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51
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52
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53
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The
Wild Bunch |
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SAM
PECKINPAH (58) |
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1969
| 144m | Col | USA | Western, Revisionist Western |
|
William Holden, Ernest
Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben
Johnson, Emilio Fernandez, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones |
|
"From the opening
sequence, in which a circle of laughing children poke at a scorpion
writhing in a sea of ants, to the infamous blood-spurting finale,
Peckinpah
completely rewrites John
Ford's Western mythology... In purely cinematic terms, the
film is a savagely beautiful spectacle, Lucien Ballard's superb
cinematography complementing
Peckinpah's darkly elegiac vision."
- Nigel Floyd, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Kathryn Bigelow,
Martin Campbell,
Jonathan Kaplan,
Michael
Mann,
Stuart Gordon. |
| 55 → 56 →
58 → 51 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
Filmsite |
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Contempt |
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JEAN-LUC
GODARD (56) |
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| • Le Mépris
(original title) |
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1963
| 103m | Col | France-Italy | Drama, Satire |
|
Brigitte Bardot, Michel
Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll, Jean-Luc Godard, Linda
Veras, Raoul Coutard |
|
"It's one
thing for a film to retain every bit of its worth after more than 30
years, but more impressive is the ability to be increasingly relevant
and moving with the passage of time. Such is the case with
Godard's Contempt."
- Kenneth Turan, 1997 |
|
Selected by Stig Bjorkman, Ginette Vincendeau,
Ian Christie, Jonathan
Romney, Philip Strick. |
| 49 → 45 →
56 → 52 |
|
Amazon
Salon
Criterion Collection Essay |
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The
Seventh Seal |
|
INGMAR
BERGMAN (52) |
 |
| • Det
Sjunde inseglet (original title) |
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1957
| 96m | BW | Sweden | Drama, Fantasy |
|
Max von Sydow, Gunnar
Bjornstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson, Ake Fridell, Maud
Hansson, Gunnel Lindblom, Inga Gill, Inga Landgre |
|
"If
Ingmar
Bergman had lived a hundred years ago he would have been a great
novelist. For me he is the greatest figure since sound and The
Seventh Seal is probably the film he's become most associated with" -
William Goldman, NFT Bulletin, 1984 |
|
Selected by
Dennis Hopper,
Robin Buss, Mark Kermode,
Sydney Pollack,
Scott Hicks. |
| 36 → 42 →
52 → 53 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies
Criterion Collection Essay |
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54
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55
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56
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Intolerance |
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D.W. GRIFFITH
(51) |
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| •
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (original
title) |
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1916 | 178m | BW | USA |
Historical Epic, Melodrama |
|
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh,
Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge, Miriam Cooper, Alfred Paget, Elmo
Lincoln, Walter Long, Bessie Love, Seena Owen |
|
"Intolerance
launched ideas about associative editing that have been essential to the
cinema ever since, from Soviet montage classics to recent American
experimental films. And in the use of crosscutting and action to
generate suspense, the film's climax hasn't been surpassed."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Werner Herzog, Armond White, Tom
Gunning,
Sidney Lumet,
Roy
Andersson. |
| 46 → 49 →
51 → 54 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Filmsite |
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Modern
Times |
|
CHARLES
CHAPLIN (48) |
 |
|
1936
| 89m | BW | USA | Urban Comedy,
Satire |
|
Charles Chaplin, Paulette
Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley "Tiny" Sandford, Chester Conklin, Allan
Garcia, Hank Mann, Louis Natheaux, Stanley Blystone, Sammy Stein |
|
"Modern Times
remains Chaplin's
most sustained burlesque of authority: It's replete with strikes and
police riots, and one of the most celebrated gags has the Tramp
inadvertently leading a worker demonstration and being jailed—not for
the last time—as an agitator." -
J. Hoberman, The Village
Voice, 2003 |
|
Selected by
Andrew Sarris,
Jonathan Kaplan, Peter
Wollen, Alfredo Guevara, Jaco Van Dormael. |
| 56 → 52 →
48 → 55 |
|
Amazon
Filmsite
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) |
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|
Wild
Strawberries |
|
INGMAR
BERGMAN (57) |
 |
| •
Smultronstället (original title) |
|
1957
| 90m | BW | Sweden | Drama,
Psychological Drama |
|
Victor Sjostrom, Bibi
Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bjorn
Bjelvenstam, Max von Sydow, Jullan Kindahl, Folke Sundquist, Gunnel
Brostrom |
|
"A mature
masterwork... An early road movie, this benefits from extraordinarily
moving performances and an intricate challenging script. Among
Bergman's
most deeply affecting works, balancing Swedish chill with a deep
humanity."
