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101 |
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102↑ |
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103 |
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Last Year at Marienbad |
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ALAIN
RESNAIS
(99) |
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| • L'Année
dernière à Marienbad (original title); Last Year in Marienbad
(UK title) |
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1961
| 94m | BW | France-Italy | Avant-garde/Experimental, Psychological
Drama |
|
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio
Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Helena
Kornel, Francois Spira, Karin Toche-Mittler, Pierre Barbaud, Wilhelm von
Deek |
|
"Resnais
creates a vaguely unsettling mood by means of stylish composition, long,
smooth tracking shots along the hotel's deserted corridors, and
strangely detached performances. Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort
of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Marc Forster,
Jan Nemec, Jean-Louis Leutrat,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Mann. |
| 90 → 91 → 87 → 89 → 93
→ 99 → 101 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Strictly Film School |
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|
Blue Velvet |
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DAVID LYNCH (105) |
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|
1986 | 120m | Col | USA |
Mystery, Crime Thriller |
|
Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella
Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell,
George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Susan
Seidelman, Lee
Unkrich, Andrey Plakhov, Kim Newman,
Bernardo Bertolucci. |
| 89 → 83 → 102 → 107 →
99 → 105 → 102 |
|
Amazon
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Village Voice (Guy Maddin) |
|
|
|
Nosferatu |
|
F.W.
MURNAU (103) |
 |
| • Nosferatu,
eine Symphonie des Grauens (original title) |
|
1922
| 84m | BW | Germany | Horror, Gothic Film |
|
Max Schreck, Alexander
Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder, G.H. Schnell, Ruth
Landshoff, John Gottowt, Gustav Botz, Max Nemetz, Wolfgang Heinz |
|
"A masterpiece of the
German silent cinema and easily the most effective version of Dracula
on record. F.W. Murnau's
1922 film follows the Stoker novel fairly closely, although he neglected
to purchase the screen rights--hence, the title change. But the key
elements are all Murnau's
own: the eerie intrusions of expressionist style on natural settings,
the strong sexual subtext, and the daring use of fast-motion and
negative photography."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Werner Herzog, Philip Kemp,
Theo
Angelopoulos, Jacques Lourcelles,
Robert Sklar. |
| 83 → 84 → 99 → 105 →
103 → 103 → 103 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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104 |
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105 |
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106↑ |
|
Duck Soup |
|
LEO MCCAREY (104) |
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|
1933 | 70m | BW | USA |
Anarchic Comedy, Satire |
|
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx,
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy,
Raquel Torres, Verna Hillie, Leonid Kinskey |
|
"The Marx Brothers' best
movie and, not coincidentally, the one with the strongest director--Leo
McCarey, who had the flexibility to give the boys their head
and the discipline to make some formal sense of it... The antiwar satire
is dark, trenchant, and typical of Paramount's liberal orientation at
the time." -
Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Stuart Gordon,
John Anderson, Daniel Talbot, Jonathan Ross, Simon Louvish. |
| 103 → 98 → 105 → 103 →
100 → 104 → 104 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
|
|
|
His
Girl Friday |
|
HOWARD
HAWKS
(101) |
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|
1940
| 92m | BW | USA | Screwball Comedy, Media Satire |
|
Cary Grant, Rosalind
Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Roscoe
Karns, John Qualen, Ernest Truex, Billy Gilbert |
|
"Hawks's
great insight--taking the Hecht-MacArthur Front Page and making
the Hildy Johnson character a woman--has been justly celebrated; it
deepens the comedy in remarkable ways. Cary Grant's performance is truly
virtuoso--stunning technique applied to the most challenging material."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
David Bordwell, Pauline Kael, Geoff Andrew,
Quentin
Tarantino,
Mary Harron. |
| 96 → 90 → 96 → 102 →
106 → 101 → 105 |
|
Amazon
Filmsite
Film Reference |
|
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|
King Kong |
|
MERIAN C. COOPER & ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK (108) |
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|
1933 | 103m | BW | USA |
Adventure, Monster Film |
|
Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot,
Robert Armstrong, Frank Reicher, Noble Johnson, James Flavin, Sam Hardy,
Steve Clemente, Victor Wong, Paul Porcasi |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Peter Jackson,
Alex Cox,
Leonardo Garcia-Tsao, Elliott Stein, Peter Keough. |
| 100 → 96 → 106 → 115 →
110 → 108 → 106 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Filmsite |
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107 |
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108 |
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109 |
|
L'Âge d'or |
|
LUIS BUÑUEL
(106) |
 |
| • The
Golden Age (English title) |
|
1930
| 63m | BW | France | Avant-garde/Experimental, Surrealist Film |
|
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max
Ernst, Pierre Prevert, Caridad de Laberdesque, Lionel Salem, Madame
Noizet, Jose Artigas, Jacques Brunius, Paul Eluard |
|
"Luis Buñuel's first
and most radical feature was banned for decades, and it continues to
pack a jolt... Funny, blasphemous, sexy, strange, subtle, and evocative
in its use of sound, it's also thoroughly Buñuelian, though without the
bittersweet sense of resigned acceptance that characterizes some of his
later works."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Dusan
Makavajev, Peter Hames,
Aki Kaurismäki,
Mrinal Sen, David
Robinson. |
| 73 → 72 → 89 → 90 → 102 → 106 → 107 |
|
Amazon
The Village Voice
Slant Magazine |
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|
Napoléon |
|
ABEL GANCE (107) |
 |
|
1927 | 235m | BW | France
| Epic, Historical Film |
|
Albert Dieudonne, Gina
Manes, Annabella, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daele, Alexander
Koubitzky, Antonin Artaud, Abel Gance, Nicolas Koline, Pierre Batcheff |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Christopher Frayling, David Robinson, Lewis
Gilbert,
Ronald Neame, Tom Luddy. |
| 119 → 116 → 112 → 101 →
108 → 107 → 108 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Films de France |
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|
Hiroshima mon amour |
|
ALAIN RESNAIS (109) |
 |
| •
Hiroshima, mon amour (alternative title); Hiroshima, My Love
(English title) |
|
1959 | 91m | BW |
France-Japan | Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama |
|
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji
Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud |
|
"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. Without
Hiroshima, many films thereafter would have been unthinkable."
