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101
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103 |
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Blue Velvet |
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DAVID LYNCH (83) |
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1986 | 120m | Col | USA |
Mystery, Crime Thriller |
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"The seamless blending of beauty and horror is
remarkable - although many will be profoundly disturbed by
Lynch's
vision of male-female relationships - the terror very real, and the
sheer wealth of imagination virtually unequalled in recent cinema." -
Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
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Selected by
Lee
Unkrich, Andrey Plakhov, Kim Newman, Michael Atkinson, Susan Seidelman. |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Village Voice (Guy Maddin) |
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Hiroshima mon amour |
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ALAIN RESNAIS (109) |
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1959 | 91m | BW |
France-Japan | Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama |
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"It’s difficult to
quantify the breadth of Hiroshima’s impact. It remains one of the
most influential films in the short history of the medium, first of all
because it liberated moviemakers from linear construction."
- Kent Jones, Criterion Collection Essay |
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Selected by
Jan Nemec, Eva
Zaoralova, Jill Godmilow, Glenn Myrent, Russell Campbell. |
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Amazon
Criterion Collection Essay
Pop Matters |
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104
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105 |
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106 |
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King Kong |
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MERIAN C. COOPER & ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK (96) |
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1933 | 103m | BW | USA |
Adventure, Monster Film |
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"If this glorious pile of
horror-fantasy hokum has lost none of its power to move, excite and
sadden, it is in no small measure due to the remarkable technical
achievements of Willis O'Brien's animation work, and the superbly
matched score of Max Steiner." - Wally Hammond, Time Out |
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Selected by
Alex Cox, Peter
Keough, Leonardo Garcia Tsao, Scott Rosenberg, Elliott Stein. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Combustible Celluloid |
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107
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108 |
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109 |
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Vivre sa vie |
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JEAN-LUC GODARD (115) |
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1963 | 85m | BW | France | Psychological Drama, Urban Drama |
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"Only
Godard
could have made this film and at the time it seemed like a masterpiece.
It remains so now, telling us more, sometimes by the simple device of
telling us less, than any other film about what the French used to call
'the life'." -
Derek Malcolm, The Guardian, 2002 |
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Selected by Chris Hegedus,
Ann Hui, Peter Wollen, Georgia Brown,
Geoffrey Macnab. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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110
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111 |
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112 |
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Star Wars |
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GEORGE LUCAS (104) |
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1977 | 121m | Col | USA | Science Fiction, Space Adventure |
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"Forget the
phenomenon—it changed forever the way movies are marketed. Forget the
endlessly hyped sequels... Remember the innocence (and technological
inventiveness) of the film, the fun of the dialogue, the astonishment of
the creatures we encountered, the propulsive dash of the editing."
- Richard Schickel, Time |
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Selected by
Roger Corman,
M. Night Shyamalan,
Anurag Mehta, Scott Rosenberg, Gary Dauphin. |
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Amazon
The Guardian (1977)
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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Dekalog |
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KRSZYSTOF KIESLOWSKI (94) |
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1988 | 550m | Col | Poland
| Drama, Psychological Drama |
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"The Dekalog was the last film that
Krzysztof
Kieslowski would set entirely in his
native Poland and, less flashy in its metaphysics than his subsequent
French co-pros, it remains his masterpiece—a sardonic riff on the
foundation laws that govern the Judeo-Christian cosmos." - J.
Hoberman, Village Voice |
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Selected by David Denby, Derek Malcolm, Roger
Ebert, Dennis Lim, Mira
Nair. |
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
The Onion A.V. Club |
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Napoléon |
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ABEL GANCE (116) |
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1927 | 235m | BW | France
| Epic, Historical Film |
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"Despite its
simplistic view of Napoleon himself, the film is completely vindicated
by Gance's raving enthusiasm for his medium. All of the brilliant
experiments with film language remain potent, from the montages of
flash-frames to the bombastic poetry of the triptych finale; even the
gags are still funny."