- Empire, 1994 |
|
Selected by
Michael Moore, Philip Strick, Alexander Walker, Donald Richie, Ginette Vincendeau. |
| 54 → 53 →
57 → 56 |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Criterion Collection Essay |
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57
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58
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59
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North by Northwest |
|
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
(49) |
 |
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1959 | 136m | Col | USA |
Thriller, Spy Film |
|
Cary Grant, Eva Marie
Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau,
Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Adam Williams, Edward Platt |
|
"It may not have the
elegant visual motifs of Strangers on a Train or the
psychological depth of Vertigo, but North by Northwest
is the breeziest, most successful entertainment
Hitchcock
made after leaving England... It’s about the only
Hitchcock
picture that’s sexy without being salacious, thanks mainly to Ernest
Lehman’s barbed dialogue and the scalding rapport between Cary Grant and
Eva Marie Saint."
- Sam Adams, Philadelphia City Paper, 2000 |
|
Selected by
George A. Romero,
Walt Vian,
Susan Seidelman,
Camille Paglia, Wesley Strick. |
| 63 → 59 →
49 → 57 |
|
Amazon
DVD Savant Review
Filmsite |
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|
Rio
Bravo |
|
HOWARD
HAWKS (63) |
 |
|
1959
| 141m | Col | USA | Western,
Traditional Western |
|
John Wayne, Dean Martin,
Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Claude Akins,
John Russell, Bob Steele, Harry Carey Jr. |
|
"Arguably
Hawks' greatest film, a deceptively rambling chamber Western made in
response to the liberal homilies of High Noon... Beautifully
acted, wonderfully observed, and scripted with enormous wit and
generosity."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by Robin Wood,
Derek Malcolm,
Barbet Schroeder,
Quentin
Tarantino, John Powers. |
| 67 → 58 →
63 → 58 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Images Journal |
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The
Apartment |
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BILLY
WILDER
(55) |
 |
|
1960
| 125m | BW | USA | Comedy Drama,
Workplace Comedy |
|
Jack Lemmon, Shirley
MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams, David
Lewis, Joan Shawlee, Hope Holiday, Johnny Seven |
|
"The
Apartment is one of
Billy Wilder's funniest, most
uncompromisingly bleak comedies, his second collaboration with Jack
Lemmon, who plays a variation on that recurrent
Wilder
character, the weak guy who becomes a pimp or a gigolo to advance his
career."
