50 Recommended shorts

Submitted by kenji on Wed, 02/09/2005 - 05:13
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  • Arrival of a Train (Lumiere)
  • Le Ballet Mécanique (Léger)
  • Big Business (Horne)
  • A Child of the Big City (Bauer)
  • Cops (Cline/Keaton)
  • Daydreams (Bauer)
  • Denko (Camara)
  • A Dog's Life (Chaplin)
  • Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Porter)
  • Entr'acte (Clair)*
  • Etoile de Mer (Man Ray)
  • A Girl's Own Story (Campion)
  • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Herzog)*
  • The Great Train Robbery (Porter)
  • The Immigrant (Chaplin)
  • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Anger)
  • La Jetée (Marker)
  • Listen to Britain (Jennings)
  • The Mascot (Starewicz)*
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
  • The Music Box (Parrott)*
  • Mystery of the Castle of Dice (Man Ray)
  • Neighbours (McLaren)
  • Night and Fog (Resnais)
  • Night Mail (Wright, Watt)
  • Song of Ceylon (Wright)
  • Town Rat, Country Rat (Starewicz)
  • A Trip to the Moon (Melies)
  • Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Bauer)
  • Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
  • Voyage Beyond the Impossible (Melies)
  • Zero de Conduite (Vigo)
  • ANIMATION
  • Begone Dull Care (McLaren)
  • The Big Snit (Condie)
  • A Close Shave (Park)
  • Colour Box (Lye)
  • Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer)
  • Duck Amuck (Jones)
  • Gertie the Dinosaur (McCay)
  • A Grand Day Out (Park)
  • Jerry the Troublesome Tyke
  • Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa (Leaf)
  • One Froggy Evening (Jones)
  • Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery)
  • The Street (Leaf)
  • Street of Crocodiles (Quay twins)*
  • Tale of Tales (Norstein)*
  • What's Opera, Doc? (Jones)
  • The Wrong Trousers (Park)*
  • FEATURETTES
  • A Day in the Country (Renoir)*
  • The Kid (Chaplin)
Author Comments: 

My favourites are asterisked. Inspired by "50 short films to see before you die" by Lukeprog

192202/09/2005

The only one I have seen is Svankmajer's excellent Dimensions of Dialogue.

kenji02/09/2005

Then Street of Crocodiles should be right up your street (pun not originally intended) as it's heavily influenced by Svankmajer and strange Czech surrealism. The Mascot and the Wrong Trousers (the best Wallace and Gromit adventure i reckon) make a nice pair too.

192202/10/2005

Jesus, yes! Actually I have seen these 'Wallace and Gromit'-films, but only in German, therefore I didn't know the original title.
And I have overseen Buñuel's Un chien andalou, which I'll never forget (I just say: razor blade and eye...)
BTW, have you seen 'Food' by Svankmajer? That's my favourite of his shorts.

russa0303/07/2005

Could i take all the ones from here that would fit in my list? Hidden Gems(Short Films)

lukeprog03/07/2005

Oops, clicked the wrong thing and made a wrong post. Nevermind.