- Kent Jones, The Criterion Collection |
|
Selected by
Jan Nemec, Eva
Zaoralova, Jill Godmilow, Glenn Myrent, Anneke Smelik. |
| 110 → 109 → 103 → 96 →
107 → 109 → 109 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Pop Matters |
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110 |
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111↑ |
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112 |
|
The
Lady Eve |
|
PRESTON STURGES (110) |
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|
1941 | 94m | BW | USA |
Romantic Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy |
|
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry
Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore,
Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Janet Beecher, Robert Greig |
|
"A
movie like The Lady Eve is so hard to make that you can't make it
at all unless you find a way to make it seem effortless.
Preston Sturges does a
kind of breathless balancing act here, involving romance, deception and
physical comedy."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by
Edward Zwick, Pauline Kael, Karel Reisz,
Richard Leacock,
Jim McBride. |
| 105 → 118 → 127 → 114 →
109 → 110 → 110 |
|
Amazon
Criterion Collection Essay
Senses of Cinema |
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|
|
Manhattan |
|
WOODY ALLEN
(118) |
 |
|
1979 | 96m | BW | USA |
Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy |
|
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton,
Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne, Karen
Ludwig, Michael O'Donoghue, Victor Truro, Tisa Farrow |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Greg Mottola, Sophie Barthes,
José Luis Garci,
Mark Borchardt, Jonathan Levine. |
| 161 → 152 → 114 → 113 →
114 → 118 → 111 |
|
Amazon
Seattle Weekly (J. Hoberman)
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Gertrud |
|
CARL DREYER
(111) |
 |
|
1964
| 116m | BW | Denmark |
Psychological Drama, Marriage Drama |
|
Nina Pens Rode, Bendt
Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe, Axel Strobye, Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Vera
Gebuhr, Lars Knutzon, Anna Malberg, Edouard Mielche |
|
"Dreyer's
last film was adapted from a 1919 play by Hjalmar Söderberg, but it
remains one of the most purely cinematic discourses of the 1960s...
Dreyer directs his actors into performances that are understated to the
point of stillness, and composes shots with a daring economy of decor
and design; he also slows the overall pace to a contemplative minimum...
The spiritual serenity of the subject is built upon an aching sense of
emotional pain - and the fact that it's only half-articulated makes it
all the more shattering. " -
Tony Rayns, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Gilbert Adair, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bill Rothman, Phillip Lopate, Tag
Gallagher. |
| 106 → 101 → 97 → 108 →
111 → 111 → 112 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Slant Magazine |
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113↑ |
|
114↑ |
|
115 |
|
The
Shining |
|
STANLEY KUBRICK
(117) |
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|
1980 | 142m | Col | USA |
Horror, Haunted House Film |
|
Jack Nicholson, Shelley
Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone,
Joseph Turkel, Anne Jackson, David Baxt, Lia Beldam |
|
"Kubrick,
akin to his trippy treatment of the sci-fi genre, was elevating horror
to a different plane, removing its camp wiggeries and bogeymen to
infuriate and bedazzle with sinewy suggestion and sumptuous,
awe-inspiring technique. Technically, there is no better film in the
genre.... Ostensibly a haunted
house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient
madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you
jump." - Ian Nathan, Empire |
|
Selected by
Lee Unkrich,
Jonathan Romney, Kim Newman, Lizzie Francke, Danny Elfman. |
| 204 → 201 → 141 → 148 →
137 → 117 → 113 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
|
|
|
Mean Streets |
|
MARTIN SCORSESE
(115) |
 |
|
1973 | 110m | Col | USA |
Urban Drama, Crime Drama |
|
Harvey Keitel, Robert De
Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Robert
Carradine, David Carradine, Victor Argo, George Memmoli |
|
"Martin
Scorsese's Mean Streets isn't so much a gangster movie
as a perceptive, sympathetic, finally tragic story about how it is to
grow up in a gangster environment. Its characters (like
Scorsese
himself) have grown up in New York's Little Italy, and they understand
everything about that small slice of human society except how to survive
in it."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1973 |
|
Selected by
Kathryn Bigelow, Owen Gleiberman,
Jon Favreau,
Ralph Bakshi,
Jana Bokova. |
| 127 → 132 → 149 → 146 →
127 → 115 → 114 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Los Angeles Times |
|
|
|
Los
Olvidados |
|
LUIS BUÑUEL
(113) |
 |
| • The Young
and the Damned (English title) |
|
1950 | 88m | BW | Mexico |
Drama, Juvenile Delinquency Film |
|
Alfonso Mejia, Roberto
Cobo, Stella Inda, Miguel Inclan, Alma Delia Fuentes, Jesus Navarro,
Francisco Jambrina, Hector Portillo, Salvador Quiros, Victor Manuel
Mendoza |
|
"A
great, great movie, as well as a personal favorite, Los Olvidados
is the means by which exiled
Luis
Buñuel re-established
his international reputation. This low-budget account of Mexico City
street kids, inspired by actual cases as well as
Buñuel's
impressions of his new country, is a masterpiece of social surrealism
and the founding work of third-world barrio horror. Los Olvidados
is strong enough to make a hardened Communist cry or drive a (true)
Christian to despair... Once seen, this movie can never be forgotten." - J.