- Philip French, The Guardian, 2008 |
|
Selected by
Rian Johnson, Mark Cousins,
Cameron
Crowe,
Randa Haines,
Ronald Neame. |
| 76 → 67 →
55 → 59 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies
Filmsite |
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60
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61
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62
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Au hasard Balthazar |
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ROBERT BRESSON
(61) |
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| • Balthazar
(alternative title) |
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1966 | 95m | BW | France |
Rural Drama, Animal Picture |
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Anne Wiazemsky, Francois
Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Natalie Joyaut, Walter Green, J-C Guilbert,
Pierre Klossowski, Francois Sullerot, M.C. Fremont, Jean Remignard |
|
"Godard’s
famous claim that Au hasard Balthazar is “the world
in an hour and a half” suggests how dense, how immense
Bresson's
brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey is. The
film’s steady accumulation of incident, characters, mystery, and social
detail, its implicative use of sound, offscreen space, and editing, have
the miraculous effect of turning the director’s vaunted austerity into
endless plenitude, which is perhaps the central paradox of
Bresson's
cinema." - James Quandt, The Criterion Collection, 2005 |
|
Selected by Sukhdev Sandhu, Fred Camper,
Michael Haneke,
Gavin Lambert, Amy Taubin. |
| 50 → 60 →
61 → 60 |
|
Amazon
Masters of Cinema
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies
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Gone
with the Wind |
|
VICTOR
FLEMING
(60) |
 |
|
1939
| 222m | Col | USA | Epic, Romance |
|
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,
Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell,
Ona Munson, Ann Rutherford, Evelyn Keyes, Fred Crane |
|
"As an
example of filmmaking craft, it is still astonishing... The real auteur
was the producer, David O. Selznick, the
Steven
Spielberg of his day, who understood that the key to mass appeal was
the linking of melodrama with state-of-the-art production values."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by
Ken Russell,
Paul Morrissey,
Lewis Gilbert,
Ronald Neame,
Camille Paglia. |
| 88 → 62 →
60 → 61 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
San Francisco Examiner |
|
|
|
Once Upon a Time in the West |
|
SERGIO
LEONE (73) |
 |
| • C'era una
volta il West (original title) |
|
1968
| 165m | Col | Italy-USA | Epic Western, Spaghetti Western |
|
Henry Fonda, Claudia
Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Frank Wolff, Gabriele
Ferzetti, Keenan Wynn, Paolo Stoppa, Lionel Stander, Jack Elam |
|
"The Western is dead
- or so they tell us. Long live
Leone's timeless monument to the death
of the West itself, rivalled only by
Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy
the Kid for the title of best ever made. We're talking favourite
films here, so only superlatives will do... Critical tools needed are
eyes and ears - this is Cinema. "
- Paul
Taylor, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Christopher Frayling, Alex Gibney, Mika Kaurismäki,
Joe
Dante,
John Dahl. |
| 87 → 80 →
73 → 62 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Pop Matters |
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63
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64
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65
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|
The
Conformist |
|
BERNARDO
BERTOLUCCI (65) |
 |
| • Il
Conformista (original title) |
|
1969
| 115m | Col | Italy-France-Germany | Psychological Drama, Political
Drama |
|
Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi,
Enzo Taroscio, Jose Quaglio, Milly, Giuseppe Addobbati, Yvonne Sanson |
|
"If the ideas
don't touch the imagination, the film's sensuous texture does. It's a
triumph of feeling and of style - lyrical, flowing, velvety style, so
operatic that you come away with sequences in your head like arias."
- Pauline Kael |
|
Selected by
Joe Wright, Nick James,
Jonathan Demme,
Joel Schumacher,
Sydney Pollack. |
| 58 → 65 →
65 → 63 |
|
Amazon
Washington Post
The Village Voice |
|
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|
Pather
Panchali |
|
SATYAJIT
RAY (59) |
 |
|
1955
| 112m | BW | India | Rural Drama,
Family Drama |
|
Kanu Banerji, Karuna
Banerji, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Banerji, Chunibala Devi, Runki Banerji,
Reva Devi, Rama Gangopadhaya, Tulshi Chakraborty, Harimoran Nag |
|
"No
subsequent film could capture the lyricism of Pather Panchali
which burst upon the cynical world of the 50s with such a sense of
freshness and magic that Apu became part of our consciousness and we
entered his world."
- Brian Baxter, NFT Bulletin, 1974 |
|
Selected by
Philip Kaufman, David Robinson,
Donald Richie, Philip French,
Peter Keough. |
| 42 → 57 →
59 → 64 |
|
Amazon
Kamera
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies |
|
|
|
The
Leopard |
|
LUCHINO
VISCONTI
(66) |
 |
| • Il
Gattopardo (original title) |
|
1963
| 205m | Col | Italy | Family Drama, Historical Epic |
|
Burt Lancaster, Alain
Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa, Serge Reggiani,
Romolo Valli, Leslie French, Ivo Garrani, Terence Hill |
|
"Novelist Giuseppe di
Lampedusa was a conservative, and filmmaker
Luchino Visconti
was a communist. But both men were aristocrats, and when
Visconti
adapted the posthumously published Il Gattopardo to the screen in
1963, he created one of the movies' richest portrayals of fading
aristocracy since Orson
Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons." -
Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
James Gray,
Kevin MacDonald,
Martin Scorsese,
Sydney Pollack, Ken
Mogg. |
| 85 → 71 →
66 → 65 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Senses of Cinema |
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66
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67
|
|
68
|
|
The
Wizard of Oz |
|
VICTOR
FLEMING (62) |
 |
|
1939
| 101m | Col-BW | USA |
Children's/Family, Musical Fantasy |
|
Judy Garland, Ray Bolger,
Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Margaret Hamilton,
Charley Grapewin, Clara Blandick, Pat Walshe |
|
"The film is now part
of popular mythology, and the sectarian Judeo-Christian tradition has
been formidably challenged by the secular Judy-Christmas tradition. From
Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road to
John Boorman's
Zardoz, there's no escaping the film...