- Tony Rayns, Time Out |
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Selected by
David Robinson, Lewis
Gilbert,
Ronald Neame,
Terry Gilliam, Tom Luddy. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Films de France |
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113
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114 |
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115 |
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Manhattan |
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WOODY ALLEN
(152) |
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1979 | 96m | BW | USA |
Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy |
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"I
had forgotten what perfect pitch
Woody Allen
brought to ''Manhattan''--how its tone and timing slip so gracefully
between comedy and romance... Seeing it again I realize it's more
subtle, more complex, and not about love, but loss."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2001 |
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Selected by
Cameron Crowe,
José Luis Garci,
Patrice Leconte,
Edward Yang,
Mark Borchardt. |
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Amazon
Seattle Weekly (J. Hoberman)
metacritic |
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116
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117 |
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118 |
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119
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120 |
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121 |
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Earth |
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ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO (110) |
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1930 | 90m | BW | Russia |
Drama, Rural Drama |
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"The astonishingly
beautiful Earth is unlike anything else in movies. Drafted to
make a film on rural collectivization,
Dovzhenko produced a myth presenting
the creation of the kolkhoz as a natural phenomenon, part of a cosmic
cycle of birth and death."
- J. Hoberman, Village Voice, 2002 |
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Selected by
Dusan Makavejev,
Karel Reisz,
Gilles Jacob, Donald Richie, Gilberto Perez. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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122
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123 |
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124 |
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125
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126 |
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127 |
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Out
of the Past |
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JACQUES TOURNEUR (155) |
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1947 | 97m | BW | USA |
Crime, Film Noir |
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"Out of the Past...
is Jacques
Tourneur's noir classic... The script is dense, subtly
shaped, and bristles with stylised, often witty hard-boiled dialogue and
voice-over narration."
- Philip
French, The Observer, 2007 |
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Selected by Nick James,
Pedro Almodóvar,
José Luis Garci,
Julien
Temple,
Richard Schickel. |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Film Reference |
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See Also:
250 Quintessential
Noir Films |
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Belle de jour |
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LUIS BUÑUEL
(159) |
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1967 | 100m | Col |
France-Italy | Drama, Satire |
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"Never before has
Buñuel’s view
of the spectacle seemed so obliquely
Ophülsian in its shy gaze from behind
curtains, windows and even peepholes...
Buñuel was one of the few men of the
left not afflicted by Puritanism and bourgeois inhibitions about the sex
lives of the masses." - Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer,
2006 |
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Selected by
Andrew Sarris,
Molly Haskell,
Philip Kaufman,
John Powers, Bryan
Forbes. |
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
Slant Magazine |
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128
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129 |
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130 |
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The
Birth of a Nation |
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D.W. GRIFFITH (111) |
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1915 | 187m | BW | USA |
Epic, Historical Film |
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"The Birth of a
Nation holds the watcher as in a vice because it shows such
ingenuity in integrating a very intimate story within the framework of
so large an historical canvass. However much you object to its actual
interpretation of history, you have to admit this."
- Derek
Malcolm, The Guardian |
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Selected by
John Boorman,
Terry Gilliam,
Jean Douchet, Jonas Mekas,
Linda Williams. |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Variety (1915) |
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The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
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ROBERT WIENE (133) |
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1919 | 69m | BW | Germany
| Horror, Costume Horror |
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"Aided and abetted by
one of Carl Mayer's best scripts and remarkable, distorted sets painted
by Hermann Warm, Walter Röhrig, and Walter Reimann, this is more than
just a textbook classic; the narrative frame creates ambiguities that
hold certain elements of the story in disturbing suspension. A
one-of-a-kind masterpiece."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Dusan Makavejev,
Peter Wollen, Roger
Corman, Mike
Leigh, Paul
Bartel. |
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Amazon
All Movie Guide
Movie Reviews UK |
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131
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132 |
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133 |
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Rome, Open City |
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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI (143) |
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| 1945
| 105m | BW | Italy | War Drama, Resistance Film |
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"Open City is
unquestionably one of the strongest dramatic films yet made about the
recent war. And the fact that it was hurriedly put together by a group
of artists soon after the liberation of Rome is significant of its
fervor and doubtless integrity." -
Bosley Crowther, The New
York Times, 1946 |
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Selected by
Aki Kaurismäki,
Jim Jarmusch,
Walter Salles,
David Parkinson, Howard Feinstein. |
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Amazon
Cinema-Scope
All Movie Guide |
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