Hoberman, Village Voice, 2005 |
|
Selected by
Guillermo del Toro,
Paul Verhoeven,
Richard Linklater,
Robert Sklar, Leonardo Garcia Tsao. |
| 112 → 113 → 109 → 109 →
113 → 113 → 115 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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|
116↑ |
|
117 |
|
118↑ |
|
Pulp Fiction |
|
QUENTIN TARANTINO (123) |
 |
|
1994 | 154m | Col | USA | Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film |
|
John Travolta, Samuel L.
Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Rosanna
Arquette, Amanda Plummer, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi |
|
"A triumphant,
cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely
from Mr.
Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock,
hilarity, and vibrant local color. Nothing is predictable or familiar
within this irresistably bizarre world. You don't merely enter a theater
to see Pulp Fiction; you go down a rabbit hole. "
- Elvis
Mitchell, The New York Times, 1994 |
|
Selected by Antony Burns,
Sean Byrne,
Floyd Mutrux,
Mike Judge,
Susan Seidelman. |
| 140 → 147 → 175 → 151 →
130 → 123 → 116 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
|
|
Stalker |
|
ANDREI TARKOVSKY (112) |
 |
|
1979 | 160m | Col-BW |
USSR | Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi |
|
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky,
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Frejndlikh, Natasha Abramova,
Ye. Kostin, R. Rendi, F. Yurma |
|
"Against the
fractured density of Mirror, Stalker sets a form of
absolute linear simplicity... As always,
Tarkovsky
conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the
heart of darkness, it's a good deal more persuasive than
Coppola's."
- Chris Peachment, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Alex Proyas,
Michael Haneke,
Dina Iordanova, Alexei Balabanov,
Malgorzata Dipont. |
| 113 → 119 → 117 → 125 → 112 → 112 → 117 |
|
Amazon
The Guardian
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
Out
of the Past |
|
JACQUES TOURNEUR (119) |
 |
| • Build My
Gallows High (UK title) |
|
1947 | 97m | BW | USA |
Crime, Film Noir |
|
Robert Mitchum, Jane
Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Steve Brodie,
Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine, Dickie Moore, Ken Niles |
|
"Out of the Past,
adapted by Geoffrey Homes (a pseudonym for the left-wing writer Daniel
Mainwaring) from his 1946 pulp novel Build My Gallows High, under
which title it was released in Britain, 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... The superb
photography is by Nicholas Musuraca, an RKO stalwart specialising in
noir."
- Philip
French, The Observer, 2007 |
|
Selected by Alex Gibney, Nick James, John Baldessari, David Rooney, Martin McLoone. |
| 150 → 155 → 125 → 117 →
121 → 119 → 118 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Film Reference |
|
See Also:
250 Quintessential
Noir Films |
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119 |
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120 |
|
121 |
|
E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial |
|
STEVEN SPIELBERG (114) |
 |
|
1982 | 115m | Col | USA |
Science Fiction, Children's Fantasy |
|
Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas,
Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, K.C. Martel, Sean
Frye, Tom Howell, Erika Eleniak, David O'Dell |
|
"E.T. remains
the most fluid movie
Spielberg has ever made. It moves
forward not on the pop propulsion that powered his previous films but on
the waves of its own enchantment. In both tone and execution it's about
as pure as a commercial movie can be... What's perhaps most amazing
about E.T., what distinguishes it from many of the other fantasy
films of its era, is its ability to put an audience under a spell of
childlike wonderment without infantilizing it."
