1962: Movies Sorted By Tier

Submitted by stooky on Mon, 07/12/2004 - 01:48
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  • Great

  • Carnival Of Souls
  • Dr. No
  • Hatari!
  • Last Year At Marienbad
  • **Alain Resnais is a complicated artist; he makes film which dare you to hate them and yet endear themselves with non-linear expositions that dissolve and combine in extraordinary ways. He plays with the very essence of film style and creates didactic visions that spread out like a complicated puzzle.

    Last Year At Marienbad

    is the crowning achievement of cinematic deconstruction. The story is a marvel of incoherence that changes plot at the whim of the narrator, reinterpreting the story to his apparent memories as well as a woman who could be his mistress. Therefore answering the question, “what is this film about?” is almost impossible. The story involves a remembrance of a memory of a meeting that may or may not have happened. I’ve sorted out the mystery to my expectations and grasped a meaning that is probably mine alone. So is the nature of this marvellous film, which shouldn’t be written about but experienced firsthand.
  • Lawrence Of Arabia
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
  • The Longest Day
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Ride The High Country
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • The Winter Light
  • **The second and most hopeful of the Bergman "faith trilogy" (Through The Glass Darkly, The Winter Light, The Silence. They should probably be watched in that order as well.) ends up being the most candid. The film is utterly bleak in it's visual representation of characters and their lives. This figures preeminently into the story-line of a priest with a crisis of faith because of "God's silence". An issue that propels each scene of the film. The one fault is slightness, but that's a matter of the director's choice, I can only harp on the fact that I wanted more. But let me talk about technique for a second. The film is produced with almost a documentary feel, no vistas or subdued lighting, just endless blah shots of characters and grainy harsh close-ups. The most intensely brilliant being a static 6 minute close-up of Ingrid Thulin so candid it breaks your heart. the employment of simplicity brings an intensity to the film and turns the weaknesses (it's short (78m) and extremely austere) into strengths. With that subtle change in aesthetic Bergman turns the potential minor film of the trilogy into an emotional torrent.

  • Very Good

  • Birdman Of Alcatraz
  • Cape Fear
  • Days Of Wine And Roses
  • Knife In The Water
  • Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
  • Lonely Are The Brave
  • Mamma Roma
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Sanjuro
  • Through The Glass Darkly
  • What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

  • Good

  • Light In The Piazza
  • Lolita
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Mutiny On The Bounty

  • Guilty Pleasures

  • Gay Purr-ee
  • Mothra

  • Average

  • The Counterfeit Traitor
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  • Road To Hong Kong
  • The Sweet Bird Of Youth

  • Dreck

  • Kid Galahad
  • The Phantom Of The Opera

  • The Big Stink

  • Unfortunately Haven’t Seen

  • Advise And Consent
  • An Autumn Afternoon
  • Divorce, Italian Style
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • Freud
  • L’Eclisse
  • Sundays And Cybele
  • That Touch Of Mink
  • Two Daughters
  • Zazie Dans Le Metro
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