1962: What I've Seen...

Submitted by SteveR on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 09:38
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  • In order of preference:

  • MASTERPIECE

  • My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, France) - My personal favorite Godard.

  • NEAR-MASTERPIECE

  • Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan) - Marked with moments of shocking and stifling violence; suffocatingly grim and fatalistic, this is a samurai noir.

  • GREAT

  • La jetee (Chris Marker, France) - A constant source of inspiration in my own filmmaking life, not only because of its genre-defying brilliance, but because of what Marker was able to accomplish with so little. The ultimate micro-budget movie.
  • An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan) - Typically gorgeous Ozu.
  • Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, UK) - Overrated and a tad long, but still really fucking good.

  • REALLY GOOD

  • Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR) - Astonishing cinematography, great performances.
  • The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, France)
  • Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, USA)
  • I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  • Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  • The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson, France)

  • GOOD

  • Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith, USA)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  • Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Poland)
  • The Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan)

  • NOT RECOMMENDED

  • Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

  • Still need to see from this year:

  • The Trial
  • Hatari!
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Advise & Consent
  • Hell is for Heroes
  • Le Doulos
  • These are the Damned
  • High and Low
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
jim06/04/2004

Fantastic! Not only have you done a far better job populating the year than I could do at this point in my movie-watching career, but you've made good use of the new styles which I came out of the oven today. Heck, they're still warm.

I really hope you tackle more years. Great stuff, and welcome.

SteveR06/04/2004

Thanks jim, I appreciate it. :)

I plan to do more years.

jim06/04/2004

I see 1972 is up. Woo-hoo!

SteveR06/04/2004

And sorry, I should've put that it was inspired by your list, but I didn't know how to do that and make a link.

But it was, so thanks. :)

jim06/04/2004

Thank you, I'm flattered. For future reference just click the "clone" button on whatever list inspired you, and then edit the result to make it personal. That automatically creates the "inspired by" link. Not entirely intuitive, that's for sure (and you'd be amazed by the number of people that just clone a list without changing a thing).

jgandcag06/04/2004

Ride the High Country....I knew there was a Sam Peckinpah movie I forgot to recommend recently. A real nice movie.

Very nice list. I might have to check out Harakiri. Samurai noir sounds very interesting.

SteveR06/04/2004

Definitely check out Harakiri. And while you're at it, also 1966's "Sword of Doom" -- not quite as good, but similar and with its own merits.