- Charles Taylor, Salon, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
Ronald Neame,
Richard Lester,
Roger Michell,
John Singleton. |
| 163 → 144 → 136 → 135 →
122 → 114 → 119 |
|
Amazon
Time's All-Time 100 Movies
Film Reference |
|
|
|
Ran |
|
AKIRA KUROSAWA (116) |
 |
|
1985 | 161m | Col |
France-Japan | Historical Epic, Samurai Film |
|
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira
Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki,
Takashi Nomura, Hisashi Igawa, Peter, Masayuki Yui |
|
"Ran
is slightly marred by some too obvious straining toward masterpiece
status, yet it's a stunning achievement in epic cinema. Working on a
large scale seems to bring out the best in
Kurosawa's essentially formal
talents; Kagemusha seems only a rough draft for the effects he
achieves here through a massive deployment of movement and color." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
James Gray,
Sidney Lumet,
Masahiro Shinoda,
Clara Law, Digvijay Singh. |
| 116 → 125 → 130 → 121 → 116 → 116 → 120 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
Criterion Collection Essay |
|
|
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller |
|
ROBERT ALTMAN
(120) |
 |
|
1971 | 121m | Col | USA |
Drama, Revisionist Western |
|
Warren Beatty, Julie
Christie, Rene Auberjonois, John Schuck, Keith Carradine, Hugh Millais,
Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Bert Remsen |
|
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller
is beautifully, overwhelmingly sad, the sort of romantic sadness you can
fold around you like the bearskin coat McCabe envelops himself in...
Like all things that are beautiful and unalterably sad, McCabe & Mrs.
Miller, by its final scene -- the hired guns tracking McCabe through
a quiet, persistent blizzard -- achieves a deep sense of peace. Your
heart is breaking, but you can't help being struck by the loveliness of
the snow that, like Joyce's, settles over all the living and the dead."
- Charles Taylor, Salon, 1997 |
|
Selected by A.O. Scott,
Tim Robbins,
Alan Rudolph,
Gore Verbinski,
Joan Mellen. |
| 123 → 124 → 168 → 169 →
124 → 120 → 121 |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
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122↑ |
|
123↑ |
|
124 |
|
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
|
MILOS FORMAN (132) |
 |
|
1975 | 133m | Col | USA |
Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Jack Nicholson, Louise
Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick,
Christopher Lloyd, Danny De Vito, Scatman Crothers, Michael Berryman |
|
"Although the picture
has not aged as well as some of its contemporaries, its themes remain
germane, the story has lost none of its punch, and the performances
retain their freshness. Viewed 30 years after its release, One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest remains a very good motion picture, although
one that perhaps just misses the pinnacle of greatness where its
reputation suggests it resides."
- James Berardinelli, Reel Views, 2006 |
|
Selected by
Alan Parker,
Floyd Mutrux,
M. Night Shyamalan,
Daniil Dondurei,
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. |
| 158 → 160 → 144 → 131 →
149 → 132 → 122 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Paisan |
|
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
(124) |
 |
| • Paisà
(original title) |
|
1946 | 120m | BW | Italy |
Drama, War Drama |
|
Maria Michi, Gar Moore,
Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel, Harold Wagner, Dotts
Johnson, Harriet Medin, William Tubbs, Dale Edmonds |
|
"Roberto
Rossellini's six-part film about the liberation of Italy was
released in 1946... The episodes all seem to have an anecdotal
triteness... but each acquires a wholly unexpected naturalness and depth
of feeling from
Rossellini's refusal to hype the anecdotes with conventional
dramatic rhetoric."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Irene Bignardi, Robert
Sklar, Amos Gitai, Klaus Eder, Joan Mellen. |
| 133 → 141 → 139 → 133 →
118 → 124 → 123 |
|
Amazon
The New York Times (Bosley Crowther)
Film Reference |
|
|
|
The
Grapes of Wrath |
|
JOHN FORD (121) |
 |
|
1940 | 129m | BW | USA |
Rural Drama, Americana |
|
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell,
John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, John
Qualen, O.Z. Whitehead, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury |
|
"Ford,
Nichols, Fonda and the supporting cast translated Steinbeck's novel to
the screen with proper fidelity, the distortions far outweighed by the
spectacular rightness of Fonda's casting and the remarkable
cinematography of Gregg Toland... The Grapes of Wrath abounds
with examples of Ford's
skill in visual language."
- John Baxter, Film Reference |
|
Selected by
Julio Medem,
Dennis Hopper,
David Stratton, Guy Hamilton, Harold
Becker. |
| 126 → 134 → 119 → 127 →
129 → 121 → 124 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
DVD Savant Review |
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|
125↑ |
|
126 |
|
127↑ |
|
A
Matter of Life and Death |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
(137) |
 |
| • Stairway
to Heaven (alternative title) |
| 1946
| 104m | Col | UK | Romantic Fantasy, Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies |
|
David Niven, Kim Hunter,
Roger Livesey, Robert Coote, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey, Abraham
Sofaer, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano |
|
"Of
all the films
Powell and Pressburger made together, A Matter of Life and
Death was Powell's
favorite. Playful and profound, witty and carefully crafted, it distills
the greatest of
Powell's artistic gifts and celebrates, with an occasional
self-conscious wink, the possibilities of film.