Yet somehow, for all the dollar-book Freud brought to bear on it, the
picture comes up fresh, innocent and enchanting whenever you see it. -
Philip French, The Guardian,
2006 |
|
Selected by
John Waters,
Norman Jewison,
Sam Mendes, Owen
Gleiberman, Michael Sragow. |
| 57 → 61 →
62 → 66 |
|
Amazon
Boston Phoenix
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies |
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|
|
Greed |
|
ERICH
VON STROHEIM (64) |
 |
|
1924
| 140m | BW | USA | Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Gibson Gowland, ZaSu
Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton, Oscar Gottell,
Otto Gottell, Frank Hayes, Tempe Pigott, Dale Fuller |
|
"Originally planned
to run around ten hours but hacked to just over two by Thalberg's MGM,
von Stroheim's
greatest film still survives as a true masterpiece of cinema. Even now
its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains
the ability to shock, while the
Von's obsessive attention to realist
detail - both in terms of the San Francisco and Death Valley locations,
and the minutely observed characters - is never prosaic."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Aki Kaurismäki,
David Stratton, Gavin Lambert, Howard Feinstein, Alexei Balabanov. |
| 64 → 64 →
64 → 67 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Chicago Reader |
|
|
|
The
Mirror |
|
ANDREI
TARKOVSKY (69) |
 |
| • Zerkalo
(original title) |
|
1976
| 106m | Col | Russia | Avant-garde / Experimental, Essay Film |
|
Margarita Terekhova,
Filipp Yankovsky, Ignat Daniltsev, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko,
L. Correcer, Alla Demidova, Oleg Yankovsky, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, L.
Tarkovskaya |
|
"Tarkovsky's
autobiographical essay in the interaction of private and collective
memories, via a multi-layered structure of flashbacks, dream sequences
and newsreel footage, is chillingly impressive even at its most
hermetic."
- Sight & Sound |
|
Selected by
Gillies MacKinnon,
Michael Haneke, Andrey Plakhov,
Ann Hui, Donald Richie. |
| 60 → 63 →
69 → 68 |
|
Amazon
The Guardian
Strictly Film School |
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69
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|
70
|
|
71
|
|
Metropolis |
|
FRITZ
LANG
(70) |
 |
|
1926
| 120m | BW | Germany | Science Fiction |
|
Alfred Abel, Gustav
Frohlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos,
Erwin Biswanger, Heinrich George, Olaf Storm, Hans Leo Reich |
|
"The visual impact of
Metropolis remains by far its most powerful aspect. Mixing
European avant-garde techniques with Hollywood mass-cult extravagance,
Metropolis's staggering architectural scale and syncopated
near-musical choreography still seem surprisingly contemporary in an age
that has far from tired of seeing the future in harshly dystopic terms. " -
Ed Halter, The Village
Voice, 2007 |
|
Selected by
Ken Russell,
Vincent Ward,
Paul
Verhoeven, Nina Menkes, Angela
Baldassarre. |
| 65 → 69 →
70 → 69 |
|
Amazon
The Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
metacritic |
|
|
|
All
About Eve |
|
JOSEPH
L. MANKIEWICZ
(72) |
 |
| 1950
| 138m | BW | USA | Satire, Showbiz Drama |
|
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter,
George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Gary
Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates |
|
"An example
of the perfect screenplay... Few movies have such witty dialogue and such
bright characters doing such terrible things to each other. And with
that Bette Davis performance, the film has the very helpful quality of
abrasiveness." - William Goldman, NFT Bulletin, 1984 |
|
Selected by
Susan Seidelman,
Lewis Gilbert,
Pedro Almodóvar,
Camille Paglia, Diego Galan. |
| 74 → 83 →
72 → 70 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
|
|
The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
|
JOHN
FORD (76) |
 |
| 1962
| 119m | BW | USA | Western, Revisionist Western |
|
James Stewart, John Wayne,
Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Woody Strode,
Jeanette Nolan, John Carradine, Ken Murray |
|
"A great film, rich
in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac
to the spontaneous. This 1962 western flaunts its artificiality, both in
its use of studio interiors and in the casting of an aging James Stewart
as a young, idealistic lawyer who comes to the frontier. For some, the
stylization is a crippling flaw, but I find it sublime."
