stojkovic, Bora
Todorovic |
|
"Emir
Kusturica's wild, sprawling Underground begins with
drunken revelry, the kind that erupts frequently throughout the course
of the film and accounts for a good deal of its three-hour running time.
If Kusturica,
who won the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes International Film Festival
for this feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant
clarity, appears to be overindulging a taste for celebration, he has
good reason... Kusturica's central idea becomes a daringly blunt
representation of political chicanery that fools an entire society."
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 1997 |
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Selected by
Fernando
Leon de Aranoa, Tim
Robbins,
Tian Zhuangzhuang, Yevgeny
Yevtushenko, Hamid-Reza Sadr. |
| 436 → 431 → 505 → 549 →
502 → 468 → 495 |
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Amazon
Slant Magazine
The A.V. Club |
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496 |
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497 |
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498↑ |
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I Walked with a Zombie |
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JACQUES TOURNEUR
(487) |
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1943 | 69m | BW | USA |
Horror, Occult Horror |
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Frances Dee, Tom Conway,
James Ellison, Edith Barrett, Christine Gordon, Sir Lancelot, Darby
Jones, James Bell, Theresa Harris, Jeni Le Gon |
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"The
most elegant of Val Lewton's low budget horrors for RKO, an imaginative
updating of Jane Eyre... But it is Tourneur's caressingly
evocative direction, superbly backed by Roy Hunt's chiaroscuro images,
that makes sheer magic of the film's brooding journey into fear by way
of voodoo drums, gleaming moonlight, somnambulistic ladies in fluttering
white, and dark, silent, undead sentries. "
- Tom Milne, Time Out |
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Selected by Quim Casas, Michael Henry Wilson,
Bertrand Tavernier,
Jacques Goimard, Peter Korte. |
| 344 → 352 → 378 → 488 →
508 → 487 → 496 |
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Amazon
Wikipedia
Allmovie |
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I Was Born, But… |
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YASUJIRO OZU
(486) |
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Otona no miru
ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (original title) |
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1932 | 100m | BW | Japan |
Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age |
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Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko
Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto, Seiichi Kato,
Shoichi Kojufita, Seiji Nishimura, Teruyo Hayami, Chishu Ryu |
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"From its opening
image of a spinning wheel stuck in the mud to its succession of expertly
composed and timed reaction shots, I Was Born, But... shows Ozu
at the height of his subtle comic powers. There’s also a visual elegance
to the storytelling, achieved through rigorous editing techniques. Ozu
relies mostly on action and expression (intertitles are infrequent, as
in much silent Ozu) to tell this alternately sly and sympathetic story."
- Michael Koresky, The Criterion Collection, 2008 |
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Selected by
Georgia Brown, Chris Berry, Peter Rist, Kumar Shahani, Jose Luis
Rebordinos. |
| 366 → 398 → 460 → 429 →
482 → 486 → 497 |
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Amazon
Midnight Eye
The Village Voice |
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Husbands |
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JOHN CASSAVETES
(504) |
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1970 | 138m | Col | USA
| Drama, Buddy Film |
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Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk,
John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Lee Wright, Noelle Kao, Leola
Harlow, Meta Shaw, John Kullers, Delores Delmar |
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"It's impossible to
separate what makes John Cassavetes' Husbands exhilarating from
what makes it exasperating. Following three suburban family men into the
maw of a midlife crisis brought on by a mutual friend's untimely death,
the movie is set at a fever pitch that at times approaches outright
hysteria. Rarely has depression been so manic."
- Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times, 2009 |
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Selected by
Wes Anderson,
Jay DiPietro, Raoul Peck,
Ulrich Seidl, Meir Schnitzer. |
| 661 → 704 → 639 → 684 →
539 → 504 → 498 |
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Amazon
The New Yorker
Pop Matters |
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499 |
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500 |
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• To 501-100 |
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Limelight |
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CHARLES CHAPLIN
(469) |
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1952 | 145m | BW | USA |
Comedy Drama, Melodrama |
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Charles Chaplin, Claire
Bloom, Sydney Chaplin, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Nigel Bruce,
Buster Keaton, Norman Lloyd, Charles Chaplin Jr., Wheeler Dryden |
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"Chaplin's
final film before his exile in Europe is far and away his most personal:
he recreates the London of his boyhood, and contemplates with supreme
narcissism the onset of old age and the decline of his comic instinct...
It's over-long, shapeless, overblown, and... a masterpiece. Few cinema
artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such
ruthlessness and with such moving results."
- Geoff Brown, Time Out |
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Selected by
Gilbert Adair, Rashid Irani, Gene Moskowitz, Jos Oliver, Pascal Bonitzer. |
| 259 → 269 → 403 → 370 →
439 → 469 → 499 |
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Amazon
Wikipedia
Allmovie |
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Masculin Feminin |
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JEAN-LUC GODARD
(472) |
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| • Masculin
féminin: 15 faits précis (original title) |
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1966 | 103m | BW |
France-Sweden | Urban Drama, Psychological Drama |
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Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal
Goya, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Marlene Jobert, Michel Debord,
Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Francoise Hardy, Elas Leroy,
Brigitte Bardot |
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"Masculin,
Féminin was somewhat of a turning point for
Godard,
allowing the Novelle Vague auteur to address for the first time the
current political climate of the world in one of his films. In many
ways, this is the perfect
Godard film—complex but accessible,
snide but unpretentious, critical but sympathetic... The film is a
provocative and deliriously funny examination of sexual politics in
Paris during the height of the Vietnam War, and its genius is the way
Godard
seamlessly encodes his complex philosophy of the world into a
deceptively simple love story"
- Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine, 2003 |
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Selected by
Paul Schrader,
Armond White, Manohla Dargis, Stephanie Zacharek, Robert Horton. |
| 267 → 222 → 325 → 404 →
443 → 472 → 500 |
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Amazon
The Criterion Collection (Adrian Martin)
The Village Voice (J. Hoberman) |
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