"
-
Edward Guthmann, San
Francisco Chronicle, 1995 |
|
Selected by
David Siegel,
Scott McGehee, Ian
Christie,
Graham Fuller, David Hanan. |
| 180 → 181 → 134 → 126 →
138 → 137 → 125 |
|
Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Film Reference |
|
|
|
Broken Blossoms |
|
D.W. GRIFFITH
(125) |
 |
| • Broken
Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (alternative title) |
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1919
| 95m | BW | USA | Melodrama, Romantic Drama |
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Lillian Gish, Richard
Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Andre
Beranger, Norman Selby, Ernest Butterworth, Fred Hamer, Wilbur Higby |
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"Griffith
in 1919 was the unchallenged king of serious American movies (only
C.B. DeMille rivaled him in fame), and "Broken
Blossoms" was seen as brave and controversial. What remains today is
the artistry of the production, the ethereal quality of Lillian Gish,
the broad appeal of the melodrama, and the atmosphere of the elaborate
sets." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by
Jim Jarmusch,
Aki Kaurismäki,
Monte Hellman,
Richard Brody, Peter Keough. |
| 120 → 126 → 100 → 112 →
119 → 125 → 126 |
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Amazon
Film Reference
Slant Magazine |
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Don't Look Now |
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NICOLAS ROEG
(147) |
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1973 | 110m | Col | UK |
Psychological Thriller, Supernatural Thriller |
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Donald Sutherland, Julie
Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa,
Giorgio Trestini, Leopoldo Trieste, David Tree, Ann Rye |
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"Nicolas
Roeg's 1973 film remains one
of the great horror masterpieces, working not with fright, which is
easy, but with dread, grief and apprehension. Few films so successfully
put us inside the mind of a man who is trying to reason his way free
from mounting terror."
- Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Edgar Wright, Marc
Forster, Iain
Softley, Mark Kermode, Scott Hicks. |
| 173 → 174 → 163 → 136 →
143 → 147 → 127 |
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Amazon
Screen Online
San Francisco Chronicle |
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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
(134) |
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| • The
Clansman (première title) |
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1915 | 187m | BW | USA |
Epic, Historical Film |
|
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh,
Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George
Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Raoul Walsh |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
John Boorman,
Terry Gilliam,
Laurence Kardish, Linda Williams, Charles Taylor. |
| 122 → 111 → 128 → 123 →
133 → 134 → 128 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Variety (1915) |
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The
Exterminating Angel |
|
LUIS BUÑUEL (127) |
 |
| • El Ángel
exterminador (original title) |
|
1962 | 95m | BW | Mexico |
Comedy Drama, Satire |
|
Silvia Pinal, Enrique
Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Claudio Brook, Tito Junco, Bertha Moss,
Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristain |
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"A group of high-society
friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find
themselves unable to leave in
Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The
Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one
year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film,
full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers
Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals
and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes."
- The
Criterion Collection |
|
Selected by
Michael Haneke,
Alex Cox,
Mary Harron,
Rajko Grlic,
Antonio Banderas. |
| 145 → 139 → 124 → 120 →
117 → 127 → 129 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Strictly Film School |
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Ashes and Diamonds |
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ANDRZEJ WAJDA (126) |
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| • Popiól i
diament (original title) |
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1958 | 96m | BW | Poland |
Political Drama, War Drama |
|
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa
Krzyzewska, Adam Pawlikowski, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Bogumil Kobiela, Jan
Ciecierski, Stanislaw Milski, Zbigniew Skowronski, Barbara Krafftowna,
Irena Orzecka |
|
"The last of
Wajda's
unplanned trilogy about the legacy of World War II on his generation,
following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956), Ashes
and Diamonds is also the most flamboyant, and features the iconic
figure of Zbigniew Cybulski, frequently cited as the 'Polish James
Dean', who died in an accident in 1967."
-
David Thompson,
Time Out |
|
Selected by
István Szabó,
Dusan Makavejev,
Roy Andersson, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Pawil Pawlikowski. |
| 154 → 121 → 135 → 118 →
126 → 126 → 130 |
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Amazon
Criterion Collection Essay
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films |
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131 |
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132 |
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133 |
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The
Best Years of Our Lives |
|
WILLIAM WYLER
(130) |
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1946 | 172m | BW | USA |
Drama, Family Drama |
|
Fredric March, Myrna Loy,
Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Harold Russell, Hoagy
Carmichael, Cathy O'Donnell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen |
|
"I'd call
this the best American movie about returning soldiers I've ever
seen--the most moving and the most deeply felt. It bears witness to its
times and contemporaries like few other Hollywood features, and Gregg
Toland's deep-focus cinematography is one of the best things he ever did."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Jan Nemec,
Sidney Lumet,
Cameron Crowe,
Scott McGehee,
Billy Wilder. |
| 109 → 114 → 122 → 122 →
141 → 130 → 131 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Reel Views |
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Sherlock Jr. |
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BUSTER
KEATON (129) |
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| • Sherlock
Junior (alternate spelling) |
| 1924
| 45m | BW | USA | Comedy, Fantasy |
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Buster Keaton, Kathryn
McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane, Jane Connelly, George
Davis, Doris Deane, Ruth Holly, Kewpie Morgan |
|
"The impeccable
comedian directs himself in an impeccable silent comedy... Is this, as
some critics have argued, an example of primitive American surrealism?