-
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by A.O. Scott,
Joe Dante,
Denys
Arcand, Ginette Vincendeau, Laura Mulvey. |
| 100 → 85 →
76 → 71 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
Reverse Shot |
|
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72
|
|
73
|
|
74
|
|
To Be or Not to Be |
|
ERNST LUBITSCH (71) |
 |
|
1942
| 99m | BW | USA | Satire, Showbiz Comedy |
|
Jack Benny, Carole
Lombard, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges,
Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, Peter Caldwell |
|
"It's
certainly one of the finest comedies ever to come out of Paramount, the
allegations of dubious taste missing the point of
Lubitsch's satire - not so much the
general nastiness of the Nazis as their unforgiveable bad manners."
- Rod McShane, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Joe Dante, Charles Tesson, Edgar Reitz,
Slavoj Zizek, Mika Kaurismäki. |
| 150 → 94 →
71 → 72 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Salon |
|
|
|
Viridiana |
|
LUIS
BUÑUEL (68) |
 |
|
1961
| 90m | BW | Spain | Religious Comedy, Satire |
|
Silvia Pinal, Francisco
Rabal, Fernando Rey, Jose Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Jose Manuel Martin,
Victoria Zinny, Luis Heredia, Joaquin Roa, Teresa Rabal |
|
"A superb
film... Buñuel goes far beyond attacking professional religion and the
practices of celibacy and self-mortification. He assaults the very basis
of a creed which he sees as upholding a callous and decaying
society."
- Dilys Powell |
|
Selected by
Dennis Hopper,
Alexander Payne,
Ann Hui,
Jan Nemec,
Roy Andersson. |
| 77 → 79 →
68 → 73 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
Nashville |
|
ROBERT
ALTMAN (67) |
 |
|
1975
| 159m | Col | USA | Media Satire, Musical Drama |
|
Ned Beatty, Karen Black,
Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Shelley Duvall, Allen
Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum |
|
"A wonderful
mosaic which yields up greater riches with successive viewings, not
least in the underrated songs, the superlative performances, and the
open-mindedness of
Altman's approach to direction. Immensely,
exhilaratingly enjoyable."
- Tom Milne, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Molly Haskell, Armond White,
Karel
Reisz, David Stratton, Irene Bignardi. |
| 61 → 68 →
67 → 74 |
|
Amazon
The Observer
Reel Views |
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75
|
|
• To 76-100
 |
|
Fanny and Alexander |
|
INGMAR
BERGMAN (74) |
 |
| • Fanny och
Alexander (original title) |
|
1982
| 189m | Col | Sweden | Childhood
Drama, Period Film |
|
Gunn Wallgren, Jarl Kulle,
Erland Josephson, Allan Edwall, Jan Malmsjo, Harriet Andersson, Bertil
Guve, Mats Bergman, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Kristina Adolphson |
|
"Let us enjoy
on a big screen this wonderful family history. The key word here is
enjoy for Bergman's image as a purveyor of gaunt and intensive films is
thoroughly demolished by the delicacy and beauty of this masterpiece" -
William Goldman, NFT Bulletin |
|
Selected by
Terry Jones,
Sidney Lumet, Gilles Jacob,
Bruce
Beresford,
Richard
Linklater. |
| 62 → 66 →
74 → 75 |
|
Amazon
Deep Focus
Kamera |
|
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