Kenji's Century of Films
Submitted by kenji on Wed, 03/16/2005 - 05:02
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- Abraham Valley (Oliveira, 1993)
- The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)
- Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
- L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
- L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
- The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953)
- The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
- Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
- Belle de Jour (Bunuel, 1967)
- The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
- Black God White Devil (Rocha, 1964)
- Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
- Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
- Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
- Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)
- Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
- Casque d'Or (Becker, 1952)
- Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
- The Chess Player (Bernard, 1927)
- Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)
- Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
- Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
- Close Up (Kiarostami, 1989)
- Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak, 1960)
- The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov, 1968)
- Deliverance (Boorman, 1972)
- The Devil is a Woman (Von Sternberg, 1935)
- The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
- Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
- Dumbo (Disney-Sharpsteen, 1941)
- Edward Scizzorhands (Burton, 1990)
- 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
- El Cid (Mann, 1961)
- Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos, 1998)
- The General (Keaton, Bruckman, 1926)
- Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
- The Gospel according to St Matthew (Pasolini, 1964)
- The Great Escape (Sturges, 1963)
- The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986)
- Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
- Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)
- The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-61)
- In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
- It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
- Johnny Guitar (N.Ray, 1954)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)
- King Kong (Cooper, Schoedack, 1933)
- Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
- Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
- Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)
- Maborosi (Kore-eda, 1995)
- Madchen in Uniform (Sagan, 1931)
- The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
- Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
- Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
- Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
- Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)
- Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
- Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
- Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
- My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki, 1987)
- Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
- Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani bros, 1982)
- North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
- Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1983)
- Orphée (Cocteau, 1949)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1976)
- Pakeezah (Amrohi, 1971)
- Paris Texas (Wenders, 1984)
- Pather Panchali (S.Ray, 1955)
- Persona (Bergman, 1966)
- Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)
- Playtime (Tati, 1967)
- The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948)
- Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1987)
- Rosetta (Dardenne bros, 1999)
- Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
- The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
- Senso (Visconti, 1954)
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
- The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci, 1990)
- Silences of the Palace (Tlatli, 1994)
- Singin in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)
- Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
- Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
- Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros, 1985)
- Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
- Tale of Tales (Norstein, 1979)
- The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
- The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou, 1985)
- To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
- Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
- Voyage to Italy (Rossellini, 1953)
- The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
- Yeelen (Cissé, 1987)
Taking after Derek Malcolm's Century of Films, with only 1 film per director. 20th century only, rather than the 1895-1995 centenary. Not the 100 best directors, though most of these are included-but mainly a film-based list (as was Malcolm's). So Spielberg (Schindler's List), Truffaut (400 Blows) + Fassbinder (Marriage of Maria Braun) just miss out, as did Dead Man (Jarmusch), Come and See (Klimov), Goto Isle of Love (Borowczyk), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), Pandora's Box (Pabst), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges), Arsenal (Dovzhenko), Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi), Switchboard Operator (Makaveyev), The Wizard of Oz (Fleming), The Deer Hunter (Cimino), The Innocents (Clayton). And i've got bored of Pulp Fiction.
I'm glad i got 2 great Fred Astaire musicals in. But no room for Andrei Rublev which i think i ranked #2 greatest film in another list- i plumped for Mirror by Tarkovsky instead, partly as it comes to mind more on my walks! Alice in the Cities (Wenders) is another i love. Some Mizoguchi + Hitchcock favourites missing too. It's some time since i've seen Monsieur Verdoux by Chaplin, and for years i've preferred The Gold Rush + City Lights but it gets in for reasons i can't easily define. Perhaps the Iraq war has something to do with it.