Sure. But let's not get fancy about it. It is more significantly, a
great example of American minimalism. The whole thing is only 45 minutes
long, not a second of which is wasted. In an age when most comedies are
all windup and no punch, this is the most treasurable of virtues "
- Richard Schickel, Time, 2005 |
|
Selected by
Carrie Rickey,
Terry Jones, Jean-Louis Leutrat,
James Mangold,
Georgia Brown. |
| 66 → 69 → 82 → 100 →
115 → 129 → 132 |
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Amazon
Film Reference
All-Movie Guide |
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The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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JOHN HUSTON (122) |
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1948 | 124m | BW | USA | Drama, Adventure Drama |
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Humphrey Bogart, Walter
Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, John
Huston, Arturo Soto Rangel, Manuel Donde, Jose Torvay |
|
"John
Huston was rarely in better form than he was directing this
1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of
prospectors (Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, and Walter Huston). Bogart is
outstanding as the pathetic bully Fred C. Dobbs, and Walter Huston won a
deserved Oscar for best supporting actor as a giddy, grizzled old-timer." -
Don Druker, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Sam Raimi,
John Dahl,
Dennis Hopper,
John Sayles,
Harold Becker. |
| 98 → 102 → 107 → 111 →
120 → 122 → 133 |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies
Filmsite |
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134 |
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135 |
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136 |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
(128) |
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1977 | 135m | Col | USA |
Science Fiction, Adventure Drama |
|
Richard Dreyfuss, Francois
Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, Warren Kemmerling,
Cary Guffey, J. Patrick McNamara, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds |
|
"Mr.
Spielberg is at his best as a movie craftsman, someone who
seems to know by instinct (and after millions of hours of
movie-watching) how best to put together any two pieces of film for
maximum effect... Close Encounters is most stunning when it is
dealing in visual and aural sensations that might be described as being
in the seventies Disco Style."
- Vincent
Canby, The New York Times |
|
Selected by
Richard Kelly,
Frank Darabont,
Roland Emmerich,
Andrew Stanton,
Bryan Singer. |
| 249 → 225 → 218 → 226 →
139 → 128 → 134 |
|
Amazon
Reel Views
Film Reference |
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|
The
Red Shoes |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
(138) |
 |
|
1948 | 133m | Col | UK |
Romantic Drama, Musical Drama |
|
Anton Walbrook, Moira
Shearer, Marius Goring, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Albert
Basserman, Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Frederick Ashton, Jean
Short |
|
"Truly the most
beautiful Technicolor film ever made," says
Martin Scorsese, with some justice. The
story of a young ballet dancer who makes a fateful decision between love
and art, it has a quicksilver grace and variation of mood unlike
anything else you've seen. The Red Shoes ballet within the film was a
novelty, and still is, though the centrepiece remains the hauntingly
great performance of Anton Walbrook as the monomaniac impresario,
driving on his protégée (Moira Shearer) with a tyrant's single-minded
zeal."
- Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 2009 |
|
Selected by
Ken Russell,
David Ehrenstein,
Martin Scorsese,
Pam Cook, Mika
Kaurismäki. |
| 136 → 140 → 118 → 128 →
132 → 138 → 135 |
|
Amazon
Screen Online
Criterion Collection Essay (Ian Christie) |
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Vivre sa vie |
|
JEAN-LUC GODARD (133) |
 |
| • My Life
to Live (English title); Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
(original title) |
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1963 | 85m | BW | France | Psychological Drama, Urban Drama |
|
Anna Karina, Saddy Rebbot,
Andre S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Brice Parain, Peter Kassovitz,
Gerard Hoffman, Monique Messine, Paul Pavel, Dimitri Dineff |
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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 |
|
Selected by Chris Hegedus,
Ann Hui, Peter Wollen, Georgia Brown,
Harun
Farocki. |
| 107 → 115 → 108 → 119 →
125 → 133 → 136 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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137 |
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138↑ |
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139↑ |
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Umberto D. |
|
VITTORIO DE SICA (131) |
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| 1952
| 89m | BW | Italy | Drama, Urban Drama |
|
Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia
Casilio, Lina Gennari, Alberto Albani Barbieri, Memmo Carotenuto, Elena
Rea, Ileana Simova, Lamberto Maggiorani |
|
"Vittorio
De Sica's Umberto D. is
the story of the old man's struggle to keep from falling from poverty
into shame. It may be the best of the Italian neorealist films--the one
that is most simply itself, and does not reach for its effects or strain
to make its message clear. Even its scenes involving Umberto's little
dog are told without the sentimentality that pets often bring into
stories. "
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Bryan Forbes,
Tim Lucas,
James Mangold,
Michael Sragow, Ed Lachman. |
| 114 → 122 → 131 → 129 →
123 → 131 → 137 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
The Criterion Collection |
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|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
(152) |
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|
1943 | 163m | Col | UK | Romantic Drama, Period Film |
|
Roger Livesey, Anton
Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver, James McKechnie, John Laurie,
Ursula Jeans, David Hutcheson, Albert Lieven, Arthur Wontner |
|
"With its imaginative
and flamboyant use of Technicolor and its rich period detail in sets,
costumes and manners, its outstanding performances and the strong
emotional impact of the story, The Life and
Death of Colonel Blimp is a masterpiece in the
full sense of the word. A film that enriches, enlightens and ennobles,
and does this with intelligence, wit, style, compassion and beauty."
-
Ronald Haver, The
Criterion Collection, 2002 |
|
Selected by
Errol Morris,
Kevin MacDonald,
Mike Hodges,
Jim McBride,
Helena Ylanen. |
| 183 → 192 →
160 → 147 → 140 → 152 → 138 |
|
Amazon
Screen Online
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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|
Brazil |
|
TERRY GILLIAM (158) |
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|
1985 | 131m | Col | UK |
Science Fiction, Satire |
|
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De
Niro, Katharine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian
Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent |
|
"Terry
Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with
wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention
-- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight... Robert De
Niro contributes a gruffly funny cameo as the one knight of honor in the
ashen land: a guerrilla heating-duct repairman."
- Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Ari Folman, Mark Kermode, Alexei Balabanov, Ernest R. Dickerson,
Darren Aronofsky. |
| 175 → 162 → 171 → 176 →
163 → 158 → 139 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
Slate Magazine |
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140 |
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141 |
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142↑ |
|
Sullivan's Travels |
|
PRESTON STURGES
(136) |
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|
1941 | 91m | BW | USA |
Comedy, Satire |
|
Joel McCrea, Veronica
Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall,
Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Byron Foulger, Maggie Hayes |
|
"The sweetest, most
generous-hearted satire of the Hollywood film industry the town has ever
produced, Sullivan’s Travels was the fourth of the eight
films Preston Sturges
made during his astonishingly prolific streak between 1940 and 1944." -
Todd McCarthy, Criterion Collection |
|
Selected by A.O. Scott,
John Lasseter,
Todd Phillips,
Daniel Talbot, David Meeker. |
| 156 → 163 → 165 → 171 →
128 → 136 → 140 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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Days of Heaven |
|
TERRENCE MALICK (141) |
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|
1978 | 95m | Col | USA |
Rural Drama, Romantic Drama |
|
Richard Gere, Brooke
Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Jackie Shultis, Stuart
Margolin, Timothy Scott, Gene Bell, Doug Kershaw |
|
"Days of Heaven is
above all one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Malick's
purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone
is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas
prairie." -
Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1997 |
|
Selected by
Michel Chion, Gavin Smith, Richard Ayoade, Pawil
Pawlikowski, Ry Russo-Young. |
| 177 → 165 → 170 → 164 →
154 → 141 → 141 |
|
Amazon
Criterion Collection Essay
Village Voice |
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|
Brief Encounter |
|
DAVID LEAN (153) |
 |
|
1945 | 85m | BW | UK |
Drama, Romance |
|
Celia Johnson, Trevor
Howard, Stanley Holloway, Cyril Raymond, Joyce Carey, Valentine Dyall,
Everley Gregg, Margaret Barton, Dennis Harkin, Marjorie Mars |
|
"Brief Encounter is
on a small scale, intimate, and probing. Everything is obvious and yet
nothing is. Laura Jesson (Johnson), its suburban heroine, may not reach
the dramatic solution of an Anna Karenina but what she does experience
is no less poignant. We share her joys and sorrows of the moment until
they carry her to the edge of tragedy. It cannot be seen entirely,
however, as tragedy for there is an element of values and choice. Life
is not simple and the greatness of the film lies in its awareness of
this complexity."
- Liam O'Leary, Film Reference |
|
Selected by
Samuel Fuller, Andy Medhurst, Ronald
Neame,
Andrew Bergman, Joseph Strick. |
| 132 → 137 → 143 → 145 →
147 → 153 → 142 |
|
Amazon
Images Journal
Criterion Collection Essay |
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143 |
|
144↑ |
|
145↑ |
|
Earth |
|
ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO (135) |
 |
| • Zemlya
(original title) |
|
1930 | 90m | BW | Russia |
Drama, Rural Drama |
|
Semyon Svashenko, Stepan
Shkurat, Nikolai Nademsky, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova, I. Franko,
Pyotr Masokha, V. Mikhajlov, Pavel Petrik, P. Umanets |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Dusan Makavejev,
Karel Reisz,
Gilles Jacob, Donald Richie, Gilberto Perez. |
| 115 → 110 → 121 → 134 →
136 → 135 → 143 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
|
|
|
Bonnie and Clyde |
|
ARTHUR PENN
(146) |
 |
|
1967 | 111m | Col | USA |
Gangster Film, Crime Drama |
|
Warren Beatty, Faye
Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle,
Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans, James Stiver |
|
"Bonnie and Clyde
is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and
brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy,
nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful. If it
does not seem that those words should be strung together, perhaps that
is because movies do not very often reflect the full range of human
life." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1967 |
|
Selected by
Mike Figgis,
Jeff Krulik,
Michael Dwyer, Helena Ylanen, Wesley Strick. |
| 151 → 136 → 146 → 137 →
144 → 146 → 144 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Bright Lights Film Journal |
|
|
|
Black Narcissus |
|
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER (154) |
 |
|
1946 | 99m | Col | UK |
Melodrama, Religious Drama |
|
Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David
Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron, Jenny Laird, Esmond
Knight, Judith Furse, May Hallatt |
|
"Run, don't walk to see
this 1946 classic from
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger...
The co-directors created from Rumer Godden's novel an extraordinary
melodrama of repressed love and Forsterian Englishness - or rather
Irishness - coming unglued in the vertiginous landscape of South Asia."
- Peter
Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2005 |
|
Selected by
Nick James, Philip Strick, Peter Bradshaw,
James Mangold,
Andrew Worsdale. |
| 125 → 123 → 123 → 138 →
146 → 154 → 145 |
|
Amazon
Screen Online
Criterion Collection Essay |
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146 |
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147 |
|
148↑ |
|
Dekalog |
|
KRSZYSTOF KIESLOWSKI (140) |
 |
| •
Decalogue, The (USA title) |
|
1988 | 550m | Col | Poland
| Drama, Psychological Drama |
|
Miroslaw Baka, Henryk
Baranowski, Artur Barcis, Aleksander Bardini, Maja Barelkowska, Adrianna
Biedrzynska, Henryk Bista, Ewa Blaszczyk, Bozena Dykiel, Janusz Gajos |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by David Denby, Derek Malcolm, Roger
Ebert, Dennis Lim, Mira
Nair. |
| 92 → 94 → 111 → 132 →
131 → 140 → 146 |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
The A.V. Club |
|
|
|
Once Upon a Time in America |
|
SERGIO LEONE (143) |
 |
|
1984 | 227m | Col | USA |
Crime, Gangster Film |
|
Robert De Niro, James
Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Burt Young, Joe
Pesci, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, James Hayden |
|
"While
Leone's
vision still has a magnificent sweep, the film finally subsides to an
emotional core that is sombre, even elegiac, and which centres on a man
who is bent and broken by time, and finally left with nothing but an
impotent sadness."
- Chris
Peachment, Time Out |
|
Selected by
Adrian Martin, Sydney
Pollack, Tony Rayns,
Mike Figgis, Andrew Worsdale. |
| 147 → 167 → 154 → 143 →
148 → 143 → 147 |
|
Amazon
Film Reference
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
|
|
|
The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
|
ROBERT WIENE (155) |
 |
| • Das
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (original title) |
|
1919 | 69m | BW | Germany
| Horror, Costume Horror |
|
Werner Krauss, Conrad
Veidt, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski,
Rudolf Lettinger, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Lanser-Ludolff, Henri
Peters-Arnolds, Ludwig Rex |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Dusan Makavejev,
Peter Wollen, Roger
Corman, Michael Wood, Paul
Bartel. |
| 143 → 133 → 129 → 144 →
153 → 155 → 148 |
|
Amazon
All Movie Guide
Movie Reviews UK |
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149 |
|
150 |
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• To 151-200 |
|
Badlands |
|
TERRENCE MALICK (139) |
 |
|
1973 | 95m | Col | USA |
Crime Drama, Road Movie |
|
Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek,
Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter,
Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick |
|
"One of the most
impressive directorial debuts ever... What distinguishes the film,
beyond the superb performances of Sheen and Spacek, the use of music,
and the luminous camerawork by Tak Fujimoto, is
Malick's
unusual attitude towards psychological motivation."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
|
Selected by
David Siegel,
Adrian Martin,
Susan Seidelman,
Mike Judge,
Hal
Hartley. |
| 178 → 183 → 179 → 166 →
155 → 139 → 149 |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
|
|
|
The
Band Wagon |
|
VINCENTE MINNELLI
(150) |
 |
|
1953 | 112m | Col | USA |
Musical Comedy, Backstage Musical |
|
Fred Astaire, Jack
Buchanan, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell,
Robert Gist, Thurston Hall, Ava Gardner, LeRoy Daniels |
|
"The whole point about
The Band Wagon, and one which sometimes makes people underrate it,
was the way everything seems to mesh so seamlessly--almost effortlessly,
in fact. That was due to
Minnelli, whose flair and
imagination... was matched by his almost perfect control." -
Derek Malcolm, The
Guardian, 1999 |
|
Selected by
D.A. Pennebaker,
Albert Serra, Michael Phillips, Ed Buscombe,
Julien Temple. |
| 220 → 210 → 159 → 157 →
156 → 150 → 150 |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Senses of Cinema |
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